Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will estimate the additional receipts accruing to the Exchequer as a result of changes in levels of employment since May 2010.
Answered by David Gauke
The information requested is not available.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school places have been created in (i) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber and (iii) the North of England since May 2010.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of available school places (school capacity) in state-funded primary and secondary schools (except special schools) through an annual survey. The most recent data available relates to the position at May 2013 and can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013
Statistics for May 2010 can be found in table 1 of the SFR main tables:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2010-to-2011
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many start-up loans have been granted to businesses in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) the North of England in each of the last five years.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Start Up Loans programme commenced in 2012.
Year | Harrogate & Knaresborough | North Yorkshire | North of England*
| |||
| Loan Volume | value of loans (£M) | Loan Volume | value of loans (£M) | Loan Volume | value of loans (£M) |
2012 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.01 | 54 | 0.23 |
2013 | 52 | 0.31 | 414 | 2.26 | 2993 | 16.55 |
2014 – to date | 92 | 0.53 | 629 | 3.29 | 5108 | 26.55 |
All values are loans drawn down.
*North England comprises of values for North East, North West, Yorkshire and Humber.
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, what assessment his Department has made of the contribution of (a) Yorkshire and the Humber, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency to the UK's tourism economy.
Answered by Helen Grant
The latest regional-breakdown estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published on 20 February 2014, show that in 2011 tourism in Yorkshire and the Humber directly contributed a gross value-added (GVA) of around £2.6 billion to the economy. This is 5.3% of the UK's tourism economy, which is valued in this study at £48.7 billion. The same estimates show that North Yorkshire contributed a GVA of £0.89 billion, which represents 1.8% of the UK's tourism economy. We do not have an estimate of the contribution of the Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency to the UK's tourism economy.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of changes in the cost to the public purse of benefits payments as a result of changes in employment levels since May 2010.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
Since 2010/11 expenditure on benefits and tax credits paid to people not in work has fallen in real terms from £43.2bn to £42.2bn in 2013/14, and is forecast to fall further, to £40.6bn this year. This is due to a combination of factors including welfare reform, changes to benefits and significant employment growth. The number of people in work has risen by 1.7 million since 2010, and the number of people claiming the main out of work benefits has fallen by over 700,000.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency were enrolled in adult skills training in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Information on the number of adults (19+) participating in government-funded further education and skills by parliamentary constituency is published in a Supplementary Table, entitled FE and skills: overall achievement by geography and equality and diversity - 2002/03 to 2011/12, to a Statistical First Release (SFR). Data by parliamentary constituency are available from 2005/06 onwards.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-further-education-and-skills