The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stewart Jackson on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths related to respiratory disease there were in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) the UK in each year since 2001.
Mr Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fabian Hamilton on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements his Department has made with the US administration on control of the base at NSA Menwith Hill.
Mr Mark Francois
RAF Menwith Hill is made available to the United States under the terms of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement. The Ministry of Defence retains ownership of the base and operations are carried out with the full knowledge and consent of the UK Government.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lucas on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the committee of legislative reform in Egypt on the proposed new parliamentary elections law in that country.
Hugh Robertson
The new parliamentary elections law was enacted by decree of the former interim President Adly Mansour on 5 June. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office did not have direct discussions with the committee of legislative reform in Egypt.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote best practice for sexual health amongst local authorities and (b) disseminate good practice shown by local authorities on sexual health.
Jane Ellison
The Government’s ambitions for sexual health are set out in A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England (March 2013); a copy of which has already been placed in the Library. The first annual review of progress towards the ambitions in the Framework is in development and will include case studies of good and promising local practice. The Department, in partnership with other organisations including Public Health England, Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Public Health, has also produced a number of documents to assist local authorities to fulfil their new role in relation to sexual health commissioning.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department’s submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with her Department’s staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008.
Norman Baker
A copy of the Home Office’s written response to the 2008 Survey of Departmental
Practice in the Valuation of Life and Health will be placed in the Library. The
Home Office does not have a record of its response to the questions in Stage 2
of the Survey. This is because the interviews were carried out face-to-face
with researchers at the University of Leeds.
The Home Office first estimated the social and economic costs of crime in 2000:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218135832/rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/r
ds/pdfs/hors217.pdf.
The most recent update to these estimates prior to the Department’s submission
to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in
2008 was published in 2005:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http:/www.homeoffice.go
v.uk/rds/pdfs05/rdsolr3005.pdf.
The monetary value per quality-adjusted life year used in the 2005 report was
£80,620 in 2003 prices. This was based on a paper by Carthy et al. (1999).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the success criteria against which the secure college pathfinder will be evaluated.
Jeremy Wright
The Ministry of Justice is developing a robust monitoring and evaluation strategy for the Secure College Pathfinder. This will ensure that the most appropriate methods for measuring the performance of the Secure College Pathfinder are in place.
Detail relating to performance measures against which the Secure College Pathfinder’s construction and operation providers’ performance will be measured will be contained within their individual contracts, which will be published on Contract Finder in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2014-06-25.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the charitable status of fee-charging educational foundations with more than 75 per cent of pupils from outside the United Kingdom.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. I have asked the Commission’s Head of Policy to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by The Duke of Montrose on 2014-06-25.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to report on the effect of the current badger culling trials on other wildlife and the general ecology in those areas.
Lord De Mauley
Defra has published the Food and Environment Research Agency’s evaluation of the potential consequences for wildlife of a badger control policy in England.
We are not planning any further work on this at the present time.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2014-06-25.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the use of the phrase cleaning the stables” by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and others in relation to Israeli operations in Palestinian areas; and what impact they consider such language will have on relations between the communities there.”
Baroness Warsi
The Government has made no assessment on this issue. However, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), has made clear that it is vital that all security operations are conducted with due care and proportionate use of force.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2014-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times his Department has appeared at an employment tribunal to contest protective awards in each of the last five years.
Jo Swinson
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has not appeared before an employment tribunal to contest a protective award.
Protective awards are determined by Employment Tribunals following applications made by former employees or their representatives.
BIS is sometimes joined as a respondent in protective award claims, because under legislation, the Secretary of State guarantees the payment of protective awards made in favour of employees whose employer is insolvent, up to a certain amount.
It is for the Tribunal to establish the facts in each case, considering evidence of the actions taken by employers and their representatives, and decide whether there was adequate consultation on redundancies BIS is not in a position to know the extent to which an employer or their representative consulted with employees and does not give evidence on that point nor take any particular position.
BIS’ responsibility is to establish what payments are due and who is entitled to receive them. We therefore make written representations to the tribunal on points of law or to seek clarification of who is covered by a protective award. We may appeal an award, but only if we consider that the tribunal has made the judgment based on an incorrect reading of the legislation.
The number of cases where BIS has made representations to an employment tribunal regarding protective award cases in the last 5 years is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.