Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much waste was recycled in City of York local authority area in 2009-10 and in each subsequent year.
Answered by Kris Hopkins
The information requested is shown in the attached table.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average cost was of a super off-peak rail return from York to Leeds in each year since 2010.
Answered by Claire Perry
There is no “super off-peak rail return” from York to Leeds.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on cycling improvements in York Unitary Authority in each year since 2010.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
In 2010-2011, the Department for Transport provided funding to York Unitary Authority (also known as City of York) for cycling through Cycling England, an arm’s length organisation set up in 2005. Funding totalled £1.379m. We do not hold a record of how the funding was split across each year.
In July 2011, City of York was awarded £4.645m revenue and capital funding through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund. The table below shows each year’s allocation for City of York. The funding supported a package of sustainable transport interventions called ‘i-Travel York’ which included cycling projects. We do not hold a record of how funding was split between i-Travel York’s various sustainable transport projects, but we do know that cycling improvements formed a significant element.
Financial Year | Revenue | Capital |
2011-12 | 0.421m | 0.227m |
2012-13 | 0.647m | 0.594m |
2013-14 | 0.777m | 1.112m |
2014-15 | 0.685m | 0.182m |
In July 2014, we awarded a further £1m to the City of York to support the continuation of their Local Sustainable Transport Fund project into 2015-16.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) accidents and (b) fatal accidents involving cyclists there have been in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York Unitary Authority area in each year since 2010.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The table below gives the number of (a) accidents (b) fatal accidents involving cyclists and (c) the number of pedal cyclists killed in reported personal injury road traffic accidents in (i) York Central constituency and (ii) York Unitary Authority area in each year from 2010 to 2013.
Year | Total accidents involving pedal cyclists | Total fatal accidents involving pedal cyclists | Number of pedal cyclists killed | |
York Central Const | 2010 | 86 | 0 | 0 |
York Central Const | 2011 | 86 | 1 | 1 |
York Central Const | 2012 | 107 | 0 | 0 |
York Central Const | 2013 | 122 | 0 | 0 |
York Unitary Authority | 2010 | 128 | 0 | 0 |
York Unitary Authority | 2011 | 130 | 1 | 1 |
York Unitary Authority | 2012 | 139 | 0 | 0 |
York Unitary Authority | 2013 | 149 | 0 | 0 |
Statistics for 2014 will be available in June 2015.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) applications have been received for licences and (b) licences have been issued for fracking in (i) York, (ii) North Yorkshire and (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber since May 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
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.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Government has made available in Adult Skills Funding in (a) York Central constituency, (b) City of York Council and (c) all areas using York College in 2015-16; and how much such funding was made available in each of the last six years (i) in cash terms and (ii) at current prices.
Answered by Nick Boles
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
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on (a) how many sets of accounts for expenditure in 2013 by NATO and its agencies have been completed, (b) how many such sets have been audited by the International Board of Auditors of NATO, (c) how many audited accounts have been published together with their audit reports, and on what dates, and (d) what the timetable is for (i) publishing the remaining audited accounts and audit statement and (ii) auditing and publishing any as yet unaudited 2013 accounts.
Answered by David Lidington
The UK scrutinises all financial audit reports conducted by the International Board of Auditors of NATO (IBAN) on NATO and its entities. However, the Department does not hold all of the information referred to and has therefore requested it from NATO.
NATO recently decided to publish all unclassified NATO audit reports as well as a range of other financial information. We welcome this positive step towards improved financial transparency within the Alliance.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on (a) how many sets of accounts for expenditure in 2013 by NATO and its agencies have not been finalised and (b) what the timetable is for completing those accounts and passing them to the International Board of Auditors of NATO; and what assessment he has made of when such accounts will be audited and published.
Answered by David Lidington
The UK scrutinises all financial audit reports conducted by the International Board of Auditors of NATO (IBAN) on NATO and its entities. However, the Department does not hold all of the information referred to and has therefore requested it from NATO.
NATO recently decided to publish all unclassified NATO audit reports as well as a range of other financial information. We welcome this positive step towards improved financial transparency within the Alliance.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pay for teachers was in York unitary authority area in 2008-09 and in each year since 2008-09.
Answered by David Laws
The following table provides the mean and median salaries (in cash terms) of full-time regular qualified teachers in service in publicly funded schools for York local authority and England, in each March, 2009 and 2010 and November 2010 to November 2013. The source of this information is the Database of Teacher Records (March 2009 and 2010) and the School Workforce Census (November 2010 to 2013).
York | England | |
November 2013 [1] | ||
Mean | £37,500 | £38,100 |
Median | £37,100 | £36,800 |
November 2012 [1],[2] | ||
Mean | £36,300 | £37,600 |
Median | £35,900 | £36,800 |
November 2011 [1] | ||
Mean | £37,200 | £37,900 |
Median | £36,800 | £36,800 |
November 2010 [1] | ||
Mean | £37,600 | £38,000 |
Median | £36,800 | £36,800 |
March 2010 [3] | ||
Mean | £35,900 | £37,900 |
Median | £35,100 | £36,600 |
March 2009 [2] | ||
Mean | £36,800 | £36,900 |
Median | £36,600 | £35,900 |
[1] Source: School Workforce Census.
[2] November 2013 figures exclude one large academy in York.
[3] Source: Database of Teacher Records.
Asked by: Hugh Bayley (Labour - York Central)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the objectives are for the World Bank's Global Partnership for Social Accountability; what role her Department plays on that partnership's steering committee; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Justine Greening
The World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) supports governments and civil society to work together to solve critical governance challenges in developing countries. GPSA aims to create an enabling environment in which citizen feedback is used to solve fundamental problems in service delivery and to strengthen the performance of public institutions.
DFID has been a member of the steering committee since GPSA started in 2012, sharing its knowledge and advisory capacity. The steering committee sets out the overall strategy for GPSA and approves grants for programmatic activities such as improving budget transparency or improving access to and quality of service delivery.