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What additional support his Department is providing for young people seeking employment.
What additional support his Department is providing for young people seeking employment.
What recent steps his Department has taken to increase the number of children in care who are adopted.
What recent steps his Department has taken to increase the number of children in care who are adopted.
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 26 February.
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 26 February.
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 5 February.
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 5 February.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require HGV drivers to use only satellite navigation software from which weight-restricted roads have been removed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require HGV drivers to use only satellite navigation software from which weight-restricted roads have been removed.
All road users benefit from clear directions, including HGV drivers. It is clearly not in the interests of HGV drivers to rely upon inaccurate information, which may make them late or even involve them in accidents. Nevertheless, we believe that legislation would be a costly, bureaucratic and inappropriate way of dealing with the problem. Instead we have made significant efforts to link together freight associations, local authorities and sat-nav companies to ensure that HGV drivers are aware of the issue and have the latest information available to them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps his Department is taking to ensure that weight restrictions on roads are being enforced by the police.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps his Department is taking to ensure that weight restrictions on roads are being enforced by the police.
Enforcement is a matter for the police. Policing priorities for this type of activity are local decisions for the local police, working for their communities and under the oversight of directly elected police and crime commissioners. Roads with weight restrictions usually have them because local highway authorities have put them in place and these local authorities can also seek to influence policing priorities.
The Department does not have a direct mechanism to ensure weight restrictions on local roads are being enforced by the police.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if his Department will review (a) its policy of requiring HGV drivers to avoid areas with bridge restrictions of 7.5 tons and (b) the use of satellite navigation systems on such routes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if his Department will review (a) its policy of requiring HGV drivers to avoid areas with bridge restrictions of 7.5 tons and (b) the use of satellite navigation systems on such routes.
The Department for Transport has no plans to (a) review the policy of requiring heavy goods vehicle drivers to avoid areas with bridge restrictions of 7.5 tonnes or (b) the use of satellite navigation systems on such routes.
The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 gives powers to highway authorities to apply weight limits on parts of the local road network which they manage, where they deem it to be appropriate. It is a legitimate local policy to ban heavy goods vehicles from using weak bridges, but there are legal considerations related to maintaining access to premises. These may well be relevant to the consideration of area-wide prohibitions.
Neither the Department nor individual local authorities have any direct power over the routing of satellite navigation devices, such devices should always be treated as advisory, and it is for the motorists to determine the best route for their journey. We are aware that some satellite navigation system manufacturers produce special devices for heavy goods vehicles to provide them with routing information appropriate to their vehicle, including warning them about narrow roads and low bridges.
Recent developments in these specific systems have meant that properly-equipped lorry drivers can now avoid low bridges and narrow lanes, saving time, fuel and money as well as reducing the impact on local communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to ensure that (a) newly diagnosed dementia patients and (b) those who would benefit from an early diagnosis of dementia receive the support and care that they need.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to ensure that (a) newly diagnosed dementia patients and (b) those who would benefit from an early diagnosis of dementia receive the support and care that they need.
[156245]
In March last year, the Prime Minister launched his Challenge on Dementia to tackle one of the most important issues we face as the population ages. The Challenge is an ambitious programme of work designed to make a real difference to the lives of people with dementia and their families and carers.
The Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia sets out renewed ambition to go further and faster, building on progress made through the National Dementia Strategy, to secure greater improvements in dementia care and research so that people with dementia, their carers and families get the services and support they need from a trained and aware workforce.
Dementia has been prioritised by both the Department through the NHS Mandate and by NHS England through their planning guidance. NHS England has announced the ambition to increase diagnosis rates to two-thirds by 2015.
From April 2013, as part of the NHS Health Check programme, people aged 65 to 74 will be given information at the time of the risk assessment to raise their awareness of dementia and the availability of memory services. This will help to ensure that people with dementia are diagnosed at an earlier stage.
As part of the Prime Minister's Challenge, we have developed the Dementia Care and Support Compact. The purpose of the Care and Support Compact with major care providers is to improve care and support for people with dementia living at home and in care homes.
The Compact focuses on quality of life for people with dementia and the delivery of relationship-based care and support, for example working with commissioners of care for people with dementia to ensure that they commission quality services appropriately. Currently 148 signatories, representing almost 3,000 care services, have signed up to the Compact and we want to see this number increase to demonstrate the commitment the sector has to improving care for people with dementia.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent assessment he has made of the UK's business competitiveness.
[147143]
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent assessment he has made of the UK's business competitiveness.
[147143]
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Claire Perry).
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Palestinian Authority on incitement.
[141352]
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Palestinian Authority on incitement.
[141352]
We raise instances of incitement with both the Palestinian Authority and Israel whenever we are aware of serious concerns. The Government opposes the advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence in all circumstances.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities have greater flexibility in spending their adoption improvement grant within each financial year.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities have greater flexibility in spending their adoption improvement grant within each financial year.
[139342]
The Government's £8 million Adoption Improvement Grant funding is intended to provide help to councils in their efforts to kick start improvement to adoption practice and adoption services in their areas. It is a one-off grant which is to be spent in the current financial year (2012/13), but which councils can use as they wish to address their immediate priorities in improving adoption services.
In 2013/14, the Government is making available an Adoption Reform Grant of £150 million to local authorities to use in their children's services, with a specific focus on adoption reform. £100 million of the £150 million funding will not be ring-fenced and LAs will retain the discretion to use this funding to address their highest priority needs. £50 million will be ring-fenced and will need to be spent in the 2013/14 financial year in finding more adopters and addressing structural problems in adopter recruitment.
More than 1 million private sector jobs have been created since the first quarter of 2010 and employment is at a record high. We are supporting more job creation by further reducing the rate of corporation tax to 21%, and since 1 January we have been helping businesses large and small to invest, with a temporary tenfold increase in the annual investment allowance. We can afford these tax reductions in part because we are taking tough action on tax evasion. I can confirm to the House that last night Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs received £340 million from the Swiss Government, a first instalment of the deal we have struck, and the first time in our history that money due in taxes has flowed from Switzerland to the UK, instead of the other way round.
This year we awarded £3.1 million to four organisations to help communities to make progress with their plans. We fund the new burdens that local authorities may face, and my Department works closely with many neighbourhood planning areas. As a result, communities are making progress, and the first neighbourhood development plan passed an independent examination last week.
As announced by the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister on Armed Forces day, the Department for Education and the Ministry of Defence are working together to enable 100 more state-funded schools to have cadet units by 2015. The extra cadet units will be formed through partnerships with existing units, or by self-standing new units, both using third-party sponsorship funding. The departments have identified £10.85 million to meet the programme’s training and equipment costs. More than 50 schools have already registered their interest, and the joint departmental team, supported by the reserve forces and cadets associations, will work with schools to develop the most appropriate cadet option for them.