The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 998, if he will publish the terms of reference for the New Climate Economy report.
Gregory Barker
The New Climate Economy study was launched last September and is due to be published in September 2014, ahead of the UN Climate Summit in New York that month.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 998, when his Department expects work to begin on the New Climate Economy report; and when he expects that report to be published.
Gregory Barker
The New Climate Economy study was launched last September and is due to be published in September 2014, ahead of the UN Climate Summit in New York that month.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 994, on energy efficiency, how many of the 600,000 households that have received energy-efficiency improvements received assistance under the (a) Energy Company Obligation and (b) Green Deal.
Gregory Barker
The number of households benefitting from energy efficiency measures installed through ECO and Green Deal are published in Table 1a of my Department’s monthly Official Statistics release on Green Deal and ECO statistics. The latest published figures show that, up to the end of February 2014, 569,234 households had measures installed under ECO and 883 had measures installed using the option of Green Deal finance. Some households may have had measures installed through more than one delivery mechanism and there is therefore a small level of double counting. Further installations that have been funded through the cashback scheme are also reported in Table 1a.
The monthly release can be found at:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his oral contribution of 2 April 2014, Official Report, column 908, on energy price freeze, what the evidential basis is for the statement that there is a pipeline of £187 billion of investment in the electricity sector.
Michael Fallon
The latest National Infrastructure Pipeline data published by HM Treasury in December 2013, in support of the National Infrastructure Plan 2013. This shows that total combined investment for electricity generation, transmission & distribution, when aggregated from 2013/14 onwards in real terms, is £187.4bn:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 993, on energy efficiency, how many households in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area have received energy efficiency improvements under the Energy Company Obligation.
Gregory Barker
The Department breaks down the provisional number of Energy Company Obligation (ECO) measures installed by local authority area and parliamentary constituency in its quarterly Official Statistics series:
I will be placing copies of the tables showing the number of households in each local authority area (Table 1) and parliamentary constituency (Table 1a) that had ECO measures installed up to the end of December 2013 in the Libraries of the House.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 414W, on pre-school education, who the 43 early years providers are who have been granted full or partial exemptions from the learning and development requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.
Elizabeth Truss
Local authorities have a statutory duty to secure free early years provision for eligible children in their area. Local authorities determine which providers should receive early education funding in accordance with statutory guidance issued by the Department for Education. Since September 2013, local authorities have been expected to base their decision on whether to fund providers to deliver early education places solely on a provider’s most recent Ofsted judgement.
Exemptions to the learning and development requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) can only be made in one of two circumstances:
Exempt providers remain subject to inspection and any independent school which subsequently falls below ‘good’ loses their exemption. The first exemption was introduced in 2012. The second exemption was in place under the previous Government.
The Answer of 10 April 2014 (Official Report, col 414W, on pre-school education) explained that Departmental records showed there were 43 early years providers with full or partial exemptions from the learning and development requirements of the EYFS, that were in receipt of local authority funding for early education at the time the exemption was granted to the provider.
34 of these are still in receipt of local authority funding for early education. A further five providers with a full or partial exemption are now in receipt of early education funding but were not at the point their exemption was granted. One further provider has received an exemption since the previous PQ was answered and is in receipt of early education funding. Of these 40 providers, 33 are exempt under the exemption in place under the previous Government, only 7 are exempt under the exemption introduced in 2012. These 40 providers are listed below.
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Providers who were in receipt of local authority funding for early education at |
Reasons for Exemption |
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1. Apple Star Early Years (Community Interest Company), Reading |
Steiner – established principle route |
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2. AZBUKA Russian Nursery, London |
Language – established principle route |
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3. Beechtree Steiner Kindergarten, Leeds |
Steiner – established principle route |
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4. Botton Village School, North Yorkshire |
Steiner – established principle route |
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5. Brighton Steiner School |
Steiner – established principle route |
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6. Bromsgrove (Pre-Prep and Nursery) School, Worcestershire |
Independent – Good |
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7. Buttercups Little Kindergarten, Cambridgeshire |
Steiner – established principle route |
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8. Calder Valley Steiner School, Calderdale |
Steiner – established principle route |
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9. Cambridge Steiner School Kindergarten |
Steiner – established principle route |
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10. Children of One End Street, Gloucestershire |
Steiner – established principle route |
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11. Children’s Garden, Exeter |
Steiner – established principle route |
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12. Children’s Garden, Richmond |
Steiner – established principle route |
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13. Children’s Garden, University of East London |
Steiner – established principle route |
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14. Cobnuts Steiner Kindergarten, Kent |
Steiner – established principle route |
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15. Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School, Dudley |
Steiner – established principle route |
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16. Falkner House, London |
Independent – Outstanding |
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17. Greenwich Steiner School |
Steiner – established principle route |
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18. Hoathly Hill Kindergarten, West Sussex |
Steiner – established principle route |
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19. Kingsley School, Bideford |
Independent – Good |
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20. Lancaster Steiner School |
Steiner – established principle route |
