The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-02-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sanctions on jobseekers allowance were imposed in the most recent year for which data is available; and how many such sanctions were (a) under one month, (b) between one month and six months and (c) six months or more in duration.
Priti Patel
The information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-03-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges on the connection between memory loss and viral illness.
Jane Ellison
No such discussions have taken place.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kirsten Oswald on 2016-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria are used to determine the level of compensation due to current or former service personnel diagnosed with cancer related to working conditions experienced during their period of service.
Mark Lancaster
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) provides no-fault compensation for members of the Armed Forces where illness, injury or death is caused by service from 6 April 2005 under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and, before that date, under the War Pensions Scheme (WPS).
Any disablement, injury or illness, including cancer, can be claimed with awards made where the claimed disorder is accepted as being due to service. Lay and scheme medical advisers work together and decisions are evidence based, reflecting the individual case facts, contemporary medical understanding of causation and the relevant law.
Awards under the WPS depend on the assessed level of disablement with the method of assessment set out in the legislation and expressed as a percentage. The AFCS is tariff based. The legislation includes nine tables of injuries and disorders with associated tariff levels, relevant to military service. A lump sum is paid for pain and suffering taking account of the likely progress of the condition over the person’s lifetime. There are fifteen tariff levels and, for the more serious disorders like cancer, a Guaranteed Income Payment to cover reduced civilian employability is paid, in addition, from the date of claim for life.
Where negligence exists on the part of the MOD, Service personnel may make a claim for damages under common law for service after May 1987. Awards are determined by common law principles which, broadly, take into account, as appropriate, an individual’s pain and suffering, degree of injury, past and future financial losses and level of care required. Levels of compensation which include these elements can vary depending on an individual’s circumstances.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of cancer patients in (a) England and (b) Copeland constituency received their first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral in 2015-16.
Jane Ellison
The information is shown in the following table.
Proportion of patients that started first treatment for all cancers within 62 days of an urgent general practitioner referral in 2015-16
|
England |
NHS Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)1 |
|
|
2015-16 |
82.4% |
79.2% |
Source: Cancer waiting times, NHS England
Notes:
1NHS Cumbria CCG is the CCG responsible for commissioning care for the residents of the constituency of Copeland. Data is not available by parliamentary constituency.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rushanara Ali on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government was involved in the legal agreement drawn up in 1998 to transfer the estates involved in the Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust to Old Ford Housing Association.
Gavin Barwell
We do not know whether Government was involved in drafting the legal agreement itself – this could only be determined at disproportionate cost – but the Government was involved in the development of, and preparatory work leading to, the transfer to Old Ford Housing Association.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2016-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of companies which have published details of the measures they are taking to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains.
Sarah Newton
The Government has not estimated what proportion of businesses have reported so far.
We published guidance in October 2015 advising that businesses should report as soon as reasonably practicable after their financial year end, which in practice should mean within six months of an organisation’s financial year end.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Marlesford on 2015-11-11.
To ask the Chairman of Committees which peers who were Members of the House of Lords throughout the 2014–15 parliamentary session attended on fewer than 25 per cent of sitting days, indicating in respect of each peer the number of days attended.
Lord Laming
The House sat for 126 days in the 2014/15 Session and therefore members needed to attend at least 32 times to reach an attendance rate of 25%. For the purposes of this answer: an attendance is counted as an attendance in the Chamber, in Grand Committee, in a Select Committee or a vote in the division lobbies.
The following members attended on fewer than 32 days. The figures do not include members who joined part way through the Session, members who died or retired part way through the session, or members who were disqualified or on leave of absence throughout the Session. Some of the Members listed were unwell and have since died, and some took leave of absence in the next Session. In discharging their parliamentary duties members of the House of Lords can draw substantially on experience and expertise gained outside Parliament. Therefore members may devote considerable time to maintaining and increasing that knowledge.
