First elected: 9th April 1992
Left House: 30th March 2015 (Retired)
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e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
These initiatives were driven by Hugh Bayley, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
Hugh Bayley has not been granted any Urgent Questions
Hugh Bayley has not been granted any Adjournment Debates
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to ensure that medical treatment prescribed as necessary by a doctor or other medical professional must be provided unless the type of treatment is not approved by the Secretary of State or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; to establish a national register of cases where such prescribed treatment is refused; to introduce a mechanism for appeal against decisions about provision of medical treatments; and for connected purposes.
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision to ensure that medical treatment prescribed as necessary by a doctor or other medical professional must be provided unless the type of treatment is not approved by the Secretary of State or the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; to establish a national register of cases where such prescribed treatment is refused; to introduce a mechanism for appeal against decisions about provision of medical treatments; and for connected purposes
Hugh Bayley has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
I regularly visit all parts of the United Kingdom, including York. Under this Government, crime in Yorkshire has fallen by 21%, employment has risen by 129,000, 470 academies have opened, there are more nurses and doctors, and 43,950 new homes have been built. We are also investing over £122 million in the Local Growth deal to create over 5,000 jobs, 5,000 homes and generate £150 million in public and private investment. And the hon. Member will be aware that in Yorkshire and Humber there was a bigger rise in the number of people in work in the last year than in the whole of France.
I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer of 12 March 2015 to Question UIN 226806. Adult skills funding is made available to further education providers, not local areas. The funding system is demand led and money follows the learners.
Allocations for 2015-16 are available on the Skills Funding Agency website. Historic allocations are also available on the Skills Funding Agency website.
To offer accountability as to how allocations money is spent we publish tables showing a summary of learning associated with each provider. For York College in 2012/13, see row 1,235 in the link below:
It should be noted that in any given area, learners are supported by a range of different providers. For a summary of further education providers and their delivery in the York local authority in 2012/13, see rows 53,186 to 53,387 of the link below:
All provider and local authority tables are published in the FE Data Library:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-local-authority-tables
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd & Rt Hon Justin Welby & Mrs Welby will be representing the Church of England at the reburial service for King Richard III in Leicester Cathedral on the 26 March. The local diocese will be represented by the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Tim Stevens alongside other senior clergy from across the country, local dignitaries, ecumenical guests and representatives of other faiths.
The number of domestic solar PV and wind turbines installations confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register in each year since 2010, in York Central parliamentary constituency and in York Unitary Authority was as follows:
York Central parliamentary constituency | York Unitary Authority | |||
Solar PV | Wind turbines | Solar PV | Wind turbines | |
2010 | 19 | 0 | 58 | 0 |
2011 | 160 | 0 | 570 | 1 |
2012 | 675 | 0 | 1,493 | 2 |
2013 | 863 | 0 | 1,945 | 2 |
2014 | 956 | 0 | 2,225 | 2 |
The number of microgeneration installations confirmed on the CFR as of the latest quarter are published at:
DECC do not collect or hold data at this level of disaggregation.
From DECC’s domestic meter point data, there were 77,000 domestic standard electricity meters and an additional 10,000 economy 7 meters in the York Unitary Authority in 2013. Data is not published for the York Central constituency:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sub-national-electricity-consumption-data
DECC estimate that 17% of standard electricity customers in Yorkshire, used prepayment meters in the latest quarter. This data is only available at the public electricity supply (PES) region level. Data is not available for the York central constituency or the York Unitary Authority Area:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics.
Any information that the Department may hold is taken from publicly available sources such as the companies’ annual reports.
(a) This Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold details of all individual companies that receive financial support form Yorkshire Forward. Any financial support which Yorkshire Forward provided within the region was in line with the Agency’s Regional Economic Strategy and Corporate Plans and within its delegated financial authority.
