The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Glindon on 2014-06-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department will reply to the report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin into sunbed regulation in England.
Jane Ellison
Government has noted the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin report and is currently considering the recommendations and the implications.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2014-06-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to monitor London Midland’s (a) budgeting and (b) contractual relationship with Siemens for maintenance work on the Desiro EMU fleet.
Stephen Hammond
London Midland provide their Management Accounts to the Department every period. In addition, we receive an annual Business Plan and quarterly forecasts of future revenues and costs for the following twelve months. These are reviewed by qualified management accountants within the Department and challenged with the London Midland senior management team at meetings with a view to assessing the ongoing viability of the TOC.
Responsibility for monitoring the maintainer rests with the TOC who are responsible for delivering a required performance and availability benchmark through their Franchise Agreement.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Lexden on 2014-06-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they spent in each of the last three years on the prevention and control of HIV infection in the developing world through (1) multilateral bodies, and (2) bilateral programmes.
Baroness Northover
Over the past three years the UK Government has spent nearly £1 billion on tackling HIV through multilateral organisations and bilateral programmes.
Details of DFID spending on HIV prevention, treatment and care are available at Section 4.1 of the 2013 evaluation of the HIV Position Paper “Towards Zero Infections” and can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/towards-zero-infections-two-years-on.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2014-06-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have held with the government of Bahrain concerning the number of children who have been arrested there since 2011.
Baroness Warsi
Our Embassy in Manama has raised the rates of imprisonment of young people with the Ministry of the Interior and senior members of the Government of Bahrain on several occasions. This included supporting the decision by the Ombudsman’s Office of the Ministry of the Interior to investigate fully concerns about the imprisonment of children set out by human rights non-governmental organisations last year.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Black of Brentwood on 2014-06-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have received any representations about the refusal of Eurostar to allow pets on board its trains using the Passports for Pets scheme.
Lord De Mauley
Defra has received a small number of letters from pet owners on this issue since 2012.
Government does not impose any obligation on transport companies to carry pet animals. It is a commercial decision on the part of transport companies as to whether they offer this service to their customers.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what targets his Department has for increasing diversity; and what progress has been made on meeting those targets in the last year.
Jenny Willott
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude) on 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 434W.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
Mrs Helen Grant
The table shows the proportion of staff, within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, who have been subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years and who have declared themselves as white British.
|
Year |
Percentage of DCMS headcount who have been subject to disciplinary proceedings |
Proportion of staff subject to disciplinary proceedings who declared themselves as white British |
Proportion of staff subject to disciplinary proceedings who declared their nationality as British but ethnicity is undeclared |
|
1 April 2009 – 31 March 2010 |
0.2% |
100% |
0% |
|
1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011 |
0.7% |
67% |
33% |
|
1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012 |
0.4% |
50% |
50% |
|
1 April 2012 – 31 March 2013 |
0.3% |
100% |
0% |
|
1 April 2013 – 31 March 2014 |
0.8% |
67% |
33% |
The figures as they relate to the period from September 2012 include the Government Equalities Office, which joined the Department in that month as part of a machinery of Government move. Before September 2012, the Government Equalities Office was part of the Home Office and the information requested for this period is not available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
Elizabeth Truss
Our data does not record nationality; data held records only ethnicity.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children spent (a) up to two weeks, (b) two to four weeks, (c) four to six weeks and (d) more than six weeks in hospital immediately after being born in England in the last year for which figures are available.
Dr Daniel Poulter
The information requested is set out in the following table.
This is based on finished discharge episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of "Z38 – Live born infants according to place of birth", by length of stay for the year 2012/13 and covers activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.
It should be noted that the length of stay in hospital is only available on the final episode of care in a hospital provider. Therefore the total of "other / unknown" lengths of stay recorded includes those births that have not resulted in a discharge, such as where the baby has been transferred to the care of another consultant.
|
Length of stay |
Finished Discharge Episodes |
|
Up to 2 weeks |
617,189 |
|
2-4 weeks |
5,227 |
|
4-6 weeks |
1,680 |
|
6 weeks+ |
1,778 |
|
Other/unknown |
47,133 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre
Notes:
1. Finished Discharge Episode: A discharge episode is the last episode during a hospital stay (a spell), where the patient is discharged from the hospital or transferred to another hospital.
2. Primary or secondary diagnosis: The number of episodes where this diagnosis was recorded in any of the 20 diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) record. Each episode is counted once, even if the diagnosis is recorded in more than one diagnosis field of the record.
3. ICD10 code: The following ICD10 code was used to identify a live born infant: Z38 – Live born infants according to place of birth.
4. Length of stay (duration of spell): The difference in days between the admission date and the episode end date (duration of episode) or discharge date (duration of spell), where both dates are given. LOS is based on hospital stays and only applies to ordinary admissions not day cases (unless otherwise stated). Information relating to LOS, including discharge method/destination, diagnoses and any operative procedures, is based only on the final episode of the spell.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what targets her Department has for increasing diversity; and what progress has been made on meeting those targets in the last year.
Mrs Theresa Villiers
My Department has not set specific targets, but is fully committed to fulfilling its statutory responsibilities, including the duties set out under fair employment legislation and the Northern Ireland Act 1998.