The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.<\/p>
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<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> The Comptroller and Auditor General is the BBC's independent auditor with powers to conduct value for money studies related to the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the BBC. Decisions in relation to reviewing BBC activity are therefore a matter for the National Audit Office, not government. <\/ins><\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will hold discussions with the National Audit Office on the potential merits on that Office undertaking a review of commissioning contracts within the BBC that are of a value of less than £1million.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding has been provided to each London borough to date to support people transitioning to universal credit to make their claim online.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/983066/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " No specific assessment has been made of provision or patient population in Wirral or the north west. As with the vast majority of NHS services, the funding and commissioning of palliative and end of life care, is a local matter, over which individual National Health Service commissioners have responsibility. Local commissioners are best placed to understand the needs of local populations and commission services to meet those needs accordingly. The only exception to this are a small number specialist paediatric palliative care inpatient services, commissioned nationally by NHS England from ten centres<\/ins> <\/p> Much of the routine palliative care patients receive will be provided either in outpatient or community settings, by nurses, community teams or general practitioners as part of general NHS services provision, rather than as an identified palliative care service. In such services, data are either not available or does not identify palliative treatment. In addition, social and voluntary sector organisations can provide additional support to patients at the end of life. Therefore, figures for the total cost of palliative care service for children nationally, or across local areas, is not available. Decisions regarding referral to local palliative care services will be made on the basis of clinical need.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p><\/td> North west<\/p><\/td> Wirral<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011/12<\/p><\/td> £1,522,944<\/p><\/td> £353,306<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012/13<\/p><\/td> £1,522,944<\/p><\/td> £353,306<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013/14<\/p><\/td> £1,562,576<\/p><\/td> £353,306<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014/15<\/p><\/td> £1,562,576<\/p><\/td> £362,500<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2015/16<\/p><\/td> £1,562,576<\/p><\/td> £362,500<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2016/17<\/p><\/td> £1,562,576<\/p><\/td> £362,500<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2017/18<\/p><\/td> £1,562,576<\/p><\/td> £362,500<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2018/19<\/p><\/td> £1,562,576<\/p><\/td> £362,500<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Notes:<\/p> <\/p> - The children\u2019s hospice grant programme provides a general contribution to the operating costs for hospices. It does not pay for actual services for patients in specified areas. Therefore, it is not possible to reconcile the grant payment to actual activity delivered within any geographical area. Neither does the grant pay specifically for specialised or non-specialised services as it is a general contribution.<\/p> - For this analysis for the grant figure for the North West includes Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria based hospices.<\/p> - The Wirral figure is for a single hospice.<\/p> - Local NHS commissioners also provide funding to children\u2019s hospices which is a mixture of grant funding and activity based payments. Due to the low value of this funding this is not routinely recorded and so is not readily available.<\/p> - Local authorities also provide some funding to some hospices, but this information is not held by NHS England.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to provide child patients in the north west of England with palliative care.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/983153/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Child Maintenance Service includes two service types: \u2018Direct Pay\u2019 where payments are arranged and agreed between parents, and \u2018Collect & Pay\u2019 where payments are collected and paid to the receiving parent by Child Maintenance Service.<\/p> The Department does not record data for direct pay compliance. If the paying parent does not<\/ins> <\/p> Data on compliance is recorded separately to data on employment status and cannot be easily linked. The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost<\/ins>. <\/p>The Electronic Communications Code (ECC) was recently reformed as part of the Digital Economy Act 2017. These reforms were intended to reduce the cost of providing communications infrastructure and make it easier for operators to deploy such infrastructure. The new Code came into force on 28 December 2017.<\/del><\/p>The Regulatory Impact Assessment published by Government estimated that the ECC reforms could lead to a reduction in average market rents (as compared to rates agreed before reforms to the ECC). However, the eventual impact is difficult to predict during this period of transition in which operators and site providers adapt to the new legislation.<\/del><\/p>During this period, where the market is adjusting and settling, good working relationships between site providers and code operators are critical, and we encourage all parties to continue their efforts to reach mutually acceptable agreements. A joint statement released in August reaffirmed the commitment made by DCMS, industry, CLA and RICS to work collaboratively to implement the ECC.<\/del><\/p>My Department will continue to work with stakeholders, including representatives from industry, landowners, representative bodies and Ofcom, to inform the implementation of the new Code. We will monitor developments carefully and, as outlined in the Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/732496/Future_Telecoms_Infrastructure_Review.pdf<\/a>) will consider a formal review of the impact of the ECC reforms.<\/del><\/p>eight centres<\/del> across England as part of its remit to deliver specialised services.<\/p>
The following table shows information regarding funding provided via the Children\u2019s Hospice Grant to hospices in the North and in Wirral over the last eight years. Nationally, children\u2019s hospices are receiving £11 million in 2018/19 through the Children\u2019s Hospice Grant, which is awarded annually and administered by NHS England.<\/p>don't<\/del> pay they can be moved onto the Collect and Pay at the discretion of the child maintenance service. The department does hold data on the compliance of Collect and Pay arrangements. Please refer to Table 7 of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics.<\/p> Although the department does hold some of the data to answer your question we estimate the cost of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit for central government, set by regulation at £600.This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3 and half working days in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting it. We believe it would take longer than 3 and half days to match the compliance of a paying parent with their employment status. As a result, under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act the department is not therefore obliged to comply with your request and we will not be processing it further.<\/del><\/p>