Tag: Stephen O’Brien

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of the Fire and Resilience Directorate, as quoted as part his Department’s submission to the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Brandon Lewis

The information requested is not held by my Department. I refer my rt. hon. Friend to the answer given by my rt. hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Care and Support (Norman Lamb) on 26 June, Official Report, Column 283W, which explains the historical context to this Review under the last Administration.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department’s submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department’s staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008.

Dr Daniel Poulter

I refer my Rt. hon. Friend to the answer given on 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 283W.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of his Department’s work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Brandon Lewis

The information requested is not held by my Department. I refer my rt. hon. Friend to the answer given by my rt. hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Care and Support (Norman Lamb) on 26 June, Official Report, Column 283W, which explains the historical context to this Review under the last Administration.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department’s submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with her Department’s staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008.

Norman Baker

A copy of the Home Office’s written response to the 2008 Survey of Departmental
Practice in the Valuation of Life and Health will be placed in the Library. The
Home Office does not have a record of its response to the questions in Stage 2
of the Survey. This is because the interviews were carried out face-to-face
with researchers at the University of Leeds.

The Home Office first estimated the social and economic costs of crime in 2000:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218135832/rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/r
ds/pdfs/hors217.pdf.

The most recent update to these estimates prior to the Department’s submission
to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in
2008 was published in 2005:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http:/www.homeoffice.go
v.uk/rds/pdfs05/rdsolr3005.pdf.

The monetary value per quality-adjusted life year used in the 2005 report was
£80,620 in 2003 prices. This was based on a paper by Carthy et al. (1999).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer for 4 March 2014, Official Report, column 765W, on carbon emissions, to which other technologies that Answer refers to; and whether this would still be the case if the carbon footprint of backup technologies was factored in.

Gregory Barker

Onshore wind power has a very small carbon footprint range relative to other energy generation technologies, including coal and gas-fired generation, which, in 2012, emitted, on average, 895 g/kWh and 415 g/kWh respectively (not allowing for emissions incurred during the manufacture, construction and decommissioning phases)1.

The Department does not estimate the gas turbine energy contribution (and therefore related CO² emissions) associated with the reserve generation needed to manage wind variability specifically, due to complex inter-dependencies of the power system operational parameters. However, the need for reserve generation to manage intermittent supply and demand of electricity does not change the fact that any electricity generated by onshore wind – which in the first quarter of 2014 accounted for around 7% of all electricity generated in the UK – has a carbon footprint of just 8 and 20g CO2eq/kWh. Reserve generation displaces the output of existing generating stations to maintain the balance of supply and demand, so there is no net increase of power on the system at any one time; therefore the only additional emissions from reserve associated with wind power is through the inefficiency of running separate generating stations at part load rather than fewer stations at full-load, which is relatively insignificant compared to the carbon savings made.

[1]Coal and Gas emissions factors from table DUKES 5C, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-chapter-5-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of the Health and Safety Executive’s work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Mike Penning

I refer my Rt. Hon. friend to the Written Answer I gave him on 2 July 2014 Official Report, col 643w.

HSE does not apply cost-per-quality adjusted life year (QALY) thresholds. In the Regulatory Impact Assessment described in the evidence submitted by HSE to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008, which is published in the Library, HSE used a value of £42,000 per QALY to estimate the benefits of the intervention. These were compared against the expected costs of the intervention in order to assess the potential net benefits to society.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Food Standards Agency’s submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department’s staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008.

Dr Daniel Poulter

I refer my Rt. hon. Friend to the answer given on 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 283W.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures of the value of life and health were included in the evidence submitted as part of the Health and Safety Executive’s work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Mike Penning

I refer my Rt. Hon. friend to the Written Answer I gave him on 2 July 2014 Official Report, col 643w.

HSE does not apply cost-per-quality adjusted life year (QALY) thresholds. In the Regulatory Impact Assessment described in the evidence submitted by HSE to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008, which is published in the Library, HSE used a value of £42,000 per QALY to estimate the benefits of the intervention. These were compared against the expected costs of the intervention in order to assess the potential net benefits to society.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of his Department’s work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Dr Daniel Poulter

I refer my Rt. hon. Friend to the answer given on 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 283W.