Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of excess winter deaths in each (i) nation and (ii) region of the UK and (b) proportion of those excess winter deaths that have been directly attributed to fuel poverty in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people employed on zero-hour contracts in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) use the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to provide estimates for the number of people in employment on contracts that do not guarantee minimum hours (known as ‘zero hours’ contracts’). This data is available for the Oct-Dec quarter only for each year from 2010 to 2018 and is set out in the table below.
Table: Level and rate of people aged 16 and over on zero-hours contracts October to December each year
UK, not seasonally adjusted | |
Percentage of people in employment on a zero-hours contract | |
2010 | 0.6 |
2011 | 0.6 |
2012 | 0.8 |
2013 | 1.9 |
2014 | 2.3 |
2015 | 2.5 |
2016 | 2.8 |
2017 | 2.8 |
2018 | 2.6 |
Source: ONS Labour Force Survey | |
The estimates for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 are considered precise | |
ONS advise that the increased media coverage of zero-hours’ contracts arrangements in the latter half of 2013 may have affected the response to this question by raising awareness of this existing type of contractual arrangement. The ONS therefore advise not to compare pre- and post-2013 data.
Data for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and the English regions has been published every six months by ONS for since 2016. However, because the data is drawn from a survey, many of these sub-UK breakdowns are considered too unreliable for practical purposes. Regional data and guidance on its reliability can be found in tab 4 of table EMP17 published here:
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2019 to Question 4283 on Hate Crime, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the (a) language and tone of public statements made by and (b) the actions of public figures on trends in the level of recorded hate crime.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Home Office and key partners continue to build understanding of the drivers of hate crime through research and evaluation of hate crime programmes, and consultation with subject matter experts including the Independent Advisory Group and local practitioners. Alongside the Hate Crime Action Plan refresh in October 2018 the Government published a thematic review of the current evidence base – this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hate-crime-action-plan-2016.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people working less than 16 hours who wanted to work more in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to PQ 4936 in which I give details, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), of the number of people whose usual weekly hours are less than six hours, and between 6 and 15 hours. Details are not available for the number of people working less than 16 hours who wanted to work more in each of the last 10 years.
ONS does publish some related data: 1) the number of people in employment who want to work more hours, are available for work and are currently working below the hours threshold (40 hours a week for those under 18, 48 hours a week for those aged 18 or over), and 2) people working part-time who gave the reason as “could not find full-time job” as reason for working part-time. The tables below give extracts from the ONS published data, however, both these data series will include both those working less than, and more than, 16 hours a week.
Table 1: The number of people in employment who want to work more hours, are available for work and are currently working below the hours threshold
Date | Level |
Apr-Jun 2010 | 2,754 |
Apr-Jun 2011 | 2,841 |
Apr-Jun 2012 | 3,061 |
Apr-Jun 2013 | 3,090 |
Apr-Jun 2014 | 2,977 |
Apr-Jun 2015 | 2,786 |
Apr-Jun 2016 | 2,601 |
Apr-Jun 2017 | 2,460 |
Apr-Jun 2018 | 2,390 |
Apr-Jun 2019 | 2,479 |
Source: Table EMP16, ONS, Labour Force Survey
Table 2: Part-time workers who gave the reason as “could not find full-time job” as reason for working part-time
Date | Level | % of all Part Time Employed |
Apr-Jun 2010 | 1,084 | 14.0 |
Apr-Jun 2011 | 1,275 | 16.2 |
Apr-Jun 2012 | 1,438 | 17.9 |
Apr-Jun 2013 | 1,467 | 18.3 |
Apr-Jun 2014 | 1,347 | 16.5 |
Apr-Jun 2015 | 1,285 | 15.7 |
Apr-Jun 2016 | 1,149 | 13.6 |
Apr-Jun 2017 | 1,019 | 12.1 |
Apr-Jun 2018 | 968 | 11.5 |
Apr-Jun 2019 | 907 | 10.6 |
Source: Table EMP01NSA, ONS, Labour Force Survey
At UK level people in full-time work have made up over three quarters of the overall increase in employment since 2010.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting times were for surgical procedures for (a) knee replacements, (b) hip replacements, (c) melanomas and (d) cataracts in each region in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2019.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This information is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people that worked less than 15 hours a week in each (a) country and (b) region of the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) uses the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to provide estimates for the usual weekly hours of work for people. The table below sets out data ONS publishes on those working fewer than 6 hours, and between 6 and 15 hours. Breakdowns for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and regional breakdowns, are not provided because of small sample sizes. Estimates are based on the number of people who report the numbers of hours worked.
Table: People working fewer than 6 hours, and 6 to 15 hours for April to June each year
| fewer than 6 Hours | 6 up to 15 hours | ||
| level (thousands) | % of total people in employment | level (thousands) | % of total people in employment |
Apr-Jun 2010 | 417 | 1.5 | 2,011 | 7.1 |
Apr-Jun 2011 | 473 | 1.7 | 1,959 | 6.9 |
Apr-Jun 2012 | 469 | 1.6 | 2,034 | 7.1 |
Apr-Jun 2013 | 445 | 1.5 | 2,033 | 7.0 |
Apr-Jun 2014 | 463 | 1.6 | 2,034 | 6.9 |
Apr-Jun 2015 | 487 | 1.6 | 1,899 | 6.3 |
Apr-Jun 2016 | 474 | 1.5 | 2,058 | 6.7 |
Apr-Jun 2017 | 424 | 1.4 | 2,048 | 6.6 |
Apr-Jun 2018 | 426 | 1.4 | 2,043 | 6.5 |
Apr-Jun 2019 | 471 | 1.5 | 2,066 | 6.5 |
Source: Table HOUR02NSA, ONS, Labour Force Survey
At UK level people in full-time work have made up over three quarters of the overall increase in employment since 2010.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres have closed in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Since 18 September 2017, data on Sure Start children’s centres has been supplied by local authorities via the department’s Get Information about Schools database portal at: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/.
Based on information supplied by local authorities as at end June 2019, the number of children’s centres open to families and children each year and the number of children’s centres closed each year since 2010 is set out in the attached table[1]:
[1]Figures in the table are based on information supplied by local authorities as at end June 2019. Since local authorities can update historical data at any time, figures may be different to previous answers, and are likely to change again in future. (Closures reported since June 2019 have not been included in the table to enable consistency with a statistical publication with further analysis of children’s centre numbers, which is due to be published on 7 November – for completeness a total of 9 closures have not been included in the table.) The department holds some of its information on children’s centre numbers for previous years manually. The numbers of children’s centres open each year have been treated as estimates and rounded to the nearest 10.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of extending student loan eligibility to people in prison who have more than six years to run on their sentence.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Prisoners set to be released within 6 years have been eligible for tuition fee loans with the consent of the prison authorities. There are no plans to change this policy.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many 50 pence coins commemorating the UK leaving the EU have been minted as of 24 October 2019.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
We do not comment on the Royal Mint’s production lead times as this is commercially sensitive information.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were economically inactive in the UK in (a) 2010 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
In February-April 2010 there were 9.5 million economically inactive people in the UK. This number has dropped to 8.7 million people for the period June-August 2019. These statistics are for the 16-64 age group, which is the Office for National Statistic’s headline rate for economic inactivity.