Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many foreign nationals who currently live outside of the UK are paid the state pension.
Answered by Torsten Bell - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department does not hold data on the number of foreign nationals residing outside of the UK and in receipt of the UK State Pension. However, the Department does hold data on the number of individuals in receipt of the UK State Pension residing outside of the UK. As of August 2024, this was 1.1 million.
Source: DWP Stat-Xplore.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many warranted police officers are in West Mercia Police for each year that data is available.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
The latest information at the link above covers the situation as at 30 September 2024. Information on the number of police officers, broken down by police force area, at the end of each financial year (31 March) from 2007 to 2024 can be found in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/678faaf93087686d77328ade/open-data-table-police-workforce-220125.ods
Data on the police workforce as at 31 March 2025 is due to be published in Summer 2025.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who the longest serving police community support officer is in each police force; and what steps her Department is taking to recognise long service of police community support officers.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not publish information on the length of service of PCSOs.
The Home Office will consider any proposal for national long service recognition for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs).
It is only right that we recognise the commitment shown by PCSOs across the country and whose roles are undeniably at the sharp end of policing, diffusing community tensions and providing visible policing presence in our communities.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) Statutory Paternity Leave, (b) Shared Parental Leave and (c) Statutory Maternity Leave in each region in each of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Information provided by employers to HMRC shows that the total value of payments made to individuals in receipt of Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay between 2019/20 and 2023/24 (the latest year for which full year data is available).
The table below presents a breakdown of the value of payments made to individuals by the region (based on recipient residence).
Table 1. Total value of Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP), Statutory Shared Parental Pay (SShPP) and Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) payments by claimant resident region, 2019/20 to 2023/24
Statutory Parental Payment | Government Office Region | 2019/20 (£ millions) | 2020/21 (£ millions) | 2021/22 (£ millions) | 2022/23 (£ millions) | 2023/24 (£ millions) |
Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) | East Midlands | £4.3 | £3.7 | £4.3 | £4.1 | £4.8 |
East of England | £5.2 | £4.5 | £5.3 | £5.3 | £6.1 | |
London | £8.1 | £7.4 | £8.5 | £8.0 | £9.6 | |
North East | £2.0 | £1.7 | £2.0 | £2.1 | £2.4 | |
North West | £6.5 | £5.5 | £6.4 | £6.4 | £7.3 | |
Northern Ireland | £2.0 | £1.6 | £1.9 | £1.9 | £2.2 | |
Scotland | £4.4 | £3.7 | £4.5 | £4.2 | £5.0 | |
South East | £7.3 | £6.5 | £7.7 | £7.5 | £8.7 | |
South West | £4.7 | £4.0 | £4.8 | £4.7 | £5.3 | |
Wales | £2.6 | £2.2 | £2.5 | £2.5 | £2.9 | |
West Midlands | £5.3 | £4.4 | £5.1 | £5.1 | £5.9 | |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £4.9 | £4.1 | £4.8 | £4.7 | £5.4 | |
Other / Unknown | £0.6 | £0.8 | £1.6 | £2.2 | £3.5 | |
Total | £57.9 | £50.2 | £59.3 | £58.9 | £69.0 | |
Statutory Shared Parental Pay (SShPP) | East Midlands | £1.1 | £1.2 | £1.4 | £1.4 | £2.0 |
East of England | £2.3 | £1.7 | £2.0 | £2.2 | £3.0 | |
London | £6.9 | £4.9 | £5.4 | £5.4 | £6.2 | |
North East | £0.5 | £0.5 | £0.6 | £0.6 | £1.1 | |
