Arts: Staff
John Robertson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the creative industries in (a) each parliamentary constituency in Glasgow, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each of the last five years. [166129]
Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson, dated July 2013:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question to the Minister for the Cabinet Office asking the number of people employed in the creative industries in (a) each parliamentary constituency in Glasgow, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each of the last five years. [166129]
Annual employment statistics from 2008 onwards are available from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES). Table 1 contains estimates of the number employed in businesses considered to be part of the creative industry for the areas requested between 2008 and 2011. Estimates for Great Britain have been given instead of the UK, as UK information is not readily available for these breakdowns. Employment information prior to 2008 is available from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI), but the ABI cannot provide the breakdowns required to answer this question. Employment information for 2012 will be published in September 2013.
A full list of the industry codes (Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007) are also provided in the table.
National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at
http://www.nomisweb.co.uk
| Table 1—Employment in the creative industries for specified geographies: 2008-2011 | ||||
| Area | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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| Notes: 1. Cells containing an asterisk (*) represent disclosive data that cannot be published. 2. Figures haw been rounded to the nearest 100 3. There is a small discontinuity between the 2008 and 2009 results due to a difference in the way that directors of limited companies are treated in the results. The creative industries are defined here as comprising of the following industries taken from the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007 and defined by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS): 73110: Advertising agencies 73120: Media representation 71111: Architectural activities 71112: Urban planning and landscape architectural activities 47781: Retail sale in commercial art galleries 47791: Retail sale of antiques including antique books, in stores 14110: Manufacture of leather clothes 14120: Manufacture of workwear 14131: Manufacture of men's outerwear, other than leather clothes and workwear 14132: Manufacture of women's outerwear, other than leather clothes and workwear 14141: Manufacture of men's underwear 14142: Manufacture of women's underwear 14190: Manufacture of other wearing apparel and accessories 14200: Manufacture of articles of fur 14310: Manufacture of knitted and crocheted hosiery 14390: Manufacture of other knitted and crocheted apparel 15120: Manufacture of luggage, handbags and the like, saddlery and harness 15200: Manufacture of footwear 74100: Specialised design activities 74201: Portrait photographic activities 74202: Other specialist photography (not including portrait photography) 74203: Film processing 74209: Other photographic activities (not including portrait and other specialist photography and film processing) not elsewhere covered 90010: Performing arts 90020: Support activities to performing arts 90030: Artistic creation 90040: Operation of arts facilities 78101: Motion picture, television and other theatrical casting 63910: News agency activities 18110: Printing of newspapers 18130: Pre-press and pre-media services 18201: Reproduction of sound recording 18202: Reproduction of video recording 18203: Reproduction of computer media 58110: Book publishing 58130: Publishing of newspapers 58141: Publishing of learned journals 58142: Publishing of consumer, business and professional journals and periodicals 58190: Other publishing activities 58210: Publishing of computer games 58290: Other software publishing 62011: Ready-made interactive leisure and entertainment software development 60100: Radio broadcasting 60200: Television programming and broadcasting activities 59111: Motion picture production activities 59112: Video production activities 59113: Television programme production activities 59120: Motion picture, video and television programme post-production activities 59131: Motion picture distribution activities 59132: Video distribution activities 59133: Television programme distribution activities 59140: Motion picture projection activities 59200: Sound recording and music publishing activities | ||||
Government Departments: Information
Chi Onwurah: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what guidance his Department provides on the format of data published by Government. [166041]
Mr Maude: Cabinet Office guidance is that data should be machine readable and available under an open Government licence. Amendments to section 45 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 will come into force later this summer:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/45
This means that public authorities must publish datasets for reuse and, where practicable, in a reusable format.
Immigration
Mr Andrew Turner: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the level of immigration to the UK was from (a) other EU member states and (b) non-EU countries in (i) 2005, (ii) 2010 and (iii) 2012. [166150]
Mr Hurd: The information requested fails within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson, dated July 2013:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the level of immigration to the UK was from (a) other EU member states and (b) non-EU countries in (i) 2005, (ii) 2010 and (iii) 2012. [166150]
ONS produces estimates of Long-Term International Migration (LTIM), primarily based on the International Passenger Survey (IPS). The IPS is a continuous voluntary sample survey conducted by ONS and is the prime source of long-term international migration data for the UK providing estimates of both inflows
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and outflows. LTIM is the only series able to provide single year UK immigration estimates and to separate EU and non-EU countries.
