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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the starting salary of a full-time equivalent NHS nurse in York was in (a) cash and (b) real terms in 1996-97 and in each year since.

Dr Daniel Poulter

Since the introduction of Agenda for Change in October 2004, nurses who are newly qualified start at Agenda for Change Band 5. Prior to Agenda for Change they started at Whitley Grade D. National salary scales apply for NHS nurses in York. The starting salary for a full-time equivalent NHS nurse in cash and real terms is shown in the following table.

Year	Cash Terms Starting Salary (£) (Full Time) (National Scale)	Real Terms Starting Salary (£) (Full Time) (National Scale)
1996-97	11,895	17,254
1997-98	12,385	17,646
1998-99	12,855	17,972
1999-00	14,400	19,744
2000-01	14,890	20,271
2001-02	15,445	20,470
2002-03	16,005	20,730
2003-04	16,525	20,997
2004-05	18,114	22,397
2005-06	18,698	22,705
2006-07	19,166	22,623
2007-08	19,683	22,663
2008-09	20,225	22,648
2009-10	20,710	22,572
2010-11	21,176	22,492
2011-12	21,176	21,981
2012-13	21,176	21,600
2013-14	21,388	21,388
2014-15	21,478

Notes:

1. Starting pay for a newly qualified nurse is normally the minimum of the scale applicable to basic grade qualified nurses as follows:

1996-97 to 2003-04: Whitley D Grade

2004-05 o 2013-14: Agenda for Change Band 5

2. Starting pay is taken from national pay scales.

3. Figures given include any staged increases in the year in question.

4. The starting pay given for 2004-05 is the minimum of the Agenda for Change Band 5 scale at the effective date of implementation of Agenda for Change on 1 October 2004.

5. The 2014-15 starting salary change is due to an adjustment to ensure all staff on Spine Point 15 eligible for incremental progression received at least 1% when progressing to Spine Point 16, which is also the current starting Spine Point for a newly qualified nurse.

6. The cash terms data has been converted into real terms using the latest official Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflator series taken from the HM Treasury website on 30 June 2014 and last updated on 20 December 2013.

7. It is not possible to convert the 2014-15 cash starting salary to real terms because of the way the GDP deflator series operates.

8. To be as up to date as possible, the real terms data is presented in 2013-14 prices. This involves using the HM Treasury forecast GDP deflator value for 2013-14.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in Yorkshire were in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty in 1997-98 and in each year since.

Esther McVey

Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. This information is captured using the Family Resources Survey (FRS). The latest publication is available at the link below: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201213

Due to small sample sizes local poverty estimates for Yorkshire are not available as robust estimates cannot be produced. However, HBAI does provide 3-year average estimates of the number of children in relative and absolute low income in Yorkshire and the Humber.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in state education in (a) York local authority area and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber region achieved (i) Level 2 or above in key stage 1 SATS, (ii) Level 4 or above in key stage 2 English and mathematics tests and (iii) five or more GCSE grades A*-C in 1997-98 and in each year since.

Mr David Laws

Information on the performance of children in York local authority and the Yorkshire and Humber region is published in the key stage 1[1], key stage 2[2] and GCSE and equivalent[3] statistical first releases for each year. This information is held across a number of spreadsheets which can be downloaded from gov.uk[4] and the National Archives[5].

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phonics-screening-check-and-national-curriculum-assessments-at-key-stage-1-in-england-2013

[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-assessments-at-key-stage-2-2012-to-2013

[3]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2012-to-2013-revised

[4]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications

[5]http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients had been waiting for (a) over six months and (b) three months for in-patient admission at York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in March 1997 and in each year since.

Jane Ellison

Information is not available in the format requested. Information on the number of patients waiting over six months and three months for in-patient admission at what is now York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from March 1997 to March 2010 is shown in the attached table.

