Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places were available in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
I have asked Ofsted to respond using the data they hold on registered nursery places. Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, will write to the hon. Gentleman, and a copy of his response will be placed in the House Library. Some providers, such as schools with nursery provision for children aged three or over, are exempt from registration. The number of places therefore may not include the full range of early years provision available in the area.
The Department for Education’s Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey[1] collects data on all registered childcare places, including those in maintained schools and nurseries. These figures are therefore more comprehensive than the Ofsted figures; however data is only available at a national and regional level and in this case only for the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2011
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) the UK and (b) North Yorkshire no longer pay income tax as a result of changes in the personal income tax threshold introduced since 2010.
Answered by David Gauke
By April this year this Government's increases in the personal allowance (for those born after 5 April 1948) are estimated to have taken over 3 million individuals out of the income tax system altogether. 266,000 of these individuals live in the Yorkshire and The Humber region, which includes North Yorkshire.
These estimates are based on the 2011-12 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected to 2014-15 using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2014 economic and fiscal outlook.
HM Treasury does not publish this information at constituency level.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people (a) of pensionable age and (b) over 80 years of age there are in Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency.
Answered by Brooks Newmark
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the total amount of money awarded to good causes by the National Lottery in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) North Yorkshire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Helen Grant
National Lottery funding figures for the Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency in each of the last five years:
2013: 29 grants worth a total of £8,645,453
2012: 22 grants worth a total of £624,654
2011:23 grants worth a total of £1,622,769
2010: 25 grants worth a total of £1,710,701
2009: 23 grants worth a total of £600,362
(Please note the 2013 figure is much higher as there was a grant of £6.8 million to Your Consortium, a charity based in Knaresborough.)
National Lottery funding figures for North Yorkshire in each of the last five years:
2013: 263 grants worth a total of £26,491,173
2012: 261 grants worth a total of £12,087,874
2011: 266 grants worth a total of £12,517,310
2010: 250 grants worth a total of £11,224,497
2009: 300 grants worth a total of £8,454,417
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much arts funding (a) in total and (b) per head of population was allocated in (i) North Yorkshire and (ii) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Decisions on arts funding are made independently of Government by Arts Council England (ACE) and local authorities and as such we do not hold the information requested. However, the following information has been provided by ACE.
North Yorkshire - 5 Year Investment Figures (population based on mid-2012 estimate)
North Yorkshire (Total population: 602,628)
2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | |
Grant in Aid | £ 1,503,276 | £ 1,515,037 | £ 1,393,744 | £ 1,700,587 | £ 2,129,340 |
Lottery | £ 1,254,106 | £ 916,871 | £ 649,212 | £ 1,211,114 | £ 919,252 |
Total | £ 2,757,382 | £ 2,431,908 | £ 2,042,956 | £ 2,911,701 | £ 3,048,592 |
Per Capita | £ 4.58 | £ 4.04 | £ 3.39 | £ 4.83 | £ 5.06 |
Local Authorities constituting North Yorkshire: Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby. Please note that as a unitary authority, the City of York does not feature in the North Yorkshire figures.
Harrogate & Knaresborough (Population: 101,832)
2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | |
Grant in Aid | £ 180,145.00 | £ 178,974 | £ 174,080 | £ 139,961 | £ 290,340 |
Lottery | £ 9,665.00 | £ 58,582 | £ 116,800 | £ - | £ 144,100 |
Total | £ 189,810 | £ 237,556 | £ 290,880 | £ 139,961 | £ 434,440 |
Per Capita | £ 1.86 | £ 2.33 | £ 2.86 | £ 1.37 | £ 4.27 |
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of levels of literacy and numeracy in (a) primary school leavers and (b) secondary school leavers in (i)Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber, (iii) the North of England and (iv) England in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Laws
Key stage 2 national curriculum assessment statistics are available online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2
GCSE attainment statistics are available online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4
Attainment statistics by Parliamentary constituency are available online at:
http://www.education.gov.uk/inyourarea/
Information on pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieving A*-C grades in English and mathematics GCSEs in the areas requested, and information on key stage 2 achievement in the areas requested has been placed in the House Library.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices there are in his Department.
Answered by Jo Swinson
BIS currently employs 58 apprentices. A further 10 apprentices will be appointed under the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship scheme in September 2014.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people from (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber (i) applied for and (ii) started a degree course in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Lord Willetts
The latest available information on applicants is shown in Table 1. Comparable figures for North Yorkshire are not held centrally.
Table 1
UCAS applicants to full-time undergraduate courses from Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, and Yorkshire and the Humber
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Harrogate and Knaresborough |
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Aged under 211 | 810 | 820 | 835 | 775 | 810 |
21 and over1 | 225 | 185 | 200 | 170 | 210 |
All ages | 1,035 | 1,005 | 1,035 | 945 | 1,020 |
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Yorkshire and the Humber |
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All ages | 42,475 | 44,850 | 45,070 | 42,110 | 43,050 |
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Source: UCAS
Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5.
1. This analysis uses country specific age definitions that align with the cut off points for school and college cohorts within the different administrations of the UK. For England, ages are defined on the 31st August. Defining ages in this way matches the assignment of children to school cohorts.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The number of young (under 21) entrants to UK HEIs who were domiciled in Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, North Yorkshire, and the Yorkshire and the Humber region prior to starting their course is shown in Table 2. HESA figures for 2013/14 will be available in January 2015. There are differences in the coverage of UCAS and HESA: the UCAS figures cover applicants to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Further Education Colleges (FECs), and Alternative Providers (APs) of HE in the UK; the HESA figures cover HEIs only, plus the University of Buckinghamshire. Not all applicants apply via UCAS: some apply directly to institutions. In addition, some applicants who obtain a place via UCAS opt to defer entry until the following year.
Table 2
Young (1) entrants (2) domiciled (3) in Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency (4), North Yorkshire local authority and Yorkshire and Humber government office region
UK Higher Education Institutions
Academic years 2009/10 to 2012/13
Domicile | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
Harrogate and Knaresborough | 580 | 655 | 700 | 600 |
North Yorkshire | 3,670 | 3,605 | 3,845 | 3,015 |
Yorkshire and Humber | 24,880 | 24,705 | 26,340 | 22,350 |
Source: HESA Student Record
Notes:
(1) Young refers to students aged under 21 on 31st August in the reporting year
(2) Entrants refers to students in their first year of study
(3) Domicile refers to a students' home or permanent address prior to starting their course
(4) Parliamentary Constituency boundaries were revised from the 6th May 2010 UK General Election.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will estimate the level of financial benefit in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber as a result of the upcoming launch of the Tour de France.
Answered by Helen Grant
UK Sport is supporting the production of a full economic impact assessment of the event and this will be made available later this year.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of crime in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.