Table 1 shows estimates of immigration to the UK, based on country of last residence, for EU and non-EU countries for the year ending December 2005 and the year ending December 2010. Data for the year ending December 2012 will be published on 28th November 2013.
| Table 1: LTIM immigration estimates to the UK, by country of last residence, for EU and non-EU countries | ||
| EU countries | Non-EU countries | |
| Source: ONS http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/long-term-international-migration/2011/2-02-ltim-country-of-last-or-next-residence--1991-2011.xls | ||
LTIM provisional estimates of immigration by citizenship, including an EU and non-EU breakdown for the year ending September 2012 have been published and can be found at the following link:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/may-2013/provisional-long-term-international-migration--ltim--estimates-sep-2012.xls
Revised net migration, immigration and emigration figures have been published as components of change in revised mid-year population estimates from the year to mid-2002 to the year to mid-2010 for England and Wales. These take into account the results from the 2011 Census, and included a revision to the net migration component, focussed primarily on the middle part of the decade before improvements were made to the International Passenger Survey in 2009. This is explained in a report published in December 2012. Table 7 of that report shows the differences between LTIM and the revised net migration component.
http://ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/population-and-migration/population-statistics-research-unit--psru-/methods-used-to-revise-the-national-population-estimates-for-mid-2002-to-mid-2010.pdf
ONS plans to publish a further analytical report in Autumn 2013 that will further explain the differences between LTIM and the net migration component of the revised population estimates series.
Moira Wallace
John Robertson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 11 July 2013, Official Report, column 403W, on Moira Wallace (1) what assessment has been made of how long it will take for the costs of Miss Wallace's severance payment to be recouped; [166016]
(2) what procedure is in place to allow his Department and HM Treasury to agree on severance payments to civil servants; [166043]
(3) if he will list the specific rules in the reformed civil service compensation scheme that Miss Wallace's severance payment was judged against; [166044]
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(4) what criteria are used in the civil service compensation scheme to decide on a permissible severance deal; [166045]
(5) what provision there is for clawback of money if an individual has already accepted another form of employment, outside of the civil service, when they leave their position. [166046]
Mr Maude: The terms of exit schemes made under the reformed civil service compensation scheme are approved by Cabinet Office, in consultation with the Treasury where necessary, under the spending controls regime operated by the Cabinet Office.
The exit package for the former Permanent Secretary at the Department of Energy and Climate Change was within the rules of section 12 of the reformed civil service compensation scheme. The scheme was laid before Parliament in December 2010 and copies are available in the Library of the House.
Music: Staff
John Robertson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the music industry in (a) each parliamentary constituency in Glasgow, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each of the last five years. [166127]
Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson, dated July 2013:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question to the Minister for the Cabinet Office asking the number of people employed in the music industry in (a) each parliamentary constituency in Glasgow, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each of the last five years. [166127]
Annual employment statistics from.2008 onwards are available from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES). Table 1 below contains estimates of the number employed in businesses considered to be part of the music industry for the areas requested between 2008 and 2011. Estimates for Great Britain have been given instead of the UK, as UK information is not readily available for these breakdowns. Employment information prior to 2008 is available from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI), but the ABI cannot provide the breakdowns required to answer this question. Employment information for 2012 will be published in September 2013.
