Tag: Sadiq Khan

  • Sadiq Khan – 2022 Comments on Interest Rate Rises

    Sadiq Khan – 2022 Comments on Interest Rate Rises

    The comments made by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, on 3 November 2022.

    Today’s rates rise is more bad news for the thousands of Londoners trying to get on the ladder or who must renegotiate their mortgages in the next year. The Tories took a gamble with the British economy, and households will pay the price for years to come.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-10-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students studying in London medical schools are in their final year of study.

    Ben Gummer

    The Medical and Dental Students Survey records the total intake for medical schools for the 2014/15 academic year for London as1,616.Data is not held centrally on numbers of medical students studying in London for their final year of study or current totals of medical students in medical schools in London.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-10-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students studying in London medical schools are in their first year of study.

    Ben Gummer

    The Medical and Dental Students Survey records the total intake for medical schools for the 2014/15 academic year for London as1,616.Data is not held centrally on numbers of medical students studying in London for their final year of study or current totals of medical students in medical schools in London.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-10-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors worked in the NHS in London in each year since 2006.

    Ben Gummer

    The number of full time equivalent NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) doctors in training and equivalents1 in London, as at 30 September each year between 2006 and 2014 and at 30 June 20152 is shown in the following table.

    2006

    2007

    2008

    2009

    2010

    2011

    2012

    2013

    2014

    2015

    10,360

    10,443

    10,916

    11,645

    11,971

    12,083

    12,187

    12,455

    12,584

    12,288

    Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre Medical and Dental Workforce Census.

    Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics.

    Notes:

    1 Doctors in training and equivalents refers to the Registrar group, Senior House Officer, Foundation Year 2, House Officer & Foundation Programme Year 1, other doctors in training and other staff at these grades that do not hold an educationally approved training post.

    2 June 2015 data is the latest data available. This is sourced from the NHS HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-10-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students are currently studying in medical schools in London.

    Ben Gummer

    The Medical and Dental Students Survey records the total intake for medical schools for the 2014/15 academic year for London as1,616.Data is not held centrally on numbers of medical students studying in London for their final year of study or current totals of medical students in medical schools in London.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-10-13.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students completed their studies in London medical schools in each year from 2006 to 2009.

    Ben Gummer

    Data available from the Medical and Dental Students (MDS) Survey from 2009 to 2012 shows the output of those obtaining their first registrable medical qualification from London universities as:

    Year

    Output from London universities

    2009

    1,668

    2010

    1,650

    2011

    1,790

    2012

    1,713

    Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England MDS Survey

    From 2013, the MDS did not collect information on the output from medical schools.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-10-13.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students completed their studies in London medical schools in each year since 2010.

    Ben Gummer

    Data available from the Medical and Dental Students (MDS) Survey from 2009 to 2012 shows the output of those obtaining their first registrable medical qualification from London universities as:

    Year

    Output from London universities

    2009

    1,668

    2010

    1,650

    2011

    1,790

    2012

    1,713

    Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England MDS Survey

    From 2013, the MDS did not collect information on the output from medical schools.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-06-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of running (a) the Case Resolution Directorate, (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit and (c) the Older Live Cases Unit in each year of those bodies’ operations.

    Karen Bradley

    The operational costs of running the Case Resolution Directorate (excluding
    enforcement costs, detention and removal escort costs or asylum and immigration
    tribunal costs) was approximately £32 million per year. The costs are inclusive
    of an outsourced administrative function in 2009-2011. Support costs for
    applicants were accounted for separately for this period.

    The total running costs of the Case Assurance and Audit Unit was £27.4 million
    (2011/ 2012) and £19. 5million (2012/ 2013). The total running costs of the Older Live
    Cases Unit was £7.8 million (2013/ 2014). The Older Live Cases Unit budget spend to
    date for 2014/ 2015 is £1.87 million. Since setting up the Case Resolution Directorate,
    operational running costs have decreased year on year.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent each month on court buildings that were closed in the period up to their disposal since May 2010.

    Mr Shailesh Vara

    The Department is committed to disposing of surplus property assets expeditiously and reducing holding costs. Spend for each month on court buildings that were closed in the period up to their disposal since May 2010 can only be provided at disproportionate costs.

    The total cumulative gross benefits expected from the Court Estate Reform Programme (CERP) are £152m over the Strategic Review (SR10) period, consisting of resource savings from court closures of £99m and gross capital proceeds of £53m from the sale of buildings.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-06-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contract or temporary employees are employed in the Older Live Cases Unit; and what proportion of the overall staff count are contract or temporary employees.

    Karen Bradley

    There were 208 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) temporary agency workers employed on
    OLCU casework at the end of Q1 2014, this was equal to 62.7% of the overall
    staff at the time. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the
    proportion of full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of
    an equivalent full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.