Laurence Turner MP: written questions 2024

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Written questions

Construction: BillingDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 270More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled Retention payments in the construction industry, published on 24 October 2017, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introduc
Answer: Small businesses are essential to our economic success.This Government is committed to take action on late payments to ensure small businesses and the self-employed are paid on time. The practice of cash retentions can create problems for contractors in t...
Answered 23 Jul 2024
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Pay and PensionsTreasuryTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 268More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed alignment of the Retail Prices Index methodology with the Consumer Prices Index, including owner occupier housing costs from February 2030 on (a
Answer: The alignment of the methods and data sources of the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs into the Retail Price Index (RPI) reflects the flaws in RPI which can either overstate or understates price changes. The Bank of England wi...
Answered 24 Jul 2024
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Cammell Laird: StrikesMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 267More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking a review of the jailing of the Cammell Laird workers who took strike action in 1984.
Answer: I can confirm that my department will consider and explore options for carrying out a review into these events. If the member wishes to write with more information I will provide him with a further update once this matter has been considered.
Answered 26 Jul 2024
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Roads: BirminghamDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 266More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the independent report entitled Birmingham City Council: Statutory intervention update letter from Commissioners of 9 January 2024, published on 22 February 2024, whether her Department respon
Answer: Department for Transport officials sent a letter to Birmingham City Council’s chief executive to acknowledge receipt of the letter in question and to offer a meeting to discuss the PFI contract. The letter from DfT officials will be deposited in the Hous...
Answered 26 Jul 2024
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Special Educational Needs: Birmingham City CouncilDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she expects a third independent report into Birmingham City Council’s SEND service to be published in 2024.
Answer: The department aims to publish the report within the coming months, in line with existing practice.
Answered 25 Jul 2024
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Free Schools: BirminghamDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s transparency data, entitled Local authority applications to open a special free school: waves 3 and 4, updated on 16 May 2024, what the expected opening date is of the Frankle
Answer: The school, which is planned to be a 400 place, co-educational school for pupils aged 4 to 19 with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, was approved into the pre-opening stage in March 2024. Departmental officials are working closely with the local authority and ...
Answered 25 Jul 2024
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Special Educational Needs: BirminghamDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children who were not in school there were in Birmingham who (a) held an Education, Health and Care Plan and (b) had previously been identified in the SEN Support category by their school in each of th
Answer: The department publishes statistics on education, health and care (EHC) plans at local authority level. This data can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans. This includes informa...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Non-teaching StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of trends in (a) recruitment and (b) retention of school support staff in (i) Birmingham and (ii) England in the last five years.
Answer: The full-time equivalent (FTE) of support staff has increased each year since the 2019/20 academic year, to 510,400 in 2023/24, and has now passed the previous peak of 2015/16. This is an increase of 4,800 (0.9%) since last year. This increase is mainly d...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Birmingham City Council: InsolvencyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the value of the equal pay liability at Birmingham City Council.
Answer: In line with the practice of successive administrations, detailed minutes of ministerial meetings - even those that are declared publicly - are not normally disclosed.The first formal report from Birmingham City Council Commissioners, which was submitted ...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Birmingham City Council: InsolvencyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the notice issued by Birmingham City Council on 05 September 2023 under Section 114(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, on what date (a) Ministers and
Answer: In line with the practice of successive administrations, detailed minutes of ministerial meetings - even those that are declared publicly - are not normally disclosed.The first formal report from Birmingham City Council Commissioners, which was submitted ...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Speech and Language Therapy: West MidlandsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many speech and language therapists there were in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands in each of the last five years.
Answer: The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent speech and language therapists working in National Health Service trusts and other core organisations, in the Birmingham and Solihull integrated care system and the West Midlands as a whole, in Marc...
Answered 24 Jul 2024
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General Practitioners: Birmingham NorthfieldDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of open GP practices (a) on the most recent date for which figures are held and (b) in 2010 in Birmingham Northfield constituency.
Answer: Data provided by NHS England Digital shows that in May 2014, the earliest year from which data is available, there were 18 open general practices (GPs) in the Birmingham Northfield constituency, and as of May 2024 there are 15 open GPs in the constituency...
Answered 23 Jul 2024
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