Tag: Parliamentary Question

Lilian Greenwood – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2015-10-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2015 to Question 11472, what (a) his Department’s expenditure per head and (b) total expenditure from the public purse on cycling in each English region was in each year from 2011-12 to 2014-15; and what expenditure per head on cycling (i) by his Department and (ii) from the public purse is projected to be in each English region in 2015-16.

Mr Robert Goodwill

In the five years 2011/12 to 2015/16, the Department for Transport (DfT) has increased its spend on cycling in England from £1 per head to £3 per head. Local authorities also spend significant amounts on cycling and over the same period, total spend on cycling in England has increased from £2 per head to £6 per head. Spend is over £10 per head in the eight Cycle Ambition Cities and London.

	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
DfT spend per head	£1	£2	£2	£2	£3
Total spend per head	£2	£4	£5	£5	£6

The DfT budgets are:

DfT budgets:	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	Projected spend 2015-16
Cycle-Rail		£7.0	£7.5		£14.0
Bikeability	£11.7	£11.7	£11.7	£11.7	£11.7
Junction safety		£30.0	£5.0
Linking Communities	£13.0	£8.0	£7.5
Cycling Ambition – Cities/National Parks			£46.6	£46.6	£15.0
Highways Agency			£4.8		£16.7
LSTF- Cycling	£37.8	£37.8	£37.8	£37.8	£64.5
LGF					£20.2
Total DfT	£62.5	£94.5	£120.9	£96.1	£142.1

In 2014-15, the Department’s dedicated cycling programmes were Bikeability, Cycle Ambition Cities, Cycling in National Parks and the Highways Agency’s cycling programme. The Department also funds cycling programmes through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, with 28% of the LSTF being spent on cycling. The Department secures a range of match funding contributions from local authorities for these programmes: the LSTF secured 99% match funding.

Lists of projects and locations are available for the following programmes:

Cycle-rail:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycle-rail-fund-schemes-2015-to-2016

Linking Communities:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/linking-places-fund

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/linking-places-fund-tranche-2

Local Sustainable Transport Fund:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-sustainable-transport-fund

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/224172/project-summaries-consolidated.pdf

Cycle Ambition Cities and Cycling in National Parks:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycle-city-ambition-grants

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycling-in-national-parks-grants

Bikeability:

http://bikeability.org.uk/publications/

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December 1, 2022

Paul Flynn – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the Care Quality Commission’s recent progress in meeting its inspection programme’s targets.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. The CQC is an executive non-departmental public body accountable to the Secretary of State for the efficient and effective discharge of its functions, duties and powers. The Department monitors CQC’s financial and operational performance and risks, including progress with recruitment of inspectors, at a general and strategic level through regular formal and informal accountability meetings. Ministers and the Permanent Secretary also hold regular meetings with the Chair and Chief Executive of the CQC and its Chief Inspectors.

The CQC has advised that it expects the inspections of NHS acute hospitals to be completed as planned by the end of March 2016 and the inspections of the remaining NHS Hospitals by June 2016. Further planning is required for the independent health sectors to enable the December 2016 commitments to be met.

The CQC is currently behind the planned trajectories to have rated all adult social care and general practitioners and out of hours services by 30 September 2016. The time it has taken to both recruit the required numbers of inspectors and to ensure they are fully trained to conduct inspections has contributed to the current position. The CQC is considering what steps it can take to bring the programme back on track.

December 1, 2022
Bill Wiggin – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bill Wiggin on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to ensure that local authorities fix potholes during winter 2015-16.

Andrew Jones

The Department for Transport has not commissioned any research in respect to the condition of rural roads.

In December 2014 it was announced how this Government is allocating record funding of just under £6 billion to local authorities in England, outside London, for highways maintenance between 2015 and 2021. This funding can be used to fix potholes and improve the condition of the rural road network depending on the priorities and needs of the respective highway authority.

The following weblink provides information on how much funding is to be allocated between now and 2021 to local highway authorities for local highways maintenance. The funding is based on a formula which includes the length of carriageway an authority is responsible for rather than need:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highways-maintenance-funding-allocations-201516-to-202021

Herefordshire County Council will receive over £60 million between 2015 and 2021 from this funding.

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December 1, 2022
Tim Farron – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Farron on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many translators and analysts in the UK specialising in (a) Pashtun, (b) Oromo, (c) Tingrinya, (d) Amharic and (e) Tamil have contributed to supporting policing efforts in Calais.

James Brokenshire

Inclusive of 16 October 2015, the UK have contributed the following translators and analysts in response to requests from the French Border Police to assist in Calais

a) Pashtun – 1

b) Oromo – 1

c) Tingrinya – 19

d) Amharic – 0

e) Tamil – 0

In line with the terms of the joint Ministerial Declaration on UK/French co-operation on Managing Migratory Flows in Calais, support will be provided on an ongoing basis.

Please note that the figures on the provision of interpreters are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information. They are therefore provisional and subject to change.

December 1, 2022
Nicholas Soames – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of animal welfare laws on the protection of horses; and if she will make a statement.

George Eustice

When the Animal Welfare Act 2006 was reviewed in 2010, no recommendations were made specific to horses. Earlier this year, improvements were made to the Animals Act 1971 in relation to fly-grazing horses to enable horses left on other people’s land, without the landowner’s permission, to be removed more quickly. We have included the Riding Establishments Acts 1964 and 1970 in a review of animal establishment related licensing that my department is currently undertaking. We will issue a formal consultation shortly on a set of proposals.

December 1, 2022
Jamie Reed – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure reductions in funding to Cumbria Constabulary do not result in a reduction in police numbers.

Mike Penning

The size and make up of the police workforce is a matter for Chief Constables to take locally in conjunction with their democratically-elected Police and Crime Commissioners.

December 1, 2022
Nigel Huddleston – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nigel Huddleston on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Government has provided in Start Up Loans in Mid Worcestershire constituency since their creation.

Anna Soubry

Up to the end of September 2015, 20 Start-Up Loans have been issued in the Mid Worcestershire constituency at a value of £107,810.

December 1, 2022
Fiona Bruce – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Bruce on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that primary care records accurately record the number of (a) children and (b) adults with a diagnosis of autism.

Alistair Burt

The Department has discussed with NHS England the difficulties that people on the autistic spectrum can have in getting an appropriate diagnosis in a timely manner. With support from the Department, NHS England and the Association of Directors of Social Services will undertake a series of visits to clinical commissioning groups to discuss good practice in meeting the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standard 51 Autism, and those that do not, with the aim of supporting more consistent provision. These NICE guidelines already recommend that there should be a maximum of three months between a referral and a first appointment for a diagnostic assessment for autism. We expect the National Health Service to be working towards meeting the recommendations. Information on the average waiting time for an autism diagnosis in Devon in each of the last three years is not collected centrally.

General practitioners (GPs) are required to keep adequate records of their attendance on, and treatment of, their patients and this should include details of autism where it is known. For this to work successfully locally services undertaking autism diagnosis should pass information back to the GP who has made the original referral. This is outlined in the recent Autism Statutory Guidance for local authorities and the NHS.

December 1, 2022
Andy Slaughter – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Written Statement by the Minister for Courts and Legal Aid, of 15 October 2015, HCWS 239, on HM Courts and Tribunals Service, if he will initialise an internal review into the decision to discontinue the procurement competition referred to in the statement, with a view to subsequent publication of that review.

Mr Shailesh Vara

There are currently no plans to initiate an internal review.

December 1, 2022
Mark Hendrick – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the revenue Lancashire Constabulary obtained from vehicle storage fees in 2014.

Mike Penning

The Home Office does not hold this information. The police are empowered to levy statutorily prescribed charges as set out in the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges) Regulations 2008. The decision to use these powers is an operational matter for the police.

December 1, 2022