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1718898

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2024 to Question 21868 on Buses: Carbon Emissions, how many and what proportion of the buses allocated funding under the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme 1 (a) are on the road in each local transport authority and (b) (i) have been and (ii) will be manufactured in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	26803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government has invested £410m into the Zero Emission Bus programmes since 2020, which has funded over <del class="ministerial">5,200</del> <ins class="ministerial">2,200</ins> buses across England.</p><p> </p><p>The Zero Emission Bus Regional Area (ZEBRA) 1 programme was launched in 2021 and awarded £270m funding to 16 local transport authorities (LTAs) in England (outside of London).</p><p> </p><p>ZEBs produced and sold in the UK are supported by a global supply chain; the below table outlines bus manufacturer’s location. The numbers in this table are not official statistics: they are based on the latest information available and are therefore indicative and subject to change.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>ZEBRA 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Transport Authority</p></td><td><p>Number of buses on the road</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer &amp; Location</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of York Council</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire County Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent County Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)   <br /> Irizar (Spain)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester City Council</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>110 – Wrightbus (UK)    <br /> 6 – Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk County Council</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire County Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>EvoBus/Mercedes (Germany) Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham City Council</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)   <br /> Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxfordshire County Council</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK) <br /> Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth City Council &amp; Hampshire County Council</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>4 – Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)    <br /> 23 – Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warrington Borough Council</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>131 – Wrightbus (UK) <br /> 15 – Mercedes (Germany)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/05/2024 15:07:02 question first ministerially corrected 23/05/2024 08:23:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 35513 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1717747

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Parkinson's Disease: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of numbers of Parkinson's specialist staff in (a) West Yorkshire integrated care board area and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	26021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>As of June 2023, there were 5.8 full-time equivalent (FTE) Parkinson’s Consultants working in the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts. There were 10.49 FTE Parkinson’s Clinical Nurse Specialists. This only includes those working in acute hospital services.</p><p>While the Department does not hold data specifically on the number of Parkinson’s specialist staff in England, we do hold data on the numbers working in the wider speciality of neurology. As of January 2024, there are over 1,800 FTE doctors working in the specialty of neurology in National Health Service trusts and other organisations in England. This includes over 900 FTE consultant neurologists. In 2023, the fill rate for recruitment into the specialty of neurology in England was 94%.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 20/05/2024 14:23:47 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1701029

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many zero-emission buses have been allocated funding under the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme 1 as of 15 April 2024; and how many and what proportion of those buses (a) have been ordered and (b) are on the road as of that date.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	21868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government provided £270 million to Local Transport Authorities under the ZEBRA 1 programme. This funded 1,314 buses,1,053 have been ordered of which 313 are already on our roads across England. <br></p><p>More recently, the Government announced ZEBRA 2, with a further £142.8 million to Local Transport Authorities. This will help LTAs to purchase more zero emission buses, going further in our commitment to reduce carbon emissions in the transport sector whilst improving service quality for users.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/04/2024 16:03:13 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1701031

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	Independent Case Examiner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to assign to an investigator a complaint to the Independent Case Examiner.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	21869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The rate at which complaints can be allocated to an investigator is dependent on multiple factors including the volume and complexity of complaints received, as well as available investigative resource.</p><p> </p><p>ICE is a demand led service and continues to receive high complaint intake volumes. It has experienced a 37% increase in referrals since April 2022, with an 18% increase in the 2023/24 operational year. Not all referrals into ICE are accepted for investigation. ICE has experienced an 83% increase in the volume of cases it has accepted since April 2020, with a 9% increase in the 2023/24 operational year.</p><p> </p><p>The ICE office continues to review its process and operating model and continuously seeks opportunities to maximise productivity, ensuring it operates with optimum investigative resource. In the past 20 months (August 2022 – March 2024) resource levels at the ICE office have increased by 18%. The unit is operating at 99.11% of its agreed headcount.</p><p> </p><p>The Office has reduced the volume of cases awaiting allocation to an investigator by 49% over the 2023/24 operational year. The combined number of cases being handled by the ICE Office at the end of March 2024 was 1462, this represents a 33% reduction from March 2023 despite the high intake levels experienced.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 18/04/2024 15:11:18 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1700410

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Pedestrian Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2024 to Question 16992 on Parking: Pedestrian Areas, if his Department will publish its response to that consultation before the end of this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	21297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>Pavement Parking is a complex issue. The Department is considering the consultation findings in order to reach the best outcome for all road users. We want to take the right step for communities and ensure that local authorities have appropriate and effective tools at their disposal and will make an announcement in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/04/2024 11:24:13 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1689357

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Personation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Fraud strategy, published on 3 May 2023, what progress his Department has made on introducing an identity checklist outlining the steps needed to (a) recover and (b) secure a stolen identity; and what his planned timeline is for the introduction of that identity checklist.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	14256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office published the Identity theft checklist on 5<sup>th</sup> December 2023. The checklist can be found on the Action Fraud website here: <a href="https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/a-z-of-fraud/identity-fraud-and-identity-theft" target="_blank">Identity fraud and identity theft | Action Fraud</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 27/02/2024 12:48:34 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1687959

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase access to NHS-provided weight loss surgery in the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	13477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning National Health Service specialist and bariatric weight management services. Rates of bariatric surgery fell across West Yorkshire during the pandemic as hospitals focused on surgeries that were more clinically urgent. More patients are, however, starting to receive treatment again. To speed up access to surgery, the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts, which includes the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, are working to ensure that people who have been waiting the longest times are offered the opportunity to have their surgery at an alternative hospital, if they wish.</p><p>Additionally, local areas and care providers in West Yorkshire are working together to review obesity and bariatric surgery commissioning policies and processes to ensure that they are providing care in the best and most efficient way possible, to make the most of resources and to offer treatment to more people who need it.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 19/02/2024 17:43:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1687962

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many zero emission buses had been allocated Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas funding as of 6 February 2024; and how many of those buses (a) have been ordered and (b) are on the road as of that date.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	13478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The following table presents information on the number of zero emission buses funded through the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas 1 (ZEBRA 1) programme by local transport authority. The numbers in this table are not official statistics: they are based on the latest information available and are therefore indicative and subject to change.</p><p> </p><p>ZEBRA 1 funding was awarded in March 2022 for local transport authorities except Oxfordshire who received funding in December 2022.</p><p><em> </em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Local Transport Authority</p></td><td><p>Number of buses funded</p></td><td><p>Number of buses ordered</p></td><td><p>Number of buses in service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent County Council</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester City Council</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warrington Borough Council</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk County Council</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire County Council</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth City Council &amp; Hampshire County Council</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool Council</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham City Council</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire County Council</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of York Council</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>136</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxfordshire County Council</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>1,309</p></td><td><p>1,031</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/02/2024 17:39:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1684213

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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	Shared Housing: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his department holds on the number and proportion of individuals in receipt of housing cost support at the shared accommodation rate with rent costs that (a) exceed and (b) are below the local housing allowance in each (i) rental market area and (ii) local authority area; and what estimate he has made of the median average gap between housing cost support and rent costs for individuals eligible for only the shared accommodation rate per (A) rental market area and (B) local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	10966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>This information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>The Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR) of the Local Housing Allowance applies to Housing Benefit or Universal Credit claimants who are under 35 years of age, living on their own, and renting privately, they will be entitled to the SAR regardless of the size of property that they rent. These rules reflect the housing expectations of people of a similar age not in receipt of benefits.</p><p> </p><p>LHA rates are not intended to cover all rents in all areas.</p><p>For 2022/23 we are projected to have spent almost £30 billion to support renters with their housing costs.</p><p>In addition, LHA rates, including SAR will be increased from April 2024 to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of local market rents at a cost of £1.2 billion. This will mean 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit (UC) will gain on average around £800 a year in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024-25.</p><p> </p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and require additional support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.7 billion to local authorities for households who need additional support with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/01/2024 17:41:20 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1682170

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of waiting times for decisions on applications for British citizenship.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	9717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.UK website. This includes performance against the service standard for completing applications. The most recent Migration Transparency data published in November 2023 shows that 99.98% of straightforward applications were decided within service standard.</p><p> </p><p>The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fvisas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2023&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMichael.Halligan3%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cea24aaf4e0a64c11a91608dc16743b5b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638409935665956910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=TrQo618j34Obf3wRBleZrmi%2BpiUy687GWZI7fNHOpis%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visas and citizenship data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/01/2024 15:35:32 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood