The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Flello on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Highways England traffic officers have moved heavy goods vehicles from live lanes to (a) hard shoulders and (b) emergency refuge areas in the last 12 months.
Andrew Jones
Highways England does not specifically record how many Highways England traffic officers have moved heavy goods vehicles from live lanes to hard shoulders or emergency refuge areas.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he plans to take to strengthen the code of conduct for special advisers.
Ben Gummer
An updated Code of Conduct for Special Advisers will be published in due course.
I would add that a revised version of the Special Adviser Code of Conduct was published in October 2015, taking into account recommendations from the (then) Public Administration Select Committee at the end of the last Parliament. The Code ensures high standards of integrity and professionalism, whilst recognising the political dimension of the advice and assistance that special advisers provide to Ministers.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2016-10-19.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of students in receipt of publicly-funded bursaries studying at the Greenwich School of Management for degrees validated by Plymouth University did not attend their examinations in the academic years 2014–15 and 2015–16.
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Information on the proportion of students attending examinations at Higher Education Providers is not held centrally.
Progression rates are not produced separately for those students receiving student support.
Published statistics in respect of Alternatives Providers, including the Greenwich School of Management, are available in the Experimental Statistical First Release ‘Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained on undergraduate designated courses at alternative providers in England 2014/15’. This can be found at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/15-06-2016/sfr235-alternative-providers
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gavin Newlands on 2015-11-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average change in income for a woman born in 1952 is as a result of the provisions of the Pension Act 2011.
Justin Tomlinson
Estimates of the number (a) men and (b) women affected by the changes made to State Pension age are presented in Table 5 of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment, published in November 2011, available at
This shows that an estimated 2.34 million men and 2.64 million women would have an increase in the State Pension age under the Pensions Act 2011 compared to the legislated position prior to the passing of the Pensions Act 2011.
The Impact Assessment examines the fiscal costs and benefits of increasing women’s State Pension age from 63 to 65 between April 2016 to November 2018; and increasing men’s and women’s State Pension age from 65 to 66 between December 2018 and October 2020. A Gender Impact assessment is provided in the Annex of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment.
Women born in 1952 were not affected by the changes to State Pension age in the Pensions Act 2011.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants were employed in his Department in each year from 2010 to 2015.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The number of people employed in the Department for Transport in each financial year is shown for each year in the table below. As at March 15 there were 17,142 employees.
|
Headcount |
Mar ’10 |
Mar ’11 |
Mar ’12 |
Mar ’13 |
Mar ’14 |
Mar ’15 |
|
DFT central Dept |
2,009 |
1,822 |
1,669 |
1,744 |
1,854 |
1,841 |
|
Driver Standards Agency |
2,697 |
2,607 |
2,584 |
2,441 |
2,264 |
** |
|
Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency |
6,445 |
6,360 |
6,326 |
6,457 |
5,568 |
5,794 |
|
Driver Vehicle Standards Agency |
4,520 |
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|
Government Car Despatch Agency |
329 |
235 |
178 |
91 |
* |
* |
|
Highways Agency |
3,834 |
3,633 |
3,488 |
3,331 |
3,471 |
3,757 |
|
Maritime and Coastguard Agency |
1,230 |
1,142 |
1,118 |
1,086 |
1,073 |
1,064 |
|
Vehicle Certification Agency |
149 |
147 |
156 |
156 |
163 |
166 |
|
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency |
2,527 |
2,305 |
2,206 |
2,265 |
2,268 |
** |
|
Total DfT |
19,220 |
18,251 |
17,725 |
17,571 |
16,661 |
17,142 |
Notes to Data
* GCDA ceased to be an Agency and joined the central Department as the Government Car Service (GCS) in July 2012, but continued to report their staff separately until March 2013 due to using a different shared services system. After this date, the GCS was reported as part of the central Department
** In April 2014 DSA and VOSA merged to form a new Agency called the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2016-01-11.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2016 to Question 21408, when the Government plans to reach a decision on funding for the National Illegal Money Lending Team.
Harriett Baldwin
The Government is continuing to explore options to ensure that the England and Wales Illegal Money Lending Teams have the funding they need to ensure that consumers continue to be protected from illegal loan sharks as a matter of urgency.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Thomas on 2016-02-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total NHS spend on contracted work by (a) McKinsey, (b) PA Consulting, (c) Deloitte LLP and (d) GE Healthcare Finnamore was in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
George Freeman
The below table outlines the total spend on the listed consultancies in the past three years. Between them, these consultancies provide a variety of services including developing policies, supporting service reviews and supporting New Models of Care programmes.
|
Sum Total invoice amount (£) |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
Grand Total |
|
Deloitte LLP |
5,347,502 |
6,187,184 |
5,826,711 |
17,361,396 |
|
GE Healthcare Finnamore |
N/A |
75,960 |
111,114 |
187,074 |
|
Mckinsey & Co |
1,002,018 |
932,866 |
N/A |
1,934,884 |
|
PA Consulting Services LTD |
1,406,858 |
1,516,525 |
4,127,595 |
7,050,978 |
|
Grand Total |
7,756,378 |
8,712,534 |
10,065,420 |
26,534,332 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-03-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total number of years is that offenders brought back to the UK under a European Arrest Warrant have been sentenced to in the last five years.
Dominic Raab
This information is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The National Crime Agency publishes statistics on the operation of the European Arrest Warrant and these can be found here: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/european-arrest-warrant-statistics/wanted-by-the-uk-european-arrest-warrant-statistics/608-wanted-by-the-uk-european-arrest-warrant-statistics-2009-april-2015-1
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to implement recommendation 8 in the executive summary of Public Health England’s March 2015 report entitled, Public mental health leadership and workforce development framework, on working with relevant colleges, faculties and boards overseeing professional training to include mental health within public health curricula.
Jane Ellison
Public Health England (PHE) has worked with the Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Royal Society for Public Health and Royal College of Psychiatrists in developing and implementing the public mental health leadership and workforce development framework. More recently the Royal College of Nursing, Chartered Institute for Environmental Health (CIEH), Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) and Institute for Health Visitors have endorsed the framework and signed up to its Call to Action. Mental health has been made a presidential priority for the FPH, CIEH and ADPH. PHE has provided information and guidance to inform the recent FPH curricula review, the Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework review and the new Mental Health Skills and Knowledge Framework. PHE has also presented the framework to the United Kingdom People in Public Health Board, Skills for Care Mental Health Board, Health Education England Mental Health Advisory Board and the forthcoming Health Education England Public Health Advisory Board.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Boateng on 2016-04-28.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the level of investment in public mental health intervention in each of the last three years.
Lord Prior of Brampton
Previously, spend on public mental health has been a sub-category of the miscellaneous reporting category and most councils would have captured this spend locally. From 2016-17, mental health spend from the public health grant has its own dedicated reporting category and the information will be available nationally.