Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the child cancer rate is in each English parliamentary 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 Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of the Isle of Wight of the decision not to allow tonnage tax to apply to the Isle of Wight's ferry services.
Answered by David Gauke
No such assessment has been made. HM Revenue & Customs must apply the law as it stands according to the best of its judgment, with the benefit of legal advice where appropriate.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reasons are for HM Revenue and Customs change of policy with regards to the imposition of tonnage tax on Isle of Wight ferries; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by David Gauke
HM Revenue & Customs must apply the law as it stands according to the best of its judgment, with the benefit of legal advice where appropriate.
There have been no changes in the application of the policy. The legislation affecting in particular ferry services was last amended in the Finance Act 2005, in response to amendments to the EU Commission's guidelines on the application of State aids to maritime transport. Tonnage tax must conform to these guidelines.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on (a) cadet training and (b) marine employment of the decision not to allow tonnage tax to apply to the Isle of Wight's ferry services.
Answered by David Gauke
No such assessment has been made. HM Revenue & Customs must apply the law as it stands according to the best of its judgment, with the benefit of legal advice where appropriate.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to support businesses with five or fewer staff.
Answered by David Gauke
The Government's long term economic plan is backing small businesses as they set up and grow. As part of this plan we are cutting taxes and reducing red tape to help businesses. In particular, the Employment Allowance was introduced in April 2014, and allows businesses and charities throughout the UK to deduct up to £2,000 off their employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) bill each year. Over 60% of the total benefit of the policy is expected to go to businesses with fewer than 10 employees, and a business employing three people on the median full-time private sector wage of £25,800 in 2014-15 will see their typical NICs bill cut by over 25 per cent.
In addition, Autumn Statement 2013 announced the extension of the Small Business Rate Relief until April 2015, taking 350,000 small businesses out of business rates.
The British Business Bank was launched in October 2013 to make finance markets work better for small firms, allowing them to prosper, grow and support the UK economy. Over the next five years, the Bank aims to unlock up to £10 billion of financing for viable smaller businesses. Business Bank programmes facilitated a total of £782m of new lending and investment in the fiscal year 2013/14, to over 30,000 businesses. This represents more than a doubling of activity on the previous year. The Business Bank also supported £100m of new Venture Capital investment in 2013/14. StartUp Loans is a £322m scheme to help individuals to access finance and support to start a business. Over 18,000 loans totalling more than £90m have been made since the launch in April 2012.
These measures are all part of our economic plan that is building a stronger, more competitive economy.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, by what process Tony Blair was appointed to the post of Middle East peace envoy; and who approved that appointment.
Answered by Hugh Robertson
Tony Blair was appointed by the Quartet (US, EU, UN and Russia) as the representative of the Middle East Quartet in June 2007. The Quartet principals (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, High Representative for European Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana) approved his appointment.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department gathers on the number of people who move to another GP practice.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has advised that data on the number of people changing general practitioner practice each year is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roads in each local authority area have been closed on (a) one occasion and (b) more than one occasion in the last year.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Information on the number of road closures in each local authority area is not held centrally by the Department for Transport.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are on GP practice lists in (a) England and (b) each county; and how many people have been removed involuntarily from such lists in (i) England and (ii) each county in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The following table shows the number of people on general practitioner (GP) practice lists and in each NHS England Area Team in England as at 30 September 2013. We do not hold this information by each county in England.
We do not hold the information centrally on how many people have been removed involuntarily from GP practice lists.
Under the terms of their contracts, GP practices must have reasonable grounds to remove a patient from their practice list which do not relate to the patient's race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, disability or medical condition.
GP Registered Patients | ||
England | 56,007,348 | |
Q49 | Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear | 1,989,458 |
Q45 | Durham, Darlington and Tees | 1,224,872 |
Q50 | North Yorkshire and Humber | 1,689,042 |
Q47 | Lancashire | 1,521,721 |
Q52 | West Yorkshire | 2,435,786 |
Q48 | Merseyside | 1,257,011 |
Q46 | Greater Manchester | 2,880,262 |
Q44 | Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral | 1,279,416 |
Q51 | South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw | 1,506,383 |
Q55 | Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | 2,049,773 |
Q59 | Leicestershire and Lincolnshire | 1,822,274 |
Q60 | Shropshire and Staffordshire | 1,591,314 |
Q54 | Birmingham and the Black Country | 2,615,060 |
Q53 | Arden, Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 1,693,801 |
Q58 | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 2,831,463 |
Q56 | East Anglia | 2,511,745 |
Q57 | Essex | 1,801,428 |
Q71 | London | 8,978,299 |
Q69 | Thames Valley | 2,160,146 |
Q64 | Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire | 1,520,942 |
Q65 | Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset & South Gloucs | 1,507,605 |
Q66 | Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 1,745,638 |
Q70 | Wessex | 2,789,815 |
Q68 | Surrey and Sussex | 2,813,739 |
Q67 | Kent and Medway | 1,790,355 |
Notes:
1. Data as at 30 September 2013
2. Figures show numbers of patient registrations at GP practices in England. Owing to multiple registrations and other issues the numbers of registered patients in England are higher each year than ONS Resident population estimates, and as such these figures may not represent the actual number of people registered to access GP services in a given area.
3. General and Personal Medical Services statistics are only available by NHS organisations and do not map precisely into English county regions.
4. GP Registered Patient figures by Area Team are based on the location of the GP practice to which the patients are registered.
5. Data on numbers of people who have been removed involuntarily from GP lists is not published within the Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
Data Quality:
The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.
Source:
The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he has taken to support small and micro-businesses in creating new jobs.
Answered by Baroness Morgan of Cotes
Support for small and micro businesses is part of the Government's long term economic plan to back business and create jobs. From April this year, businesses can access a £2000 Employment Allowance. Over 90% of the benefit of this allowance will go to small businesses – reducing the cost of creating new jobs.
In addition, from April 2015 we will abolish employer NICs for all under 21 year olds making it cheaper for businesses to employ young people.