The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 2016-02-10.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the NHS Trust Development Authority has not published the findings of the review of whistle-blowing and governance at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The NHS Trust Development Authority intends to publish the review as soon as possible. It is making publication arrangements in the light of its legal advice.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Teverson on 2016-03-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to review Best Available Techniques permissible with respect to environmental permits for back-up electricity generating plant.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
Back-up electricity generating plants with a rated thermal input of 20MW or more are currently regulated under the Environmental Permitting Regulations. Guidance on Best Available Techniques that plants should use is periodically reviewed. The Best Available Techniques for plants with a rated thermal input above 50MW are currently being reviewed. Research is also being undertaken to assess Best Available Technique for combustion plants operating in the capacity market.
Defra is reviewing environmental legislation for back-up generators and will consult on options to set emissions for relevant air pollutants for some plants such as diesel engines. We will consider the coherence of existing legislation with measures we will be introducing as a result of the review and the Medium Combustion Plant Directive.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve Reed on 2016-03-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the methodology used by his Department to calculate the distribution of the Transitional Grant announced in the local government finance settlement 2016-17.
Mr Marcus Jones
The Secretary of State has published an explanatory note setting out the method of calculation of the Transition Grant. It is available to view at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/510870/Explanatory_note_on_the_allocation_of_the_Transition_Grant.pdf
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Cox on 2016-05-03.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support the Beja people in Eastern Sudan, in particular to prevent kidnapping and people trafficking.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
The UK is supporting the people of Eastern Sudan, including the Beja people, in a number of ways. The Department for International Development (DfID) spends £30million in Eastern Sudan to help improve vulnerable communities’ food security and nutrition, provide sustainable water supplies and improve sanitation. DfID also provides core funding to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees which supports host and refugee communities across Sudan to improve livelihoods and reduce the risk of human trafficking. The UK is also taking a lead role in the Khartoum Process, which prioritises tackling smuggling and trafficking across the Horn of Africa, including Sudan.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Scriven on 2016-06-20.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the government of Turkey about the reported use of tear gas and rubber bullets at a LGBT pride march in Istanbul.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
We have not discussed these specific cases with the Government of Turkey. We regularly underline the importance of all fundamental freedoms as part of our broader dialogue with the Turkish government, including the freedom of assembly and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or intersex persons. We did not fly the rainbow flag over our Embassy in Ankara over the weekend commencing 24 June. British Missions overseas fly the Diplomatic, Union or Consular flag throughout the year, the flags of the constituent countries of the UK on their respective national days and in certain countries the European flag. Missions do not fly any other flags.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2016-09-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of terminating and re-tendering the Carillion Amey housing contract.
Mark Lancaster
The Ministry of Defence has put in place a strategy to provide an alternative solution should CarillionAmey fail to sustain performance. The Department continues to assess CarillionAmey’s performance to determine whether the implementation of this strategy is necessary.
I will be meeting senior CarillionAmey staff in September to hold them to account for their performance.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2016-10-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on the UK’s obligations as agreed in the August 2015 joint ministerial declarations, Managing migratory flows in Calais, of the French government’s decision to close the Calais camp for refugees and migrants.
Mr Robert Goodwill
Although the decision to clear the camp in Calais is a matter for the French Government, the UK and France remain committed to working together to protect our shared border in Calais and address the humanitarian challenges in the camps.
Both governments are clear that those in northern France in need of protection should claim asylum in France and those not in need should return to their home country.
Our priority is to ensure the safety and security of children in the camps. The UK Government has made clear its commitment to transfer unaccompanied refugee children under the 2016 Immigration Act, where it is in their best interests, and to ensure those with close family in the UK are brought here using the Dublin Regulation.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Hodge on 2015-11-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the time taken for Montserrat to respond to his Department’s consultation on a public register of beneficial ownership.
James Duddridge
I refer the Right Honourable Lady to the answer given by my Hon Friend the member for Hertfordshire South West (David Gauke), the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to questions 10437, 10438 and 10448, which sets out the criteria we expect the Overseas Territories to meet in relation to their central register of company beneficial ownership, or similarly effective system. We are in discussions with the Montserrat authorities on this and are offering technical assistance as they develop their proposals.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karin Smyth on 2015-12-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) outpatient appointments and (b) elective operations took place in England in each week of 2014-15.
Jane Ellison
The information is shown in the following table.
