Tag: Andrew Stephenson

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) East Lancashire and (c) the North West are registered organ donors.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is in the following table:

Proportion of people in Pendle constituency, East Lancashire and the North West who are registered organ donors as at 10 June 2014

Area	Number on the Organ Donor Register	Population estimate1	% on the Organ Donor Register
Pendle Constituency	22,071	89,613	24.6%
East Lancashire2	137,865	530,605	26.0%
North West 3	2,083,446	7,084,337	29.4%

¹ Source: Office for National Statistics mid-2012 population estimates

² East Lancashire comprising the districts of Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale

³ This comprises:

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Central and Eastern Cheshi, Cumbria, East Lancashire, Halton and St Helens, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, North Lancashire, Oldham, Salford, Sefton, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop, Trafford, Warrington, Western Cheshire, Wirral

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve respite care provisions in Pendle constituency.

Norman Lamb

We have provided £400 million to the National Health Service over four years from 2011 for carers to have breaks from their caring responsibilities.

In the 2013 Spending Review, we announced the £3.8 billion Better Care Fund, which includes £130 millionfunding for carers’ breaks for 2015-16.

In 2015-16, East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group will receive £8.1 million from the Better Care Fund.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles have been found to be in breach of rules about tinted windows in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Lancashire in each of the last five years.

Stephen Hammond

The Department has information broken down relating to the enforcement by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for the most recent year. The following prohibitions were found in the year to March 2014, a) 710 in England, b) 62 in the North West and c) 37 in Lancashire. National totals for the previous 4 years were, 2013 – 720, 2012 – 663, 2011 – 1617, 2010 – 2364. The Department does not have the Police data for this offence at this time. Enforcement of Construction and Use regulations is a matter for both DVSA and the police.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fixed penalty notices were issued to drivers of vehicles registered in another country that should have been but were not registered in the UK in each of the last five years.

Stephen Hammond

Failure to register a vehicle following the six-month exemption period is not an offence for which a fixed penalty notice can be issued. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency instead writes to keepers of these vehicles offering them an out of court settlement where it appears that an offence has been committed, so that the matter may be resolved without court proceedings. The table below shows the amount of these out of court settlement letters issued in the last five financial years.

YEAR	NUMBER OF OCS ISSUED
09/10	108
10/11	83
11/12	192
12/13	59
13/14	84

Since April 2014, 237 out of court settlement letters have been issued.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to improve the reliability of tracking methodologies for foreign (a) registered and (b) unregistered vehicles in the UK.

Stephen Hammond

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) receives information on foreign registered vehicles from the police and other enforcement agencies, as well as from members of the public. Other ways of obtaining this information are currently being explored.

The DVLA has been working with the police to pilot a new enforcement process. This involves the DVLA providing the police forces with registration numbers of foreign registered vehicles which may have overstayed the six- month exemption period and where the keepers have not complied with UK requirements. This information enables the four police forces involved to seize and impound vehicles that have overstayed, where appropriate. If the pilot is successful, the DVLA will explore the potential for extending it to more police forces.

The DVLA is also working with other government agencies to establish what other data might be used to track and identify over staying foreign registered vehicles.