Tag: Parliamentary Question

Craig Whittaker – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Craig Whittaker on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many gambling licenses were issued for premises in (a) Calderdale and (b) West Yorkshire in each year between 2005 and 2016.

David Evennett

The requested information is not held centrally. Local authorities are responsible for the issuing of gambling premises licences in accordance with the Licensing Objectives and their own Statement of Licensing Policy. Local Authority license registers listing the number of licences in each borough are available to access by the public. More information from Calderdale Council can be found at http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/business/licences/gambling-act/index.html

01/01/2023
Rachael Maskell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rachael Maskell on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will extend the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to include primary producers’ relationships with their suppliers.

Margot James

We will shortly be commencing a review of the Groceries Code Adjudicator and as part of that we will take account of the recent calls for its remit to be extended.

01/01/2023
Barry Gardiner – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Gardiner on 2016-09-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the company annual turnover threshold is for government intervention to block any sale or transfer of the ownership of critical infrastructure; on what occasions that threshold has been crossed; and if he will make a statement.

Margot James

My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is able to intervene on public interest grounds in transactions which are subject to merger control either within the UK or at the EU level. The turnover thresholds for such public interest interventions depend upon which of the two relevant competition bodies has jurisdiction.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has jurisdiction to review mergers and takeovers when:

– the annual UK turnover of the target business exceeds £70 million, or

– the merger creates a 25%, or greater, share in a market in the UK.

The European Commission has jurisdiction to review mergers and takeovers when:

– the combined aggregate worldwide turnover (in the preceding financial year) of all the undertakings concerned exceeds EUR5,000 million; and

– the aggregate EU-wide turnover of each of at least two of the undertakings concerned exceeds EUR 250 million; or

– the aggregate worldwide turnover of all the undertakings concerned is more than EUR 2,500 million; and

– the aggregate turnover of all the undertakings in each of at least three member states is more than EUR 100 million;

– in each of the same three member states, the aggregate turnover of each of at least two of the undertakings involved is more than EUR 25 million; and

– the aggregate EU-wide turnover of each of at least two of the undertakings involved is more than EUR 100 million.

Unless each of the undertakings concerned achieves more than two-thirds of its aggregate EU-wide turnover within a single Member State (then the Commission does not have jurisdiction).

If none of these jurisdictional thresholds is met, the Secretary of State can still intervene in defence industry mergers, if at least one of the enterprises concerned is a relevant government contractor; or where the merger involves a supplier or suppliers of at least 25% of any description of newspapers or broadcasting in the UK.

In all cases, public interest interventions can only be made on the grounds of national security, financial stability (or prudential rules in an EU case) or media plurality.

The number of times the CMA’s jurisdiction thresholds are met is not recorded. The European Commission does not record merger notifications by country of transaction.

01/01/2023
Jim Cunningham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2015-11-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number and accessibility of pharmacy facilities; and if he will make a statement.

Alistair Burt

There were 11,674 community pharmacies in England at 31 March 2015. 95% of the population is within a 20 minute walk of a community pharmacy, with access greatest in the most deprived areas. It is not for the Department to determine or advise on how health and social care providers, including pharmacies, comply with equalities legislation. It is up to each pharmacy owner to ensure their pharmacy premises comply with the Equality Act 2010.

01/01/2023
Baroness Redfern – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Redfern on 2015-12-16.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures are being introduced to improve access to information and advice for those choosing specialist care packages to ensure that the support they receive is best suited to their individual requirements.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The Care Act 2014 places a duty on local authorities to establish and maintain information and advice services relating to care and support for all people in its area. Statutory guidance sets out the detail of what this is required to cover and the manner it in which it should be provided. This includes providing information and advice to those people who are known to the local authority and the wider population, and to those who have not presented to local authorities for assessment but are likely to be in need of care and support. Where it appears to a local authority that an adult may have needs for care and support, the authority must assess their needs. The aim of the assessment is to identify what needs the person may have and what outcomes they are looking to achieve to maintain or improve their wellbeing. The outcome of the assessment is to provide a full picture of the individual’s needs so that a local authority can provide an appropriate response at the right time to meet the level of the person’s needs. This might range from offering guidance and information to arranging for services to meet those needs.

