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 Justice, how many people aged under 18 have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of (i) indecent exposure, (ii) public drunkenness, (iii) drug possession and (iv) hate crime in each year since 2010.

Caroline Dinenage

The number of juveniles proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of offences of exposure and simple public drunkenness, in England and Wales, from 2010 to 2014 can be viewed in the table.

The number of juveniles proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of offences of drunkenness with aggravation in a public place, drug possession and hate crime offences, can be viewed in the CJS Outcomes by Offence data tool in the latest annual Criminal Justice Statistics publication, which is available at the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014

Crimes that may have been motivated by hate but are not defined hate crimes are not specifically included in this data.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received from his US counterpart on the security situation in Libya; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Philip Hammond) spoke with US Secretary of State Kerry on 29 February and discussed a range of issues, including Libya. We have regular discussions with international partners, including the United States, in support of the Libya Political Agreement, including on security matters.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2016 to Question 903912, what estimate her Department has made of number of postgraduate trainee teachers recruited in each of the last five years.

Nick Gibb

The data requested has been attached to this answer and can be found in Table 1b at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2015-to-2016

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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.