Tag: Hugh Bayley

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was given to schools in York Unitary Authority area in each year in 2008-09 and in each year since.

Mr David Laws

Total revenue funding allocations to York local authority (LA) covering maintained schools and recoupment academies for financial years 2008 to 2015 are as follows:

Total revenue funding to schools £m (cash)	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
York LA	98.3	101.6	107.4	107.6	109.5	114.2	118.2

These figures are in cash terms and include dedicated schools grant, other schools related grants in 2008-09 to 2010-11, pupil premium, Physical Education & Sport grant and universal infant free schools meals. Most of the additional grants were mainstreamed into the dedicated schools grant in 2011-12.

The table below shows capital funding for the financial years 2008 to 2014. The data is in cash terms.

Total capital funding to schools £m (cash)	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
York LA	26.7	23.1	18.4	8.0	8.7	8.5

Notes:

1. Capital allocations includes capital grant and supported borrowing allocations.

2. Figures are rounded to the nearest £100,000.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes there were at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in each year since 2008-09 and in each year since.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Count of Finished Consultant Episodes¹ where the provider was York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13²

Year	FCEs
2008-09	87,023
2009-10	91,528
2010-11	97,719
2011-12	103,847
2012-13	164,691

Notes:

¹Finished Consultant Episode (FCE)

A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.

²Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care)

Hospital Episode Statistics figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years) and changes in National Health Service practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pay for teachers was in York Unitary Authority area in 2008-09 and in each year since.

Mr David Laws

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 10 July 2013, Official Report 297W, which provided the gross average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers in service in local authority maintained schools in cash terms and real terms for York local authority, in each March, 1997 to 2009 and November 2010 to November 2011.

The gross average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers in service in publicly funded schools in cash terms and real terms for York local authority, in November 2012 is £36,300 in both cash and real terms (rounded to the nearest £100). 2013 figures will be available in late July 2014. Publicly-funded schools include both local authority maintained schools and academies. The source of this information is the November 2012 School Workforce Census.

Real terms figures were calculated from HMT GDP deflators, financial year, published on 1 April 2014 at the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what transport grant was given to York Unitary Authority in each year since 2008-09.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Department for Transport provides grant funding to local highway authorities, including the City of York. Funding allocated to the City of York since 2008/09 for transport purposes that the Department has records of is listed below:

Year	Capital £m	Revenue £m
2008/09	5.941	1.837
2009/10	6.219	0.738
2010/11	4.551	1.345
2011/12	3.899	0.421
2012/13	6.886	0.647
2013/14	16.997	0.932
2014/15	6.001	0.685

This funding is for Highways Maintenance, Integrated Transport, Local Sustainable Transport and Major Projects.

Since 2010 this Government has simplified funding arrangements to local authorities in order to provide them with greater flexibility in how the funding is spent to respond to local needs.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on the Warm Front scheme in York local authority area in each year since the inception of that scheme.

Gregory Barker

The last year of the Warm Front Scheme was 2012-13. There has been no further change in the Warm Front figures for York local authority area since my answer to you on 9^th July 2013.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on concessionary travel spending in York Unitary Authority in each year since 2008-09.

Stephen Hammond

The total amount spent by York City Council on concessionary travel, including the statutory concession and any relevant discretionary enhancements, is detailed in the table below:

	2008 – 09	2009 – 10	1010 – 11	2011 – 12	2012 – 13
York City Council spend on concessionary travel (£000s)	5,013	5,307	4,902	4,633	4,826

Figures for 2013/14 are still being collated.

Local authority formula grant has been the main vehicle for providing concessionary travel funding to local authorities since the current statutory concession’s introduction in 2008. Since this grant is unhypothecated it is not possible to provide a breakdown by authority.

In 2008 the Department for Transport provided English authorities with a total of £31 million to assist in the reissuing of concessionary passes, £130,972 of which was allocated to York City Council.

Between April 2008 and April 2011 the Department made Special Grant payments to authorities, in addition to the formula grant they were already receiving, recognising the additional cost of the extension to pre-2008 concessionary travel arrangements. The following table indicates the amount of funding available to York in each of the three years during which special grant was paid.

	2008 / 09	2009 / 10	2010 / 11
Special grant funding available to York City Council:	1,112	1,138	1,170

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) single-pensioner households in York and (b) two-pensioner households in York have received Warm Front assistance in each year since the inception of that scheme; and what the average spend has been on each such household.

Gregory Barker

The last year of the Warm Front Scheme was 2012-13. There has been no further change in the Warm Front figures for York local authority area since my answer to you on 9^th July 2013.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many serious and fatal road accidents there were in York Unitary Authority in each year since 2008-09.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The number of fatal and serious reported personal injury road accidents in York Unitary Authority for each of the calendar years 2008 to 2013 are given in the table below; by severity:

Number of reported personal injury road accidents in York Unitary Authority, by severity: 2008-2013

	Fatal	Serious
2008	9	71
2009	4	51
2010	4	56
2011	7	51
2012	4	45
2013	0	55

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.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of waste collected in City of York has been recycled in each year since 2008-09; and what funding his Department provided to City of York local authority to increase recycling rates in each of those years.

Dan Rogerson

The proportion of household waste collected in City of York which was recycled for the five years since 2008/9 is presented in the table below:

Year	Percentage (Rounded)
2008/9	45%
2009/10	43%
2010/11	45%
2011/12	46%
2012/13	46%

The proportion of all waste collected by City of York Council (household and non-household) which was recycled for the five years since 2008/9 is as follows:

Year	Percentage (Rounded)
2008/09	44%
2009/10	42%
2010/11	44%
2011/12	46%
2012/13	45%

These statistics are taken from data submitted by the Council.

Local authorities receive revenue support grant and council tax to fund waste collection and disposal. These funds are not ring-fenced. We have no record of funding to York City Council specifically to increase recycling rates over this period.