Tag: Jim Cunningham

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-02-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many grants of what value were made by his Department for meningitis research programmes in each of the last five years.

George Freeman

Since 2011, the Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has made the following awards through its research programmes and fellowship schemes for research relating to meningitis:

– Impact of conjugate vaccination on population immunity to pneumococcal and meningococcal disease in England: immunosero-epidemiological analysis (£605,843; 2013-15); and

– Improving the diagnosis of meningitis in adults in the United Kingdom (£415,242; 2013-16).

In addition, the NIHR funds research relating to meningitis through:

– the NIHR Clinical Research Network;

– NIHR Biomedical Research Centres;

– NIHR Clinical Research Facilities for Experimental Medicine; and

– Health Protection Research Units.

Since 2011, the Department’s Policy Research Programme has made the following award for research relating to meningitis:

– Characterisation of meningococcal carriage isolates from UK MenCar4 study (£199,990; 2016-17).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the police have been called to investigate offences involving a knife or other sharp instrument within school grounds in each year since 2010.

Mike Penning

The Home Office does not hold this information.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) men, (b) women and (c) children who have travelled to those parts of Syria and Iraq which are controlled by Daesh in each of the last two years.

Mr John Hayes

We believe approximately 800 UK linked individuals of national security concern have travelled to take part in the Syrian conflict since it began. Of those who are known to have travelled, about half have returned. This number will include men, women, and some individuals who were under 18 at the point of travel.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of internet service provision across all Government departments in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Matthew Hancock

The information requested is not held centrally, departments have responsibility for their own Internet service provision.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the value of the assets held by the Air Cadet Organisation; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Julian Brazier

The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The capitalisation threshold to be recorded on an asset register is £25,000, so assets held which do not meet that threshold will only appear on unit inventories across the entire Air Cadet Organisation

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of households that owned their home in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Brandon Lewis

Of the estimated 22.5 million households in England in 2014-15, 14.3 million or 64% were owner occupiers. The proportion of all households in owner occupation increased steadily from the 1980s to 2003 when it reached a peak of 71%. A period of gradual decline in owner occupation followed but this has recently abated with a slight increase in owner occupation rates between 2013-14 and 2014-15.

The department publishes this information annually in the English Housing Survey headline report. Percentage of households that are owner occupiers, England:

	Thousands of households	percentages
1980	9,680	56.6
1981	9,860	57.2
1982	10,237	58.6
1983	10,613	60.0
1984	10,990	61.3
1985	11,305	62.4
1986	11,619	63.5
1987	11,934	64.6
1988	12,248	65.7
1989	12,515	66.3
1990	12,782	67.0
1991	13,050	67.6
1992	13,069	68.2
1993	13,280	68.3
1994	13,429	68.7
1995	13,467	68.5
1996	13,522	68.5
1997	13,629	68.6
1998	13,817	69.0
1999	14,091	69.9
2000	14,340	70.6
2001	14,359	70.4
2002	14,559	70.5
2003	14,701	70.9
2004	14,678	70.7
2005	14,791	70.7
2006	14,791	70.1
2007	14,733	69.6
2008	14,628	68.3
2008-09	14,621	67.9
2009-10	14,525	67.4
2010-11	14,450	66.0
2011-12	14,388	65.3
2012-13	14,337	65.2
2013-14	14,319	63.3
2014-15	14,324	63.6

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on the introduction of the next BBC Royal Charter; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Government will set out its plans for the future of the BBC in a White Paper in May.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many hotel bookings were made for (a) ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department during the negotiation processes for local authority devolution deals in each of the last three years.

Mr Mark Francois

Ministers, special advisers and civil servants in this department undertake a variety of visits to support the delivery of Government’s devolution and local growth objectives and other departmental business. We do not hold figures for the number of hotel bookings made specifically to support the negotiation of devolution deals.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-05-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many representations she has received from headteachers on academisation in each of the last 12 months.

Edward Timpson

The Secretary of State, Ministers and officials at the Department regularly receive many representations from head teachers about schools converting to academies. All of the Department’s responses make clear that the conversion of schools to academies is part of the Government’s commitment to achieve educational excellence everywhere.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information she holds on trends in recruitment of teachers of priority subjects in secondary schools across the UK in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Nick Gibb

Information on recruitment numbers can be found in Table 1c of the Main Tables: SFR46/2015 of Initial teacher training: trainee number census – 2015 to 2016, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2015-to-2016

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