(b & c) The Government has provided £4m to the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNER) Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and £25.7m to the Leeds City Region (LCR) LEP to support growing businesses in their area through the Regional Growth Fund programme. Businesses in York are able to apply to access this funding. The YNYER and LCR Growth Deals are also jointly providing £8m to the bio-hub project at the University of York, which will support bio-renewable business and drive growth in the sector. In addition, the Government is providing a total of £925,000 for business support coordination in YNYER and LCR through our Growth Hub Programme.
A Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL) is a pre-requisite before any oil and gas operations, including fracking, can take place. No new PEDLs have been issued since 2008. DECC cannot comment on applications made in the current, 14th, Onshore Oil & Gas Licensing Round, the results of which we expect to announce later this year.
All operations require planning permission, access agreement with relevant landowner(s), Environment Agency permits, HSE scrutiny, and DECC consent before they can commence. Within an existing PEDL, an application which included plans to frac in North Yorkshire was consented to by DECC in 2012 but, due to changes to the operator’s plans, the activity was not carried out.
The funding available for Adult Skills in 2015/16 is outlined in the Skills Funding Letter. The letter sets out the Government’s priorities for the budget and it is for providers to decide how they use their adult skills funding to reflect those priorities and meet the needs of learners and employers in their local area.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-letter-april-2015-to-march-2016
FE funding is demand led and adult participation in Local Authorities and parliamentary constituencies for 2009/10 to 2013/14 is published online:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-further-education-and-skills
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will not change the fact that it is up to UK Governments alone to decide how UK public services, including the NHS, are run. The UK has insisted on maintaining the same safeguards for the NHS in TTIP as it has in all recent trade agreements.
The last year of the Warm Front Scheme was 2012-13. There has been no further change in the Warm Front figures for York local authority area since my answer to you on 9th July 2013.
The last year of the Warm Front Scheme was 2012-13. There has been no further change in the Warm Front figures for York local authority area since my answer to you on 9th July 2013.
The number of onshore wind turbines that have become fully operational in North Yorkshire in the years since the start of 2008 are as follows:
Number of wind turbines | Date fully operational | |
2008 | 8 | 22 April 2008 |
2010 | 12 | 4 October 2010 |
2011 | 2 | 1 January 2011 |
Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, May 2014
The latest information is shown in the following table. UCAS have not released any data on applications to individual institutions for the 2014 applications cycle but the latest figures for total applicants to all UK institutions (published on 29 May 2014) show that they have risen by 4%, compared to the same point in 2013.
UCAS main scheme applications to University of York and York St John University, 2008 to 2013
Full-time undergraduate courses
| Year of entry | |||||
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
University of York | 18,434 | 21,543 | 24,548 | 23,725 | 23,570 | 25,030 |
York St John University | 5,541 | 6,194 | 7,685 | 8,657 | 9,600 | 9,700 |
Source: UCAS
1. Each applicant can submit up to five applications.
2. Figures cover applicants who applied during the main UCAS application scheme which closes on June 30th. Applicants who subsequently applied during clearing are not included.
The Skills Funding Agency is responsible for the allocation of funding to further education college for post-19 education and training, and for Apprenticeships for people aged 16 and over. The information requested is available in the following tables.
Table 1 sets out funding allocations for 2014/2015 to York College by the Skills Funding Agency. Previous PQs provided data up to and including 2013/2014 academic year.
Table 2 sets out funding allocations for 2014/2015 by the Education Funding Agency (the successor body to the YPLA) to York College. Previous PQs provided data up to and including 2013/2014 academic year.
Table 1: SFA Funding allocations for York College
Academic year |
| 19+ Cash allocation (1) (£) | Real terms (2) (£) |
2014/15 | Adult allocations (3) | 3,382,992 | 3,382,992 |
Table 2: EFA Funding allocations for York College
Academic year | 16-18 Cash allocation (£) | Real terms (2) (£) |
2014/15 | 15,900,930 | 15,900,930 |
Table 3 sets out funding allocations for 2010/2011 to 2014/2015 to Askham Bryan College by the Skills Funding Agency. Data is available from the creation of the Skills Funding Agency in April 2010.
Table 4 sets out funding allocations for 2010/11 to 2014/15 to Askham Bryan College by the YPLA and its successor body, the Education Funding Agency.
