Tag: Frank Field

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government recorded in his Department’s spending analysis tool that it spent on acquisitions from external suppliers in the last year for which figures are available; and how much and what proportion of central government spending the Government spent with each of the 20 suppliers which received the largest proportion of that spending in that period.

Matthew Hancock

In 2014-15 central government (excluding Network Rail) spent a total of £43.8 billion with external suppliers.

Recorded expenditure with each of the top 20 suppliers is set out in the following table:

Spend	% of total
Bae Systems Plc	£3.3bn	7.6%
Hewlett Packard Ltd	£1.3bn	2.9%
Babcock International Group	£1.2bn	2.7%
Awe Management Limited	£1.1bn	2.4%
Capgemini Uk Plc	£900m	2.1%
Capita Plc	£700m	1.6%
Finmeccanica Spa	£690m	1.6%
Rolls-Royce Plc	£650m	1.5%
Telereal Trillium	£640m	1.5%
BT Group Plc	£620m	1.4%
Airtanker Limited	£490m	1.1%
Atos	£490m	1.1%
The Boeing Company	£460m	1.1%
Qinetiq Limited	£440m	1.0%
Connect Ltd	£430m	1.0%
Serco Limited	£400m	0.9%
Thales Group	£380m	0.9%
Interserve Plc	£350m	0.8%
Airwave Solutions	£340m	0.8%
Carillion Plc	£330m	0.7%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-05-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants have been given a yellow card warning since the introduction of such a warning; and of those claimants how many were not subsequently sanctioned.

Priti Patel

A Jobseekers’ Allowance Sanctions “Early Warning” Trial was launched in March 2016 in Scotland. The trial is testing whether giving claimants a warning of an intention to sanction, and an extra 14 days to seek advice and support to provide additional or new evidence to provide good reason will be helpful to them and potentially reduce the volume of sanctions and reconsiderations.

Data is currently being collected about claimants who have been subject to the new process so it is not possible at this stage to provide the information requested. An interim evaluation of the trial will be published in Autumn 2016 and a final evaluation in Spring 2017.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-07-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people working for his Department or its executive agencies on a (a) directly employed, (b) agency or (c) outsourced basis are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation; and how many of those people are employed on zero-hours contracts.

David Mowat

No civil servants employed by the Department or its executive agencies: Public Health England and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

The Department currently has no agency worker paid less than the living wage. As at 22 July 2016, 23 people employed via outsourced contract companies were paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation, none of these were on zero hours contracts. Six other people, on zero rated hours are paid the Living Wage or more.

The Department’s executive agencies do not routinely collect information on the salaries of employees working for their contracted companies. However, all service providers are required to comply with the law in respect of the ‘National Living Wage’ or the ‘minimum wage’ where appropriate.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) capacity and (b) adequacy of neonatal units in Wirral.

Mr Philip Dunne

No such assessments have been made. The provision of National Health Service neonatal units is a matter for local commissioners.

We are advised by NHS England that the North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (NWNODN) has reviewed demand and capacity at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The review showed little change in births within Cheshire and Merseyside and no change in the number of births at the Trust, over the last three years. The local NHS is considering the findings of the review to ensure services are delivered in accordance with national standards of care.

More information on NMNODN is available at:

http://www.neonatalnetwork.co.uk/

“

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places he plans to commission in England for new entrants to become (a) nurses and (b) midwives in each year between 2016 and 2020.

Ben Gummer

Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for ensuring that the workforce has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours to meet the needs of patients.

HEE produces an annual Workforce Plan for England, with the 2016/17 plan scheduled to go to the HEE Board in December 2015 and published shortly after. This will include details of the nursing and midwifery commissions for 2016/17.

As a result, there is no forecast available beyond the 2015/16 commissions data published in the 2015/16 workforce plan in December 2014.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many places were available for new entrants to study medicine in England in each year between 2010 and 2015; and how many places for new entrants to study medicine are planned to be available in each year between 2016 and 2020.

Ben Gummer

The number of places available for new entrants to study medicine in England from 2010 to 2015 are as follows:

Year (academic)	Commissions
2010/11	6,195
2011/12	6,195
2012/13	6,195
2013/14	6,071
2014/15	6,071
2015/16	6,071

Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England, Medical and Dental Survey

The number of medical students planned for 2016/17 entry to undergraduate training in England is 6,071. Health Education England (HEE) will be establishing a review of medical student numbers as part of their wider workforce planning process to inform future year intakes. Any changes to student intakes will require careful consideration by HEE, Department of Health, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications were received per individual training place in England for (a) nurses and (b) midwives in each year between 2010 and 2015.

Ben Gummer

Information relating to the number of applications for pre-registration nursing and midwifery training is not collected by the Department.

Information on applications and admissions to full time education courses in the United Kingdom is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of people claiming, or applying for, Employment and Support Allowance, who are found fit for work, are then refused Jobseeker’s Allowance because they are judged by Jobcentre Plus as being not fit for work.

Priti Patel

The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-26.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of migrants residing in the UK who claim benefits on behalf of children living abroad by country of residence of the child.

Damian Hinds

I refer the hon Member to the answer that I gave to the hon member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) on 16 June 2015:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-10/2064/

“

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2015 to Question 11226, for what reasons decisions were not made on 118,039 of the applications his Department received in the period between October 2014 and September 2015 for Short Term Benefit Advance.

Priti Patel

We only collect limited data on those requests for a Short Term Benefit Advances that are refused although we do know that the vast majority of refusals are either because:
(i) There was a doubt about whether the claimant would be entitled to the benefit being claimed and, therefore, we could not be sure that there was any benefit to advance or
(ii) Actual benefit was paid instead, which is a better outcome for the claimant.