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444106

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date	12/01/2016
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	Employment: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of FTE positions supported by funding from Research Councils UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The table below provides the figures for full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed by the Research Councils as at 31 March 2015. It is not possible to estimate the number of FTE positions supported by grant funding awarded by the Research Councils given the multiple sources of funding which support many researchers.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>FTE as at 31<sup>st</sup> March 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Head Office staff<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Institute, Research Centre and Unit staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>AHRC</strong></p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>BBSRC</strong></p></td><td><p>282.3</p></td><td><p>962</p></td><td><p>1244.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>EPSRC</strong></p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>ESRC</strong></p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>MRC</strong></p></td><td><p>220<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>2205</p></td><td><p>2425</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NERC</strong></p></td><td><p>214</p></td><td><p>2171</p></td><td><p>2385</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>STFC</strong></p></td><td><p>217</p></td><td><p>1558</p></td><td><p>1775</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup></sup></p><p><sup>1</sup> Figures in this column include Research Councils UK Executive Directorate and cross-research council support staff.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Locally employed staff at the MRC’s two units in Africa are not included in this data.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 22/01/2016 14:15:00 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444131

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Living Wage Foundation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from the Living Wage Foundation in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government receives representations from a wide range of stakeholders on the minimum wage. A list of ministers’ meetings is published on the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/01/2016 16:24:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444136

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of companies issued fines for underpayment of the minimum wage in each of the last five years; what the total value of such fines issued is; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing compliance with minimum wage legislation and effective enforcement of it. Everyone who is entitled to the minimum wage should receive it.</p><br /><p>Employers who pay workers less than the minimum wage not only have to pay back arrears of wages at current minimum wage rates but also face financial penalties of up to £20,000 per underpaid worker. A further increase in penalties will come into force in April 2016 and will increase the penalty percentage from 100% to 200% of the underpayments owed to each worker, up to the existing maximum.</p><br /><p>I refer the honourable member to the answers provided at UIN 18487 and UIN 205613 for the information on penalties charged on employers.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 18/01/2016 16:53:54 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444150

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) total research and development spend by his Department in each of the last five years and (b) forecast research and development spend by his Department in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <br /><br /><p>Ministry of Defence (MOD) research and development expenditure is published in &quot;Departmental Resources Statistical bulletin&quot; (Excel Table 5), which is available at the following website:</p><br /><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/defence-departmental-resources-2015</p><br /><p>There is no fixed forward budget for research and development because development expenditure is mostly part of the equipment programme applied as needed against the development requirements of individual projects. The government will dedicate 1.2% of its growing Defence budget to the Defence Science and Technology Programme, the centralised research budget, under the Department's Chief Scientific Adviser.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/01/2016 16:11:32 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444163

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Science: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase retention levels of science teachers in funded secondary schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>Teacher retention rates have remained stable for over a decade. The Department does not hold data at subject level on retention rates, but approximately 90 per cent of all teachers are still in service in the year after they qualify, and 72 per cent of those who qualified in 2009 were still in teaching five years later. Over the longer term, over 60 per cent of teachers remain in service 10 years after qualifying.</p><p>It is vital for schools to be able to retain good teachers. That is why we have made significant policy interventions in the areas that teachers tell us matter most, such as improving pupil behaviour and reducing unnecessary workload. We have appointed behaviour expert Tom Bennett to lead a review to ensure new teachers are fully trained in dealing with disruptive children and to consider all of the challenges of managing behaviour in schools.</p><p>We have established three groups to address the biggest concerns that teachers raised in the workload challenge: marking, planning and data management. The groups will create principles for practice and make specific recommendations for action. All three groups are due to report to Ministers in 2016 and we are commissioning a biennial survey to track teacher workload, starting in the spring of 2016.</p><p>In 2015, the Prime Minister announced a £67m package that will help us to recruit an additional 2,500 mathematics and physics teachers and to improve the knowledge and skills of 15,000 existing teachers in those subjects.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/01/2016 11:19:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444168

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mathematics: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of vacancies of mathematics teachers in funded secondary schools in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is published in table 15 in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2014’ and is available from the following web link:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/01/2016 11:18:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444188

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Livestock: Antibiotics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial support her Department provides to livestock farmers to mitigate the development of antibiotic resistance; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>No specific financial support is offered to livestock farmers to mitigate the development of antibiotic resistance.</p><p>We will continue to promote the importance of the vet-farmer relationship, and the need to be proactive in looking at any measures in husbandry practices that will reduce disease, and therefore the need for antibiotics, in livestock production</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 19/01/2016 14:54:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444255

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission a review into the working hours of junior doctors; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Working Time Regulations provide the same protection to junior doctors as to other workers, limiting working hours to an average of 48 per week. Junior doctors, as is the case for all workers, may choose to opt-out of the Working Time Regulations and work beyond the limits; however, where they do so, their contract imposes a limit of 56 hours per week.</p><br /><p>The vast majority – 99% - of junior doctors are working within these current limits. Under the proposed new contract the limits on average weekly hours will continue to apply and there will also be limits that go further than the legislation including a cap on the maximum number of hours that junior doctors can work in any one week – the legislation permits 91 hours but the contract will limit this to 72. Under the new contract junior doctors will have work schedules setting out their duties, expected training opportunities and contracted hours. These will be regularly reviewed and junior doctors will be able to request a review at any time. There will be a system of exception reporting where work varies regularly and/or significantly from the work schedule. Junior doctors will also be able to report exceptions and concerns to a guardian of safe working for each organisation - whose appointment will be agreed with the British Medical Association - and request a review if they are not treated as promised.</p><br /><p>1% (around 500) of junior doctors has working patterns that are in breach of the current contractual limits on hours or rest. The new contract will bring an end to that.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/01/2016 17:18:31 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

444289

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Passengers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of passengers forecast to use the rail network in each of the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	22093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The most recent passenger forecasts for the rail network are published in the December 2014 National Policy Statement for National Networks (NPS)<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>. A summary of these forecasts is shown below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Table 2: Growth in Passenger km (in %) since 2011 including Phase 1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2026</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2033</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London &amp; South East</p></td><td><p>20.4%</p></td><td><p>31.2%</p></td><td><p>46.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long distance</p></td><td><p>12.9%</p></td><td><p>36.8%</p></td><td><p>63.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Regional</p></td><td><p>8.7%</p></td><td><p>16.5%</p></td><td><p>32.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total (average)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15.3%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30.5%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>50.1%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Network Modelling Framework (NMF) – estimates based on model runs conducted in October 2014. HS2 forecasts have been supplied by HS2 Ltd modelling team and incorporated as overlays to the NMF numbers.</p><br /><p>These can be compared against Office of Rail and Road (ORR) figures<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> for existing rail usage for the financial year 2014-15:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sector</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of passenger kilometres travelled (billions)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London &amp; South East</p></td><td><p>29.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long Distance</p></td><td><p>20.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Regional</p></td><td><p>12.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>62.4</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The Department for Transport (DfT) is currently undergoing an extensive update of the models involved in forecasting rail demand, specifically in preparation for the Control Period 6 planning. The update will ensure more recent evidence and data are taken into account whilst also ensuring wider consistency with separate modelling being conducted on the High Speed Rail (HSR). Later in 2016 DfT will be in a position to make another publication of forecasts ready for CP6.</p><br /><p>Given the nature of the model, a 10-year successive forecast for rail is not published.</p><br /> <br /><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387222/npsnn-print.pdf%20%202.28" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387222/npsnn-print.pdf 2.28</a> to 2.41</p><p><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/displayreport/report/html/34856085-cf9c-4e0d-a7f8-8f9e5ee1b772</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 19/01/2016 16:43:34 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham