Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many people in Doncaster North constituency have accessed the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme in each of the last three years; and (b) how uptake per person in Doncaster North constituency compares with average uptake per person in England in each of the last three years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
These data are not collected centrally.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of excess deaths in England caused by air pollution.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution, published a report in August 2018 (Associations of long-term average concentrations of nitrogen dioxide with mortality), stating:
“[…] the range of central estimates of the mortality burden of long-term exposure to the air pollution mixture in 2013 in the UK was an effect equivalent to 28,000 to 36,000 deaths at typical ages, associated with a loss of 328,000 – 416,000 life years […]”
The statistics used are not cited as the specific cause of death of any individual, but reflect an equivalency which is used to assess the different impacts of factors contributing to death.
The Committee has not attributed specific morbidity to schools or children in this report, rather to the whole population.
The report can be seen here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/734799/COMEAP_NO2_Report.pdf
Air quality is the biggest environmental threat to public health, and so this Government has put in place a £3.5 billion plan to clean up our air. The Department also published our draft Clean Air Strategy for consultation this May, setting out our ambition for cleaner air for all. We will publish the final Strategy later this year.
The Department is also shortly bringing forward a new Environment Bill, which will include strong measures to improve the air we all breathe.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the contribution of air pollution in schools to the overall number of excess deaths due to air pollution in England.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution, published a report in August 2018 (Associations of long-term average concentrations of nitrogen dioxide with mortality), stating:
“[…] the range of central estimates of the mortality burden of long-term exposure to the air pollution mixture in 2013 in the UK was an effect equivalent to 28,000 to 36,000 deaths at typical ages, associated with a loss of 328,000 – 416,000 life years […]”
The statistics used are not cited as the specific cause of death of any individual, but reflect an equivalency which is used to assess the different impacts of factors contributing to death.
The Committee has not attributed specific morbidity to schools or children in this report, rather to the whole population.
The report can be seen here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/734799/COMEAP_NO2_Report.pdf
Air quality is the biggest environmental threat to public health, and so this Government has put in place a £3.5 billion plan to clean up our air. The Department also published our draft Clean Air Strategy for consultation this May, setting out our ambition for cleaner air for all. We will publish the final Strategy later this year.
The Department is also shortly bringing forward a new Environment Bill, which will include strong measures to improve the air we all breathe.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England are in areas with an annual mean nitrogen dioxide level greater than 40 μg/m3.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England are in areas with an annual mean PM2.5 level greater than 10 μg/m3.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England are in areas with an annual mean PM10 level greater than 20 μg/m3.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated for arts and culture in Doncaster (a) in total, (b) per head of the local population and (c) per head in England for the latest year for which figures are available.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The government is committed to ensuring that people from across the country have access to our world class art and culture, and Arts Council England has worked hard in recent years to ensure investment outside London has increased as a percentage and in cash terms. In 2017/18, the latest year for which figure are available, Arts Council England invested £1,383,998 in Doncaster (Local Authority region); the data below outlines the funding allocated per head for Doncaster and England for the same year. The £ per head figure may not provide a true reflection of the benefits that Doncaster will receive from cultural investment across England, as many arts organisations take their work across the country impacting regions outside the area that they are based in.
£ per Head by Decision Year | ||
Year | Doncaster | England |
2017/18 | £4.50 | £11.32 |
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the per capita heritage lottery funding was in (a) Doncaster and (b) England in the last year for which data are available.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded £270,000 to projects in Doncaster in the last financial year (£0.88 per capita). Since the organisation’s inception, it has awarded nearly £17m of grants to Doncaster, which amounts to £54.87 per capita. The total grants awarded in England in the last financial year totalled £4.07 per capita.
HLF always looks to address issues around lower levels of funding, and Doncaster has been a priority development area for HLF since 2003. Under this approach, where HLF works closely with heritage and other organisations locally to increase capacity and levels of applications, it has supported 104 projects since 2003 and 129 projects since 1994. It also played a key role in the successful joint funding scheme in 2015 ‘Dosh for Donny’ alongside other National Lottery distributors, which resulted in £372,000 being awarded to the area in that financial year and an increase in small grant awards.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the per capita big lottery fund resource spending was in (a) in Doncaster and (b) England in the last year for which data are available.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
For the financial year 2017/18 the number of awards, current value of awards, and per capita value of awards made by the Big Lottery Fund in (a) Doncaster and (b) England were as follows:
| Awards | Current Value | Population | Per Capita |
England | 8,412 | £330,994,310 | 55,268,067 | £5.99 |
Doncaster | 72 | £2,680,923 | 307,374 | £8.72 |
The value awarded within year may not be equal to spend within year as some payments are made after the date of award, and some awards cover a period of several years.
Asked by: Edward Miliband (Labour - Doncaster North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people from the Doncaster North constituency entered higher education institutions in the latest year for which figures are available; and how that figure compares with other constituencies.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes statistics on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The latest statistics available refer to the 2016/17 academic year and are available at the following link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-education-student-statistics.
The table below provides counts of entrants to higher education courses at UK HEIs who were living in the Doncaster North parliamentary constituency prior to commencing their studies.
Entrants to higher education domiciled in Doncaster North constituency prior to their studies, by level of study UK Higher Education Institutions | |
Academic year 2016/17 | |
| Doncaster North parliamentary constituency |
Postgraduate (research) | 10 |
Postgraduate (taught) | 150 |
First degree | 430 |
Other undergraduate | 60 |
Total | 655 |
1) Figures in this table are rounded to the nearest multiple of five; figures may not sum to totals.
2) Constituency is derived from the student's postcode prior to study.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service publish data on the proportion of 18 year olds entering full-time undergraduate higher education from each parliamentary constituency. The latest data is contained in Figure 4.8 of their 2017 End of Cycle report: https://www.ucas.com/file/137236/download?token=LtrRkIaK.
For the 2017 application cycle, the entry rate for 18 year olds from Doncaster North constituency to full-time undergraduate study was 21.1%. This compares to an entry rate for England of 33.3%.