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Written Question
Suicide
Wednesday 2nd March 2022

Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people died by suicide by (a) council area, (b) region and (c) constituency in each of the last 10 years months for which data is available.

Answered by Heather Wheeler

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the hon. Member’s Parliamentary Question of 23 February is attached.

At the request of the UK Statistics Authority, I have placed in the library a table of the number of suicides by parliamentary constituency.


Written Question
Marriage: Young People
Tuesday 8th June 2021

Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) 16-year-olds and (b) 17-year-olds were married in (i) England (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland in each of the last 30 years.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Coronavirus: North of England
Wednesday 7th October 2020

Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in (a) North East England, (b) County Durham local authority area and (c) North West Durham have (i) died as a result of covid-19 and (ii) died as a result of covid-19 with underlying health conditions in each age category in each week since 1 January 2020.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Coal: Exports and Imports
Thursday 1st October 2020

Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the net effect of import and export of UK coal on the balance of payments in (a) each of the last five years (b) annually with individual countries.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.


Written Question
Former Ministers: Finance
Tuesday 10th March 2020

Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - North West Durham)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding was allocated to support former senior government ministers for their continued public activities excluding security costs in the last 10 years.

Answered by Chloe Smith

A copy of the policy and guidance on the Public Duties Cost Allowance is in the Library of the House.

Current recipients of the allowance are published in the Cabinet Office Annual Reports and Accounts, available to the public on GOV.UK. The Public Duties Cost Allowance rate is currently set at a limit of £115,000 per annum.