Tag: Liam Byrne

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2016-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many post-mortems were performed in Birmingham in 2015.

Caroline Dinenage

Operational responsibility for coroner services, including allocating resources, is the responsibility of local authorities.

The Ministry of Justice does not collect information about the time taken for coroner post mortem examinations, or the number of coroners’ authorisations for burial.

Statistics for 2015 in relation to deaths reported to coroners, including the number of post mortem examinations carried out in the Birmingham and Solihull coroner area, will be published shortly at www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to promote character education in schools; and if she will make a statement.

Edward Timpson

All schools should develop character traits like self-confidence, motivation and resilience in their students. These traits support academic attainment, are valued by employers, and encourage young people to make a positive contribution to British society.

At the Character Symposium in January 2016, the Secretary of State for Education outlined her vision for character education. She announced that the Department intends to promote character education through the building and strengthening of our evidence base. We will facilitate this via an online digital platform which will share evidence, innovation, and examples of best practice in character education. We will also promote character education to schools and organisations through a new round of character awards.

To support schools in this, we are already investing £5 million in character education. This figure includes £3.5m of grants for 14 projects and £1m to the Education Endowment Foundation to build research the most effective ways that character can be developed.

Of course, many schools and organisations are already supporting children to develop their character, through programmes such as National Citizen Service. We will be investing over a billion pounds over the next four years to make NCS a rite of passage and toensure that 60% of 16 year olds can take part by 2021.

In addition, school sport can help children and young people develop positive character traits such as fair play, leadership and resilience. It can teach them how to bounce back from defeat, how to respect others and how to work together in teams to achieve a goal. PE remains a compulsory subject at all four key stages in the new national curriculum which came into force in September 2014.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2016-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many deceased people were authorised for burial by coroners in Birmingham (a) within (i) 24, (ii) between 24 and 48 and (iii) 72 hours and (b) after more than (A) five and (B) seven days in the last year.

Caroline Dinenage

Operational responsibility for coroner services, including allocating resources, is the responsibility of local authorities.

The Ministry of Justice does not collect information about the time taken for coroner post mortem examinations, or the number of coroners’ authorisations for burial.

Statistics for 2015 in relation to deaths reported to coroners, including the number of post mortem examinations carried out in the Birmingham and Solihull coroner area, will be published shortly at www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2016-01-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2016 to Question 21823, how many of her Department’s approved Intervention Providers for the Channel programme are (a) men and (b) women.

Mr John Hayes

There are currently 39 male and 13 female intervention providers listed in our register. We keep the list under constant review. The breakdown listed below shows where the intervention provider is based, however, most intervention providers are available to work across England and Wales, and are not limited to working in the region they are based in.

Region	Total number of providers
North East	1
North West	10
Yorkshire and the Humber	1
East Midlands	7
West Midlands	6
East of England	3
London	20
South East	1
South West	2
Wales	1

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2016-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken for a post-mortem was in (a) Birmingham and (b) England in the last 12 months.

Caroline Dinenage

Operational responsibility for coroner services, including allocating resources, is the responsibility of local authorities.

The Ministry of Justice does not collect information about the time taken for coroner post mortem examinations, or the number of coroners’ authorisations for burial.

Statistics for 2015 in relation to deaths reported to coroners, including the number of post mortem examinations carried out in the Birmingham and Solihull coroner area, will be published shortly at www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total forecast spending on alcohol treatment services is for the future years for which information is available.

Jane Ellison

Figures for the 2016-17 and future public health grants will not be known until after the 2015 spending review. There is currently a consultation on the proposed target allocation formula for the 2016-17 public health grant, which includes a formula for substance misuse services, which closes on 6 November.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total spending on alcohol treatment services was in England in each of the last five years for which data is available.

Jane Ellison

Local authorities are responsible for assessing local need for alcohol treatment and commissioning services and interventions to meet that need, using the public health grant.

The Department of Communities and Local Government publishes statistics on local authority expenditure. The most recent year for which final data is available is 2013-14, and the statistics show that local authorities in England spent £190.4 million on alcohol misuse for adults. This figure includes spending on both alcohol harm prevention and treatment, and is not broken down between the two. Similarly, local authorities spent £70.8 million on substance misuse youth services (for under-18s), but it is not possible to break down how much of this spending went on alcohol or drugs prevention or treatment.

Figures on spending on alcohol treatment before the public health grant came into effect in 2013 are not available centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2015 to Question 10693, what the rate of hospital admissions where the main reason for admission was alcohol-related was in each local authority area in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12.

Jane Ellison

Alcohol-related hospital admissions for all local authorities are available via the Local Alcohol Profile for England (LAPE) tool at:

http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles

The tool holds annual data from 2008/09 to 2013/14.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the framework is for assessing quality of education and inspecting standards and safety in settings where children are instructed in madrassas.

Edward Timpson

Local authorities are responsible for safeguarding children in their areas, regardless of where they are educated. The statutory guidance on the Prevent Duty[1] makes it clear that local authorities should take steps to understand the range of out of school settings, such as supplementary schools and tuition centres, in their area and take appropriate steps to ensure that children attending such settings are properly safeguarded.

The Prime Minister has recently announced that supplementary schools which provide intensive education will need to register themselves for inspection. The government’s counter-extremism strategy[2] sets out our intentions to introduce this system. We will be consulting on this regulatory framework.

Intervention will apply if there are concerns about the safety or welfare of the children attending these supplementary schools. Where institutions are teaching intolerance we will not hesitate to take action. We are consulting on the coverage of this proposed scheme, which is likely to include some madrasa schools.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-extremism-strategy

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2015-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish an update to the Government’s alcohol strategy, Cm 8336, published in March 2012.

Mike Penning

The Government is continuing to work to achieve the outcome of the Alcohol Strategy published in 2012. There are no plans to publish an update at the current time.