Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the annual budget of the THINK! campaign for each year from 2009/10.
Answered by Baroness Kramer - Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Treasury and Economy)
The THINK! campaign annual budget since 2009/10 is outlined in the following table:
Financial year | Allocated annual budget
|
2009/10 | £19,200,000 |
2010/11 | £6,800,000 |
2011/12 | £4,100,000 |
2012/13 | £3,570,000 |
2013/14 | £3,750,000 |
2014/15 | £5,500,000 |
Since June 2010 Government marketing spend has been reduced to help deliver efficiency savings. Since then, only the most essential campaigns – including the THINK! campaign – have continued.
It is vital that taxpayers’ money is spent wisely and spend is prioritised using killed and seriously injured statistics for road users. We are delivering more efficient road safety initiatives by focusing spending on those activities which are most likely to reach our target audience. For example to date, our new drink drive film has been viewed 696, 000 times.
We continually monitor attitudes towards drink driving, road casualty statistics and policing data (such as breath tests) to inform our campaign strategies.
The most recent annual road casualty figures, for 2013, show Britain’s roads are still among the safest in the world and fatalities are the lowest since records began in 1926. But one death on the road is one too many, which is why our focus remains on tackling dangerous drivers and investing in making our roads safer for everyone.
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people treated by the National Health Service were considered to have (1) a serious condition, and (2) a non-serious condition, in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
No nationally agreed definitions of serious and non-serious conditions exist in order to quantify how many people treated by the National Health Service have such conditions.
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what they are doing to increase the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths subjects, in particular female students.
Answered by Lord Nash
Recent years have seen record numbers of pupils taking science and mathematics at GCSE and A level, with a rise of more than 30% in the number of students taking separate GCSEs in biology, chemistry and physics between 2010 and 2013. There has also been a 15% rise in the number taking mathematics and physics A level, and a 19% rise in the number taking further mathematics A level over the same period. Girls are now as likely as boys to take separate science GCSEs, but more needs to be done, particularly to address the low numbers of girls taking mathematics and physics A level.
The Government has taken action by: reforming the national curriculum and academic and vocational qualifications, to ensure that they enable young people to acquire the necessary knowledge and understanding to progress to further study and employment; recruiting top graduates into teaching by providing bursaries and scholarships in mathematics and the sciences of up to £25,000; supporting schools through professional development and enrichment programmes, such as the Stimulating Physics Network and the establishment of 32 maths hubs; and through the “Your Life” campaign which will change the perceptions of science and mathematics, with a communications campaign targeting 14-16 year olds being launched from September.
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many students take GCSEs and A-levels in Mandarin Chinese; and whether they plan to increase that number.
Answered by Lord Nash
It is not possible to identify pupils entered for Mandarin Chinese from the Department's data. However, the Department does hold information on the number of pupils entered for GCSEs and A levels in Chinese which includes Mandarin Chinese and other Chinese subjects.
In 2012/13, 2,346 pupils were entered for GCSE Chinese and 2,665 pupils were entered for A level Chinese. This information is published in the GCSE[1] and A level[2] statistical first releases.
My Rt hon Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has pledged to increase the number of people learning Mandarin Chinese in the UK. Offering more young people the chance to learn Mandarin will help in our efforts to encourage mobility between the UK and China, and help ensure the long-term success of our economy and society.
A number of organisations are carrying out activities with schools in support of these aims. The British Council is working with Hanban, the Office of Chinese Language Council International, to increase demand for Mandarin teaching in schools in the UK and to address supply, for example by increasing the provision of Chinese Language Assistants. The Institute of Education Confucius Institute is working with HSBC to promote more teaching of Mandarin in primary schools. The Department is taking a close interest in this work and providing encouragement and support at a high level.
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2012-to-2013-revised (Subject time series table)
[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-and-other-level-3-results-england-2012-to-2013-revised (Table 2)
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what actions they are taking to increase voter turnout amongst 18 to 25 year-olds.
Answered by Lord Wallace of Saltaire - Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
The Government is committed to maximising electoral registration to help support the highest possible turnout in elections.
The introduction of online registration on June 10 in England and Wales will make it easier and more convenient for young people to register to vote.
The Government announced that all 363 local authorities and valuation joint boards in Great Britain and five national organisations, including UK Youth and the Scottish Youth Parliament, will be sharing £4.2 million of funding aimed at ensuring every eligible person in the country is signed up to the electoral register and has their chance to vote.
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many ethnic minority students, broken down by ethnicity, attended universities in (1) 1990, (2) 2000, (3) 2010, and (4) the latest year for which figures are available.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Information on enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has been collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) since the academic year 1993/94. More details about the statistics available are published at the following link:
Statistics on enrolments by students from ethnic minority backgrounds are available in the charged for volume: ‘Students in Higher Education Institutions ‘which can be requested at the following link:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/publications-and-products?task=show_pub_detail&pubid=1
A summary of the statistics in the volume has been provided in the table. Figures for the Academic Year 1990/91 are not available from HESA.
UK domiciled enrolments (1) by ethnicity
UK Higher Education Institutions
Academic Years 2000/01, 2010/11 and 2012/13
Ethnicity(2) | 2000/01 | 2010/11 | 2012/13 |
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White | 1,334,665 | 1,646,875 | 1,507,845 |
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Black or Black British - Caribbean | 18,505 | 31,135 | 28,165 |
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Black or Black British - African | 32,115 | 82,020 | 83,365 |
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Other Black background | 9,755 | 6,680 | 5,885 |
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Asian or Asian British - Indian | 51,270 | 67,410 | 63,235 |
|
Asian or Asian British - Pakistani | 26,290 | 43,915 | 44,840 |
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Asian or Asian British - Bangladeshi | 7,580 | 15,355 | 15,865 |
|
Chinese | 13,490 | 17,740 | 16,380 |
|
Other Asian background | 17,995 | 30,595 | 31,075 |
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Other (including mixed) | 26,370 | 76,225 | 79,575 |
|
Total of ethnic minorities | 203,365 | 371,075 | 368,390 |
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Total of known ethnicity | 1,538,035 | 2,017,950 | 1,876,235 |
|
Unknown | 193,540 | 55,120 | 38,780 |
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Total | 1,731,570 | 2,073,070 | 1,915,015 |
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Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record. | ||||
Notes: | ||||
Figures are based on The HESA Standard Registration Population. | ||||
(1) Enrolment counts include students in all years of study. (2) HESA's categorisation of ethnicity changed in Academic year 2001/02 and again in Academic year 2003/04. As a result, 2000/01 figures may not be categorised on exactly the same basis as figures for later years. (3) Numbers have been rounded to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals.
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Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many British citizens currently live abroad and in which countries.
Answered by Lord Taylor of Holbeach
The World Bank's ‘Bilateral Estimates of Migrant Stocks in 2010' provides an estimate for the number of British born migrants residing in other countries.
According to these estimates, there are approximately 4.7 million British born migrants living abroad.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1110315015165/T
1.Estimates_of_Migrant_Stocks_2010.xls
The United Nations (UN) Department for Social and Economic Affairs updated this table for 2013. The UN's ‘Trends in International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination and Origin' suggests that around 5.0 million British born migrants
are residing overseas.
http://esa.un.org/unmigration/data/subsheets/UN_MigrantStockByOriginAndDestination_2013T10.xls
The table below provides the top twenty countries by number of resident UK born migrants according to the World Bank 2010 and UN 2013 datasets.
There are known gaps in the estimates produced by both the World Bank and the UN, so the lists of countries drawn from their respective databases may not be complete and may not be directly comparable (see attached table).
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much income tax was collected in the last financial year, broken down by sector.
Answered by Lord Deighton
The latest available information on the industry distribution of PAYE income tax deducted from pay is published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306815/table2-10-0414.pdf
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have bought a house with the assistance of the Help to Buy scheme.
Answered by Baroness Stowell of Beeston
This Government is committed to supporting people's aspirations to own their own home. That is why we have introduced schemes like Help to Buy: Equity Loan, Help to Buy: Newbuy and Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee. The latest figures show that so far 35,317 families have bought a house with the assistance of the Help to Buy schemes.
Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many non-clinical or managerial staff were working in the National Health Service on (1) 1 April 2010, and (2) 1 April 2014.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
In the provisional monthly National Health Service hospital and community health service (HCHS) workforce statistics, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the category of NHS Infrastructure Support Staff records the numbers of non-clinical staff working in the NHS in England. This includes administrative and clerical staff working in central functions; hotel, property and estates; as well as managers and senior managers.
The numbers of NHS Infrastructure Support staff as at 31 March 2010 and 31 March 2014 are shown in the following table. The statistics for March 2014 are the latest available and therefore March 2010 data is also used to ease comparability. The April 2014 statistics will be published on 22 July 2014.