Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 45986 on Events Industry, what plans her Department has to change the (a) number and (b) grade of civil servants working on supporting the business events sector.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The Government recognises the significant contribution that business events make to the UK economy, supporting jobs, driving regional growth, and showcasing the UK’s strengths on the global stage. Officials in DCMS continue to engage regularly with industry stakeholders to ensure that government policy reflects the needs of the sector.

The Department keeps its resourcing under review to ensure it can deliver against its priorities effectively, but there are no current plans to change the number or grade of civil servants specifically allocated to supporting the business events sector.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lower-layer super output areas are within Telford constituency; how those areas are ranked by top (a) 1%, (b) 5% and (c) 10% in the index of multiple deprivation; and what impact that data has on the allocation of funding by her Department.

Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

Data for the index for multiple deprivation at lower level super output area can be accessed from the Parliament website at https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-indices-of-deprivation/.

In England, the Household Support Fund (HSF) is a DWP funded scheme for Local Authorities (LAs) to provide discretionary support to vulnerable households in the most need. The distribution of the funding is targeted at the areas of the country with the most vulnerable households, on the basis of Office for National Statistics (ONS) local population estimates and Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) scores. Allocation amounts for upper tier Local Authorities in England are therefore reflective of population size and relative deprivation.

Eligibility for benefits administered by the department, and the relevant support that it provides through the Jobs and Careers Service and any contracted provision, is typically determined by the individual benefit rules and criteria, which do not explicitly account for the Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of new born babies were admitted to neonatal care in each of the last five years.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

This information is available from Imperial College London’s National Neonatal Research Database, at the following link:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/neonatal-data-analysis-unit/neonatal-data-analysis-unit/nnrd-data-visualisations/

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average length of stay for a baby in neonatal care was in each of the last five years.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

This information is available from Imperial College London’s National Neonatal Research Database, at the following link:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/neonatal-data-analysis-unit/neonatal-data-analysis-unit/nnrd-data-visualisations/

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was allocated in cash terms to West Mercia Police in each of the last five financial years; what level of reserves that force held in each of those years; what the cost of (a) management and (b) administration of that force was in each of those years; and what the cost of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner was for that force.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The total funding amounts for West Mercia can be found in the table below. This includes funding from government grants, precept and in year funding for pay awards. The table does not include funding relating to any crime programmes, such as hotspot policing and county lines, outside of the police funding settlement.

The Home Office does not hold data relating to the management and administration costs of forces as well as the cost of the officer of the Police and Crime Commissioners. Decisions on how funding (including the holding of reserves) and resources are utilised are an operational matter for Chief Constables and locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners, who are best placed to make resourcing decisions within their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum hotels there are within Telford constituency; what (a) month and (b) year those hotels were opened; how many people are staying within each hotel; and what the contracted end date is for each hotel.

Answered by Alex Norris - Minister of State (Home Office)

The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found in at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.

The Home Office does not publicly comment on individual hotels, or individuals being accommodated.

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