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223256

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many blocks recorded as part of the Property Data Survey Programme were in (a) good, (b) satisfactory, (c) poor and (d) bad condition.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	225254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey does not provide an overall assessment of a block in the manner requested. The surveyors who visited schools made an assessment of the condition of individual construction types within each block, such as different types of roofs or walls for which we hold individual records, but did not attempt to rate blocks on a ‘good’ to ‘bad’ scale.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/02/2015 11:42:20 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

178951

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Asbestos
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools (a) submitted requests for and (b) have been granted funding because of significant asbestos problems under the second phase of the Priority Schools Building Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	224104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The aim of the second phase of the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP2) is to undertake rebuilding and refurbishment projects in schools with buildings in the very worst condition. PSBP2 is not an asbestos removal programme as, in most cases, the presence of asbestos can be safely managed with minimal investment. However, the Department for Education announced when the programme was launched that it would consider some situations where the presence of asbestos means the annual costs of safely managing it are excessive.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A total of 1299 schools submitted an expression of interest (EOI) for the second phase of the Priority School Building Programme. 307 schools indicated in their EOI that they had significant asbestos issues and provided relevant supporting documentation. These cases were assessed by independent technical advisers. This assessment considered whether the issues meant areas were already or likely to become inaccessible, whether the issues were classified as high risk or whether the presence of asbestos impacts on the operation or the maintenance of the school.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Eight schools met these criteria and in these cases the cost of removing or encapsulating asbestos was included in the calculation of the school’s condition need. Of these, six had sufficiently poor overall condition need to be included in the programme. Further information on the methodology used to prioritise schools for inclusion in PSBP2 is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401689/PSBP2_Methodology.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401689/PSBP2_Methodology.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In all blocks where the condition need will be addressed, all asbestos will be dealt with appropriately, whether raised as a specific concern or not.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PSBP2 is intended to sit alongside - and not to replace or substitute - the responsibility that local authorities, governing bodies, trustees, dioceses and other bodies have for the maintenance of school buildings in their care. Given that PSBP2 is a six year programme (running between 2015 and 2021), it is essential that schools continue to address any concerns with regards to asbestos in an appropriate timescale and do not rely on PSBP2 to address immediate needs. All applicants have been made aware of this requirement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Alongside announcing the schools to be included in PSBP2, the Government also announced school condition allocations for the next three years. We have reformed these allocations so that they reflect the condition of school buildings; this means that those schools in poor condition who missed out on PSBP2 can be confident that their needs will instead be reflected in the funding we make available to their local authority, trust or voluntary aided partnership for improving the condition of their schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 23/02/2015 09:35:39 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

178953

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Asbestos
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date she plans to publish the report of her Department's review of asbestos policy for schools.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	224091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>No date has yet been set for the publication of the review report but we intend to publish it very shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 23/02/2015 09:31:02 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

178947

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date she plans to publish the results of the Property Data Survey Programme for schools.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	224093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>A national summary of the condition of the school estate using data from the Property Data Survey Programme has been published on the Government’s website and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/property-data-survey-programme" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/property-data-survey-programme</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The individual survey reports for schools have been shared directly with schools, local authorities and other relevant bodies responsible for the maintenance of school buildings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 23/02/2015 09:32:01 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

223257

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the summary report of the Property Data Survey Programme, published in January 2015, how many schools were rated as being (a) good, (b) satisfactory, (c) poor and (d) bad condition.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	225260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey does not provide an overall assessment of schools in the manner requested. The surveyors who visited schools made an assessment of the condition of individual construction types within each block, such as different types of roofs or walls for which we hold individual records, but did not attempt to rate an entire school on a ‘good’ to ‘bad’ scale.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/02/2015 11:42:52 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

