Tag: Keith Vaz

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    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.

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    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.

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-04-10.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have arrived in the UK under the Syrian refugee programme.

    James Brokenshire

    To date 24 Syrians have arrived in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons
    Relocation scheme, with the first group arriving at the end of March and a
    further group in April. We will not be releasing any further details; such as
    where they are travelling from, their specific vulnerabilities, or where they
    will be placed.

    The scheme is based on need, rather than being designed to meet a quota.
    However, we will continue to bring groups here on a regular basis, and envisage
    that several hundred people will be helped over the next three years.

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

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

    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the budgeted spend is for humanitarian aid for Yemen for the next two years.

    Mr Alan Duncan

    DFID has already committed £33m in assistance for this financial year and we are in the process of assessing where we should allocate further funds and at what scale.

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-04-29.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the emails sent by his Department to schools on 3 April 2014 setting out guidance on keeping children safe have not been opened by the recipient to date.

    Mr Edward Timpson

    On 3 April the Department for Education published updated statutory guidance on safeguarding, ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. On the same day, we emailed all headteachers a letter from the Secretary of State drawing their attention to the guidance. We will be publishing this on the website in due course.

    The letter was emailed to 31,660 addressees in 25,035 schools. As of 30 April, 13,285 (43.1%) recipients had opened the email, and 9,402 (30.5%) recipients had clicked through to the guidance on safeguarding.

    Other records show that the guidance has been seen by a greater number of people. Between 3 and 29 April the web page hosting the guidance received 65,729 page views. The Department also published 5 tweets in support of the publication. These achieved a total reach of 639,315, and the embedded links were clicked 755 times.

    The guidance will also be highlighted in the summer term 2014 schools’ email and Need to Know timelines that will be sent to all schools in May. Schools can also access relevant information through social media, and messages from the Education Funding Agency and the National College for Teaching and Leadership. The Department also sends regular emails to all local authorities.

    Officials have also promoted the guidance through various stakeholder groups that work with the Department, including the Headteacher Reference Groups and the Education Forum; members of the latter include chairs of local safeguarding children boards. And they have written to head and teacher unions who met Ministers in January to discuss female genital mutilation and broader safeguarding issues.

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-04-30.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total yearly salary of each grade of the UK Visa and Immigration Directorate senior staff was on 1 April 2014.

    Karen Bradley

    The following table shows the total yearly salary for each senior civil
    service grade in UK Visa and Immigration Directorate as at 1 April 2014. These
    are presented in £5,000 bands in line with our commitment to publish
    departmental salary information.

    Grade Salary band (£)
    Deputy Directors 755,000-759,999
    Directors 420,000-424,999
    Director General 132,000-134,999

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-04-30.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed by the UK Visa and Immigration Directorate on 1 April 2014.

    James Brokenshire

    The number of people (paid and unpaid civil servants as well as agency and
    contractors substituting as civil servants) employed by UK Visas and
    Immigration on 31st March 2014 was 7,107 (6,598.67 Full Time Equivalent).

    In line with Office for National statistics guidelines, all government
    departments are required to report their official statistics relating to
    numbers of employees using calendar month end dates. This answer has therefore
    been provided using information as at 31st March 2014 rather than 1st April
    2014.

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-04-30.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what budget is allocated to the UK Visa and Immigration Directorate.

    James Brokenshire

    UK Visa & Immigration Directorate Budget 2014/5

    Resource Administration £13.6 million
    Resource Programme £744.3 million
    Income Programme £1,022.6 million
    Capital £6.0 million

    Source: Home Office Main Estimates published on 29th April 2014

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriages were reported to the Home Office as suspicious or sham in each year since 2009.

    Karen Bradley

    Sections 24 and 24A of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 place a duty on
    registration officers to submit a report to the Home Office where they have
    reasonable grounds to suspect that a marriage or civil partnership is a sham
    being entered into for immigration purposes. Table 1 shows the
    number of section 24/24A reports received in each year since 2009. Same sex
    marriages only came into effect this year there is therefore no data relating
    to this period, or for civil partnerships before 2011.

    The Home Office Intelligence Management System (IMS) records allegations from
    the public regarding immigration-related offences. Since 30 September 2012 we
    have recorded the following numbers of reports relating to sham marriage as set
    out in Table 2.
    These figures relate to reports identified by the public as possible sham
    marriage.

    Table 1

    Year

    Number of section 24/24A reports

    Of which refer civil partnerships

    2009

    561

    2010

    934

    2011

    1,741

    28

    2012

    1,891

    28

    2013

    2135

    25

    Table 2

    Year

    Number of reports relating to sham marriage recorded on IMS

    2012 (from 30 September)

    984

    2013

    6909

  • Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Keith Vaz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriages reported as suspicious or sham were (a) same sex marriages, (b) heterosexual marriages and (c) civil partnerships in each year since 2009.

    James Brokenshire

    Sections 24 and 24A of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 place a duty on
    registration officers to submit a report to the Home Office where they have
    reasonable grounds to suspect that a marriage or civil partnership is a sham
    being entered into for immigration purposes. Table 1 shows the
    number of section 24/24A reports received in each year since 2009. Same sex
    marriages only came into effect this year there is therefore no data relating
    to this period, or for civil partnerships before 2011.

    The Home Office Intelligence Management System (IMS) records allegations from
    the public regarding immigration-related offences. Since 30 September 2012 we
    have recorded the following numbers of reports relating to sham marriage as set
    out in Table 2.
    These figures relate to reports identified by the public as possible sham
    marriage.

    Table 1

    Year

    Number of section 24/24A reports

    Of which refer civil partnerships

    2009

    561

    2010

    934

    2011

    1,741

    28

    2012

    1,891

    28

    2013

    2135

    25

    Table 2

    Year

    Number of reports relating to sham marriage recorded on IMS

    2012 (from 30 September)

    984

    2013

    6909