The Department has supported local authorities to meet this duty with a range of practical and practice based guides, developed with a wide range of interests through the Think Local Act Personal partnership.

General information on care and support is provided nationally through the NHS Choices website. This includes a search facility for all registered providers of care and support that gives practical and quality information on their services. This information is available for all local authorities and other providers of care and support information to re-use through syndication.

01/01/2023
Stephen Phillips – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Phillips on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made a formal request for the Government of the People’s Republic of China to state the legal basis for its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Mr Hugo Swire

The UK has consistently called on all parties to clarify the legal basis for their claims in the South China Sea. We continue to urge all parties to pursue their claims peacefully in accordance with international law, in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), raised the situation in the South China Sea with China during his recent visit to Beijing on 5 January.

01/01/2023
Baroness Jowell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Jowell on 2016-02-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the potential contribution of profit-with-purpose companies to UK gross value added.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley

Non-profit institutions accounted for 3.1 per cent of real GDP in 2014, with the output of this sector increasing 0.9 per cent over the same period. ONS data do not produce statistics for ‘profit-with-purpose’ companies.

01/01/2023
Nicholas Soames – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2016-03-11.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what work his Department is undertaking on establishing the amount of income tax and national insurance that is paid by people who were non-UK nationals at the time of issue of their national insurance number; if his Department will undertake that analysis by nationality; and what plans his Department has to publish the outcome of such work.

Mr David Gauke

The Government is committed to providing data on active National Insurance numbers used by people from other EU countries.

HMRC is currently compiling this information and is working closely with the ONS, which is currently reconciling the four main sources of international migration data.

The data on active National Insurance numbers will be published as part of or alongside the ONS’ publication. It’s up to that independent statistics authority as to when they are ready to make the information public.

01/01/2023

Jess Phillips – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in which parliamentary constituencies she has visited since July 2014; and when she visited each such school.

Nick Gibb

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education has visited the following schools since July 2014. The list excludes political visits and those made as a constituency MP.

