First elected: 6th May 2010
Left House: 30th March 2015 (Defeated)
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e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
These initiatives were driven by Mary Macleod, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
Mary Macleod has not been granted any Urgent Questions
Mary Macleod has not been granted any Adjournment Debates
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to remove male-preference primogeniture in succession to hereditary peerages and estates.
Mary Macleod has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Information on the number of apprenticeship starts by geography is published by academic year in a Supplementary Table, entitled Breakdown by geography, equality & diversity and sector subject area: starts 2002/03 to 2012/13, to a Statistical First Release (SFR):
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2
We provide a range of opportunities for disabled young people to get into playing, volunteering and official roles. Last year for example almost 29,000 young disabled people took part at Level 3 of the School Games (county festivals). Sport England also works closely with the Association of National Special Colleges (Natspec) to get more young disabled people playing sport. Learning from Sport England’s work with Natspec colleges is shared with colleges and sixth forms to support them. Further, Sport England is investing £401,153 in the English Learning Disability Sports Alliance, a partnership between Special Olympics GB and Mencap Sport. As part of this investment twelve new partnership networks, which include SEN colleges and schools, will offer new opportunities for people with a learning disability to regularly participate in sport.
The World Health Organisation’s (WHOs) guidelines for night noise in Europe relate to outside noise levels from all sources and not just transport.
At a national level, noise is managed through the implementation of the Government’s policy on noise, set out in the Noise Policy Statement for England. Its vision is to “promote good health and a good quality of life through the effective management of noise within the context of Government policy on sustainable development”. The Noise Policy Statement for England recognises that it is not possible to have a single objective noise-based measure that is applicable to all sources of noise in all situations. This is because effect levels are likely to be different for different noise sources, different people and at different times.
There are noise limits in place for motor vehicles and new railway rolling stock has to comply with noise limits set out in EU technical specifications. Civil aircraft using UK airports are subject to international noise certification standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
The Government restricts night flights at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports in order to limit noise. The Government’s stated objective for this regime is to limit and where possible reduce the number of people significantly affected by aircraft noise at night. This will be measured by the area and number of people within the night quota period contours and in particular the 55dBLAeq contour.
Headline figures on the number of unfilled vacancies at a point in time are published by the Office for National Statistics, based on a regular survey of employers. Latest figures, covering January-March 2014, show over 600,000 vacancies available in the UK economy at any one time. The sample size of the survey is, however, too small to allow information to be published below national level.
NHS England has advised that, at the request of patient groups, NHS England is currently consulting with patients and the wider public about how it makes decisions on which specialised services and treatments, including Duodopa, to invest in. This will ensure the principles and process it follows are well informed, evidence-led and in line with the expectations of patients and the public.
The consultation runs until 27 April 2015 and can be found at:
www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/investing-in-specialised-commissioning
Until then, any decision that is urgent on clinical grounds will be dealt with quickly though NHS England’s existing procedures. Clinicians will continue to be able to make Individual Funding Requests, on behalf of their patients, to NHS England for treatments like Duodopa that are not routinely available.
My Department has received a number of recent representations from individual housing association tenants to extend the Right to Acquire to homes built before 1997, to enable them to buy the home in which they currently live.
The Right to Acquire is offered on a different basis to the Right to Buy, including the level of discount, to reflect the different tenancy and type of landlord. Housing association properties which were not part of a stock transfer have been provided through various forms of finance, including private money. However, the Government is committed to keeping the policy under review and we are open to further representations on this matter.
Thanks to the policies of this Government, the number of workless households in Scotland has fallen by 38,000 in the last year.
The best way to ensure this downward trend for the next 5 years is to adhere to the government’s long term economic plan.