Tag: Jim Cunningham

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on the restructuring process set out in the review of the Air Cadet Organisation; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Julian Brazier

I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 10 March 2016, (Official Report, column WS605).

A programme of works has been developed to deliver the improved infrastructure and accommodation at Volunteer Gliding Squadrons. Work also continues to align and integrate the various training courses for Air Cadets into an integrated aviation training package. In future this will be tailored to a cadet’s level of experience and will cover aviation related ground training, realistic flight simulation with part-task training glider simulators, and formal gliding instruction on Volunteer Gliding Squadrons.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-23.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2016 to Question 31494, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on immigration policy; and if he will make a statement.

Greg Hands

Treasury Ministers have regular discussions with Ministers from other departments on a range of different policies as part of collective decision making.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of dental practices which were accepting NHS patients in each of the last five years.

Alistair Burt

Information is not collected centrally by the Department on the number of dentists taking on new patients.

The table below shows the expenditure on National Health Service dental services. The total expenditure figures have been broken down into primary care (delivered by high street dentists through General or Personal Dental Service contracts (GDS/PDS)) and other services (delivered in community and secondary care settings).

		2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15
1	Primary Care (Net) Expenditure on GDS / PDS	£2,075,965	£2,175,560	£2,190,685	£2,056,469	£2,030,294
2	Patient Charge Revenue	-£617,014	-£637,121	-£653,006	-£683,583	-£716,014
3	Primary Care (Gross) Expenditure on GDS / PDS	£2,692,979	£2,812,681	£2,843,691	£2,740,052	£2,746,308
4	Other (Community and Secondary Care)	£826,857	£602,327	£740,640	£818,042	£851,687
5	Total Expenditure	£3,519,836	£3,415,008	£3,584,331	£3,558,094	£3,597,995

Notes:

Total expenditure is the sum of rows 3 and 4.

Expenditure figures between years is not directly comparable owing to changes in commissioning arrangements from primary care trusts (PCTs) to NHS England from April 2013.

In addition, responsibility for public health and prevention programme moved from PCTs to local authorities.

Source: Rows 1, 2, 3 -Primary Care expenditure Departmental accounts; row 4 – Other Programme Budgeting NHS England.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-26.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of neonatal deaths in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in each of the last ten years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of requiring all schools to convert to academies; and if she will make a statement.

Edward Timpson

Taking the Spending Review and last month’s Budget together, we have set aside the funding to support a high quality, academised school system. We have over £500m available in this Parliament to build capacity in the system – including recruiting excellent sponsors and encouraging the development of strong multi-academy trusts.

The precise costs will depend on how schools individually and collectively come forward with academy proposals. There will, however, be a range of help available to support schools to become academies and secure the associated benefits.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-05-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic effect of the High Speed 2 project on Coventry; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Much of the research on the impacts of HS2 on specific areas of the UK so far has focussed on the HS2 named cities such as Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and London. However, to build an understanding of the potential for HS2 to contribute to balanced economic growth in the UK, The Economic Case for HS2, published in 2013, apportioned the estimated social benefits of the project to different regions. The West Midlands was estimated to receive 15% of the benefit of the full ‘Y’ network in 2036, valued at £303m (in 2011 prices). Coventry, located close to the planned HS2 Birmingham Interchange station, can be expected to benefit from faster journey times through the high speed network as well as released capacity on the classic network.

Early research published in the HS2 Regional Economic Impacts report in 2013 attempted to estimate the gross GVA effects of HS2 on the West Midlands economy in 2037 and produced an illustrative estimate of between £1.5bn and £3.1bn of additional output per annum (in 2013 prices). We continue to refine the methodology of how we assess regional economic impacts and build evidence on the contribution which HS2 could make to creating sustainable and balanced economic growth.

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.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-05-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many visits by (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department were made to Coventry in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The Secretary of State for Health and his team have visited the following in an official capacity in the last five years:

The former Secretary of State (Mr Andrew Lansley)

1 March 2012 University Hospital Coventry

The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Anna Soubry)

16 October 2012 Coventry City Council

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Jane Ellison)

16 September 2014 Warwick University

15 September 2015 Warwick University

The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Dr Daniel Poulter)

24 January 2013 University Hospital Coventry

The Secretary of State for Health (Mr Jeremy Hunt)

18 April 2013 Warwick University

16 September 2015 Warwick University

Information on visits by officials is not routinely collected and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-06-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of his Department’s civil servants were based in Coventry in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Mark Francois

My Department has not had any civil servants based in Coventry in the last five years, or in fact since the department was created under the last Labour government.

My Department has 16 offices across England, with staff working to drive up housing supply, increase the number of home owners, boost local growth and support strong communities with excellent public services. We have 69 employees in the West Midlands in our Birmingham office.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) unsuccessful and (b) successful applications there were for planning permission for residential homes in each of the last five years.

Brandon Lewis

We publish statistics on our website concerning dwellings. In the results attached we have used figures from ‘Table 2.5 s78 planning appeals – dwellings decided & allowed’ on the Planning Inspectorate Statistics page. Below is a link to this page.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-statistics

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