Tag: Jim Cunningham

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the financial support her Department has provided to the United Nations Childrens’ Fund in each of the last five years.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The core and non-core contributions (in £ millions) made by DFID to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from 2009/10 until 2013/14 can be found in the table below. These figures are taken from DFID’s internal data sources and DFID’s publication ‘Statistics on International Development’.

Delivery Channel	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14
DFID core funding to UNICEF	21.0	23.6	40.0	40.0	46.0
DFID non-core funding to UNICEF	113.9	127.4	207.1	192.3	270.1
Total DFID funding to UNICEF	134.9	151.0	247.1	232.3	316.1

Data for 2014/15 will be included in the next release of DFID’s ‘Statistics on International Development’ publication. This is due for release in February 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-01-28.

To ask the Attorney General, if he will estimate the costs attributed to the Department for Education by the former Treasury Solicitor’s Department in each year since 2010.

Robert Buckland

The Treasury Solicitor’s Department was renamed the Government Legal Department (GLD) on 1 April 2015. It is primarily funded through the fees it charges for its legal services. It provides Litigation, Employment, Commercial and Advisory legal services to the Department for Education (DfE). The fees charged to DfE for this work, including the cost of disbursements, are as follows:

Financial year	Fees (excluding VAT) £
2010-11	4,208,845
2011-12	4,499,546
2012-13	4,805,840
2013-14	4,409,976
2014-15	4,098,629

Providing information on the costs attributed to cases relating to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 would incur disproportionate cost as it would involve a manual exercise to identify those historical cases that relate to FOI.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-02-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of employment and support allowance there were in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in each of the last five years.

Priti Patel

The information requested by local authority, region and Great Britain has been published and can be found at: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp.

Guidance on how to extract the information can be found at: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp.

Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland: http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research.htm

“

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received from civil society organisations on the admissions criteria of faith schools; and if she will make a statement.

Nick Gibb

It is the role of the Schools Adjudicator, not the Secretary of State, to consider concerns about school admission arrangements. Where a person or body has concerns that a school’s admission arrangements do not comply with the School Admissions Code, they may refer an objection to the Adjudicator. The Adjudicator must consider whether the arrangements comply with the Code and the law relating to admissions.

It has been possible for groups such as civil society organisations to refer objections since 2012. Since then, the Adjudicator has received objections from a range of groups or organisations about the admission arrangements of faith schools.

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