The music industry has been defined as comprising of the following industries taken from the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007:
18.20/1—Reproduction of sound recording
46.43/1—Wholesale of gramophone records, audio tapes, compact discs and video tapes and of the equipment on which these are played
47.63—Retail sale of music and video recordings in specialised stores
59.20—Sound recording and music publishing activities
| Table 1: Employment in the music industry for specified geographies: 2008 to 2011 | ||||
| Area | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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| Notes: 1. Cells containing an asterisk (*) represent disclosive data that cannot be published. 2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100. 3. There is a small discontinuity between the 2008 and 2009 results due to a difference in the way that directors of limited companies are treated in the results. | ||||
National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:
http://www.nomisweb.co.uk
Culture, Media and Sport
Apprentices
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what strategies she has to create apprenticeships in her Department; and what plans she has to promote such strategies. [165887]
Hugh Robertson: The Department is committed to supporting opportunities for young people through the new civil service fast track apprenticeships scheme, which is currently being piloted. DCMS plans to take part by offering placements on this scheme, once further details are announced after the initial pilot, which commences in the autumn. By taking part in a scheme, run centrally through Civil Service Learning, the Department can ensure that the scheme is promoted more widely. Apprenticeships feature as part of the Department's talent and resourcing strategies.
Buildings
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the total running costs were for each building used, owned or rented in central London by her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies, except for buildings constructed for the 2012 London Olympics in each of the last three financial years. [154247]
Hugh Robertson: The following table sets out the amounts the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has spent on properties, in central London, in the last three financial years in totals. This year's projected expenditure is expected to be approximately £5 million, in keeping with the need to seek out economies and efficiencies—one of the reasons why the Department has relocated to 100 Parliament street. The data, building by building, cannot be retrieved, without incurring disproportionate costs.
| Total spent on property (£000) | |
The buildings in central London that the Department has paid rent/utilities on in the period of the question are:
2-4 Cockspur street
Oceanic House, Cockspur street
Tottenham Court road,
Grove House, Orange street.
Legal Costs
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how much her Department has spent in total on external legal advice from Queen's Counsels (a) between 7 May 2010 and 4 September 2012 and (b) since 4 September 2012; [157641]
(2) what the 20 largest amounts paid for external legal advice by her Department was in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012; to whom they were paid; and for what reasons the legal advice was sought; [157642]
(3) what the highest day rate paid for external legal advice by her Department has been since 7 May 2010. [157643]
Hugh Robertson: The Department does not hold information on the breakdown of external legal advice, in a format that would allow this information to be provided, without incurring disproportionate costs.
Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much her Department spent in total on external legal advice (a) between 7 May 2010 and 4 September 2012 and (b) since 4 September 2012. [157645]
Hugh Robertson: The Department has spent the following amounts on external legal advice.
| Account description | From | To | Total amount (£) |
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Members: Correspondence
Helen Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland of 2 July 2013. [165832]
Mr Vaizey: I hope to be able to reply to the hon. Lady shortly.
Northcote House
Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department used the facilities at Northcote House, Sunningdale Park, Berkshire in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13; and if she will make a statement. [164806]
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Hugh Robertson: DCMS, which includes the GEO, uses a variety of locations for training and conference purposes. However the department does not hold data in such a way as to identify the specific information requested.
Personnel Management
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many officials in her Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of her Department's human resources functions was. [156665]
Hugh Robertson: The number of officials in the Department employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years are as follows:
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | |
| (1) Records not held. | |||||
These figures represent the maximum number of individual employees in the HR function over the given periods. As part of the Department's administrative cuts of 50%, and in line with cross-Government cost cutting measures, the human resources function has been reduced and is currently at seven.
The total employment costs of the Department's human resources functions in each of the last five years are as follows:
| Total cost of human resources function (£) | |
Public Libraries
Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the minimum statutory requirement is for a local authority library service; what the derivation is of that requirement; what guidance she has issued to local authorities on compliance with the minimum statutory requirement; and if she will make a statement. [162017]
Mr Vaizey [holding answer 27 June 2013]:The Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 does not seek to be overly prescriptive but instead anchors the delivery of a local service to the needs of the local community. As the hon. Member is aware, public library standards were wound up as part of the Governments wider reform of local authority performance indicators in 2008. A 'comprehensive and efficient' library service represents the balance to be struck by each local authority in meeting local needs within the context of available resources in a way which is appropriate to the identified needs of the communities they serve. Each local authority has an intimate knowledge of local conditions and needs and has direct democratic accountability to the local population.
The Department re-circulated in March 2013 the three pieces of correspondence from the Minister for Culture and Secretary of State to library authorities drawing attention to their responsibilities in delivering a comprehensive and efficient library service.
Redundancy Pay
Stephen Barclay: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many senior civil servants left her Department and public bodies under voluntary exit and received a severance payment in each of the last three years; and what the value of such payments was. [164396]
Hugh Robertson: Table 1 shows the number of senior civil servants who left DCMS under a voluntary exit scheme in each of the last three financial years and Table 2 the value of such payments by cost band.
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| Table 1 | |
| Financial year | Number of leavers in senior civil service grades |
| Table 2 | |||
| Cost band of such payments | 2010-11 | 2011-2012 | 2012 - 2013 |
As part of a money saving exercise, in line with the rest of Government, DCMS has been offering, in cyclical phases, the opportunity for civil servants to take voluntary redundancy. The Department does not hold central records for our bodies. Figures for the Government Equalities Office, which joined DCMS in September 2012, are held by the Home Office, its previous parent Department.
Regulation
Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the title is of each regulation her Department (a) introduced and (b) revoked in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 to date; and if she will make a statement. [165907]
Hugh Robertson: The following list sets out the title of each statutory instrument made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in respect of the requested years. The machinery of government change brought the Government Equalities Office (GEO) under control of the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport in September 2012. This list also covers the period when GEO was under the control of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
None of these statutory instruments has been revoked in its entirety. There may be amendments and revocations in force to the provisions contained within them but there is no central record of what provisions may have been modified and this information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Apportionment of Money in the National Lottery Distribution Fund Order 2010
Audiovisual Media Services (Codification) Regulations 2010
Audiovisual Media Services (Product Placement) Regulations 2010
Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2010
Communications (Television Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Communications Act 2003 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2010
Community Radio (Amendment) Order 2010
Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (England) (Amendment) Order 2010
Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (England) Order 2010
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Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Order 2010
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2010
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2010/1966
Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010
Equality Act 2010 (Qualifying Compromise Contract Specified Person) Order 2010
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2010
Equality Act 2010 (Obtaining Information) Order 2010/2194
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010 (Amendment) Order 2010
Football Spectators (Seating) Order 2010
Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 2009 (Commencement) Order 2010
Legislative Reform (Licensing) (Interim Authority Notices etc) Order 2010
Licensing Act 2003 (Premises licences and permitted temporary activities) (Forms and notices) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
National Lottery (Annual Licence Fees) Regulations 2010
National Lottery Act 2006 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2010
Olympics, Paralympics and London Olympics Association Rights (Infringement Proceedings) Regulations 2010
Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces (Amendment) (No. 2) etc Regulations 2010
Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces (Amendment) etc Regulations 2010
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2010
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2010
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2010
Welsh Language (Gambling and Licensing Forms) Regulations 2010
Categories of Gaming Machine (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Code of Practice for Electronic Programme Guides (Addition of Programme Services) Order 2011
Communications Act 2003 (Maximum Penalty for Contravention of Information Requirements) Order 2011
Digital Economy Act 2010 (Appointed Day No. 1) Order 2011
Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 (Prescription of Information) (Amendment) Order 2011
Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Amendment) Order 2011
Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011
Equality Act 2010 Codes of Practice (Services, Public Functions and Associations, Employment, and Equal Pay) Order 2011
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2011
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2011
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2011
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2011
Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011
Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011
Football Spectators (Seating) Order 2011
Gambling Act 2005 (Gaming Machines in Adult Gaming Centres and Bingo Premises) Order 2011
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Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011
Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004 (Appointed Day) Order 2011
Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2011
Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2011
London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Advertising and Trading) (England) Regulations 2011
Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Approved Premises) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Media Ownership (Radio and Cross-media) Order 2011
Multiplex Licence (Broadcasting of Programmes in Gaelic) (Revocation) Order 2011
National Lottery etc Act 1993 (Amendment of Section 23) Order 2011
Natural History Museum (Authorised Repositories) Order 2011
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2011
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2011
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No. 4) Order 2011
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No. 5) Order 2011
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2011
Sports Grounds Safety Authority Act 2011 (Commencement) Order 2011
Transfer of Functions (Big Lottery Fund) Order 2011 (Order in Council)
Wireless Telegraphy (Fixed Penalty) Regulations 2011
Broadcasting (Local Digital Television Programme Services and Independent Productions) (Amendment) Order 2012
Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships) Order 2012
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Dissolution) Order 2012
Digital Economy Act 2010 (Appointed Day No. 2) Order 2012
Digital Economy Act 2010 (Appointed Day No. 3) Order 2012
Digital Economy Act 2010 (Transitional Provision) Regulations 2012
Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions) Order 2012
Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Order 2012
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2012
Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2012
Football Spectators (Seating) Order 2012
Gambling (Licence Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012
Gambling (Operating Licence and Single-Machine Permit Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Gambling Act 2005 (Amendment of Schedule 6) Order 2012
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Licensing Act 2003 (Personal licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Live Music Act 2012 (Commencement) Order 2012
Local Digital Television Programme Services Order 2012
Protection of Wrecks (Designation) (England) (No. 2) Order 2012
Protection of Wrecks (Designation) (England) Order 2012
Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variation) (No. 2) Order 2012
Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variation) Order 2012
Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012
Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2012
Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2012
Video Recordings (Labelling) Regulations 2012
Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Apparatus) (The London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Regulations 2012
Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (Directions to Ofcom) Order 2012
Authorisation of Frequency Use for the Provision of Mobile Satellite Services (European Union) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Football Spectators (Seating) Order 2013
Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013
Licensing Act 2003 (Descriptions of Entertainment) (Amendment) Order 2013
Mobile Roaming (European Communities) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
New Parks for People (England) Joint Scheme (Authorisation) Order 2013
Olympic Lottery Distributor (Dissolution) Order 2013
Protection of Wrecks (Designation) (England) Order 2013
Sick Leave
Mike Freer: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many days on average staff of her Department in each pay grade were absent from work as a result of ill health in each of the last 12 months. [162579]
Hugh Robertson: The number of days on average staff in DCMS, in each pay grade, were absent from work, as a result of ill health in each of the last 12 months, is shown in the table.
| Average working days lost | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | 2013 | |||||||||||
| Grade | July | August | September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | June |
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DCMS is committed to the health and welfare of its staff, helping staff to stay healthy and reducing the need for sick leave. Support is provided to staff returning from long-term sick leave, referring them to occupational health to advise on how best to facilitate a return to work and offering access to an employee assistance programme, for independent advice and support.
Sports: Children
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what discussions she has had with relevant bodies on increasing participation in under-subscribed sports for 5 to 16 year olds; [164892]
(2) what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education about increasing participation in sports in schools; [165013]
(3) what plans she has to increase participation in sports by children outside school hours. [165077]
Hugh Robertson: DCMS is working with a wide range of partners, including the Department of Health, the Department for Education, Sport England, the Association for Physical Education, the Youth Sport Trust and ParalympicsGB, on a number of programmes designed to increase participation in sport for all school children, no matter their age, gender or ability. These programmes include the Sainsbury's School Games, the recently announced school sport premium, Sportivate, and community satellite clubs.
Travel
Maria Eagle: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her Department's budget for ministerial travel for (a) the Government Car Service, (b) private hire vehicles, (c) taxis, (d) rail, (e) aviation and (f) other is for (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15 and (iii) 2015-16. [157521]
Hugh Robertson: The Department has five Ministers, who travel to a range of local, regional and international events from UN meetings and International Olympic committee meetings, to 2014 Commonwealth Games planning sessions in Glasgow and meetings at regional theatres. Mindful of the need to seek economies and efficiencies, the overall budgetary allocation for fulfilling this aspect of departmental business is £126,000, down from £394,000 in 2008-09. Budgets for 2014-15 and 2015-16 have not yet been agreed.
| Ministerial travel cost 2008-13 | |
| £ | |
Welsh Language
Guto Bebb: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether her Department has a current Welsh Language scheme; when that scheme was adopted; and whether it has been reviewed since May 2011. [166082]
Hugh Robertson: DCMS has had a Welsh Language scheme since 2007. The Department will shortly be providing an annual report to the Welsh Language Commissioner, regarding compliance with the scheme. DCMS remains committed to ensuring that it is accessible for UK citizens who speak Welsh and who wish to communicate in Welsh, regarding issues relating to culture, sport and tourism.
