In 2013, the UK share of official development assistance funded from the EU budget was £813 million. UK\u2019s contribution to the European Development Fund (EDF), a Member States voluntary fund not financed from the EU budget but also administered by the Commission, was £407 million. Estimates for the UK share of official development assistance funded from the EU budget in 2014 will be published in April 2015 as part of the provisional ODA:GNI statistics publication for 2014. The UK\u2019s contribution to the EDF in 2014 is currently estimated to be £328 million.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2539", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Northover"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Northover"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-12-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-12-04T14:52:34.08Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "20"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "International Development"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "International Development"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-25", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "EU Aid"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what was the value of United Kingdom overseas aid administered by the European Union in 2013; and what they expect the figure to be in 2014.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/950", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Stoddart of Swindon"} ], "uin" : "HL3164"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/166107", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/166107/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
UK\u2019s trade deficit with the European Union was £28.5bn in 2010, £21.7bn in 2011, £39.5bn in 2012 and £56.2bn in 2013.<\/p>
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Currently, UK trade balance figures cover the period up to the second quarter of 2014. In the first half of 2014, UK\u2019s trade deficit with the European Union was £25.5bn.<\/p>
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Source: ONS UK Economic Accounts 2014Q2<\/p>
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The Government is considering the various constitutional issues that arise from further devolution, including the so-called West Lothian question.<\/p>
Discussions on this issue and other proposals relating to 'the English question' are ongoing. The Government does not believe at present there is public support for a separate English Parliament which would increase the cost of politics and the number of politicians.<\/p>
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It is not for the Department to place a limit on the daily payment of doctors, nurses and other professionally qualified staff hired by the National Health Service from the private sector.<\/p>
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The Department expects trusts to have a strong grip on their finances, and manage their contract and agency staffing spend responsibly through effective and efficient workforce planning and management.<\/p>
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Trusts have access to these staff at appropriate prices through frameworks managed by the Crown Commercial Service and the 4 NHS procurement hubs and we are working with, for example, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority, to encourage trusts to use these frameworks.<\/p>
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Following the Francis report many trusts have increased their spend on temporary staffing to meet safe staffing levels.<\/p>
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Where appropriate, we shall also be using the newly published section 42 guidance, for trusts requiring financial support, to expect those trusts to reduce their spending on agency staffing over the course of the next financial year.<\/p>
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Tax evasion is illegal activity, where registered individuals or businesses deliberately omit, conceal or misrepresent information so they can reduce their tax liabilities.<\/p>
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Tax avoidance is exploiting the tax rules to gain a tax advantage that Parliament never intended. It often involves contrived, artificial transactions that serve little or no commercial purpose other than to produce a tax advantage. It involves operating within the letter, but not the spirit of the law.<\/p>
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For further information on this I refer the Noble Lord to Table 1.6 in the \u2018Measuring Tax Gaps 2014\u2019 publication available on gov.uk.<\/p>
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Transport in London, including the Hammersmith Flyover, is the responsibility of the Mayor and Transport for London.<\/p>
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Work to strengthen the Hammersmith flyover, including replacing the bearings, installing a new carriageway drainage system and resurfacing and waterproofing the entire flyover, is due to be completed in summer 2015.<\/p>
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The 20 medical conditions listed in the answer of 5 November (HL2465) relate to indicators in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). QOF is a voluntary incentive scheme that provides additional reward to general practitioner practices for how well they care for patients based on performance against a number of agreed indicators.<\/p>
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Each indicator is assigned a number of QOF points, further detail is set out on the NHS Employers website:<\/p>
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http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/primary-care-contacts/general-medical-services/quality-and-outcomes-framework<\/p>
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QOF points are awarded according to level of achievement. In 2014-15 there is a possible total of 559 points. The value of each QOF point is set out in the Statement of Financial Entitlements and is currently £156.92. The final payment is weighted to take account of the practice population.<\/p>
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Data for the years 2009-10 to 2013-14 can be found in Table C.1 of HM Treasury\u2019s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses of July 2014, attached[1]<\/sup><\/sup>:<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> The 2014-15 forecast can be found in Table 2.19 of the Office for Budget Responsibility\u2019s Economic and fiscal outlook supplementary and fiscal tables \u2013 December 2014, attached[2]<\/sup><\/sup>:<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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