Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Rohingya people from Burma who have fled to Bangladesh since 2012; and what assistance the Government is providing to those people.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Whilst there is no officially agreed number of the Rohingya population, most international agencies estimate that there is up to 500,000 Rohingya people in Bangladesh.
DFID provides core contributions to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which manages the official camps for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, as well as through other partners such as the European Commission. This support includes providing shelter, access to water and sanitation, vocational training and food supplies to malnourished refugees.
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's policy is on sanctioning claimants who miss appointments because of probationary commitments.
Answered by Esther McVey
Claimants are only asked to meet reasonable requirements in order to move off benefits and into work. Where claimants have good reason to miss an appointment, such as probationary commitments, then a sanction will not apply.
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new business start-ups there have been in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford (i) since 2010 and (ii) from 2005 to 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Amazingly, data on start-ups is not available for years before 2008. The estimated number of business start-ups in a) the Bradford East constituency and b) Bradford local authority from 2008 and 2014 are shown in the table below.
Year | Business start-ups in the Bradford East constituency | Business start-ups in Bradford local authority |
2008 | 640 | 3,040 |
2009 | 590 | 3,050 |
2010 | 730 | 3,560 |
2011 | 760 | 3,580 |
2012 | 670 | 3,280 |
2013 | 620 | 3,050 |
2014 | 560 | 2,740 |
Total for period 2010 to 2014 | 3,330 | 16,220 |
Source: BankSearch: number of new business bank accounts opened. All figures rounded to the nearest 10.
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford paid income tax in (i) 2010 and (ii) the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by David Gauke
Estimates of the number of income tax payers by borough, district or unitary authority, and Parliamentary Constituency are published in tables 3.14 and 3.15 of HMRC’s Personal Incomes Statistics’
These tables contain the following estimates of the number of taxpayers in Bradford East and Bradford for financial years 2009/10 and 2012/13. Figures are to the nearest thousand:
2009/10 | 2012/13 | |
Bradford | 206 | 197 |
Bradford East | 36 | 33 |
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in the number of jobs in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford (i) since 2010 and (ii) between 2005 and 2010.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.