Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to return the funds owed to the government of Iran for the purchase of Chieftain tanks through International Military Services which were never delivered.
Answered by Philip Dunne
This matter is being handled by International Military Services Limited (IMS). Negotiations are commerically sensitive and a confidentital matter between IMS and the Iranians.
The UK Government does not dispute the outcome of court hearings on this matter, but the current EU sanctions against the Iranian Ministry of Defence remain in force.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the amount owed by the Government to the government of Iran for Chieftain tanks bought by that government but never delivered; and if he will take steps to return that amount to the government of Iran.
Answered by Philip Dunne
This matter is being handled by International Military Services Limited (IMS). Negotiations are commerically sensitive and a confidentital matter between IMS and the Iranians.
The UK Government does not dispute the outcome of court hearings on this matter, but the current EU sanctions against the Iranian Ministry of Defence remain in force.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether funds were received into the public purse from the sale of the same Chieftain tanks to Iraq which had already been sold through International Military Services but never delivered to the government of Iran.
Answered by Philip Dunne
No records are held of Chieftain tanks being sold to the Government of Iraq.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the use during the Iran-Iraq war of Chieftain tanks sold by the UK to the government of Iraq; and whether those tanks had previously been purchased by the government of Iran.
Answered by Philip Dunne
No records are held of Chieftain tanks being sold to the Government of Iraq.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Chieftain tanks sold to the government of Iran but which remained undelivered were later sold to the government of Iraq.
Answered by Philip Dunne
No records are held of Chieftain tanks being sold to the Government of Iraq.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the final decisions on the Pharmacy Integration Fund.
Answered by Alistair Burt
NHS England is responsible for the oversight of the Pharmacy Integration Fund. Initial priorities for the Fund in 2016/17 will be to support urgent care services and enhancing the health of care home residents. NHS England will publish further details throughout the five-year period of the Fund.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide field surgical teams for the Peshmerga Regional Government.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The UK keeps its contribution to the Global Counter-Daesh Coalition in Iraq (including the Kurdish region) under review with wider Coalition partners, but has no plans to deploy a field hospital to the region. Any such deployment would need to be carefully balanced against medical commitments to current and future planned operations.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will support the provision of specialist treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham for seriously injured Peshmerga from the Kurdistan region in Iraq.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
We would consider whether to support any individual case for such treatment on its merits. The limited treatment provided in the UK to foreign nationals in the past has only been offered in very exceptional circumstances.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made in Beckenham on implementing the Government's proposal for 30 hours' free child care for working parents.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
We have made substantial progress towards implementing the offer of 30 hours of free childcare to working parents of three- and four-year-olds. At the Autumn Statement, the Chancellor announced a significant increase in funding to support the policy, which means that by 2019-20 we will be spending over £1billion extra per year on the free childcare entitlements for two-, three- and four-year-olds.
The Childcare Bill, which provides the legal framework for the extended entitlement, has completed its Commons stages and Lords Consideration will take place on 2 February. We have announced that parents will be able to check their eligibility for both the working parents’ childcare offer and Tax-Free Childcare through a joint online system, making it easier for working parents to access Government childcare support.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list in descending order the proportion of schools in each local authority in England which have converted to academies.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The information requested is shown in the table below:
Proportion of state-funded schools that are academies | ||||
As of 01/01/2016 | ||||
By Local Authority in England | ||||
| Number of state-funded schools 1 | Number of academies 2 | % of state-funded schools that are academies | |
North East Lincolnshire | 61 | 48 | 79% | |
Bournemouth | 41 | 32 | 78% | |
