Tag: Andrew Gwynne

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of his Department in each of the last three years.

Jane Ellison

Non-consolidated performance related pay is only paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer. These one-off payments are not pensionable. Since 2010-11 the Government has restricted awards for senior civil servants to the top 25% of performers (from 65% in previous years), saving around £15 million overall.

To date in 2015-16, the Department has spent £868,410 on ‘year-end’ non- consolidated performance pay awards and £155,549 on ‘in-year ‘non-consolidated performance pay awards to its officials.

The table below shows the Department’s expenditure on non-consolidated performance related payments for the last three complete financial years.

Financial Year	In-Year Award	*End Year Award
2014-15	£254,524	£843,001
2013-14	£202,000	£796,357
2012-13	£252,115	£902,741

*End-year non-consolidated performance related payments paid in each of the financial year relates to performance in the previous year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of ambulances responding to the most serious calls failed to respond within eight minutes in (a) England, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Denton and Reddish constituency in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is not available in the format requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library the minutes of each Public Health England board meeting in 2015.

Jane Ellison

Minutes of all Public Health England (PHE) Board meetings are published on PHE website’s Board pages and therefore publically available. The minutes for the Board meetings held during 2015 have been placed in the library, and can also be found on the Meetings 2015 page of the website below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-health-england-board-meetings

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulance calls were responded to by the (a) police and (b) fire service in (i) England, (ii) Greater Manchester and (iii) Denton and Reddish constituency in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is not available in the format requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions the Minister for Public Health has had with the Chief Executive of Public Health England in each month since January 2015.

Jane Ellison

I meet regularly with Duncan Selbie, the Chief Executive of Public Health England, and generally have an informal meeting with him on a monthly basis.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if NHS England will take steps to terminate contracts for 0844 numbers entered into by GP surgeries.

Alistair Burt

Regulations introduced in 2010 prevented general practitioner practices from entering into, renewing or extending a contract for telephone services unless it was satisfied that, looking at the arrangements as a whole, patients would not pay more to make calls to the practice than they would to make calls to a geographical number.

The number of practices using premium rate numbers is reducing as contracts come to an end, and a large number of practices using 084 numbers also have a local alternative. NHS England continues to work with practices that have premium rate numbers and will review progress periodically.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of her Department in each of the last three years.

Karen Bradley

Non-consolidated performance payments are one-off payments which are paid only to the top achievers and are used to help drive performance.

As part of the Government transparency agenda all year end and in-year bonuses are published in the Non-Consolidated Performance Related Pay (NCPRP) return. The amount that the Department has paid in bonuses for each of the last three years (2011/12 to 2013/14) is provided at Table 1.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of (a) NHS and (b) other expenditure for which his Department is responsible has been for the (i) treatment and (ii) prevention of obesity in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

Information on National Health Service expenditure on the treatment and prevention of obesity is not collected centrally. Decisions on spending are a matter for local NHS organisations.

It is not possible to provide comprehensive information about the Department’s expenditure on the treatment and prevention of obesity because a wide range of teams across the Department and other partners contribute to this policy. The Department has invested in a number of nationally-coordinated programmes which contribute to tackling obesity including the National Child Measurement Programme, NHS Health Checks, Change4Life, the School Games and Change4Life School Sports Clubs.

Local authorities have been given ring-fenced funding of £8.49 billion over three years, 2013/14 to 2015/16, to help tackle public health issues including overweight and obesity.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made on establishing a renewable power facility in Pitcairn Islands.

Mr Desmond Swayne

Energy is provided on Pitcairn through diesel powered generators. There are currently no plans to establish a renewable power facility in the near future.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-10-23.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of his Department in each of the last three years.

Harriett Baldwin

Information on Non-consolidated performance related pay for HM Treasury is publically available on gov.uk as part of the Transparency agenda. The information is up to date for the last 2 financial years 2012-13 and 2013-14.

Non-consolidated performance related pay is only paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer. These one-off payments are not pensionable. Since 2010-11 the Government has restricted awards for senior civil servants to the top 25% of performers (from 65% in previous years), saving around £15 million overall.