Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the Government has made of the role of independent sector providers of diagnostic services in meeting NHS cancer diagnosis targets.
Answered by David Mowat
The independent sector provides diagnostic services to the National Health Service which supports the NHS to meet waiting time standards for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship places are available in (a) Suffolk, (b) East Anglia and (c) England and Wales; and how many such places are vacant.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The table shows the number of apprenticeship vacancies advertised on the official ‘Find an apprenticeship’ website, however there are a number of additional routes for an individual to apply for an apprenticeship, including directly to employers or training providers. Data is not collected on vacancies available via these routes.
Apprenticeship vacancies by region, as at 30 November 2016:
Region | Vacancies |
East Anglia | 720 |
Suffolk | 60 |
England | 24,050 |
Notes:
- Data is from the Find an apprenticeship website
- East Anglia contains the following Local Authority Districts: Babergh, Breckland, Broadland, Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Forest Heath, Great Yarmouth, Huntingdonshire, Ipswich, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Mid Suffolk, North Norfolk, Norwich, Peterborough, South Cambridgeshire, South Norfolk, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal, and Waveney
- Suffolk contains the following Local Authority Districts: Mid Suffolk and Suffolk Coastal
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps are being taken to improve the A14 from junction 42 (Westley) to junction 51 (Beacon Hill).
Answered by John Hayes
Highways England has no plans to improve this section of the A14 in Suffolk within the current Roads Investment Strategy (2015-2020). However, Highways England’s largest construction project has just commenced on the A14 between Huntington and Cambridge.
There are now updating its East of England route strategy in preparation for the second Roads Investment Strategy (2020-2025) and options for improving the A14 further will be considered.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many rural communities have launched their own initiatives to install fibre networks as a result of commercial and government programmes being unable to reach their premises.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Broadband Delivery UK has recently published information and guidance for communities on implementing their own community projects, with examples of schemes that it is aware of (available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-led-broadband-schemes). There are also other examples of community broadband support such as Community Broadband Scotland, which gives specific support to community projects in Scotland. The government does not, however, hold information on all community schemes in the UK.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the performance of the One Public Estate programme.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Last year, One Public Estate expanded to over a third of councils in England. Together, they expect to deliver £56million in running cost savings, £138million in capital receipts, 36,000 jobs and 16,500 homes by 2020. But there are many more excellent proposals and that is why, at Autumn Statement 2015, we announced £31million of funding to expand One Public Estate. Now covering 50% of councils in England, we will continue to support more councils and deliver more benefits over the Parliament.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools hold academy status in (i) Suffolk, (ii) East Anglia and (iii) England and Wales.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The number of academies in East Anglia (Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire) and England are given below. These figures are correct as at October 2016.
| Primary | Secondary |
Suffolk | 67 | 35 |
Norfolk | 89 | 38 |
Cambridgeshire | 43 | 30 |
East Anglia | 199 | 103 |
England | 3,430 | 2,068 |
There are no academies in Wales. We routinely publish information on all open academies and academy projects in development and this can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-academies-and-academy-projects-in-development
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to investigate reports of misconduct by the Global Restructuring Group of the Royal Bank of Scotland relating to small business finance in dash for cash claims made against that bank since 2008.
Answered by Simon Kirby
HM Treasury has no plans to investigate these reports. This is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority, which is undertaking a review.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary school places, (b) primary school age pupils on the roll, (c) pupils in excess of school capacity and (d) unfilled primary school places there were in Suffolk in academic year 2014-15.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The department collects information from each local authority on the number of schools, the number of places in those schools and the number of pupils on roll through the annual school capacity survey (SCAP).
The data is published annually. Data for May 2015 (relating to academic year 2014/15) can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2014-to-2015
As at May 2015, in Suffolk there were:
a) 59,140 primary school places
b) 52,169 primary school age pupils on roll
c) 329 primary pupils in excess of school capacity
d) 7,300 unfilled primary school places.
School capacities are as reported by local authorities for all school types, based on their knowledge of each school.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many decisions taken on claims for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment have been appealed in (i) Bury St Edmunds (ii) Suffolk and (iii) the UK in each of the last five years; and how many of those appeals have been successful.
Answered by Oliver Heald
I refer the honourable member to the answers given to PQ 43251 on 18 July 2016 and PQ 44405 on 12 September 2016.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what change there has been in passenger numbers on trains in Suffolk since 2010.
Answered by Paul Maynard
The number of journeys made by rail in Suffolk during 2014-15 has increased by 23% since 2009-10, in line with the strong growth nationally in rail journeys. The number of journeys since 2009-10 is shown below.
Year | Number of journeys in Suffolk | Percentage change from the previous year |
2014-15 | 6,121,321 | -0.1% |
2013-14 | 6,129,781 | 1.0% |
2012-13 | 6,068,473 | 6.7% |
2011-12 | 5,688,434 | 4.9% |
2010-11 | 5,423,631 | 9.1% |
2009-10 | 4,971,597 | - |
Source: The Office of Rail and Road