Since 2007, waiting times on a referral to treatment (RTT) basis have been published. Information on the number of patients who waited over six months and over three months on an admitted RTT pathway at York Teaching Hospital NHS FT between March 2008 and March 2012 is shown in the attached table.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) England received free school meals in 1995-96 and in each year since.

Mr David Laws

Information on the number and percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in York local authority, North Yorkshire local authority, Yorkshire and the Humber region and England for 2002 to 2014 has been placed in the Library of the House.

Comparable data for earlier years are not available.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the mean and median waiting time was for treatment at accident and emergency in York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2007-08 and in each year since.

Jane Ellison

The attached table shows the mean and median waiting times for assessment, treatment, and departure at accident and emergency departments at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places were available in City of York constituency in 1995-96 and in each year since.

Elizabeth Truss

I have asked Ofsted to respond using the data they hold on registered nursery places. The Ofsted Director for the Early Years, and North-East, Yorkshire and the Humber, Nick Hudson, will write to the Hon. Gentleman, and a copy of his response will be placed in the House Libraries. Some providers such as schools with nursery provision for children aged three or over are exempt from registration. The number of places therefore may not include the full range of early years provision available in the area.

The Department for Education’s Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey[1] collects data on all registered childcare places, including those in maintained schools and nurseries. These figures are therefore more comprehensive than the Ofsted figures; however data is only available at a national and regional level, and in this case only for the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside combined.

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2011

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average gross earnings of a full-time equivalent NHS nurse were in (a) cash and (b) real terms in (i) England and (ii) York in 1996-97 and in each year since.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The primary source of National Health Service earnings data is published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Data on average basic pay per full-time equivalent is taken from this publication. This is based on Electronic Staff Record data which is only available from 2008-09 onwards so the data series cannot be extended into early years. Data relating to York relates to the former North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust and York Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. For reference a comparison of basic pay per headcount, which has not specifically been requested, is provided.

England

Year	Average Total Earnings Cash £ (Headcount) (England Average)	Average Total Earnings Real Terms £ (Headcount) (England Average)
2008-09	28,384	31,784
2009-10	29,412	32,056
2010-11	30,174	32,050
2011-12	30,439	31,596
2012-13	30,657	31,270
2013-14	30,917	30,917

York

Year	Average Total Earnings Cash £ (Headcount) (York Average)	Average Total Earnings Real Terms £ (Headcount) (York Average)
2008-09	27,988	31,341
2009-10	29,000	31,607
2010-11	30,194	32,071
2011-12	30,743	31,912
2012-13	31,787	32,423
2013-14	30,123	30,123

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the pupil-teacher ratio was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in York Unitary Authority area in 2008-09 and in each year since.

Mr David Laws

The following table provides the pupil to teacher ratios (PTR) in publicly-funded primary and secondary schools in York local authority, in each January, 2008 to 2010 and November 2010 to 2012, which is the latest information available. 2013 figures will be available in late July 2014.

Figures for November 2010 and later are not comparable to those in January 2010 and earlier due to the change in the data collection to the School Workforce Census .

	York
	Primary PTR[1]	Secondary PTR1
January
2008	21.4	15.7
2009	21.6	15.7
2010	21.8	15.3
November
2010[2]	24.6	16.0
2011[3]	23.7	15.5
2012	22.8	15.0

Source: School Workforce Census and School Census

[1] Up to January 2010 PTRs are calculated by dividing the total full time equivalent (FTE) number of sole registered pupils on roll in schools by the total FTE number of qualified teachers regularly employed in schools. From November 2010 figures are calculated using the FTE number of sole and dual registered pupils on roll.

[2] In the November 2010 the source of the teacher numbers upon which the PTR is calculated was changed to the School Workforce Census. The completeness of the November 2010 teacher numbers for York local authority is in question as teacher numbers fell compared with the previous January 2010 figure based on the School Census and this is reflected in the higher PTR figures for the year. Subsequent teacher numbers reported by the authority in 2012 have seen the numbers return to previous levels.