Table 3: SFA Funding Allocations for Askham Bryan College
Academic year |
| 19+ Cash allocation (1) (£) | Real terms (2) (£) |
2010/11 | Adult allocations | 2,264,811 | 2,455,137 |
2011/12 | Adult allocations | 3,106,679 | 3,291,154 |
2012/13 | Adult allocations | 3,249,205 | 3,382,422 |
2013/14 | Adult allocations (3) | 3,045,779 | 3,108,486 |
2014/15 | Adult allocations (3) | 2,846,003 | 2,846,003 |
Table 4: EFA Funding Allocations for Askham Bryan College
Academic year | 16-18 Cash allocation (£) | Real terms (2) (£) |
2010/11 | 6,668,827 | 7,229,250 |
2011/12 | 11,277,092(4) | 11,946,729 |
2012/13 | 12,342,976 | 12,849,038 |
2013/14 | 13,451,499 | 13,728,442 |
2014/15 | 14,840,339 | 14,840,339 |
Notes
(1) Skills Funding Agency allocation data for 19+ participation, additional learning support and discretionary learner support.
(2) These figures have been calculated using HM Treasury deflators, last updated 5 December 2013.
(3) Includes 24+ Advanced Learning Loans that were introduced in 2013/14.
(4) Askham Bryan college took over the land-based provision from University of Cumbria in 2011/12.
Data are not available prior to 2000. Estimates for the proportion of young people in training, employment and education separately are not available.
Information on the number of Apprenticeship starts and achievements by geography and age is published in supplementary tables to a Statistical First Release:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2
The latest available information on applicants is shown in Table 1.
Table 1
UCAS applicants aged under 211 to full-time undergraduate courses from York Central constituency and York Local Authority
| Year of entry: | ||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
York Central | 470 | 475 | 535 | 450 | 430 |
York local authority | 1,205 | 1,225 | 1,245 | 1,130 | 1,085 |
Source: UCAS
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 York Central constituency and York Local authority 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 HEIs, Further Education Colleges (FECs), and Alternative Providers (APs) of higher education 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 York Central constituency (4) and York unitary authority
UK Higher Education Institutions
Academic years 2009/10 to 2012/13
Domicile | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
York unitary authority | 965 | 995 | 1,070 | 825 |
York Central constituency (4) | 440 (4) | 385 | 460 | 330 |
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. The figure for 2009/10 refers to the City of York constituency.
The capital funding allocated by this Department and its predecessor departments to York College, the University of York and the University of York St John in each year between 1992 and 2000 is not readily available. However, the capital allocations for each of the institutions named since 2000/01 is in the attached table.
The attached tables show the amount of grant distributed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for teaching and research per full-time equivalent student for each of the years requested. There have been changes in HEFCE's funding methodology over this period, so these tables do not provide like for like yearly comparisons. In particular, the data prior to 1998-99 are not available in a similar format to that for later years.
The latest information is given in the table. UCAS have not released any data on applications to individual institutions for the 2014 application cycle, but the latest figures for total applicants to all UK institutions (published on May 30th) show that they have risen by 4%, compared to the same point in 2013.
UCAS main scheme applications to University of York, York St John University and England, 2009 to 2013
Full-time undergraduate courses
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
University of York | 21,543 | 24,548 | 23,725 | 23,570 | 25,030 |
York St John University | 6,194 | 7,685 | 8,657 | 9,600 | 9,700 |
All institutions in England | 2,021,546 | 2,303,678 | 2,418,828 | 2,209,337 | 2,265,95 |
Source: UCAS reference tables.
1. Each applicant can submit up to five applications.
2. Figures cover applicants who applied during the main UCAS application scheme which closes on June 30th. Applicants who subsequently applied during clearing are not included.
There is no single data source that comprehensively measures all business start-ups within the UK. However, as a near proxy BankSearch collates data on the number of new business bank accounts opened in Great Britain. This can be used as an indicative measure of business start-up activity and is the most comprehensive source available to BIS.