Members who took leave of absence for part of the Session and attended fewer than 25% of total days that they were eligible to attend:
|
Days attended |
Total sitting days that member was eligible to attend. |
|
|
Dixon, L. |
0 |
32 |
|
Mogg, L. |
0 |
35 |
|
Janner of Braunstone, L. |
0 |
36 |
|
Hutton, L. |
1 |
109 |
|
Brooks of Tremorfa, L. |
2 |
27 |
|
Evans of Parkside, L. |
2 |
35 |
|
Thomas of Walliswood, B. |
3 |
41 |
Other members who attended fewer than 32 times:
|
Days attended |
|
|
Grabiner, L. |
0 |
|
Healey, L. |
0 |
|
Inge, L. |
0 |
|
Mayhew of Twysden, L. |
0 |
|
Neill of Bladen, L. |
0 |
|
Saville of Newdigate, L. |
0 |
|
Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, L. |
0 |
|
Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, L. |
1 |
|
Baldwin of Bewdley, E. |
1 |
|
Browne of Madingley, L. |
1 |
|
Goldie, B. |
1 |
|
King of Lothbury, L. |
1 |
|
Peel, E. |
1 |
|
Weidenfeld, L. |
1 |
|
Williamson of Horton, L. |
1 |
|
Bell, L. |
2 |
|
Cameron of Lochbroom, L. |
2 |
|
Campbell of Loughborough, B. |
2 |
|
Ezra, L. |
2 |
|
Falkender, B. |
2 |
|
Malloch-Brown, L. |
2 |
|
Turner of Ecchinswell, L. |
2 |
|
Wolfson of Aspley Guise, L. |
2 |
|
Alliance, L. |
3 |
|
Burns, L. |
3 |
|
Carter of Barnes, L. |
3 |
|
Heseltine, L. |
3 |
|
Lloyd-Webber, L. |
3 |
|
Sacks, L. |
3 |
|
Tombs, L. |
3 |
|
Sharman, L. |
4 |
|
Parkinson, L. |
4 |
|
Bamford, L. |
5 |
|
Coe, L. |
5 |
|
Feldman, L. |
5 |
|
London, Bp. |
5 |
|
Smith of Kelvin, L. |
5 |
|
Waldegrave of North Hill, L. |
5 |
|
Wilson of Dinton, L. |
5 |
|
York, Abp. |
5 |
|
Collins of Mapesbury, L. |
6 |
|
Freyberg, L. |
6 |
|
Fritchie, B. |
6 |
|
Guthrie of Craigiebank, L. |
6 |
|
Williams of Oystermouth, L. |
6 |
|
Wolfson of Sunningdale, L. |
6 |
|
Haughey, L. |
7 |
|
Rogers of Riverside, L. |
7 |
|
Stevenson of Coddenham, L. |
7 |
|
Winchester, Bp. |
7 |
|
Young of Graffham, L. |
7 |
|
Darzi of Denham, L. |
8 |
|
Kestenbaum, L. |
8 |
|
Nickson, L. |
8 |
|
Rotherwick, L. |
8 |
|
Chelmsford, Bp. |
9 |
|
Hall of Birkenhead, L. |
9 |
|
Myners, L. |
9 |
|
Renwick of Clifton, L. |
9 |
|
Richards of Herstmonceux, L. |
9 |
|
Bristol, Bp. |
10 |
|
Rix, L. |
10 |
|
Browne-Wilkinson, L. |
11 |
|
O’Donnell, L. |
11 |
|
Vallance of Tummel, L. |
12 |
|
Carrington, L. |
12 |
|
Browne of Ladyton, L. |
12 |
|
Drayson, L. |
12 |
|
Glendonbrook, L. |
12 |
|
Green of Hurstpierpoint, L. |
12 |
|
Leach of Fairford, L. |
12 |
|
Sheffield, Bp. |
12 |
|
Currie of Marylebone, L. |
13 |
|
Hattersley, L. |
13 |
|
Macfarlane of Bearsden, L. |
13 |
|
Mandelson, L. |
13 |
|
Ryder of Wensum, L. |
13 |
|
Sassoon, L. |
13 |
|
Truro, Bp. |
13 |
|
Blackwell, L. |
14 |
|
Canterbury, Abp. |
14 |
|
McCluskey, L. |
14 |
|
Tordoff, L. |
14 |
|
Davies of Abersoch, L. |
15 |
|
Hogg, B. |
15 |
|
Leitch, L. |
15 |
|
Neuberger, B. |
15 |
|
Tanlaw, L. |
15 |
|
Willoughby de Broke, L. |
15 |
|
Falconer of Thoroton, L. |
16 |
|
Hardie, L. |
16 |
|
Haskins, L. |
16 |
|
Montagu of Beaulieu, L. |
16 |
|
Palumbo of Southwark, L. |
16 |
|
Saatchi, L. |
16 |
|
Stair, E. |
18 |
|
Levene of Portsoken, L. |
18 |
|
Edmiston, L. |
18 |
|
Imbert, L. |
18 |
|
Joffe, L. |
18 |
|
Worcester, Bp. |
18 |
|
Birmingham, Bp. |
19 |
|
Kalms, L. |
19 |
|
Lichfield, Bp. |
19 |
|
Owen, L. |
19 |
|
Patten of Barnes, L. |
19 |
|
Young of Old Scone, B. |
19 |
|
Feldman of Elstree, L. |
20 |
|
Livingston of Parkhead, L. |
20 |
|
Smith of Leigh, L. |
20 |
|
Allan of Hallam, L. |
21 |
|
Chadlington, L. |
21 |
|
Chandos, V. |
21 |
|
Durham, Bp. |
21 |
|
Leicester, Bp. |
21 |
|
Portsmouth, Bp. |
21 |
|
Greenfield, B. |
22 |
|
