Tag: 2016

Peter Lilley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Peter Lilley on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his letter of 15 December 2015 setting out Skills Funding Agency priorities and funding for 2016-17, whether it is his policy that an area can only have its adult education budget devolved once it has fully implemented the recommendations of its area review.

Nick Boles

The Area Review process has been designed to bring about a more resilient and sustainable post-16 sector in the given locality, better able to exploit the opportunities made available through the recent SR and better placed to meet local skills needs. As such the completion of an area review, leading to an agreed plan for implementation, is an essential pre-cursor to the full devolution of the adult education budget.

01/01/2023
Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jon Trickett on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which providers are expected to provide accommodation for the estimated 20,000 Syrian nationals to be resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme by 2020.

Richard Harrington

The UK has been operating resettlement schemes for many years and we already have established and effective networks to accommodate and support resettled people.

This is a voluntary scheme whereby local authorities sign up to accept refugees on a voluntary basis. It is up to each individual local authority to decide how best to manage the resettlement of refugees in their area, and they are therefore free to choose their own delivery partners.

01/01/2023
Gavin Robinson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gavin Robinson on 2016-03-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2016 to Question 30414, on terrorism; Hyde Park, if the Secretary of State for Justice will support the Hyde Park victims by providing financial assistance outwith the Legal Aid Agency process.

Mr Shailesh Vara

The Government’s sympathies are with the victims and friends and families of those who lost their lives and were injured in this terrible attack.

As I said in my answer of 14 March to Parliamentary Question 30414, decisions on funding individual cases are taken independently by the Legal Aid Agency. The decision not to provide legal aid funding for this claim for damages was made as it does not meet the criteria set by Parliament. Ministers are prevented by law from intervening in the individual decisions of the Legal Aid Agency.

The legal aid scheme sets out the extent of the circumstances in which Parliament has decided it is appropriate for the taxpayer to fund litigation. The Government has no current plans to change arrangements for funding in damages cases or provide alternative funding to meet litigation costs.

01/01/2023

Sharon Hodgson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much each local authority in England has received from the Adoption Support Fund since its creation.

Edward Timpson

The table below shows how much each local authority in England has received from the Adoption Support Fund since its creation:

LA	ASF Total Spend to Date (£)
Barking and Dagenham	44,196.20
Barnet	166,813.26
Barnsley	29,235.00
Bath and North East Somerset	40,261.47
Bedford	81,340.50
Bexley	70,451.00
Birmingham	160,325.87
Blackburn with Darwen	81,696.80
Blackpool	57,601.98
Bolton	55,920.00
Bournemouth	28,727.76
Bracknell Forest	21,444.10
Bradford	309,173.00
Brent (prev Herts)	43,973.00
Brighton and Hove	123,200.90
Bristol	199,771.70
Bromley	12,314.00
Buckinghamshire	205,907.10
Bury	70,376.30
Calderdale	102,775.50
Cambridgeshire	251,323.18
Camden	93,988.70
Central Bedfordshire	88,479.91
Cheshire East	184,035.96
Cheshire West and Chester	151,425.46
City of London	–
Cornwall	260,491.05
Coventry	66,094.00
Croydon	37,369.65
Cumbria	362,150.10
Darlington	25,810.00
Derby	58,166.80
Derbyshire	301,734.86
Devon	458,850.32
Doncaster	182,252.82
Dorset	19,004.00
Dudley	77,882.90
Durham	145,119.27
Ealing (prev Herts)	387,675.71
East Riding of Yorkshire	147,132.67
East Sussex	374,962.27
Enfield	95,085.44
Essex	276,241.07
Gateshead	8,984.00
Gloucestershire	1,213,955.86
Greenwich	91,407.75
Hackney	165,218.00
Halton	32,759.50
Hammersmith and Fulham	35,313.56
Hampshire	244,384.30
Haringey	203,142.10
Harrow (prev Herts)	57,459.50
Hartlepool	17,631.96
Havering	1,170.00
Herefordshire	58,998.20
Hertfordshire	293,849.02
Hillingdon (prev Herts)	8,301.84
Hounslow (prev Herts)	5,640.25
Hull	116,738.65
Isle of Wight	36,944.00
Isles of Scilly	–
Islington	78,032.34
Kensington and Chelsea	18,535.01
Kent	367,991.20
Kingston	56,034.14
Kirklees	294,390.30
Knowsley	30,508.70
Lambeth	75,001.00
Lancashire	440,242.16
Leeds	199,474.72
Leicester	105,823.75
Leicestershire	189,426.69
Lewisham	139,396.50
Lincolnshire	109,876.35
Liverpool	50,392.10
Luton	19,413.60
Manchester	263,742.75
Medway	113,923.40
Merton	121,835.40
Middlesbrough	24,273.84
Milton Keynes	129,924.42
Newcastle upon Tyne	132,122.00
Newham	29,051.00
Norfolk	472,360.80
North East Lincolnshire	169,037.20
North Lincolnshire	3,603.50
North Somerset	82,103.50
North Tyneside	61,443.20
North Yorkshire	612,921.58
Northamptonshire	209,503.74
Northumberland	28,498.90
Nottingham	172,346.00
Nottinghamshire	97,291.97
Oldham	20,030.50
Oxfordshire	34,818.65
Peterborough	51,391.02
Plymouth	221,433.97
Poole	13,321.38
Portsmouth	77,709.42
Reading	26,652.00
Redbridge	54,632.80
Redcar and Cleveland	16,840.00
Richmond	320,954.40
Rochdale	61,243.50
Rotherham	201,774.40
Rutland	–
Salford	89,485.40
Sandwell	26,059.00
Sefton	29,383.92
Sheffield	300,284.78
Shropshire	92,774.00
Slough	16,578.00
Solihull	247,751.00
Somerset	144,238.40
South Gloucestershire	90,356.73
South Tyneside	86,296.60
Southampton	42,207.80
Southend-on-Sea	69,489.25
Southwark	264,437.46
St. Helens	17,909.80
Staffordshire	248,092.20
Stockport	37,947.87
Stockton-on-Tees	42,182.60
Stoke-on-Trent	131,143.67
Suffolk	390,301.42
Sunderland	165,319.14
Surrey	302,995.50
Sutton	52,715.00
Swindon	58,167.50
Tameside	127,575.59
Telford and Wrekin	–
Thurrock	21,901.60
Torbay	51,134.40
Tower Hamlets	16,004.00
Trafford	59,046.76
Wakefield	260,394.68
Walsall	30,730.00
Waltham Forest	5,552.00
Wandsworth	273,035.42
Warrington	63,546.60
Warwickshire	344,023.10
West Berkshire	40,060.00
West Sussex	400,439.03
Westminster	38,383.88
Wigan	30,686.85
Wiltshire	69,687.65
Windsor and Maidenhead	59,604.50
Wirral	8,334.40
Wokingham	51,360.90
Wolverhampton	63,073.60
Worcestershire	201,224.60
York	188,133.45
TOTAL	19,892,053.92

