First elected: 1st May 1997
Left House: 30th March 2015 (Retired)
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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 Mike Wood, 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.
Mike Wood has not been granted any Urgent Questions
Mike Wood has not introduced any legislation before Parliament
Mike Wood has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) currently has 9 Ministers, 7 of whom share offices with other Government Departments. There are no external appointees currently working in BIS ministerial offices. The total number of civil service appointed Private Office staff as at 6 January 2015 is 33.
BIS is unable to provide any historic data due to changes to the HR systems.
I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North, Catherine McKinnell, on 13 October 2014 to Question UIN 208928.
The assessment of the gender impact of fees and charges for the new Child Maintenance Service was published in the Equality Impact Assessment for the Child Support Fees Regulations 2013. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220219/eia-child-support-fees.pdf.
Improving outcomes for people with liver disease is a priority and tackling it is reflected in the NHS Outcomes Framework, the Public Health Outcomes Framework and in the Government's mandate to the National Health Service.
Building on last year's ‘Call to Action', Living Well for Longer: National Support for Local Action to Reduce Premature Avoidable Mortality brings together the national actions which will be taken by the Department and wider Government, NHS England and Public Health England (PHE), to reduce premature mortality in England. It focuses on the five big killers including liver disease and includes a system wide delivery plan for 2014-15. This plan reflects the key actions which will be taken to reduce premature mortality taking into account the commitments that each of these organisations have made in their 2014-15 business plan. Progress against these commitments will be tracked and reported on next year.
In addition, PHE is meeting with the All-Party Parliamentary Hepatology Group, and other stakeholders, in July to discuss the recommendations of its recent report into liver disease.
Public Health England is currently working with NHS England and other partners to reduce the burden of disease from hepatitis C through a suite of activities to improve awareness, prevention, testing and diagnosis, referral into care, and treatment outcomes. The Department is supportive of this work, and is helping to facilitate it.
Public Health England (PHE) is committed to working with NHS England and other partners to reduce the burden of disease from hepatitis C through a suite of activities to improve awareness, prevention, testing and diagnosis, referral into care, and treatment outcomes
The feasibility of elimination – that is the reduction to zero of the incidence of disease or infection in England - has not been formally assessed and it is likely to be difficult in the absence of an effective vaccine. However, PHE has recently completed modelling work to assess the potential impact of increased uptake and new therapies on reducing the future burden of hepatitis C-related end stage liver disease in England. This work is being finalised and will be published shortly.
Improving outcomes for people with liver disease is a priority and tackling it is reflected in the NHS Outcomes Framework, the Public Health Outcomes Framework and in the Government's mandate to the National Health Service.
Building on last year's ‘Call to Action', Living Well for Longer: National Support for Local Action to Reduce Premature Avoidable Mortality brings together the national actions which will be taken by the Department and wider Government, NHS England and Public Health England (PHE), to reduce premature mortality in England. It focuses on the five big killers including liver disease and includes a system wide delivery plan for 2014-15. This plan reflects the key actions which will be taken to reduce premature mortality taking into account the commitments that each of these organisations have made in their 2014-15 business plan. Progress against these commitments will be tracked and reported on next year.
In addition, PHE is meeting with the All-Party Parliamentary Hepatology Group, and other stakeholders, in July to discuss the recommendations of its recent report into liver disease.
According to Home Office management information, as at 31 March 2014, 3,134 family visa applications were on hold following the July 2013 High Court judgment in MM & Others.Following the Court of Appeal ruling in favour of the Home Secretary which confirmed the lawfulness of the income threshold policy, as a rational and reasonable means of achieving the legitimate aims of reducing taxpayer burdens and promoting integration, from 28 July, the individuals whose applications were on hold, pending this judgment, will now receive a decision. Decisions will take account of all the information presented. Any application which met all the requirements apart from the minimum income threshold now stands to be refused. The applications which have been subject to the hold will be decided as soon as possible. It is likely to take several weeks to complete this work. Overseas our regions are rebalancing resources to ensure decisions are made as quickly as they reasonably can be, allowing full consideration of the facts of the cases. This is with the aim of resolving all applications within three months in line with service standards for settlement applications.
The table aside sets out the average time taken in days for decisions to be made on visa applications considered in Mumbai and Islamabad between 1st January and 31st March 2014, by category of application.
Average decision times for visas processed in Mumbai and Islamabad (1st January and 31st March 2014). A decision is where the application has been issued, refused, lapsed or withdrawn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From 1st January to 31st March 2014, it took on average 34 days in Mumbai and 31 days in Islamabad to issue a visa after the tribunal decision was received in the respective post.
In the case of MM & Others concerning the minimum income threshold under the family Immigration Rules, the costs incurred by the Home Office as at 3 July 2014 were approximately £163,000.
If a member of the UK Armed Forces is arrested and detained in police custody for a recordable offence, the custody sergeant is responsible for notifying the circumstances of arrest, detention and offence to the relevant service authorities.
Civilian criminal courts and service tribunals have concurrent jurisdiction to deal with accused persons who are subject to military law. The decision on which jurisdiction prosecutes a person subject to military law is a matter of consultation between all police agencies involved in the investigation in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service and Service Prosecutions Authority.
The information requested is not collected centrally by the Home Office. Aggregated data on arrests supplied to the Home Office do not include information about whether persons arrested were serving military personnel.
This information is not held in the format requested. The civil police are not required to seek the assistance or permission of relevant arms of the Armed Forces in relation to serving personnel being made available in connection with criminal investigations. However, if such an approach is made, then the Service authorities will attempt to assist as far as they are able so to do.