Asked by: Fabian Hamilton (Labour - Leeds North East)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made any representations to the recent International Symposium on Nuclear Weapons at the Vatican.
Answered by Alan Duncan
The UK was represented by our Embassy to the Holy See at the recent International Symposium on “Prospects for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament” at the Vatican. As a responsible nuclear weapons state, we are committed to the long-term goal of a world without nuclear weapons, and will continue to work with our international partners to tackle proliferation and to make progress on nuclear disarmament.
Asked by: Lord Hylton (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have, and what representations they have made to the government of China, concerning the well-being and whereabouts of Bishop Shao Zhumin, newly appointed to Wenzhou diocese in China; and what steps they are taking to support negotiations for reconciliation between the recognised and the underground Catholic churches in China.
Answered by Baroness Anelay of St Johns
We are concerned by reports about the well being and whereabouts of Bishop Shao Zhumin and will raise his case at the next round of the UK-China human rights dialogue, scheduled to take place this month.
We are robust in promoting religious freedoms with the Chinese authorities. While we have not yet raised the case of Bishop Shao Zhumin, I raised the destruction of churches and religious symbols with the Director of the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee on 7 July 2016. The Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Hon. Friend the Member for Reading West (Mr Sharma) raised the case of Ding Cuimei, who reportedly died while protesting the demolition of her church in Zhejiang province, with the Chinese Ambassador, in writing, on 1 August 2016.
We are aware of ongoing negotiations between the Holy See and the Chinese authorities, however these are a matter for the parties involved.
Asked by: Bob Stewart (Independent - Beckenham)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, through what means his Department communicates with and receives communications from Christian communities in Syria; and how he assesses the quality of information received otherwise by his Department on the situation of such communities in that country.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
Foreign and Commonwealth Office representatives meet Church leaders and Non-Governmental Organisations representing Christian communities in Syria on a regular basis in London, through our Embassy to the Holy See and at our Syria Offices in Beirut and Istanbul. We also receive regular correspondence from groups highlighting the situation of Christians in Syria. These sources provide us with valuable insights into the situation facing Christians in Syria and the region. We recognise the contribution that recognised religious leaders can make on the Syria political track. They and other leading members of civil society will need a strong voice in the debate on Syria’s future.
Asked by: Jake Berry (Conservative - Rossendale and Darwen)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Rossendale and Darwen have received funding from the pupil premium; and how many pupils in each such school have attracted such payments.
Answered by David Laws
In financial year 2013-14, 52 schools in Rossendale and Darwen received a pupil premium allocation. A list of these schools and the number of eligible pupils are provided below. In addition to the main deprivation pupil premium, schools receive allocations for looked after children and service children, though this information is not available at school level due to data protection issues. More information on pupil premium allocations for financial year 2013-14 can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2013-to-2014-final-allocation-tables
School Name | Total Number of Pupils Eligible for the Deprivation Pupil Premium |
Britannia Community Primary School | 33 |
Northern Primary School | 14 |
Bacup St Saviour's Community Primary School | 28 |
Sharneyford Primary School | 15 |
Bacup Thorn Primary School | 122 |
Helmshore Primary School | 25 |
Ramsbottom Stubbins Primary School | 20 |
Rawtenstall Water Primary School | 8 |
Waterfoot Primary School | 69 |
Tonacliffe Primary School | 60 |
Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School | 89 |
Crawshawbooth Primary School | 34 |
Rawtenstall St Paul's Constable Lee Church of England Primary School | 51 |
St Mary's Rawtenstall Church of England Primary School | 59 |
St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School | 56 |
Edenfield Church of England Primary School | 13 |
Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School | 52 |
Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School | 99 |
Rawtenstall St Anne's Church of England Primary School, Edgeside | 53 |
St Veronica's Roman Catholic Primary School, Helmshore | 18 |
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup | 52 |
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Bacup | 74 |
St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch | 31 |
St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall | 15 |
St John with St Michael Church of England Primary School, Shawforth | 31 |
Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, Whitworth | 19 |
Alder Grange Community and Technology School | 168 |
Fearns Community Sports College | 247 |
Whitworth Community High School | 124 |
All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, Rossendale | 141 |
Belthorn Primary School | 23 |
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School | 36 |
Rawtenstall Cribden House Community Special School | # |
The Sunnyhurst Centre | # |
Lower Darwen Primary School | 30 |
Turton Belmont Community Primary School | x |
Avondale Primary School | 126 |
Sudell Primary School | 96 |
Holy Trinity VC School | 134 |
Turton and Edgworth CofE/Methodist Controlled Primary School | 9 |
Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary School | 12 |
Darwen St Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | 30 |
Darwen St James' Church of England Primary School | 96 |
Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary School | 83 |
St Stephen's Tockholes CofE Primary School | x |
St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School | 78 |
St Edward's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | 31 |
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Darwen | 25 |
Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary | 75 |
Darwen Vale High School | 376 |
Ashleigh Primary School | 43 |
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy | 361 |
Notes:
X - Schools with less than five pupils or a percentage based on less than five pupils or an allocation amount based on less than five pupils have had their figures suppressed for data protection.
# - Pupil numbers for these schools are not included as they are either a maintained special school, special academy, pupil referral unit (PRU) or alternative provision (AP) academy. The premium for these establishments may be held with the local authority (please see the conditions of grant).