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1178907

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Incinerators: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce a tax on waste incineration.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	18381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>At Budget 2018, the Government announced that a tax on the incineration of waste would not be taken forward at that point. All taxes remain under review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2020 15:16:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1178909

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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, what steps he plans to take to promote apprenticeships to young people in (a) Harlow and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	18383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>We have introduced a wide range of reforms to improve the quality of apprenticeships and to encourage employers across England to create more high-quality apprenticeship opportunities.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2010, there have been 4,392,000 apprenticeship starts in England. Of these, 7,200 apprenticeships starts have been in the Harlow parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>From August 2020, all starts will be on the new apprenticeship standards which are replacing existing frameworks. These are designed and driven by industry to create apprenticeships that are high-quality providing employers in Harlow, and across England, with the skills they need. Over 510 standards have already been approved for delivery to apprentices.</p><p> </p><p>We are working hard to encourage take up of our apprenticeship programme. The third phase of the Fire it Up campaign launched in January 2020 with a planned media investment for this phase of £2.9 million. It is targeting certain groups to widen participation in apprenticeships. Our 13<sup>th</sup> annual National Apprenticeship Week took place in February 2020. Nearly 900 events were held across the country, aiming to change perceptions of apprenticeships.</p><p>In January 2018, we introduced a legal requirement for schools to give training providers the chance to talk to pupils about technical qualifications and apprenticeships, so that young people hear about the alternatives to academic routes.</p><p> </p><p>We also offer a free service to schools through the Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge for Schools and Colleges (ASK) programme to ensure that teachers have the knowledge and support to enable them to promote apprenticeships to their students. In the last academic year, ASK reached over 300,000 students throughout England. In Harlow, ASK has worked with 8 schools and colleges and has engaged with 840 students in the last three academic years.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2019-20 financial year, funding available for investment in apprenticeships in England is over £2.5 billion – double what was spent in 2010. This is supporting employers of all sizes, across England, to provide high-quality apprenticeship opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. We are moving smaller employers onto our award-winning apprenticeship service to give them a greater choice of training providers. They can also benefit from transferred funds from levy payers. Levy transfers can help to support new starts in supply chains and address local skills needs.</p><p> </p><p>Essex County Council and the South East Local Enterprise Partnership are members of the East of England Apprenticeship Ambassador Network. They are working with local employers to take advantage of transfers to support more small- and medium-sized employers in the area to offer apprenticeships.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 02/03/2020 16:53:52 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1178915

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Control: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to review the effect on local authority finances of issuing traffic regulation orders.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	18389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has begun a review of traffic order legislation, including the costs and benefits of the current regime and the impact on local authorities of making and applying for their own orders. Work has included research that was carried out in 2019 by the Department for Transport, Geoplace, Ordnance Survey and the British Parking Association. This estimated, for example, that the annual advertising costs for Traffic Orders and Temporary Traffic Orders across all authorities in Great Britain is approximately £49 million. The Department for Transport continued its review later in 2019. We now plan to consult on proposed amendments later in 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 02/03/2020 17:04:11 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1178916

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the quantum of the Barnett consequential for the Northern Ireland Executive announced during the 2019-20 Financial Year subsequent to the detail set out in the Main Estimates memorandum provided by the Northern Ireland Office; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	18390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>HM Treasury’s Supplementary Estimates 2019-20 document sets out all the changes in the Northern Ireland Executive’s funding since the Main Estimates 2019-20. The Supplementary Estimates 2019-20 publication can be found on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p>Following the Supplementary Estimates 2019-20, the Northern Ireland Executive funding from the UK government has increased by over £380m compared to Main Estimates 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 02/03/2020 10:44:16 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1178925

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	UK Export Finance: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February to Question 14007 on UK Export Finance: Fossil Fuels, what the (a) annual budget of and (b) number of full-time equivalent staff in the UK Export Finance Environmental, Social and Human Rights team was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	18399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The numbers of full-time equivalent members of staff in the environmental, social and human rights team at the end of each of the last four years, and on 28 February 2020, were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Full-time equivalent staff in post</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28 February 2020</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2019</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2018</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2016</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The annual budget for the team for the last five years was as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>a) Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>b) Team budget (excluding salary costs in column (c)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>c) Mean salary costings, grossed for tax, NI and pension contributions<strong>[1]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£ 100,000</p></td><td><p>£ 445,691.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£ 50,000</p></td><td><p>£ 477,055.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£ 150,000</p></td><td><p>£ 294,106.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£ 150,000</p></td><td><p>£ 274,666.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£ 150,000</p></td><td><p>£ 284,144.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] The figures quoted are the median grade salaries for the numbers of each member of UKEF staff in post on the ESHR Team at the end of each financial year, ‘grossed up’ to account for tax, national insurance contributions and pension contributions.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 02/03/2020 16:52:43 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1178941

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers (a) have been recruited nationally in the last 12 months and (b) she plans to allocate to Bedfordshire constabulary in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	18509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is delivering on the people’s priorities by recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2019 Home Office confirmed officer allocations for every force in England and Wales in the first year of the uplift. Bedfordshire Police has been allocated 54 officers in year one of the uplift, to be recruited by the end of March 2021. Decisions on the allocation of officers for years two and three are yet to be taken.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift</a></p><p> </p><p>From April 2020 the Home Office will publish quarterly updates outlining the progress on delivering the police uplift.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 02/03/2020 17:03:58 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1178942

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Doctors and Nurses: Bedfordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of full-time equivalent (a) general practitioners, (b) other doctors and (c) nurses employed by the NHS in Bedfordshire in (a) 2010 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	18510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner (GP) surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) number of doctors, and nurses and health visitors employed in the Bedfordshire area as at October 2019, the latest available data, compared to October 2010.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>October 2010</p></td><td><p>October 2019</p></td><td><p>Change</p></td><td><p>% Change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doctors</p></td><td><p>303</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses and health visitors</p></td><td><p>905</p></td><td><p>698</p></td><td><p>207</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Bedfordshire area is defined as those working at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust or NHS Bedfordshire CCG in 2019, and at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust or Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust in 2010.</p><p>The following table shows the number of GPs and nurses employed in the area covered by NHS Bedfordshire CCG as at September 2019 compared to September 2015, FTE.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>All Regular GPs (excludes Locums)</p></td><td><p>All Nurses</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>NHS Bedfordshire CCG</p></td><td><p>September 2019</p></td><td><p>245</p></td><td><p>138</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>227</p></td><td><p>133</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/03/2020 17:01:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1178944

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme: North East Bedfordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information he holds on the number of people who have taken up a Help to Buy ISA in the North East Bedfordshire constituency.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	18512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury releases Help to Buy: ISA data on a quarterly basis and have made this information available in the latest quarterly statistics publication which was released on 27 February 2020. This publication is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-isa-scheme-quarterly-statistics-december-2015-to-30-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-isa-scheme-quarterly-statistics-december-2015-to-30-september-2019</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 02/03/2020 13:34:52 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1178945

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	New Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of business start-ups in (a) North East Bedfordshire constituency, (b) Bedfordshire and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	18513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The table below provides ONS data on new business registrations for VAT and/or PAYE (ONS Business Demography 2018 – Enterprise births, deaths and survivals).</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1) Timeseries data for business births is not available at Parliamentary Constituency level but we can provide figures as below for the three districts which make up Bedfordshire.</p><p>2) Data is not available for periods earlier than 2013 or later than 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UK</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Bedfordshire (county)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Bedford (district)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Central Bedfordshire (district)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Luton (district)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>346275</p></td><td><p>3450</p></td><td><p>875</p></td><td><p>1540</p></td><td><p>1035</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>350305</p></td><td><p>3560</p></td><td><p>870</p></td><td><p>1550</p></td><td><p>1140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>382755</p></td><td><p>3990</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>1585</p></td><td><p>1425</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>413900</p></td><td><p>10370</p></td><td><p>1065</p></td><td><p>4865</p></td><td><p>4440</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>381885</p></td><td><p>4915</p></td><td><p>925</p></td><td><p>2245</p></td><td><p>1745</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>380580</p></td><td><p>4710</p></td><td><p>910</p></td><td><p>2200</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 02/03/2020 17:00:56 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1178946

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: North East Bedfordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of schools in the North East Bedfordshire constituency were rated by Ofsted as (a) good and (b) outstanding in (i) 2010 and (ii) at their last inspection.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	18514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is published by Ofsted.</p><p>For the North East Bedfordshire constituency, Ofsted’s data shows that the percentage of schools rated as either good or outstanding has remained stable; 82% in 2010 and 83% in 2019.</p><p>As of 31 August 2010, 53% of schools in the constituency were rated as good and 29% of schools were rated as outstanding. The equivalent figures for England were 50% and 18% respectively.</p><p>The latest available data is for 31 August 2019, which shows 68% of schools in the constituency were rated as good and 15% of schools were rated as outstanding. The equivalent figures for England were 66% and 20% respectively.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/02/2020 15:52:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller