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1667597

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of public transport in County Durham.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is investing in the bus sector to deliver the ambitions of the National Bus Strategy to make bus services more reliable and cheaper. We are providing over £2 billion of funding for English Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) outside London to support the delivery of Bus Service Improvement Plans (BSIPs), including the introduction of new services. This includes the recent announcement of an additional £1 billion redirected from HS2 to support bus services in the North and Midlands.</p><p>We have also announced that a new uplift of 60% will be added to Community Transport Operators’ (CTOs) Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) claims until 31 March 2025. On top of this, we have extended the £2 bus fare cap until the end of 2024, meaning we are investing nearly £600 million in total to cap bus fares.</p><p>North East Combined Authority and North of Tyne Combined Authority received £163,521,172 in Government funding to make improvements set out in their joint BSIP up to March 2025 in the first phase of BSIP funding. They have also been indicatively allocated £11.2 million in further BSIP funding from Network North for 2024/25. The allocations for future years will be published in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/11/2023 15:55:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1461450

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Southeastern Trains: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether under the terms of the Service Contract between the Secretary of State, DOHL and SE Trains Ltd, he has agreed a dispute handling policy with the Directors of SE Trains Ltd.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>Under the terms of the Service Contract, I can confirm that there is no provision to agree a dispute handling policy with Southeastern regarding third party contracts.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 17/05/2022 10:30:10 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1313284

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost of the input of Deloitte to written answers as a proportion of the total cost of answering written questions.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>We have made no such estimate.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 17/05/2021 12:08:06 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1168912

registered interest
date	06/01/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Australia: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance the UK Government is providing to the Australian Government while it tackles the effects of the wildfires in that country.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon have been in contact with their Australian counterparts to offer our condolences and stress our readiness to help in whatever way they need.</p><p>As I set out in my Oral Statement of 9 January in the House of Commons, we have deployed a team of UK experts to Australia.</p><p>The team includes a senior member of UK Fire and Rescue Service, a medical specialist in trauma and mental health, and a military liaison officer specialising in crisis response.</p><p>They will work with Australian counterparts to establish what further UK support will be of most use to Australian emergency responders, and ensure that such contributions are fully integrated with Australian efforts.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 14/01/2020 15:11:18 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1149337

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Maritime Patrol Aircraft: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost was of purchasing nine P-8 Poseidon military aircraft.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The current forecasted cost of procuring our fleet of nine P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft is £2,207 million, as reported in the Project Performance Summary Table in the Defence Equipment Plan 2018:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/788481/20190318-EP18_v3.pdf</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 21/10/2019 10:59:34 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

731627

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on introducing a new national funding formula for schools.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The core schools budget has been protected in real terms since 2010 and is set to rise from £41 billion in 2017-18 to over £42 billion in 2019-20 with increasing pupil numbers. The Government has committed to increase the school budget further.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work to ensure that every pupil has the opportunity to attend a good school and that all schools are fairly funded. We are considering the more than 25,000 responses we received to the National Funding Formula consultation, and will publish our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 478 479 question first answered 29/06/2017 16:08:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

347430

registered interest
date	29/05/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support immunisation programmes in developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2015 answer text <p>DFID primarily supports immunisation programmes in developing countries through the provision of funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is the largest donor to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi is a public-private partnership that saves lives by increasing access to immunisation in developing countries. Since 2000, Gavi has vaccinated half a billion children and saved 7 million lives. The UK will provide a total of £1.44 billion to Gavi over 2016-2020. It is estimated that UK support will save a child’s life every 2 minutes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK is also a key donor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which is working to eradicate polio by 2019. Since GPEI’s creation, global polio cases have fallen by more than 99%. Africa has now been polio free for nearly 1 year. The UK has committed £300 million to polio eradication over 2013-2019.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 05/06/2015 12:14:09 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy