Terminal Illnesses

Liz Kendall: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many employment tribunals in which the appellant had a terminal condition and was contesting a dismissal that occurred because of their diagnosis took place in each of the last five years. [204907]

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Mr Vara: Data on the number of claims made by appellants with a terminal condition on the grounds of unfair dismissal are not collated centrally by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). This information could be provided only at a disproportionate cost by manually checking hard copy tribunal files or judgments.

Terrorism: Northern Ireland

Kate Hoey: To ask the Prime Minister (1) what support the Government provide to victims and survivors of Northern Ireland-related acts of terrorism in Great Britain; and if he will make a statement; [204449]

(2) if he will replicate for victims and survivors of Northern Ireland-related acts of terrorism in Great Britain the support services available in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. [204452]

Simon Hughes: I can confirm that in 2013 the Government published a revised Code of Practice for Victims of Crime which sets out the entitlements of victims to support including enhanced support for victims of more serious crime including families bereaved by crime.

The Government are making available more funding than ever before to support all victims of crime, almost doubling current funding with a potential budget of up to £100 million to help them cope and where possible recover from the impact that crime has had on their lives.

Since 2010, the Ministry of Justice has provided funding to Victim Support to run the national Homicide Service which provides tailored and intensive support to families bereaved by homicide after 2010 based on need. This includes practical support such as help with funeral arrangements, bank accounts, informing employers and schools, preparing bereaved families to attend court and the provision of legal services. From October 2014, Victim Support will run a newly enhanced national Homicide Service for those bereaved after 2010 which in addition to providing existing services will incorporate specialist trauma and bereavement counselling for both adults and children and for the first time peer support.

The Ministry of Justice also provides separate funding to a number of peer support and specialist therapy organisations which can support those bereaved by homicide.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 is available to compensate blameless victims of violent crime. The Scheme is available for people injured in Great Britain and focuses on paying compensation to direct victims of a crime of violence. Northern Ireland has its own scheme, as do many other countries.

From 1 October 2014, the majority of support services for victims of crime will be locally commissioned by Police and Crime Commissioners. With their knowledge of local victims’ needs and priorities, PCCs are uniquely placed to ensure that funding is targeted according to need.

Individual victims and survivors of Northern Ireland related acts of terrorism who are resident in England and Wales are able to apply for funding from the Victims and Survivors Service (VSS) in Northern Ireland. The VSS is the main funder of victims’ groups in Northern Ireland and provides a tailored package to

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meet the individual needs of victims and survivors including counselling, physiotherapy and the purchase of equipment such as wheelchairs.

Training

Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much has been spent on what (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) him and (ii) Ministers in his Department since May 2010. [205385]

Mr Vara: Three Ministers received media training from an external provider in July 2010, at a total cost of £3,000. The training was designed to assist them in clearly communicating the work of the Ministry of Justice to the public. There has been no further spending on such training.

No Minister has received social media training.

Northern Ireland

Youth Unemployment

Karl Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps the Government are taking to tackle youth unemployment in Northern Ireland. [904828]

Dr Murrison: Tackling youth unemployment remains a critical issue but specific measures to address it in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the Executive.

The Government are reducing the largest structural deficit in UK peacetime history and this more than anything will help deliver a sustainable economic recovery and so directly assist young people get into employment.

ICT

Mr Bradshaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by her Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date. [204801]

Dr Murrison: In the period requested, one mobile telephone was reported stolen in December 2013. No BlackBerry devices or laptops have been reported lost from 2013 to date.

Prime Minister

Unemployment: Young People

Stephen Timms: To ask the Prime Minister what progress has been made in the review of assistance to young unemployed people, led by Sir Jeremy Heywood; and if he will make a statement. [205451]

The Prime Minister: I refer the right hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Mr Maude), to the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) on 14 July 2014, Official Report, column 548W.

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Scotland

ICT

Mr Bradshaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date. [204803]

David Mundell: In 2013 and 2014 to date, no mobile telephones or laptops were reported lost by the Scotland Office. Two BlackBerrys were reported lost in 2013, and one in 2014 to date.

Ministers: Official Cars

Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many journeys Ministers of his Department have made using the Government Car Service; and how many such journeys were for the transportation of a red box. [204944]

David Mundell: The information cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.

Transport

A64

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what central funds are available for the maintenance of the A64; and if he will make a statement. [204993]

Mr Goodwill: In the current 2014-15 financial year, the Highways Agency has an allocation of £11.25 million for maintenance of the A64.

In addition, the Agency’s Managing Agent Contractors are paid a “lump sum” for a wide range of general maintenance duties, which includes works on the A64. The proportion of the costs that is spent on the A64 cannot be specified as the Agency does not disaggregate this “lump sum” budget.

Carnforth Station

David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the effect on services to Carnforth Station when High Speed 2 is completed. [204817]

Mr Goodwill: No assessment has been made of the effect of HS2 on services to Carnforth Station. However, a significant amount of capacity will be released on existing lines as a result of HS2, which creates a huge opportunity for the reconfiguration and improvement of services. Network Rail has begun thinking about how to make use of the opportunities that High Speed Rail brings to the rail network as a whole, and you can read more about this in their Better Connections report. Network Rail estimate that over 100 towns and cities could benefit from quicker, more frequent journeys and better connections when HS2 phase two is complete.

An illustrative timetable has been developed in order to allow us to assess the likely costs and benefits of HS2, and this factors in some changes to train services

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as a result of released capacity on existing lines. However, this illustrative timetable was created for modelling purposes and more work needs to take place through open consultation to determine what actual services would look like.

Ferries

Karl Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vessels with valid licences to operate from the UK in the short sea passenger ferry sector are registered under (a) the UK flag or (b) Red Ensign Group registries; and what proportion of those vessels are qualifying vessels under the Tonnage Tax scheme. [204842]

Mr Goodwill: There is no general requirement for ships to be licensed to operate on any routes either within the UK or plying internationally to and from UK ports. There are no requirements for ships which ply solely within UK waters to be registered. Ships that ply internationally need to be registered although choice of register is for the owner’s consideration.

The Department does not hold information in relation to the areas of operation of vessels which are entered into the tonnage tax regime. The identity of tonnage tax companies and groups is tax confidential, and so we would not in any case be able to release information which might make it possible to identify individual companies and groups.

ICT

Mr Bradshaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date. [204804]

Mr Goodwill: The number of mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops that were reported as lost in 2013 and 2014 to date is set out in the tables. The figures provided are for the entire Department including its executive agencies.

Ministers: Official Cars

Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many journeys Ministers of his Department have made using the Government Car Service; and how many such journeys were for the transportation of a red box. [204945]

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Mr Goodwill: The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Morecambe

David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will estimate how much money his Department has spent in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency since May 2010. [204780]

Mr Goodwill: The most recent data available for total public expenditure on transport are given in HM Treasury’s Country and Regional Analysis: 2013. Identifiable expenditure on transport for the North West was £1,876 million in 2012-13, £1,939 million in 2011-12, £2,099 million in 2010-11 and £2,337 million in 2009-10. Equivalent data are not available below regional level.

The Country and Regional analysis covers Department for Transport-managed spending combined with other transport-related expenditure elsewhere (e.g. transport expenditure by local government bodies, which are covered by CLG).

Roads: North West

David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which governmental body will make funds available for a feasibility study on developing a highway road tunnel under Morcambe Bay from Heysham M6 Link Road to Barrow-in-Furness. [204818]

Mr Goodwill: This is a local issue and it would be for Lancashire and Cumbria county councils as the local highways authorities to consider whether to take forward such a study in consultation with the local enterprise partnerships for their areas.

Shipping: Freight

Karl Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vessels with valid licences to operate from the UK in the short sea freight sector are registered under (a) the UK flag or (b) Red Ensign Group registries; and what proportion of those are qualifying vessels under the tonnage tax scheme. [204833]

Mr Goodwill: There is no general requirement for ships to be licensed to operate on any routes either within the UK or plying internationally to and from UK ports.

The Department does not hold information in relation to the areas of operation of vessels which are entered into the tonnage tax regime. The identity of tonnage tax companies and groups is tax confidential, and so we would not in any case be able to release information which might make it possible to identify individual companies and groups.

Tonnage Tax

Karl Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many new training roles for UK seafarers were created under the approved core training commitments submitted by company groups that qualified for the tonnage tax scheme between October 2012 and September 2013; how many such roles he expects to be created

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between October 2013 and September 2014; and what the cumulative training commitment is of companies qualifying for that scheme in 2013-14. [204843]

Mr Goodwill: Approved core training commitments for the 2012-13 training commitment year were for around 600 new first year officer trainees; the comparable figure for the 2013-14 training commitment year is around 550. Additionally, company groups are required to provide second and third year training for trainees taken on during the previous two years when they were in the tonnage tax. For 2013-14, this cumulative training commitment, including first, second and third year trainees, is for over 1,700 officer trainees.

Treasury

Freedom of Information

John Woodcock: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent on legal fees in cases relating to the release of information requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in each of the last five years. [204285]

Andrea Leadsom: In common with other Departments, the Treasury pays fees to the Treasury Solicitor’s Department for legal advice on a range of issues. The proportion of those fees which relate to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is not recorded.

Housing: Scotland

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment has been made of the effect on the Scottish economy of house prices in Scotland. [204501]

Danny Alexander: Scotland's economy has performed well within the UK and the Scottish housing market is recovering alongside the rest of the UK's housing market. As in previous recoveries house prices have risen but still remain below their pre-crisis peak in real terms in Scotland. As a result of increased confidence in the housing market, property transactions in Scotland were 21% higher in 2013 than the lows seen in 2011. With the creation of the Financial Policy Committee, we now have the tools to guard against risks in the housing market.

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the reasons for the differences in the level of change in house prices in Scotland compared to the rest of the UK in the second quarter of 2014. [204544]

Danny Alexander: The Scottish housing market is recovering alongside the rest of the Scottish economy. Changes in regional house prices will partly depend on regional factors supporting supply and demand. House prices in Scotland rose 4.8% in the 12 months to April. In the same period, house prices across the UK rose by 9.9%, and excluding London house prices in the UK rose 7%. In real terms house prices remain well below their peak, and the Office for Budget Responsibility noted in March that they will still remain below this

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peak at the end of their forecast in 2018/19. With the creation of the Financial Policy Committee, we can ensure emerging risks and vulnerabilities across the financial system as a whole are identified, monitored and effectively addressed.

