Tag: Ruth Cadbury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-03-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what he expects the decision-making process after any announcement regarding a third runway at Heathrow to be.

Mr Robert Goodwill

On 14 December 2015, the Government formally announced that it accepted the Airports Commission’s case for new runway capacity in the South East, as well as the Commission’s three shortlisted schemes. We continue to consider all three schemes, including a third runway at Heathrow. At the same time, it was also announced that the Department for Transport would prepare an airports national policy statement as the framework for implementing decisions on airport capacity in line with the Planning Act 2008.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government has taken in response to the Palliative Care Funding Review, published in July 2011.

Ben Gummer

In response to the Review recommendations, the Government established a large-scale two year data collection exercise to find out more about palliative care costs, with the aim of working towards a fairer, more transparent funding system for palliative care.

From April 2013, NHS England assumed responsibility for this work. The data collection concluded in 2014 and NHS England published a palliative care development currency in February 2015. Over 2015/16 the currency has been tested and refined in a number of local areas around the country. During 2016, NHS England will engage with key stakeholders on the results of this testing and make a definitive set of currencies available for use in April 2017. The currencies will allow commissioners and providers of specialist end of life care to ensure the best services are being provided to meet people’s needs regardless of care setting.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-06-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what decisions have been made on the distribution of funding announced in the General Practice Forward View to reduce the immediate pressures in general practice.

Alistair Burt

The General Practice Forward View, published by NHS England on 21 April 2016, sets out that an extra £2.4 billion a year will be invested in general practice services by 2020/21, representing a 14% increase in real terms. This means that investment will rise from £9.6 billion a year in 2015/16 to over £12 billion a year by 2020/21.

There will be a national £508 million five year Sustainability and Transformation package for general practice to help support struggling practices, develop the workforce, stimulate care redesign and tackle workload. This package will include:

– £56 million, to include a new practice resilience programme starting in 2016/17, and the offer of specialist services to general practitioners suffering from burn out and stress;

– £206 million for workforce measures to grow the medical and non-medical workforce;

– £246 million to support practices in redesigning services, including a requirement on clinical commissioning groups to provide around £171 million of practice transformational support and a new national £30 million development programme for general practice.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2015-12-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to assess the potential effect of a third runway at Heathrow on air quality around that airport.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Airports Commission published a large amount of analysis on air quality for their three shortlisted schemes. It is my intention to test the Commission’s air quality analysis against the Government’s new Air Quality Plan. This was a recommendation of the Environmental Audit Committee alongside other recommendations that I will fully consider in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-01-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms his Department plans to put in place to ensure that all the revenue raised from the social care precept will be spent on social care.

Mr Marcus Jones

Section 151 officers of local authorities with social care responsibilities will be required to confirm whether their authority is using the flexibility to increase their council tax, and that any amount raised will be spent on adult social care services. The Department will expect that the figures provided will be reflected in established data returns to this Department during 2016-17.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of days was for a determination to be made by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator after an objection to a school’s admission arrangements was submitted in each the last four years.

Nick Gibb

The information requested is held by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA). The OSA Annual Report contains data about the objections referred to the OSA and the outcome of those objections: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/parents-to-get-greater-say-in-the-school-admissions-process

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-03-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the availability of housing of plans to demolish homes in the event of a third runway being built at Heathrow Airport.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Government continues to consider the large amount of very detailed analysis contained in the Airports Commission’s Final Report, including on housing demand and loss, before taking any decisions on next steps.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if the Government will make it its policy not to permit any airport expansion that would worsen air quality in an area where breaches to current or likely future air quality limits are already anticipated or where there is a significant risk of such expansion causing breaches to current or likely future limits.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Government is determined to meet the requirements set out in the Ambient Air Quality Directive and to do so in the shortest time possible. As set out in the recent National Air Quality Plan, the Government intends and expects that the UK will be fully compliant by 2025.

Any decision regarding future airport capacity will take into account the Government’s Air Quality Plan and its commitment to comply with EU air quality limit values.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to amend road accident investigation procedures to enable more data to be gathered about accidents on roads.

Andrew Jones

The police regularly supply statistical information about personal-injury road accidents to the Department. This is commonly called the Stats19 dataset.

The Department for Transport and the Home Office have recently developed a new Stats19 data collection for police forces called CRASH (Collision Reporting and Sharing). This has been adopted by 24 police forces in England. CRASH adds some new fields which provide additional information on the incident as well as speeding up the delivery of data. These fields will provide new information which the Department will use to monitor and improve road safety.

The Department routinely carries out reviews of the Stats19 variables. These reviews ensure that the most important variables are being collected and allow Stats19 to reflect any changes in any relevant aspects of driving – for instance, considering what will be required when autonomous vehicles are using the roads. The reviews involve police forces and users of the Stats19 data.

As well as considering what new pieces of information will be required, the reviews also need to consider the burden placed on police forces in collecting these data. All concerned parties recognise that over-burdening police forces with excessive data collection demands will result in a reduction in data quality. The reviews, therefore, balance the data needs of users with resource availability in police forces.

It is likely that the next review will take place in 2017.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2015-12-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will reopen his Department’s consultation on the proposed NHS mandate.

George Freeman

Each year the Government aims to publish the mandate to NHS England before Christmas, in order to allow the NHS sufficient time to plan before the new financial year. The mandate to NHS England 2016-17 was laid before Parliament and published on Thursday 17 December 2015. Alongside it, the Government published its response to the consultation, explaining what we heard and how the mandate has changed as a result.

The Government is therefore unable to reopen the consultation on the mandate to NHS England.