NAME	CONSTITUENCY	DATE
Glenthorne High School	Sutton and Cheam	September 2014
Bacon’s College	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	September 2014
Walter Evans C of E Aided Primary School	Derby North	September 2014
Hope Community School	Old Bexley and Sidcup	September 2014
King’s Maths Free School	Vauxhall	September 2014
Chaucer Junior School	Ilkeston and Erewash	October 2014
Fernwood School	Nottingham South	October 2014
Highlands School	Enfield North	October 2014
Surbiton High School	Kingston and Surbiton	November 2014
St Matthew’s CE Infant School	Esher and Walton	November 2014
Falcons School	Leicester East	November 2014
William Edwards School	Thurrock	November 2014
George Elliot School	Nuneaton	November 2014
Werneth School	Hazel Grove	December 2014
Nevill Road Infant School	Cheadle	December 2014
Outwood Grange Academy	Morley and Outwood	December 2014
Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace	Croydon North	December 2014
St Margaret’s C of E Primary School	Pudsey	December 2014
Ilkley Grammar School	Keighley	December 2014
Elton High School	Bury North	December 2014
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School	Rossendale and Darwen	December 2014
King’s Oak Academy	Kingswood	January 2015
Watermore Primary School	Thornbury and Yate	January 2015
Bath Studio School	Bath	January 2015
Durand Academy	Vauxhall	January 2015
New College Nottingham Basford Hall	Nottingham North	January 2015
Netherthorpe School	North East Derbyshire	January 2015
Priory City of Lincoln Academy	Lincoln	January 2015
ARK Conway Primary Academy	Hammersmith	January 2015
Brentford School for Girls	Brentford and Isleworth	January 2015
Corby Technical School	Corby	January 2015
Quest Academy	Croydon Central	February 2015
Rivers Primary Academy	Walsall North	February 2015
Trinity Church of England/Methodist Primary School	Chorley	February 2015
Whitefield Infant and Nursery School	Pendle	February 2015
Clayton Hall Business and Language College	Newcastle Under Lyme	February 2015
Ark Little Ridge Primary School	Hastings and Rye	February 2015
The Eastbourne Academy	Eastbourne	February 2015
Yarm Primary School	Stockton South	February 2015
Priestmead Primary School	Harrow East	March 2015
The Green School for Girls	Brentford and Isleworth	March 2015
Fulham Boys School	Hammersmith	March 2015
Padstow School	North Cornwall	March 2015
Truro and Penwith College	Truro and Falmouth	March 2015
Helston Community College	St Ives	March 2015
Stoke Damerel Community College	Plymouth and Sutton Devonport	March 2015
Chessington Community College	Kingston and Surbiton	March 2015
St Eugene de Mazenod RC Primary School	Hampstead and Kilburn	March 2015
Wolverhampton Girls’ High School	Wolverhampton South West	March 2015
School 21	West Ham	June 2015
Passmores Academy	Harlow	June 2015
Mulberry School for Girls	Poplar and Limehouse	June 2015
King Solomon Academy	Westminster North	June 2015
Caludon Castle School	Coventry North East	June 2015
Brockington College	South Leicestershire	June 2015
Thomas Estley Community College	South Leicestershire	June 2015
Swiss Cottage School – Development and Research Centre	Hampstead and Kilburn	July 2015
Upton Cross Primary School	West Ham	July 2015
Alperton Community School	Brent North	July 2015
Ark Academy – Wembley	Brent North	July 2015
Corby Technical School	Corby	September 2015
Goldbeaters Primary School	Hendon	September 2015
Lilian Baylis Technology School	Vauxhall	September 2015
Yavneh College	Hertsmere	September 2015
Redhill School and Specialist Language College	Stourbridge	September 2015
King Edward VI Form College	Stourbridge	September 2015
Grace Academy Solihull	Solihull	September 2015
Thringstone Primary School	North West Leicestershire	September 2015
Sir John Moore CoE Primary School	North West Leicestershire	September 2015
Charles Dickens Primary School	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	September 2015
New College Worcester	Worcester	November 2015
The Christopher Whitehead Language School	Worcester	November 2015
John Taylor High School	Lichfield	November 2015
Brighton College	Brighton, Kemptown	November 2015
University of Birmingham School	Birmingham, Northfield	December 2015
Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology	Nottingham South	December 2015
Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane	Tottenham	December 2015
Waldegrave School	Twickenham	December 2015
Trinity School	Carlisle	January 2016
Richard Rose Central Academy	Carlisle	January 2016
Newman Catholic School	Carlisle	January 2016
Fashion Retail Academy	Cities of London and Westminster	January 2016
Bethnal Green Academy	Bethnal Green and Bow	January 2016
Floreat School Wandsworth	Tooting	January 2016
The Westgate School	Winchester	January 2016
NAS Thames Valley	Reading West	January 2016
The Avenue School	Reading West	January 2016
Reading UTC	Reading East	January 2016
Comberton Village College	South Cambridgeshire	February 2016
Howard of Effingham School	Mole Valley	February 2016
The Elizabethan Academy	Bassetlaw	February 2016
The Crossley Heath School	Halifax	February 2016
The Chalet School	South Swindon	March 2016
Lydiard Park Academy	South Swindon	March 2016
King’s College School Wimbledon	Wimbledon	March 2016
King’s Maths School	Vauxhall	March 2016

01/01/2023

Cheryl Gillan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cheryl Gillan on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) Statements of Special Educational Needs and (b) Education, Health and Care Plans were issued for each year from 2013; and how many such (i) statements and (ii) plans were issued in each of those years.

Edward Timpson

Information on the number of statements or Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans issued by local authorities in England based on the SEN2 return is available on GOV.UK in Table 2 of the Statistical First Release Statements of SEN and EHC plans: England 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2015

Data for January 2016 will be published on 26 May 2016.

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01/01/2023