Tag: Wes Streeting

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which parliamentary constituencies she has visited in her official capacity since the May 2015 general election; and on which dates and for what purposes those visits were made.

Karen Bradley

Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.

Details of Ministerial meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-05-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many burglaries have been (a) reported and (b) successfully prosecuted in Ilford North constituency since 2010.

Mike Penning

The Home Office holds information on crimes recorded by the police by police force area and community safety partnership. The table provided contains statistics on the total number of recorded burglaries, by year, in Redbridge Community Safety Partnership, the closest geographical area for which data is held to the constituency requested.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are responsible for figures on prosecutions. They do not hold data centrally at the geographical level requested, however figures for London are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/524365/courts-by-criminal-justice-area.zip

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-01-25.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has made to the Financial Conduct Authority on Symphony interbank communications software.

Harriett Baldwin

The FCA does not directly regulate the activities of Symphony Communication Services LLC or any other electronic messaging platform. However, firms that are authorised by the FCA who use messaging services such as Symphony are subject to a range of applicable requirements, including the recording and storage of such tapes and electronic communications. The FCA is monitoring developments in relation to the use of Symphony by FCA-regulated firms.

The FCA is also in touch with regulated firms to monitor how they are using new technology in this area, and any risks that may exist.

Treasury Ministers and officials meet regularly with the Financial Conduct Authority to discuss relevant regulatory issues.

As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Treasury’s practice to provide details of all such discussions.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-06-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department is providing to Sri Lanka.

Sir Desmond Swayne

DFID’s bilateral aid to Sri Lanka ended in 2006 when middle income status was achieved. We continue to support them through multilateral organisations and through centrally managed DFID programmes. In 2014 these amounted to at least £28m.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2015-11-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of home ownership since 2010.

Brandon Lewis

Annual home ownership statistics are published in the Department’s English Housing Survey. We are committed to one million more first time buyers over this Parliament, doubling the number achieved in the last Parliament. We are currently at a seven-year annual high with 264,500 first time buyers in England in 2014.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-01-25.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made representations to the Bank of England regarding the regulation of any specific bank since May 2015.

Harriett Baldwin

The Prudential Regulation Authority is a subsidiary of the Bank of England and operationally independent of Government.

Treasury Ministers and officials meet regularly with the Prudential Regulation Authority to discuss relevant regulatory issues.

As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Treasury’s practice to provide details of all such discussions.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-07-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts failed to provide data on referral to treatment times in each year since May 2010.

Mr Philip Dunne

Patients have a legal right, set out in the NHS Constitution, to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions.

Since May 2010, performance has been measured against one or more of the following operational standards:

― 92% of patients who have not yet started treatment should have been waiting within 18 weeks from referral (the incomplete pathway standard, introduced from April 2012 and the current measure of performance).

― 90% of patients admitted to hospital should have started consultant-led treatment within 18 weeks from referral (the admitted pathway standard, introduced from April 2008 and abolished in practice from June 2015 and in legislation in October 2015).

― 95% of non-admitted patients (outpatients or patients on pathways that end without treatment) should have started consultant-led treatment within 18 weeks from referral (the non-admitted pathway standard, introduced from April 2008 and abolished in practice from June 2015 and in legislation in October 2015).

To monitor performance against these standards, organisations that provide NHS services that fall within the scope of referral to treatment, including NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts, are required to submit a monthly return to NHS England. Admitted and non-admitted data are still collected but are no longer used for monitoring against standards.

The NHS Standard Contract includes a comprehensive requirement on providers to submit all nationally-mandated datasets. However, from time to time trusts need to implement new IT systems and temporarily suspend submissions of data for technical reasons.

The following table shows the number of NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts that did not report referral to treatment data in one or more months in each financial year from 2010-11.

Table: number¹ of NHS trusts² and NHS foundation trusts² that did not report referral to treatment data in one or more months of each financial year from 2010-11

Year	Admitted pathway data	Non-admitted pathway data	Incomplete pathway data
2010-11	1	1	5
2011-12	1	1	3
2012-13	1	1	4
2013-14	6	63	7
2014-15	9	9	12
2015-16	14	15	16

Source: NHS England, consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times

Notes:

1. Table shows the total number of different trusts not reporting data in a year and not the maximum number of trusts not reporting in anyone month.
2. The same trust could have been a non-reporter in more than one month.
3. Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust did not report February 2014 non-admitted data in 2013-14. The data was submitted in a later revision to the dataset.
4. Each year is April to May. Two trusts that did not report incomplete pathways data in April 2010 also did not report data in some subsequent months of 2010-11.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) MRI scanners and (b) computerised tomography scanners there are in England; where each such scanner is; and how old each such scanner is.

George Freeman

Information on the number, age and location of magnetic resonance imaging scanners and computerised tomography scanners is not collected centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of open MRI scanners available to the NHS in each region.

Jane Ellison

We do not hold information centrally about the number of open magnetic resonance imaging scanners in each region and so no estimate has been made.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the cost of negotiations with the EU in the two years after Article 50 is invoked.

Mr Robin Walker

Detailed work is underway to establish the budget required to fulfil the department’s responsibilities over the period of the Spending Review. The budget will be set out to the House of Commons and approved as part of the Supplementary Estimates in the new year, as is standard practice.