Tag: Jim Cunningham

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-02-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of licences issued for houses of multiple occupation in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Brandon Lewis

The numbers of licences issued for houses in multiple occupation during the relevant period were:

	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15
Coventry	233	216	282	357
West Midlands	1,426	2,997	3,284	3,562
England	34,464	36,256	27,182	38,530

The Department only began collecting this data in 2011 and collects data in respect of England.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of students enrolled in the English Baccalaureate in each year since its inception; and if she will make a statement.

Nick Gibb

Information on the percentage of pupils entered for the components of the English Baccalaureate between 2009/10 and 2014/15 is published in the Statistical First Release “Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2014 to 2015”. [1]

[1] 2014/15 revised table can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/494052/SFR01_2016_National_Tables.xlsx. (Table 1b)

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many representations he has received from (a) European and (b) American officials pertaining to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement in each of the last 12 months.

Anna Soubry

Ministers and officials in the Department, for Business, Innovation and Skills are in regular contact with officials from the European Commission, EU Member States and US, as we work to secure a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement that benefits UK businesses, workers and consumers. This includes discussions with negotiators, legislators, administrations, and various other stakeholders from the EU and US.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) total number and (b) cost has been of (i) flights, (ii) rail journeys and (iii) taxi journeys taken by (A) ministers, (B) special advisers and (C) officials of his Department related to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiation process; and if he will make a statement.

Anna Soubry

The European Commission conducts trade negotiations – including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – on behalf of the EU and, where appropriate, Member States. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not therefore incur the direct costs of the TTIP negotiating rounds.

It is rare that travel undertaken by Ministers and officials relates solely to TTIP, but will usually encompass other issues. Officials within the Transatlantic and International Unit in my Department have the lead policy responsibility for TTIP as well as certain other international matters. The total travel expenditure by these officials in 2014/15 was £25,081, in 2015/16 £14,269.

The cost to the Department of any travel undertaken in relation to TTIP is greatly offset by the economic prize that an ambitious agreement offers. Independent analysis shows that a comprehensive TTIP agreement could give an annual boost to the UK economy of as much as £10 billion each year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of military personnel based at RAF Akrotiri in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

Penny Mordaunt

Staffing numbers at RAF Akrotiri are kept under review and fluctuate in response to operational requirements. The average number of UK Military personnel based at RAF Akrotiri in each of the last 12 months is as follows and includes those temporarily deployed in support of Operation SHADER:

March 2015	1,096
April 2015	1,142
May 2015	1,162
June 2015	1,170
July 2015	1,156
August 2015	1,137
September 2015	1,095
October 2015	1,140
November 2015	1,139
December 2015	1,301
January 2016	1,368
February 2016	1,341

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-03-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of his Department’s spend on the refurbishment of Drapers’ Hall, Coventry in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Government announced a range of investments in arts projects across the country in the 2016 Budget. This included £1 million for the refurbishment of Drapers Hall in the 2017/18 financial year.

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.