Tag: Parliamentary Question

Liz McInnes – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz McInnes on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make representations to the BBC on ensuring the Your Paintings archive is maintained as on online resource.

Mr Edward Vaizey

As set out in the Government’s White Paper, A BBC for the future: a Broadcaster of Distinction, the government encourages the BBC to do more to open up its archive and ensure that it can be used by the public and as wide a range of institutions and organisations as possible. How the BBC presents its online content is matter for the BBC. Your Paintings is now available on artuk.org.

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01/01/2023
Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will provide assistance to the Ugandan government to support the capture of Joseph Kony in that country.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The UK supported UN sanctions placed on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and Joseph Kony and will consider imposing further sanctions on other members of the LRA. The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge) welcomed the International Criminal Court’s action in the case against LRA Commander, Dominic Ongwen and encourage the international community to work together to bring all perpetrators to justice.

The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge) was alarmed at the LRA’s increase in activities across eastern Central African Republic this year. Those attacks have involved looting, violence against civilians, destruction of property and abductions.

The African Union’s Regional Task Force remains the best tool the international community has to defeat the LRA and the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge) welcomed the extension of the operation to May 2017. He urged the UN Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) to work with the region to ensure there is no increase in LRA activity.

The UK is working with UN Security Council partners on the MINUSCA (UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic) mandate renewal in which MINUSCA will be asked to enhance operational coordination and information sharing with the Regional Task Force.

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, with reference to his oral statement of 15 September 2016 on Hinkley Point C, how the measures proposed in that statement will affect the Contract for Difference for that project.

Jesse Norman

As announced on 15 September, following the comprehensive review of the Hinkley Point C project, my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced new safeguards for future foreign investment in critical infrastructure.

In respect of Hinkley Point C, the relevant Contract for Difference has not changed.

01/01/2023
Cat Smith – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cat Smith on 2015-11-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 11 March 2015 to Question 226385, how many local authorities supported by PHE are developing withdrawal services for people affected by addiction to prescription benzodiazepine and drug tranquilisers.

Jane Ellison

Public Health England is currently working with two local authorities and one other area which is part of a Clinical Commissioning Group who want to improve their responses to addiction to medicines. These improvements are wide-ranging and do not necessarily involve developing bespoke services for people affected by specific medicines. There are also other areas which are looking at how they respond to addiction to medicines locally.

Local authorities are responsible for commissioning effective services to meet the need of their local populations which experience dependence on any medicines or drugs, including treatment for people dependent on prescription benzodiazepines and tranquillisers.

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 assessment the Department for Health has made of the number of adult carers in the UK, and the capacity of those carers to provide an improved quality of care to individuals in their own homes.

Lord Prior of Brampton

We have assumed the Noble Lady is referring to informal, unpaid, carers rather than to paid care workers.

The 2011 Census indicated that there are approximately 6.26 million adults with informal caring responsibilities in the United Kingdom.

The Government recognises the invaluable contribution made by unpaid carers and the importance of supporting them in their caring roles. That is why we continue to support implementation of the improved rights for carers enshrined in The Care Act 2014. This includes a right to an assessment on the appearance of needs for support that will look at a carer’s wellbeing in their own right and what support they may need in their caring role.

The Department has provided £104 million of funding to local authorities for these rights in 2015/16, which include, for the first time, a legal duty on local authorities to meet carers’ eligible needs for support. We have also made an additional £400 million available to the NHS between 2011 and 2015 to provide carers with breaks from their caring responsibilities to sustain them in their caring role. The carers’ breaks funding of £130 million for 2015/16 is in the Better Care Fund.

The Department is also leading the development of a new cross-Government National Carers Strategy that will look at what more we can do to support existing carers and future carers.

01/01/2023
Ben Howlett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ben Howlett on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted or commissioned on the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis in preventing HIV infection in men who have sex with men.

Jane Ellison

Public Health England part funded the PROUD study that examined the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis in preventing HIV infection in men who have sex with men. The results of the study were published in September 2015.

