Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of buildings subjected to a fire safety audit were deemed unsatisfactory in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The total number of fire safety audits and the number of unsuccessful audits carried out by fire and rescue services (FRSs) in each year since 2010/11 are available in table FIRE1202 (link below). Information prior to 2010/11 is not available on a consistent basis.
This summer for the first time the Home Office collected information on the number of staff employed by FRSs for fire safety activities. The information can be found in FS10 in FIRE1204 (link below). This showed that in England on 31 March 2019 there were 72 fire engineers (Full Time Equivalent) employed by FRSs, 503 staff competent to carry out a short audit, 951 competent to carry out an audit, 597 competent to serve an enforcement notice and 407 competent to serve a prohibition notice. As FRS staff are likely to be competent to carry out more than one of these activities, the categories are not mutually exclusive.
The Home Office does not collect information on the number of automated fire suppression systems installed by fire and rescue services.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of fire safety officers employed in England in each year since 2006.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The total number of fire safety audits and the number of unsuccessful audits carried out by fire and rescue services (FRSs) in each year since 2010/11 are available in table FIRE1202 (link below). Information prior to 2010/11 is not available on a consistent basis.
This summer for the first time the Home Office collected information on the number of staff employed by FRSs for fire safety activities. The information can be found in FS10 in FIRE1204 (link below). This showed that in England on 31 March 2019 there were 72 fire engineers (Full Time Equivalent) employed by FRSs, 503 staff competent to carry out a short audit, 951 competent to carry out an audit, 597 competent to serve an enforcement notice and 407 competent to serve a prohibition notice. As FRS staff are likely to be competent to carry out more than one of these activities, the categories are not mutually exclusive.
The Home Office does not collect information on the number of automated fire suppression systems installed by fire and rescue services.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fire safety audits were completed by each Fire Brigade in England in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The total number of fire safety audits and the number of unsuccessful audits carried out by fire and rescue services (FRSs) in each year since 2010/11 are available in table FIRE1202 (link below). Information prior to 2010/11 is not available on a consistent basis.
This summer for the first time the Home Office collected information on the number of staff employed by FRSs for fire safety activities. The information can be found in FS10 in FIRE1204 (link below). This showed that in England on 31 March 2019 there were 72 fire engineers (Full Time Equivalent) employed by FRSs, 503 staff competent to carry out a short audit, 951 competent to carry out an audit, 597 competent to serve an enforcement notice and 407 competent to serve a prohibition notice. As FRS staff are likely to be competent to carry out more than one of these activities, the categories are not mutually exclusive.
The Home Office does not collect information on the number of automated fire suppression systems installed by fire and rescue services.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many automated fire suppression systems have been installed by each Fire Brigade in England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The total number of fire safety audits and the number of unsuccessful audits carried out by fire and rescue services (FRSs) in each year since 2010/11 are available in table FIRE1202 (link below). Information prior to 2010/11 is not available on a consistent basis.
This summer for the first time the Home Office collected information on the number of staff employed by FRSs for fire safety activities. The information can be found in FS10 in FIRE1204 (link below). This showed that in England on 31 March 2019 there were 72 fire engineers (Full Time Equivalent) employed by FRSs, 503 staff competent to carry out a short audit, 951 competent to carry out an audit, 597 competent to serve an enforcement notice and 407 competent to serve a prohibition notice. As FRS staff are likely to be competent to carry out more than one of these activities, the categories are not mutually exclusive.
The Home Office does not collect information on the number of automated fire suppression systems installed by fire and rescue services.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of year-on-year trends in the level of average weekly earnings in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
Statistics on average weekly earnings growth are published by the independent Office for National Statistics.
In August 2010, real (total) pay fell by 0.5%. In August 2019 the real (total) pay growth was 1.9% - an increase in the rate of real wage growth of 2.4 percentage points.
The highest real (total) pay growth, between Aug 10 – Aug 19, was in Aug 15 (2.6%).
Under the Triple Lock the basic State Pension and the full rate of the new State Pension will be raised the highest of: the rise in prices, the rise in earnings or 2.5%. The relevant measure for earnings is the year-on-year change in Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) from May to July published by the ONS in October, standing at 3.9%
Date | Growth in nominal average weekly total pay |
August 2010 | 1.8 % |
August 2011 | 2.6% |
August 2012 | 1.6% |
August 2013 | 0.7% |
August 2014 | 0.6% |
August 2015 | 3.0% |
August 2016 | 2.4% |
August 2017 | 2.3% |
August 2018 | 2.8% |
August 2019 | 3.8% |
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the number of NHS overnight beds available in England from 1 April to 30 June in (a) 2010 and (b) 2019.
Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, what recent estimate he has made of the total number of households in the UK that are resident in homes which are not fit for human habitation.
Answered by Esther McVey
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We use ONS wellbeing statistics to inform Health and Wellbeing policy within the Civil Service. The Home Office also measures personal wellbeing through the annual Civil Service People Survey using the same national statistics that the Office for National statistics (ONS) use for the UK population as a whole.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of households in fuel poverty in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kwasi Kwarteng
Fuel poverty is a devolved issue, with each nation in the UK having its own fuel poverty definition, targets and policies to tackle the issue.
The number of households in fuel poverty in England between 2003 and 2017 (latest data) can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2019.
For Scotland, data from 2011 to 2017 (latest data) can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-house-condition-survey-2017-key-findings/pages/6/
ForWales, latest published data (for 2018) can be found here: https://gov.wales/fuel-poverty-estimates-wales-2018
For Northern Ireland, data for 2006, 2009 and 2011 can be found here: https://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/SearchResults.aspx?sk=fuel;poverty; Latest available figures (for 2016) can be found here: https://www.nihe.gov.uk/getmedia/1f9e55a1-66c2-46b7-bf92-9ee192ce355f/estimates-of-fuel-poverty-northern-ireland-2017-and-2018-revised.pdf.aspx?ext=.pdf
The number of households in fuel poverty for each region in England can be found in Table 4 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2019.
Please note that due to both definition and methodological differences, the figures should not be combined.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of hardship payments made by her Department which have been directly attributed to the imposition of benefit sanctions in (a) Vale of Clwyd parliamentary constituency, (b) Wales and (c) the UK in each of the last four years.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
Hardship payments provide financial protection for claimants whose benefit is reduced by a Fraud Loss of Benefit penalty or a Benefit Sanction.
For a) and b), the information requested is not readily available at a country or constituency level and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
For c) the requested data is provided for Great Britain in the following two tables for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) respectively. Please note, figures supplied are derived from data which has not been quality assured to Official Statistics publication standard. These results can change retrospectively as further information is received. They should therefore be treated with caution. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000.
JSA - Number of hardship payments awarded as a result of a sanction | ||||
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 (year to Aug 19) |
120,000 | 58,000 | 29,000 | 10,000 | Fewer than 1,000 |
ESA - Number of hardship payments awarded as a result of a sanction | ||||
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 (year to Aug 19) |
4,000 | 2,000 | 1,000 | Fewer than 1,000 | Fewer than 1,000 |
For Universal Credit, the data cannot be disaggregated to identify the hardship payments that have been directly attributed to the application of a benefit sanction from those resulting from a fraud penalty.