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 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.

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 the cost was of translation and interpreter services used by each borough and county council in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Brandon Lewis

This information is not centrally held.

As outlined in the Written Ministerial Statement of 12 March 2013, Official Report, column 5WS, we have given guidance to local authorities to stop translating into foreign languages, as it wastes taxpayers’ money, undermines community cohesion, promotes segregation and discourages integration into British society.

In that Statement, it was noted that estimates had suggested that local authorities were previously spending nearly £20 million a year translating into foreign languages. This illustrates the scope for councils to make savings by stopping such translation, using the money instead to support frontline services and keep council tax down.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers took early retirement in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk and (c) England in each of the last five years.

Mr David Laws

The following table provides the number of teachers in publicly-funded schools who took early retirement in Suffolk local authority and England in March 2008-09 to March 2012-13. This is the latest information available. Information for Bury St Edmunds constituency is not available.

	Suffolk LA[1],[2]	England[1],[2]
March
2008-09	130	8,570
2009-10	100	7,810
2010-11	130	9,380
2011-12[3]	180	9,780
2012-13[3]	150	8,630

Source: Pensioner Statistical System (PENSTATS).

[1] Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 teachers.

[2] Includes Premature Retirements, Actuarially Reduced Benefits and Ill Health.

[3]Provisional estimates. 2011-12 data will remain provisional until summer 2015 and 2012-13 data is likely to remain provisional until summer 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the average travelling distance to a 24-hour accident and emergency department for people in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales.

Jane Ellison

No estimate has been made by the Department. NHS England has, however, published best practice guidance ‘Planning and delivering service changes for patients’. In the guidance, commissioners are reminded that where any changes are proposed to urgent and emergency care services they need to provide analysis of travelling times and distances, identifying the impact on pedestrians and public and private transport users, as well as the ambulance service where relevant.