Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pornographic images of children were removed from the internet as a result of investigations by (a) police forces and (b) her Department's agencies in the areas of (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mike Penning
This information is not held centrally. The Internet Watch Foundation runs the UK reporting centre for indecent images of children, and works with its internet industry partners to take down websites hosting such images in the UK. It is also part of a global network of agencies to whom it refers cases involving websites hosted overseas, where the majority of images are found.
The Internet Watch Foundation will use the hash set database that forms part of the Child Abuse Image Database to proactively search for and remove indecent images of children.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of medical assessments for (a) personal independence payment, (b) attendance allowance, (c) industrial injuries disablement benefit and (d) incapacity benefit have been subject to appeal in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England in each of the last five years; and what the cost was of administering such appeals in each such year.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits, including Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance, Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, and Incapacity Benefit.
(1) Appeals against decisions for ESA can be made for various reasons, not just about entitlement. HMCTS is unable to differentiate between appeals relating to matters of entitlement and those relating to other issues about claims for ESA, and therefore does not hold the information requested.
(2) HMCTS does not record data specifically relating to appeals where a medical assessment has been conducted by the DWP and therefore does not hold the information requested.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received (a) housing benefit but not council tax benefit, (b) council tax benefit but not housing benefit and (c) housing benefit and council tax benefit in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Webb
The information we have up to February 2013, by local authority area within each of the geographies requested, is published and available from Table 1of the publications found at:
Council Tax Benefit (CTB) was replaced in April 2013 by the Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme and in England the Department for Communities and Local Government is now responsible for these statistics. The Scottish and Welsh Governments have similar responsibility.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists are operating under (a) general dental services contracts and (b) personal dental services agreements in (i) Suffolk, (ii) Bedfordshire, (iii) Cambridgeshire, (iv) Essex, (v) Hertfordshire, (vi) Norfolk and (vii) England.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The information requested is shown in the following tables.
Number of dentists in England between schedule period December 2013 to November 2014 | |||
Number of performers operating under GDS Contracts | 21,573 | ||
Number of performers operating under PDS Agreements | 3,687 | ||
Total | 25,260 | ||
Number of dentists in selected Area Teams and local authority area between schedule period December 2013 to November 2014
Babergh | East Anglia | 25 | 19 |
Forest Heath | East Anglia | 30 | 19 |
Ipswich | East Anglia | 74 | 29 |
Mid Suffolk | East Anglia | 41 | 18 |
St Edmundsbury | East Anglia | 65 | 12 |
Suffolk Coastal | East Anglia | 54 | 2 |
Waveney | East Anglia | 67 | 7 |
| Sub Total | 356 | 106 |
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Luton | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 95 | 3 |
Bedford | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 87 | 55 |
Central Bedfordshire | East Anglia | - | 1 |
Central Bedfordshire | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 144 | 11 |
Milton Keynes | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 101 | 11 |
| Sub Total | 427 | 81 |
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Cambridge | East Anglia | 109 | 66 |
East Cambridgeshire | East Anglia | 31 | 2 |
Fenland | East Anglia | 31 | 11 |
Huntingdonshire | East Anglia | 59 | 30 |
South Cambridgeshire | East Anglia | 56 | 4 |
Peterborough | East Anglia | 77 | 31 |
| Sub Total | 363 | 144 |
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Basildon | Essex | 113 | 10 |
Braintree | Essex | 66 | 20 |
Brentwood | Essex | 37 | 3 |
Castle Point | Essex | 55 | - |
Chelmsford | Essex | 90 | 9 |
Colchester | Essex | 93 | 13 |
Epping Forest | Essex | 53 | 3 |
Harlow | Essex | 47 | - |
Maldon | Essex | 19 | 6 |
Rochford | Essex | 56 | - |
Tendring | Essex | 67 | 11 |
Uttlesford | Essex | 27 | - |
Southend-on-Sea | Essex | 93 | 19 |
Thurrock | Essex | 67 | 1 |
| Sub Total | 883 | 95 |
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Broxbourne | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 61 | 12 |
Dacorum | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 107 | 10 |
East Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 95 | 14 |
Hertsmere | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 58 | 5 |
North Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 96 | 10 |
St Albans | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 126 | 18 |
Stevenage | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 50 | 3 |
Three Rivers | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 49 | 57 |
Watford | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 67 | 11 |
Welwyn Hatfield | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 56 | 6 |
| Sub Total | 765 | 146 |
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Breckland | East Anglia | 81 | 6 |
Broadland | East Anglia | 84 | 24 |
Great Yarmouth | East Anglia | 60 | 5 |
King's Lynn and West Norfolk | East Anglia | 58 | - |
North Norfolk | East Anglia | 49 | 17 |
Norwich | East Anglia | 79 | 17 |
South Norfolk | East Anglia | 77 | 1 |
| Sub Total | 488 | 70 |
Sources:
NHSBSA Dental Services Payments on line (POL)
Information entered by commissioners to administer and monitor contracts to enable payments to dentists.
NHSBSA Dental Services data warehouse
The information we collect from dental activity forms (FP17s) combined with the information taken from POL
Notes:
Caveats:
Data included is for contracts in England entered on POL by commissioners from Area Teams (AT).