Number of outpatient appointments and finished admission episodes (FAEs) with an elective main procedure by week in 2014-15 in England.
|
Week Number |
Date |
Outpatient appointments |
FAEs with an elective procedure |
|
1 |
06 April 2014 |
2,074,064 |
152,037 |
|
2 |
13 April 2014 |
1,715,345 |
125,191 |
|
3 |
20 April 2014 |
1,722,450 |
125,185 |
|
4 |
27 April 2014 |
2,181,289 |
156,085 |
|
5 |
04 May 2014 |
1,782,607 |
129,711 |
|
6 |
11 May 2014 |
2,201,615 |
155,936 |
|
7 |
18 May 2014 |
2,154,486 |
153,252 |
|
8 |
25 May 2014 |
1,615,198 |
123,484 |
|
9 |
01 June 2014 |
2,175,157 |
153,496 |
|
10 |
08 June 2014 |
2,134,887 |
153,826 |
|
11 |
15 June 2014 |
2,128,058 |
151,508 |
|
12 |
22 June 2014 |
2,090,872 |
153,915 |
|
13 |
29 June 2014 |
2,091,790 |
152,098 |
|
14 |
06 July 2014 |
2,108,843 |
150,721 |
|
15 |
13 July 2014 |
2,079,438 |
150,166 |
|
16 |
20 July 2014 |
2,052,164 |
151,164 |
|
17 |
27 July 2014 |
1,963,411 |
145,641 |
|
18 |
03 August 2014 |
1,985,519 |
145,254 |
|
19 |
10 August 2014 |
2,017,505 |
145,912 |
|
20 |
17 August 2014 |
1,981,831 |
145,873 |
|
21 |
24 August 2014 |
1,599,651 |
122,184 |
|
22 |
31 August 2014 |
2,121,461 |
149,563 |
|
23 |
07 September 2014 |
2,118,810 |
150,024 |
|
24 |
14 September 2014 |
2,107,008 |
150,727 |
|
25 |
21 September 2014 |
2,142,081 |
153,790 |
|
26 |
28 September 2014 |
2,147,352 |
152,751 |
|
27 |
05 October 2014 |
2,174,051 |
153,818 |
|
28 |
12 October 2014 |
2,183,576 |
154,977 |
|
29 |
19 October 2014 |
2,126,467 |
154,331 |
|
30 |
26 October 2014 |
1,968,069 |
147,658 |
|
31 |
02 November 2014 |
2,215,685 |
157,287 |
|
32 |
09 November 2014 |
2,211,873 |
158,772 |
|
33 |
16 November 2014 |
2,190,637 |
160,205 |
|
34 |
23 November 2014 |
2,185,994 |
159,304 |
|
35 |
30 November 2014 |
2,210,964 |
159,359 |
|
36 |
07 December 2014 |
2,210,624 |
157,525 |
|
37 |
14 December 2014 |
2,223,306 |
156,081 |
|
38 |
21 December 2014 |
1,038,841 |
76,842 |
|
39 |
28 December 2014 |
1,175,849 |
87,790 |
|
40 |
04 January 2015 |
2,254,400 |
147,233 |
|
41 |
11 January 2015 |
2,245,845 |
155,277 |
|
42 |
18 January 2015 |
2,208,941 |
156,642 |
|
43 |
25 January 2015 |
2,154,520 |
156,841 |
|
44 |
01 February 2015 |
2,192,970 |
158,333 |
|
45 |
08 February 2015 |
2,198,622 |
160,376 |
|
46 |
15 February 2015 |
1,980,011 |
151,461 |
|
47 |
22 February 2015 |
2,199,551 |
161,546 |
|
48 |
01 March 2015 |
2,196,041 |
161,144 |
|
49 |
08 March 2015 |
2,172,174 |
160,707 |
|
50 |
15 March 2015 |
2,141,290 |
158,423 |
|
51 |
22 March 2015 |
2,106,928 |
160,091 |
|
52 |
29 March 2015 |
2,528,302 |
185,415 |
|
England Total |
107,188,423 |
7,756,932 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre
Notes:
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead on 2016-01-21.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the response made by human rights groups to figures released by the UK that it sold Saudi Arabia over £1 billion of weapons and air-to-air missiles between July and September 2015.
Lord Maude of Horsham
The UK operates one of the most rigorous and transparent export control regimes in the world. No licence would be issued if to do so would contravene the UK’s strict export control criteria. In this case a single licence accounted for 90% of the total value of potential exports authorised by the licences. This was for a long-term contract for the delivery of a new air-to-air munitions capability over a number of years [and is unconnected to current operations by the Royal Saudi Air Force in Yemen.
Licences granted in a given period do not equate to goods shipped The Department for Business (BIS) export licensing statistics only indicate the number and value of licences granted in a specified period, not the value of actual exports. Licences are usually valid for up to two years and the value of the licence therefore represents an estimate of future export value. As such, the value of licences granted in any one quarter will generally not be the same as the value of goods actually exported and does not provide an indication of goods shipped.