Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question
To ask the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England is taking to inform and educate its clergy on (a) scientific advances and (b) new technologies.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Division has partnered with the Universities of Durham and York to address gaps in understanding between science and religion. Equipping Christian Leaders in an Age of Science has been running for four years and has just been awarded £3.4m by the Templeton Religion Trust for its next phases. The team has organised 11 conferences enabling bishops and senior church leaders to engage with the latest developments in topics ranging from neuroscience to cosmology.
The Church of England is also a partner in the Centre for Doctoral Training in AI Ethics at the University of Bath, along with numerous other industry partners, gaining understanding which will be shared within the Church. The Bishop of Oxford is a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on AI and is a board member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. The Church also made a submission to the recently-published consultation by the Committee for Standards in Public Life on the impact of AI on public life.
All this work on new technologies will feed into the Equipping Christian Leaders in an Age of Science project and the wider engagement of the Church on public affairs. In March 2020 three new pieces of research will begin. These are designed to deepen understanding of science and to resource and expand the reach of Church engagement. This research will take place at Durham University, York University and within the Mission and Public Affairs Division of the Archbishops' Council.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Wansbeck)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Minister of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which arts organisations in the North East of England his Department plans to allocate funding to in 2020.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The list outlines Arts organisations and practitioners across the North East that have been allocated funding from Arts Council England for 2020. This list is not exhaustive as ACE expects further funding applications from practitioners and organisations based in the North East of England throughout the year.
Organisation Name
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
North Music Trust
North Music Trust
Durham & Darlington Music Education Hub
Tees Valley Music Service
Sunderland Music Education Hub
Music Partnership North
North Tyneside Music Education Hub
Gateshead and South Tyneside Music Education Hub
New Writing North
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
November Club
North Music Trust
Ballet Lorent Limited
The Forge
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Dance City
Northern Stage (Theatrical Productions) Ltd
TIN Arts
The Maltings Berwick Trust Limited
Helix Arts Ltd
Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust
Middlesbrough Town Hall
Association for Cultural Enterprises
Stockton International Riverside Festival
Gem Arts
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
North East Theatre Trust Ltd
The Customs House
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Theatre Hullabaloo
Woodhorn Charitable Trust
The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company
Generator North East
Amber Film & Photography Collective
Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books
Vane Contemporary Art Limited
a-n The Artists Information Company
Durham County Council
Queen's Hall Arts
Sunderland Culture
Unfolding Theatre
The NewBridge Project
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Workplace Foundation
Inpress Ltd
Stockton Borough Council Tees Valley Museum Group
Arts&Heritage
Beamish Museum
Teesside University
Northern Print
Tyneside Cinema
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Open Clasp Theatre Company
Stockton Arts Centre Ltd
The Bowes Museum
Umar Butt
Jamie Tansley
The Auxiliary Project Space
DJAZZ - Durham City Jazz Festival
Southpaw Dance Company
Lisette Rebecca Auton
Nadia Iftkhar
Kris Johnson
David Lisser
Vivien Wood
Lydia Brickland
Michael John Heatley
Jade Byrne
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Festival of Thrift
South Tyneside Council
New Prospects Association Limited
Hartlepool Borough Council
Michael Evans
Curious Arts Ltd
Katie Doherty
Middlesbrough Council
Little Cog
Make & Mend Company
North Tyneside Council
Sunderland MAC Trust
Primate Productions Ltd
Patrick Ngabonziza
Amy Lord
Rachael Walsh
Little Inventors Worldwide Ltd
Sophie Buxton
Benedict Wellstood
MBC Arts Wellbeing
Kate Hunter
