Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many businesses in (a) Shropshire and (b) the Telford constituency have received export support from his Department since it was set up.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Department does not hold the information requested broken down by constituency level.
HMRC estimates that around 1,660 registered businesses are exporters of goods in the Marches growth hub area, including Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and Herefordshire. DIT support is available to these businesses and is delivered through our West Midlands team of International Trade Advisers and overseas Posts. (Source: HMRC 2015 Growth Hub Data on Exporters of Goods)
New more detailed estimates for the number of registered businesses exporting in Shropshire and, Telford and Wrekin will be released by HMRC 28 March 2018.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to protect green belt and green open spaces in the Telford and Wrekin local authority area.
Answered by Dominic Raab
This Government has a clear manifesto commitment to maintain strong protections for Green Belt. This will be carried forward in the revision of the National Planning Policy Framework that we are publishing for consultation. We will review the draft Framework in the light of the consultation responses we receive, before issuing the new Framework later in the year.
At the same time we are considering what supporting guidance will be necessary. We are not proposing any alteration to national policy on Local Green Spaces. These are green areas demonstrably special to a nearby community and significant locally for their beauty, historic significance, recreational value, tranquillity or wildlife. Local communities will continue to be able to designate these spaces in Local Plans to rule out inappropriate development there other than in very special circumstances.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of (a) total and (b) per capita funding from his Department's budget on (i) health and (ii) mental health in England has been allocated to Telford and Wrekin CCG since 2010.
Answered by Steve Barclay
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were created following the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and replaced primary care trusts on 1 April 2013.
NHS England publishes CCG allocations on its website. The table below sets out allocations to NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG for core services since 2013, when it was established. It should be noted that these figures do not reflect any adjustments that may have been made since the time of publication.
NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG | Allocation (£000) | Allocation per head (£) |
2013/14 | 183,831 | 1,053 |
2014/15 | 187,765 | 1,068 |
2015/16 | 190,957 | 1,080 |
2016/17 | 205,369 | 1,143 |
2017/18 | 209,613 | 1,162 |
NHS England does not allocate budgets for specific services such as mental health. CCGs determine the level of expenditure appropriate for their population, based on their assessment of local health needs.
The figures for Telford and Wrekin CCG’s total expenditure on health and mental health, and this as a proportion of NHS England’s budget in 2016-17, are presented in the table below.
NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG | 2016/17 |
Total expenditure | £229.5 million |
Total expenditure as a proportion of NHS England’s budget | 0.22% |
Total expenditure on mental health | £23.8 million |
Total expenditure on mental health as a proportion of NHS England’s mental health budget | 0.25% |
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of people in the (a) Telford constituency and (b) UK were employed by small and medium-sized enterprises in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the 200,000 new public sector apprenticeships announced by his Department on 20 January 2017 have been filled; and how many of those apprenticeships are based in (a) the Telford constituency, (b) Telford and Wrekin and (c) the West Midlands.
Answered by Anne Milton
Figures on the number of public sector apprenticeships are not available. Public sector bodies in scope of the public sector apprenticeships target are required annually to publish and send to the Department their progress towards the target. The first reports (covering the period 2017/18) will be due by 30 September 2018.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of young people in Telford started an apprenticeship after completing GCSEs in each year since 2010.
Answered by Anne Milton
The table attached shows the number and proportion of pupils who completed Key Stage 4 (including GCSEs) in Telford and started an apprenticeship the following year as part of at least two terms’ education, employment or training. Information on destinations in academic years 2010-11 to 2015-16 is given. This is the most recent data available. Destinations data for all England is provided for comparison.
Information on pupil destinations is published annually on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans HM Revenue and Customs has for the future of its staff working at Abbey House and Parkside Court in Telford.
Answered by Mel Stride - Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Telford will be a Specialist Site location for HMRC that will include Digital Technology and Corporate Service functions. Over the past two years we have redeployed some of our IT specialists previously contracted to ASPIRE into HMRC Digital Technology Services. We are committed to invest in specialist skills and training for all of our people.
HMRC’s Chief Digital Information Officer business area continues to recruit into Plaza (a nearby location), making opportunities available where possible to those HMRC staff in Abbey and Parkside and current workforce plans shows for this to continue. In addition Telford are also working to strengthen relationships with HMRC Birmingham as part of the West Midlands network, for example current initiatives include mental health networks.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to increase the level of access to credit for businesses in the Telford constituency in the last 12 months.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
We are working hard to support businesses and entrepreneurs across the UK, to ensure they can access finance and support to grow and that the right conditions are in place for companies to invest for the long-term.