Bromley | 100 | 71 | 71% | |
Darlington | 40 | 28 | 70% | |
Torbay | 42 | 28 | 67% | |
Thurrock | 53 | 34 | 64% | |
Rutland | 22 | 14 | 64% | |
Kingston upon Hull City of | 95 | 56 | 59% | |
Slough | 48 | 25 | 52% | |
Leicestershire | 283 | 146 | 52% | |
Poole | 41 | 21 | 51% | |
Middlesbrough | 55 | 28 | 51% | |
Blackpool | 42 | 21 | 50% | |
Bexley | 79 | 39 | 49% | |
Nottingham | 100 | 49 | 49% | |
Wakefield | 139 | 67 | 48% | |
Swindon | 81 | 38 | 47% | |
Medway | 103 | 48 | 47% | |
Cornwall | 278 | 128 | 46% | |
Northamptonshire | 312 | 141 | 45% | |
Croydon | 119 | 52 | 44% | |
Bristol City of | 140 | 58 | 41% | |
Stoke-on-Trent | 93 | 38 | 41% | |
Barnsley | 90 | 36 | 40% | |
Rotherham | 118 | 45 | 38% | |
Hillingdon | 98 | 37 | 38% | |
Central Bedfordshire | 134 | 49 | 37% | |
Lincolnshire | 356 | 127 | 36% | |
Sutton | 60 | 21 | 35% | |
Sheffield | 173 | 59 | 34% | |
Bedford | 77 | 26 | 34% | |
Oxfordshire | 286 | 95 | 33% | |
Essex | 555 | 182 | 33% | |
Redcar and Cleveland | 58 | 19 | 33% | |
Cheshire East | 153 | 50 | 33% | |
Plymouth | 96 | 31 | 32% | |
Birmingham | 420 | 135 | 32% | |
Sunderland | 109 | 35 | 32% | |
Kent | 583 | 182 | 31% | |
North Lincolnshire | 81 | 25 | 31% | |
Stockton-on-Tees | 78 | 24 | 31% | |
Doncaster | 125 | 38 | 30% | |
Wiltshire | 237 | 71 | 30% | |
Southampton | 74 | 22 | 30% | |
Herefordshire | 99 | 29 | 29% | |
Waltham Forest | 76 | 22 | 29% | |
Warwickshire | 237 | 68 | 29% | |
Portsmouth | 63 | 18 | 29% | |
Dorset | 172 | 49 | 28% | |
Calderdale | 102 | 29 | 28% | |
Cambridgeshire | 250 | 71 | 28% | |
Southend-on-Sea | 53 | 15 | 28% | |
Havering | 82 | 23 | 28% | |
Wolverhampton | 105 | 29 | 28% | |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 58 | 16 | 28% | |
Windsor and Maidenhead | 63 | 17 | 27% | |
Coventry | 119 | 32 | 27% | |
Somerset | 264 | 69 | 26% | |
Manchester | 177 | 46 | 26% | |
Solihull | 82 | 21 | 26% | |
Kingston upon Thames | 51 | 13 | 25% | |
Peterborough | 75 | 19 | 25% | |
Sandwell | 119 | 30 | 25% | |
Gloucestershire | 303 | 76 | 25% | |
Nottinghamshire | 338 | 84 | 25% | |
Walsall | 113 | 28 | 25% | |
Westminster | 57 | 14 | 25% | |
Suffolk | 325 | 79 | 24% | |
Norfolk | 420 | 102 | 24% | |
Harrow | 58 | 14 | 24% | |
Worcestershire | 241 | 58 | 24% | |
Devon | 363 | 87 | 24% | |
Bath and North East Somerset | 80 | 19 | 24% | |
Hartlepool | 38 | 9 | 24% | |
Surrey | 389 | 90 | 23% | |
Trafford | 93 | 21 | 23% | |
East Sussex | 192 | 43 | 22% | |
Brent | 81 | 18 | 22% | |
Reading | 54 | 12 | 22% | |
Staffordshire | 397 | 88 | 22% | |
Milton Keynes | 108 | 23 | 21% | |
Oldham | 104 | 22 | 21% | |
Southwark | 101 | 21 | 21% | |
Hounslow | 77 | 16 | 21% | |
Kensington and Chelsea | 35 | 7 | 20% | |
North Somerset | 76 | 15 | 20% | |
Haringey | 84 | 16 | 19% | |
Luton | 65 | 12 | 18% | |
Buckinghamshire | 233 | 43 | 18% | |
West Sussex | 282 | 52 | 18% | |
Barnet | 120 | 22 | 18% | |
South Gloucestershire | 115 | 21 | 18% | |
Hertfordshire | 519 | 89 | 17% | |
Tameside | 96 | 16 | 17% | |
Bradford | 206 | 34 | 17% | |
Dudley | 107 | 17 | 16% | |
Derby | 96 | 15 | 16% | |
Blackburn with Darwen | 72 | 11 | 15% | |
Shropshire | 153 | 23 | 15% | |
Cumbria | 316 | 47 | 15% | |
Wandsworth | 81 | 12 | 15% | |
Leeds | 274 | 40 | 15% | |
Halton | 62 | 9 | 15% | |
Wirral | 124 | 18 | 15% | |
Kirklees | 180 | 26 | 14% | |
Richmond upon Thames | 57 | 8 | 14% | |
Telford and Wrekin | 73 | 10 | 14% | |
Gateshead | 84 | 11 | 13% | |
Hackney | 77 | 10 | 13% | |
Lambeth | 85 | 11 | 13% | |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 96 | 12 | 13% | |
Cheshire West and Chester | 161 | 20 | 12% | |
Wigan | 129 | 16 | 12% | |
Bolton | 126 | 15 | 12% | |
South Tyneside | 59 | 7 | 12% | |
Isle of Wight | 51 | 6 | 12% | |
Redbridge | 78 | 9 | 12% | |
Wokingham | 65 | 7 | 11% | |
Durham | 261 | 27 | 10% | |
Northumberland | 174 | 18 | 10% | |
Salford | 99 | 10 | 10% | |
West Berkshire | 80 | 8 | 10% | |
Newham | 91 | 9 | 10% | |
Knowsley | 61 | 6 | 10% | |
Sefton | 102 | 10 | 10% | |
Liverpool | 165 | 16 | 10% | |
York | 62 | 6 | 10% | |
Greenwich | 83 | 8 | 10% | |
Leicester | 110 | 10 | 9% | |
Merton | 56 | 5 | 9% | |
Hampshire | 530 | 47 | 9% | |
Barking and Dagenham | 59 | 5 | 8% | |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 145 | 12 | 8% | |
Warrington | 86 | 7 | 8% | |
Derbyshire | 408 | 32 | 8% | |
Ealing | 90 | 7 | 8% | |
Stockport | 106 | 8 | 8% | |
Enfield | 95 | 7 | 7% | |
North Yorkshire | 369 | 27 | 7% | |
Rochdale | 86 | 6 | 7% | |
Islington | 65 | 4 | 6% | |
St. Helens | 68 | 4 | 6% | |
Bracknell Forest | 39 | 2 | 5% | |
Bury | 81 | 4 | 5% | |
Lancashire | 608 | 29 | 5% | |
Lewisham | 86 | 4 | 5% | |
Brighton and Hove | 70 | 3 | 4% | |
Tower Hamlets | 96 | 4 | 4% | |
North Tyneside | 77 | 3 | 4% | |
Camden | 62 | 2 | 3% | |
City of London | 1 | 0 | 0% | |
Isles Of Scilly | 1 | 0 | 0% | |
Total | 21,516 | 5,096 | 24% | |
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1. Includes LA maintained schools, academies, free schools, studio schools, university technical colleges, city technology colleges and state-funded special schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision. | ||||
2. Includes converter academies and sponsored academies. | ||||