Tag: MiDavies

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

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what progress she is making on raising the profile of International Women’s Day.

Caroline Dinenage

International Women’s Day has been marked for many years, and is an opportunity to celebrate the progress and achievements of women around the world.

I, and many other ministers, will be attending a series of events, workshops and meetings to celebrate the day. We will also be supporting some of the many events that will be held around the country in schools, workplaces and communities. We are all working together to promote International Women’s Day and each year I am amazed by the creativity and energy that is on display.

I hope that honourable members will also be supporting events to mark International Women’s Day.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the use of air quality management areas by local authorities.

Dr Thérèse Coffey

Air quality has improved significantly in recent decades and we are working at local, national and international levels to continue those improvements. The UK currently meets legal limits for almost all pollutants; however, reducing levels for nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) remains the most challenging.

Local authorities (LAs) have opportunities to improve air quality for the protection of public health and the environment through decisions they make on land use planning, permitting, roads and air quality management areas (AQMAs).

Across the UK, 259 LAs declared 715 AQMAs since 1999. Most AQMAs in the UK are in urban areas and have been established to address the contribution to air pollution from traffic emissions of NO₂ or particulate matter (PM₁₀). Details of the current AQMAs declared by LAs, broken down by region and pollutant, are set out in the table below.

Region	Total LAs	Number of LAs with AQMAs	For NO2	For PM10	For SO2
England (outside London)	294	193	497	38	6
London	33	33	33	29	0
Scotland	32	14	25	21	1
Wales	22	10	37	1	0
N. Ireland	11	9	20	7	0
TOTAL	393	259	612	96	7

The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking in schools to help young people spot the signs of mental illness.

Mr Sam Gyimah

Good mental health and wellbeing is a key priority for this Department. Young people have told us they would like to have opportunities to support each other and help to do this effectively.

We recently launched a suite of peer support activities, which include a call for evidence for stakeholders and children and young people and funding of up to £1.5m including a new digital innovation fund, to develop reliable, engaging and trusted advice online to help them understand both their own, and their friends mental health.

We will also be working with a core steering group, and wider advisory group of sector experts, including headteachers, youth leaders and charities, to look at what works in peer support, and how young people can strengthen their own networks.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many councils do not currently have a five-year land supply.

Gavin Barwell

We do not hold information centrally on how many local planning authorities do not have a five-year land supply for housing. A local planning authority’s five-year land supply position changes frequently and is subject to market conditions. The National Planning Policy Framework requires local planning authorities to keep their land supply under regular review.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2015-09-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce avoidable mortality in hospitals.

Jane Ellison

This Government is strongly committed to improving patient safety, including encouraging greater transparency about the performance of hospitals against key indicators for safety.

We are leading an ambitious programme of work to help trusts understand and act on their own mortality rates: the focus of this work is to support improvement at local level.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2015-09-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many enterprise zone bid applications have been received in each region.

James Wharton

I am delighted to confirm that we received 54 applications in the new Enterprise Zone bidding round by the closing date of Friday 18 September. The breakdown of applications is as follows;

Area	Number of bids received
East of England	6
East Midlands	9
North East	2
North West	9
South East	9
South West	8
West Midlands	6
Yorkshire & Humber	5
TOTAL	54

In view of the number of applications received, it will be a very competitive process and only the strongest bids will be selected.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2015-09-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new houses was built on brownfield land between May 2010 and May 2015.

Brandon Lewis

Statistics for 2013/14 were published in August 2015. These statistics showed that in 2013/14, 60 per cent of new residential addresses, including conversions to residential use, were created on previously developed land.

The figures in the 2013/14 publication are the first in the new series and so are not directly comparable to the previous Land Use Change Statistics which last published data covering the year 2011.

The Land Use Change Statistics provide the Department’s official source for estimating the proportion of new residential development on previously developed land (brownfield). They were historically collected from 1985 to 2011. The previous data collection was expensive to run. By switching to an innovative new methodology the Department has made significant savings whilst providing a statistical series more suitable for detailed statistical and spatial analysis than before.

Historical Land Use Change statistics are available on the Department’s website https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/land-use-change-statistics#archived-publications

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2015-09-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many confirmed cases of bovine tuberculosis there were in each of the last five years.

George Eustice

Statistics on the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle within Great Britain are published monthly on GOV.UK

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/incidence-of-tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain.

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