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381123

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Individual Savings Accounts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a Green ISA scheme to encourage public engagement with, and inject capital into, the green economy.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	2408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5">The government currently has no plans to introduce a new Green ISA scheme. However, individuals can already invest in green products using the existing ISA structure as we have expanded ISA eligible investments to include a wider range of products such as AIM shares and soon, peer-to-peer loans.</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 18/06/2015 12:08:39 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

348574

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Consultants: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the maximum daily rate of pay is for consultants (a) directly employed by and (b) employed by contractors working for her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	1106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>We use private contractors to deliver aid where they can provide the best results and value for taxpayers' money, which is the sensible approach to take. In the past year alone, this has included building treatment centres to defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone, delivering life-saving aid to Syrian refugees, and providing shelter to people who have lost their homes in the Nepal earthquake. A recent Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) report noted that the rates paid by DFID were “highly competitive”. Individual companies set the rates for their contractors.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 10/06/2015 16:01:34 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155961

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Carers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to improve the support provided to carers; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	214632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>We have ensured that carers are central to our proposals for care and support reform. The provisions in the Care Act focus on the carer in their own right. For the first time, local authorities have a duty to meet carers’ eligible support needs and to consider the impact of their caring responsibilities when undertaking an assessment.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>We have also ensured that young carers and parent carers of disabled children are supported. Through the provisions of the Children and Families Act, their assessments will be on the same footing as adults caring for adults.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>We have provided £400 million to the National Health Service over four years from 2011 for carers to have breaks from their caring responsibilities. The 2015-16 tranche of this funding (£130 million) will be part of the Better Care Fund.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>On 30 October 2014, the Government published an updated action plan for the national Carers Strategy, setting out progress since 2010 and priorities for the next two years through to 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Carers are also central to the work that NHS England is leading to improve the quality of life of people with long term conditions. Their action plan <em>NHS England’s Commitment to Carers</em> includes a series of commitments around eight priorities, including raising the profile of carers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 24/11/2014 17:24:22 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155720

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Business: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Stafford constituency have received export support from UK Trade & Investment in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	214630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>UK Trade and Investment supported 47,960 companies in 2013/14 financial year; 31,880 in 2012/13; 26,640 in 2011/12 and 24,550 in 2010/11. However, breakdowns of the data at the constituency level are not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/11/2014 14:32:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

175490

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on economic development projects in each year since 2005-06.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	221860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>This information is not available in the form requested but will be for financial year 2015/16 onwards to track spend against our £1.8billion spend in this area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 29/01/2015 17:38:17 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

92989

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of crime in Stafford constituency in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	210228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The table provided shows the number of offences in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership in each of the past five years. <br>According to the latest police recorded crime figures (published on 16th October), crime has fallen by more than 20% over the last five years in the Partnership.<br><br>The data requested are also published on the Home Office website, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="3"><strong>Table A: Police Recorded Crime (excluding fraud) in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership, year to June 2009 to year to June 2014</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><em><strong>Numbers</strong></em></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Total offences</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2010</td><td>7,200</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2011</td><td>6,765</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2012</td><td>6,340</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2013</td><td>5,286</td></tr><tr><td>Year to June 2014</td><td>5,536</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><em>1. Source: Police recorded crime, Home Office</em></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2">2. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="6"><p><em>3. Action Fraud have taken over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces. This process began in April 2011 and was rolled out to all police forces by March 2013. To enable comparison of data across the five year period, fraud data have been excluded.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 21/10/2014 16:05:58 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

175493

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Russia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent in Russia in each year since 2005-06.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	221852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The table below details bilateral spend DFID disbursed to Russia from 2005/06 to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£ thousand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>£5,684</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>£5,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>£373</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>£190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£1,507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1,269</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 29/01/2015 17:37:38 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

102233

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of recent employment trends.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	905826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The latest figures show a record number of people in work - 30.76 million, up 736,000 on the year. There are a record 14.4m women in work, with a record female employment rate of 68.1%. This year there have been some of the largest annual increases in employment since the 1980s.</p><p>Total unemployment saw a record annual fall of 538,000, bringing unemployment below 2 million for the first time since 2008. Youth unemployment fell a record 253,000 on the year to 733,000. Long-term unemployment fell 194,000 on the year - the largest annual fall since 1998.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/11/2014 17:41:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

346989

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on implementation of the provisions of the Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	5
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The intention of this Act is to improve patient safety and the quality of care through three measures; reducing harm in care, continuity of information and the objectives of professional regulation. Progress varies on each of the measures.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p>Section 1 of the Act makes clear that the requirements for registration with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) must secure that services cause no avoidable harm to patients and service users. The Fundamental Standards which include the new registration requirements for the CQC, came into force on 1 April 2015, and contain a requirement on safety. A failure to meet Regulation 12 of these standards will be an offence; therefore this standard meets the duty on the Secretary of State as set out in section 1 of the Act.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p>Sections 2 to 4 of the Act impose duties on providers and commissioners of health and adult social care services in England to share information, and to use consistent identifiers, where this is likely to facilitate the provision to the individual of health services or adult social care, and is in the individual’s best interests.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Regulations will be made to provide that the prescribed consistent identifier is the NHS Number, and to dis-apply the duties to share information, and to use consistent identifiers, from certain bodies. Regulations will be laid later this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance will be made available to affected bodies to help them to comply with the duties.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Section 5 of the Act and the Schedule seek to give an overarching objective of public protection to the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care and seven professional regulators; the General Chiropractic Council, General Dental Council, General Optical Council, General Osteopathic Council, Health and Care Professions Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Pharmaceutical Council. This objective is based on the proposals set out by the Law Commissions in their review published in April 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The commencement of the objectives for the Professional Standards Authority and these professional regulators will be implemented following discussions with those bodies which will take place shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 03/06/2015 11:47:54 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

76398

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Stafford Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people attending the paediatrics assessment unit were not transferred from the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	204578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have written to Alan Bloom, Trust Special Administrator of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust informing him of your enquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/07/2014 16:16:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy