Tag: Lord Jopling

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jopling on 2014-03-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Taylor of Holbeach on 10 March (WA 348), whether they will now answer the question.

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

As I stated to the House on 23 January 2014, Official Report, column 846, and
repeated in my reply to the noble lord, Lord Vinson on 10 March (WA 348), the
Government remains committed ‘to holding another vote on the final package of
measures that we will apply to rejoin’.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jopling on 2014-03-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 10 March (WA 342), whether they will now answer the questions.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

Cabinet office does not hold data centrally on the transfer of civil servants across regions and it could only be collected centrally at disproportionate cost. Workforce planning is primarily the responsibility of each individual Department to determine. It is for individual departments to provide such information, where it exists.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jopling on 2014-03-11.

To ask the Leader of the House what steps he has taken to ensure that Ministers make sure, before signing replies to Questions for Written Answer, that the replies answer the questions which have been put.

Lord Hill of Oareford

It is the responsibility of individual ministers to decide what answers they give to Questions for Written Answer (QWAs), and they are of course accountable to the House for those answers. The importance of this direct accountability is such that I recently decided, following the introduction of a new system for answering QWAs electronically, to require Ministers in this House to continue providing personally signed answers to noble Lords. The Ministerial Code states that “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament”.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jopling on 2014-03-27.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 26 March (WA 121), whether other Departments hold the data requested in the question; and whether they will now answer the question originally put.

Lord Nash

Local authorities are required to report annually on the numbers of children in need who have a disability (as defined by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010) as part of the Children in Need Census data collection. These data are collected under section 83 of the Children Act 1989 by the Department for Education. As part of this collection, local authorities report on the number of children with disabilities who are subject to child protection investigations under section 47 of the Children Act 1989. However, it is not possible to separately identify those with chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis.

The number of children in need with a disability is published in ‘Characteristics of Children in Need’, and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/characteristics-of-children-in-need-in-england-2012-to-2013

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jopling on 2014-03-25.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 24 March (WA 74), which, if any, department investigates the issues about nutrition asked about in the original question; and whether that department will answer the original question.

Lord Freud

The Government does not collect nutrition and health data in the way described.