01/01/2023
Baroness Jowell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many hours per week (1) primary, and (2) secondary, school pupils spent participating in sport in 2015 compared to 2010.

Lord Nash

In both 2014/15 and 2009/10, primary schools reported spending around 2 hours per week on Physical Education.

In 2009/10, secondary school pupils spent on average around 1 hour and 45 minutes in PE each week. No equivalent figures are available for secondary school pupils for 2014/15.

Through the primary PE and sport premium, primary schools have received over £450m of ring-fenced funding to improve PE and sport. We have committed to continue this funding until 2020. In December 2015, we published a research report looking at how schools used the primary PE and sport premium and the impact of the fund on PE and sports provision. The findings show that 87% of schools reported that the quality of PE teaching had increased since the introduction of the premium. 84% of schools reported an increase in pupil engagement in PE during curricular time and in the levels of participation in extra-curricular activities. Meanwhile, 70% of schools reported that participation in inter-school competitions had increased and over half of schools reported an increase in intra-school competitions.

01/01/2023
Gloria De Piero – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2016-03-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding his Department has provided for (a) museums and (b) heritage in (i) the East Midlands and (ii) Nottinghamshire in each of the last three years.

Mr Edward Vaizey

This Government continues to support heritage and arts projects across the East Midlands and Nottinghamshire through its arms length bodies, including Nottingham’s historic Lace Markets’ Galleries of Justice Museum, which was awarded £1m from Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to carry out major redevelopment.

Since 2012, the HLF has given more than £80m to the East Midlands and £6.7m to Nottinghamshire. Figures for 2015/16 are not yet available. Through Arts Council England, nearly £7m has been provided for museums in the East Midlands and over £1.6m for museums in Nottinghamshire, including the City of Nottingham, in the last three years.

Over the same period, Historic England has given over £3m to the East Midlands, and more than £375,000 to Nottinghamshire. Party of this funding supported a project, in partnership with Bassetlaw District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council, to repair and reinstate historic features in the Tuxford Conservation Area – which led to it being remove from the ‘at risk’ register.

01/01/2023

Sharon Hodgson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much each local authority in England has received from the Adoption Support Fund since its creation.

Edward Timpson

The table below shows how much each local authority in England has received from the Adoption Support Fund since its creation:

LA	ASF Total Spend to Date (£)
Barking and Dagenham	44,196.20
Barnet	166,813.26
Barnsley	29,235.00
Bath and North East Somerset	40,261.47
Bedford	81,340.50
Bexley	70,451.00
Birmingham	160,325.87
Blackburn with Darwen	81,696.80
Blackpool	57,601.98
Bolton	55,920.00
Bournemouth	28,727.76
Bracknell Forest	21,444.10
Bradford	309,173.00
Brent (prev Herts)	43,973.00
Brighton and Hove	123,200.90
Bristol	199,771.70
Bromley	12,314.00
Buckinghamshire	205,907.10
Bury	70,376.30
Calderdale	102,775.50
Cambridgeshire	251,323.18
Camden	93,988.70
Central Bedfordshire	88,479.91
Cheshire East	184,035.96
Cheshire West and Chester	151,425.46
City of London	–
Cornwall	260,491.05
Coventry	66,094.00
Croydon	37,369.65
Cumbria	362,150.10
Darlington	25,810.00
Derby	58,166.80
Derbyshire	301,734.86
Devon	458,850.32
Doncaster	182,252.82
Dorset	19,004.00
Dudley	77,882.90
Durham	145,119.27
Ealing (prev Herts)	387,675.71
East Riding of Yorkshire	147,132.67
East Sussex	374,962.27
Enfield	95,085.44
Essex	276,241.07
Gateshead	8,984.00
Gloucestershire	1,213,955.86
Greenwich	91,407.75
Hackney	165,218.00
Halton	32,759.50
Hammersmith and Fulham	35,313.56
Hampshire	244,384.30
Haringey	203,142.10
Harrow (prev Herts)	57,459.50
Hartlepool	17,631.96
Havering	1,170.00
Herefordshire	58,998.20
Hertfordshire	293,849.02
Hillingdon (prev Herts)	8,301.84
Hounslow (prev Herts)	5,640.25
Hull	116,738.65
Isle of Wight	36,944.00
Isles of Scilly	–
Islington	78,032.34
Kensington and Chelsea	18,535.01
Kent	367,991.20
Kingston	56,034.14
Kirklees	294,390.30
Knowsley	30,508.70
Lambeth	75,001.00
Lancashire	440,242.16
Leeds	199,474.72
Leicester	105,823.75
Leicestershire	189,426.69
Lewisham	139,396.50
Lincolnshire	109,876.35
Liverpool	50,392.10
Luton	19,413.60
Manchester	263,742.75
Medway	113,923.40
Merton	121,835.40
Middlesbrough	24,273.84
Milton Keynes	129,924.42
Newcastle upon Tyne	132,122.00
Newham	29,051.00
Norfolk	472,360.80
North East Lincolnshire	169,037.20
North Lincolnshire	3,603.50
North Somerset	82,103.50
North Tyneside	61,443.20
North Yorkshire	612,921.58
Northamptonshire	209,503.74
Northumberland	28,498.90
Nottingham	172,346.00
Nottinghamshire	97,291.97
Oldham	20,030.50
Oxfordshire	34,818.65
Peterborough	51,391.02
Plymouth	221,433.97
Poole	13,321.38
Portsmouth	77,709.42
Reading	26,652.00
Redbridge	54,632.80
Redcar and Cleveland	16,840.00
Richmond	320,954.40
Rochdale	61,243.50
Rotherham	201,774.40
Rutland	–
Salford	89,485.40
Sandwell	26,059.00
Sefton	29,383.92
Sheffield	300,284.78
Shropshire	92,774.00
Slough	16,578.00
Solihull	247,751.00
Somerset	144,238.40
South Gloucestershire	90,356.73
South Tyneside	86,296.60
Southampton	42,207.80
Southend-on-Sea	69,489.25
Southwark	264,437.46
St. Helens	17,909.80
Staffordshire	248,092.20
Stockport	37,947.87
Stockton-on-Tees	42,182.60
Stoke-on-Trent	131,143.67
Suffolk	390,301.42
Sunderland	165,319.14
Surrey	302,995.50
Sutton	52,715.00
Swindon	58,167.50
Tameside	127,575.59
Telford and Wrekin	–
Thurrock	21,901.60
Torbay	51,134.40
Tower Hamlets	16,004.00
Trafford	59,046.76
Wakefield	260,394.68
Walsall	30,730.00
Waltham Forest	5,552.00
Wandsworth	273,035.42
Warrington	63,546.60
Warwickshire	344,023.10
West Berkshire	40,060.00
West Sussex	400,439.03
Westminster	38,383.88
Wigan	30,686.85
Wiltshire	69,687.65
Windsor and Maidenhead	59,604.50
Wirral	8,334.40
Wokingham	51,360.90
Wolverhampton	63,073.60
Worcestershire	201,224.60
York	188,133.45
TOTAL	19,892,053.92

* Shropshire provides Telford and Wrekin’s Adoption Service

* Leicestershire County Council provides Rutland’s Adoption Service

* Cornwall make applications on behalf of the Isles of Scilly

* City of London have had no adoptions from care during the relevant period.

01/01/2023

Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of agency supplied staff supplied to secondary schools in each of the last five years.

Nick Gibb

Supply teachers provide a valuable role for schools, and schools themselves are best placed to make staffing decisions to reflect their individual needs. It is up to head teachers and governors to decide who is required for the job and this includes how best to cover absences.

The Department for Education collects details of all teachers working in state funded schools through the annual School Workforce Census. However, this census does not separately identify agency teachers from those employed by schools.

01/01/2023