Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gold reserves of the Bank of England were on 30 June (a) 1998, (b) 2008 and (c) 2018.
Answered by David Lidington
The Bank of England does not own any gold reserves of its own, except for two bars held for display at the Bank of England Museum. However, the Bank provides safe custody for the UK's gold reserves and for other customers. It has only started recently publishing the weight of all the gold in its custody on its website, which includes data back to 2011. On 30 June 2018, it held 166,516,000 fine troy ounces of gold. There is no equivalent data available for 1998 and 2008.
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people in Stafford constituency participated in the National Citizen Service in each of the last two years.
Answered by Rob Wilson
I am pleased to report that over 1,200 young people in Staffordshire have participated in NCS over the past two years. The NCS Trust does not collect data at a constituency level. Therefore, the figures below are for the local authority area of Staffordshire:
2014 - 465 participants
2015 - 738 participants
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how his Department calculated the risk of antimicrobial resistance for the National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies published in 2015.
Answered by Oliver Letwin
The National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies (NRR) is the public-facing version of the National Risk Assessment (NRA), a classified assessment of the civil emergency risks facing the UK over the next five years. The NRR is published by the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office. Due to sensitivities, beyond the detail contained within the NRR (particularly Chapter 3 of the 2015 iteration) the NRA methodology is not for public disclosure. However, every risk in the NRR is owned and assessed by a lead government department. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is owned by the Department of Health, which is preparing a paper for submission to the Lancet that sets out the analytical methods used to underpin the National AMR Strategy.
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent representations he has received on the effect on campaigning before the 2015 General Election of the provisions of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014.
Answered by John Penrose
The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 received Royal Assent on 30 January 2014. Section 39 of the Act provides for a post-election review of the operation of the regulatory regime governing third parties at the 2015 General Election.
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE was appointed to lead the independent review on 28 January 2015. Work on the review is ongoing.
The reviewer must make a written report on the review and provide this to the Minister who must lay a copy of the report before Parliament and publish the report in such a manner as they consider appropriate by November 2016.
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people in Stafford constituency participated in the National Citizen Service in each of the last two years.
Answered by Rob Wilson
National Citizen Service continues to grow and over 130,000 young people have taken part in the programme since 2011. Data on the programme is held at Local Authority level and in 2013 331 young people participated in Staffordshire, this increased to 470 in 2014.
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the likely change over the next 20 years to the proportion of the population of Stafford constituency who are over the age of 85.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Stafford constituency are registered self-employed.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the net change in the number of private sector jobs in Stafford constituency was in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many babies were born at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.