Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2016 to Question 53151, if the Government will ensure that the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme begins to collect data on patient experience and outcomes.
Answered by David Mowat
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) commissions, develops and manages the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), on behalf of NHS England, Wales and other devolved administrations. The programme currently consists of over 30 national clinical audits, six clinical outcome review programmes and the National Joint Registry. The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme is one of the NCAPOP topics.
Patient Reported Experience Measures and Patient Reported Outcome Measures are not routinely commissioned through the NCAPOP.
The design of the clinical audit is a matter for HQIP on behalf of NHS England and the Royal College of Physicians.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2016 to Question 53101, on strokes, what criteria NHS England uses to renew or develop condition-specific strategies.
Answered by David Mowat
The National Health Service will continue to build on the successes of the current Stroke Strategy. There has been significant, sustained improvement in the quality of stroke care over the last decade and we will continue to deliver our ambition for truly world leading care. That is why the NHS rigorously audits the quality of stroke care across the country each year. It means that we now have some of the fastest improvements in hospital recovery rates for stroke and heart attacks in Europe.
Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England. As NHS England has moved away from disease specific strategies towards guidance that is more cross cutting, and because the stroke strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues, NHS England has no current plans to renew it.
NHS England’s approach to priority setting was set out in its Five Year Forward View, available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf
NHS England makes decisions about commissioning on advice from its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, full details of which can be found at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/cpag/
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 7 February 2017, Official Report, column 226, to the hon. Member for St Ives, what steps his Department is taking to produce a detailed implementation plan to improve stroke services in England.
Answered by David Mowat
The National Health Service will continue to build on the successes of the current Stroke Strategy. There has been significant, sustained improvement in the quality of stroke care over the last decade and we will continue to deliver our ambition for truly world leading care. That is why the NHS rigorously audits the quality of stroke care across the country each year. It means that we now have some of the fastest improvements in hospital recovery rates for stroke and heart attacks in Europe.
Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England. As NHS England has moved away from disease specific strategies towards guidance that is more cross cutting, and because the stroke strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues, NHS England has no current plans to renew it.
NHS England’s approach to priority setting was set out in its Five Year Forward View, available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf
NHS England makes decisions about commissioning on advice from its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, full details of which can be found at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/cpag/
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether he plans to replicate existing EU non-reciprocal preferential trade agreements with developing countries after the UK leaves the EU; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Government is currently reviewing its trade policy as the UK prepares to leave the EU.
The UK remains committed to ensuring developing countries can reduce poverty through trading opportunities. We recognise the need for a smooth transition which minimises disruption to our trading relationships, including with developing countries.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the top 20 categories as defined by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) were according to value of imports of goods imported into the UK in the most recent year for which records are available; and how much HMRC collected in gross customs duties in each of those categories.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The top 20 categories as defined by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), according to the value of imports into the UK and how much HMRC collected in gross customs duties in each of those categories, are set in the below table. This data covers the period from 1 December 2015 to 30 November 2016.
Rank | Tariff Chapter | Tariff Description | Customs Duty Paid |
1 | 84 | Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof | £150,361,671.11 |
2 | 87 | Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof | £275,986,917.79 |
3 | 85 | Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles | £221,484,925.55 |
4 | 61 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted | £391,863,383.24 |
5 | 71 | Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coins | £18,816,020.49 |
6 | 62 | Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted | £421,133,522.33 |
7 | 27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes | £2,027,350.73 |
8 | 88 | Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof | £6,550,507.58 |
9 | 97 | Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques | £160.60 |
10 | 73 | Articles of iron or steel | £44,803,950.05 |
11 | 90 | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | £46,001,258.87 |
12 | 64 | Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles | £263,335,200.26 |
13 | 39 | Plastics and articles thereof | £176,508,703.45 |
14 | 94 | Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings | £51,244,638.13 |
15 | 95 | Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof | £73,082,253.07 |
16 | 30 | Pharmaceutical products | £0.00 |
17 | 82 | Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal | £23,187,892.86 |
18 | 40 | Rubber and articles thereof | £36,571,397.53 |
19 | 63 | Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags | £89,399,258.34 |
20 | 42 | Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | £55,873,412.99 |
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what investigations (a) her Department and (b) the Further Education Commissioner has undertaken into the educational impact and value for money of the Gazelle Colleges Group, and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The Gazelle College Group is an independent organisation, not funded by Government. Decisions taken by Colleges to join or fund independent sector bodies are for their Corporations as charitable trustees, who should ensure they receive value for money for any expenditure incurred.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2016 to Question 53101, what meetings took place on the National Stroke Strategy between (a) Ministers and officials of his Department, (b) Ministers of his Department and representatives of NHS England and (c) officials of his Department and representatives of NHS England in each month since October 2016.
Answered by David Mowat
Ministers and officials have met with a range of stakeholders interested in stroke and have discussed a number of topics including the National Stroke Strategy.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to his written ministerial statement of 5 December 2016, Official Report, HCWS316, on the UK's commitments at the World Trade Organisation, what process he plans to adopt to secure parliamentary approval of the necessary draft schedules he is preparing.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Parliament will be involved in helping shape the UK's future as we leave the European Union. We will keep Parliament informed of the development of the schedules.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the 10 largest domestic subsidies used by UK industry by virtue of UK membership of EU trading arrangements under the World Trade Organisation definition of aggregate measurement of support are by (a) type of good, (b) sector, (c) quantity of goods affected and (d) estimated value to the UK economy.
Answered by George Eustice
The most recent notification for the EU domestic support in agriculture is for the marketing year 2012/13.
The total aggregate measure of support notified was €5.9bn. This is overwhelmingly market price support which is only calculated for the EU as a whole and not for individual member states. The products with the largest notified support are:
Product | Aggregate Measure of Support |
Butter | €2,743m |
Common wheat | €1,865m |
Skimmed milk powder | €1,145m |
Wine | €696m |
Milk | €192m |
Ethyl alcohol | €82m |
Sugar | €59m |
Bee keeping | €43m |
Olive oil | €18m |
Fibre flax and hemp | €7m |
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the 10 existing EU tariff rate quotas with the largest economic value for the UK economy are by (a) type of good, (b) sector of the economy, (c) quantity and (d) estimated value for UK industry.
Answered by George Eustice
The EU currently notifies over 120 tariff rate quotas in agriculture and a further 19 non-agriculture tariff rate quotas. There can be several tariff rate quotas within a single sector such as beef or sugar, for different products and different countries which export to the EU and UK. We do not currently assess tariff rate quotas by economic value: they are defined and administered according to the volume rather than the value of imports. All tariff rate quotas which other countries use to export to the UK, however, will be important to them, and important to the industry affected.