For the 12 month period up to end of September 2017, the Start Up Loans programme provided 30 loans to businesses in Telford & Wrekin totalling over £325,000, of which 20 loans were to businesses in the Telford constituency totalling over £169,000In addition, the Government has funded the provision of tailored advice and support for start-ups and SMEs in each Local Enterprise Partnership area and in Telford this is through The Marches Growth Hub.
Telford constituency is also part of the Midlands Engine. A key part of the Government’s strategy for fuelling growth in the region is the £250m Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), which was launched on 22 February and is a result of close collaboration between the British Business Bank, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and 10 Midlands Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). It aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands, accelerate economic growth and promote job creation.
Finally, my Rt. Hon Friend the Chancellor announced in the Autumn Budget that we are extending the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee to March 2022 and expanding the programme to support up to £500 million of loans per annum.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the (a) number and (b) financial value of start-up loans was for small businesses in (i) Telford and Wrekin and (ii) the Telford constituency in the last 12 months.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
We are working hard to support businesses and entrepreneurs across the UK, to ensure they can access finance and support to grow and that the right conditions are in place for companies to invest for the long-term.
For the 12 month period up to end of September 2017, the Start Up Loans programme provided 30 loans to businesses in Telford & Wrekin totalling over £325,000, of which 20 loans were to businesses in the Telford constituency totalling over £169,000In addition, the Government has funded the provision of tailored advice and support for start-ups and SMEs in each Local Enterprise Partnership area and in Telford this is through The Marches Growth Hub.
Telford constituency is also part of the Midlands Engine. A key part of the Government’s strategy for fuelling growth in the region is the £250m Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), which was launched on 22 February and is a result of close collaboration between the British Business Bank, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and 10 Midlands Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). It aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands, accelerate economic growth and promote job creation.
Finally, my Rt. Hon Friend the Chancellor announced in the Autumn Budget that we are extending the British Business Bank’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee to March 2022 and expanding the programme to support up to £500 million of loans per annum.
Asked by: Lucy Allan (Independent - Telford)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much waste was recycled in (a) the Telford constituency (b) Shropshire and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Coffey
The official harmonised measure used by the UK to report recycling figures is Waste from Households recycling. This data is reported under the Waste Framework Directive and published annually in our ‘UK Statistics on Waste’ publication. Figures from 2010-2016 are available in Table 1. Figures for 2015 and 2016 include a methodological change to now include metal recovered from incinerator bottom ash (IBA).
Table 1. UK Waste from Households recycling, 2010-16
Year (calendar) | UK | |
| Tonnes recycled ('000 tonnes) | Recycling rate (%) |
2010 | 10,878 | 40.4% |
2011 | 11,492 | 42.9% |
2012 | 11,594 | 43.9% |
2013 | 11,433 | 44.1% |
2014 | 12,035 | 44.9% |
2015 | 11,789 | 44.2% |
including IBAm | 11,891 | 44.6% |
2016 | 12,192 | 44.6% |
Including IBAm | 12,352 | 45.2% |
IBAm = Incinerator bottom ash metal | ||
We do not gather data on recycling rates at the constituency level. Instead, we have data for recycled household waste structured around local authorities. This is published annually in our ‘Statistics on waste managed by local authorities in England’. The household waste recycling data for individual local authorities is very similar but not exactly the same as the waste from households recycling measure. It is slightly broader than the ‘Waste from Households’ measure, because it also includes waste from street bins, street sweepings, parks and grounds and some difference in what is included as recycling as IBA metal is not included. This data is reported on a financial-year basis, and local authority data is available in Table 2 for ‘Telford and Wrekin Council’ and ‘Shropshire’ for 2010-11 to 2016-17.
Table 2. Household waste recycling at local authority level, 2010-11 to 2016-17
thousand tonnes and % rate | ||||
Year (financial) | Telford and Wrekin Council | Shropshire | ||
| '000 tonnes | Recycling rate (%) | '000 tonnes | Recycling rate (%) |
2010-11 | 35.5 | 43.7% | 81.1 | 52.5% |
2011-12 | 33.8 | 43.2% | 75.2 | 50.4% |
2012-13 | 32.7 | 43.2% | 76.0 | 50.6% |
2013-14 | 33.8 | 44.8% | 79.5 | 49.9% |
2014-15 | 38.0 | 47.6% | 75.1 | 49.2% |
2015-16 | 38.7 | 48.0% | 84.0 | 54.6% |
2016-17 | 38.3 | 45.8% | 87.0 | 54.8% |