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222497

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the total value of contracts his Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	224658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost. Contracts of the Department are published on the Cabinet Office Website which can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The Department would be able to provide further contract information by narrowing the scope, if specific procurement projects were identified.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">As an indication of departmental spend our financial records show that the following payments have been made to 3<sup>rd</sup> party suppliers:</ins></p><ul><li><ins class="ministerial">April 2013 to March 2014: £184,784,757.64;</ins></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><ins class="ministerial">April 2014 to January 2015: £147,863,946.28.</ins></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 25/02/2015 13:07:31 question first ministerially corrected 26/02/2015 13:45:41 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd previous answer version 46371 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

173398

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Turkey
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to encourage the consolidation of developments in religious freedom in Turkey.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	220606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>We regularly raise the issue of religious freedom in bilateral discussions with the Turkish government. In early January 2015, Her Majesty´s Ambassador to Turkey met with the Head of the Diyanet (Presidency of Religious Affairs in Turkey) to discuss religious freedom. In 2014, we organised a round table with religious groups in Istanbul with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Our embassy in Ankara has regular meetings with religious groups and civil society to discuss strengthening freedom of religion in Turkey. The 2014 European Commission Annual Progress report on Turkey noted the need for comprehensive reform of legislation on freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and application of this legislation, in line with European Court of Human Rights rulings, Council of Europe recommendations and EU standards. We support this assessment and will continue to work closely with Turkey, EU Member States, and with the European institutions, to encourage further reforms, including on religious freedom, that will continue to underpin Turkey’s accession process.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/01/2015 16:46:49 question first ministerially corrected 19/01/2015 16:56:26 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington previous answer version 39095 answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T. C. Davies answering member 1545
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

173929

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacant A&E consultant posts there were in the NHS excluding London (a) on the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) in each of the previous six years.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Dame Tessa Jowell
	uin	220878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>Information on vacancies is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from NHS organisations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The attached table provides vacancy data for 2009 and 2010, the only two years within the last six years for which data is available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 20/01/2015 16:08:26 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2015 16:16:23 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Table PQ220878 Vacancy data.xlsx title Vacancy data 2009-10 A&E Consultants previous answer version 39309 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	159 label Biography information for Baroness Jowell

173930

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacant A&E consultant posts there are in (a) London and (b) England; and how many such vacant posts there are in each category in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Dame Tessa Jowell
	uin	220879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>Information on vacancies is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from NHS organisations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The attached table provides vacancy data for 2009 and 2010, the only two years within the last six years for which data is available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 20/01/2015 16:08:26 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2015 16:55:53 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Table PQ220878 Vacancy data.xlsx title Vacancy data 2009-10 A&E Consultants previous answer version 39310 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	159 label Biography information for Baroness Jowell

178119

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools there currently are in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West; and how much funding her Department has allocated to the funding of free schools in each such area.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
	uin	223512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>In answer to the above question;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ol><li><p>There are currently no free schools in Preston.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>There are currently three free schools in the local authority area of Lancashire with the total revenue funding allocation of £2,789,724 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>There are currently <ins class="ministerial">ten</ins><del class="ministerial">seven</del> free schools in the county of Lancashire, which includes the local authorities of <ins class="ministerial">Lancashire,</ins> Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, with the total revenue funding allocation of <ins class="ministerial">£14,802,909.77</ins><del class="ministerial">£12,013,185</del> for the academic year 2014 to 2015.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The North West has <ins class="ministerial">40</ins><del class="ministerial">41</del> free schools with a total revenue funding allocation of £54,002,376 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.</p></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 12/02/2015 17:31:03 question first ministerially corrected 27/02/2015 12:43:41 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 45242 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

178120

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2015 to Question 220889, what mechanism is in place to alert Ministers when local authorities do not issue a final statement of special educational needs within the statutory 26 week time limit.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	223615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>There is no mechanism in place to alert Ministers routinely to individual cases when a local authority does not issue a final statement of special educational needs for a child within the statutory 26 week timescale.</p><p>A complaint can be made to the Secretary of State for Education under section 497 of the Education Act 1996 if it is believed that a local authority has failed to carry out a statutory duty. If, following investigation, the Secretary of State is satisfied that the local authority has failed to carry out their duty, she may make an order giving directions to enforce the duty as appear to her to be expedient.</p><p>Data collected annually from all local authorities on the numbers of final statements issued for children with special educational needs within the statutory timescale of 26 weeks and published each year gives a national picture of local authority performance in this area.<del class="ministerial">nal picture of local authority performance in this area.</del></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 11/02/2015 17:10:47 question first ministerially corrected 11/02/2015 17:22:01 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 44003 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