In the following table, estimated numbers of new business start-ups in the York local authority area are shown using the BankSearch data.
Year | Estimated number of business start-ups in York authority area |
2008 | 1,100 |
2009 | 1,100 |
2010 | 1,300 |
2011 | 1,400 |
2012 | 1,300 |
2013 | 1,100 |
Source: BankSearch, number of new business bank accounts opened.
The number of businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber exporting goods to the EU and all countries in each year since 2008 is given in the attached table. The data is sourced from HMRC's Regional Trade Statistics database and covers trade in goods only. A count of services exporters by region is not available.
Figures for the number of bankruptcy orders in York, Yorkshire & Humber, and England in each year since 2005 can be found in the following table. Bankruptcy applies to individuals only; regional breakdowns for the number of company insolvencies are not currently available.
The Insolvency Service compiles its regional bankruptcy order statistics on a calendar year basis, therefore financial year totals are not available. Figures for 2013 will be available on the Insolvency Service website from 10 July 2014, alongside figures for other individual insolvency procedures (individual voluntary arrangements, and debt relief orders).
Table 1: Number of Bankruptcy Orders in each Region of England, 2005-20121
Year | York | Yorkshire & Humber | England |
2005 | 134 | 4272 | 43,103 |
2006 | 214 | 5812 | 57,576 |
2007 | 185 | 5957 | 59,245 |
2008 | 198 | 6660 | 62,001 |
2009 | 236 | 7231 | 68,498 |
2010 | 170 | 5929 | 53,064 |
2011 | 130 | 4317 | 38,341 |
2012 | 84 | 3295 | 29,393 |
1 Where individual has provided postcode
It should be noted that these figures do not account for any changes in the base population over time. Using the rate of bankruptcies per 10,000 adults allows for a like-for-like comparison across years.
Headline figures for insolvencies in England and Wales can be found in the quarterly Insolvency Statistics release, a National Statistics publication. Figures for January-March 2014 were published on 29 April 2014, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-january-to-march-2014
Annual numbers and rates of bankruptcies by region for 2000-2012 are available in the Individual Insolvencies by Region publication, which can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-individual-insolvencies-by-region
UK Trade & Investment reports that in 2008/9, 1,869 new jobs were created in Yorkshire and Humberside as a result of foreign investment and 4,719 jobs were safeguarded. In 2009/10, 2,016 new jobs were created and 3,895 were safeguarded. In 2010/11, 868 jobs were created and a total of 670 jobs safeguarded. In 2011/12, 1,362 new jobs were created and 2,338 jobs safeguarded.
Finally, in 2012/13, the last published figures show that 1,288 new jobs were created in Yorkshire and Humber and total of 6,618 jobs were safeguarded, a total of 7,906 jobs.
Data are not available prior to 2000. Estimates for the proportion of young people in training, employment and education separately are not available.
Information on the number of Apprenticeship starts and achievements by geography and age is published in supplementary tables to a Statistical First Release:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2
We do not hold the data in the format requested. The Regional Growth Fund is supporting 51 projects and programmes in Yorkshire and Humber across five funding Rounds. Below is a breakdown of the allocated funding from 2011-2017 by Round:
Round | Projects | Programmes | Allocated funding (£m) |
1 | 6 | 0 | 47.3 |
2 | 15 | 2 | 78.5 |
3 | 8 | 4 | 92.8 |
4 | 8 | 4 | 41.5 |
5 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
The 11 regional programmes are providing support to small and medium-size businesses in the area. Support from RGF is expected to leverage £1.7bn of private investment.
Yorkshire Forward's annual accounts (www.gov.uk) report on this activity, showing the number of businesses assisted overall and the annual expenditure on the programmes they delivered as a whole. Providing any further information, at the level of detail requested, would require extensive research into Yorkshire Forward's records which are now held in BIS archive. This would incur disproportionate cost.
