The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Kendall on 2016-01-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
Joseph Johnson
The figures for BIS HQ (including UKTI), as at 31 December 2015 are:
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Gender |
Percentage (Number) |
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Female |
49% (1501) |
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Male |
51% (1563) |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many men take their own lives in the first year after the birth of their child.
Alistair Burt
We do not collect this information centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Virendra Sharma on 2016-02-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her Department’s wellness strategy is.
Andrea Leadsom
The Department of Energy and Climate Change is aligned with the Civil Service Health & Well-being Strategy which was agreed by the Civil Service People Board.
This focuses on three priority areas:
Mental Health
Musculoskeletal Health
Healthy Lifestyle
In DECC this means we ensure visible senior leadership of the well-being agenda, we encourage all managers to undertake mental health awareness training increasing manager capability through Civil Service Learning training.
We have been adopting the Public Health England ‘Workplace Well-being Charter’ and promoting ‘Time to Change’. The Department offers support to staff including ‘Employee Assistance’. The Department is also running wellbeing events and initiatives over the coming year.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Masham of Ilton on 2016-03-21.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the ageing HIV population, what plans are being put in place to support the preservation of long-term health in people with HIV.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The National Health Service continues to offer world class Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) treatment services.
In its role as the commissioner of specialised HIV care and treatment, NHS England has a service specification which emphasises the responsibility of commissioned providers to collaborate with other health, social care and third sector organisations as appropriate to help ensure the holistic needs of patients are met. This includes ensuring people living with HIV and other comorbidities have access and referral to appropriate services.
The effectiveness of HIV treatment means that more people will live well with HIV in old age. As people living with HIV get older, they will require access to services for the other conditions they may experience. Good communication with their HIV provider is important and this is required in the service specification.
In line with the Five Year Forward View, NHS England will continue to work closely with HIV organisations in order to inform its commissioning responsibilities with regard to specialised HIV care and treatment as well as ensuring primary and secondary health care services respond to the wider health needs of people living with HIV.
The Government’s Improvement Framework for Sexual Health includes the ambition that “older people with diagnosed HIV can access the additional health and social care services they need”. A copy is attached.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-04-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times he has attended public meetings of the Justice Committee since his appointment.
Mike Penning
The Secretary of State for Justice attended public meetings of the Justice Select Committee on two occasions since his appointment. The dates on which he attended was 15 July 2015 and 16 March 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2016-05-25.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many schools are known to subsidise travel for students in year 12 and 13 out of their own budgets.
Lord Nash
The statutory responsibility for post 16 transport rests with local authorities who are required to publish a transport policy statement setting out the arrangements they make to support young people to travel to further education and training.
These arrangements do not have to include free or subsidised transport, but local authorities are expected to make reasonable decisions based on local needs, circumstances and resources. Discounts or concessions are also available from local transport companies and schools, colleges or other providers.
Local authorities are encouraged to develop a collaborative approach when developing their statements to provide a full picture of the transport and support available. But it is for local organisations to decide whether to provide support and what level of discounts and concessions to give. The department does not collect specific information on which local authorities, transport companies, or education and training providers give free or subsidised transport for students in years 12 and 13.
The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund is also available to help young people with the costs associated with attending education or training, and transport is the biggest single area of expenditure for which this fund is used. Schools and colleges are responsible for deciding how to distribute their bursary allocations to students, and for establishing what criteria to use.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Patrick Grady on 2016-07-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara on the right of the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations briefed the UN Security Council on 26 July, where the UK and other member states encouraged a return to the political process. The UK encourages both sides to cooperate with the United Nations process to reach a mutually acceptable solution that provides for the self-determination for the people of Western Sahara.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of staff on the payroll of his Department who work in Westminster are (a) British nationals and (b) nationals of another country.
Mark Lancaster
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.
More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Taylor of Warwick on 2015-10-28.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to support more programmes or competitions for university students and recent graduates to encourage them to embrace entrepreneurship.
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
This Government fully supports the promotion of entrepreneurship in higher education. In 2013/14, the Higher Education – Business and Community Interaction survey found that there were over 4,600 new graduate start-ups, up from 2,357 in 2009/10.
The Government is championing closer collaboration between universities and business through the National Centre for Universities and Business which is supported by HEFCE, the Research Councils and Innovate UK. Higher Education Innovation Funding, delivered by HEFCE, also supports university collaboration with industry, the commercialisation of research, and promotes entrepreneurship, enterprise education and broader knowledge exchange.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Hurd on 2015-11-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the direct and indirect cost to the UK economy of disability through blindness and visual disorders.
Alistair Burt
The Department has not made a recent estimate of the direct and indirect cost to the United Kingdom economy of disability through blindness and visual disorders.