Number of performers. This will be the performer reported on an FP17 or where this is not reported this will be the provider number where there is only one performer; else the form is rejected.
Performers will be counted in each contract type where they have submitted an FP17. This could be both GDS and PDS type contracts during the time period.
Performers in East of England may be counted more than once as they will be counted in each local authority that they have submitted FP17s from.
Definitions:
FP17: Dentists are required to submit a form called an FP17 for every course of NHS dental treatment they provide. The FP17 form can be submitted either on paper or electronically. The information contained on the FP17 form is either scanned (if a paper submission) and imported or imported directly (if an electronic submission) and stored electronically in the NHS dental services data repository (NHS DS data warehouse).
FP17O: Dentists are required to submit a form called an FP17O for every course of NHS orthodontic dental treatment they provide. The FP17O form can be submitted either on paper or electronically. The information contained on the FP17O form is either scanned (if a paper submission) and imported or imported directly (if an electronic submission) and stored electronically in the NHS dental services data repository (NHS DS data warehouse).
Contract Type Name :
GDS – General Dental Services
PDS – Personal Dental Services
Time Period:
Active Performers identified are those submitting FP17s between scheduled months of December 2013 and November 2014 where the treatment completion date falls within the financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Local Authority Name - The identifying local Authority name of the Performer
Number of performers - The count of the active performers
Area Team Name - The identifying Area Team code of the Performer
Data extracted from the Data Warehouse on 9 December 2014
NHS Business Services Authority
Information Services
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust and (b) Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust spent on salaries and wages for (i) general and senior managers, (ii) nurses and midwives and (iii) administrative and clerical staff in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Dan Poulter
Information is not available in the format requested.
Information on the cost of (a) Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff, (b) Administrative and Clerical Staff and (c) Total Senior Managers and Managers, from 2009-10 to 2011-12, for West Suffolk NHS Trust (now Foundation Trust) and Ipswich NHS Trust has been attached.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there have been on the A14 in Suffolk involving drivers aged under 21 years in each year since 2005.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The number of reported road traffic a) accidents and b) fatalities there have been on the A14 in Suffolk involving drivers aged 21 years in each year since 2005 is shown in the attached table.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of policing each airport in the East of England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Karen Bradley
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many undergraduate students resident in (a) Suffolk, (b) the East of England and (c) England have declared themselves bankrupt in each year since 1997.
Answered by Greg Clark
The information requested is not available.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department allocated to each local authority in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Hertfordshire, (e) Norfolk and (g) England for road improvement in each year since 1997.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The table below lists the funding the Department for Transport has allocated to (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Hertfordshire, (e) Norfolk and (g) England for road improvement for which records are available:
Year | Suffolk | Bedfordshire* | Cambridgeshire | Hertfordshire | Norfolk | England |
00/01 | 8.5 | 4.0 | 7.3 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 514.4 |
01/02 | 21.0 | 7.1 | 15.1 | 22.6 | 29.2 | 1,074.0 |
02/03 | 20.0 | 6.6 | 15.5 | 23.5 | 29.5 | 1,123.4 |
03/04 | 20.6 | 7.4 | 18.1 | 22.1 | 29.4 | 1,178.5 |
04/05 | 22.2 | 8.0 | 22.0 | 21.6 | 33.0 | 1,308.4 |
05/06 | 22.6 | 9.4 | 21.0 | 21.2 | 29.3 | 1,212.4 |
06/07 | 23.6 | 9.6 | 21.4 | 23.9 | 30.5 | 1,262.7 |
07/08 | 21.5 | 7.8 | 20.3 | 24.2 | 32.5 | 1,245.0 |
08/09 | 23.0 | 8.7 | 21.4 | 25.6 | 31.4 | 1,456.1 |
09/10 | 21.7 | 9.2 | 19.4 | 25.9 | 30.5 | 1,552.0 |
10/11 | 23.2 | 9.5 | 18.9 | 26.5 | 32.1 | 1,552.1 |
11/12 | 27.2 | 10.4 | 17.8 | 30.6 | 35.2 | 1,482.6 |
12/13 | 21.8 | 9.1 | 14.8 | 24.8 | 26.7 | 1,227.9 |
13/14 | 24.3 | 17.3 | 16.8 | 27/2 | 30.4 | 1,576.2 |
14/15 | 33.9 | 14.8 | 20.3 | 32.9 | 60.8 | 2,025.2 |
* from 2010/11 Bedfordshire split into the 2 unitary authorities of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford and therefore this figure is the sum of their allocations.
This table includes funding we have provided through the local Highways Maintenance Block, Integrated Transport Block, Severe Weather Funding, Local Major Projects and Local Pinch Point Fund schemes. The table does not include funding provided through the Bus Service Operators Grant, Local Sustainable Transport Fund, or Cycling Grant.
The Department is also funding local highways maintenance projects in Portsmouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Isle of Wight and the London Borough of Hounslow through the Private Finance Initiative.
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways. It is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many replica firearms were confiscated in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) Norfolk, (c) Bedfordshire, (d) Cambridgeshire, (e) Essex, (f) Hertfordshire, (g) England and (h) Wales in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The information requested is not held centrally by the Home Office. This information is held by the National Police Ballistics Intelligence Service.