Infrastructure

Chris Leslie: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the Government have spent per capita on infrastructure in each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last five years. [204876]

Danny Alexander: The information is as follows:

Mapeley

Charlie Elphicke: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited notified HM Revenue and Customs of the opportunity to generate income by the use of the Priority Court (Dover) site for purposes other than the provision of facilities at the same time as the site remains subject to a STEPS lease under paragraph 19.2 of the private finance initiative contract between HM Revenue and Customs and Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited. [205416]

Mr Gauke: Mapeley STEPS Contractor Ltd has not notified HM Revenue and Customs of any opportunity to generate additional income at the Priory Court site under the clause 19.2 provisions of the STEPS contract.

Meningitis: Vaccination

Sir Tony Cunningham: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when his Department received the business case for the meningococcal B vaccine; and when he

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expects to make a decision whether or not to approve the business case. [204485]

Danny Alexander: On 21 March 2014, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that there should be a national Meningococcal B immunisation programme for infants, if the vaccine, Bexsero ®, could be purchased at a cost-effective price. The Treasury is working closely with the Department of Health on this business case. The Government would like to secure the vaccine from the supplier at the cost-effective price recommended by the JCVI.

Money Advice Service

Philip Davies: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress the Money Advice Service has made on launching a price comparison website for short term loans. [204984]

Andrea Leadsom: The Money Advice Service (MAS) is an independent non-governmental public body set up with a statutory objective to raise public understanding and knowledge of financial matters and the ability of people to manage their own financial affairs.

The Government are not aware that MAS has any imminent plans to launch a price comparison website for short-term loans.

Morecambe

David Morris: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate how much money his Department has spent in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency since May 2010. [204781]

Andrea Leadsom: Data on expenditure by HM Treasury in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency are not centrally available. The Department for Communities and Local Government collect information on local authority expenditure, however this is not collected by constituency and is just a part of total public expenditure.

Training

John Woodcock: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what professional development courses are made available to staff of his Department; and what the cost to the public purse is of each such course. [204352]

Andrea Leadsom: HM Treasury sponsors professional development courses for staff to gain a professional qualification and for continuing professional development. There is not a fixed set of courses and options can include both those available through civil service professions curricula and academic or accredited professional institutions and associations. A rigorous approvals process is in place to ensure that attendance on professional development courses meets the needs of the job, the Department and the profession. Costs will vary because requirements and suppliers vary. The information on actual costs could be obtained only at disproportionate cost as many courses fall within the scope of this question, and the information is not all held in one place.

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UK Trade With EU: Germany

Mr Carswell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs in Germany associated with trade with the UK. [204733]

Andrea Leadsom: The Treasury has made no such assessment.

The Treasury continues to monitor developments in Germany and other major economies on an ongoing basis as part of the normal process of policy development.

Wales

Ministers: Official Cars

Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many journeys Ministers of his Department have made using the Government Car Service; and how many such journeys were for the transportation of a red box. [204947]

Stephen Crabb: The information cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.

Training

Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much has been spent on what (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) him and (ii) Ministers in his Department since May 2010. [205317]

Stephen Crabb: None.

Work and Pensions

Ministers: Official Cars

Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many journeys Ministers of his Department have made using the Government Car Service; and how many such journeys were for the transportation of a red box. [204948]

Esther McVey: The information cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.

Pensioners: Means-tested Benefits

Sheila Gilmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the number of pensioners that would be lifted out of poverty if take-up of means-tested benefits was 100%. [205396]

Steve Webb: An up-to-date estimate of the number of pensioners that would be lifted out of poverty if take-up of means-tested benefits was 100% is not available. The latest estimate available, published in 2011 (PQ 33325, 13 January 2011, Official Report, column 429W), showed that an estimated 600,000 pensioners would be lifted out of poverty if take-up of means-tested benefits was 100%. It should be noted, however, that given that there have been changes to the policy context, the level of

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pensioner poverty, and in the wider economy over the period, this figure is likely to have changed since then.

Schools: Asbestos

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 112W, on Schools: Asbestos, what system is in place to inspect schools under (a) local authority control and (b) outside local authority control, to assess their standard of asbestos management. [205442]

Mr Harper: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has no specific system in place to inspect schools to assess their standard of asbestos management.

HSE's work planning systems focuses its inspection priorities on the major hazard industries and comparatively high risks sectors (such as construction, waste and recycling, and some types of manufacturing), but can also involve targeted initiatives elsewhere. In recent years this approach has resulted in discrete inspection programmes to assess asbestos management by:

local authorities with responsibility for system built schools; and

schools outside local authority control on a sample basis.

Universal Credit

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households with children are claiming universal credit. [205392]

Esther McVey: The information requested is not currently available.

The latest official experimental statistics on UC can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

Education

16-19 Bursary Fund

Rushanara Ali: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many young people who (a) had recently left local authority care, (b) were in receipt of income support or universal credit in their name, (c) were disabled and in receipt of both employment and support allowance and either disability living allowance or personal independence payment in their name qualified for the 16-19 bursary scheme in each year since its introduction;. [204853]

(2) how many young people aged between 16 and 19 have received the maximum bursary available under the 16-19 bursary scheme in each year since 2011. [204855]

Mr Timpson: The 16-19 Bursary fund is separated into discretionary and vulnerable bursaries. Schools and colleges received allocations of discretionary bursary funding and make awards to individual students whom they have assessed against their own criteria. As a result it is not possible to provide numbers that have received the bursary in 2011/12 and 2012/13. It is now retained

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centrally (this 2013/14 academic year) and institutions claim funds for any students who are eligible.

A full year's data for 2013/14 will be available from January 2015.

Academies

Kevin Brennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many oral complaints have been made to her Department about academy brokers (a) in the last 12 months and (b) since 2010; [205445]

(2) how many formal written complaints have been made to her Department about academy brokers (a) in the last 12 months and (b) since 2010. [205448]

Mr Timpson: If the Department for Education receives a verbal complaint against a broker, the complainant is requested to put the concern in writing to the project lead, who then follows the appropriate complaints procedure. As such, only written complaints are logged.

The Department has received two written complaints about academy brokers in the last 12 months and 11 in total since centralised recording began in June 2011.

Kevin Brennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many academies are part of (a) a multi-academy trust, (b) a collaborative partnership and (c) an umbrella trust. [205447]

Mr Timpson: As of 1 July 2014 there are 2,167 academies in multi-academy trusts and there are 36 academies in umbrella trusts.

Academies are not required to provide the Department for Education with information about collaborative partnerships. However, research published by the Department for Education in July showed that 87% of academies are supporting other schools. The research can be found here:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/do-academies-make-use-of-their-autonomy

Carers

Dame Anne Begg: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will take steps to ensure that children kinship carers are caring for are considered as children in need and prioritised accordingly. [205229]

Mr Timpson: The Government have taken a number of actions to improve the quality of support provided to children being brought up in kinship care arrangements. Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 gives local authorities powers to provide services to support the upbringing of children in need by their families. Local authorities should act on their powers under section 17 to assess the needs of children living with kinship carers, which should lead to appropriate support to families regardless of whether or not children in their care are looked after.

In March 2011, the Government issued Family and Friends Care Statutory Guidance for local authorities where it is made clear, every authority, in England should have a policy describing how it will promote and support the needs of children living with kinship carers. This policy should be widely available and publicised, using media such as websites and leaflets.

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In October and November last year the Department for Education held two national learning days for senior managers and for local authority staff directly involved in supporting family and friends carers. These events raised awareness of legal requirements and encouraged the spread of good professional practice in this important area of work.

In February 2014 the Department set up a working group with local authorities to look at practice issues and best practice with the intention of using these findings in peer to peer support and learning in order to increase the quality of practice across the country.

In May 2014 the Department for Education issued an information leaflet for family and friend carers which explained their legal entitlements for support from local authorities, including under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.

I wrote to all local authorities in July 2013 to remind them of their statutory duty to hold a family and friends policy and now 140 have published policies.

Children: Abuse

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether any files on child abuse have been passed to her Department by (a) other parts of the Government or (b) hon. Members; and in what year such files were so passed. [205425]

Mr Timpson: In 2013 the Department for Education received information from the Department of Health which referred to 21 children’s homes and schools in England. This information had been uncovered as part of a document review process undertaken by the Metropolitan Police Service in the context of Operation Yewtree. The Secretary of State for Education gave details of this information in a written ministerial statement on 27 March 2014:

www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140327/wmstext/140327m0001.htm#14032769000005

More generally, hon. and right hon. Members and concerned members of the public regularly write to the Department with concerns about child abuse or neglect, sometimes enclosing supporting documents. Such letters are dealt with as appropriate on a case by case basis.

Education: Brighton

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding has been provided to each pupil in state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in Brighton and Hove (A) in cash terms and (B) at 2014 prices in each year since 2010. [205044]

Mr Laws: Average per pupil funding figures for Brighton and Hove local authority (LA) are in the following table. With the introduction of the dedicated schools grant (DSG) in 2006-07, the changes to the funding mechanism meant figures were no longer available to be shown split by phase of education.

Figures for financial years 2010 to 2013 are in the following table. These are in cash terms:

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These are in real terms using June 2014 GDP deflators in 2013-14 prices:

Per pupil figures are using DSG allocations plus other schools related grants, e.g. school standards grant, school standards grant (personalisation), standards fund etc. and pupils aged three-15 rounded to the nearest £10. Most of the additional grants were mainstreamed into DSG in 2011-12. These figures do not include the pupil premium.

With the changes to DSG funding in financial year 2013-14, i.e. funding allocated through three blocks, namely schools, early years and high needs, there is no longer a comparable overall figure with previous years. The following table shows the DSG schools block unit funding figures in cash and real terms for Brighton and Hove LA.

Since 2011-12 schools have received the pupil premium, which targets funding at pupils from the most deprived backgrounds to help them achieve their full potential. In 2011-12, the pupil premium was allocated for each pupil known to be eligible for free school meals, looked- after children and children of parents in the armed services. In 2012-13 coverage was expanded to include pupils known to have been eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years. The amounts per pupil amounts for each type of pupil are shown in following table in cash terms:

Total pupil premium allocations for Brighton and Hove local authority for each year are shown in the following table in cash terms:

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These figures in real terms:

Capital funding:

The following table shows capital funding for the financial years that are available. The data is in cash terms as allocations are phased across more than one year making real terms calculations meaningless. Complete information on the split of capital between phases of education is not held centrally.

Education: Standards

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps her Department is taking to reduce regional variations in standards of education. [204711]

Mr Laws: We are improving the accountability framework to improve standards across the country. In addition, Ofsted has implemented a more rigorous inspection framework, with performance data being used to target inspections on the weakest schools and a recognition that any school less than ‘good’ is not performing well enough.

From 2016 we will introduce new measures that focus on the progress made by every child aged between 4 and 19. By focusing on progress, we will be able to identify high- and low-performing schools more accurately. Primary schools will report pupils’ progress between the age of 4 and 11 and the proportion reaching the demanding new standard at age 11. Secondary schools will be judged on pupils’ attainment and progress between the age of 11 and 16 across 8 subjects, as well as the proportion of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate, English and maths qualifications.

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Some schools are still not performing well enough. We issued revised statutory guidance¹ to local authorities in May that makes very clear our expectations that they should take swift and robust action when maintained schools are performing poorly. This includes our expectation that their assessment should include the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that poorly performing schools should become sponsored academies.

Finally, to address the unfair distribution of funding between local authorities, we propose to allocate an additional £350 million to the least fairly funded local authorities in 2015-16. This is the biggest step towards fairer schools funding in over a decade, and we will be able to confirm how much each local authority will receive once we publish our final allocations later this summer.

¹ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-causing-concern--2

Employment Schemes: Young People

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many payments she estimates will be taken up under the youth contract for 16 and 17 year olds; [205413]

(2) how her Department will spend any underspend from the youth contract in financial year 2013-14; [205414]

(3) how much of the overall budget the youth contract for 16 and 17 year olds had been spent at the end of 2013-14. [205415]

Mr Timpson: Delivery of the Youth Contract programme for 16- and 17-year-olds began in September 2012. For the period from September 2012 to the end of March 2014, the Department for Education has spent a total of £18.4 million in delivering the programme. Any underspend identified in the period 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2014 for the Education Funding Agency-managed strand of the programme was transferred to the Exchequer as part of the budget exchange scheme.

A budget of £2.9 million is assigned to the Core Cities strand of the programme for each financial year. This funding is devolved to the respective local authorities.

For the EFA-managed strand of the programme, payments are made on a ‘payment by results’ basis. A contractor can receive three outcome-related payments: an initial payment, a re-engagement payment and a sustained engagement payment. Delivery data for the EFA-managed strand of the programme for the period September 2012 to the end of March 2014 was published on 26 June 2014 and is published online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-contract-delivery-data.

This shows contractors delivering the EFA-managed strand of the Youth Contract achieved 18,570 enrolments, 9,949 re-engagements and 3,445 sustained engagements. The contracted profile for the period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2016 shows: 21,500 participant enrolments; 23,000 participant re-engagements into positive outcomes of education, training or employment with training; and 23,500 participants to sustain in a positive outcome of education, training or employment with training for five out of six months.

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Free School Meals: Brighton

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children in (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) Brighton, Kemptown constituency have received free school meals in each year since 2010. [205137]

Mr Laws: Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014’ Statistical First Release¹.

Tables 8a-d show local authority level information. Parliamentary constituency level information is not published. Information for 2010 to 2013 can be found in previous versions of this release².

¹ Available at:

wwww.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014

²Available at:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers

Free School Meals: Westmorland

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many infant school children in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency were eligible for free school meals during the 2010-11 school year. [205049]

Mr Laws: Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in maintained nursery and primary schools is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2011’ Statistical First Release¹.

Table 11a shows local authority level information. Parliamentary constituency level information is not published.

¹ Available at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2011

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many more infant school children in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency will be eligible for free school meals as a result of the extension of free school meals to all infant school children. [205051]

Mr Laws: From September 2014 all infant pupils in state-funded schools in England will be eligible for a free, healthy school meal. Across England, we estimate that this means that 1.5 million additional pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2 will become eligible for a free school meal. We do not hold estimates of the numbers that will become newly eligible at constituency level.

Free Schools

Kevin Brennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education which free schools are planned to open in September 2014; and how many students each such school plans to admit in September 2014. [205443]

Mr Timpson: To date, the Secretary of State for Education has agreed to enter into funding agreements for 62 schools due to open in September 2014. In

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addition, the Department for Education is working with proposer groups to open around 20 further schools where the funding agreement has not yet been agreed. In total, these schools will provide about 10,000 new school places this academic year and around 44,000 places when they have reached their intended capacity.

Kevin Brennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many free schools that are planned to open in September 2014 are (a) temporarily and (b) permanently located in office buildings. [205444]

Mr Timpson: Of the free schools planning to open in September, four will be temporarily located in former office buildings and 15 permanently.

Local Government Services: Children

Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education pursuant to the answer of 1July 2014, Official Report, columns 550-1W, on local government services: children, (1) in which meetings of the Social Care Innovation Programme at which Ministers were present; how many such meetings involved people other than staff of her Department; and if she will list those people; [205099]

(2) how many meetings on the Social Care Innovation Programme at which Ministers were present have taken place since May 2010. [205100]

Mr Timpson: As the Minister with responsibility for the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme, I have attended the majority of meetings on the Innovation Programme at which Ministers have been present. These meetings have covered a wide range of issues in relation to the programme.

The first meeting about the Innovation Programme was held with my right hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Schools, in May 2013. The majority of meetings on the Innovation Programme since then have been the regular internal meetings I have with the programme team-to date, we have had over 10 such meetings.

Meetings about the Innovation Programme at which Ministers have been present which involved people other than staff of this Department include, for example, a

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workshop I held with senior officials from across Whitehall to make the best of their experience and encourage coherence in terms of government programmes; several meetings with Councillor David Simmonds, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board; a meeting between my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and a meeting with young people and staff from Daybreak Family Group Conferences.

There have been a number of meetings on other topics at which I, and other Ministers in this Department, have taken the opportunity to discuss the Innovation Programme.

Morecambe

David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will estimate how much money her Department has spent in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency since May 2010. [204774]

Mr Laws: The Department for Education does not allocate or record spending at a parliamentary constituency level. The majority of funding provided by the Department for Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency is allocated indirectly via Lancashire local authority.¹

Therefore, we have shown total allocations to Lancashire local authority, and to free schools, non-recoupment academies and music education hubs within Lancashire, with revenue and capital spending in separate tables. We do allocate funding directly to providers of 16-19 education, so we have separately shown total allocations for 16-19 education within the constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale.

Table A shows the total revenue allocations made by the Department to Lancashire local authority, and to free schools, non-recoupment academies and music education hubs within Lancashire, in each of the financial years 2010-11 to 2013-14. This funding includes: the Dedicated Schools Grant (including two-, three- and four-year-old education); non-recoupment academies and free schools funding; Pupil Premium; music and sport grants; SEND and adoption reform grants; the Early Intervention Grant before 2013-14; and, from 2013-14, the Education Services Grant. The figures provided are in cash terms.

The figures in Table A are not comparable year-on-year for the reasons given as follows:

1. Since May 2010, there have been transfers of funding between DFE and other Government Departments. These were mainly small amounts but the most significant were the Education Services Grant (national total of £1.03 billion), which transferred from DCLG to DFE in 2013-14, and the Early Intervention Grant (national total of £2.3 billion), which transferred from DFE to DCLG in 2013-14, with only a topslice remaining in DFE budgets.

2. DFE has also provided some funding to other Government departments to contribute to programmes that were jointly funded and managed, such as the Child Poverty Programme, administered by DWP.

Table B shows the total capital allocations to Lancashire schools from 2010-11 to 2013-14. Complete information on the Department’s capital spending by constituency is not held centrally. The figures provided are in cash terms.

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The Department provides funding directly to providers of 16-19 education on an academic year basis. Table C shows the total allocations made to post-16 institutions within the constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale during the academic years 2010/11 to 2013/14 by the DFE and its agencies. 2013/14 was the first year of funding under a new 16-19 funding formula, so figures are not directly comparable to those of previous years. The figures provided are in cash terms.

¹ We provide funding for free schools, non-recoupment academies and 16-19 institutions directly and provide funding for music education hubs via Arts Council England.

Pay

Mr Bradshaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many officials in her Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received. [204768]

Mr Timpson: The following table sets out the number of staff at each grade who have remained at that grade since 2010 and have received a pay rise.

The Government announced a pay freeze in 2010 which meant that pay for all Department for Education staff was frozen for two years (2011 and 2012 pay awards) except for those earning less than the full-time equivalent of £21,000. In 2013 and 2014, all staff achieving their objectives have received pay rises averaging 1%. Staff not achieving their objectives and those being managed under formal poor performance measures received no pay rise.

Procurement

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of her Department's budget she expects to be contracted out in 2014-15. [204889]

Mr Timpson: The Department for Education does not hold this information centrally.

School Leaving

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps she is taking to ensure that young people leave school with a good level of English and mathematics; and if she will make a statement. [205285]

Mr Laws: We are reforming the mathematics and English curriculum and qualifications, raising expectations so that they match the best worldwide. The new national curriculum will match those in the highest-performing education jurisdictions in the world, challenging pupils to realise their potential in an increasingly competitive global market.

At primary level, we have published a more rigorous curriculum with a greater level of demand. In mathematics, children will know their times tables by age nine and calculators will be removed from the test for 11 year olds to ensure that children get a rigorous grounding in mental and written arithmetic. To support schools, we will continue to fund the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics. We also recently announced the establishment of 32 new Maths Hubs, supported with £11 million of funding over the next two years, which will drive up the quality of mathematics education from the early years to age 19.

In the new English national curriculum we have placed a greater focus on grammar, spelling and punctuation, with a new test for 11 year olds. We have strengthened the requirements on learning to read through systematic synthetic phonics, and we have introduced a phonics screening check at age six so that teachers can intervene early to help children catch up.

At secondary level, GCSEs in mathematics and English are also being reformed to be more challenging and give stronger guarantees of numeracy and literacy. We expect schools will increase time spent teaching mathematics—bringing us in line with our international competitors. The recently announced “Progress 8” measure gives double weighting to mathematics and English in performance tables for the first time. For year 7 pupils who have not achieved level 4 at key stage 2 in reading and/or mathematics we will continue to fund the catch-up

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premium worth £500 per pupil. This enables secondary schools to deliver additional support, such as individual tuition or intensive support in small groups, for those pupils that most need it.

We are also reforming post-16 education, including A levels in English and mathematics, and have set out our ambition for the majority of young people in England to study mathematics at least to age 18 by 2020. Students without at least a grade C at GCSE in mathematics or English are now required to continue to study the subject. In addition, new core mathematics qualifications are being developed for those students with GCSE grade C or above who do not go on to study A or AS level mathematics.

In addition, we have invested in and reformed initial teacher training to focus on attracting the very best graduates with the right qualities for teaching into the profession through scholarships and bursaries of up to £25,000 in key subjects such as mathematics, and supporting the expansion of the highly-successful Teach First programme.

Schools: Standards

Gloria De Piero: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of primary and secondary schools have had their Ofsted rating lowered since the last assessment in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the UK. [205146]

Mr Laws: This question is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the hon. Member. A copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.

Teachers: North West

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what changes to the numbers of teachers and teaching assistants there have been in (a) Westmorland and Lonsdale, (b) South Lakeland, (c) Cumbria and (d) the North West (i) since 2010 and (ii) between 2005 and 2010. [204795]

Mr Laws: The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers and teaching assistants in Cumbria and the North West in 2005 to 2010 is published in tables 19 and 26 of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England (including Local Authority level figures) January 2010 (Revised)’. This is published online:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/218925/local_20authority_20tables_20sfr112010.xls

The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in 2010 is published in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2010 (Provisional)’. This is published online:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2010-provisional

The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in 2011 is published in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2011’. This is published online:

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www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2011

The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in 2012 is published in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2012’ This is published online:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2012

The information for November 2013 will be published in late July in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2013’. This will be published online:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2013

District and parliamentary constituency level school workforce numbers are not routinely published. The information requested for Westmorland and Lonsdale and South Lakeland between January 2005 and 2010 and since 2010 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Teachers: Training

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps she is taking to ensure that skilled mathematics and science graduates are attracted to careers in teaching; and if she will make a statement. [205284]

Mr Laws: The Government are committed to supporting schools in recruiting specialist teachers in mathematics and science. Specific support is provided for individuals interested in teaching these subjects through targeted marketing, personal advisors and securing school experience.

To attract graduates to teaching these subjects, we have significantly increased tax-free bursaries for mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing trainee teachers from £9,000 in 2012/13 to up to £20,000 in 2014/15. In addition, we continue to work jointly with the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and BCS, the chartered institute for IT, to offer scholarship awards of £25,000 in order to attract the most talented graduates into initial teacher training.

For the academic year 2014/15, we have extended our salaried School Direct training programme to encourage more experienced graduates to enter teacher training across a range of subjects, including mathematics and science. School Direct (salaried) is an employment-based route for high-quality, experienced graduates who earn a salary whilst training.

We are also continuing to fund subject knowledge enhancement courses, which are an important tool to ensure trainee teachers without a first class degree in the subject they will teach have sufficient specialist subject knowledge.

Energy and Climate Change

Boilers

Simon Hart: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will take steps to encourage the upgrading of (a) oil and (b) liquefied petroleum gas boilers in off-gas grid areas. [204405]

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Mr Davey [holding answer 14 July 2014]: The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) will continue to fund upgrades of oil and LPG condensing boilers along with other energy efficiency measures for low income and vulnerable households.

DECC has also introduced the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) to support renewable heating systems, offering off-gas households a way of choosing affordable heating alternatives. The domestic RHI compensates for the additional costs faced when replacing an oil boiler with a renewable heating system.

Training

Mr Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many away-days his Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event. [205292]

Amber Rudd: DECC does not hold central records of away-days and obtaining this information would incur disproportionate cost.

Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority Committee

ICT

Mr Bradshaw: To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date. [204809]

Mr Charles Walker: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. I have asked IPSA to reply.

Letter from Marcial Boo, July 2014:

As Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking about the loss of IT equipment.

In 2013 and 2014 to date, no mobile telephones, BlackBerrys or laptops were lost by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

International Development

Afghanistan

Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if her Department will review its decision in 2012 to end its involvement in the Bost Agri project; and if she will make an assessment of any lessons to be learned from that decision and its consequences. [204834]

Justine Greening: There are no plans to review the decision to end DFID's involvement in the Bost Agricultural Park project.

The Bost industrial business park proposal was originally approved by officials in 2009 at a time when Ministers did not approve spend under £40 million.

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In 2012 it became clear that the project could no longer be completed within the original timeframe and in good order. To avoid wasting taxpayers' money I decided that UK funding for the project should be cancelled. Ministerial oversight has since been strengthened and all programmes worth over £5 million are signed off by Ministers.

Steve McCabe: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 11 June 2014, Official Report, column 181W, on Afghanistan, on what date in November 2013 her Department completed its move at Bost airfield; and under whose control that airfield now is. [204879]

Justine Greening: DFID's construction work at Bost Airfield was completed in the second half of November 2013.

Bost airfield is operated by Afghanistan ministries and municipal government.

Commonwealth

Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment she has made of which Commonwealth countries are most at risk from rising sea levels. [204923]

Lynne Featherstone: Sea level rise assessments are undertaken at a global and regional level by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The 2014 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) provides the most authoritative recent evidence. It reports with 'high confidence' rises of mean sea-levels of between 0.32m and 0.98m and an increased frequency of storm surges by 2100. AR5 also assesses the impacts of these changes, highlighting the vulnerability of Small Island States and low lying coastal countries, a number of which are Commonwealth countries.

DFID is supporting assessments and programmes in some low income Commonwealth countries to help them prepare for sea-level rise. These include Commonwealth countries such as Samoa, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Tuvalu where over £20 million of UK support is being provided through multilateral funds; and Bangladesh where over £120 million of UK bilateral climate support is being used to help the estimated 78 million people vulnerable to sea-level rise and other impacts of climate change.

Developing Countries: Forests

Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much funding the Government are providing to the World Bank to prevent deforestation; over what period such funding will be provided; and how many hectares of rainforest are being protected from such deforestation. [204921]

Lynne Featherstone: The UK Government are providing £215 million through the World Bank to support a number of interventions that collectively address the drivers of deforestation. These comprise a range of medium to long term initiatives, starting between 2009 and 2013 and due to end between 2020 and 2028.

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A number of the programmes are still being established. However, from projects approved so far, 2.5m hectares of forest have been targeted for protection. Some of the projects will also support the livelihoods of those that depend on forests as well as addressing forest protection.

Developing Countries: Private Finance Initiative

Fiona O'Donnell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what her policy is on advising other countries on the use of private finance initiative-type financing models to low-income countries either directly or through the International Finance Corporation. [204825]

Justine Greening: DFID does not have a policy either directly or indirectly of advising countries on the use of private finance initiative-type financing models.

Iraq

Mr Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent steps her Department has made in providing humanitarian aid to the Kurdistan Regional Government in response to the influx of refugees to that area. [204720]

Justine Greening: We are deeply concerned by the escalating humanitarian crisis in Iraq. The UK was the first country to send a team to the region, deploying three DFID experts to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. DFID announced a package of emergency humanitarian assistance totalling £5 million, which will reach over 140,000 displaced people, or 28% of those affected, with life-saving assistance. We have also offered to provide technical humanitarian assistance to the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Jim Shannon: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what conditions her Department has imposed on the release of development aid for Iraq; and what arrangements she has made for oversight of the distribution of such aid. [204880]

Justine Greening: All UK assistance for Iraq is channelled through organisations that have experience of delivering humanitarian aid in difficult and dangerous places. All partners that receive UK funding must also demonstrate full compliance with humanitarian principles. NGO partners have to be pre-qualified to apply for funding under DFID's Rapid Response Facility, which is the mechanism that we are currently using in Iraq. This process applies a rigorous process of due diligence, where organisations must demonstrate clear and accountable governance structures, with transparent and accountable financial procedures. UN agencies are assured through the Multilateral Aid Review (MAR).

Ministers: Official Cars

Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many journeys Ministers of her Department have made using the Government Car Service; and how many such journeys were for the transportation of a red box. [204941]

Lynne Featherstone: The information cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.

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Cabinet Office

Children: Cancer

Mr Andrew Turner: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the child cancer rate is in each English parliamentary constituency. [205446]

Mr Newmark: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, dated July 2014:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the child cancer rate is in each English parliamentary constituency. [205446]

Table 1 provides the rate of cancers diagnosed per 100,000 children, for each parliamentary constituency in England. Figures are based on cancers diagnosed from 2002 to 2012 (the latest year available) combined, to provide statistically robust rates.

In line with national and international conventions, children have been defined as persons under the age of 15 at diagnosis. This is consistent with the definition used in ONS cancer survival publications, in which estimates are consistently presented for children (aged 0-14 years) and adults (aged 15-99 years) separately.

A copy of Table 1 has been placed in the House of Commons Library.

The latest published figures on cancer incidence in England are available on the National Statistics website at:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-302299

Electronic Government

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what assessment he has made of the number of copycat websites which charge fees for free Government services. [204723]

Mr Maude: I refer the hon. Member to the answer my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (Mr Hurd), gave on 10 July 2014, Official Report, column 361W, to the hon. Member for Barnsley East (Michael Dugher).

Pay

Mr Bradshaw: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many officials in his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received; [204762]

(2) how many officials of each grade in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received. [204767]

Mr Maude: The Deputy Prime Minister’s Office and the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons are integral parts of the Cabinet Office and are included in this reply.

Information about payroll costs and non-consolidated pay awards in the Cabinet Office are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data

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Further information about pay costs is also available in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts and are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts#

Procurement

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how much and what proportion of (a) his Department's budget and (b) the budget of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minster was spent for activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of his Department's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15; [204983]

(2) how much and what proportion of No. 10 Downing street's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of No. 10 Downing Street's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15. [205224]

Mr Maude: My Department outsources with Bouygues, Fujitsu (contracts signed under the previous

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Administration), with the mutual joint venture MyCSP (signed in 2012) and Shared Services Connected Limited (signed in 2013).

As breakdown by year is:

Departmental resource and capital budgets are published online.

Terminal Illnesses

Liz Kendall: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people were dismissed from employment on incapacity grounds following diagnosis of a terminal health condition in each of the last five years. [204904]

Mr Maude: The Cabinet Office has no central record of any dismissals from the Department on incapacity grounds following diagnosis of a terminal health condition in the last five years.