Tag: Philip Davies

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Attorney General, which regulations his Office introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Office expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.

Robert Buckland

The Attorney General’s Office has not introduced any regulations as a result of EU legislation over the past three years and has no plans to do so during the next two years.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which regulations her Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations her Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate she has made of the cost of such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.

Mr Desmond Swayne

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided by my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-11-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve mental health support and services for looked-after children.

Alistair Burt

Future in Mind, the previous Government’s report on the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce, established a clear and powerful consensus for change across the whole system, including health, social care and education. This Government is driving forward the transformation of children and young people’s mental health services to improve access and make services more widely available across the country so that, where possible, children can access high-quality support locally.

This transformation programme, backed by additional investment of £1.4 billion allocated over the next five years, will deliver a step change in the way children and young people’s mental health services are commissioned and delivered. Emphasis will be placed on prevention and early intervention, building care around the needs of children, young people and their families, including the most vulnerable, such as those who are looked-after and adopted.

Clinical commissioning groups, covering all areas in the country, have submitted Transformation Plans for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing developed with local partners which are currently being assured by NHS England.

A national programme of work will support local areas. This will include the extension and expansion of the use of evidence-based interventions, tacking stigma, improving data and information to inform greater transparency and accountability and developing a specialist and stronger workforce.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-11-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 13471, whether the Government’s proposed standardised packaging of tobacco policy will now be reassessed against the revised one-in-two-out framework criteria published by the Better Regulation Executive after that policy was finalised.

Jane Ellison

Government policies, including standardised packaging of tobacco products, are assessed against the Better Regulation Framework in place at the time.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-12-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) stolen cars, (b) untaxed cars, (c) uninsured drivers and (d) other crimes have been detected using automatic number plate recognition in each of the last two years.

Mike Penning

This information is not held by the Home Office. Some police forces may collate this data, dependent upon local policy.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-02-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding her Department is providing to Bradford Council to help schools with essential repairs.

Edward Timpson

To help responsible bodies, such as Bradford Council, improve the condition of school buildings, we provide them with School Condition Allocations. In both 2015 to 2016 and 2016 to 2017 Bradford Council has been allocated £5.8 million of this funding. The council has the freedom to use this funding to address local priorities.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.

Karen Bradley

The Home Office does not pay a home to office travel allowance for staff to travel to their normal place of work. There is one employee of an Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) who is paid an allowance for home to work travel.

Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs pays any of its staff a car allowance.

Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs provides subsidised health insurance to any of its staff.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of recalls to prison have been fixed term recalls in each of the last two years.

Dominic Raab

I am unable to provide the data you have requested in Question 29034 within the timescales for this parliamentary question. I will write to you in due course with such data as officials can collate it from casework systems.

Any offender who is believed to have committed further offences whilst on licence is liable to be arrested and charged and, if convicted, given a further sentence. If the offence is serious, they can be remanded into custody until trial. Offenders on licence who are charged with further offences are also liable to be recalled, potentially to serve the rest of their sentence in prison, as they will be in breach of the requirement of their licence to be of good behaviour. If the offender is assessed as not presenting a risk of harm to the public they can be assessed as suitable for a shorter, fixed term recall. Those who have been charged with serious sexual or violent offences will not be considered suitable for a fixed term recall.

The table below provides the proportion of recalls in 2013 and 2014 and the proportion who received a fixed term recall.

Year	Proportion of total recalls which were fixed term
2014	42%
2013	42%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 26819, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of paid car allowances.

Jane Ellison

NHS England advises us that there are seven post holders in receipt of a car user allowance:

– Regional Director

– Director of Commissioning Operations

– Director of National Stakeholders – Primary Care Support

– Managing Partner

– Locality Director

– Head of Health and Justice

– Head of Primary Care Policy and Contracts

The Care Quality Commission advises that the Occupational Car User Allowance is paid to eligible staff in the following roles who use their personal vehicle to visit services and commissioners in order to undertake regulatory decision making.

― Children’s Services Inspector

― Children’s Services Team Leader

― Clinical Specialist

― Controlled Drugs Officer

― Corporate Provider Compliance Inspector

― Corporate Provider Compliance Manager

― Enforcement Advisor

― Health and Justice Inspector

― Health and Justice Manager

― Inspector

― Inspection Manager

― Integrated Care Manager

― Medicines Inspector

― Mental Health Act Reviewer

― National Safeguarding Advisor

― National Pharmacy Manager

― Pharmacist Inspector

― Pharmacist Specialist

― Registration Inspector

― Registration Manager

One Deputy Chief Inspector also currently receives a car allowance.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence advises that the five employees receiving a car allowance all have the job title of Implementation consultant.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission an independent assessment of the effect on children of legislation on smoking in cars.

Jane Ellison

The Department assesses the impact of tobacco control measures on an ongoing basis as it develops policy. The Smoke-Free (Private Vehicles) Regulations 2015 include a requirement to review the regulations within five years of them coming into force, which will include an assessment of the effect on children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in private vehicles.

In changing the law we always said the measure of success would be in changes in attitude and behaviour, not the number of enforcement actions. Information on prosecutions for the period since the regulations were introduced has not yet been published, however we would expect very few fixed penalty notices issued for these offences would lead to court appearances.