Health
Ambulance Services
Jesse Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many ambulances based in Herefordshire responded to calls in (a) Herefordshire, (b) other counties in England and (c) Wales in each of the last five years for which figures are available; [165952]
(2) how many English ambulances responded to calls in Wales in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [165953]
Anna Soubry: The information requested is not routinely collected centrally.
Ambulance Services: Wales
Jesse Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many Welsh ambulances responded to calls in England in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [165951]
Anna Soubry: Health in Wales is a devolved matter. The Department does not hold this information centrally.
Apprentices
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many apprenticeships his Department offered to people aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) 19 to 21 and (c) 22 to 26 years old in each year since 2010; [165875]
(2) what strategies he has to create apprenticeships in his Department; and what plans he has to promote such strategies. [165893]
Dr Poulter: The Department offers apprenticeships in two ways - appointing apprentices through external recruitment and by offering existing staff access to apprenticeship programmes as part of their learning and development.
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Since 2010, the Department has recruited three apprentices, aged 16-18, as part of a national apprenticeship scheme. All three commenced their apprenticeships in 2010 and on successful completion secured permanent full time roles in the Department in January 2012.
The Department has also offered an internal apprenticeship programme for its existing staff. In 2010-11, six staff successfully completed the level 2 personal assistant development programme. This was open to all staff and age was not part of the eligibility criteria and therefore the Department did not collect this information.
The Department will review its apprenticeship strategy after the current Department of Health transition programme changes have fully embedded in the newly established Department.
Cancer
Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the most recent five-year cancer survival rates are in each primary care trust. [166490]
Mr Hurd: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Cabinet Office.
The information requested fails within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson, dated July 2013:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent question to the Secretary of State for Health asking what the most recent five-year cancer survival rates are in each Primary Care Trust. [166490]
Five-year cancer survival estimates for the former primary care trusts (PCTs) are not available. However, one-year estimates are available, in the form of a survival index for all cancers combined. The survival index is adjusted for differences in the profile of cancer patients by age, sex and type of cancer between PCTs. The most recent estimates available are for patients diagnosed during 1996-2010 and followed up to 31 December 2011. These figures are available on the National Statistics website:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cancer-unit/combined-cancer-survival-by-primary-care-trusts/index.html
ONS publishes one- and five-year cancer net survival estimates for adults (aged 15 to 99 years) in England, for 21 common cancers. The latest published figures are for adults diagnosed during 2006-2010 and followed up to 2011. These figures are available on the National Statistics website:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cancer-unit/cancer-survival/index.html
ONS also publishes figures on geographic patterns of cancer survival. These figures contain one- and five-year net survival estimates for regions, and the former strategic health authorities and cancer networks, for eight common cancers. The latest published figures are for adults followed up to 2011. These figures are available on the National Statistics website:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cancer-unit/cancer-survival-by-gor--sha-and-cancer-network/index.html
Grant Thornton
Mr Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008. [165693]
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Dr Poulter: The Government are determined to improve value for money on departmental expenditure. The amount spent on management consultancy services has fallen dramatically. In 2008-09, expenditure was £107 million and in 2012-13 the figure was £5 million.
The Department's spend for all financial years from 2008-09 to 2011-12 on contracts with Grant Thornton is contained in the following table.
| Grant Thornton Ltd | |
| £ | |
| Source: Department of Health Business Management System | |
Heart Diseases
Stuart Andrew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he is taking to ensure that all advisers and decision-makers involved within the decision-making process are representative of all regions and units; [166197]
(2) if he will commission further capacity analysis to consider patient flows as part of the new congenital cardiac review; [166198]
(3) if he will commission further capacity analysis to consider more recent and predicted increases in activity and population growth and take such analysis into account in the new congenital cardiac review; [166199]
(4) what steps he is taking to ensure that assessments are correct and that individual units will be given proper scope to respond, prior to publication of the congenital cardiac review; [166200]
(5) what steps he is taking to ensure that population density, geography and transport links are taken into consideration in the scope of the new congenital cardiac review. [166201]
Anna Soubry: NHS England, as the body responsible for commissioning specialised congenital heart services, is responsible for taking forward the new national review of these services.
