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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many adults in (a) East Lancashire, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West exercised for at least 30 minutes a week during the most recent period for which figures are available.

Jane Ellison

The Department has made no such estimate. However, the Active People Survey commissioned by Sport England measures the proportion of adults (aged 16 and over) who undertake some form of physical activity at moderate intensity (or higher). Data from the most recent survey can be found in the following table.

Active People Survey (APS) data, 2012

Proportion of the adult population (age 16 years and over) participating in 30 or more equivalent minutes of moderate activity per week.

Area	30+ minutes
England	71.5%
North West Region	68.8%
Lancashire County	69.6%
Blackburn with Darwen UA	63.1%
Blackpool UA	65.1%
Burnley	65.0%
Chorley	75.3%
Fylde	68.0%
Hyndburn	63.7%
Lancaster	74.4%
Pendle	66.1%
Preston	69.3%
Ribble Valley	74.1%
Rossendale	66.8%
South Ribble	69.5%
West Lancashire	73.3%
Wyre	65.6%

Source: Active People Survey, Sport England

Notes:

1. The data were collected between January 2012 to January 2013 (APS6 Quarter 2 to APS7 Quarter 1).
2. The APS is commissioned by Sport England and measures the proportion of adults (aged 16 and over) participating in sport and/or undertaking some form of physical activity at moderate intensity (or higher).
3. The survey uses a 28-day reference period to record the number of minutes of physical activity (of at least 10 minutes) and then divides the number of minutes by four to come up with a weekly average (e.g. two hours of physical activity over the 28 days equates to 30 minutes per week). Number of minutes presented is the equivalent minutes of moderate activity, which consists of moderate activity plus double the number of vigorous minutes of activity.
4. The activities included in the APS are; sport, recreational cycling and walking, walking and cycling for active travel purposes, dance and gardening.
5. The percentages are weighted to adjust the results so that they are representative of the whole population at local authority, regional and national level.
6. Further information and data are available at these websites:

www.noo.org.uk/data_sources/physical_activity/activepeople

www.sportengland.org/research/active_people_survey.aspx

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many keyhole surgery operations for heart surgery were carried out in (a) East Lancashire and (b) Airedale in each of the last three years.

Jane Ellison

The information is shown in the attached table.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) East Lancashire and (c) the North West are registered organ donors.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is in the following table:

Proportion of people in Pendle constituency, East Lancashire and the North West who are registered organ donors as at 10 June 2014

Area	Number on the Organ Donor Register	Population estimate1	% on the Organ Donor Register
Pendle Constituency	22,071	89,613	24.6%
East Lancashire2	137,865	530,605	26.0%
North West 3	2,083,446	7,084,337	29.4%

¹ Source: Office for National Statistics mid-2012 population estimates

² East Lancashire comprising the districts of Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale

³ This comprises:

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Central and Eastern Cheshi, Cumbria, East Lancashire, Halton and St Helens, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, North Lancashire, Oldham, Salford, Sefton, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop, Trafford, Warrington, Western Cheshire, Wirral

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve respite care provisions in Pendle constituency.

Norman Lamb

We have provided £400 million to the National Health Service over four years from 2011 for carers to have breaks from their caring responsibilities.

In the 2013 Spending Review, we announced the £3.8 billion Better Care Fund, which includes £130 millionfunding for carers’ breaks for 2015-16.

In 2015-16, East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group will receive £8.1 million from the Better Care Fund.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles have been found to be in breach of rules about tinted windows in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Lancashire in each of the last five years.

Stephen Hammond

The Department has information broken down relating to the enforcement by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for the most recent year. The following prohibitions were found in the year to March 2014, a) 710 in England, b) 62 in the North West and c) 37 in Lancashire. National totals for the previous 4 years were, 2013 – 720, 2012 – 663, 2011 – 1617, 2010 – 2364. The Department does not have the Police data for this offence at this time. Enforcement of Construction and Use regulations is a matter for both DVSA and the police.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fixed penalty notices were issued to drivers of vehicles registered in another country that should have been but were not registered in the UK in each of the last five years.

Stephen Hammond

Failure to register a vehicle following the six-month exemption period is not an offence for which a fixed penalty notice can be issued. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency instead writes to keepers of these vehicles offering them an out of court settlement where it appears that an offence has been committed, so that the matter may be resolved without court proceedings. The table below shows the amount of these out of court settlement letters issued in the last five financial years.

YEAR	NUMBER OF OCS ISSUED
09/10	108
10/11	83
11/12	192
12/13	59
13/14	84

Since April 2014, 237 out of court settlement letters have been issued.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to improve the reliability of tracking methodologies for foreign (a) registered and (b) unregistered vehicles in the UK.

Stephen Hammond

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) receives information on foreign registered vehicles from the police and other enforcement agencies, as well as from members of the public. Other ways of obtaining this information are currently being explored.

The DVLA has been working with the police to pilot a new enforcement process. This involves the DVLA providing the police forces with registration numbers of foreign registered vehicles which may have overstayed the six- month exemption period and where the keepers have not complied with UK requirements. This information enables the four police forces involved to seize and impound vehicles that have overstayed, where appropriate. If the pilot is successful, the DVLA will explore the potential for extending it to more police forces.

The DVLA is also working with other government agencies to establish what other data might be used to track and identify over staying foreign registered vehicles.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for how many vehicles registered in another country applications were made to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority to register them in the UK in each of the last five years.

Stephen Hammond

The table below shows figures for the amount of vehicles registered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) that were previously registered elsewhere between 2009 and 2012.

YEAR	NUMBER OF VEHICLES
2009	65,060
2010	62,373
2011	58,379
2012	57,910

Since 2013 the way that certain vehicle transactions are processed has changed and the data gathered about foreign registered vehicles is no longer readily available. In 2013, the DVLA processed 99,168 applications to register new and previously registered imported vehicles.