Tag: John Pugh

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the figures for school absence in England were in each year since 2005.

Nick Gibb

Information on pupil absence in schools in England is available in the ‘Statistics: pupil absence’ series[1].

National absence figures between 2009 and 2014, can be found through the link to ‘Pupil absence in schools in England: 2013 to 2014’ in the spreadsheet named ‘National tables: SFR10/2015’.

Table 1.1 provides absence information across the first five half terms between 2009 and 2014.

National absence figures between 2005 and 2009, can be found through follow the link to ‘Pupil absence in schools in England, including pupil characteristics: academic year 2009 to 2010’.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-pupil-absence

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-01-20.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to increase the compensation available to Equitable Life pensioners.

Harriett Baldwin

There are no plans to review the payments made by the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. The Scheme closed to new claims on 31^st December 2015. However, the annual payments to With-Profits annuitants will continue unaffected for the duration of their annuity.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-03-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were permanently excluded from school during Key Stages 1 and 2 in (a) academies and (b) community schools in each of the last five years.

Nick Gibb

Information on the number of permanent exclusions in state-funded primary schools is published at national and regional level in the Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England[1] series. Information on the number of permanent exclusions in primary academies from 2010/11 to 2013/14 inclusive can be found in Table 18a of the 2013/14 release and Table 16a of the equivalent release for earlier years.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, approximately how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals are employed cleaning the Westminster estate of her Department.

George Eustice

This information is not held. The cleaners for Defra’s Westminster estate are provided by Interserve (Facilities Management) Ltd. The contract with the supplier requires them to follow all the appropriate checks when employing non British nationals, but the supplier has advised that they do not keep internal statistics about employees being British or non-British.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, approximately how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals are employed cleaning the Westminster estate of his Department.

James Brokenshire

My Department does not directly employ any cleaning staff within the Westminster estate, we utilise contracted services provided by HM Treasury.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, approximately how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals are employed cleaning the Westminster estate of his Department.

Mr Marcus Jones

The Department for Communities and Local Government shares its Westminster office space with the Home Office. I refer the hon Member to the answer to PQ number 47565.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many English secondary schools belong to an academy trust which has more than one school.

Edward Timpson

As of 29 October 2015, there are 1,093 English schools which provide some form of secondary education and are part of academy trusts with more than one school.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-02-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the criteria are by which his Department measures the level of service provided by rail franchises operating.

Claire Perry

Depending on the franchise, we measure the level of services provided by the performance against the set benchmarks (capacity, cancellations and delay minutes), and/or the Public Performance Measure. Some franchises are also measured against the National Passenger Survey results.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-03-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been permanently excluded from school during Key stage 1 and 2 in the last three years.

Nick Gibb

Information on the number of permanent exclusions in state-funded primary schools is published at national and regional level in the Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England[1] series. Information on the number of permanent exclusions in primary academies from 2010/11 to 2013/14 inclusive can be found in Table 18a of the 2013/14 release and Table 16a of the equivalent release for earlier years.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of staff on the payroll of her Department who work in Westminster are (a) British nationals and (b) nationals of another country.

George Eustice

All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.

More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.