Tag: David Ruffley

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-emergency admissions to hospital via A&E departments were made in each NHS hospital in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is not collected centrally. The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Hospital Episode Statistics database classes all admissions through accident and emergency as emergency admissions.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were admitted to hospital for alcohol-related conditions through A&E in NHS hospitals in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2005.

Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format or for the period requested.

Information on the sum of alcohol attributable fractions of finished admission episodes for hospital providers in the east of England with an admission through accident and emergency departments from 2005-06 to 2012-13 is shown in the attached table.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions her Department has used police cells to hold immigrants in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each year since 2004.

James Brokenshire

The information requested is not routinely collected and could be provided only by examining individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms were confiscated in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk during the most recent firearms amnesty in November 2014.

Lynne Featherstone

The data from November’s firearms surrender is being collated and analysed by the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS). In the listed police force areas, the following numbers of firearms were surrendered: (a) Suffolk:
381, (b) Bedfordshire: 61, (c) Cambridgeshire: 123, (d) Essex: 126, (e) Hertfordshire: 223, (f) Norfolk: 577.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested and charged with possession of class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs in (i) Bury St Edmunds, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Norman Baker

The information requested is not available centrally. Data on arrests for drug
offences reported to the Home Office cannot be separated to identify arrests
for possession of specific drugs.

Data on resultant charges are not collected centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of working time police officers in each police force spent on frontline policing duties in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Damian Green

The Home Office does not hold this information centrally.

The Home Office does however collect police officer functions data which is
used by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary to calculate the number of
operational frontline police officers in each police force area. These figures
(and information on visible police
officers) are published from 2010 onwards as part of the ‘Valuing the Police’
inspection programme, which can be found at:
http://www.hmic.gov.uk/data/valuing-the-police-data/. These figures relate to
each officers predominant function over the year, rather than the proportion of
their working time.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persistent young offenders were registered in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many and what proportion of total offences were attributable to such offenders in that period.

Jeremy Wright

The prevention of reoffending by young people is a key priority for this Government. Overall crime and proven offending by young people is down, and fewer young people are entering the criminal justice system. But for those young people that are committing crimes it’s right that the most serious or persistent are sentenced to custody, and those that commit violent offences face tough sentences.

It is unacceptable however that nearly three-quarters of young offenders who leave custody go on to reoffend – this needs to change. That’s why we are doubling the amount of education we give those in Young Offenders Institutions and why we are reforming the youth estate with the introduction of Secure Colleges. These new establishments will tackle the root cause of offending by giving people the skills and self-discipline to gain employment and training upon release and turn their lives around. We announced on 8 June the name of the company selected to design and build the pathfinder.

Table 1 (attached) shows the number of young offenders by their previous criminal history for young offenders cautioned or sentenced (a) by Suffolk Police Force Area; and (b) across England and Wales. There is no national definition of a persistent offender, with Local Criminal Justice Boards setting criteria locally to identify persistent offenders based on their volume of crime and impact on their local community. The table below therefore shows offenders with one or more previous cautions or sentencing occasions. The Police National Computer (PNC) does not break down information below police force area; it is not therefore possible to provide data specific only to Bury St Edmunds. Due to variations in local definitions of “persistent”, it is not possible to determine the proportion of overall offences committed by “persistent” offenders in any of the geographical areas specified.

These figures are based on counting the number of separate occasions on which offenders were cautioned or sentenced in each year and some offenders will therefore be represented several times in the figures. They are based only on those offences recorded on the PNC by an English or Welsh police force, including the British Transport Police. The figures therefore exclude a range of low-level (non-recordable) summary offences committed by these offenders e.g. TV licence evasion and speeding as these are not recorded on the PNC. As with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in the East of England for road improvement in each of the last five years.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Department for Transport provides funding to local highway authorities through a number of funding programmes. This funding includes grant through both the Highways Maintenance and Integrated Transport Block grants. This funding can be used to improve local roads that the authorities are responsible for if they so wish.

The following tables provide the funding we have allocated to those authorities that fall within the East of England since 2010/11:

Local Highways Maintenance Capital Block Grant

Local Transport Plan Name	2010/11
	£m
Bedfordshire (Plan)	7.031
Cambridgeshire	12.809
Essex	23.075
Hertfordshire	17.456
Luton and Dunstable (Joint Plan)	1.284
Norfolk	23.948
Peterborough	8.663
Southend-on-Sea	2.019
Suffolk	18.094
Thurrock	1.484

Local Highway Authority	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
	£m	£m	£m	£m
Bedford	3.198	2.800	3.288	3.264
Cambridgeshire	13.394	10.695	12.750	11.662
Central Bedfordshire	4.645	3.920	4.728	5.469
Essex	26.029	19.838	22.482	22.573
Hertfordshire	23.611	18.585	20.962	22.019
Luton	1.404	1.070	1.193	1.255
Norfolk	29.354	21.403	24.230	24.963
Peterborough	3.899	3.029	3.472	3.578
Southend-on-Sea	2.219	1.720	1.795	1.948
Suffolk	22.683	17.668	20.145	20.666
Thurrock	2.194	2.132	2.023	1.990

