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Written Question
Diseases: Older People
Monday 1st December 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the mortality rates are of patients aged over 75 years suffering from (a) cardiovascular disease, (b) respiratory disease, (c) liver disease and (d) cancer; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the upper-age limit on the survival rates of those diseases.

Answered by Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Wednesday 15th October 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will arrange for a substantive reply to be sent to the hon. Member for Edinburgh East in response to her letter of 26 March 2014 to Richard Heaton CB, Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office and First Parliamentary Counsel.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

A response to this letter has been sent


Written Question
Domestic Visits
Monday 8th September 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2014, Official Report, column 359W, on domestic visits, what domestic visits he has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 July 2014 (Official Report) Column Ref: 360W.


Written Question
Domestic Visits
Thursday 10th July 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2014, Official Report, column 506W, on official visits, what domestic visits each of the Ministers of his Department has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Details of all Ministerial overseas travel is published on a quarterly basis.

Information about the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister's visits within the UK are published quarterly.


Written Question
Official Visits
Tuesday 17th June 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what visits (a) each of the Ministers in his Department, (b) the Prime Minister and (c) the Deputy Prime Minister have made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

Details of Ministers' visits overseas are published quarterly and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications


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Monday 12th May 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much (a) his Department and (b) the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister spent on a wellbeing strategy in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) 2013-14.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

The Deputy Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.

In 2010 the Office for National Statistics established a Measuring National Wellbeing Programme to look at wellbeing across the UK. The Cabinet Office is supporting this with a wellbeing policy programme across Government.

The costs of the programme are met from existing departmental budgets. Details on staffing are published through my department's organogram, on gov.uk


Written Question
Health Services: Immigrants
Wednesday 2nd April 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) 20 highest and (b) 20 lowest value contracts awarded by his Department were in each financial year since 2009-10.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

Under this Government's transparency programme, contracts are published on Contracts Finder which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder


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Tuesday 4th March 2014

Asked by: Sheila Gilmore (Labour - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pagers have been provided to staff by his Department since May 2010; and what the cost to the Department was of providing those pagers.

Answered by Nick Hurd

As was the case prior to the last General Election various officials are provided with pagers when there is a business case to do so. We do not hold details centrally of when pagers were purchased but currently spend £360 a month on the services.