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21. Laurel Farm Kindergarten, Bath |
Steiner – established principle route |
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22. Michael Hall School Kindergarten, East Sussex |
Steiner – established principle route |
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23. Michael House a Steiner Waldorf School, Heanor |
Steiner – established principle route |
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24. North London Rudolph Steiner School |
Steiner – established principle route |
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25. Rowan Tree Kindergarten, Bristol |
Steiner – established principle route |
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26. Rudolph Steiner School, Kings Langley |
Steiner – established principle route |
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27. St Albans Steiner Kindergarten |
Steiner – established principle route |
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28. St Michael Steiner School, London |
Steiner – established principle route |
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29. St Paul’s Steiner School, London |
Steiner – established principle route |
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30. Sunlands Kindergarten, Gloucestershire |
Steiner – established principle route |
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31. The Ryleys School, Cheshire |
Independent – Outstanding |
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32. Waldorf Steiner of South West London |
Steiner – established principle route |
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33. Willow Tree Steiner School, Bristol |
Steiner – established principle route |
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34. York Steiner School |
Steiner – established principle route |
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The following five providers are now in receipt of early education funding, |
Reasons for Exemption |
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1. Elysia Children’s Garden |
Steiner – established principle route |
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2. James Allen’s Preparatory School, London |
Independent – Outstanding |
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3. Oswestry School (Bellan House), Shropshire |
Independent – Outstanding |
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4. The Linden Kindergarten, Gloucestershire |
Steiner – established principle route |
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5. Wynstones School, Gloucestershire |
Steiner – established principle route |
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One further provider has received an exemption since the previous |
Reasons for Exemption |
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1. Finton House, London |
Independent – Outstanding |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2014, Official Report, column 284W, on children: day care, how many survey packs were sent out to (a) childminders and (b) parents; and when the surveys were completed.
Elizabeth Truss
The surveys of childminders and parents were not stand-alone surveys but part of a much wider piece of action research by IPSOS Mori and Ecorys to gather findings from child minder agency trials. The surveys of childminders and parents were carried out to supplement fieldwork carried out with organisations trialling and testing elements of the agency model. The surveys were not intended to be fully representative of local populations and sample sizes were small. 1,622 survey packs were sent out to childminders and 3,426 packs were sent out to parents. The final closing date of the survey was 7 March 2014; the research is still being finalised.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received from the (a) Local Government Association, (b) Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and (c) Welsh Local Government Association on issues of staff protection, finance and timing in relation the proposal to establish a single fraud investigation service.
Esther McVey
DWP has worked very closely with the Local Government Association, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Welsh Local Government Association throughout the life of the Project and continues to do so. All three organisations hold regular meetings with the Project and also have representatives on the key consultative and governance groups, for example the SFIS Project Steering Committee.
The subject of staff terms and conditions has been discussed and we have assured all our stakeholders that terms and conditions of employment will be protected. This protection will be documented in the transfer order and employees transferring will not be subject to less favourable terms and conditions when they join DWP. This is in line with the Cabinet Office Statement of Practise for Staff Transfers in the Public Sector.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what correspondence he has received relating to reductions in the number of podiatrists employed in each of the regions of England in each of the last three years.
Dr Daniel Poulter
A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified four items of correspondence about reductions in the number of podiatrists employed in England, three were received in 2012 and one was received in 2014. This is a minimum figure which represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.
Following the Westminster Hall debate on 4 December 2013 about Podiatry services, secured by the hon. Member for Corby (Andy Sawford); the Chief Executive of the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists, wrote to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health (Jane Ellison) who responded to the debate, expressing concern about the reduction of podiatrists staffing levels in some areas.
In that debate the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health explained that “in situations in which services need to be changed, the NHS commitment is to make sure decisions are made in a clear and transparent way, so that patients and the public can understand how services are planned and delivered. Through the mandate, NHS England is responsible for services and for working with local clinical commissioning groups to ensure that their services are based on the needs of the local population within the resources available and there has to be evidenced-based best practice”.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote best practice in NHS podiatry services in (a) NHS England, (b) health and wellbeing boards and (c) clinical commissioning groups.
Dr Daniel Poulter
The Mandate from the Government to NHS England holds NHS England to account for improving patient care. Within NHS England, the National Clinical Director for Rehabilitation and Recovery in the Community and the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer are leading on work to improve adult rehabilitation services including collection and dissemination of best practice, which will serve to enhance the care of those with foot diseases.
NHS England is taking a number of actions to improve footcare services for people with diabetic foot disease. Some of these actions are in line with Diabetes UK’s foot campaign “Putting Feet First” while others go beyond the suggestions included in the campaign.
The actions include the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set which contains an indicator on “Complications associated with diabetes including emergency admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis and lower limb amputation”; the launch of a National Diabetes Footcare Audit scheduled for July of this year; and an NHS Improving Quality pilot project to reduce the premature mortality associated with diabetic foot disease.