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1545976

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
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	Wind Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much onshore wind generation capacity (a) is operating, (b) is under construction and (c) has planning permission as of 30 September 2022.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	97704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>The UK currently has approximately 14.6GW of operational onshore wind capacity. Individual projects under construction and with planning permission awaiting construction are listed in the Renewable Energy Planning Database at:</p><p><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Frenewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary.PQ%40BEIS.gov.uk%7C26a6337d3e2b4fbb93fe08dad44be02d%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638055719588233128%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=BI%2Brh9y5WYNnEuOLH0Dgq6wXFmXj6NQbtP9hITHjeR0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract</a>.</p><p> </p><p>There are no published aggregated figures for these categories.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 02/12/2022 10:18:35 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 39038 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1545456

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the probate application service standard has been increased to 16 weeks.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	95948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The service standard for a grant of probate has not been increased to 16 weeks but our messaging to applicants has changed to reflect the longer waiting times that a minority of cases can wait for their grant.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the probate service during the Covid 19 pandemic, and the increased volume of applications that have been seen since, the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between five and seven weeks – with the average responses being almost 1 week faster in quarter 2 of 2022 than the yearly average for 2020 and 2021.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p> </p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, from April 2022 to June 2022, are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022</a></p><p>In June 2022, the average percentage of cases taking longer than 8 weeks to issue was 39%, with 27% of people waiting more than 8 weeks for the grant of Probate and 86% for letters of administration. Existing staff have now been trained to examine letters of administration applications to improve the timeliness.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 95949 95950 question first answered 01/12/2022 14:38:12 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1545457

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing the time it takes to process probate applications.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	95949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The service standard for a grant of probate has not been increased to 16 weeks but our messaging to applicants has changed to reflect the longer waiting times that a minority of cases can wait for their grant.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the probate service during the Covid 19 pandemic, and the increased volume of applications that have been seen since, the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between five and seven weeks – with the average responses being almost 1 week faster in quarter 2 of 2022 than the yearly average for 2020 and 2021.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p> </p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, from April 2022 to June 2022, are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022</a></p><p>In June 2022, the average percentage of cases taking longer than 8 weeks to issue was 39%, with 27% of people waiting more than 8 weeks for the grant of Probate and 86% for letters of administration. Existing staff have now been trained to examine letters of administration applications to improve the timeliness.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 95948 95950 question first answered 01/12/2022 14:38:12 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1545458

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are waiting more than 8 weeks for (a) the grant of probate and (b) letters of administration.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	95950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The service standard for a grant of probate has not been increased to 16 weeks but our messaging to applicants has changed to reflect the longer waiting times that a minority of cases can wait for their grant.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the probate service during the Covid 19 pandemic, and the increased volume of applications that have been seen since, the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between five and seven weeks – with the average responses being almost 1 week faster in quarter 2 of 2022 than the yearly average for 2020 and 2021.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p> </p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, from April 2022 to June 2022, are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022</a></p><p>In June 2022, the average percentage of cases taking longer than 8 weeks to issue was 39%, with 27% of people waiting more than 8 weeks for the grant of Probate and 86% for letters of administration. Existing staff have now been trained to examine letters of administration applications to improve the timeliness.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 95948 95949 question first answered 01/12/2022 14:38:12 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1544581

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
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, how much the average funding per pupil in mainstream schools was in (a) North West Norfolk constituency, (b) Norfolk and (c) England in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	93658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The table below shows the average funding per pupil allocated through the National Funding Formula for North West Norfolk, Norfolk, and England over the past three years. Per pupil funding excludes growth funding and individual schools’ actual allocations are based on local authorities’ local funding formulae.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North West Norfolk (Constituency) </strong></p></td><td><p>£4,703</p></td><td><p>£5,077</p></td><td><p>£5,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Norfolk (Local Authority) </strong></p></td><td><p>£4,726</p></td><td><p>£5,097</p></td><td><p>£5,419</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England </strong></p></td><td><p>£4,828</p></td><td><p>£5,212</p></td><td><p>£5,534</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/11/2022 16:47:19 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1542408

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what was the (a) total value of loans made to football clubs, (b) number of loans made and (c) amount of the highest loan made as part of the Sport Winter Survival Package.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	87999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic the government went above and beyond through the Sports Survival Package to provide all sports clubs with generous financial support to ensure their survival throughout the difficult period. Many clubs would have failed without that support.</p><p>The Sport Survival Package distributed a total of £264.8 million funding (loan and grant funding) to over 1,685 organisations across 15 sports. The Government issued £13.3 million in loans to 34 non-league football clubs.</p><p>The value of individual loans are commercially sensitive. Each loan was tailored to the specific needs of the loanee.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/11/2022 13:29:08 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1542409

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sport Winter Survival Package: Football
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the repayment terms are for loans made to football clubs under the Sport Winter Survival package.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	88000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>​The Sport Survival Package operated a standard repayable loan facility on a 10-year term with a two-year holiday and repayments over eight years at an interest rate of 2%, with the ability to offer 20 year-terms with up to a four-year repayment holiday subject to the individual circumstances of the borrower.</p><p>We are unable to comment on individual cases given their commercial sensitivity. Disclosing sensitive financial information to the open market puts the clubs at a competitive disadvantage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/11/2022 13:30:51 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1542414

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: North West Norfolk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to encourage schools in North West Norfolk constituency to participate in the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	88001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The department has invested £17 million on the Nuffield Early Language Intervention, improving the language skills of reception-age children who need it most following the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme targets children needing extra support with their speech and language development and is proven to help them make around three months of additional progress. An estimated 90,000 reception-age children will get extra support with their speech and language development from this proven programme.</p><p>All state-funded schools in North West Norfolk with a reception class were invited to apply for the programme. To encourage participation, every primary school in North West Norfolk and nationwide has been directly contacted at least twice by a dedicated contact centre team. Additional written communication has been undertaken by the department and its delivery partners to encourage all primary schools to apply.</p><p>In total, over 11,100 schools (two thirds of all primary schools) have signed up for the programme. Registered schools are eligible to continue to receive the funded programme during the 2022/23 academic year.</p><p>The full list of registered schools is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neli-nuffield-early-language-intervention-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neli-nuffield-early-language-intervention-programme</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 22/11/2022 10:05:25 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1542433

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline update.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	88002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>Following the Autumn Statement on 17 November we are in the process of reviewing the RNEP and will make the outcome public once that work is complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 23/11/2022 12:09:15 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1542443

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
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	General Practitioners: North West Norfolk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs there are per 10,000 patients in North West Norfolk constituency as of 15 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	88003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>This information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 22/11/2022 11:17:45 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild