The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applicants to the Pubs Code Adjudicator vacancy were subject to departmental clearance checks; and how many applicants did not pass those checks and for what reasons.
Anna Soubry
In accordance with standard departmental practice, successful candidates are subject to departmental clearance checks.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-03-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to support children with Kawasaki disease.
George Freeman
The Government published the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases in November 2013. The strategy contains over 50 commitments to ensure people living with a rare disease, such as Kawasaki disease, have access to the best evidence-based care and treatment that health and social services, working with charities, researchers and industry can provide.
It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricular to ensure newly qualified healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care. This includes training in both scarlet fever and Kawasaki disease.
Health Education England works with bodies that set curricula such as the General Medical Council and the Royal Colleges to seek to ensure training meets the needs of patients.
The Department and its arm’s length bodies have not published any specific guidance on the similarities between Kawasaki disease and scarlet fever.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline on the assessment and initial management of fever in under 5s sets out the circumstances in which a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease should be considered, and Public Health England (PHE) has endeavoured to keep healthcare professionals, schools and the general public informed of the increased incidence of scarlet fever through timely information, news stories and updates on the PHE website and by using social and other media. These awareness raising measures assist general practitioners and other frontline healthcare professionals in reaching a correct diagnosis more quickly and encourage patients to seek medical advice early so that suspected cases receive prompt antibiotic treatment to reduce the risk of complications and limit further transmission.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-04-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with international partners on aid access to Madaya in Syria.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The UK is part of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG). The ISSG Humanitarian Task Force meets on a weekly basis to push for increased access across Syria, in line with relevant Security Council Resolutions. We have been pushing hard through these discussions for humanitarian access to be granted to all besieged and hard to reach places in Syria, including Madaya. As a result, humanitarian convoys have reached 11 besieged areas, including Madaya – several inter-agency convoys have reached a total of 150,000 people in besieged areas. This is out of a total of 487,000 people in besieged areas.
However, progress is too slow. More needs to be done to provide for all those in need in Syria. We are also deeply concerned by reports of civilian deaths in Madaya because their medical evacuations were blocked. We are pressing for an end to the removal of medical equipment from convoys by the regime, the evacuation of critical medical cases and regular access to healthcare for besieged populations.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of disability benefits for which disabled refugees in the UK are eligible.
Justin Tomlinson
Refugees who are eligible must meet the same basic conditions of entitlement for disability benefits as other recipients.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average hourly earnings were of his Department’s (a) BME and (b) non-BME employees in (i) 2015 and (ii) 2016.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The Department for Transport is made up of the central Department and the following agencies:
The table below shows the average hourly earnings for both BME and non- BME staff within the Department for Transport in 2015 and 2016. It is voluntary for staff to declare their ethnic origin. Data for staff who have chosen not to declare their ethnic origin is also provided in the tables.
|
2015 |
BME |
Non BME |
Not Disclosed |
|
AA |
£8.78 |
£8.69 |
£9.11 |
|
AO |
£10.87 |
£10.65 |
£10.55 |
|
EO |
£13.54 |
£13.37 |
£13.02 |
|
HEO |
£16.73 |
£16.67 |
£16.22 |
|
SEO |
£20.82 |
£20.96 |
£20.29 |
|
G7 |
£27.35 |
£27.62 |
£26.63 |
|
G6 |
£41.55 |
£34.92 |
£34.78 |
|
SCS 1 |
£56.63 |
£44.72 |
£47.03 |
|
SCS 2 |
– |
£57.14 |
£70.92 |
|
SCS 3 |
– |
£69.23 |
£67.67 |
|
2016 |
BME |
Non BME |
Not Disclosed |
|
AA |
£8.88 |
£8.91 |
£9.39 |
|
AO |
£10.97 |
£10.85 |
£10.76 |
|
EO |
£13.58 |
£13.46 |
£13.20 |
|
HEO |
£16.59 |
£16.65 |
£16.60 |
|
SEO |
£21.51 |
£21.17 |
£21.43 |
|
G7 |
£27.36 |
£26.99 |
£26.50 |
|
G6 |
£41.80 |
£34.62 |
£34.80 |
|
SCS 1 |
£42.34 |
£44.10 |
£48.40 |
|
SCS 2 |
– |
£58.25 |
£73.56 |
|
SCS 3 |
– |
£70.42 |
£70.36 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-06-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to conduct telephone surveys of British Muslims on views of extremism; how many such surveys her Department plans to conduct; when those surveys will commence; and how many people will be surveyed.
Karen Bradley
The Government is committed to tackling all forms of extremism. The Counter Extremism Strategy aims to protect and safeguard communities at risk from extremism of all types.
In that strategy we committed to be evidence based and to work closely with academics and universities through commissioning and part-funding research. Decisions on how best to do this will be made in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-07-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received from the higher education sector on the future of the Erasmus programme.
