Asked by: Tim Yeo (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the number of rail passenger journeys.
Answered by Claire Perry
In the first four years under this Government, passenger journeys increased by 26%. The number of journeys made on the rail network grew by 6% in 2013/14, and has more than doubled since privatisation.
Asked by: Tim Yeo (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children of Chinese origin have been adopted by people resident in the UK in the last five years.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2014, the Department for Education has processed a total of 73 inter-country adoptions where China is the child’s country of origin.
This figure relates to inter-country adoption cases in which the adopters are habitually resident in England only, as adoption is a devolved matter.