Tag: Parliamentary Question

Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of children were in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty in each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last 20 years.

Esther McVey

Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. HBAI uses household income adjusted (or ‘equivalised’) for household size and composition, to provide a proxy for standard of living. This information is captured using the Family Resources Survey (FRS).

Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income in the UK have consistently been reported using the FRS since 1998/99; these estimates are available for each financial year up to 2011/12, the latest period for which estimates are available.

All of these estimates can be found in the latest HBAI publication, available at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201112 (ISBN 978-1-78153-531-8).

Relevant estimates can be found in Tables 4.16ts-4.17ts for relative low income (pages 135-136) and Tables 4.22ts-4.23ts for absolute low income (pages 141-142).

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November 1, 2022

Greg Knight – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Knight on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cats have been used in experiments in Britain in each of the last five years.

Norman Baker

The following table contains information on the number of cats used in procedures undertaken between 2008 and 2012.

Table 1 Number of cats used in scientific procedures in Great Britain between 2008 and 2012

Year	Procedures
2008	176
2009	172
2010	152
2011	153
2012	202
	Source: Home Office

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November 1, 2022

Daniel Kawczynski – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Kawczynski on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the HS4A abortion notification form to require registered medical practitioners to indicate whether they have examined the presenting patient and/or discussed with her the grounds for abortion prior to forming their opinion in good faith that the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967 were met.

Jane Ellison

It is estimated that between 2009 and 2013 approximately 49,000 forms were returned to registered medical practitioners (RMPs) for further information and clarification.

Form HSA4 already requires information to be provided as to whether the two certifying RMPs saw and/or examined the pregnant woman.

November 1, 2022
Jonathan Edwards – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Edwards on 2014-06-11.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial risk assessment he has carried out in respect of offering guarantees for the proposed Thames Tideway Tunnel.

Danny Alexander

The Government has not proposed a guarantee for the Thames Tideway Tunnel. It has instead put in place a package of contingent financial support designed to cover low probability but high impact risks, prioritising the delivery of value for money for both taxpayers and customers. Further details are provided by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a Written Ministerial Statement on 5 June.

This statement is published in Hansard at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm140605/wmstext/140605m0001.htm#14060532000008

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November 1, 2022
Gloria De Piero – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2014-06-11.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire paid the top rate of income tax in each of the last five years.

Mr David Gauke

Statistics on the number of additional rate income tax payers liable to pay the by government office regions, including the East Midlands, are published in HMRC’s income tax statistics, table 2.2: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306856/Table_2.2.pdf

County and constituency level information on additional rate tax payers is not published.

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November 1, 2022
Ian Austin – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent reports she has received of changes in the backlog for processing (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewals.

James Brokenshire

Ministers receive regular reports on the performance of Her Majesty’s Passport Office.

November 1, 2022
Sarah Champion – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to enable vulnerable witnesses to be able to give evidence remotely.

Damian Green

The Crown courts and Magistrate Courts provide the facility to allow vulnerable victims and witnesses to give evidence to the trial court by secure video link from a different court.

In addition, a number of police stations also have video facilities that link into the court. As part of the action plan to increase video usage across the Criminal Justice System, we intend to examine how best to extend use of remote links for vulnerable, intimidated and other ‘priority’ victims, as defined by the Victims’ Code.

November 1, 2022

Dan Jarvis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average ambulance response times in (a) Doncaster, (b) Barnsley, (c) Rotherham and (d) Sheffield was in each year since May 2010; and what the national average response time was in each of those years.

Jane Ellison

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.

Information is not available before 2011.

Table: The median ambulance response times to treatment for category A¹ (red 1 and red 2 calls require staff to arrive at the scene of the incident within eight minutes in 75% of cases) calls for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, April 2011 to April 2014

Month	Median time to treatment for Category A calls (in minutes)
April 2011	5.4
May 2011	5.2
June 2011	5.2
July 2011	5.3
August 2011	5.2
September 2011	5.2
October 2011	5.3
November 2011	5.2
December 2011	5.4
January 2012	5.0
February 2012	5.3
March 2012	5.1
April 2012	4.9
May 2012	5.0
June 2012	5.1
July 2012	5.3
August 2012	5.3
September 2012	5.5
October 2012	5.5
November 2012	5.5
December 2012	6.0
January 2013	5.7
February 2013	5.7
March 2013	5.5
April 2013	5.3
May 2013	5.2
June 2013	5.3
July 2013	5.6
August 2013	5.6
September 2013	5.5
October 2013	5.6
November 2013	5.7
December 2013	5.9
January 2014	5.5
February 2014	5.7
March 2014	5.6
April 2014	6.4

Source: Ambulance quality indicators, NHS England

www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators

Notes:

1. Category A calls are defined as those that are the result of immediately life threatening incidents.

2. It is not possible to calculate the median time to treatment for England from the medians for individual Ambulance Trust.

November 1, 2022

Ian Lucas – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lucas on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the contribution by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of 13 May 2014, Official Report, columns 200-3WH, what representations he has made to the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo on the recent acquittal of 14 officers of the armed forces of that country on charges of mass rape and murder.

Mark Simmonds

I welcome efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to prosecute perpetrators on charges of mass rape and murder – but more must be done to deliver justice for the victims. I met with the Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the DRC in London last week when he was attending the Global Summit on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict. I emphasised to him that ending impunity was fundamental to tackling the scourge of sexual and gender-based violence. He confirmed his Government’s commitment to tackling sexual and gender based violence and to ending impunity for the perpetrators.

The British Embassy in Kinshasa sponsors a range of projects to tackle sexual violence in the DRC focusing on security sector reform and improving service provision for survivors. During his visit to eastern DRC in March 2013 the Foreign Secretary announced over £1 million in funding to a range of organisations tackling rape and sexual violence. The UK has supported the deployment of an international expert to build capacity of health and legal professionals to address accountability and the investigation and documentation of sexual violence crimes.

The Foreign Secretary has publicly called on the Congolese authorities to continue in their efforts to seek out and prosecute the remaining perpetrators. Senior officials at our Embassy in Kinshasa have, jointly with EU Heads of Mission and independently, also raised the issue directly with the Government of the DRC.

The International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, which was field tested in the DRC, was launched at the Global Summit on 12 June. I hope that the Protocol will be deployed widely, helping to ensure that more and more perpetrators of sexual and gender-based violence the world over will be brought to justice.

November 1, 2022
Jim Cunningham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the value of London Midland’s rolling stock contract with Angel Trains after the direct award of the franchise for the period September 2015 to June 2017.

Stephen Hammond

Negotiations for the direct award of the West Midlands franchise are yet to commence and the Department has not made any estimate on the value of London Midland’s contract with Angel Trains. It should be noted that the value of rolling stock contracts are a commercial matter between the operator and the rolling stock owner.

November 1, 2022