The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-02-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with clinical bodies on potential links between the levels of dentistry and cancer.
Jane Ellison
There have been no formal discussions with clinical bodies on this matter.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Murrison on 2016-02-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information police forces hold on the (a) nationality and (b) ethnicity of those (i) arrested for (ii) convicted of sexual assaults against women.
Mike Penning
Under the annual data requirement (ADR), police forces are required to submit data to the Home Office on the ethnicity and sex of persons arrested for sexual offences. These data cannot be broken down to identify the number of arrests for sexual offences against women. Data on the nationality of persons arrested are not collected centrally.
Police forces hold a range of personal information on the Police National Computer (PNC) and local police databases on those arrested and convicted of any offence, including sexual assaults against women.
Additionally, the personal information of anyone cautioned or convicted for a sexual offence listed in Schedule 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, including sexual assault, is held on the police dangerous persons’ database, Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2016-03-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the proportion of Syrian refugees settled in the UK by 2020 who will be LGBTI.
Richard Harrington
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR’s) vulnerability criteria for identifying refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme include persons at risk due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and LGBTI refugees are identified through their normal screening procedures.
We are working with UNHCR and other partners to intensify their outreach to groups that might otherwise be reluctant to register for fear of stigma/discrimination and unaware of the safe space and options available to them. This includes all religious minorities, LGBT, people with disabilities, survivors of torture and sexual violence and others.
The scheme is based on need and supports those who cannot be supported effectively in their region of origin, we cannot therefore provide long term forecasts.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Campbell of Pittenweem on 2016-04-12.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made towards realising receipts through the disposal of high-value Ministry of Defence estate in Scotland since the 2011 Basing Review.
Earl Howe
The receipts received by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) through the disposal of parts of the MOD estate in Scotland since the financial year 2010-11 are shown below:
|
Financial Year |
Disposal Receipts (£ million) |
|
2010-11 |
4.09 |
|
2011-12 |
4.08 |
|
2012-13 |
1.32 |
|
2013-14 |
12.66 |
|
2014-15 |
0.92 |
|
2015-16 |
0.41 |
|
Total |
23.48 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nigel Adams on 2016-05-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what incentives her Department (a) is providing and (b) is planning to provide for (i) biomass and (ii) gas generation to create additional capacity.
Andrea Leadsom
Support is provided for biomass under a range of renewable financial incentives: the Renewables Obligation (RO), Feed in Tariff (FIT), Contracts for Difference (CfD) and Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The RO closed to co-firing and conversions last year and any future support will be via CfD.
The government announced it will hold three auctions for Contracts for Difference of up to £730 million this Parliament. Details of the future CFD allocation rounds will be published in due course.
The Government confirmed increased funding for the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme in November 2015 as part of the Spending Review, with the annual budget rising from £430m in 2015/16 to £1.15bn in 2020/21.
Getting new gas-fired stations built is a priority for Government and we are confident that the Capacity Market is the right mechanism to bring forward new capacity as older less efficient plants close. We have announced that we are going buy more capacity in December’s auction, tighten delivery incentives and bring forward the first capacity market delivery year to 2017/18. This should improve the chances of new gas (CCGTs, OCGTS and gas engines) capacity clearing in future auctions. Subject to a forthcoming consultation, closing unabated coal by 2025 will further strengthen investment signals for new gas. In addition, DECC is working with the planning inspectorate to arrange a workshop in June to explain how developers can use the pre-application project planning process to ensure applications for new gas plants are progressed as swiftly as possible.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2016-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the local management structure is of the NHS in West Sussex.
Jane Ellison
NHS Improvement advises that the following National Health Service organisations operate in West Sussex and each has its own management structure:
― Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust:
https://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/about-us/
― Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation:
http://www.westernsussexhospitals.nhs.uk/your-trust/about/plans-strategies/
― Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust:
http://www.qvh.nhs.uk/about-us/
― Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust:
http://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/downloads/services/about-us.pdf
― Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust:
http://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/about-us
― South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust:
http://www.secamb.nhs.uk/about_us.aspx
― Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust:
http://www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/about-us/about-the-trust/
― Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG):
http://www.coastalwestsussexccg.nhs.uk/about-cwsccg
― Crawley CCG:
http://www.crawleyccg.nhs.uk/about-us/
― Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG:
http://www.horshamandmidsussexccg.nhs.uk/about-us/
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Ramsbotham on 2016-09-14.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the final report of the review of the youth justice system will be published.
Lord Keen of Elie
The estimated total cost of the review of the youth justice system is £350,000. This figure is subject to audit at the end of the 2016-17 financial year and may change.
Ministers are currently considering Charlie Taylor’s review of the youth justice system. The final report and the government’s plans for reform of the youth justice system will be published later in the autumn.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Jones on 2015-10-29.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2015 to Question 12045, on tax credits, if he will publish that data in the form in which it is available.
Mr David Gauke
HM Revenue and Customs is now able to provide the data in the format requested.
The table below shows the number of mandatory reconsiderations for tax credits undertaken by Synnex-Concentix UK Ltd since the start of the contract. The data is accurate as at 2 November 2015.
|
Within Week |
Number |
|
One |
1,136 |
|
Two |
133 |
|
Three |
160 |
|
Four |
117 |
|
Five |
97 |
|
Six |
94 |
|
Seven |
89 |
|
Eight |
70 |
|
Nine |
44 |
|
Ten |
38 |
|
More than ten |
106 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicola Blackwood on 2015-11-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of her Department’s funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
Mr Nick Hurd
DFID is a leader in funding high-quality high-impact development research, providing technologies and rigorous evidence to tackle critical development challenges – from new treatments for children with malaria to what approaches work to prevent violence against women. DFID’s funding for research and development expenditure up to 2020 will be determined through the Department’s internal resource allocation process. Decisions will be based on an analysis of critical development challenges, key evidence and technology gaps, and DFID’s areas of comparative advantage as a research funder. We committed in our manifesto to lead a major new global programme to accelerate the development of vaccines and drugs to eliminate the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, and in November announced the Ross Fund which will deliver on this commitment.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2016-01-07.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many credit unions were subject to intervention by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme in 2014 and 2015.
Harriett Baldwin
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme regularly publishes details of the interventions it has undertaken to protect depositors. The Scheme announced that it had protected the savings of members in five credit unions which entered default in 2014; and six in 2015.