NHS England has published a paper on the review which is available at:
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/180713-item13.pdf
It outlines early thinking on the way forward and will be considered at its board meeting on 18 July.
We are advised by NHS England that there will be opportunities for all stakeholders to participate in the review, including all current providers of congenital cardiac services. NHS England will obtain analytical and other advice to support its review process, including where necessary updates of existing analysis.
NHS England is committed to wide and ongoing engagement. On 21 June, its officials met the senior leaders of all those centres currently providing children's congenital heart surgery to discuss the review and their engagement in the process.
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Medical Equipment
Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the cost of items of nursing equipment and aids to daily living provided for temporary use by discharged patients that were not returned in each of the last five years; [165825]
(2) how many items of nursing equipment and aids to daily living provided for temporary use by discharged patients were not recovered in each of the last five years; [165826]
(3) how much was spent on providing items of nursing equipment and aids to daily living for temporary use by discharged patients in each of the last five years. [165827]
Norman Lamb: This information is not collected centrally.
Members: Correspondence
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to reply to the letter to him dated 16 May 2013 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Simon Keppie. [165834]
Dr Poulter: The Secretary of State for Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt), replied to the right hon. Member's letter of 16 May 2013 on 7 June 2013.
Multiple Sclerosis
Mr Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to improve treatment rates for multiple sclerosis. [166074]
Norman Lamb: We want to make the national health services among the best in Europe at supporting people with ongoing health problems such as multiple sclerosis (MS).
Responsibility for determining the overall national approach to improving clinical outcomes from health care services lies with NHS England. The Department’s NHS outcomes framework and mandate outline the improvements in health and health care that we envisage the NHS achieving. This includes enhancing the quality of life for people with long-term conditions through the provision of high quality, efficient and fair services.
There are a wide range of treatment options available for people with MS.
Clinical guidelines published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provide recommendations on the appropriate treatment for, and care of, people with multiple sclerosis. Since NICE’s publication of the clinical guideline on MS entitled “Management of multiple sclerosis in primary and secondary care” in 2003, commissioners have considered these guidelines when commissioning services for their local populations.
We have also asked NICE to include MS in the library of NICE quality standard topics.
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NHS
Mr Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received since May 2010 from each of the 14 health trusts under investigation by Sir Bruce Keogh. [166057]
Dr Poulter: Information is provided for each of the 14 trusts under investigation by Sir Bruce Keogh from the Department's ministerial correspondence unit and ministerial visits and meetings from Ministers, private office diaries and visit teams records.
A search of the Department's ministerial correspondence database was made of correspondence received between 1 May 2010 and 15 July 2013 from each of the 14 trusts under investigation by Sir Bruce Keogh. These are minimum figures which represent correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit only.
A search of private office diary records of visits and meetings was made between 1 May 2010 and 16 July 2013.
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—10
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—5
6 January 2012—Andrew Lansley visit to Blackpool Victoria Hospital
13 December 2012—Dr Daniel Poulter visit to the Trust
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—9
10 May 2010—Earl Howe visit to Wycombe Hospital as part of the listening exercise
14 December 2012—Earl Howe visit to Amersham Hospital
22 July 2010—Simon Burns had a meeting with Steve Barker MP regarding Wycombe Hospital meeting
Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—10
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—22
3 March 2011—Andrew Lansley visit to the Trust for the official opening of ICENI Centre
2 March 2012—Simon Burns visit to Colchester Foundation Trust
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—8
26 October 2010—Simon Burns visit to Russells Hall Hospital
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—16
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18 June 2010—Andrew Lansley visit to Burnley General Hospital
3 November 2010—Simon Burns had a meeting with Gordon Birtwistle MP regarding Burnley General Hospital
8 November 2010—Simon Burns had a telephone call with Mike Farrar regarding Burnley General Hospital
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—9
10 April 2013—Jeremy Hunt visit to George Elliot Hospital
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—4
23 January 2013—Earl Howe met with Mark Reckless MP and Denise Harker and Mark Devlin, chair and chief executive of Medway NHS Foundation Trust
16 August 2013—Norman Lamb hosted the Voluntary Sector and Social Enterprise Sounding Board meeting which was attended by Martin Riley from Medway Community Healthcare