Integrated Transport Capital Block Grant

Local Transport Plan Name	2010/11
	£m
Bedfordshire (Plan)	2.539
Cambridgeshire	6.104
Essex	10.455
Hertfordshire	8.755
Luton and Dunstable (Joint Plan)	2.014
Norfolk	8.224
Peterborough	1.818
Southend-on-Sea	1.660
Suffolk	5.061
Thurrock	1.366

Local Authority	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
	£m	£m	£m	£m
Bedford	1.101	1.006	1.006	1.415
Cambridgeshire	4.439	4.059	4.059	5.707
Central Bedfordshire	1.464	1.338	1.338	1.882
Essex	9.150	8.366	8.366	11.764
Hertfordshire	6.804	6.221	6.221	8.748
Luton	1.470	1.344	1.344	1.890
Norfolk	5.824	5.324	5.324	7.487
Peterborough	1.640	1.500	1.500	2.109
Southend-on-Sea	1.245	1.138	1.138	1.600
Suffolk	4.508	4.122	4.122	5.796
Thurrock	0.960	0.878	0.878	1.235

Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant, for maintaining their local highways.

The Department has also provided funding to highway authorities for local major road schemes as set out below:

Local Highway Authority	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15
	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m
Essex	26.4	26.0	6.2	0.0	0.2
Herts	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Luton	0.0	0.0	2.5	11.3	2.0
Norfolk	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	19.0

Note – Figures for 10/11 to 13/14 are actual spend figures. 14/15 figures are allocations.

The Department has also agreed to provide funding to authorities through the Local Pinch Point Fund. The Fund is aimed at removing bottlenecks on the local highway network and supporting growth-enhancing development. The Fund has been allocated to the following authorities in the last five years:

Local Authority	Scheme	2013/14 £m	2014/15 £m
Bedford Borough Council	Bedford Western Bypass Northern Section	4.500	0
Central Bedfordshire Council	Woodside Link Houghton Regis (A5-M1)	2.350	2.650
Essex County Council	A176 Nether Mayne, Basildon	0.763	1.583
Essex County Council	A414/A1025 (Clock Tower) Junction, Harlow	0.809	2.104
Essex County Council	Army and Navy Improvements: A1060 Parkway Widening	0.441	0.675
Essex County Council	Army and Navy slip road	0.260	1.191
Norfolk County Council	Great Yarmouth A12-A143 Link Road	0.835	3.910
Peterborough City Council	Junction 17 A1(M) – Junction 2 Fletton Parkway Widening Scheme	3.385	1.115
Southend on Sea Council	A127 B1013 Tesco Junction	0.320	2.943
Suffolk County Council	Completion of Lowestoft Northern Spine Road (phase 5)	0	4.635

Note: Pinch Point Funding is available in Financial Years 2013-14 and 2014-15 only.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many undergraduate students were resident in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Mr David Willetts

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The number of undergraduate enrolments to UK HEIs, for students domiciled in Bury St Edmunds parliamentary constituency, Suffolk Local Authority and England and Wales prior to their course, has been provided in the following table.

Information for the 2013/14 academic year will become available from HESA in January 2015.

Undergraduate enrolments domiciled in Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency⁽¹⁾, Suffolk Local Authority and England and Wales, prior to their course

UK Higher Education Institutions(2)

Academic years 2008/09 to 2012/13

	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13
Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency	2,890	3,045	3,125	3,210	2,860
Suffolk Local Authority	17,020	17,885	17,645	17,975	16,340
England and Wales	1,463,160	1,501,560	1,490,205	1,501,070	1,379,775

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record

Notes: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals.

(1) Parliamentary constituency is derived from the student’s postcode. Data for 2010/11 onwards is based on the revised boundaries since the 2010 General Election.

(2) Includes students attending Open University.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what change there was in the number of homelessness acceptances arising from the end of a private sector tenancy in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Kris Hopkins

To assist public scrutiny, a table showing homelessness acceptances due to loss of private sector tenancy, by local authority, in each year from 2003 to 2013 is available in the Library of the House,

Data is not collected by parliamentary constituency.

The dataset shows that under the last Administration, the average numbers were higher than under this Administration, especially when taking into account the changes in the overall size of the private rented sector.

I would note that the rental sector policies of HM Opposition would make the problem worse, by reducing availability of private rented accommodation, forcing up rents and discouraging investment in the private rented sector. By contrast, this Government is increasing house building, delivering £19.5 billion of investment in affordable housing, supporting billions of private investment in new private rented accommodation, providing £470 million to prevent and tackle all forms of homelessness, and avoiding the excessive regulation which would harm the interests of tenants.