Tag: Lisa Nandy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-06-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether she or any of her ministerial colleagues were consulted by the Competition and Markets Authority on the date on which it plans to publish its investigation into the energy market.

Andrea Leadsom

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are an independent body and the date of publication of their reports is their decision. Officials, Advisors and Ministers in the Department have not made any representations to the CMA, and the CMA have not consulted Ministers or advisors, on the date of the publication of this report. Officials in my Department have discussed with the CMA their intended date of publication for final report on the energy market to inform the Department’s own planning.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average annual spend per pupil in secondary modern schools was in 2015-16 in (a) England and (b) each region.

Nick Gibb

Schools self-select their own admissions category on Edubase. 120 schools are identified as ‘secondary modern’.

The Department does not yet hold the income and expenditure data from 2015-16. The data will be available for those which are maintained by the local authority in December 2016, and for those which are academies in the summer of 2017.

The overall expenditure per pupil in secondary modern schools by each region for 2014-15 is listed in the following table:

Region	Number of secondary modern schools	Expenditure per pupil (£)
East Midlands	13	6,388
East of England	1	5,738
London	13	6,228
North West	15	6,416
South East	54	5,703
South West	7	5,928
West Midlands	11	5,547
Yorkshire and the Humber	3	6,729
England Total	117*	5,921

*Note: There are 3 secondary modern schools for which we do not have comparable financial data for them for this period. One of these converted to an academy during 2014-15, and one was reported as part of a federation with another school. The remaining school did not submit data to the Department. The expenditure per pupil takes into account expenditure from all income sources, including self-generated income.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what dates she held meetings with Dame Lowell Goddard between her appointment as chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and her decision to resign from that position; and which other people were present at each such meeting.

Sarah Newton

As the Secretary of State informed the Home Affairs Committee on 7 September, she has never met Dame Lowell Goddard.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-02.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to comply with the European Court of Justice judgment of 2015 on VAT on green products such as solar panels.

Jane Ellison

The UK has applied a five per cent reduced rate of VAT to installations of 11 different types of energy saving materials since 2001. That reduced rate remains in place and is unchanged.

Following the judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the government published a consultation on this particularly complex issue. We are currently considering the responses to this consultation.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school entrants are in receipt of the pupil premium in (a) England and (b) each region.

Edward Timpson

The proportion of grammar school pupils in receipt of the pupil premium in (a) England and (b) each region are given in the table.

Region	Number of grammar schools	Proportion of pupils receiving pupil premium
East Midlands	15	12.5%
East of England	8	5.6%
London	19	7.6%
North West	19	6.9%
South East	57	8.1%
South West	20	9.2%
West Midlands	19	10.0%
Yorkshire and the Humber	6	7.4%
England Total	163	8.5%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department sought legal advice in relation to the departures of Dame Lowell Goddard and Ben Emmerson QC from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

Sarah Newton

Provision of advice from legal advisers is subject to legal privilege.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-02.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue the Government has collected from VAT on household energy bills in 2015-16.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is not available. HM Revenue and Customs does not collect data on VAT revenue from particular goods and services.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school entrants were previously educated in fee-paying preparatory schools in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.

Nick Gibb

The data requested is not collected by the Department or local authorities.

The School Admissions Code[1] sets out that admission authorities must not “take into account any previous schools attended, unless it is a named feeder school” (para 1.9b) or “name fee-paying independent schools as feeder schools” (para 1.9l).

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code–2

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on work by Ben Emmerson QC for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse during the period since he left his post as senior lawyer on that inquiry; and if she will publish a breakdown of those costs.

Sarah Newton

On 12 March 2015 the former Home Secretary established the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse under the Inquiries Act 2005. The Inquiry is independent of the Government and is responsible for the management of its own budget and the publication of its own financial reports.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-02.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department’s policy is on VAT on household energy bills.

Jane Ellison

Supplies of fuel and power for domestic use are eligible for the five per cent reduced rate of VAT.