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226589

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will increase the level of funding available to the Equitable Life Payments Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	227222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to change the funding available to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The focus remains on finding and paying those policyholders who remain untraced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/03/2015 17:36:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

226557

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Business: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which York-based companies received financial support from (a) Yorkshire Forward in each of its last five years of operation, (b) the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Local Education Partnership and (c) the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership in each year since those bodies were created; and what the financial value of that support was in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	227314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>(a) This Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold details of all individual companies that receive financial support form Yorkshire Forward. Any financial support which Yorkshire Forward provided within the region was in line with the Agency’s Regional Economic Strategy and Corporate Plans and within its delegated financial authority.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(b &amp; c) The Government has provided £4m to the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNER) Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and £25.7m to the Leeds City Region (LCR) LEP to support growing businesses in their area through the Regional Growth Fund programme. Businesses in York are able to apply to access this funding. The YNYER and LCR Growth Deals are also jointly providing £8m to the bio-hub project at the University of York, which will support bio-renewable business and drive growth in the sector. In addition, the Government is providing a total of £925,000 for business support coordination in YNYER and LCR through our Growth Hub Programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 24/03/2015 15:51:11 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 50320 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226672

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Fracking: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) applications have been received for licences and (b) licences have been issued for fracking in (i) York, (ii) North Yorkshire and (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	227313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>A Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL) is a pre-requisite before any oil and gas operations, including fracking, can take place. No new PEDLs have been issued since 2008. DECC cannot comment on applications made in the current, 14<sup>th</sup>, Onshore Oil &amp; Gas Licensing Round, the results of which we expect to announce later this year.</p><p>All operations require planning permission, access agreement with relevant landowner(s), Environment Agency permits, HSE scrutiny, and DECC consent before they can commence. Within an existing PEDL, an application which included plans to frac in North Yorkshire was consented to by DECC in 2012 but, due to changes to the operator’s plans, the activity was not carried out.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 14:58:08 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226690

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	NATO
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2015 to Questions 226471 and 226472, if he will publish by way of further written Answer the further information he has requested from NATO before the dissolution of the present Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	227292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>NATO has recently adopted a more open policy to the publication of financial information. The UK has welcomed this move towards improved accountability and governance.</p><p> </p><p>Twenty four sets of accounts for common funded expenditure by NATO and its agencies for 2013 have been completed. The International Board of Auditors for NATO (IBAN) has finalised its audit for all but one. Three of the financial audit reports completed by IBAN were published in September 2014. A further three reports should be published in the coming weeks. NATO expects IBAN to audit the remaining accounts by the end of April 2015. The North Atlantic Council will make decisions on the public release of the remaining audit reports before the end of July 2015. NATO’s policy to release unclassified or declassified financial information was only agreed in January 2015 but it is not retrospective which is why none of the 2013 statements have been published so far.</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 financial statements are currently being finalised but have yet to be audited. Based on the current timetable we would expect them to be released between autumn 2015 and summer 2016.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 18/03/2015 16:01:30 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226779

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Cycling: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) accidents and (b) fatal accidents involving cyclists there have been in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York Unitary Authority area in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	227311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The table below gives the number of (a) accidents (b) fatal accidents involving cyclists and (c) the number of pedal cyclists killed in reported personal injury road traffic accidents in (i) York Central constituency and (ii) York Unitary Authority area in each year from 2010 to 2013.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total accidents involving pedal cyclists</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total fatal accidents involving pedal cyclists</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of pedal cyclists killed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Const</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Const</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Const</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Const</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Unitary Authority</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Unitary Authority</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Unitary Authority</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Unitary Authority</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Statistics for 2014 will be available in June 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/03/2015 14:55:01 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226777

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Cycling: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on cycling improvements in York Unitary Authority in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	227310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>In 2010-2011, the Department for Transport provided funding to York Unitary Authority (also known as City of York) for cycling through Cycling England, an arm’s length organisation set up in 2005. Funding totalled £1.379m. We do not hold a record of how the funding was split across each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In July 2011, City of York was awarded £4.645m revenue and capital funding through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund. The table below shows each year’s allocation for City of York. The funding supported a package of sustainable transport interventions called ‘i-Travel York’ which included cycling projects. We do not hold a record of how funding was split between i-Travel York’s various sustainable transport projects, but we do know that cycling improvements formed a significant element.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Revenue</p></td><td><p>Capital</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>0.421m</p></td><td><p>0.227m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>0.647m</p></td><td><p>0.594m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>0.777m</p></td><td><p>1.112m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>0.685m</p></td><td><p>0.182m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In July 2014, we awarded a further £1m to the City of York to support the continuation of their Local Sustainable Transport Fund project into 2015-16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/03/2015 15:02:38 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226775

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average cost was of a super off-peak rail return from York to Leeds in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	227312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>There is no “super off-peak rail return” from York to Leeds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/03/2015 15:03:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

226645

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	GCE A-level
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that funding is available for schools to enable them to maintain the variety of A-levels they offer.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Paul Uppal
	uin	227129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>For the academic year 2015/16, the Department for Education has maintained the base rate of funding for 16- to 19-year-olds in schools and colleges at £4,000 for full-time 16- and 17-year-olds, and £3,300 for 18-year-olds. This is sufficient to fund a study programme of 600 hours, which is enough for students to take three A levels and one AS level, plus around 150 hours of enrichment or tutorial activity across each two-year course. It is for schools to determine what they offer their students, taking into account the needs and aspirations of their students as well as the overall budget available to the school.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/03/2015 17:30:11 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4078 label Biography information for Paul Uppal

226646

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	GCE A-level
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding is available to schools to enable pupils to continue at A-level subjects they took at GCSE.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Paul Uppal
	uin	227130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Funding for 16- to 19-year-olds is sufficient for students to take three A levels and one AS level, plus around 150 hours of enrichment or tutorial activity across each two-year course. It is up to individuals to choose which subjects they wish to take at A level and not all students will choose to continue to study the same subjects they took at GCSE. It is for schools to determine what they offer their students, taking into account the needs and aspirations of their students as well as the overall budget available to the school.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/03/2015 17:28:56 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4078 label Biography information for Paul Uppal

226578

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	New Businesses: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many new business start-ups by women there were in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
	uin	227287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 227286 question first answered 16/03/2015 16:04:03 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 227286 227287 ONS 97 98.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - New Business Start ups
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord