The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Murray on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in Scotland who reach state pension age in 2016-17 will receive the full flat rate of the new state pension.
Justin Tomlinson
The Department cannot model the impact of the new State Pension at a regional or country specific level. Results for the whole of Great Britain can be found at:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Tebbit on 2016-04-26.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the obligations upon member states of the EU include any duty to observe the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
The EU is not itself a party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Any agreement for the EU to accede would need to be agreed unanimously by all EU Member States (including the UK) and all other contracting parties to the ECHR.
Our renegotiation deal reaffirmed that the Charter of Fundamental Rights does not extend the ability of the Court of Justice of the European Union or domestic courts to rule on compliance with fundamental rights.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2016-06-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2016 to Question 34503, if he will release a summary or redacted version of risk assessments carried out by the Cross-Government Working Group on RPAS.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The Cross-Government Working Group on RPAS commissioned a piece of work, led by the Ministry of Defence, to analyse the potential use of drones for criminal purposes including the potential use of drones for terrorist purposes. This work is ongoing and being kept under review. I will place a redacted summary of the work to date in the Libraries of both Houses before the Summer Recess.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve Reed on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps he plans to take to ensure that local government representatives are included in the process of exiting the EU.
Mr David Jones
As the Secretary of State said in his statement of 5 September, we are going to listen and talk to as many organisations, companies and institutions as possible – from the large PLCs to small business, from the devolved administrations through to councils, local government associations and the major metropolitan bodies.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Kane on 2016-10-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the status is of the Healthier Together programme in Greater Manchester.
Mr Philip Dunne
These are matters for the local National Health Service.
We are advised by NHS England that the Healthier Together programme has now moved into implementation and is part of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. The recently appointed Chief Officer for the Partnership has assumed the role of Programme Sponsor to oversee the implementation phase.
All areas of Greater Manchester are developing detailed plans and business cases for the transfer of care for high risk elective general surgery patients to the hub sites from 1 April 2017. This is a new way of working whereby current teams from different hospitals will work under single governance and leadership to achieve the required quality and safety standards for patients.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Owen Smith on 2015-11-03.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what preparatory work his Department has undertaken in advance of sending letters to tax credit recipients on changes to tax credits.
Damian Hinds
HM Revenue and Customs will be ready to notify tax credit claimants of their 2016/17 tax credit award in good time.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2015-12-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultants have opted out of routine weekend working through the schedule 3 paragraph 6 of the NHS consultant contract in the last year.
Ben Gummer
This information is not held centrally.
Schedule 3 Paragraph 6 of the 2003 NHS consultant contract allows consultants to refuse non-emergency work after 7pm and before 7am during weekdays and weekends. The definitions section clarifies that this also applies to emergency work for those consultants whose specialty by its nature involves dealing routinely with emergency cases, e.g. accident and emergency consultants.
NHS trusts hold information on consultant working patterns. However, this information would not reveal how many individuals have relied on the clause to not participate in weekend work as part of their contract, or to work them at expensive locally negotiated rates.
In its 2013 report ‘Managing NHS hospital Consultants’ the National Audit Office (NAO) reported that 91% of trusts who responded to its survey paid for additional work using locally agreed rates, with rates of up £200 per hour reported. The NAO expressed the view that “This is likely to be linked to the fact that the contract allows consultants to refuse to work outside 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday.”
A subsequent report by the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts concluded that as a result of the opt out, hospitals struggle to provide the appropriate level of consultant-led care for patients.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ann Clwyd on 2016-01-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on whether the speaker of the parliament of the Kurdistan region of Iraq is being impeded in fulfilling his role.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
On 12 October 2015, during a period of heightened tensions between Kurdish parties over the extension of the Kurdistan Regional Government President’s term, we understand that the Speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament was denied access to Erbil. Our Ambassador in Baghdad and Consul General in Erbil have raised this issue with senior members of the Kurdistan Regional Government and underlined the importance of all parties working together to resolve this issue peacefully, in the spirit of compromise and respecting democratic principles.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karen Buck on 2016-02-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many home visits were provided to adult social care clients (a) in total and (b) per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over in each English local authority in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2014-15.
Alistair Burt
We are informed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre that the information requested is not collected centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
George Eustice
The table below shows the amount of overtime paid to staff in core-Defra in each of the last 24 months.
|
Month |
Amount |
Month |
Amount |
|
January 2016 |
£33,554 |
January 2015 |
£35,948 |
|
December 2015 |
£27,057 |
December 2014 |
£28,661 |
|
November 2015 |
£22,909 |
November 2014 |
£16,501 |
|
October 2015 |
£16,567 |
October 2014 |
£13,301 |
|
September 2015 |
£15,046 |
September 2014 |
£17,162 |
|
August 2015 |
£24,904 |
August 2014 |
£36,683 |
|
July 2015 |
£20,092 |
July 2014 |
£22,531 |
|
June 2015 |
£14,361 |
June 2014 |
£10,520 |
|
May 2015 |
£7,956 |
May 2014 |
£18,307 |
|
April 2015 |
£25,870 |
April 2014 |
£29,799 |
|
March 2015 |
£18,566 |
March 2014 |
£45,721 |
|
February 2015 |
£23,534 |
February 2014 |
£34,667 |