Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money is earmarked for Levelling Up Funds for (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland.
Answered by Lord Greenhalgh
The Government is committed to levelling up all areas of the UK. Since October 2021 the Government has allocated around £1.9 billion throughout the UK through the Levelling Up Fund, Community Renewal Fund and Community Ownership Fund. This equates to almost £1.48 billion in England, £191 million in Scotland, £169 million in Wales and £61 million in Northern Ireland. Over its lifetime, the £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund will invest at least £800 million across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Further details of round two of the Levelling Up Fund and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be announced in due course.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was spent on the (1) upgrading, and (2) improvement, of (a) primary, and (b) secondary, state school buildings for the years (i) 2015, and (ii) 2000.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department allocates annual condition funding to schools and those responsible for school buildings. Since 2015, the department has allocated £11.3 billion to maintain and improve school buildings, including £1.8 billion for the financial year 2021-22.
Local authorities (LAs), large multi-academy trusts and large voluntary-aided (VA) school bodies receive an annual school condition allocation to invest in capital maintenance and upgrades across the schools for which they are responsible. Stand-alone schools, small academy trusts and smaller VA bodies are eligible to apply for funding through the Condition Improvement Fund.
All schools also receive funding to spend on their capital priorities through an annual devolved formula capital allocation.
In addition to condition allocations, we deliver major rebuilding programmes centrally, including the Priority Schools Building Programme, which is rebuilding or refurbishing more than 500 schools in the poorest condition. In June 2020, my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister, announced a new 10-year School Rebuilding Programme. We have announced the first 100 schools to benefit from the programme, as part of a commitment to 500 projects over the next decade.
In the 2015-16 financial year, the department allocated a total of £5.1 billion in capital funding to schools, including funding for rebuilding projects and to deliver school places. This includes £1,399,601,236 in condition funding to schools and those responsible for school buildings. You can find the allocations for individual schools here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding. This funding is not broken down between primary and secondary schools because much of the funding was allocated to LAs, academy trusts and VA school bodies to invest based on local knowledge.
In the 2000-01 financial year, the department allocated £1.9 billion in capital funding for schools. A breakdown of how this funding was spent across different projects is not readily available.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) primary, and (2) secondary, academy schools there are at present.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
As of 1 January 2022, there are 6,474 primary academies and free schools, and 2,768 secondary academies, free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools. Primary academies include middle-deemed primary schools, whilst secondary academies include all-through schools, middle-deemed secondary schools and 16 to 19 academies.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many new hospitals have been completed and brought into operation in England since 2010.
Answered by Lord Kamall
There have been 19 new hospitals brought into operation in England since 2010. This includes one hospital completed since Government’s commitment in October 2020 to deliver 48 hospitals by 2030 and 18 completed prior to that announcement.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the value of UK Research and Development grants to UK industry in (1) 2010, (2) 2015, and (3) 2019.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes estimates of flow of research and development (R&D) funds from government to other sectors. Table 9 of its annual publication on research and development (R&D) expenditure by the UK government shows that the aggregate destination of gross R&D expenditure (broader than grants) includes the following figures for private industry and public corporations:
£million | 2010 | 2015 | 2019 |
Civil | 576 | 895 | 1,149 |
Defence | 1,359 | 1,286 | 893 |
Gross Total | 1,935 | 2,181 | 2,042 |
Source: Research and Development Expenditure by the UK Government: 2019 | |||
The ONS also publishes figures for UK Business Enterprise R&D. Table 3 on sources of funds gives the following figures for businesses reporting funding from the UK Government:
£million | 2010 | 2015 | 2019 |
UK Government | 1,407 | 1,817 | 1,829 |
Source: Business Enterprise Research and Development, UK: 2020 | |||
Government support for business R&D also includes R&D tax credit schemes. HM Revenue and Customs publishes R&D Tax Credits Statistics and Table 2 gives the cost of support claimed for the R&D tax credit for all schemes by financial year on an accounting period basis:
£million | 2010-11 | 2015-16 | 2019-20 (provisional) |
Claims | 1,110 | 3,975 | 7,445 |
Source: Research and Development Tax Credits Statistics: September 2021 | |||
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the proportion of the UK workforce engaged in the UK aerospace industry.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
In 2020, the proportion of the UK workforce engaged in the UK aerospace industry was estimated to be 0.3%.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) teachers, and (2) classroom assistants, are currently employed in local education authority schools in England.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Information on the school workforce in England, including the number of teachers and classroom assistants, is published in the annual ‘School Workforce in England’ national statistics publication at https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. The latest information is as of November 2020. Figures for November 2021 will be published in May 2022.
In November 2020, there were 204,847 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers and 151,865 FTE teaching assistants employed in local authority-maintained schools in England.
Table 1: Teacher and teaching assistants in England, by school type, FTE numbers
November 2020
School type | Teachers | Teaching Assistants |
LA maintained nursery and primary | 138,435 | 111,411 |
LA maintained secondary | 47,294 | 11,532 |
LA maintained special or Pupil Referral Unit | 15,398 | 26,765 |
Centrally employed | 3,720 | 2,157 |
Total | 204,847 | 151,865 |
Source: School Workforce Census 2020
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many A400M Atlas aircraft are currently operated by the Ministry of Defence.
Answered by Baroness Goldie
There are currently 20 Atlas C.1 (A400M) aircraft in RAF service.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money they provided for research and development to the (1) aerospace industry, (2) steel industry, and (3) manufacturing sector overall, in (a) 2010, and (b) 2020.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The numbers below are taken from the Office for National Statistics survey of Business Enterprise R&D on what industry reported it received as public funding, by product. They do not include support through R&D tax credits; nor do they completely cover all public R&D expenditure which may be directly or indirectly related to particular products. The figures below are available for 2010, and the latest numbers are for 2019 (with the next update due later this year).
The reported figures for 2010 were:
The reported figures for 2019 were:
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the manpower of the NHS Ambulance Service in England (1) in 2010, and (2) at present.
Answered by Lord Bethell
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) number of staff working in all ambulance trusts in England as at March 2021, the latest data available and at March 2010.
| FTE in all ambulance trusts in England |
March 2010 | 34,408 |
March 2021 | 47,932 |
Source: NHS Digital HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics