Tag: Parliamentary Question

Lord Freyberg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Freyberg on 2016-07-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 7 July (HL829), why Genomic England cannot supply data without delay on the number of patients in the cancer programme who have subsequently died, in the light of the fact that the Office of National Statistics states that the information is available within two months of death from the cancer registry.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The arrangements for Genomics England to access patient data are different from the routine data supplied by the Office of National Statistics or other centralised patient data services. The wider patient dataset (including mortality data) will be imported and linked when the genome data is made available to researchers.

01/01/2023
Danny Kinahan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Danny Kinahan on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent changes have been implemented on internal UK flight security checks; and what plans he has to change those security checks in the future.

Mr John Hayes

Flights departing from UK airports fall under the same EU and UK aviation security regulation, regardless of whether they are to a domestic or international destination.

We keep our aviation security measures under constant review.

01/01/2023
Andrew Tyrie – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Tyrie on 2015-11-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the final file concerning the Metropolitan Police Service investigation known as Operation Lydd has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Mike Penning

This is a matter for the Metropolitan Police Service and the Crown Prosecution Service.

01/01/2023
Richard Arkless – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Arkless on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the effect of Scottish Government policies on the level of new affordable social housing in Scotland.

Brandon Lewis

Delivery of affordable housing in Scotland is a devolved matter.

01/01/2023

Daniel Zeichner – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent analysis his Department has made of levels of cycling among different age and gender groups.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The number of cycle trips per person per year for different age and gender groups are given in the table (based on data for England in 2014) are given in the table.

	Males	Females	All people
0-16	22	6	14
17-20	30	5	18
21-29	33	13	23
30-39	33	16	25
40-49	38	10	24
50-59	29	11	20
60-69	22	6	14
70+	14	2	7
All ages	28	9	18

01/01/2023

Philip Hollobone – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Hollobone on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been prosecuted for going abroad to assist Daesh.

Robert Buckland

As of the end January 2016, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had successfully prosecuted and convicted 38 individuals in 27 cases where the allegations were considered to be related to the conflict in Syria.

The CPS does not hold central records for the number of people prosecuted in relation to Daesh.

01/01/2023
Patrick Grady – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Patrick Grady on 2016-03-16.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will issue a response to Early Day Motion 68, Prevention of debt crisis in developing countries.

Greg Hands

The Government agrees that the maintenance of sustainable debt levels is a critical factor for achieving poverty reduction. The UK has provided more than £5 billion in debt relief since 1996 under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiatives, and will continue to promote debt sustainability internationally.

The Government is also committed to supporting developing countries to access their domestic tax revenues through our efforts in driving the G20-OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project and our commitment to funding tax capacity building in developing countries bilaterally and multilaterally – including through the direct provision of technical assistance by the UK to tackle tax avoidance.

01/01/2023
Graham Allen – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Allen on 2016-04-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is planned that the new national centre of expertise on tackling child sexual abuse will work in connection with the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse.

Karen Bradley

Tackling child sexual abuse is a top priority for this Government and good progress is being made on delivering the commitments made in “Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation” – the Government’s response to address on a national scale the failures that had been seen in Rotherham and elsewhere. We are working collaboratively across Whitehall to deliver on our commitments and will publish an update to the “Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation” report later this year. This will set out our progress to date on what we have achieved in tackling offending, reducing vulnerability and supporting victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. It will also set out what future steps the government plans to take.

As part of this work, we have prioritised child sexual abuse as a national threat, providing a clear mandate for police forces to safeguard children and to share intelligence and best practice. We have also rolled out to all UK police forces Child abuse image database (CAID) which provides law enforcement with effective tools to search seized devices. We have delivered a £7 million uplift in funding over the financial years 2014 – 15 and 2015 – 16 for non statutory organisations which support victims and survivors of sexual abuse and have announced that the same amount will be available in 2016 – 17.

In January this year we launched a new national whistle-blowing helpline, operated by the NSPCC, for any employee who wants to raise a concern about how their organisation is dealing with a concern about a child. The establishment of the Centre of Expertise has formed part of discussions held at the Inter Ministerial Group on Child Sexual Abuse, and we are currently working towards its procurement. In terms of the Centre working with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, the Inquiry is independent of Government, but the Government is, and will, continue to fully co-operate with it.

01/01/2023
Debbie Abrahams – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-05-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts conform to the Accessible Information Standard.

Alistair Burt

NHS England published the Accessible Information Standard in July 2015. Compliance with the Standard is a legal duty and organisations that provide National Health Service care or adult social care are required to implement the Standard in full by 31 July 2016. Compliance with the Standard is also a requirement of the NHS Standard Contract 2016/17.

NHS England does not hold information on how many NHS trusts conform to the Standard.

NHS England is not proactively monitoring progress of organisations that provide NHS or adult social care towards conforming to the Accessible Information Standard, as the Standard does not establish a new national audit or dataset which requires organisations to report centrally on their adherence. In addition, NHS England as an organisation does not have a monitoring or inspection remit.

However, the Standard includes requirements for organisations to publish or display an accessible communications policy which explains how they will follow the Accessible Information Standard, and an accessible complaints policy. The inclusion of these requirements is intended to support ease of compliance assessment by interested organisations, and to ensure that people with information and communication support needs are able to provide feedback to organisations about their experiences.

The specification for the Standard also makes clear that commissioning organisations must actively support compliance by organisations from which they commission services and must also seek assurance from providers in this regard.

In addition, the Care Quality Commission will look at evidence of how services implement the Accessible Information Standard as part of their inspection of health services and adult social care services when they make judgements about whether health services are responsive to people’s needs, and adult social care services are responsive to people’s needs and whether they are well led.

01/01/2023
Calum Kerr – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Calum Kerr on 2016-07-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will postpone the reorganisation of UK Science Research Councils until the UK has renegotiated its relationship with the EU.

Joseph Johnson

The Government will continue taking forward the important legislation that was set before Parliament in the Queen’s Speech, including the Higher Education and Research Bill. This includes the formation of the new body UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Now, more than ever, we need a strong and unified voice to represent the interests of UK research and innovation across Europe and around the world which UKRI will provide.

01/01/2023