Joseph Johnson
The referendum result has no immediate effect on students abroad under the Erasmus scheme or applying for 2016/17. Payments will be made in the usual way. Access to the programme after we leave the EU is a matter for the forthcoming negotiations, and the potential effects could vary considerably. Since the referendum, I have met with stakeholders including representatives from:
Officials have additionally met with or spoken to:
They have also received various representations.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide a regional breakdown of her Department’s spending on schools since 2010.
Nick Gibb
The main revenue funding allocations from this department to schools and local authorities comprise the dedicated schools grant (DSG), pupil premium, education services grant (ESG), universal infant free school meals (UIFSM), PE & Sport premium and Year 7 catch-up grant.
Details of these allocations to all schools or local authorities for financial or academic years 2010 to 2017 (dependent on each grant), can be found at the links below:
2010-11 data:
2011-12 data:
2012-13 data:
2013-14 data:
Pupil Premium: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2013-to-2014-final-allocation-tables
2014-15 data:
DSG: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-2014-to-2015
Pupil Premium: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2014-to-2015-final-allocations
ESG: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2014-to-2015
PE & Sport (academic year): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pe-and-sport-premium-allocations-for-2014-to-2015
UIFSM (academic year): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-infant-free-school-meals-uifsm-provisional-funding-allocations-2014-to-2015
Year 7 Catch-up premium: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/year-7-catch-up-premium-2014-to-2015-allocations
2015-16 data:
DSG: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016
Pupil Premium: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2015-to-2016-allocations
ESG: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2015-to-2016
UIFSM (academic year): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-infant-free-school-meals-uifsm-funding-allocations-2015-to-2016
PE & Sport (academic year): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pe-and-sport-premium-conditions-of-grant-for-2015-to-2016
Year 7 Catch-up Premium: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/year-7-catch-up-premium-2015-to-2016-allocations
2016-17 data (for those that are available):
DSG: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017
Pupil Premium: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2016-to-2017
ESG: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-esg-2016-to-2017
UIFSM (academic year provisional): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-infant-free-school-meals-uifsm-funding-allocations-2016-to-2017
Capital allocations for devolved grants allocated to local authorities from the financial year 2011/12 to present are provided below.
In addition to these allocations the Department for Education has the following nation-wide programmes for which we do not publish regional spend figures:
Building Schools For The Future
71 Academies
Framework Academies
Multi Academy Trust School Condition Allocation
Condition Improvement Fund
Free Schools/ University Technical Colleges and Studio Schools
Priority School Building Programme 1
Priority School Building Programme 2
Basic Need & TBN
Allocation data for all LAs from 11/12 onwards can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations
Condition
Allocation data for all LAs from 11/12 onwards can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-10-17.
To ask the Attorney General, how many complaints to the Crown Prosecution Service were upheld at formal Stage 1 in each of the last three years.
Robert Buckland
The following table shows the number of complaints upheld at Stage 1 in the past three years:
|
Year |
Stage 1 Complaints -Upheld |
|
2013/14 |
150 |
|
2014/15 |
206 |
|
2015/16 |
206 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2015-10-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many advanced nurse practitioners were employed by the NHS in each region of the UK in each of the last five years.
Ben Gummer
An advanced nurse practitioner is generally accepted to be a registered nurse who has acquired the expert knowledge base, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded practice, the characteristics of which are shaped by the context of practice. A Master’s Degree is recommended for entry level to an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANPs) role. This role is not defined by the Nursing Midwifery Council or the Department.
Today ANPs work in a variety of health care settings and in a number of different roles, which range from a nurse consultant managing a specialist service in a hospital to being a nurse partner within a general practice.
Information on how many ANPs are employed by the National Health Service in each region of the United Kingdom in each of the last five years is not held by the Department.
We have made it clear that we are not planning to impose a ‘one size fits all model’ for our plan to provide a seven-day NHS. It will be for local commissioners and providers to decide how best to deliver seven day services in hospitals and for them to work with their Local Education and Training Boards to develop workforce plans to support this.
Although not explicitly mentioned in NHS England’s Five Year Forward view, ANPs are part of the solution to addressing the health and well-being gap; care and quality gap; and funding gap. For example, ANPs are involved in the new care models such as in Derbyshire. The Derbyshire Vanguard site will develop a prevention team made up of health and care professionals including general practitioners (GPs), ANPs, mental health nurses, extended care support and therapy support.
Seven day access does not mean that every GP must work every day or that all practices must open at evenings and weekends. Through schemes such as the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund, practices are encouraged to collaborate together in delivering more convenient and accessible services for patients in the evenings and weekends through multiple methods including innovative use of technology, working together at scale, and better use of skill mix to both improve patient care and release GP capacity.
The recent independent evaluation of the first wave of the PM’s GP Access Fund reported that “evidence to date suggests that the strategy of making more use of nursing staff, particularly Advance Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), is resulting in benefits including released GP capacity…”