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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of funding provision for the electrification of rail services operating through West Lancashire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of funding provision for the electrification of rail services operating through West Lancashire.
The Hendy Review in 2015 re-planned Network Rail’s enhancement programme and as a result Network Rail is spending around £15bn on enhancements. A key part of this programme is the ongoing assessment of investment decisions so that passengers and taxpayers get maximum value. There are no current electrification schemes in the West Lancashire constituency in this enhancement programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce his decision on the reopening of the Burscough Curves rail service in West Lancashire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce his decision on the reopening of the Burscough Curves rail service in West Lancashire.
In line with our devolution policies it is for local bodies to decide whether to promote this reopening as a solution to local economic and transport objectives and to secure appropriate funding, including from that made available from Government for these purposes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce his decision on funding for the Burscough Curves rail scheme in West Lancashire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce his decision on funding for the Burscough Curves rail scheme in West Lancashire.
No application for funding has been received from relevant local bodies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much grant funding her Department awarded to (a) Lancashire County Council and (b) West Lancashire Borough Council after flooding incidents, by project, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much grant funding her Department awarded to (a) Lancashire County Council and (b) West Lancashire Borough Council after flooding incidents, by project, in each of the last five years.
A total of £76,322.70 was granted to properties and businesses in Lancashire flooded during the 2013/14 floods. None was paid to or distributed by Lancashire County Council or West Lancashire Borough Council. The table sets out which councils in the county did distribute funds and the total value per council.
Council | £ |
Fylde Borough Council | 19,603.20 |
Wyre Borough Council | 10,000.00 |
Lancaster City Council | 17,212.50 |
Blackpool Council | 26,757.00 |
South Ribble Borough Council | 2,750.00 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Lancashire County Council received from the Revenue Support Grant in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Lancashire County Council received from the Revenue Support Grant in each of the last three years.
Local authority financing information is available in the revenue outturn statistics
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department estimates will be spent on flood prevention in Lancashire over the next five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department estimates will be spent on flood prevention in Lancashire over the next five years.
The Government plans to invest £101.05 million to deliver flood and coastal risk management schemes in Lancashire over the next five years.
The table below indicates the Environment Agency’s estimates for planned investments on such schemes in Lancashire for each of the five years. These figures include the Whalley and Billington Surface Water Improvement Scheme.
| Government Flood Defence Grant in Aid (£) | All sources of partnership funding contributions, excluding Local Levy (£) | Total (£) |
2016/17 | 41,461,210 | 425,000 | 41,886,210 |
2017/18 | 33,804,373 | 205,000 | 34,009,373 |
2018/19 | 10,325,608 | 65,000 | 10,390,608 |
2019/20 | 7,129,560 | 50,000 | 7,179,560 |
2020/21 | 8,333,116 | 0 | 8,333,116 |
The Anchorsholme Coast ProtectionScheme is nearing completion and the Rossall Coastal Defence Improvement Scheme, Wyre Dune and Beach Management Scheme, Morecambe Wave Reflection Wall, Fairhaven and Church Scar Coast Protection Scheme have started or will commence construction shortly. The Government will invest around £77 million on these schemes, better protecting 24,700 homes from flooding in Lancashire.
The Environment Agency is currently working with partners in planning a major flood risk management scheme in Preston and South Ribble, which will reduce the risk of flooding from the river Ribble and the sea to at least 2,000 homes. This scheme is expected to start construction in 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in (a) HM Prison Preston, (b) HM Prison Garth, (c) HM Prison Kirkham, (d) HM Prison Wymott and (e) Lancaster Farms were over their tariff on 30 November 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in (a) HM Prison Preston, (b) HM Prison Garth, (c) HM Prison Kirkham, (d) HM Prison Wymott and (e) Lancaster Farms were over their tariff on 30 November 2016.
Figures on the number of prisoners in HM Prison Preston, HM Prison Garth, HM Prison Kirkham, HM Prison Wymott and Lancaster Farms who had served more than their minimum tariff, as at 31 December 2016, are provided in the table below.
Over-tariff prisoners in selected prisons by sentence type, 31 December 2016 | ||
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| IPP | Life |
Preston | 0 | 4 |
Garth | 57 | 34 |
Kirkham | 17 | 19 |
Wymott | 134 | 56 |
Lancaster Farms | 16 | 8 |
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
We are working hard to reduce the backlog of hearings involving IPP prisoners. We have set up a new unit to tackle this issue and are working with the Parole Board to improve the efficiency of the process.
In August 2015, 300,000 households in Lancashire were affected by the loss of drinking water as a result of the cryptosporidium outbreak, yet 18 months on the Drinking Water Inspectorate still refuses to publish the report or to say when it will be published. In fact, the response has been,...
In August 2015, 300,000 households in Lancashire were affected by the loss of drinking water as a result of the cryptosporidium outbreak, yet 18 months on the Drinking Water Inspectorate still refuses to publish the report or to say when it will be published. In fact, the response has been,...
