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46471

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many empty homes there are in (a) Rossendale and (b) Darwen.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	194838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Data on vacant dwellings by tenure and district, including Rossendale and Blackburn with Darwen, can be found in live table 615 which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants</a></p><p>This table brings together figures on vacant dwellings in England drawn from several separately published sources.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

46497

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Rossendale and Darwen have received funding from the pupil premium; and how many pupils in each such school have attracted such payments.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	194837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>In financial year 2013-14, 52 schools in Rossendale and Darwen received a pupil premium allocation. A list of these schools and the number of eligible pupils are provided below. In addition to the main deprivation pupil premium, schools receive allocations for looked after children and service children, though this information is not available at school level due to data protection issues. More information on pupil premium allocations for financial year 2013-14 can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2013-to-2014-final-allocation-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2013-to-2014-final-allocation-tables</a></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>School Name</p></td><td><p>Total Number of Pupils Eligible for the Deprivation Pupil Premium</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Britannia Community Primary School</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Primary School</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bacup St Saviour's Community Primary School</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sharneyford Primary School</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bacup Thorn Primary School</p></td><td><p>122</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Helmshore Primary School</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ramsbottom Stubbins Primary School</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall Water Primary School</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waterfoot Primary School</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tonacliffe Primary School</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crawshawbooth Primary School</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall St Paul's Constable Lee Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Mary's Rawtenstall Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edenfield Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall St Anne's Church of England Primary School, Edgeside</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Veronica's Roman Catholic Primary School, Helmshore</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Bacup</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St John with St Michael Church of England Primary School, Shawforth</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, Whitworth</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alder Grange Community and Technology School</p></td><td><p>168</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fearns Community Sports College</p></td><td><p>247</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whitworth Community High School</p></td><td><p>124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, Rossendale</p></td><td><p>141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belthorn Primary School</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rawtenstall Cribden House Community Special School</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sunnyhurst Centre</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lower Darwen Primary School</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turton Belmont Community Primary School</p></td><td><p>x</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avondale Primary School</p></td><td><p>126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sudell Primary School</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holy Trinity VC School</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turton and Edgworth CofE/Methodist Controlled Primary School</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Darwen St Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Darwen St James' Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Stephen's Tockholes CofE Primary School</p></td><td><p>x</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Edward's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Darwen</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Darwen Vale High School</p></td><td><p>376</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashleigh Primary School</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Darwen Aldridge Community Academy</p></td><td><p>361</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>X - Schools with less than five pupils or a percentage based on less than five pupils or an allocation amount based on less than five pupils have had their figures suppressed for data protection.</p><p># - Pupil numbers for these schools are not included as they are either a maintained special school, special academy, pupil referral unit (PRU) or alternative provision (AP) academy. The premium for these establishments may be held with the local authority (please see the conditions of grant).</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

46598

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people normally resident in Rossendale and Darwen constituency were prosecuted for offences relating to fraudulent claims for jobseeker's allowance in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	194836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available because the data is not collated in a format for Rossendale and Darwen Constituency only. This information could only be provided by examining individual investigation files which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

46599

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in (a) Rossendale and (b) Darwen were found guilty of (i) drunk and disorderly behaviour and (ii) drunk and aggravated behaviour in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	194835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. This database holds information on offences provided by the statutes under which proceedings are brought but not the specific circumstances of each case. It is not possible to separately identify from this centrally held information the location of an offence or the home address of an offender. This detailed information may be held on the court record but due to the size and complexity is not reported centrally to the MoJ. As such, the information requested can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

46618

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of congestion on roads in Rossendale and Darwen constituency.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	194832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Estimates of road congestion levels for Parliamentary constituencies are not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do however hold data at the local authority level. Road congestion is measured in the Department by morning peak speeds, defined as 7am to 10am. In 2013, the average weekday morning peak speeds, on locally managed ‘A' roads in Blackburn with Darwen (local authority) and Lancashire County, both of which partly contain Rossendale and Darwen constituency, were estimated to be 19.3 and 25.3 miles per hour respectively. The equivalent figure for the whole of England in 2013 was 24.7 miles per hour.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Equivalent figures for earlier years back to 2007, and all other local highway authorities in England, can be found on the Department for Transport's website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279125/cgn0206.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279125/cgn0206.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

46649

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment vacancies were advertised in Jobcentre Plus offices in (i) Rossendale and (ii) Darwen in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	194839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We do not advertise in jobcentres, all vacancies are now advertised on Universal Jobmatch System, which was introduced in November 2012. The system does not provide data at jobcentre level, as all vacancies notified to the system are available to all users.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

45351

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, how many e-Petitions have led to debates being arranged in the House since their introduction.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	193795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>Since the launch of the Government e-petitions site, 27 petitions have reached the 100 000 signature threshold making them eligible for consideration for debate. The topics of 22 have been the subject of debate in the House of Commons, most as a direct result of the e-petition. Seven of these debates have taken place in Westminster Hall on a Monday afternoon, in the additional time made available specifically for the consideration of e-petitions.</p><p>Issues raised in e-petitions which have not reached the 100 000 signature threshold have also been debated regularly in the House.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Andrew Lansley question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 123 label Biography information for Lord Lansley
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

44954

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the working population of Rossendale and Darwen constituency is employed in the (a) public and (b) private sector.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	193530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <blockquote><p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p></blockquote><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ 193530 ONS 137.pdf title Working Population - ONS Letter
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

44956

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases of child benefit fraud his Department is investigating.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	193521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) approach to Child Benefit error and fraud is to verify all new claims and, on a risk basis, to check existing claims for incorrect information against data from other systems. Where HMRC consider that a claim may not be correct, they open an enquiry. Where the enquiry determines that the claim is incorrect, the claim or part of the claim is terminated.</p><p> </p><p>Child Benefit compliance enquires are carried out continually throughout the year and as at 31 March 2014, HMRC had 3565 ongoing cases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

45006

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce absences from school due to bullying.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	193533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The Government has made tackling all forms of bullying a top priority. It is never acceptable for a child to be bullied, victimised or harmed in any way and the Government does not want any young person to be absent from school due to the effects of bullying.</p><p>All schools are required, by law, to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying among pupils. Ofsted now holds schools clearly to account for their effectiveness. Under the current Ofsted framework, school inspectors consider pupil behaviour and safety, which includes how well schools prevent bullying, harassment and discrimination.</p><p>In the Education Act 2011, we strengthened teachers' powers to discipline pupils for poor behaviour, including bullying. They can now issue same day detentions, confiscate banned items and search for, and if necessary delete, inappropriate images on mobile phones which might be linked to cyberbullying.</p><p>We are also providing £4 million of funding over two years from spring 2013 to four organisations: Beatbullying, the DianaAward, Kidscape and the National Children's Bureau, to develop effective measures in school to prevent and tackle bullying.</p><p>Good schools create a positive ethos with clear expectations about pupil behaviour that prevent bullying from happening in the first place and deal with it quickly if it does occur.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the effect that bullying can have, that is why on 17 March 2014 we published a factsheet to help schools identify and support pupils which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry