Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients have been (a) treated by and (b) admitted to A&E departments in two hours in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East, and (iv) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Data is not available in the format requested.
A count of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances (excluding planned) and as a proportion in England attendances where the duration to departure is under one hour, from one to under two hours, from two to under three hours, from three to under four hours, four hours or more and a count of those that are admitted to hospital from A&E in each hour as a number and percentage by the Jarrow constituency, South Tyneside local district authority, the North East government region of residence, and England, from 2010-11 to 2017-18, is attached.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been (a) treated by and (b) admitted to A&E departments in two hours in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Data is not available in the format requested.
A count of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances (excluding planned) and as a proportion in England attendances where the duration to departure is under one hour, from one to under two hours, from two to under three hours, from three to under four hours, four hours or more and a count of those that are admitted to hospital from A&E in each hour as a number and percentage by the Jarrow constituency, South Tyneside local district authority, the North East government region of residence, and England, from 2010-11 to 2017-18, is attached.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients have been (a) treated by and (b) admitted to A&E departments in less than one hour in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Data is not available in the format requested.
A count of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances (excluding planned) and as a proportion in England attendances where the duration to departure is under one hour, from one to under two hours, from two to under three hours, from three to under four hours, four hours or more and a count of those that are admitted to hospital from A&E in each hour as a number and percentage by the Jarrow constituency, South Tyneside local district authority, the North East government region of residence, and England, from 2010-11 to 2017-18, is attached.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been (a) treated by and (b) admitted to A&E departments in less than one hour in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Data is not available in the format requested.
A count of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances (excluding planned) and as a proportion in England attendances where the duration to departure is under one hour, from one to under two hours, from two to under three hours, from three to under four hours, four hours or more and a count of those that are admitted to hospital from A&E in each hour as a number and percentage by the Jarrow constituency, South Tyneside local district authority, the North East government region of residence, and England, from 2010-11 to 2017-18, is attached.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new claims for universal credit in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and d) the UK were processed (i) within five weeks, (ii) between five and ten weeks and (iii) in ten weeks or longer in the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The latest official statistics were published on 19 February 2019 and can be accessed on Gov.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-29-april-2013-to-10-january-2019
This release provides the latest data on payment timeliness for new Universal Credit claims. Future official statistics will include additional breakdowns of payment timeliness. Longer term we will publish further Universal Credit statistical releases and continue to commission and publish ad-hoc statistical releases.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Budget 2017, how much of the £35 million allocated to establishing trials to provide mobile connectivity to passengers on the Trans-Pennine rail route has been spent.
Answered by Margot James
The Government’s Trans-Pennine Initiative (TPI) has three objectives: to trial delivery of high capacity fibre using the rail corridor, to trial provision of high speed connectivity to the train and to create a 5G testbed at Network Rail’s ‘Rail Innovation Development Centre’ (RIDC).
At Budget 2017, the Government allocated £35 million to projects that will support improvement to rail passenger connectivity, including the TPI. We are in the process of concluding a review of the responses to the Call for Information on the design phase of the project, after which we will determine the next steps including expenditure.
DCMS launched a Call for Information on the mobile connectivity aspects of the proposal, which closed in the summer of 2018. We are in the process of concluding our review of the responses received, after which we will determine the next steps.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on establishing trials to provide mobile connectivity to passengers on the Trans-Pennine rail route as set out in Budget 2017.
Answered by Margot James
The Government’s Trans-Pennine Initiative (TPI) has three objectives: to trial delivery of high capacity fibre using the rail corridor, to trial provision of high speed connectivity to the train and to create a 5G testbed at Network Rail’s ‘Rail Innovation Development Centre’ (RIDC).
At Budget 2017, the Government allocated £35 million to projects that will support improvement to rail passenger connectivity, including the TPI. We are in the process of concluding a review of the responses to the Call for Information on the design phase of the project, after which we will determine the next steps including expenditure.
DCMS launched a Call for Information on the mobile connectivity aspects of the proposal, which closed in the summer of 2018. We are in the process of concluding our review of the responses received, after which we will determine the next steps.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to improve the levels of mobile connectivity available to passengers along the rail corridor.
Answered by Margot James
Following a Call for Evidence in December 2017, DCMS is considering how best to improve the levels of mobile connectivity along key rail corridors. In 2018, Ofcom provided further advice to government on improving rail passenger access to data services. The report can be found at https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/123657/Rail-connectivity-advice-DCMS.pdf Ofcom are also collecting data on the signal strength available to rail passengers. We expect a report to be published this calendar year.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the quality of Wi-Fi services available to rail passengers as required under the terms of rail franchise agreements.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The department is monitoring the roll out of wi-ifi equipment being fitted to trains as part of their franchise agreement. In addition, Transport Focus surveys passenger satisfaction over a range of issues, including the availability of wi-fi.
Asked by: Stephen Hepburn (Independent - Jarrow)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of mobile coverage provided to rail passengers.
Answered by Andrew Jones
Ofcom are collecting data on the signal strength available to rail passengers. We expect a report to be published this calendar year.