223258

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the summary report of the Property Data Survey Programme, published in January 2015, what estimate she has made of the total cost of repairs necessary to bring the school estate in England up to good condition.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	225207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey was designed to give a relative view of condition need. As stated in the report, the Property Data Survey condition need we have calculated is not the cost of addressing the need in the estate but a relative weighting of the complexity of addressing different types of condition need. Calculating the total cost of addressing the need in the estate would involve taking into account other factors, such as asbestos and structural need, which are excluded from the survey. As such we do not hold an estimate of the total cost of repairs necessary to bring the school estate in England up to good condition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 02/03/2015 14:23:12 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

223259

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the summary report of the Property Data Survey Programme, published in January 2015, whether the cost of maintaining, repairing or replacing a school building referred to in that report includes extra costs incurred because of the presence of asbestos.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	225171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The information collected by the Property Data Survey Programme focused on the condition of the buildings. The surveyors who visited schools as part of the programme did not record any information on the presence of asbestos. The condition need identified through the surveys does not reflect any asbestos that may be present.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 02/03/2015 14:21:58 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

178560

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Cancer Drugs Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 222670, on what grounds the removal of cancer drugs from the national Cancer Drugs Fund list can be appealed; and by when such appeals must be made.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	223909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that any request for a formal review of a decision made by the national Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) panel to remove a drug from the national CDF list can be made in line with NHS England’s Standard Operating Procedures for the Fund. Any request for a review of a panel decision must be made by the clinician or pharmaceutical industry representative that made the original application for inclusion on the list.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Requests must be lodged within 20 working days of the original decision being notified.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 12/02/2015 16:55:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

178559

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 222671, what recommended alternatives to (a) eribulin, (b) lapatinib and (c) everolimus are available to treat breast cancer; and what clinical benefits each alternative offers in terms of (i) progression free survival, (ii) overall survival, (iii) quality of life and (iv) toxicity.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	223908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended a number of drugs for the treatment of advanced and metastatic breast cancer through its technology appraisals and a clinical guideline. These include:</p><p> </p><p>- anthracyclines</p><p> </p><p>- docetaxel</p><p> </p><p>- vinorelbine</p><p> </p><p>- capecitabine</p><p> </p><p>- gemcitabine in combination with paclitaxel</p><p> </p><p>- tamoxifen</p><p> </p><p>- trastuzumab</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further information on each of these, together with the evidence base for NICE’s recommendations, can be found in NICE’s updated clinical guideline on advanced breast cancer (CG81) at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg81" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg81</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 12/02/2015 15:41:00 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

178089

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	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
	hansard heading	Council Tax Reduction Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to ensure that billing authorities pass on in full to local councils council tax support funding which his Department earmarked for those councils.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	223570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>My Department has provided £3.3 billion to local authorities in respect of local council tax support schemes in both 2013-14 and 2014-15 and the same amount will be provided in 2015-16.</p><p> </p><p>For the first year of local council tax support only, the Government set out an indicative amount of £40,450,000 attributable to parish and town councils in England. Latest statistics show that 95 per cent of this indicative amount was passed down in 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/398765/Revised_RO1314_Supplementary_Tables_-_Final.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/398765/Revised_RO1314_Supplementary_Tables_-_Final.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>As schemes are designed and implemented by billing authorities, it is not for Government to calculate on an ongoing basis the appropriate level of funding parishes required. However I have previously written to the small number of authorities which in 2014-15 had no intention to pass on any of the funding to express concern. I also wrote to all billing authorities on 19 February 2015 reminding them of the Government’s clear expectation that they should pass down funding to eligible parishes in 2015-16 and have placed a copy of this letter in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p><p>Every sector of local government should be doing their bit to keep council tax down for hard-working people. Although the referendum principle does not apply to town and parish councils in 2015-16, we continue to keep this option under active consideration. The Government has given new rights for taxpayers to approve or veto excessive council tax rises set by principal local authorities. If necessary, we are prepared to extend this to town and parish councils in the future if there is evidence of unreasonable hikes being imposed on taxpayers without their consent.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 223571 question first answered 23/02/2015 17:45:59 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 44039 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke