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171508

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date	18/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of annual expenditure on tax credits is allocated to the administration of the programme.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	219406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Rt Hon Member for Birkenhead to HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2013-14.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 09/01/2015 14:20:39 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

171570

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date	18/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of academies and free schools have chosen to use the national curriculum or to use it as a basis for their teaching.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	219405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Our online surveys of academies and free schools asked the extent to which (if at all) they intended to follow the new national curriculum in September 2014, for a number of subjects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figure 13 of the report called “Do academies make use of their autonomy?” provides the data for academies. The overall conclusion of the research was that the a large majority of academies are planning to follow the national curriculum to some extent or a great extent in all subjects and particularly in English and mathematics where only 1 per cent do not plan to do so. The report is published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/do-academies-make-use-of-their-autonomy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/do-academies-make-use-of-their-autonomy</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figure 3 of the report called “Are free schools using innovative approaches?” provides the data for free schools. The overall conclusion is similar to that for academies with a large majority of free schools planning to follow the national curriculum in all the subjects that they offer and all planning to do so in English and mathematics. The report is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/innovative-thinking-within-free-schools" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/innovative-thinking-within-free-schools</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 05/01/2015 17:42:17 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

171228

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much and what proportion of annual expenditure on housing benefit is allocated to the costs of administering that benefit.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	219154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>DWP has contributed £304m to the costs of local authorities administering Housing Benefit for 2015/16. The amount allocated to local authorities for more financial years can be found in the link below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-for-local-authorities-subsidy-circulars" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-for-local-authorities-subsidy-circulars</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 05/01/2015 10:14:48 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead