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  • Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-13.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the principles to underpin reform in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health report from the Independent Mental Health Taskforce to the NHS in England, published in February 2016, what steps his Department plans to take to integrate care spanning people’s physical, mental and social needs.

    Mr Marcus Jones

    The Spending Review set out an ambitious plan so that health (including mental health) and social care are integrated across the country by 2020. My Department is working closely with the Department of Health and others on delivering this ambition. Every part of the country must have a plan for achieving integration in 2017, implemented by 2020.

    The Government has provided a package of support of up to £3.5 billion to ensure councils are able to support some of their most vulnerable residents. This includes an extra £1.5 billion funding through the improved Better Care Fund, which will continue to bring together funding and services across health and social care to support the provision of integrated care for vulnerable people.

  • Nick Smith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Nick Smith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Smith on 2016-05-23.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual budget is for food produced for her Department’s offices; and what proportion of food produced for her Department was sourced from British producers in the last period for which figures are available.

    Karen Bradley

    The Home Office does not set a budget for food produced for its offices. Catering services are provided by private companies under contract at Home Office buildings and provided to staff without subsidy. Details of the proportion of food produced for the Home Office that was sourced from British producers could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

  • Chi Onwurah – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Chi Onwurah – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chi Onwurah on 2016-07-06.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the cost to the economy of the (a) UK and (b) North East of the UK leaving the EU and British digital industries therefore being unable to access the Digital Single Market.

    Mr Edward Vaizey

    I refer the hon Member to the answer to her own Parliamentary Question UIN 41682.

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  • FALSE – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    FALSE – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by FALSE on 2016-10-03.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the statement by the Minister of State for Immigration, Mr Robert Goodwill MP, in his letter to Lord Roberts of Llandudno of 12 September, CTS Reference M9899/16, that over 3

    Baroness Williams of Trafford

    Annual Figures on the number of claims for asylum from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC), including by country of nationality, are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April to June 2016, is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016.

    The Government is committed to ensuring that there is a more equitable distribution of UASC across the country and that no one authority has to care for more UASC than they are able to. That is why we introduced the voluntary National Transfer Scheme and have consulted with every region in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on their capacity. In order to continue the success of the voluntary scheme more local authorities will need to participate and offer places for unaccompanied children from councils which are caring for disproportionately high numbers.

  • Danny Kinahan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Danny Kinahan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Danny Kinahan on 2016-03-14.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dogs were imported into Northern Ireland for (a) non-commercial reasons under the PETS scheme and (b) commercial reasons in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what the countries of origin of those dogs were in each category.

    George Eustice

    The movement of dogs into the United Kingdom, whether through the Pet Travel Scheme or for commercial reasons is a devolved matter.

    The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland has suggested that the Honourable Member write to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Northern Ireland Executive.

  • Mark Durkan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Mark Durkan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Durkan on 2015-11-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the time taken for Anguilla to respond to his Department’s consultation on a public register of beneficial ownership; and what assessment he has made of the legitimacy of the reasons for the time that was taken.

    James Duddridge

    I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the answer given by my Rt Hon Friend, the Member for East Devon (Hugo Swire MP) Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the answer of 10 November 2015 (PQ 15153), and to the answers given by my Hon Friend, the Member for South West Hertfordshire (David Gauke MP), the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 16 October 2015, to (PQ10437, PQ10438 and PQ10448).

  • Jim Shannon – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Jim Shannon – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-12-08.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to encourage people to walk for up to 30 minutes a day.

    Jane Ellison

    The Government recognises that walking is a key part of being active. The UK Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines for adults recommending 150 minutes of physical activity every week, identify walking as the easiest way of building physical activity into everyday life. To raise awareness of the guidelines, we have recently created an infographic for health professionals to use when they discuss physical activity with their patients. We have made walking a key part of the recommended activity.

    Following the Infrastructure Act 2015, the Department of Health has also been working closely with Department of Transport on plans which will underpin the first Cycling and Walking Delivery Plan to be published in the summer. This will take forward the vision set out in the Cycling Delivery Plan 2014, to make walking and cycling the natural choices for short journeys or as part of a longer journey.

  • Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-01-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applications in 2015 were initially rejected as the result of a computer system error and subsequently accepted.

    Priti Patel

    No Universal Credit applications were rejected because of a computer system error.

  • Andrew Murrison – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Andrew Murrison – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Murrison on 2016-02-04.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for his Department’s plans to separate retail and investment banking arms.

    Harriett Baldwin

    The banks are required to separate by 1 January 2019 and implementation remains firmly on track.

  • Angus Brendan MacNeil – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Angus Brendan MacNeil – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Angus Brendan MacNeil on 2016-03-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of state pensions to the Government as a proportion of GDP was over each of the last 30 years; and what the projected cost of state pensions as a proportion of GDP is over each of the next 30 years.

    Justin Tomlinson

    The requested information is available from 1991/92 to 2045/46 in the table below:

    UK expenditure on State Pension as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

    UK expenditure on State Pension as a proportion of GDP per million claimants of State Pension

    1991-92

    4.0%

    0.39%

    1992-93

    4.0%

    0.39%

    1993-94

    4.0%

    0.39%

    1994-95

    3.9%

    0.38%

    1995-96

    3.9%

    0.36%

    1996-97

    3.8%

    0.36%

    1997-98

    3.8%

    0.35%

    1998-99

    3.9%

    0.35%

    1999-00

    3.9%

    0.35%

    2000-01

    3.8%

    0.34%

    2001-02

    4.0%

    0.35%

    2002-03

    4.0%

    0.35%

    2003-04

    3.9%

    0.34%

    2004-05

    3.9%

    0.33%

    2005-06

    3.9%

    0.33%

    2006-07

    3.8%

    0.32%

    2007-08

    3.9%

    0.32%

    2008-09

    4.2%

    0.34%

    2009-10

    4.6%

    0.36%

    2010-11

    4.5%

    0.35%

    2011-12

    4.7%

    0.36%

    2012-13

    4.9%

    0.37%

    2013-14

    4.8%

    0.37%

    2014-15

    4.8%

    0.37%

    2015-16

    4.9%

    0.37%

    2016-17

    4.8%

    0.37%

    2017-18

    4.8%

    0.36%

    2018-19

    4.8%

    0.36%

    2019-20

    4.7%

    0.36%

    2020-21

    4.6%

    0.35%

    2021/22

    4.7%

    0.35%

    2022/23

    4.8%

    0.35%

    2023/24

    4.9%

    0.35%

    2024/25

    5.0%

    0.35%

    2025/26

    5.1%

    0.35%

    2026/27

    5.2%

    0.35%

    2027/28

    5.2%

    0.35%

    2028/29

    5.2%

    0.35%

    2029/30

    5.4%

    0.35%

    2030/31

    5.5%

    0.35%

    2031/32

    5.6%

    0.36%

    2032/33

    5.8%

    0.36%

    2033/34

    5.9%

    0.36%

    2034/35

    5.9%

    0.36%

    2035/36

    5.9%

    0.36%

    2036/37

    5.9%

    0.36%

    2037/38

    6.1%

    0.36%

    2038/39

    6.2%

    0.36%

    2039/40

    6.3%

    0.36%

    2040/41

    6.4%

    0.36%

    2041/42

    6.4%

    0.36%

    2042/43

    6.5%

    0.36%

    2043/44

    6.5%

    0.36%

    2044/45

    6.6%

    0.36%

    2045/46

    6.6%

    0.36%

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