I have to say I am surprised that this report has not yet been published, and I shall draw my hon. Friend’s representations to the attention of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
I have to say I am surprised that this report has not yet been published, and I shall draw my hon. Friend’s representations to the attention of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints were made about discharge packages for (a) nursing and residential homes and (b) patients' homes provided by (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (b) Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (c) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints were made about discharge packages for (a) nursing and residential homes and (b) patients' homes provided by (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (b) Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (c) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation...
The Department does not collect this data separately, it forms part of a larger subject category and the numbers cannot be individually identified. Data relating to nursing, residential and patients’ homes are a local authority responsibility and not collected centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2017 to Question 64958, when she expects the Drinking Water Inspectorate to report its findings into the crytosporidium incident in Lancashire which took place in August 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2017 to Question 64958, when she expects the Drinking Water Inspectorate to report its findings into the crytosporidium incident in Lancashire which took place in August 2015.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) remains very conscious of the level of interest in this investigation, but to avoid risks of prejudice or impediment to the course of justice, the publication of a report must follow the conclusion of this process.
Once published, the report will be made available to those parties who have registered an interest with the DWI.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors from countries in the European Economic Area are working in East Lancashire hospitals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors from countries in the European Economic Area are working in East Lancashire hospitals.
NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. Nationality is self-reported within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record.
The information is shown in the following table.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): HCHS Doctors working in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust by selected nationality group, in NHS Trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, as at 30 November 2016, headcount
Organisation | All nationalities | of which European Economic Area (EEA) (including United Kingdom) | of which EEA (excluding UK) | Unknown |
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | 739 | 567 | 64 | 14 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
The November data is the most recent data available.
EEA nationals include any staff with the following nationalities: Austrian, Belgian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Cypriot, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourg, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Icelandic, Liechtenstein, Norwegian and Swiss and UK staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staffing hours the Drinking Water Inspectorate put into investigating the cryptosporidium incident which took place in Lancashire in August 2015 in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) so far in 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staffing hours the Drinking Water Inspectorate put into investigating the cryptosporidium incident which took place in Lancashire in August 2015 in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) so far in 2017.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate has put the following staffing hours into the investigation of the Cryptosporidium Incident which took place in Lancashire in August 2015.
Year | Staff Hours |
2015 | 1366 |
2016 | 650 |
2017 | 222 |
I beg to move,
That this House has considered local government funding and Lancashire County Council.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Owen. I have called for this debate because I am concerned that Lancashire County Council has trouble in managing its budget. It talks about Government cuts...
I beg to move,
That this House has considered local government funding and Lancashire County Council.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Owen. I have called for this debate because I am concerned that Lancashire County Council has trouble in managing its budget. It talks about Government cuts...
On the hon. Gentleman’s comments about the failure of political leadership in Lancashire County Council, is he aware that the leader of the council, together with the deputy leader of the Conservative group and the leader of the Liberal Democrat group, all recently attended Parliament to meet Labour MPs? All...
On the hon. Gentleman’s comments about the failure of political leadership in Lancashire County Council, is he aware that the leader of the council, together with the deputy leader of the Conservative group and the leader of the Liberal Democrat group, all recently attended Parliament to meet Labour MPs? All...
I know that the leader of the county council also went to see the special advisers in the Department for Communities and Local Government. They told her categorically, if she needs more money or thinks the council will go bankrupt, to go and see the Secretary of State.
The politicisation of...
I know that the leader of the county council also went to see the special advisers in the Department for Communities and Local Government. They told her categorically, if she needs more money or thinks the council will go bankrupt, to go and see the Secretary of State.
The politicisation of...
First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (David Morris) on securing the debate. I will make a few brief points and then await the Minister’s response.
The hon. Gentleman rightly referred to the independent PricewaterhouseCoopers report, which made the point that Lancashire County Council is currently underfunded and...
First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (David Morris) on securing the debate. I will make a few brief points and then await the Minister’s response.
The hon. Gentleman rightly referred to the independent PricewaterhouseCoopers report, which made the point that Lancashire County Council is currently underfunded and...
Yes. I will be 30 seconds.
The hon. Gentleman talked about funding being Preston-centric. He has not accepted invitations to county hall or Westminster to talk about these issues with other MPs from Lancashire. If he looks at the reports from the LEP, he will see that many of those projects...
Yes. I will be 30 seconds.
The hon. Gentleman talked about funding being Preston-centric. He has not accepted invitations to county hall or Westminster to talk about these issues with other MPs from Lancashire. If he looks at the reports from the LEP, he will see that many of those projects...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Owen. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (David Morris) on securing this important debate. He is a doughty champion for Morecambe and Lunesdale, with a record of delivering for his constituency on a whole range...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Owen. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Morecambe and Lunesdale (David Morris) on securing this important debate. He is a doughty champion for Morecambe and Lunesdale, with a record of delivering for his constituency on a whole range...
Indeed. I am simply responding to a point made by the hon. Member for Preston, but I will take your guidance on that, Mr Owen.
Over the previous Parliament, councils showed that they are capable of finding savings and efficiencies, and some have delivered them very well. Many councils that have...
Indeed. I am simply responding to a point made by the hon. Member for Preston, but I will take your guidance on that, Mr Owen.
Over the previous Parliament, councils showed that they are capable of finding savings and efficiencies, and some have delivered them very well. Many councils that have...