The Cold Weather Payment scheme is administered at weather station level rather than any other standard GB geography such as constituency level. The coverage area for each weather station is determined by the Met Office which assesses the most appropriate weather station for each postcode area. Cold weather payments are triggered when the average temperature recorded at the weather station has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, 0^oC or below over seven consecutive days.

The constituency of Peterborough covers all or part of the postcode areas PE1-PE8 and PE13. Postcode areas PE1 to PE8 are covered by Wittering weather station. There have been no cold weather payments paid in this area in the last 12 months (to 27^th February 2015).

PE13 postcodes are covered by Marham weather station. Qualifying individuals living in this area will have received a payment in respect of a seven-day period of cold weather from 17^th-23^rd January 2015. No other payments were triggered in Marham in the last 12 months. Marham weather station covers the postcode areas of CB6-CB7, IP24-IP28, PE12-PE14 and PE30-PE38. We estimate that 23,800 payments were made in this area as a whole in respect of the January 2015 trigger. We are not able to break this figure down to a lower level.

Notes

1. The number of payments made is not necessarily the total number of individuals benefitting from a Cold Weather Payment. Any individuals making a joint claim for one of the qualifying benefits, such as a couple living together, will receive one payment between them rather than one payment each.

2. Individuals in receipt of Pension Credit are usually eligible for Cold Weather Payments. In addition those on Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit may be eligible for Cold Weather Payments if they are in receipt of certain disability benefits, have a disabled child, or a child under the age of five.

3. The number of payments given here is an estimate as information on the exact number of payments made is not readily available. These figures are produced by determining the volume of eligible recipients in each weather station area at the start of the winter season and using these figures throughout the winter to estimate payments and expenditure based on the actual triggers recorded.

Below are the number of individuals starting the Work Choice programme within Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency, in each financial year since the start of the programme on 25^th October 2010 and up to 31^st December 2014:

[1] Cases from WORKSTEP, Workprep and Job Introduction Scheme were transferred over to Work Choice on the go-live date of 25^th October 2010.

Information on Access to Work applications is not available at a Parliamentary Constituency level. Below are the numbers of individuals helped by Access to Work in Peterborough Parliamentary Constituency in each financial year since 2007:

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) previously objected to the French Farm Extension proposal because the development would cause unacceptable interference to the Precision Approach Radar at RAF Wittering.

The applicant submitted a technical proposal to mitigate the unacceptable affects of the proposed development on the ATC radars at RAF Coningsby, RAF Waddington and RAF Wittering. The proposal was accepted by the MOD in 2014.

The MOD informed the Planning Inspectorate of its position on 30 January 2015 and the Planning Inspectorate has confirmed that the MOD will not be requested to attend the Public Inquiry.

The economic status of all housing benefit (HB) recipients is not available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The information requested is only available for HB recipients whose claim is not passported: that is, for those who do not receive either income support, Jobseeker’s Allowance (Income-Based), Employment and Support Allowance (Income-Based), or Pension Credit (Guaranteed Credit).

Detailed statistics on HB, by age, tenancy type, Parliamentary Constituency since January 2011 and for Local Authority since November 2008 can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

Detailed HB statistics prior to November 2008 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014

NHS England is in the process of reviewing Personal Medical Services (PMS) contracts to ensure fair funding for all general practices and its East Anglia Area Team will be carrying out a full review of the Millfield Medical Centre’s PMS contract in early 2015.

The National Asylum Support Service was disbanded in 2006. Asylum support is now managed through regional asylum teams.

Support may be provided under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute until their asylum claim is determined. Section 95 support can be provided as both accommodation and subsistence, or accommodation or subsistence only.

The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of support are available broken down by Local Authority. The following table shows the number of asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support in Peterborough Local Authority as at the end of each quarter since the end of March 2010 to June 2014.

The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of section 95 support, broken down by Local Authority, are published on a quarterly basis by the Home Office in Table as_16_q of the Immigration Statistics release .The copy of the latest publication (Immigration statistics, April to June 2014 ) is available on the Gov.UK website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.

The “NHS Outcomes Framework 2014/15” sets out the Department’s priority areas for the national health service. It includes reducing deaths from respiratory disease as a key indicator and highlights the need to reduce unplanned hospital admissions due to asthma.

The Mandate for NHS England, set by the Government, requires NHS England to improve outcomes, including the prevention of premature deaths from respiratory disease and to support people with long-term conditions.

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) plan, develop and improve local NHS services for their population, taking into account local priorities. We are advised by NHS England that reducing premature mortality from respiratory disease is included in one of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG’s key priorities—reducing coronary heart disease. Activity is concentrated in the more deprived areas of Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough.

The coalition Government has made the tackling of violence against women and girls a high priority. Our approach is set out in our strategy, ‘Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls’ published in November 2010, together with a supporting Action Plan. A revised version of the Action Plan was published in March 2014 and contains 150 actions across Government departments.

For the first time, this Government has put stable funding in place, ring-fencing nearly £40 million for specialist local domestic and sexual violence support services, rape crisis centres, and national helplines. This includes £20,000 funding provided by the Home Office for the provision of an Independent Domestic Violence Adviser at Peterborough City Council, and £10,000 to the Cambridgeshire Sexual Assault Referral Centre, and £30,000 per financial year 2011-2014, increased to £45,000 for 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, provided by the Ministry of Justice to Peterborough Rape Crisis.

This Government is committed to driving improvements in the police response to victims of domestic violence. That is why, last September, the Home Secretary commissioned Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to conduct an all force review of domestic violence. HMIC published its findings on 27 March 2014 and highlighted serious failings in the police response. In response to the review, the Home Secretary is leading a series of measures to improve the police response. This includes establishing a new National Oversight Group, which she chairs and on which I sit. The Home Secretary has also written to all chief constables making it clear that the police must make significant improvements and that every police force, including Cambridgeshire Police, must have an action plan in place by September 2014 to address HMIC’s findings.

I will place a copy in the Library of the House.

Peterborough hospital is not a level 1 trauma hospital and thus can no longer offer Defence Medical Services personnel the required level of training.

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

Letter from Glen Watson dated June 2014:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly gross earnings of (a) men, (b) women and (c) people in full time employment in Peterborough was (i) in cash terms and (ii) at constant prices in each year since 2006-07 (200316).

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Weekly levels of earnings are estimated from ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose earnings for the survey pay period were not affected by absence. Figures relate to employee jobs, which are defined as those held by employees and not the self-employed.

I attach a table showing median gross weekly earnings for men, women and full-time employees in Peterborough between April 2006 and April 2013, in current and constant (2013) prices.

A table showing the number of pupils in Peterborough constituency that achieved a level 1 or a level 2 in English (key stage 4) since 2005/06 has been placed in the House Library.

Information on pupils for 2004/05 is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

This information is not available.

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

Letter from Glen Watson, dated June 2014:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many businesses there were in Peterborough in each year since 2001. [200263]

Annual statistics on the number of businesses (enterprises) are available from the ONS release—UK Business: Activity, Size and Location at:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/bus-register/uk-business/index.html

Data on the number of enterprises broken down by districts, counties and unitary authorities can be found in table B1.1 of the publication.

The table below has been produced using extracts from the Inter Departmental Business Register. (IDBR) It shows the number of enterprises in Peterborough local authority area from 2001 to 2013. Data for 2014 will be available at the end of October 2014. The figures in the table have been rounded to protect confidentiality. Please note that these numbers do not include very small businesses, typically those below the threshold for VAT and PAYE.