Gillie Kleiman
Tracks
Southpaw Dance Company
Rosa Postlethwaite
Amanda Ogden
Rebecca Glendenning-Laycock
Elizabeth Jane Klotz
Changing Relations
Beacon Films CIC
Middlesbrough Mela Association
Harambee Pasadia CIC
Katherina Radeva
Christopher Folwell
Tatwood Puppets
Billingham International Folklore Festival of World Dance
Alistair McDonald
Newcastle Asian Arts and Music
Hannah Thompson
Dora Frankel
Laura Harrington
Action for Children
The Middlesbrough Art Weekender
Let's Circus
Hannah Murphy
The Empty Space
Paul Miller
Durham County Council Arts Programmes Team
Eliot Smith Company
Alphabetti Theatre
Two Destination Language
Wesley Stephenson
Pineapple Black
Sheila Graber
COMMON
Regeneration NE CIC
Martin Hylton
Workie Ticket Theatre CIC
Norfolk Street Arts Community Interest Company
Aidan Moesby
Stellar Projects
Thoughtful Planet 3
William Steele
Cameron John Sharp
Teesside University
Zoe Murtagh
Miranda Tufnell
Ushaw College
Christina Castling
Newcastle City Council Culture
Tony Hopkins Entertainments Ltd
NTC Touring Theatre Company Ltd
Lindsay Duncanson
Northumbria University
Julian Germain
Mortal Fools
Opera Sunderland
Durham University
Jake Jarratt
Elizabeth Jane Klotz
fanSHEN
Lydia Brickland
Scott Turnbull
Tusk Music
Mad Alice Theatre Company
Payal Ramchandani
Chris Hornsby
Sunderland City Council
Tim Shaw
Becci Sharrock
North Music Trust
Charlie Bramley
Creative Spaces North East C.I.C.
COMMON
Elysium Theatre Company
The Creative Seed CIC
Curious Monkey Ltd
Abdulrahman Abu - Zayd
DAVE GRAY
Allan Hughes
Debra Carey
Izaak Gledhill
Hexham Book Festival
Moving Art Management
Cap-a-Pie
Alys North
blimey!
Juliana Mensah
Harriet Ghost
Transitions17
Sabina Sallis
Conversations in Painting
Faye MacCalman
Caroline Collinge
Robert Graham
Henry Amos
christopher fallow
Michelle Bayly
Leah Millar
Nell Catchpole
Melanie Rashbrooke
Slugtown
Hartlepool Wintertide Festival
Emma Dunn
Greyscale Theatre Company
D6 Culture Ltd
North East Theatre Trust Ltd
Michael Mulvihill
Teesside University
Cat Robey
Catherine Bertola
South Tyneside Council
Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum
Matt Jamie
Bethan Kitchen
Woodhorn Charitable Trust
South Tyneside Council
Faculty of Arts, Design and Creative Industries
Jazz North East Ltd
Simon West
Eliot Smith Company
Chalk
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Durham University
Vindolanda Trust
Mortal Fools
Middlesbrough Council Cultural Services
Gary Wilkinson
Newcastle Gateshead Initiative
Dominic Nelson-Ashley
Martha Wheatley
Skimstone Arts
Luca Rutherford
Surface Area Dance Theatre CIC
Kerrin Tatman
Hannah Thompson
Gateway Studios
Liberdade community development trust
Nexus
Mathieu Geffré
identity on tyne
Shane Wreford-Sinnott
Michaela Wetherell
Steve Byron
Mi Viejo Fruta Ltd
Independent Sunderland
New Writing North
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
November Club
North Music Trust
Ballet Lorent Limited
The Forge
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Dance City
Northern Stage (Theatrical Productions) Ltd
TIN Arts
The Maltings Berwick Trust Limited
Helix Arts Ltd
Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust
Middlesbrough Town Hall
Association for Cultural Enterprises
Stockton International Riverside Festival
Gem Arts
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
North East Theatre Trust Ltd
The Customs House
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Theatre Hullabaloo
Woodhorn Charitable Trust
The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company
Generator North East
Amber Film & Photography Collective
Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books
Vane Contemporary Art Limited
a-n The Artists Information Company
Durham County Council
Queen's Hall Arts
Sunderland Culture
Unfolding Theatre
The NewBridge Project
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Workplace Foundation
Inpress Ltd
Stockton Borough Council Tees Valley Museum Group
Arts&Heritage
Beamish Museum
Teesside University
Northern Print
Tyneside Cinema
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Open Clasp Theatre Company
Stockton Arts Centre Ltd
The Bowes Museum
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the recent Cambridge University Bennett Institute for Public Policy report entitled Townscapes, The North East, if she will undertake an assessment of the ability of the two North East Local Enterprise Partnerships to tackle decline in North East towns.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
On 24 July 2018, Government published “Strengthened Local Enterprise Partnerships” which sets out how Government and LEPs will work together to strengthen leadership and capability, improve accountability and manage risk, and provide clarity on geography.
Of the £3.4bn of Local Growth Funding that has gone to the Northern Powerhouse, £505.6m has been allocated by the North East and Tees Valley LEPs.
LEPs will also play a vital collaborative role in the successful delivery of £3.6bn Towns Fund- seven places in the wider North East have been named among the initial 100 places to benefit from this fund, including Bishop Auckland in County Durham.
Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 3 April (HL14848), whether they will provide in the text of their response to this question a list of the members of (1) the Russell Group, (2) Million+, and (3) University Alliance.
Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Information regarding a list of members of the Russell Group, Million+ and University Alliance is not held centrally. However, information from the members’ websites is reflected in the following table:
1) Russell Group Membership | 2) Million+ | 3) University Alliance |
Birmingham University | Abertay University | UWE Bristol |
University of Bristol | Anglia Ruskin | University of Greenwich |
University of Cambridge | Bath Spa University | University of Central Lancashire |
Cardiff University | University of Bedfordshire | University of Brighton |
Durham University | University of Bolton | The Open University |
University of Edinburgh | Canterbury Christ Church University | Teesside University |
University of Exeter | University of Cumbria | University of South Wales |
University of Glasgow | University of East London | University of Salford |
Imperial College London | Edinburgh Napier University | University of Portsmouth |
King's College London | Glasgow Caledonian University | Oxford Brookes University |
University of Leeds | University of the Highlands and Islands | Nottingham Trent University |
University of Liverpool | Leeds Trinity University | Kingston University |
London School of Economics | London Metropolitan University | University of Hertfordshire |
University of Manchester | London South Bank | Coventry University |
Newcastle University | Middlesex University |
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University of Nottingham | Southampton Solent University |
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University of Oxford | University of Sunderland |
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Queen Mary University of London | University of West London |
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Queen's University Belfast | University of the West of Scotland |
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University of Sheffield | University of Staffordshire |
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University of Southampton | University of Wolverhampton |
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University College London |
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University of Warwick |
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University of York |
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Notes
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many unsafe discharges have been recorded at (a) City Hospitals Sunderland, (b) University Hospital of Hartlepool and (c) University Hospital of North Durham in each of the last five years.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Patients should only be discharged when it is safe and clinically appropriate. Patients who may need support should only be discharged from hospital when there has been an assessment of the support they need to be discharged safely. Where patients are being transferred between care settings, this requires local health and care organisations to work together to ensure the transfers are centred around the needs of patients and their carers.
There are no national published criteria for measuring unsafe discharge. Neither national data nor data for individual trusts relating to unsafe discharges are routinely collected centrally.
Guidance and advice issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), for example ‘NICE Guideline NG27 – Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs’ - is focussed on recommendations for ensuring that hospital discharges are as safe as possible.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Health of 20 March 2018, Official Report, Column 144, on NHS Trusts: Wholly Owned Subsidiary Companies, if he will publish the (a) 42 NHS foundation trusts that have reported consolidated subsidiaries to NHS Improvement, and (b) date on which each such subsidiary was (a) formed and (b) reported to NHS Improvement.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
NHS Improvement has informed the Department that they ask foundation trusts (FTs), to report how many subsidiaries have been consolidated into their accounts. In returns received by NHS Improvement for the year ended 31 March 2017, foundation trusts reported 42 consolidated subsidiaries (excluding any consolidated National Health Service charitable funds). Neither the Department, nor NHS Improvement hold information on when these consolidated subsidiaries were formed.
These are shown in the table below.
