Asked by: Jo Cox (Labour - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made on the proportion of new build housing constructed in this Parliament that will be bungalows.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
It is not for the Department to estimate the amount of new build housing that will be bungalows. The National Planning Policy Framework and planning guidance requires local authorities to plan for a mix of housing based on current and future demographic trends, and the needs of different groups in their area.
Asked by: Jo Cox (Labour - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each (a) county council, (b) Metropolitan district, (c) London borough and (d) unitary authority (i) spent on (A) education and (B) all services in 2009-10 and (ii) budgeted to spend on both such categories of services in 2015-16.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Information for expenditure on Education, Social Care services and All services combined for financial year 2009-10, by each authority and by class of authority is published on the GOV.UK website in the table ‘Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) 2009 to 2010’, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387062/RSX.xls
Equivalent budget information for 2015-16 is available from the table ‘Revenue account (RA) budget 2015 to 2016’, available here:
Asked by: Jo Cox (Labour - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each (a) county council, (b) Metropolitan district, (c) London borough and (d) unitary authority (i) spent on social services in 2009-10 and (ii) budgeted to spend on such services in 2015-16.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Information for expenditure on Education, Social Care services and All services combined for financial year 2009-10, by each authority and by class of authority is published on the GOV.UK website in the table ‘Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) 2009 to 2010’, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387062/RSX.xls
Equivalent budget information for 2015-16 is available from the table ‘Revenue account (RA) budget 2015 to 2016’, available here:
Asked by: Jo Cox (Labour - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he was first informed about the decision to pause the electrification of the TransPennine rail route between Leeds and Manchester.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
As the my rt.hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick McLoughlin) explained to the House in a statement on 25 June 2015, Official Report, Column 1067-1070, the electrification of the Transpennine route east of Stalybridge will be paused in order to ensure the programme overall delivers the maximum benefits and value to passengers. He reported to the Transport Committee in March 2015 that Transpennine electrification would be delayed to the 2020s and subsequently confirmed that the programme has been paused. It is right that my rt. hon. Friend has asked Network Rail to undertake a re-plan, and our Departments are in regular dialogue about such matters.
Already, 32 miles of track from Liverpool to Manchester has been electrified, with the first electric service running earlier this year, replacing 2-car diesel trains with 4-car electric trains. The new Northern and Transpennine franchises starting next year will increase overall capacity by 36% by the end of 2019 and provide an extra 200 services each weekday, irrespective of when electrification east of Stalybridge is completed.
I am therefore confident that the area will still benefit enormously from the investments being made.
The Northern Powerhouse is not purely a transport vision; it is an ambition to turn around decades of underperformance in the North, with commitments to science and technology, digital and innovation, culture and tourism, across the region, alongside devolving power to the major cities to give the North a powerful new voice.
Asked by: Jo Cox (Labour - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on regional devolution and economic development of the decision to pause the electrification of the TransPennine rail route between Leeds and Manchester.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
As the my rt.hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick McLoughlin) explained to the House in a statement on 25 June 2015, Official Report, Column 1067-1070, the electrification of the Transpennine route east of Stalybridge will be paused in order to ensure the programme overall delivers the maximum benefits and value to passengers. He reported to the Transport Committee in March 2015 that Transpennine electrification would be delayed to the 2020s and subsequently confirmed that the programme has been paused. It is right that my rt. hon. Friend has asked Network Rail to undertake a re-plan, and our Departments are in regular dialogue about such matters.
Already, 32 miles of track from Liverpool to Manchester has been electrified, with the first electric service running earlier this year, replacing 2-car diesel trains with 4-car electric trains. The new Northern and Transpennine franchises starting next year will increase overall capacity by 36% by the end of 2019 and provide an extra 200 services each weekday, irrespective of when electrification east of Stalybridge is completed.
I am therefore confident that the area will still benefit enormously from the investments being made.
The Northern Powerhouse is not purely a transport vision; it is an ambition to turn around decades of underperformance in the North, with commitments to science and technology, digital and innovation, culture and tourism, across the region, alongside devolving power to the major cities to give the North a powerful new voice.