The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2015 to Question 7630, how many GP practices in each pathfinder area have signed up to care.data to date in total.
George Freeman
The information requested is provided in the following table:
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Pathfinder clinical commissioning groups. |
GP Practices |
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Blackburn with Darwen |
23 |
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Leeds |
15 |
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West Hampshire |
30 |
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Somerset |
56 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training her Department provides to police officers and social workers for interviewing children and vulnerable adults who are possible victims of child abuse.
Karen Bradley
Tackling abuse is a priority for this Government. We will continue the work of overhauling how our police, social services and other agencies work together to protect vulnerable children. To this end, we have prioritised child sexual abuse as a national threat like serious and organised crime, which means police forces now have a duty to collaborate with each other across force boundaries to safeguard children.
The provision of police training is an operational matter. The College of Policing and the National Policing Lead for child protection and abuse investigation have set the requirement for all forces to train all new and existing police staff to respond to child sexual exploitation and abuse, including call handlers, Police Community Support Officers, police officers, detectives and specialist investigators.
The College of Policing has issued Achieving Best Evidence guidance and training for all officers engaged in interviewing children and vulnerable witnesses. This includes training on the sensitivity needed when dealing with victims and witnesses who may be vulnerable as well as working with partners – such as social workers – and their involvement in interviews.
Specialist courses for child sexual abuse and rape specialist investigators also expand on these requirements in relation to interviewing children and vulnerable adults.
The role of social workers in these investigations, including their training, is a matter for the Department for Education. The guidance issued by DfE in March 2015, “Working Together to Safeguard Children”, sets out how social workers and their managers, as well as other agencies including the police, should work together and follow the Achieving Best Evidence guidance.
The Department of Health are responsible for the training of social workers working with vulnerable adults who may have been sexually abused as children or in adulthood.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of legislation to prevent stone theft.
Mike Penning
We have received no recent representations from local authorities in Yorkshire on this issue.
Existing legislation provides the police and courts with sufficient powers to respond to stone theft.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Craig Whittaker on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government plans to take into account proposals put forward that will save money in ways other than proposals for closures, when analysing feedback on its recent consultation on the Provision of Court and Tribunal Estate.
Mr Shailesh Vara
No decision has been taken to close any court. The consultation closed on 8 October and we will carefully consider all responses submitted.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bill Wiggin on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the effect on (a) fuel consumption and (b) tax receipts of a 10 mph increase in the speed limit.
Andrew Jones
There are no plans to increase the motorway speed limit to 80 mph or to increase national speed limits by 10mph. There are no available estimates of the effect such increases would have on fuel consumption or tax receipts.
The focus of government policy on our road network is the delivery of a step change in investment.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by James Heappey on 2015-10-21.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to support businesses.
Mr David Gauke
The government is committed to supporting businesses.
To support investment and drive productivity, the corporation tax rate will be reduced to 19% in 2017 and 18% in 2020. This will give the UK the lowest rate of corporation tax in the G20 and will save businesses a total of £6.6 billion by 2021.
The permanent level of the Annual Investment Allowance will be increased from £25,000 to £200,000, its highest-ever permanent level.
In addition, over one million employers have benefitted from the Employment Allowance which was introduced in April 2014. It allows businesses and charities throughout the UK to deduct up to £2000 off their employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) bill each year, rising to £3000 from April next year.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 2015-10-20.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what response they plan to make to the recent article published in the Journal of Public Health reporting on the costs and benefits of health checks for 40 to 74 year olds.
Lord Prior of Brampton
Public Health England (PHE) provided a response to Capewell et al’s article on NHS Health Check, which appeared in the same issue of the Journal of Public Health.PHE’s Chief Executive also responded in letters published in the Guardian and the British Medical Journal (BMJ), and through a special e-bulletin to NHS Health Check stakeholders. Copies of the article and responses have been placed in the Library.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer on 2015-10-20.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what changes they intend to make to evaluation metrics at both farm and regional and landscape levels to take account of natural capital in policy-making decisions.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The Government formally launched the development phase of its 25 year environment plan on 14 October 2015. This process will run through 2016 and capture all aspects of natural capital. We will draw on the Natural Capital Committee to help develop it. A key part of it will be to ensure we have the right tools to improve decision-making at all scales so that we can get the most from our resources in order to deliver on our goal of having the best environment possible.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno on 2015-10-20.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Dublin Regulation, in the light of recent events in Syria, and the need to protect vulnerable refugees.
Lord Bates
As set out in my Written Answer HL1907 on 21 September, the Government has no plans to change the way in which we apply the Dublin Regulation. The Dublin Regulation is a vital tool in our ability to manage asylum claims, including repeated claims.
The European Commission has proposed a review of the Dublin Regulation with a view to bringing forward a new measure for negotiation next March. We will cooperate fully with that review.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Blencathra on 2015-10-20.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have received from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace since 1995 in relation to the promotion of diesel engine cars.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
There have been numerous contacts between government departments and both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth since 1995. The information on representations made is not readily available and it would be disproportionate to fully retrieve it.
I can however confirm that in the last month representations to more than one government department have been made by the organisations raising concerns regarding the possible promotion of diesel engine cars.