Name of FT | Name of consolidated subsidiary |
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Barnsley Hospital Support Services Ltd |
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Hampshire Hospitals Contract Services Limited |
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust | Summerhill Supplies Ltd |
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | IFM Bolton Ltd |
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | BHT Charity |
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust | The Clatterbridge Pharmacy Limited |
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust | Clatterbridge Propcare Services Limited |
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | Synchronicity Care Ltd |
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | D Hive |
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | Dudley Clinical Services Limited |
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | QEF |
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Guy's and St Thomas' Enterprises Ltd |
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | GTI Forces Healthcare Ltd |
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Pathology Services Ltd |
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Essentia Trading Ltd |
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | KCH Commercial Services Ltd |
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | King's Interventional Facilities Management LLP |
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Moorfields Ventures LLP |
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | WebV Solutions Ltd |
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust | Optimus Health Limited |
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Ltd |
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Northumbria Primary Care Limited |
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Northumbria Primary Care Cost Sharing Group Ltd |
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust | Oxleas Prison Services Limited |
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | Healthcare Facilities |
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | RSCH Pharmacy Ltd |
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | Salisbury Trading Limited |
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | Odstock Medical Limited |
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust | South Central Fleet Services Ltd |
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | UHS Pharmacy LTD |
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | UHS Estates LTD |
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust | SDH Developments Ltd |
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust | STFT Holdings Limited |
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust | South Tyneside Integrated Care Limited |
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust | Stepping Hill Healthcare Enterprises Ltd |
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises Ltd |
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | MyUCLH |
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Pharmacy@QEHB Ltd |
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | UHB Facilities Ltd |
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Assure Dialysis Services Ltd |
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Day Case UK LLP |
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Symphony Healthcare Services Ltd |
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the capital funding provided for the Durham Free School .
Answered by Nick Gibb
Capital funding for individual free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools, where costs have been finalised and are no longer commercially sensitive, are published on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools. Additional finalised capital costs for individual free schools, UTCs and studio schools are due to be published in the coming months.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the capital funding provided for the Durham Free School .
Answered by Nick Gibb
Capital funding for individual free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools, where costs have been finalised and are no longer commercially sensitive, are published on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools. Additional finalised capital costs for individual free schools, UTCs and studio schools are due to be published in the coming months.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which free schools have closed since 2010; and how much (a) revenue and (b) capital expenditure was disbursed on each of those schools.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
There are currently 390 open free schools. Since 2010, eight free schools have closed. These are:
Name of free school | Date of closure |
Discovery New School | April 2014 |
The Durham Free School | March 2015 |
Dawes Lane Academy | August 2015 |
Stockport Technical School | August 2015 |
St Michael’s Secondary School | August 2016 |
Southwark Free School | February 2017 |
Collective Spirit | August 2017 |
Bolton Wanderers | August 2017 |
The primary objective of the Department when making a decision to close a school is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for pupils and to secure value for money for the taxpayer. The Department’s published accounts include the capital and revenue spending for any free schools which has closed.
Capital funding for open free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, where costs have been finalised, is published on gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools. The final capital costs for all free schools that have closed since 2010 have not yet been published but are due to be included in the next publication round in coming months.
Schools block funding allocations are published on gov.uk. The link for pre 16 is found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-block-funding-allocations and post 16 data is found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations.
Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant are published on gov.uk found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings.
We are in the process of making a routine update to the data that we hold on pre and post-opening grant allocations for free schools, UTCs and Studio Schools, following the opening of new schools, in September. We will be publishing the latest data on gov.uk, in the coming weeks.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what programmes or events her Department funds to celebrate, protect and promote the culture and heritage of former mining communities.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
Government recognises the enormous contribution that mining communities have given and continue to give to this country and funds several cultural projects in mining areas through the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic England.
One project, a £270,000 grant for the North East England Mining Archive and Research Centre at Sunderland University, will preserve, catalogue and provide access to the archives of the regional coal industry. Heritage Lottery Fund’s Your Heritage scheme also provided funding to the Beamish Museum in County Durham for their Mining Memories project which worked with 40 schools in specific former coalfield communities.