Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many electors have been added to the electoral register of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2016; and what percentage this represents in each case.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
Information on annual deletions from and additions to the electoral registers by nation is not held centrally by the Government. Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains their own register for the area for which they are responsible. Headline registration statistics are collated and published annually by the Office for National Statistics.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many electors were removed from the electoral registers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in each year since the EU referendum in 2016; and what percentage of the register this represents.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
Information on annual deletions from and additions to the electoral registers by nation is not held centrally by the Government. Each Electoral Registration Officer maintains their own register for the area for which they are responsible. Headline registration statistics are collated and published annually by the Office for National Statistics.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Sugg on 15 May (HL Deb, col 587), how many staff are working on the task and finish group set up to improve acces to wheelchair space on buses; and how much time each member of staff has spent working on the group.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The Task and Finish Group on the Use of Wheelchair Spaces on Buses was established to advise Ministers on the implications of the Supreme Court judgment on First Group PLC vs Paulley and to recommend actions to support access to the wheelchair space. It reported to Ministers in September 2017.
In the Department for Transport around 25 officials work on policy relating to buses, including Government’s response to the Task and Finish Group.
We do not hold records on the time officials allocate to individual projects, and so it is not possible to comment on this.
We are committed to engaging further with affected stakeholders before bringing forward a package of measures informed by the advice received.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 30 October (HL Deb, col 1152), whether they will publish the tariff of fees paid to pharmacists for providing vaccinations in retail and community settings.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
Community pharmacy contractors are paid £9.14 per vaccination to immunise patients against seasonal flu. General practitioner contractors are paid £9.80 per vaccination to immunise patients against seasonal flu. Both are reimbursed for the cost of the vaccine administered.
The differential is because GPs are required to call and recall eligible patients from their practice list for the vaccination. Community pharmacy cannot do this as they do not have a practice list.
Information on the payment arrangements for community pharmacy delivered flu vaccination for 2017/18 is contained in the Service Specification, Community pharmacy seasonal influenza advanced service. This was published by NHS England in August 2017. A copy is attached.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen on 28 September (HL1957), how many full-time equivalent staff are employed on work for the Joint Anti-Corruption Unit; and what are the (1) staff, and (2) other, costs of that unit.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
7.6 full-time equivalent staff currently work in the Cabinet Office's Joint Anti-Corruption Unit (JACU). Staff and other costs are included in the figures set out in the Cabinet Office Annual Report. The last report, 2015-2016, is published on Gov.UK website. The next departmental report will be published at the end of the financial year 2016/17.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen on 12 September (HL Deb, col 1308), what are the remit and terms of appointment of the anti-corruption champion, and what staffing and financial support arrangements have been put in place to assist him in carrying out his duties.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
The Anti-Corruption Champion, Sir Eric Pickles, is a personal appointment of the Prime Minister. The main elements of the Champion’s role were set out in the UK's Anti-Corruption Action Plan and include: scrutinising the performance of departments and agencies, as co-chair of the Inter-Ministerial Group on Anti-Corruption; responsibility, along with Home Office Ministers, for approval of the UK’s Anti-Corruption Plan and for parliamentary and public accountability of the Government’s performance against the Plan; responsibility, along with other Ministers, for leading the UK’s push to strengthen the international response to corruption; and a mandate to engage with external stakeholders, including business and civil society organisations. The Champion is supported by the Joint Anti-Corruption Unit.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 16 July (HL Deb, col 686) regarding police ambulance support, what number of conveyances to Accident and Emergency departments 0.1 per cent represents.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
A Metropolitan Police (MPS) Freedom of Information revealed that they conveyed 931 patients to hospital in 2014. This makes up 0.1% of London Ambulance Service’s (LAS) case load in the same year. MPS and LAS continue to work together to develop protocols for dealing with the issue.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was paid by NHS England to private health providers for treatments for National Health Service patients in each of the last five years; and how those figures compare to costs in (1) Scotland, (2) Wales, and (3) Northern Ireland.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Commissioner spending on private providers for NHS health care services in each of the last five years is outlined in the table below:
Year | Spend (£ million) |
2009-10 | 4,144 |
2010-11 | 4,757 |
2011-12 | 5,320 |
2012-13 | 5,669 |
2013-14 | 6,390 |
For financial years 2009-10 to 2012-13, this covers spending by Primary Care Trusts. For financial year 2013-14, this covers spending by NHS England and local clinical commissioning groups, over which NHS England has financial oversight.
The Department only holds information on spending on NHS services in England, as health is a devolved matter.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Taylor of Holbeach on 11 June (WA 387), whether they will publish in the Official Report the increase or decrease in crime statistics since 2010 for each of the Police Authorities in England and Wales, including London, and for each area covered by Police and Crime Commissioners.
Answered by Lord Wallace of Saltaire - Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.