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349005

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the amount the NHS spent on recruitment of non-EU adult nurses in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	1357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information on the costs incurred by the National Health Service when recruiting staff. The configuration of services and the recruitment of staff required to deliver these services, is the responsibility of local NHS organisations when planning a workforce that is appropriate to deliver the health needs of their local population and which is based on clinical need and sound evidence.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/06/2015 11:20:43 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

348407

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2015 to Question 4, what the reason was for the size of the reduction in the percentage of calls handled by HM Revenue and Customs contact centres within five minutes in the first two quarters of 2015.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) handles 50 million calls a year from customers. The department is working hard to improve its performance. The percentage of calls handled will fluctuate annually and quarterly and is directly affected by customer demand.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC has taken a number of steps including the introduction of a new telephony platform that will improve performance in the longer term. HMRC has recruited more than 2,000 staff to its customer service teams and is expanding the resource available at evenings and weekends when many customers choose to call. They have also launched an online service for Tax Credit customers that will enable them to renew their claims without calling at all and, as in previous years, are moving up to 1,500 extra staff from across the department to support the Tax Credits peak in demand.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 976 question first answered 08/06/2015 15:12:50 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

348409

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2015 to Question 4, what steps he is taking to increase the proportion of calls handled by HM Revenue and Customs' Contact Centre within five minutes.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) handles 50 million calls a year from customers. The department is working hard to improve its performance. The percentage of calls handled will fluctuate annually and quarterly and is directly affected by customer demand.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC has taken a number of steps including the introduction of a new telephony platform that will improve performance in the longer term. HMRC has recruited more than 2,000 staff to its customer service teams and is expanding the resource available at evenings and weekends when many customers choose to call. They have also launched an online service for Tax Credit customers that will enable them to renew their claims without calling at all and, as in previous years, are moving up to 1,500 extra staff from across the department to support the Tax Credits peak in demand.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 984 question first answered 08/06/2015 15:12:50 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

348415

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
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 and Support Allowance: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his policy that the proposed legislation requiring young people to earn or learn will extend to existing claimants of employment and support allowance under the age of 21.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	1030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We will set out our policy design in due course.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/06/2015 10:07:06 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

348187

registered interest
date	02/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital was in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the mean and median duration to (i) assessment, (ii) treatment and (iii) departure, in minutes, in the accident and emergency (A&amp;E) department for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust for each year since 2009-10 is shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/06/2015 11:06:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name Average A&E waiting times data.xlsx title University Hospital Birmingham FT 2009-10 A&E Data
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

348188

registered interest
date	02/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of accident and emergency services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>Latest data for week ending 31 May 2015 showed that University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust met the operational standard of at least 95% of patients being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival at an accident and emergency department, with performance at 95.8%. In 2014/15 as a whole 94.8% of patients were admitted, treated or discharged within four hours.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/06/2015 15:30:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

347770

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the working paper by Jeronim Capaldo on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, entitled European Disintegration, Unemployment and Instability.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has serious reservations about this paper. It is based on a model that was not built to assess trade policy. It does not directly model trade flows or the gains from trade.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/06/2015 13:41:27 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

347771

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of research commissioned by the European Commission into the economic effect of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government supports the Commission’s research. The UK adopted a similar approach when commissioning research for the potential impact on the UK. We also support the additional work that is underway for the Commission such as the Sustainability Impact Assessment. Whilst the trade models used by the Commission, ourselves and others have their limitations they are generally considered to be the most robust tools to examine the economic effects of trade agreements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/06/2015 13:27:48 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

347395

registered interest
date	29/05/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the efficiency of call-handling by HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) constantly monitors call handling performance and assesses its quality. In 2014/15, our advisers achieved a score of 97.1% for correctness of transaction, against a 95% target.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC also carries out a quarterly customer survey to determine how well we are performing against certain criteria. The results are published quarterly on GOV.UK:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-plan-indicators" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-plan-indicators</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/06/2015 14:44:08 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

346849

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation was conducted with stakeholders affected by the reforms for delivery of approved English language qualifications for settlement and citizenship effective from November 2015; how the decision was communicated to teaching providers and learners; and whether an impact assessment was undertaken.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	1
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The possibility of changes to the English language requirement for settlement and nationality was discussed as part of the SELT procurement process. Letters announcing the change to test arrangements have been sent to a range of organisations. As this change relates to the implementation of existing policy, no formal impact assessment was required.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/06/2015 10:35:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden