Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2025 to Question 83545 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, if he will publish a version of that table covering each year for which his Department holds equivalent data.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The spend by the Department for Work and Pensions on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme is included for the available years in a table below.
Financial year | Cost (£000s) in nominal terms |
1993/94 | 26 |
1994/95 | 17 |
1995/96 | - |
1996/97 | 9 |
1997/98 | 12 |
1998/99 | - |
1999/00 | 60 |
2000/01 | 60,734 |
2001/02 | 6,525 |
2002/03 | 568 |
2003/04 | 478 |
2004/05 | 429 |
2005/06 | 500 |
2006/07 | 389 |
2007/08 | 200 |
2008/09 | - |
2009/10 | 292 |
2010/11 | 92 |
2011/12 | - |
2012/13 | - |
2013/14 | 0 |
2014/15 | 100 |
2015/16 | 240 |
2016/17 | 240 |
2017/18 | 360 |
2018/19 | 200 |
2019/20 | 300 |
2020/21 | 240 |
Source: outturn-and-forecast-tables-spring-statement-2025.xlsx
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department holds information on the number of railway strike days, broken down by year; and what is the first year for which such records are held.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Published Office of Rail and Road data reports that there were 52 national strike days between April 2022 and March 2024.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Network Rail's spreadsheet published on 2 February 2022 entitled Payments for disruption on the railway, if Network Rail will publish an updated version of that table.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Network Rail publish information to meet their statutory obligations and where it would be valuable to the public.
They aim not to duplicate information published elsewhere (for instance on their Safety Central site, their Annual Report and Accounts, or through the Rail Data Marketplace).
Annual Schedule 8 payment figures are published in Network Rail’s Regulatory Financial Statements.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of constructing Glenart Castle Mess in Longbridge.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Glenart Castle Mess was constructed in July 2017. The total construction time for the entire project, including planning/prebuild and post-building works was from 2014 to 29 September 2017. The capital cost of the construction of Glenart Castle Mess in Longbridge, was £29.5 million. This figure reflects the cost of building the Mess itself. However, the total capital cost of the wider project, which included associated infrastructure such as utilities, highways, hardstanding, weather protection shelters, and risk assessments, was c£36.2 million.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will have discussions with National Highways on reactivating the overnight lights on the Rubery flyover on the A38.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Street lighting on this section of the highway is the responsibility of the local highway authority rather than National Highways. It is for each local highway authority to assess which parts of its network require attending to and to what standards based upon local knowledge and circumstance. The Government does not intervene in such local matters. Hence, I would encourage you to engage with the responsible local highway authorities, Birmingham City Council and Worcestershire County Council.