Tag: Keith Vaz

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average salary gap is between women and men in his Department.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

Salary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is determined by a range of factors including grade, performance, and length of time in employment. The latest data on average salaries of FCO staff by gender and grade are set out below and can be found in the FCO Diversity and Equality report, which was published in April 2014 and based on data for 2013. Full details can be found on page 12 of the report.

Grade	Average Female Pay	Average Male Pay	% Male Pay Exceeds Female Pay
SMS 3&4	£118,470	£131,360	10.88%
SMS 2	£88,471	£89,669	1.35%
SMS 1	£67,030	£68,286	1.87%
D7	£57,147	£58,195	1.83%
D6	£47,204	£47,576	0.79%
C5	£35,581	£36,233	1.83%
C4	£28,753	£28,710	-0.15%
B3	£24,690	£24,612	-0.32%
A2	£20,700	£20,492	-1.00%
A1	£18,156	£18,156	0.00%

The pay gap between men and women at Senior Management Structure 3&4 is due to the relatively small number of women currently in those grades.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 310W, on diabetes, what information his Department collects centrally about diabetics.

Jane Ellison

The Health and Social Care information Centre (HSCIC) collects data on diabetes through the National Diabetes Audit Programme, the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF), prescribing and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).

The National Diabetes Audit (Adults) measures the effectiveness of diabetes healthcare against National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidelines and NICE Quality Standards, in England and Wales.

The National Diabetes Inpatient Audit collects information on the diabetes management that patients receive whilst in hospital and patients’ experience of the inpatient stay.

The National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit which measures the quality of pre-gestational diabetes care against NICE guideline based criteria and the outcomes of pre-gestational diabetic pregnancy.

The National Diabetes Foot Care Audit collects data which enables all diabetes foot care services to measure their performance against NICE clinical guidelines and peer units, and to monitor adverse outcomes for people with diabetes who develop diabetic foot disease.

The patient experience of diabetes services (pilot collection) measures the diabetes healthcare experiences of people with diabetes in England and Wales.

The QOF collates information across a range of measures on people aged 17 or over who have a diagnosis of diabetes at general practice level.

Data on prescriptions dispensed in the community in England is available for all drugs dispensed in England within the prescription cost analysis dataset which includes drugs used for diabetes. The HSCIC also produce a specific publication – Prescribing for Diabetes in England. The 2005-06 to 2013-14 data was released on 12 August 2014. Prescribing data is also available also available at clinical commissioning group and area team team level within iView. GP practice level prescribing data is also available via the HSCIC website at:

www.hscic.gov.uk/gpprescribingdata

Providers of NHS services in England are required to supply information on activity to the Secondary Uses Services (SUS) database via commissioning datasets. Each month an extract from the SUS database is taken and moved into the HES database which is then made available for analysis. It is possible, therefore, to report activity on admissions to hospital for patients with a diagnosis of diabetes.

Like the majority of data collections for which the HSCIC is responsible, information collected focuses on activity that has taken place rather than where patients have missed appointments.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed by HM Passport Office were specifically tasked with processing passport applications on (a) 1 January, (b) 1 February, (c) 1 March, (d) 1 April, (e) 1 May and (f) 1 June 2014.

James Brokenshire

The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar
month.
The table below shows the number of Her Majesty’s Passport Office full-time
equivalents working within the passport operational Directorates.
(a) On 31 December 2013: 2,457
(b) On 31 January 2014: 2,515
(c) On 28 February 2014: 2,559
(d) On 31 March 2014: 2,593
(e) On 30 April 2014: 2,611
(f) On 31 May 2014: 2,629

Please note, Her Majesty’sPassport Office records migrated to the Department’s
strategic record system during this period and are subject to enhanced validation
checks. Several months in this time series have a variance of +/- 2 FTE.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by HM Passport Office on (a) 1 January, (b) 1 February, (c) 1 March, (d) 1 April, (e) 1 May and (f) 1 June 2014.

James Brokenshire

The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar
month.
Her Majesty’s Passport Office has employed the following numbers of full-time
equivalents
(FTEs).
(a) On 31 December 2013: 3,333
(b) On 31 January 2014: 3,390
(c) On 28 February 2014: 3,434
(d) On 31 March 2014: 3,469
(e) On 30 April 2014: 3,489
(f) On 31 May 2014: 3,506

In order to ensure that the data is reported on a consistent basis, figures for
April and May figures include 196 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) corporate services
staff that transferred to the Home Office on 1 April 2014. This was part of a restructure
of the Home Office Corporate Services function.

Figures are for permanent civil servants employed by Her Majesty’s Passport
Office, including Part Year Appointments and permanent members of staff
employed on contracts for 9 months of the year. This excludes staff on secondment
or loan, and agency and temporary staff – with these staff included, the March 2014
figure is 3,444.

Please note, Her Majesty’s Passport Office records migrated to the Department’s
strategic record system during this period and are subject to enhanced validation
checks. Several months in this time series have a variance of +/- 2 FTE.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many meetings she has had with world leaders to discuss the humanitarian situation in Yemen since 1 January 2013.

Mr Alan Duncan

Tackling the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where we are one of the largest humanitarian donors, is a priority for DFID. As such, DFID ministers have played a leading role in galvanising international efforts and encouraging others to do more. This has involved regular discussions with senior global leaders both in the specifically convened Friends of Yemen, but also during regular meetings with partners to discuss humanitarian issues.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the £70 million which her Department offered to Yemen in 2013 for emergency food assistance, shelter, clean water and help for people recovering from conflict was provided to that country.

Mr Alan Duncan

DFID is one of the largest humanitarian donors to Yemen. We are committed to tackling the humanitarian crisis in the country including through the £70m of human assistance we offered in 2013. Last financial year we offered £32m of assistance, we have already allocated £33m for this year and the balance of the commitment will be allocated as soon as possible.