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- Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Complaints (14 May 2013)
Damian Green: ...force, but PCCs are required to keep themselves informed about the chief constable's handling of those complaints. Where it appears to the PCC that the chief constable has not complied with a legal obligation in relation to the handling of complaints or has contravened an obligation, the PCC may direct the chief constable to take whatever steps the PCC thinks appropriate. This is set out...
- Written Answers — Transport: Railways: Franchises (14 May 2013)
Simon Burns: The Department is under no express statutory duty to consult the public on the content of rail franchises but is subject to an overriding duty to act fairly in the exercise of its functions. The Railways Acts do include obligations to consult with certain devolved Administrations, Passenger Transport Executives and other bodies before issuing an Invitation to Tender. In the past we have...
- Written Ministerial Statements — Work and Pensions: Private Pensions (25 April 2013)
Steve Webb: ...per year, subject to the consultation response. We have also asked in the consultation whether respondents would welcome a move to a more principles-based approach to the disclosure regulations. a new statutory objective for the Pensions Regulator to support scheme funding arrangements that are compatible with sustainable growth for the sponsoring employer and fully consistent with the...
- Written Answers — Women and Equalities: Staff (25 April 2013)
Priti Patel: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities if she will estimate the Government Equalities Office's total staffing requirement in full-time equivalent posts for fulfilling its minimum statutory obligations.
- Written Answers — Education: Academies: Finance (25 April 2013)
David Laws: ...from 73% in 2009/10 to 80% in 2010/11, and 87% in 2011/12. The type of funding agreement breaches recorded by the EFA include failure to submit financial accounts on time, failure to fulfil certain statutory duties and failure to obtain the approval of the Secretary of State for Education to act where required to do so. In all cases, the EFA first contacts the academy to make sure it is...
- Written Answers — Education: School Leaving (25 April 2013)
Elizabeth Truss: ...school. However, there are various requirements on schools and local authorities when a child of compulsory school age drops out of school or is missing from education. The Government has provided statutory guidance to local authorities on how they should fulfil their obligation to ensure children are not missing education. Schools must inform the relevant local authority, at intervals...
- Written Answers — Education: Schools: Transport (24 April 2013)
David Laws: The revised statutory guidance published in March 2013 is designed to reflect the Government's commitment to reducing bureaucracy, and to allow local authorities to reach their own solutions to local issues, following the usual practice of consulting with schools and interested parties, without the burden of overly prescriptive guidance. The guidance provides a summary of the statutory...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Northern Ireland: Schools (22 April 2013)
Baroness Randerson: Section 75 of the 1998 Act imposes a statutory duty to promote equality of opportunity on public authorities. Section 75(3) lists a number of public authorities to which the statutory duty applies and contains powers (but not any obligation) for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to designate by order other persons or bodies as public authorities for that purpose. Currently, the...
- Written Answers — Health: Leukaemia (22 April 2013)
Norman Lamb: ...use in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia. NICE guidance does not recommend dasatinib as a clinically and cost-effective use of national health service resources. Commissioners are under a statutory obligation to provide funding for such treatments and drugs recommended by NICE within three months of the guidance being published. Patients have a right under the NHS Constitution to...
- Written Ministerial Statements — Energy and Climate Change: Closure of Daw Mill Colliery (15 April 2013)
Michael Fallon: ...the Daw Mill work force who took voluntary redundancy at the end of 2012 has been of concern to many Members. I am now able to confirm that we have ensured that this cohort will receive their full statutory redundancy entitlement from the redundancy payments service. Other Government-related support includes: the Coal Authority has agreed flexibility on certain payments by UKGOL related to...
- Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Staff (10 April 2013)
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if she will estimate her Department's total staffing requirement in full-time equivalent posts for fulfilling its minimum statutory obligations.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Taxation (10 April 2013)
Nicholas Boles: ...are proposed locally based on local economic viability and evidence, and are subject to public consultation and independent examination before they can be adopted. The Government published revised statutory guidance on the community infrastructure levy in December 2012 which included guidance on the rate setting process for the levy and the interaction between the levy and Section 106...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Benefits (10 April 2013)
Lord Freud: .... It is for local authorities to decide how they design and operate their welfare assistance schemes and it is for local authorities to satisfy themselves that the measures they take meet their statutory obligations. The department has no role in providing guidance to local authorities about these schemes and has no say in how they are run. Local authorities are well aware of their...
- Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Terrorism Suspects (Police Detention) (25 March 2013)
James Brokenshire: ...of detainees and the conditions in which they are held to ensure that their rights and entitlements are being observed. Section 117 amends section 51 of the Police Reform Act 2002, which places a statutory obligation on Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales to have an effective Independent Custody Visiting scheme in their force area, by requiring PCCs to ensure...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Social Rented Housing (25 March 2013)
Mark Prisk: ...to working households. Allocations and nominations processes for affordable rent homes are expected to mirror the existing frameworks for social rented housing. Providers will be under the same statutory and regulatory obligations when allocating affordable rent homes as they are when allocating properties for social rent. There is scope for local flexibility. Provided that a local...
- Written Answers — Health: NHS: Public Consultation (13 March 2013)
Daniel Poulter: All existing national health service trusts will remain obliged, under section 242 of the NHS Act 2006, to involve patients and the public in the planning of service provision, the development and consideration of proposals for changes in the way those services are provided, and decisions affecting the operation of those services. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 will require clinical...
- Written Answers — Scotland: Staff (4 March 2013)
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate his Department's total staffing requirement in full-time equivalent posts for fulfilling its minimum statutory obligations.
- Written Answers — Education: Special Educational Needs (4 March 2013)
Edward Timpson: ...they would be able to take this up with those services. The local offer would give details of how to complain about provision and about rights of appeal. If a local authority did not meet its statutory obligations in respect of the local offer a complaint could be made to the Local Government Ombudsman and if necessary to the Secretary of State for Education.
- Written Answers — Defence: Departmental Responsibilities (28 February 2013)
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's core statutory obligations are; and what estimate he has of the annual cost of delivering each such obligation.
- Written Answers — Wales: Staff (27 February 2013) See 1 other result from this answer
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate his Department's total staffing requirement in full-time equivalent posts for fulfilling its minimum statutory obligations.