Tag: Mark Hendrick

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS health trusts have (a) recruited and (b) advertised for staff outside the UK since 1 January 2013.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The Department does not hold information on National Health Service trusts that have recruited or advertised for staff outside the United Kingdom since 1 January 2013.

It is the responsibility of local NHS organisations to plan and deliver a workforce appropriate to the needs of their local population, based on clinical need and sound evidence.

The nature of the NHS labour market means that supply shortages in specific specialisms and geographies do exist. It is likely that some overseas recruitment will be necessary to support the qualified workforce supply, however, the NHS now has many more healthcare professionals, and is much closer to self-sufficiency – in line with World Health Organization recommendations.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were waiting to be placed on a GP list in Preston constituency on the last working day of (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.

Dr Daniel Poulter

This information is not collected centrally. Patients are entitled to register with any general practitioner practice as long as they live within the practice’s catchment area and the practice has an open list.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been made redundant by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in each year since the foundation of HMCTS; and what the cost of redundancies at HMCTS was in each of those years.

Mr Shailesh Vara

I can confirm that there have been no compulsory redundancies in HMCTS since its foundation in April 2011. There have been voluntary departures agreed in HMCTS since April 2011, as detailed in the HMCTS Financial Statement of Accounts. The number and cost of these voluntary departures are detailed below:

Year	Number of Voluntary Departures Agreed	Cost (£)
2011 – 2012	1,268	£54,817,000
2012 – 2013	408	£22,259,000
2013 – 2014	73	£3,087,000
Up to 31 May 2014	0	0

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many call-outs police in Preston attended in response to domestic violence in 2013.

Norman Baker

The requested data are not collected centrally by the Home Office. Data are
available on the number of domestic abuse incidents that come to the attention
of the police but these are only held at police force area level.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many redundancies were (a) planned and (b) made in each (i) magistrates and (ii) Crown court in Lancashire in 2014.

Mr Shailesh Vara

I refer the honourable member to the answer given on Tuesday 10th February 2015.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-02-05/223567/

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on how many claims for benefits made by telephone by people in Preston constituency in 2014 to date were interrupted by the claimant running out of credit.

Steve Webb

The requested information is not available from current Management Information systems as no information relating to the causes of call terminations is gathered. As such, it is not possible to distinguish between reasons for termination or to distinguish between calls terminated by agents or callers.

The current Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) policy is that all calls should be free to our 0800 numbers to claim:

• State Pension;
• Pension Credit;
• Jobseekers’ Allowance;
• Income Support;
• Employment Support Allowance; and,
• Personal Independence Payment.

It is free to call DWP 0800 numbers from all major landline providers.

DWP continues to have agreements with O2, Everything Everywhere (formerly Orange and T-Mobile), Vodafone (including Cable & Wireless), Three (also known as Hutchison 3G), Tesco Mobile and Virgin Mobile ahead of the OFCOM changes due in June 2015. This agreement allows many of our customers to make free mobile phone calls from their participating networks to the Department’s 0800 customer numbers.

DWP is aware of possible concerns about call charges to enquiry and claims lines so agents will routinely offer to call a customer back if concerns are raised over the cost of the call. The Department also provides controlled access to telephones for claimants if required in support of job-searches or benefit enquiries.

During June 2014 the average duration of a call to the Primary Benefit New Claims lines (ESA, IS and JSA) from connection to termination was 14 minutes and 43 seconds.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-17.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid under the Enterprise Initiative Scheme to members of each qualifying wind farm co-operative in each of the last three years.

Nicky Morgan

The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will add a category of name of medal requested to the Certificate of Kinship Request for the Medals of a Deceased Ex-Serviceman/woman form.

Anna Soubry

The existing combined medal application and next of kin form contains a box where the applicant can specify which medal they are applying for.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered nurses were made redundant by each NHS health trust in England in 2013.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The number (Headcount basis) of Qualified Nursing Staff made redundant, from National Health Service trusts, during 2013 is estimated in the attached table.

In November 2013 there was a record full time equivalent number of qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff in the NHS of 312,900.

The 489 redundancies represent just 0.14 % of the total Qualified Nursing workforce in Hospitals and Community Health Services.

The data used in this reply has been extracted from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Data Warehouse which is a monthly snap shot of the live ESR system. This is the Human Resources and payroll system that covers all NHS employees other than those working in General Practice, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and organisations to which functions have been transferred, such as local authorities. ESR was fully rolled out across the NHS in April 2008. The ESR data used in this response is not centrally validated and its reliability is subject to local coding practice.

Redundancies are identified as those individuals with a reason for leaving of either voluntary or compulsory redundancy. Only those individuals coded as Qualified Nurses, Midwives or Health Visitors are included in the figures. Only redundancies from NHS Trusts are included in these figures, it is possible that Qualified Nurses were also made redundant from other NHS bodies.

ESR reports based on the current organisation structure. This means that if organisations merged during 2013 it is possible that redundancies from, now defunct, organisations are recorded as being from the newly created organisation.