Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether work has commenced on minting the 50 pence coin to mark the UK's exit from the EU.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The Royal Mint has paused production of the coin to mark the UK’s exit from the EU.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women born in (a) 1965, (b) 1966, (c) 1967, (d) 1968 and (e) 1969 have (i) been invited for breast cancer screening and (ii) taken up an offer of breast cancer screening.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
In the Breast Screening Programme women are eligible to be screened from the age of 50 and are invited every three years. Data in the format requested is not available. The data below shows the number invited, uptake and coverage for the age bands 50-52 and 53-54 in 2017-2018.
The figures below are obtained from the 2017-18 Breast Screening Annual Report which can be viewed at the following link:
Number invited (for ages 50-54) in 2017-18.
It should be noted that, women are invited every three years, so the number of invites in 2017-18 only represents approximately 1/3 of women in the 50-54 age band. Invite here refers to ‘first and all routine invitations’ – see report for detailed definitions.
Age Band | Indicator | Unit | Value |
50-52 | Invited | Number | 435,678 |
53-54 | Invited | Number | 290,936 |
50-54 | Invited | Number | 726,614 |
Invites and uptake of those invites for women age 50-54, in England in 2017-18. (This is not the total number of women in the 50-54 age group, just the number invited in 2017-18).
Age Band | Indicator | Unit | Value |
50-52 | Invited | Number | 435,678 |
50-52 | Attended | Number | 293,517 |
50-52 | Uptake | % | 67.4 |
53-54 | Invited | Number | 290,936 |
53-54 | Attended | Number | 200,131 |
53-54 | Uptake | % | 68.8 |
50-54 | Invited | Number | 726,614 |
50-54 | Attended | Number | 493,648 |
50-54 | Uptake | % | 67.9 |
Coverage of the breast screening programme for those aged 53-54 in England, as at 31 March 2018:
Number Resident | 811,351 |
Number Eligible | 809,841 |
Number Ineligible | 1,510 |
Number never screened (either never invited or invited and did not attend) | 157,385 |
Screened in last 3 years | 587,955 |
Screening Coverage (%) | 72.6% |
It would not be suitable to provide coverage for the full 50-54 age group because the official coverage definition starts at age 53 (rather than age 50).
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the proposals of the trustees of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme to guarantee beneficiaries bonuses.
Answered by Kwasi Kwarteng
We are considering the proposals from the Trustees of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme regarding protection for bonuses that have already accrued, and we will report back to the House in due course.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of beneficiaries of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme who also receive pension credit.
Answered by Kwasi Kwarteng
Information on individual pensioners is not held by the Department. Management of the individual of pensions is a matter for the Mineworkers Pension Scheme Trustess.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment she has made of the potential effectiveness of the proposal of the trustees of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme to guarantee beneficiaries' bonuses.
Answered by Kwasi Kwarteng
We are considering the proposals from the Trustees of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme regarding protection for bonuses that have already accrued, and we will report back to the House in due course.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Wakefield of 3 September 2019 to the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, on the Get ready for Brexit campaign.
Answered by Kevin Foster
I apologise for the delay in replying to the letter from the hon. Member and can assure her she will receive a response as soon as possible.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Government plans to spend on the Be a Force for All campaign via (a) websites, (b) newspapers, (c) television, (d) search engine optimisation, (e) social media by platform, (f) billboards (g) and any other medium in (i) total and (ii) each month of the campaign.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The first phase of the police recruitment campaign is running from Thursday 5th September to Friday 18th October 2019.
The department is currently expecting to spend approximately £1.4m on this phase of campaign activity including website development and advertising.
The next phase of the campaign is due to run from January 2020. The department is currently in planning for this campaign and is yet to finalise budgets across the programme.
Government policies and programmes affect the lives of millions of people and in order for them to work, they must be communicated effectively to engage the public and bring about positive behaviour change. However, this has to be done with cost efficiency in mind and there are strict rules to ensure value for money on Government advertising.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which companies have been awarded contracts to run the websites for the Be a Force for All police recruitment campaign; how much was disbursed from the public purse to those companies under those contracts; which advertising channels have been used by those companies for that campaign; and how much each of those companies spent on each of those advertising channels.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office is responsible for delivery of the national police recruitment campaign.
No tender was sent out specifically for the police recruitment campaign website. The national police recruitment campaign, including the campaign website, is delivered through existing government contracts with government-procured agencies who work across a number of Home Office priority issues. These contracts are awarded through open competition and spend is capped to ensure value for money for the taxpayer – contractual information is available to the public through Contracts Finder.
The Home Office has worked with its contracted digital agency , Story UK.
No advertising channels have been used by Story UK in relation to the website and no money spent.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the websites (a) www.joiningthepolice.co.uk and (b) www.policenow.org.uk do not use gov.uk.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office is responsible for the www.joiningthepolice.co.uk website. The Home Office applied for, and was granted, an exemption from gov.uk in line with normal procedures on the basis that the gov.uk campaigns platform offers limited functionality. Specifically, it would not have supported the required interactive map providing live information on the forces currently recruiting in specific entry routes. Police Now is an independent national charitable social enterprise. The Home Office is not responsible for its website arrangements.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that the Be a Force for All campaign complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); and whether a data protection impact assessment has been produced in accordance with Article 35 and 36 of the GDPR.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
We take the protection and privacy of personal data very seriously. The Government Communication Service, as the professional body for communications in government, upholds the highest professional standards in undertaking its duties and in particular, complying with data protection legislation.
The campaign microsite, www.joiningthepolice.co.uk, directs potential applicants to local police force websites, which are not managed by the Home Office, to begin their application process. The microsite collects IP addresses and generates cookies to inform improvement of the site and to make campaign marketing more engaging and relevant. However, this information is not used to identify users personally and is handled in accordance with the current data protection legislation.
For further information on the campaign microsite’s use of data and cookies please visit:
https://www.joiningthepolice.co.uk/privacy.html
https://www.joiningthepolice.co.uk/cookies.html