Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to NHS England on sharing accountability for prescribed specialised services with clinical commissioning groups.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department does not issue guidance to NHS England on sharing accountability for prescribed specialised services with clinical commissioning groups.
It is for Ministers to take the final decision as to which services should be prescribed within Schedule 4 of The National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, and therefore which services are directly commissioned by NHS England. It is for NHS England to determine the approach through which to carry out its responsibility for the commissioning of specialised services.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual targets are for recruitment to the Joint Cyber Reserve.
Answered by Julian Brazier
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 March 2015 to Question 225462.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&max=20&questiontype=AllQuestions&house=commons%2clords&uin=225462
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people in (a) England, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Scotland and (d) Wales (i) have benefited and (ii) are expected to benefit from the LIBOR funding for armed forces and veterans' organisations that has been granted in each tranche to date.
Answered by Anna Soubry
For information on the distribution of the £35 million LIBOR Fund and the £40 million Veterans Accommodation Fund, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 March 2015, to Question 221590 to the hon. Member for Gedling (Mr Coaker).
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-01-21/221590/
Subsequent to that answer there been two further announcements about LIBOR funded projects:
Gurkha Homes Project: £960,000 to Gurkha Homes Limited for various locations across England.
Scottish Veterans' Garden City Association (SVGCA) Future Shared Ownership Consortium: £551,190 for Houses for Heroes in Scotland.
As the hon. Member will have seen, the Chancellor announced in the Budget on 18 March that a total of £450 million of LIBOR fines had been used by this Government to support the Service charities and other good causes, including a further £75 million of funding over the next five years.
The Ministry of Defence does not hold information on the numbers of people who have benefited, or who may benefit, from this funding. However, given the scope of some of these projects, we anticipate that - at a minimum - this will run into the tens of thousands.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much LIBOR funding to date has been awarded to organisations or projects that benefit from the wider armed forces community (a) nationwide, (b) in England, (c) in Northern Ireland, (d) in Scotland and (e) in Wales.
Answered by Anna Soubry
For information on the distribution of the £35 million LIBOR Fund and the £40 million Veterans Accommodation Fund, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 March 2015, to Question 221590 to the hon. Member for Gedling (Mr Coaker).
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-01-21/221590/
Subsequent to that answer there been two further announcements about LIBOR funded projects:
Gurkha Homes Project: £960,000 to Gurkha Homes Limited for various locations across England.
Scottish Veterans' Garden City Association (SVGCA) Future Shared Ownership Consortium: £551,190 for Houses for Heroes in Scotland.
As the hon. Member will have seen, the Chancellor announced in the Budget on 18 March that a total of £450 million of LIBOR fines had been used by this Government to support the Service charities and other good causes, including a further £75 million of funding over the next five years.
The Ministry of Defence does not hold information on the numbers of people who have benefited, or who may benefit, from this funding. However, given the scope of some of these projects, we anticipate that - at a minimum - this will run into the tens of thousands.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reserves have been called up for service since the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2010; where those reserves have served; and in what capacity those reserves served.
Answered by Julian Brazier
Since 2010 more than 10,000 Reservists have been mobilised in a variety of roles on operations worldwide including Iraq, Afghanistan and the London 2012 Olympics.
As at 28 February 2015, around 400 Reservists are mobilised. More than 60 Reservists have been mobilised so far to assist in efforts to resolve the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. The majority of these are Army Reservists filling medical roles in the Kerry Town Treatment Unit and who I saw depart the UK last December, from Brize Norton.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases of non-compliance relating to the return of dangerous goods from Afghanistan there have been in the last 12 months.
Answered by Mark Francois
There have been no recorded incidents of non-compliances relating to the return of dangerous goods from Afghanistan within the last twelve months.
However, during that period, staff at Bastion and Kandahar identified 40 instances of potential non-compliance at the time of acceptance checks; all were corrected before the consignments entered the transport chain.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase the number of people qualified and experienced in munitions and explosives.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Ministry of Defence provides a wide range of training and education to meet our demand for suitably qualified and experienced personnel specialising in ordnance, munitions and explosives, including specialist courses run by the Defence Academy and military schools, together with apprentice and graduate schemes. We are also working with other organisations in the ordnance, munitions and explosives sector to understand our long term requirements and invest throughout the sector, including through joint training events.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he requests the Single Source Regulation Office to perform additional analysis, on the basis of information it has received or generated, but which it is not required to perform, who pays for this analysis; and what estimate he has made of the costs of that analysis to his Department.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Defence Reform Act (DRA) 2014 grants the Ministry of Defence (MOD) the power to request the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) to undertake additional analysis of the standard reports provided to it by industry. To date, the MOD has not made any such request to the SSRO.
Since such work would fall outside the core responsibilities of the SSRO, the MOD would be required to pay the SSRO for any additional costs arising. It is too soon after the implementation of the DRA to make any worthwhile estimate of the potential costs to the MOD.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) children and (b) adults in the civilian population in England have been fitted with recreational prosthetics in each of the last four years.
Answered by Norman Lamb
There is currently no policy on the use of 3D printers.
Information on the provision of recreational prosthetics is not held centrally.
Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the use of 3D printing in research, design and production of recreational prosthetics.
Answered by Norman Lamb
There is currently no policy on the use of 3D printers.
Information on the provision of recreational prosthetics is not held centrally.