The Regional Growth Fund has supported eight Local Enterprise Partnership-led (LEP) programmes in Yorkshire and Humber, 4 each in Rounds 3 and 5, with allocations totalling £95 million. So far £23.8 million has been paid to small and medium-sized enterprises which has achieved 987 jobs and £66.9 million in private sector leverage.
The Yorkshire and Humber LEPs have also received a total of £72.9 million from the Growing Places Fund to support infrastructure projects resulting in the creation of jobs, housing, commercial floorspace and businesses. Thus far, the LEPs have allocated this to 34 projects which will lead to the creation of 25,500 jobs, 4,900 housing units, 1.5 million sqm commercial floorspace, and 320 businesses.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on student enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
The number of UK domiciled undergraduate and postgraduate enrolments at University of York and York St John University in the academic years 2009/10 to 2012/13 has been provided in the following table.
Information on the number of enrolments at UK HEIs for the academic year 2013/14 will become available from HESA in January 2015.
UK domiciled (1) enrolments (2) by level and institution of study
Academic years 2009/10 to 2012/13
Institution | Level of study | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
University of York | Postgraduate | 2,405 | 2,610 | 2,680 | 2,135 |
| Undergraduate | 9,645 | 10,190 | 10,475 | 10,395 |
| Total | 12,050 | 12,800 | 13,155 | 12,525 |
York St John University | Postgraduate | 815 | 780 | 735 | 715 |
| Undergraduate | 4,835 | 4,855 | 4,920 | 4,960 |
| Total | 5,650 | 5,640 | 5,660 | 5,680 |
Source: HESA Student Record
Notes:
(1) Domicile refers to a students' home or permanent address prior to starting their course
(2) Enrolments refers to students in all years of study
This information can also be found on the HESA website at the following link:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/free-statistics
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On 31 March 2010, there were 38,000 full time equivalent Civil Servants employed in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The latest available statistics for 2013 show that this number reduced to 31,590 as at 31 March 2013.
To help deal with the deficit which this Government inherited in 2010, the Government has reduced the size of the Civil Service by 17% since the 2010 General Election. It is now at its smallest since the Second World War, representing a significant increase in efficiency and productivity. This reduction helped save taxpayers £2.4bn last year alone, against a 2009/10 baseline.
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No timetable has been set for introducing legislation to bring in a new Horserace Betting Right. Draft legislation will be developed following a thorough economic analysis and discussions with the Competition and Markets Authority, HMRC and others.
The Horserace Betting Right will apply to all bookmakers, wherever located, who take bets from British customers on British racing and provides a modern and sustainable future for the funding of racing.
The flagship race at York Racecourse, the Group 1 Juddmonte International, has recently been confirmed as the best race in the world by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. The Horserace Betting Right will allow York Racecourse, and every racecourse across Britain, to build upon current successes and continue to offer a great experience for racegoers.
Figures in the tables show Sport England direct investment only. The figures do not include additional money being spent on grassroots sports by national governing bodies and other national partners in which Sport England is investing £493 million between 2013 - 17 to get more people playing sport across England.
(a) the Yorkshire and the Humber:
(b) the City of York local authority area in each year since 2004-05.
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The number of visits to museums and galleries sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport since 2004-05 is published on Gov.uk (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/museums-and-galleries-monthly-visits). The number of visits to the National Railway Museum in each year since 2008-09 is as follows:
2008-09 782,430
2009-10 709,166
2010-11 630,396
2011-12 717,274
2012-13 727,000
2013-14 923,000
2000 | £ 2,670 |
2001 | £ 810 |
2002 | £ 45,453 |
2003 | £ 220,781 |
2004 | £ 37,274 |
2005 | £ 103,193 |
2006 | £ 714,883 |
2007 | £ 914,784 |
2008 | £ 448,870 |
2009 | £ 491,808 |
2010 | £ 427,630 |
2011 | £ 78,934 |
2012 | £ 33,551 |
2013 | £ 195,553 |
2014 | £ 35,226 |
>01/06/2014 | £ 13,793 |
Grand Total | £ 3,766,512 |
[Information from the Football Foundation]