* Shropshire provides Telford and Wrekin’s Adoption Service

* Leicestershire County Council provides Rutland’s Adoption Service

* Cornwall make applications on behalf of the Isles of Scilly

* City of London have had no adoptions from care during the relevant period.

01/01/2023

Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of agency supplied staff supplied to secondary schools in each of the last five years.

Nick Gibb

Supply teachers provide a valuable role for schools, and schools themselves are best placed to make staffing decisions to reflect their individual needs. It is up to head teachers and governors to decide who is required for the job and this includes how best to cover absences.

The Department for Education collects details of all teachers working in state funded schools through the annual School Workforce Census. However, this census does not separately identify agency teachers from those employed by schools.

01/01/2023
Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of people being diagnosed with enlarged prostates.

David Mowat

In the majority of men, the prostate grows larger with age, and patients usually present to a general practitioner with symptoms of an enlarged prostate after the age of 50. Symptoms can include: weak urine flow; needing to urinate more often, especially at night; a feeling that your bladder has not emptied properly; and, difficulty starting to urinate. Some men find their symptoms are manageable and cause few problems, other find their symptoms worsening, which can impact on wellbeing and quality of life.

For patients who need treatment, there are a number of approaches available including lifestyle and dietary adjustments, medicines and surgery.

01/01/2023
Edward Leigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Edward Leigh on 2016-09-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce differences in urban and rural school funding.

Justine Greening

The government is committed to a national funding formula that will deliver fairness to all parts of the country – rural and urban, north and south.

In the first stage of our consultation, we proposed including a sparsity factor which would help rural schools, as well as a lump sum factor which would help small schools everywhere.

We will both respond to the first consultation and launch the second stage consultation later in the autumn.

01/01/2023
Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what value of freight was imported by sea into the UK in each of the last five years.

Anna Soubry

Data on the value of freight that was imported by sea into the UK in each of the last five years is available from Eurostat’s Comext database (“EXTRA-EU Trade since 1999 by mode of transport”). This data covers only UK imports by sea from the Non-EU countries. Data by mode of transport for intra-EU trade is not available in value terms.

01/01/2023
Keith Vaz – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to encourage increased international donor support for Yemen.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The UK is the fourth largest donor to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and has more than doubled its humanitarian support over the last year to £85 million for 2015/16. We have so far helped more than 1.3 million Yemenis with medical supplies, food, water, and emergency shelter.

We continue to call on other donors to step up. In July 2015 the Foreign and Development Secretaries wrote to international donors to raise the profile of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis and encourage more funding to the response. In September, the Development Secretary co-hosted a meeting on Yemen’s humanitarian crisis at the UN General Assembly, at which donors (including the UK) pledged an additional £85 million.

We will continue to encourage donors to give generously to the newly launched UN humanitarian appeal for 2016.

01/01/2023
Julian Knight – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Knight on 2016-03-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment he has made of the safety of railways in the UK and other European countries.

Claire Perry

The United Kingdom currently has the safest record of any major railway network in Europe. All European Union Member States collect statistics about their safety performance including, for example, accidents and consequences, accident precursors and technical information. This material is collated by the European Railway Agency in its Annual Safety Performance Reports which are published at www.era.europa.eu/Core-Activities/Safety/Safety-Performance/Pages/Safety-Performance-Report.aspx.

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01/01/2023