Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Government has spent on affordable housing in (a) England, (b) the South East, (c) Surrey and (d) Elmbridge in each year since 2005.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Affordable housing expenditure for England, Surrey and Elmbridge in each year since 2005 is set out below.
England | Surrey | Elmbridge | ||
£m | £m | £m | ||
2013-14 | 965 | 11 | 0.9 | |
2012-13 | 1,083 | 14 | 1 | |
2011-12 | 1,578 | 17 | 0.9 | |
2010-11 | 2,660 | 34 | 4 | |
2009-10 | 3,737 | 46 | 6 | |
2008-09 | 2,612 | 45 | 2 | |
2007-08 | 2,029 | 37 | 5 | |
2006-07 | 1,921 | 45 | 2 | |
2005-06 | 1,577 | 47 | 5 |
The budget for the supply of new affordable housing in 2014-15 is £1,239 million. However, this under-states the total level of affordable housing investment under this Government. Our Affordable Homes Programme is on track to deliver and surpass 170,000 new affordable homes between 2011 and 2015, and lever in £19.5 billion of public and private investment.
A further £38 billion of public and private investment will help ensure 275,000 new affordable homes are provided between 2015 and 2020. This means over the next Parliament we will build more new affordable homes than during any equivalent period in the last twenty years. Funding is allocated through competitive bidding and there are no top down targets for particular areas.
We do not publish regional statistics, nor does our housing or planning policy operate on the old Government Office Regions.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Government plans to invest in affordable housing in the South East of England between 2015 and 2020; and how many affordable homes he forecasts will be built in that region in that period.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Affordable housing expenditure for England, Surrey and Elmbridge in each year since 2005 is set out below.
England | Surrey | Elmbridge | ||
£m | £m | £m | ||
2013-14 | 965 | 11 | 0.9 | |
2012-13 | 1,083 | 14 | 1 | |
2011-12 | 1,578 | 17 | 0.9 | |
2010-11 | 2,660 | 34 | 4 | |
2009-10 | 3,737 | 46 | 6 | |
2008-09 | 2,612 | 45 | 2 | |
2007-08 | 2,029 | 37 | 5 | |
2006-07 | 1,921 | 45 | 2 | |
2005-06 | 1,577 | 47 | 5 |
The budget for the supply of new affordable housing in 2014-15 is £1,239 million. However, this under-states the total level of affordable housing investment under this Government. Our Affordable Homes Programme is on track to deliver and surpass 170,000 new affordable homes between 2011 and 2015, and lever in £19.5 billion of public and private investment.
A further £38 billion of public and private investment will help ensure 275,000 new affordable homes are provided between 2015 and 2020. This means over the next Parliament we will build more new affordable homes than during any equivalent period in the last twenty years. Funding is allocated through competitive bidding and there are no top down targets for particular areas.
We do not publish regional statistics, nor does our housing or planning policy operate on the old Government Office Regions.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, What steps he is taking to ensure the long-term supply of affordable energy.
Answered by Ed Davey
This Government inherited a legacy of underinvestment in energy, especially electricity. Our new policies for investment and reform of the electricity market have led to more than £45 billion of investment in electricity generation and networks between 2010 and 2013. Our electricity market reforms mean that average annual household electricity bills will be around £41 lower over the period 2014 to 2030 than decarbonising without these changes.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to strengthen resilience against flooding.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
Defra launched a £4million Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder Scheme in 2013 to understand local resilience better and to contribute to our policy making. The scheme will close in March 2015 and - following an evaluation – we intend to share the lessons learnt with local authorities and community organisations.
The Environment Agency’s local teams work on a daily basis with at-risk communities across the country to build resilience.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria his Department uses to allocate subsidies and premiums to train companies for the operation of rail franchise agreements.
Answered by Claire Perry
The Secretary of State allocates subsidies and premiums for each franchise using the following criteria at the bidding stage. This determines if a franchise will either pay a premium to the department or receive a subsidy.
For a premium paying TOC
The total income bid exceeds the sum of total bid costs and bid margin
For a subsidy paying TOC
The sum of total bid costs and bid margin exceed total bid income.
The Premiums receivable and Subsidies payable are set at the point of contract award based on bid forecast. There are some factors that may make actual payments differ from Bid. They include Revenue (share)/support, profit share, regulatory changes, inflation indices etc.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many re-trials the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has pursued for each type of offence in each of the last 10 years; and what proportion of all prosecutions brought by the CPS those re-trials represent.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain a central record of the number of re-trials that have been pursued. To identify the number of these would require a manual exercise to review individual files which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to use state schools to encourage social mobility.
Answered by Baroness Morgan of Cotes
I want to ensure all young people are prepared for life in modern Britain, regardless of background. Over the course of this Parliament, we have invested £8.8bn through the pupil premium, and introduced accountability measures to ensure it is used to improve the progress and attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Our analysis shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is narrowing.
We are also investing £5 million to help schools ensure that pupils develop character attributes, such as resilience and grit, which underpin success in education and employment.
Education plays a vital role in giving all young people the opportunities they deserve. That’s why we are committed to ensuring all young people can attend a good local school. One million more pupils are in good or outstanding schools than in 2010.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new businesses were created in Esher and Walton constituency in each year since 2005.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The estimated number of business start-ups in Esher and Walton constituency between 2008 and 2014 are shown in the table below. Data is not available for earlier years.
Year | Business start-ups in Esher and Walton |
2008 | 920 |
2009 | 1,100 |
2010 | 1,190 |
2011 | 1,280 |
2012 | 1,140 |
2013 | 1,110 |
2014 | 990 |
Source: BankSearch: number of new business bank accounts opened. All figures rounded to the nearest 10.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to uphold media freedoms.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
A free media is essential to the health of our democracy and this Government has always been clear it is vitally important to uphold that freedom. We have introduced a new system of independent press self-regulation. However, it is for the press to decide whether they wish to sign up.
Asked by: Dominic Raab (Conservative - Esher and Walton)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department plans to provide to Surrey County Council for (a) road maintenance and (b) fixing potholes in (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17 and (iii) 2017-18.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Government is allocating just under £6 billion for highways maintenance to local highway authorities in England, outside London between 2015-16 and 2020-21. An announcement was made on 23 December 2014 on how this funding is to be allocated. Further details including how much funding Surrey County Council will receive in each year is available at the following weblink:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highways-maintenance-funding-allocations-201516-to-202021
From this funding we have also set aside £575 million for a Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund and bids for Tranche 1 of the Fund were received in the Department for Transport on 9 February. If successful, local highway authorities can receive additional funding over and above what we are allocating.
We also announced from 2016/17 that we would be introducing an incentive element totalling £578 million to reward councils who are adopting efficiencies and have an asset management strategy. Local highway authorities, such as Surrey, will be required to complete a self-assessment questionnaire to determine how much additional funding they will receive over and above what they are already receiving from Government for local highways maintenance.