Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of clinical staff who have been prosecuted in relation to their conduct within the workplace in each year between 2019 and 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold information on the number of clinical staff who have been prosecuted in relation to their conduct within the workplace.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question 38727 on MOD Ashchurch: Vehicles, if he will list all vehicles held at MOD Ashchurch including their readiness state by (a) type of vehicle and (b) timescale to be made operational.
Answered by Maria Eagle - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence does not routinely disclose a breakdown of the location of equipment capabilities, and the operational readiness of our fleets, in the interests of safeguarding security and operational effectiveness.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what figures her Department uses for the population of (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Peterborough; and if she will publish those figures.
Answered by Jim McMahon - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The Department uses a range of statistics that have already been published by the Office for National Statistics. These published statistics include the national and subnational Estimates of the Population for England and Wales (available on gov.uk here), which are routinely published by the Office for National Statistics and include figures on the populations of both Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
For some of our analysis that require figures at household-level, such as our homelessness and rough sleeping analysis, we make use of the Office for National Statistics’ published 2018-Based Household Projections (available on gov.uk here).
Finally, we also make use of the Office for National Statistics’ census data (available on gov.uk here).
The Department does not use unpublished population figures generally or for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough specifically.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of child trafficking by (a) nationality and (b) arresting police force in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including human trafficking up to and including June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK.
These include all human trafficking offences convicted, not just those against children. It is not possible to separately identify all such convictions that relate to children as the information on the victim age is not recorded in the Court Proceedings Database held by the Ministry of Justice.
Data held centrally does not include the nationality of the offender. The police force recorded in the Court Proceedings Database relates to the police force area associated with the court where the case was heard and not the arresting police force. The arresting police force is not held centrally in the Court Proceedings Database.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office has conducted any investigation into child-trafficking between Guinea-Bissau and the UK since 2010.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Home Office has a network of policy and operational officers posted across West Africa to engage host countries on home affairs issues, including child trafficking, and provide cooperation on investigations where necessary.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle the trafficking of children to the UK from West Africa.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Home Office has a network of policy and operational officers posted across West Africa to engage host countries on home affairs issues, including child trafficking, and provide cooperation on investigations where necessary.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to the public purse was of personal injury compensation payments in each year from 2014-15 to 2023-24 broken down by (a) type of injury, (b) arm/service, (c) gender, (d) number of claimants, (e) total cost and (f) minimum/maximum payout.
Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
The tables below show the total amounts paid out under the War Pensions Scheme (WPS) and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) by financial year.
Providing the further breakdowns would require information from three different data systems to be combined and individual files to be manually reviewed meaning it could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Table 1 below provides the total compensation expenditure under the AFCS from 1 April 2014 to the 31 March 2024 by financial year.
Allowance Type | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
Total Compensation Payable (£'000,000) | 72.9 | 80.7 | 80.6 | 87.8 | 89.8 | 90.0 | 84.3 | 104.0 | 127.9 | 147.8 |
Lump Sum Payments | 46.7 | 50.6 | 44.2 | 46.0 | 43.3 | 38.7 | 30.1 | 38.6 | 49.3 | 54.7 |
Guaranteed Income Payments | 19.4 | 23.2 | 27.9 | 33.5 | 36.9 | 41.2 | 44.6 | 55.2 | 67.2 | 76.6 |
Survivors' Guaranteed Income Payments | 6.8 | 7.0 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 9.6 | 10.1 | 9.6 | 10.2 | 11.4 | 16.5 |
Table 2 below provides the total compensation expenditure under the WPS from 1 April 2014 to the 31 March 2024 by financial year.
Allowance Type | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
Total Compensation Payable (£'000,000) | 837.6 | 794.8 | 764.8 | 723.2 | 697.3 | 680.3 | 652.4 | 622.5 | 606.5 | 633.4 |
Disablement Pensioners | 569.4 | 548.7 | 541.2 | 517 | 506.8 | 501.2 | 482.1 | 462.1 | 462 | 505.6 |
War Widow(er)s | 268.3 | 246 | 223.6 | 206.2 | 190.5 | 179.2 | 170.3 | 160.5 | 144.6 | 127.8 |
Figures presented in these tables include accrued expenditure where a claim was awarded in the last few days but was processed and paid after year end. Therefore, expenditure figures may differ to the amount of actual monies paid out in the financial year.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest £100,000. Therefore, totals and sub-totals may not equal the sum of their parts.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35425 on General Practitioners: Finance, whether data other than the (a) Standardised Limited Long-Standing Illness and (b) Standardised Mortality Ratio is used to calculate the formula; how unavoidable costs based on geographical area are calculated; what the additional costs are of delivering services in rural areas; and how those additional costs are calculated.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Global sum payments to general practices (GPs) are based on the number of patients registered at each GP. The Carr-Hill formula adjusts these payments to take account of the differences in workload between practices, over the differences due to variations in the number of registered patients. As well as the Standardised Limited Long-Standing Illness and Standardised Mortality Ratio, the formula uses data on the number of patients in each age-sex group, the number of patients in nursing and residential homes, and the number of new patient registrations.
The two components of the unavoidable costs adjustments in the formula are the staff market forces factor, to take account of the higher cost of employing staff in some parts of the country, estimated from earnings data, and the higher cost of providing services in rural areas, such as longer travel times for patients’ home and care home visits. The rurality adjustment is based on GPs’ expenses data, the distance from the patients’ homes to the GP surgery, and population density.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 35425 on GP Practice Lists, whether the Carr-Hill formula has been updated since its introduction.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Carr-Hill formula weightings have not been updated since the introduction of the formula in 2004.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS medical staff were struck off for clinical negligence in each year between 2019 and 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold this information. If there is a concern that a regulated healthcare professional has been clinically negligent, we would expect them to be referred to their regulator. All healthcare professional regulators have a statutory duty to consider any concerns that are referred to them and to investigate and take appropriate action to protect the public when they meet the threshold for regulatory action. In the most serious cases, the outcome of these investigations may be that the professional is erased from the register, meaning they can no longer legally practise.
There are multiple healthcare professional regulators in the United Kingdom, each holding their own register. Data on the outcomes of fitness to practice proceedings, including the number of individuals erased or ”struck off” from the register, can be found at the respective regulators' websites.