[3] Excludes one secondary school in York which did not provide a return for inclusion in these figures.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions there were for alcohol-related illnesses in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust area and (c) England in 2008-09 and in each year since.

Jane Ellison

The following tables contain the sum of the estimated alcohol attributable fractions (AAFs) for admissions for patients in (a) York (b) North Yorkshire and York primary care trust (PCT) area and (c) England over for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13.

It should be noted that these figures are not a count of people and represent an estimated number of admissions that were attributable to alcohol.

AAFs are based on the proportion of a given diagnosis or injury that is estimated to be attributed to alcohol. Some diagnoses or injuries will, by definition, be wholly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF of one, others will only be partly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF greater than zero, but less than one. Diagnoses or injuries that are not attributable at all to alcohol will have an AAF of zero.

These figures are derived by summing all AAFs for the relevant admissions and should therefore only be interpreted as an estimate of the number of admissions that can be attributed to alcohol.

In addition, partially AAFs are not applicable to children aged under 16 years, therefore figures for this age group relate only to wholly – attributable admissions.

The NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care – Statistics on Alcohol: England, 2014 report manually implemented new methodology against the 2012-13 data in their report. However, no change to the underlying Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data has been currently made.

Sum of partially and wholly alcohol attributable fractions¹ for finished admission episodes (FAEs)² for patients for York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, North Yorkshire and York PCT of treatment and England for 2008-09 to 2012-13³

York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust	Sum of wholly alcohol Attributable fractions (FAEs)1	Sum of partially alcohol Attributable fractions (FAEs)1	Total
2008-09	1,185	3,775.21	4,960.21
2009-10	1,259	3,673.31	4,932.31
2010-11	1,268	4,065.70	5,333.70
2011-12	1,225	3,952.58	5,177.58
2012-13	2,217	7,936.95	10,153.95

North Yorkshire and York PCT	Sum of wholly alcohol Attributable fractions (FAEs)1	Sum of partially alcohol Attributable fractions (FAEs)1	Total
2008-09	2,669	7,480.90	10,149.90
2009-10	3,029	9,246.72	12,275.72
2010-11	3,124	10,340.52	13,464.52
2011-12	3,097	10,846.87	13,943.87
2012-13	2,930	11,465.32	14,395.32

England	Sum of wholly alcohol Attributable fractions (FAEs)1	Sum of partially alcohol Attributable fractions (FAEs)1	Total
2008-09	237,820	707,649.50	945,469.50
2009-10	265,246	791,716.34	1,056,962.34
2010-11	287,198	881,067.56	1,168,265.56
2011-12	304,206	916,087.40	1,220,293.40
2012-13	294,786	937,677.63	1,232,463.63

Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.

Notes:

¹Alcohol –related admissions

The number of alcohol-related admissions is based on the methodology developed by the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO), which uses 48 indicators for alcohol-related illnesses, determining the proportion of a wide range of diseases and injuries that can be partly attributed to alcohol as well as those that are, by definition, wholly attributable to alcohol. Further information on these proportions can be found at:

www.nwph.net/nwpho/publications/AlcoholAttributableFractions.pdf

The AAF is set to 1 (100%) where the admission is considered to be entirely due to alcohol, e.g. in the case of alcoholic liver disease – these records are described as wholly alcohol attributable. The AAF is set to a value greater than 0 but less than 1 according to the NWPHO definition, e.g. the alcohol fraction of an admission with a primary diagnosis of C00 – malignant neoplasm of lip, where the patient is male and between 65 and 74 is 0.44 – these records are described as partly alcohol attributable.

These wholly and partly AAFs can be aggregated to supply an estimate of activity which can be considered wholly or partly attributable to alcohol.

Partly AAFs are not applicable to children under 16. Therefore figures for this age group relate only to wholly-attributable admissions, where the attributable fraction is one.

²Finished admissions episodes

A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

³Assessing growth through time (Admitted patient care)

HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care