The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-10-27.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2015 to Question 13086, whether the Special Advisers Remuneration Committee still exists.
Matthew Hancock
The arrangements for the determination of special advisers’ pay are set out in the Model Contract for Special Advisers.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Palmer on 2015-11-24.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Department of Health has sought independent legal advice in respect of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and if so, whether they will place a copy of that advice in the Library of the House.
Lord Prior of Brampton
Any legal advice the Department may have obtained in respect of this, or any other issue, is subject to the usual provisions relating to legal professional privilege and as such will not be disclosed.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Redwood on 2016-01-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many miles of waterway the Environment Agency dredged in the last 12 months.
Rory Stewart
The Environment Agency estimates that the length of watercourse where dredging was carried out was approximately 120 miles (200km) in 2014/15.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jo Stevens on 2016-02-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults on prison officers were recorded at HMP Cardiff during each of the last three years.
Andrew Selous
Statistics for assaults on staff by prison are published on an annual basis by calendar year in the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin annual assaults tables (see table 3.15 at the link below). https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/495430/safety-in-custody-assaults-dec-2014.xls.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Smith on 2016-02-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make an assessment of the effect on poverty reduction in West Papua, Indonesia, of the reported ban on non-governmental organisations working in that area.
Mr Desmond Swayne
DFID no longer has a bilateral poverty reduction programme in Indonesia. However, as part of UK Government action to mitigate against climate change, we work in partnership with the Indonesian national and provincial governments to help secure community access to forest land in Papua to promote a sustainable green economy, whilst supporting local livelihoods.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-03-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her financial statement of 16 March 2016, Official Report, column 963, how the £500 million funding will be used to speed up the introduction of a fair national school funding formula.
Mr Sam Gyimah
The Chancellor announced at the Budget that £540 million would be provided to the Department for Education to support the school reform agenda. This will supplement the department’s Spending Review settlement.
We will spend around £500 million over the Spending Review period, over and above the per pupil protection of the core school budget, to accelerate the introduction of a fair national funding formula. All of this funding will be provided to support children’s education.
The funding means that the government will be able to accelerate gains for schools that are due to see funding increases under the formula, while continuing to offer a minimum funding guarantee for all schools. We are currently consulting on the principles and funding factors that should define the national funding formula for schools. A second consultation, later this year, will address the weighting attached to those factors and transitional arrangements, including the use of this funding.
A link to the consultation can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/schools-national-funding-formula.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2016-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities have completed the task of transferring all statements of special educational needs to Education, Health and Care Plans to date; and what assessment she has made of whether the deadline of 2017 will be met by all local authorities.
Edward Timpson
The transition period from statements to Education, Health and Care plans (EHCPs) runs until April 2018. Every local authority has published an individual Local Transition Plan setting out the timings for transfers to the new system. We are monitoring local authority progress and published figures about transition up to January 2015, returned by local authorities, in the Special Educational Needs in England Statistical First Release of May 2015[1]. We will publish the figures up to January 2016 in May 2016.
The Department does not collect information on the number of children who are home educated. Some local authorities choose to maintain registers so that parents can voluntarily register children being educated at home.
The number and proportion of school pupils who had a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an EHCP in each of the last five years is as follows:
|
x |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
Pupils with statements or EHCPs |
224,210 |
226,125 |
229,390 |
232,190 |
236,165 |
|
Pupils on roll |
8,123,865 |
8,178,200 |
8,249,810 |
8,331,385 |
8,438,145 |
|
Incidence (%) |
2.8 |
2.8 |
2.8 |
2.8 |
2.8[2] |
The number of permanent and fixed period exclusions received by pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs in each of the last five years for which data is available is as follows:
|
x |
2009/10 |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
|
Fixed period exclusions |
37,140 |
36,740 |
35,640 |
32,210 |
33,190 |
|
Permanent exclusions |
420 |
430 |
380 |
330 |
330[3] |
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2015
[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Antoinette Sandbach on 2016-05-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of differences between bereavement support services for families who have suffered a stillbirth or neonatal death commissioned by clinical commissioning groups and such services provided by hospital trusts; and if he will make a statement.
Ben Gummer
A report in 2015 on Term, singleton, normally-formed, antepartum stillbirth from Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK found that 60% of parents currently receive a good standard of bereavement care but this is not the case for everyone and we are continuing to consider the actions that should be taken to improve bereavement care across England.
NHS England has established a Maternity Transformation Programme Board, this will bring key partners together to oversee the implementation of a broad range of policies to deliver significant improvements to maternity care in England, including implementation of the recommendations of Better Births, Improving outcomes of maternity services in England (2016). The Transformation Programme includes work on supporting local transformation of maternity services, promoting best practice for safer care, increasing choice and reforming the payment system.
In Delivering the Forward View: NHS planning guidance 2016/17-2020/21 localities have been asked to produce “Sustainability and Transformation Plans” to show how local services should transform and ensure they are sustainable over the next five years. As part of this, local health economies have been asked to plan how they will transform their maternity services in line with the vision outlined in Better Births, Improving outcomes of maternity services in England. NHS England will be reviewing how well commissioners are planning for delivery of this vision in signing-off plans; and how well those plans are being put into action and on an ongoing basis through its Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Assessment Framework, and annual Ofsted-style rating of each CCG on its commissioning of maternity services.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by James Berry on 2016-07-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to use the National Noise Attitudes Survey 2014 to update the Government’s policy on aviation noise and health costs.
Mr John Hayes
The Government is taking account of all relevant evidence in its current review of policy on aviation noise.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Blenkinsop on 2016-10-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether there has been a recent change to the policy that the Government would take a 25 per cent equity stake in Tata Steel’s UK assets if a sale was necessary to secure the future of UK steel.
Mr Nick Hurd
There has been no change in the Government’s policy