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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17th March, Official Report, column 436W, on NHS Direct, what the intended new status of NHS Direct is; and what assessment he has made of its likely impact on the (a) financing, (b) status of the staff...

Asked by

Frank Dobson (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2005

Reference

432 c1554W;432 c1550W; 223969

House

House of Commons

Symons of Vernham Dean, Baroness

Answered by

Baroness Amos (Labour)

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

6 April 2005

Reference

671 c721

House

House of Lords

Untitled Oral answer to question

Answered by

Baroness Amos (Labour)

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

6 April 2005

Reference

671 c721

House

House of Lords

Untitled Oral question

1st supplementary on the role of developing countries in international institutions.

Asked by

Lord Judd (Labour)

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2005

Reference

671 c721

House

House of Lords

Network Rail: making a fresh start. Public Accounts Committee twenty eighth report with proceedings, evidence (HC 639-i 2003/04 not printed separately) and appendices.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Committee of Public Accounts

Notes

See also NAO report HC 532 2003/04

Date

6 April 2005

Reference

HC 556 2004/05

House

House of Commons

Symons of Vernham Dean, Baroness

What action they are taking in response to the Make Poverty History campaign; and how they define poverty in that context.

Asked by

Lord Judd (Labour)

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2005

Reference

671 c721

House

House of Lords

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps she has taken to improve the line of accountability of social services departments placing looked after children out of area since the passage of the Children Act 2004.

Asked by

Tim Loughton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 March 2005

For answer on

5 April 2005

Answered on

5 April 2005

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she has taken to improve the line of accountability of social services departments placing looked after children out of area since the passage of the Children Act 2004. [222068] Margaret Hodge: Children's services authorities are in the process of appointing the directors of children's services (DCS) and lead members for children's services required under the Children Act 2004. About 60 authorities report that they have a DCS in place or have appointed one; almost as many have designated a lead member. The director and lead member will improve children's services authority accountability for the placement of all looked after children by being, respectively, professionally and politically responsible on behalf of the authority for the safety and welfare of such children. Although all members of the authority have a shared responsibility for corporate parenting, the lead member will take the lead in ensuring that looked after children have their interests protected, their opportunities maximised, their educational achievement enhanced and their care shaped to meet their needs. Draft statutory guidance, on which we have consulted and which will be published shortly, states explicitly that the lead member should take the local political lead in all corporate parenting issues. The 2004 Act also introduces a new duty on local authorities to promote the educational achievement of looked after children. The Department is currently conducting a review of local authority practice in placing looked after children in other local authority areas, with a view to both reducing their dependence on such placements and improving support for children who are placed out of authority. In the meantime, we have written to local authorities to remind them of the importance of ensuring that looked after children are placed out-of- authority only where their assessed needs clearly justify it, and to review their current practice to ensure that they are meeting their existing statutory responsibilities; taking steps to prevent, wherever possible, children being placed away from home (e.g. by developing an adequate supply of good quality local foster and residential care places); and securing good outcomes for children who are placed out-of-authority. We have also asked the Commission for Social Care Inspection to offer advice on how best they can monitor and assess local authority practice in this area.

Legislation

Children Act 2004

Date

5 April 2005

Reference

432 c1342-3W;432 c1338-9W; 222068

House

House of Commons

Strengthening national parliamentary scrutiny of the EU - the constitution's subsidiarity early warning mechanism. European Union Select Committee (HL) fourteenth report with proceedings and evidence.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Lords papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

European Union Committee

Date

5 April 2005

Reference

HL 101 2004/05

House

House of Lords

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the work of the EU on (a) governmental transparency and (b) anti-corruption mechanisms in the Middle East; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Angus Robertson (Scottish National Party)

Answering body

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 April 2005

Reference

432 c1328W;432 c1324W; 224628

House

House of Commons

Untitled Committee of the Whole House (HL)

Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill. Lords Committee stage. Clauses 1-3, 5-9, 11-6, 18-45, 47-60, 62-70, 72-4, 76-112,114-23, 125-8, 132-41, 144-66, 168-9 agreed to. Clauses 10 and 124 disagreed to. Clauses 4, 17, 46, 61, 71, 75 , 113, 129, 130-1, 142-3, 167, 173-4 agreed to as amended. Schedules 1-3,...

Lead member

Baroness Scotland of Asthal

Answering member

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

Department

Home Office

Type

Committee of the Whole House (HL); Debates on bills

Date

5 April 2005

Reference

671 c595-652,677-713

House

House of Lords

Untitled Written question

Why, under the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1214), a train driver is exempt as a "carrier who has charge for the time being". [HL 1722].

Asked by

Baroness Byford (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 April 2005

Reference

HL 1722; 671 c84WA

House

House of Lords

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, to whom local strategic partnerships are accountable.

Asked by

Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 April 2005

Reference

432 c1145W; 223313

House

House of Commons

Anti-social Behaviour Bill.

Member

Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)

Type

Presentation bills

Date

24 March 2005

Reference

Bill 99 2004/05

House

House of Commons

Untitled Proceeding contribution

Easter recess motion speech on the Channel Tunnel rail link, mobile phone masts, road traffic control in Rainham and role of European Union and democratic accountability.

Member

Lord Cryer (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

24 March 2005

Reference

432 c1075-7

House

House of Commons

Untitled Proceeding contribution

Easter recess motion speech on devolution, asylum seekers, European Union, accountability of public bodies and the Iraq war.

Member

Teddy Taylor (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

24 March 2005

Reference

432 c1039-43

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, to whom the National Institute for Mental Health, England is accountable.

Asked by

Tim Loughton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2005

Reference

432 c911W; 222015

House

House of Commons

Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill with an introduction and explanatory notes.

Type

Command papers

Date

23 March 2005

Reference

CM 6497

House

House of Commons

Traffic Commissioners

To whom traffic commissioners are accountable in connection with disciplinary action taken against them. [HL 1768].

Asked by

Viscount Astor (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2005

Reference

671 c43-4WA; HL 1768

House

House of Lords

Untitled Written statement

Written Statement on the publication of the Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill (Cm 6497). (Inc fact that copy in library).

Member

Charles Clarke (Labour)

Department

Home Office

Type

Written statements

Date

23 March 2005

Reference

432 c75-6WS

House

House of Commons

Untitled Written statement

Lords Written Statement on the publication of the Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill (Cm 6497). (Inc fact that copy in library).

Member

Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)

Department

Home Office

Type

Written statements

Date

23 March 2005

Reference

671 c35-6WS

House

House of Lords

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