175097

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospital Beds: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many delayed discharges there were from (a) St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals Trust and (b) Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in each month since January 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	221512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested. The data that is available is shown in the following tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Patients</p></td><td><p>Days</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2014</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>282</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2014</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>233</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2014</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>227</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>143</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Patients: The number of patients whose transfer is delayed at midnight on the last Thursday of the month.</li><li>Days: The number of days delayed within the month for all patients delayed throughout the month.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Patients</p></td><td><p>Days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2014</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2014</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>591</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>535</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>513</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2014</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>548</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>537</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>688</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>576</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>458</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>425</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>222</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Patients: The number of patients whose transfer is delayed at midnight on the last Thursday of the month.</li><li>Days: The number of days delayed within the month for all patients delayed throughout the month.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 26/01/2015 16:57:42 question first ministerially corrected 26/01/2015 17:14:04 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb previous answer version 41239 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

176781

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether joint committees of NHS England and clinical commissioning groups are permitted to deviate from national service specifications for specialised services.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	222695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is the accountable commissioner and budget holder for all specialised services as set out in The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, with the Manual for prescribed specialised services providing further detail.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has achieved significant progress in developing a set of nationally consistent service standards and commissioning policies, which ensure equity of access to high quality services across the board. Those standards and policies will continue to apply for those specialised services which are to be collaboratively commissioned by NHS England and clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently in the process of agreeing the guidance on the collaborative commissioning arrangements which will be in place from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has clarified that where there are collaboratively commissioned services, NHS England will retain the full financial risk for these services for 2015/16. NHS England has advised us that there will be further work conducted over the next year to advise on the range of specialised services for which NHS England should remain the accountable commissioner and budget holder for 2016/17 and future years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Copies of The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 and the Manual for prescribed specialised services are attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name nhs-england-and-ccg-regulations.pdf title Regulations NHS Commissioning Board & CCGs 2 file name pss-manual.pdf title Manual prescribed specialised services question first answered 03/02/2015 15:09:14 question first ministerially corrected 03/02/2015 15:20:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison previous answer version 42619 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

176783

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when NHS England will publish details of the co-commissioning of specialised services.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	222693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is the accountable commissioner and budget holder for all specialised services as set out in The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, with the Manual for prescribed specialised services providing further detail.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has achieved significant progress in developing a set of nationally consistent service standards and commissioning policies, which ensure equity of access to high quality services across the board. Those standards and policies will continue to apply for those specialised services which are to be collaboratively commissioned by NHS England and clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently in the process of agreeing the guidance on the collaborative commissioning arrangements which will be in place from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has clarified that where there are collaboratively commissioned services, NHS England will retain the full financial risk for these services for 2015/16. NHS England has advised us that there will be further work conducted over the next year to advise on the range of specialised services for which NHS England should remain the accountable commissioner and budget holder for 2016/17 and future years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Copies of The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 and the Manual for prescribed specialised services are attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name nhs-england-and-ccg-regulations.pdf title Regulations NHS Commissioning Board & CCGs 2 file name pss-manual.pdf title Manual prescribed specialised services question first answered 03/02/2015 15:09:14 question first ministerially corrected 03/02/2015 15:21:10 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison previous answer version 42620 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

176784

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether NHS England will remain the sole budget-holder and accountable commissioner for all specialised services.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	222694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is the accountable commissioner and budget holder for all specialised services as set out in The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, with the Manual for prescribed specialised services providing further detail.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has achieved significant progress in developing a set of nationally consistent service standards and commissioning policies, which ensure equity of access to high quality services across the board. Those standards and policies will continue to apply for those specialised services which are to be collaboratively commissioned by NHS England and clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently in the process of agreeing the guidance on the collaborative commissioning arrangements which will be in place from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has clarified that where there are collaboratively commissioned services, NHS England will retain the full financial risk for these services for 2015/16. NHS England has advised us that there will be further work conducted over the next year to advise on the range of specialised services for which NHS England should remain the accountable commissioner and budget holder for 2016/17 and future years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Copies of The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012 and the Manual for prescribed specialised services are attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name nhs-england-and-ccg-regulations.pdf title Regulations NHS Commissioning Board & CCGs 2 file name pss-manual.pdf title Manual prescribed specialised services question first answered 03/02/2015 15:09:14 question first ministerially corrected 03/02/2015 15:23:29 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison previous answer version 42621 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz