Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on sending out information on the Right to Buy scheme to people who are not housing association or council tenants.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The Department is committed to ensuring eligible council and housing association tenants have up-to-date information about their Right to Buy, so they can make an informed decision as to whether it is the right choice for them. A direct marketing campaign, to social housing tenants who could be eligible for the scheme, has proved a very effective way to reach them with this information.
Total spend on direct marketing from 2012 is £280,773 in 2012/13, £334,163 in 2013/14, £329,165 in 23014/15 and £195,757 to date in 2015/16. The 2015/16 figure does not include final costs for the most recent wave of direct marketing that took place in February 2016.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) have been made in the last two years; how many such arrangements have been renegotiated due to a change in circumstances; and for what reasons those CVAs have been unsuccessful.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The number of company voluntary arrangements for the calendar years 2014 and 2015 is shown in the table below.
Total Number of Company Voluntary Arrangements in the UK, 2014 – 2015
Company Voluntary Arrangements |
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Year | England & Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland | Total |
2014 | 552 | 14 | 37 | 603 |
2015 (e) | 357 | 4 | 35 | 396 |
Total | 909 | 18 | 72 | 999 |
Source:
Insolvency Statistics: October to December 2015
Notes:
(e) = estimated
The Insolvency Service analysed individual records filed at Companies House, in respect of a sample of 53 CVA proceedings which commenced in 2012/13. This analysis showed that, by summer 2015, around 60 per cent had been unsuccessful under the original terms of the arrangement (including those that were renegotiated). No information was collected on the reasons behind the CVA being unsuccessful.
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Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding her Department plans to allocate for specialist services for kinship carers in the period to March 2019.
Answered by Edward Timpson
We will set the Department’s individual budgets as part of the internal business planning process. We will announce the future of specific programmes in due course.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans reductions in spending on education and training for 16 to 19 year olds in order to implement the decision announced on 4 June 2015 to reduce the funding of her Department.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The savings announced by the Chancellor will come from a variety of measures including expected departmental underspends in demand-led budgets, efficiencies and some small budgetary reductions.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked-after children in each local authority were in a foster care placement on 31 March (a) 2013 and (b) 2014; how many such children in each local authority were in a foster care placement with a relative or friend (i) inside and (ii) outside the authority boundary on each date; how many such children in each local authority were under (A) an interim and (B) a full court order on each date; and how many such children in each local authority area were looked after under a voluntary agreement under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 on each such date.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The number of children looked after in foster placements at 31 March 2014 is published in Table LAA3 of the ‘Children looked after, including adoption’ statistical first release.[1]
The further breakdowns requested are not published at local authority level but have been provided and placed in the House Library.
[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on the A63 Castle Street Improvement Scheme.
Answered by John Hayes
The Highways Agency has continued to liaise with Hull City Council regarding the Princes Quay footbridge and other aspects of the scheme, in order to inform the development of the design.
In addition, they have continued to develop the traffic modelling required to inform aspects of the environmental and economic assessments. Further work has also been carried out in preparation for the ground investigation works in the Trinity Burial Ground, which will start shortly.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many families have received compensation and of what value in cases where a deaf child has received an incorrect diagnosis from NHS audiology services in the last five years.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The information is not routinely collected centrally.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked-after children in each local authority were in a foster care placement on 31 March (a) 2008, (b) 2010, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014; how many such children in each local authority were in a foster care placement with a relative or friend (i) inside and (ii) outside the authority boundary on each of those dates; how many such children in each local authority were under (A) an interim and (B) a full court order on each of those dates; and how many such children in each local authority area were looked after under a voluntary agreement under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 on each of those dates.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Data for 2008, 2010 and 2013 has been placed in the Library. Data for 2014 will be published in December 2014.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked-after children in England also have a sibling in care; and how many looked-after children in England are (a) living with at least one of their siblings and (b) not living with any of their siblings.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The data requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in light of the collapse of Comet and the recent industrial tribunal ruling on employee compensation, what plans he has to issue guidance on the law relating to the role of administrators in consulting employees regarding redundancy.
Answered by Jo Swinson
I will be looking at the employment tribunal ruling in the Comet case, and its consequences, carefully. As the appeal period has yet to elapse, it would be inappropriate for me to comment further at this stage.