The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Brown on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) leaseholds and (b) freeholds have been transferred to academy trusts from local authorities since 2010.
Mr Edward Timpson
I refer the Rt hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Stockton North on 23 June 2014, Official Report c75W.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Brown on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what value of land has been transferred from local authorities into the leasehold or freehold ownership of academy trusts since 2010.
Mr Edward Timpson
I refer the Rt hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Stockton North on 23 June 2014, Official Report c75W.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Brown on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been paid to converter academies towards pre-opening costs since 2010.
Mr Edward Timpson
The total pre-opening costs for converter academies from 2010 to the end of March 2014 are £102 million.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK (a) regular military and (b) civilian personnel were based in City of York in each year since 2008.
Anna Soubry
Information on the number of UK regular military personnel based in the City of York Unitary Authority area for each year from 2008 until 2013 is published in Ministry of Defence Quarterly Location Statistics Table 3.3a, available on The National Archives website:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140116142443/http://www.dasa.mod.uk/index.php/publications/personnel/combined/quarterly-location-statistics
Information on the number of UK regular military personnel based in the City of York Unitary Authority area for each year from 2010 until 2014 is published in Ministry of Defence Quarterly Location Statistics Table 3.3a, available on the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/location-of-all-uk-regular-service-and-civilian-personnel-quarterly-statistics-index
Information on the number of UK civilian personnel based in City of York Unitary Authority area for each year from 1 April 2008 to 1 April 2011 is produced in the table below:
|
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
|
650 |
680 |
720 |
640 |
Information on the number of UK civilian personnel based in the City of York Unitary Authority area for each year since 1 April 2012 is now published in Ministry of Defence Quarterly Location Statistics Table 3.3a, available at the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/location-of-all-uk-regular-service-and-civilian-personnel-quarterly-statistics-index
Additionally, copies of the Quarterly Location Statistics are available in the Library of the House.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people were employed by the Defence Vetting Agency in (a) York and (b) total on 1 April in each year since it was created.
Anna Soubry
The figures in the following table represent people employed by the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting for 2012, 2013 and 2014 and its predecessor the Defence Vetting Agency until 2011, in York and total, on 1 April each year.
|
Staff based in York |
Overall total |
|
|
2003 |
220 |
320 |
|
2004 |
220 |
340 |
|
2005 |
230 |
350 |
|
2006 |
230 |
350 |
|
2007 |
230 |
360 |
|
2008 |
250 |
390 |
|
2009 |
300 |
450 |
|
2010 |
310 |
470 |
|
2011 |
260 |
430 |
|
2012 |
220 |
350 |
|
2013 |
180 |
310 |
|
2014 |
162 |
297 |
Notes:
Although the Defence Vetting Agency was founded in 1996 reliable figures are only available from 2003.
Figures are for Full Time Equivalents.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rory Stewart on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan interpreters have been granted asylum since he announced in 2013 that the resettlement package for Afghan interpreters would extend to any interpreter serving for a year continuously up to December 2012.
Mr Mark Francois
The ex- gratia redundancy scheme for locally engaged civilians (LECs) which was announced on 4 June 2013, includes a bespoke immigration arrangement specifically for Afghan LECs which is unrelated to the UK asylum system.
The ex-gratia scheme includes an offer of relocation to the UK for LECs who meet the relevant eligibility criteria. We estimate that up to 600 LECs will be eligible to apply for relocation via the ex-gratia scheme; the majority of these individuals will have been interpreters. Two have been granted visas; visa applications are being processed for another 269. Further applications will be processed as our remaining LECs are made redundant. We expect the first LECs to arrive in the UK later this summer.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bill Wiggin on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 125W, on the Press, when he expects a date for meeting victims of press abuse and their representatives to be finalised.
Mr Edward Vaizey
DCMS, in line with government procedure, publishes details of ministers’ meetings with external organisations, on a quarterly basis. When published, details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&publication_type=transparency-data
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Football Youth Development Programme has provided to York City FC to date.
Mrs Helen Grant
Between 1998 and 2006 Sport England invested £556,163 in York City FC for the Football Youth Development programme. No funding has been requested since 2006.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Football Foundation has provided to amateur clubs in York in each year since 2000.
Mrs Helen Grant
|
2000 |
£ 2,670 |
|
2001 |
£ 810 |
|
2002 |
£ 45,453 |
|
2003 |
£ 220,781 |
|
2004 |
£ 37,274 |
|
2005 |
£ 103,193 |
|
2006 |
£ 714,883 |
|
2007 |
£ 914,784 |
|
2008 |
£ 448,870 |
|
2009 |
£ 491,808 |
|
2010 |
£ 427,630 |
|
2011 |
£ 78,934 |
|
2012 |
£ 33,551 |
|
2013 |
£ 195,553 |
|
2014 |
£ 35,226 |
|
>01/06/2014 |
£ 13,793 |
|
Grand Total |
£ 3,766,512 |
[Information from the Football Foundation]
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department allocated to City of York Council for (a) local authority supported capital expenditure in housing stock and (b) major repairs allowance in each year since 2009-10.
Brandon Lewis
The information requested is as follows:
|
Year |
Major Repairs Allowance (£) |
|
2009-10 |
5,127,440 |
|
2010-11 |
5,242,423 |
|
2011-12 |
5,185,387 |
|
2012-13 |
5,266,485 |
The local authority received £1 million in Supported Capital Expenditure (Revenue) in both 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Following our reform and decentralisation of the Housing Revenue Account in April 2012, the system has fundamentally changed and no longer operates in that manner outlined in the Hon Member’s question. Councils now manage their housing stock without annual payments to or from central government. They now keep their rental income and use it to fund their housing stock (called ‘self-financing’).
In 2012, the move to self-financing included a one-off settlement payment to, or from, each council, giving each a level of debt it can support, based on a valuation of its council housing stock. Where the valuation was lower than the amount of housing debt supported through the Housing Revenue Account subsidy system, the government paid off the difference. Where the valuation was higher than the debt supported by the Housing Revenue Account subsidy, the council paid the difference to the government.
These payments were based on a valuation of each council’s stock, using a 30-year discounted cash flow model of income and expenditure. The costs in the model assumed that councils will need to spend on average 15 per cent more on managing, maintaining and repairing their stock than was assumed under the subsidy system. The self-financing settlement took into account an assessment of local authorities’ needs, including major repairs.
These reforms have given councils the resources, incentives and flexibility they need to manage their own housing stock for the long term and to improve quality and efficiency, and they have also provided a clearer relationship between the rent a landlord collects and the services they provide.