North West | £1.7 | £1.5 | £1.9 | £2.1 | £3.1 | |
Northern Ireland | £0.3 | £0.3 | £0.3 | £0.3 | £0.7 | |
Scotland | £1.2 | £1.1 | £1.3 | £1.3 | £1.5 | |
South East | £3.3 | £2.9 | £3.7 | £4.0 | £5.6 | |
South West | £1.8 | £2.1 | £2.4 | £3.0 | £3.8 | |
Wales | £0.7 | £0.6 | £0.8 | £0.9 | £1.2 | |
West Midlands | £1.2 | £1.1 | £1.4 | £1.6 | £2.0 | |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £1.4 | £1.4 | £1.4 | £1.8 | £2.5 | |
Other / Unknown | £0.3 | £0.4 | £0.6 | £1.0 | £1.8 | |
Total | £22.6 | £19.5 | £23.2 | £25.6 | £34.4 | |
Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) | East Midlands | £185.9 | £181.2 | £189.5 | £188.8 | £203.0 |
East of England | £275.5 | £269.8 | £285.9 | £286.6 | £307.8 | |
London | £530.1 | £523.5 | £554.2 | £544.8 | £590.6 | |
North East | £92.9 | £89.7 | £93.3 | £93.1 | £102.1 | |
North West | £295.3 | £286.6 | £303.4 | £304.4 | £326.2 | |
Northern Ireland | £91.5 | £90.8 | £94.2 | £91.7 | £98.9 | |
Scotland | £207.8 | £200.8 | £213.1 | £209.5 | £225.0 | |
South East | £406.2 | £398.4 | £421.9 | £420.8 | £454.3 | |
South West | £216.3 | £212.2 | £223.4 | £217.3 | £233.7 | |
Wales | £114.1 | £110.2 | £115.2 | £116.4 | £127.1 | |
West Midlands | £224.4 | £221.0 | £230.3 | £230.6 | £249.1 | |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £207.9 | £202.7 | £212.7 | £211.7 | £226.4 | |
Other / Unknown | £36.5 | £56.2 | £91.6 | £136.4 | £194.1 | |
Total | £2,884.4 | £2,843.1 | £3,028.7 | £3,052.0 | £3,338.3 |
Source: HM Revenue and Customers (HMRC) HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) system 2019/20 to 2023/24
Notes:
1. All figures are based on HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) system and were extracted in Jan 2025. RTI is subject to revision and there may be small fluctuations in figures reported - these figures should not be considered “final”.
2. Figures for the total value of parental payments (£m) are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand.
3. Government Office Regions (GOR) are determined by matching the most recent postcode from the previous tax year with the Office for National Statistics’ postcode lookup table. If a partial postcode is provided an assumption is made based on the postcode district or area. The GOR with the most postcodes of a given district is returned. If no postcode is listed then region is marked as unknown. Other includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) does not routinely collect data on the length of Paternity Leave, Shared Parental Leave and Maternity Leave taken by parents. However, the Government commissioned the Parental Rights Survey which provides the best source of data on the length of parental leave taken, the findings are published here - https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/parental-rights-survey-2019 .
In addition, DBT also published HMRC data tables to accompany the Shared Parental Leave evaluation report here which include information on the number of individuals in receipt of SPP, SShPP and SMP by the number of months the payments spanned, this is available here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shared-parental-leave-spl-evaluation. HMRC or DBT does not hold information which calculates the duration of parental payments by individual claimants.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the average length of (a) Statutory Paternity Leave, (b) Shared Parental Leave and (c) Statutory Maternity Leave claimed by each claimant has been in each of the past five years.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Information provided by employers to HMRC shows that the total value of payments made to individuals in receipt of Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay between 2019/20 and 2023/24 (the latest year for which full year data is available).
The table below presents a breakdown of the value of payments made to individuals by the region (based on recipient residence).
Table 1. Total value of Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP), Statutory Shared Parental Pay (SShPP) and Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) payments by claimant resident region, 2019/20 to 2023/24
Statutory Parental Payment | Government Office Region | 2019/20 (£ millions) | 2020/21 (£ millions) | 2021/22 (£ millions) | 2022/23 (£ millions) | 2023/24 (£ millions) |
Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) | East Midlands | £4.3 | £3.7 | £4.3 | £4.1 | £4.8 |
East of England | £5.2 | £4.5 | £5.3 | £5.3 | £6.1 | |
London | £8.1 | £7.4 | £8.5 | £8.0 | £9.6 | |
North East | £2.0 | £1.7 | £2.0 | £2.1 | £2.4 | |
North West | £6.5 | £5.5 | £6.4 | £6.4 | £7.3 | |
Northern Ireland | £2.0 | £1.6 | £1.9 | £1.9 | £2.2 | |
Scotland | £4.4 | £3.7 | £4.5 | £4.2 | £5.0 | |
South East | £7.3 | £6.5 | £7.7 | £7.5 | £8.7 | |
South West | £4.7 | £4.0 | £4.8 | £4.7 | £5.3 | |
Wales | £2.6 | £2.2 | £2.5 | £2.5 | £2.9 | |
West Midlands | £5.3 | £4.4 | £5.1 | £5.1 | £5.9 | |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £4.9 | £4.1 | £4.8 | £4.7 | £5.4 | |
Other / Unknown | £0.6 | £0.8 | £1.6 | £2.2 | £3.5 | |
Total | £57.9 | £50.2 | £59.3 | £58.9 | £69.0 | |
Statutory Shared Parental Pay (SShPP) | East Midlands | £1.1 | £1.2 | £1.4 | £1.4 | £2.0 |
East of England | £2.3 | £1.7 | £2.0 | £2.2 | £3.0 | |
London | £6.9 | £4.9 | £5.4 | £5.4 | £6.2 | |
North East | £0.5 | £0.5 | £0.6 | £0.6 | £1.1 | |
North West | £1.7 | £1.5 | £1.9 | £2.1 | £3.1 | |
Northern Ireland | £0.3 | £0.3 | £0.3 | £0.3 | £0.7 | |
Scotland | £1.2 | £1.1 | £1.3 | £1.3 | £1.5 | |
South East | £3.3 | £2.9 | £3.7 | £4.0 | £5.6 | |
South West | £1.8 | £2.1 | £2.4 | £3.0 | £3.8 | |
Wales | £0.7 | £0.6 | £0.8 | £0.9 | £1.2 | |
West Midlands | £1.2 | £1.1 | £1.4 | £1.6 | £2.0 | |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £1.4 | £1.4 | £1.4 | £1.8 | £2.5 | |
Other / Unknown | £0.3 | £0.4 | £0.6 | £1.0 | £1.8 | |
Total | £22.6 | £19.5 | £23.2 | £25.6 | £34.4 | |
Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) | East Midlands | £185.9 | £181.2 | £189.5 | £188.8 | £203.0 |
East of England | £275.5 | £269.8 | £285.9 | £286.6 | £307.8 | |
London | £530.1 | £523.5 | £554.2 | £544.8 | £590.6 | |
North East | £92.9 | £89.7 | £93.3 | £93.1 | £102.1 | |
North West | £295.3 | £286.6 | £303.4 | £304.4 | £326.2 | |
Northern Ireland | £91.5 | £90.8 | £94.2 | £91.7 | £98.9 | |
Scotland | £207.8 | £200.8 | £213.1 | £209.5 | £225.0 | |
South East | £406.2 | £398.4 | £421.9 | £420.8 | £454.3 | |
South West | £216.3 | £212.2 | £223.4 | £217.3 | £233.7 | |
Wales | £114.1 | £110.2 | £115.2 | £116.4 | £127.1 | |
West Midlands | £224.4 | £221.0 | £230.3 | £230.6 | £249.1 | |
Yorkshire and The Humber | £207.9 | £202.7 | £212.7 | £211.7 | £226.4 | |
Other / Unknown | £36.5 | £56.2 | £91.6 | £136.4 | £194.1 | |
Total | £2,884.4 | £2,843.1 | £3,028.7 | £3,052.0 | £3,338.3 |
Source: HM Revenue and Customers (HMRC) HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) system 2019/20 to 2023/24
Notes:
1. All figures are based on HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) system and were extracted in Jan 2025. RTI is subject to revision and there may be small fluctuations in figures reported - these figures should not be considered “final”.
2. Figures for the total value of parental payments (£m) are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand.
3. Government Office Regions (GOR) are determined by matching the most recent postcode from the previous tax year with the Office for National Statistics’ postcode lookup table. If a partial postcode is provided an assumption is made based on the postcode district or area. The GOR with the most postcodes of a given district is returned. If no postcode is listed then region is marked as unknown. Other includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) does not routinely collect data on the length of Paternity Leave, Shared Parental Leave and Maternity Leave taken by parents. However, the Government commissioned the Parental Rights Survey which provides the best source of data on the length of parental leave taken, the findings are published here - https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/parental-rights-survey-2019 .
In addition, DBT also published HMRC data tables to accompany the Shared Parental Leave evaluation report here which include information on the number of individuals in receipt of SPP, SShPP and SMP by the number of months the payments spanned, this is available here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shared-parental-leave-spl-evaluation. HMRC or DBT does not hold information which calculates the duration of parental payments by individual claimants.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information other Department holds on the number of (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) SEND school places there were in (i) Telford constituency and (ii) Telford and Wrekin Council in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
Data on state-funded school places is published at national, local authority and school level in the annual School Capacity statistics publication. Data is available for academic years 2009/10 to 2023/24. Data on special educational needs provision was collected as part of the School Capacity Survey for the first time in 2023 and is available for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years.
School capacity data are not published at constituency level. However, data is published at school level that can be combined with information from ‘Get Information About Schools’ (GIAS) to identify parliamentary constituency. The data can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/bf165de6-3b9a-4014-83b5-232454343797.
The number of primary and secondary mainstream state-funded school places in Telford and Wrekin local authority at 1 May of each year between 2014 and 2024, can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/a6913939-ccb4-4dbe-7d54-08dd7ece5be0.
The number of state-funded special schools and special school places in Telford and Wrekin local authority at 1 May of each year between 2023 and 2024, can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4cc1f815-cec7-41af-d97b-08dd800922cb.
The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places sits with local authorities.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching staff there are in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools by gender in each region.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers and teaching assistants broken down by school phase, gender and region, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
As of November 2023, the latest date for which data is available, there was a headcount of 478,085 teachers and 335,693 teaching assistants employed in state-funded nursery, primary and secondary schools. A breakdown by school phase, gender and region is available for teachers at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/689fc171-b2a5-40de-d968-08dd800922cb, and for teaching assistants at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/658213e6-bcab-45db-7d3c-08dd7ece5be0.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching staff in registered nurseries there are by gender in each region.
Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department collects information on the overall size of the workforce through its regular Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers, which can be accessed at the following address: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/childcare-and-early-years-provider-survey/2024. The latest data from this survey was published in December 2024 and showed the total number of paid childcare staff was 368,100 in 2024. Of these, 277,900 are group-based provider staff and 59,800 are school-based provider staff.
The survey shows that the vast majority of paid childcare staff are female, making up 98% of paid group-based provider staff, and 97% of paid school-based provider staff.
Additionally, Table 4 - 2 in the following link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/childcare-and-early-years-provider-survey/2024, shows the total number of paid staff by region, but does not break down by gender and region.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many registered childminders there are by gender in each region.
Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Ofsted publish official statistics twice a year and management information twice a year on providers and inspections. Data for childminders on Ofsted registers can be broken down to a regional level.
The latest data show that as at 31 December 2024 there were 25,556 Ofsted-registered childminders across all Ofsted registers, together with 1,520 childminders on the role of childminder agencies. This information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/childcare-providers-and-inspections-management-information.
The department collects information on the gender of Ofsted-registered childminders through its annual survey of childcare and early years providers. The latest data shows that 97% of childminders were female in 2024. This data is not held at a regional level. This information can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/childcare-and-early-years-provider-survey/2024.
Asked by: Shaun Davies (Labour - Telford)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the potential economic value of the business events sector; and how many civil services in her Department work on supporting and growing the sector.
Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
DCMS recognises that the business events sector is a machine for economic growth and local prosperity. The business events sector is estimated to be worth £34 billion to the UK Economy and an additional £200 billion in trade established at Business Events.
The Business Events Growth Programme (BEGP), led by VisitBritain, forms part of the UK Government’s commitment to grow the business events sector across Britain. Every pound invested in the programme supported £33 of revenue being generated for the British economy through new events secured, or in additional delegate spend, during the five-year review period from 2018 to 2023.
Within DCMS, we have one civil servant who works full time on supporting the business events sector, plus a percentage of time from senior colleagues who provide oversight.