Macdonald of River Glaven, L. |
22 |
|
Valentine, B. |
23 |
|
Home, E. |
23 |
|
Howard of Lympne, L. |
23 |
|
Montgomery of Alamein, V. |
23 |
|
Rochester, Bp. |
23 |
|
Richardson of Calow, B. |
24 |
|
Rosslyn, E. |
24 |
|
Stern of Brentford, L. |
24 |
|
Alli, L. |
25 |
|
Magan of Castletown, L. |
25 |
|
Puttnam, L. |
25 |
|
Cullen of Whitekirk, L. |
26 |
|
Levy, L. |
26 |
|
Mar and Kellie, E. |
26 |
|
Moore of Lower Marsh, L. |
26 |
|
Palumbo, L. |
26 |
|
Walker of Gestingthorpe, L. |
26 |
|
Manningham-Buller, B. |
27 |
|
Fellowes of West Stafford, L. |
27 |
|
Turnbull, L. |
28 |
|
Carswell, L. |
29 |
|
Sugar, L. |
29 |
|
Goldsmith, L. |
30 |
|
Coventry, Bp. |
30 |
|
Walker of Aldringham, L. |
30 |
|
Cohen of Pimlico, B. |
31 |
|
Judge, L. |
31 |
|
Krebs, L. |
31 |
|
Shaw of Northstead, L. |
31 |
|
Sheldon, L. |
31 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-12-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance the UK has offered to Central African Republic with preparations for elections in that country in December 2015.
James Duddridge
Free, fair and inclusive elections are critical for the Central African Republic’s future stability, and for successful future reconciliation. As such, the UK supports the Constitutional Court’s ruling that all citizens of the Central African Republic, including internally displaced people and refugees in neighbouring countries, have the right to vote in upcoming elections. The UK is supportive of an EU Election Mission to the Central African Republic. The UK contributes to the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic and is one of the largest humanitarian donors to the country, providing £58 million since 2013 to Central African Republic and Central African Republic refugees through non-governmental organisations and international organisations.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2016-01-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with (a) the police and (b) retailers on the sale of zombie knives in the UK.
Karen Bradley
The Government continues to work with the police and partners to ensure we reduce violence and knife crime, and in the year ending June 2015, knife crime recorded by the police was 17% lower than 2010. We are aware of concerns about zombie knives and we are currently considering representations including the letter of 13 January from the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for the West Midlands and on 21 January from the prospective mayoral candidate for London Zac Goldsmith. A reply will be sent shortly and we will offer to meet with the PCC.
We are currently considering what action to take against the prevalence of zombie knives on our streets. We are talking to retailers, including Amazon, about the action they can take. There are strict laws on the sale of knives to under 18s and on how knives can be marketed. We are concerned about any knives being carried in public especially if used to threaten and inflict violence. It is a criminal offence to possess a knife in public without good reason, and if a person is convicted a second time they now face a minimum mandatory custodial sentence following the introduction of this change by the Government in July 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-02-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Reaper drones have been used in operations in Syria.
Penny Mordaunt
I am withholding operational information on the number of RAF Reaper aircraft deployed as its disclosure would, or would be likely to prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.