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—11
8 July 2010—Andrew Lansley visit to North Cumbria Hospital and Whitehaven and West Cumberland Hospital
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—2
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—9
1 July 2010—Simon Burns visit to Newark Hospital with Patrick Mercer MP
21 March 2013—Dr Daniel Poulter visit to Newark Hospital
6 July 2010—Simon Burns participated in a debate on Newark Hospital
Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—10
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Items of correspondence received by the Department's ministerial correspondence unit—27
26 April 2012—Andrew Lansley visit to Pilgrim Hospital
21 March 2013—Dr Daniel Poulter visit to Lincoln County Hospital and Grantham and District Hospital
NHS: ICT
Stephen Barclay:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 12 July 2013, Official Report, column 473W, on NHS: ICT, and with reference to paragraph 7.53 of the Guide to Parliamentary Work published by the Cabinet Office, whether those briefing documents would be disclosable in response to a request
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under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and on what grounds a decision on whether to exempt such material from a freedom of information request would be made. [166298]
Dr Poulter: The Department handles all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in accordance with the legislation which provides full details of the grounds for possible exemption. It is not possible to predict the outcome of an FOI request that has not been submitted.
FOI requests can be sent using the following contact form on the Department's website:
www.info.doh.gov.uk/contactus.nsf/memo?openform
NHS: Private Sector
Mr Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what safeguards are in place to ensure that private healthcare providers operating NHS contracts carry sufficient insurance indemnity to meet any future claims for medical negligence made against them; [166159]
(2) whether private healthcare providers fulfilling contracts for the NHS are able to use the NHS Litigation Authority scheme to meet future claims; [166174]
(3) whether private healthcare providers fulfilling contracts for the NHS bear the full indemnity in cases of medical negligence on their part. [166175]
Dr Poulter: The NHS Standard Contract requires all contractors of national health service care to hold and maintain adequate and appropriate indemnity arrangements. The commissioner issuing the contract should always ensure that sufficient indemnity insurance is in place.
Private health care providers are now able to use the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts. Changes were made to secondary legislation to allow this to happen from April 2013.
The NHS Litigation Authority (NHS LA) bears the full indemnity for private health care providers in cases of medical negligence, where providers are a paid up member of an appropriate NHS LA scheme.
Private health care providers are also able to procure clinical negligence indemnity cover from the insurance market.
Mr Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what financial stringency tests are applied to private healthcare providers bidding for NHS contracts. [166160]
Dr Poulter: It is standard practice for commissioners to apply financial checks as part of their procurement processes, typically at the pre-qualification questionnaire stage. These should apply equally and in a non-discriminatory way to all types of providers but be proportionate to the service being procured. It is for commissioners to determine the precise nature of the financial checks they apply for any given procurement process.
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Obesity: Children
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to Healthy Lives, Healthy People: a call to action on obesity in England, published in October 2011, what progress has been made to date on achieving the Government's aim to reverse the increase in the level of excess weight in children by 2020. [166299]
Anna Soubry:
Figures are not yet available to indicate what progress has been made on the levels of excess weight in children since the publication of ‘A call to action on obesity in England’ in October 2011. Data on the prevalence of overweight and obesity are published annually by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The latest data available are from the Health Survey for England for 2011 and from the National
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Child Measurement Programme for the school year 2011-12. New data will be published at the end of this year.
A copy of ‘A call to action on obesity in England’ has already been placed in the Library.
Out of Area Treatment
Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients registered at an address in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland received treatment at a hospital in England in each month since May 2007. [166170]
Anna Soubry: The following tables show the number of finished admission episodes (in-patients), out-patient attendances (out-patient) and accident and emergency (A&E) attendances for patients identified as resident in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from May 2007 to March 2012.
| Inpatient finished admission episodes (FAEs(1)) | |||||
| Month | Scotland | Wales | Northern Ireland | Total FAEs | |
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| (1)A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. | |||||
| Outpatient attendances | |||||
| Month | Scotland | Wales | Northern Ireland | Total attendances | |
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