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43461

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	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 the punctuality levels of train services between Harlow Town train station and London Liverpool Street station have been over the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	192246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text The Department does not hold such information to the level required. We do not routinely measure punctuality (or any other performance measure) by individual line or route; it is the franchise as a whole we measure. answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

155925

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time in A&E departments has been (a) nationwide, (b) in the East of England and (c) in the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	214728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Weekly situation reports collected by NHS England are the official source of information about accident and emergency waiting times. These measure the number of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival at an accident and emergency department, but do not provide information on average waiting times.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information is available in hospital episode statistics from 2007-08 on average waiting times to assessment, treatment and departure in accident and emergency departments, and is shown in the following tables. The duration to departure times are most closely aligned to the official information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Mean and median duration to assessment in minutes for attendances at accident and emergency departments, 2007-08 to 2012-13 <em> </em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>East of England Strategic Health Authority</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Mean and median duration to treatment in minutes for attendances at accident and emergency departments, 2007-08 to 2012-13 <em> </em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>East of England Strategic Health Authority</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>102</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 3: Mean and median duration to departure in minutes for attendances at accident and emergency departments, 2007-08 to 2012-13 <em> </em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>East of England Strategic Health Authority</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>112</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>136</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. HES for accident and emergency (A&amp;E) were first collected for 2007-08.</p><p> </p><p>2. The recording of duration in HES A&amp;E is not mandatory, and this may have particularly affected the quality of recorded durations to assessment and treatment.</p><p> </p><p>3. Information relates to all types of accident and emergency departments.</p><p> </p><p>4. Duration to assessment is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and their initial assessment in the A&amp;E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&amp;E to the time when the patient is initially assessed.</p><p> </p><p>5. Duration to treatment is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and the start of their treatment. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&amp;E to the time when the patient began treatment.</p><p> </p><p>6. Duration to departure is total amount of time spent in minutes in an A&amp;E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&amp;E to the time when the patient is discharged from A&amp;E care. This includes being admitted to hospital, dying in the department, discharged with no follow up or discharged and referred to another specialist department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 24/11/2014 17:38:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

79221

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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
	hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers his Department has made available to councils to deal with illegal Traveller sites; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	206832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2014 answer text <p>Through the Localism Act we have strengthened enforcement measures, supporting local authorities to tackle unauthorised development by those who choose to ignore planning rules. These measures include powers to deal effectively with retrospective and misleading planning applications and an increase in the maximum fine for non-compliance with a notice requiring the conditions on planning permission to be met.</p><p>We have also lifted the previous Administration’s restrictions on the use of Temporary Stop Notices to enable councils to take early and effective action against unauthorised sites.</p><p>Our planning policy for traveller sites, issued in March 2012, removed the last Administration’s planning guidance (Circular 01/06) which restricted the ability of councils to initiate enforcement action. We are currently consulting on, amongst other matters, whether further improvements can be made to planning policy and guidance to deter intentional unauthorised occupation of land and to assist councils faced with large unauthorised developments.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-and-travellers-proposed-changes-to-planning-policy-and-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-and-travellers-proposed-changes-to-planning-policy-and-guidance</a></p><p>There are a range of powers available to deal with unauthorised sites and encampments. We have reviewed those powers and in August 2013 sent all council leaders updated guidance, reminding them to act swiftly against unauthorised occupation of public and private land. This was published on our website at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-illegal-and-unauthorised-encampments-a-summary-of-available-powers" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-illegal-and-unauthorised-encampments-a-summary-of-available-powers</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/09/2014 16:18:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

155779

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Football
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department gives to grassroots football; and how much government investment there has been in football in Harlow constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	214727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting football at a grassroots level. I am pleased that Sport England is investing over £160 million to get more people playing grassroots football across England. This includes a £120m investment into facilities, £6m into FA skills and £4.5m into the Premier League Kicks programme. Sport England is also investing £28.4 million in the Football Association’s Whole Sport Plan, which goes directly into participation projects and facilities in all parts of England. Sport England does not break down Whole Sport Plan funding by constituency.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 24/11/2014 15:26:31 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

48919

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to put in place an inspection regime for the quality of education at private further education colleges.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	196977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>There are no plans to change the remit of The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (OFSTED) inspection regime.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

91918

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	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
	hansard heading	Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of completed new houses were built on brownfield land in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	209511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The proportion of new dwellings in England built on previously-developed land can be found in Table P211 of the Live Tables on Land Use Change Statistics, which is available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 14/10/2014 16:08:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

65891

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to his Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion of the total workforce of such contractors is made up by apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	204065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Department's central procurement system does not have categories to determine the number of apprentices employed by contractors and sub-contractors within the Department and the proportion of the total Department's workforce of such contractors made up by apprentices since 2010-11.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 14/07/2014 09:50:33 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

64341

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Knee Replacements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of NHS knee replacement operations and subsequent revisions in England in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	202779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Such information as is available is from reference costs, which are the average cost to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume common levels of healthcare resource. The HRGs in the attached table therefore include the costs of other knee procedures in addition to knee replacements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/07/2014 15:38:13 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202779 - Table.docx title Table
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

65441

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to his Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such apprentices make up of the workforce of those contractors and sub-contractors.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	203861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 07/07/2014 15:28:14 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

65447

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to his Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such apprentices make up of the workforce of those contractors and sub-contractors.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	203862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/07/2014 15:10:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon