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Derby

Introduction

Derby is located on the banks of the River Derwent and is surrounded by the shire county of Derbyshire. It was given city status in 1977.The two biggest employers in Derby are Rolls-Royce plc and the Toyota Motor Corporation. Egg, the Internet and telephone bank, also has its national base in the city.

The development of the new Westfield Centre is part of £2bn master plan for Derby, which will regenerate key areas of the city centre and reinvigorate Derby to ensure that it is meeting its potential.  Westfield has made a £340m investment that has created 3,000 new jobs and provided a million square feet of retail and leisure space. This has kick started the £2bn master plan very positively, leading other investors to express an interest in the city and, since the Westfield investment; a further £340m has already been committed across the city centre. Added to the £360m scheme at Derby’s City Hospital, Derby has already hit the first billon towards achieving its vision.

 

Derby City is a local authority in the ‘excellent’ category, and crime and mortality levels are lower than the national average for cities. It has areas of affluence as well as significant deprivation.

 

Derby is a highly accessible city with the M1 motorway only a few miles from the city centre. It also has good links to East Midlands Airport just 15 miles away. It also lies on the Midland Mainline railway line to London St Pancras.

 

Recent Visits

  • 12 March 2009 - Kitty Ussher, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Work and Pensions attended the Derbyshire Unemployed Workers Centre Seminar and visited a Childrens's Centre
  • 6 March 2009 - Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and FAmilies attended a school visit and meet with front line social workers and reception service staff
  • 3 March 2009 - Mike O'Brian QC MP, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change gave a speech to the Nuclear Industries Association "Supply Chain Programme" event held at the Rolls Royce Learning Centre

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Derby City Council

MPs

Address:  The Council House, Corporation Street, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 2FS

Telephone: 01332 293111

 

Website: www.derby.gov.uk

 

Chief Executive: Ray Cowlishaw

 

Leader of the Council: Hilary Jones (Liberal Democrat)

 

Regional Minister for the East Midlands: Phil Hope MP

 

Council - Political Control: No overall control

Bob Laxton – Derby North (Labour)

 

Margaret Beckett – Derby South (Labour)

 

Mark Todd – South Derbyshire (Labour)

 

Demographics for Derby

Mid-2007 Population Estimates

 

 

Population

All ages

2007

(Thousands)

Percentage of

Children 0-15

2007

Percentage of

Working Age

16-64 Males / 60 Females

2007

Percentage of

Older People

65 Males / 60 Females and over 2007

Live births

(Thousands)

2007

Deaths

(Thousands)

2006

Derby

237.9

19.6

62.2

18.2

3.3

2.3

East Midlands

4,399.6

18.6

62.1

19.4

52.5

41.8

England

51,092.0

18.9

62.2

18.9

655.4

474.5


Figures updated annually. Last update February 2009. Source: Office for National Statistics.

Children and Learners

 

• Derby has been allocated £28.29m over the period 2008-20011 to support the development of children's centres, early years and childcare provision

• Derby has been allocated a combined total of £1.38m revenue and capital funding between April 2008 and March 2011 to transform services for the provision of short breaks for families with disabled children

• Derby has been allocated £148.9m of capital funding during the period 1997/98 to 2007/08 and has been allocated a further £46.4m for 2008/09 to 2010/11

• between 1997/8 and 2007/08, 4 additional schools and 7 existing schools were newly built in Derby. One school had at least 50% of their buildings refurbished during the same period

 

Health and Well Being

• a new £333m PFI-funded hospital is due for completion in 2008 and is to open to the public in early 2009. The first phase of relocation has been completed in line with planned expectations
• the Village Community Medical Centre, a £4.1m project opened in February 2007. It provides new purpose built accommodation for a full range of primary care services, including a seven-doctor GP practice

• a purpose built walk in centre, close to Derby city centre opened in July 2007. It is also be a base for other services such as

Social Services and Out of Hours services

 

Crime

• Derby will receive funding from the Youth Taskforce for an intensive package of measures aimed at young people involved in crime and disorder and their families, including the expansion of the city's Family intervention Project

• £150,000 was awarded to Derby for 2005-06 and 2006-07, to supplement the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) main grant, to support the implementation of the comprehensive rent deposit model and the development and maintenance of a comprehensive rent deposit scheme

• Derby has been awarded £135,800 from the the Home Office National Partnership Performance Improvement Fund in 2008 for the development of a Family Justice Centre. The Centre has has co-located the Community Safety Partnership;s Domestic and Sexual Violence Team with the Police's Specialist Domestic Violence Unit and a range of agencies in order to improve service delivery

• £65,000 has been allocated to Derby for 2008/09 and a further £700,000 for the following two year period in order to support delivery of the Youth Crime Action Plan as a Youth Crime Priority Area
 

Transport

 

• Derby City was awarded a total of £5.538m in the Local Transport Settlement for 2008/09 which includes allocations for the integrated transport block and maintenance

• over £6.1m was awarded to the Derby Joint Second Local Transport Plan (LTP) area in the 2008-09 settlement (announced November 2007) for small (sub-£5m) integrated transport and maintenance schemes. Both the second LTP (covering 2006-11) and the five-year Delivery Report (2001-06) were assessed as ‘excellent’ in 2006
 
a bid for LTP funding of some £26.7m for the completion of phases two and three of the Connecting Derby City Centre Major Public Transport Scheme, including completion of the inner orbital road network, new transport links to parts of the city centre and anti-congestion measures, has been agreed by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the scheme was given full approval in October 2008

• in addition to the £10.9m DfT funding previously provided for the Derby Inner Ring Road Maintenance Scheme, £800,000 was granted by DfT to enable the replacement of an unsafe city centre footbridge with a new joint pedestrian and cycle bridge

• the Three Cities/Counties Transport Innovation Fund project, modelling and testing alternative road pricing schemes to tackle congestion in the sub-region, reported in April 2008. The authorities announced in May that, although they had decided not to submit a bid to DfT for further funding to implement a road pricing scheme, they would continue to work together to develop proposals to tackle congestion

• Derby is one of 17 Cycle Demonstration Towns and a Cycling Demonstration City, each pioneering innovative ways to increase cycling in their areas, supported by DfT funding via Cycle England

 

Social Inclusion and Regeneration

• Communities and Local Government confirmed Derby as part of the Three Cities new Growth Point (along with Nottingham and Leicester) in October 2006, establishing a long term partnership for growth. £3.6m was secured for 2007-08 to upgrade the public realm of the Cathedral Green area, including a new bridge over the River Derwent. The Three Cities Growth Point has been awarded an additional £24.2m over 2008-11 to support the growth outlined in their Program of Development

 

European Funding

• Derbyshire Learning and Skills Council was awarded £1.9m of Objective 3 European Social Fund (ESF) for 2002, just undr £10m for 2003-05 and a further £16.5m for 2004-06
• Jobcentre Plus was awarded £10.3m was allocated from the Objective 3 ESF for 2003-05, and a further £10.5m for 2004-06 to support projects across the region
• the Derby City Partnership has been allocated £9.7m of European Regional Development Fund, £1.1m ESF Objective 2 and £7.6m URBAN II funding, for projects in the Derby area


Derby

Labour market

Employment

Jan 2008/Mar 08

Jan 2009/Mar 09

% Change

Claimant Unemployment

May 2008

May 2009

% Change

Derby

106,389

106,580

+0.2

Derby

4,183

7,512

+79.6

East Midlands

2,071,618

2,051,977

-0.9

East Midlands

56,067

112,183

+100.1

England

23,652,971

23,398,015

-1.1

England

693,870

1,311,683

+89.0

Youth Unemployment

May 2008

May 2009

% Change

Long-term Unemployment

May 2008

May 2009

% Change

Derby

185

385

+108.1

Derby

380

515

+35.5

East Midlands

2,770

5,850

+111.2

East Midlands

6,295

8,530

+35.5

England

33,470

65,290

+95.1

England

87,690

107,155

+22.2

Education

Average Funding Per Pupil

 2004/ 05(£)

 2005/ 06(£)

% Change

Number of Teachers

Jan 2007

Jan 2008

% Change

Derby

4,210

4,390

+4.3

Derby

2,150

2,110

-1.9

East Midlands

4,010

4,220

+5.2

East Midlands

37,000

36,700

-0.8

England

4,270

4,480

+4.9

England

435,200

434,900

-0.1

% of 11yr olds achieving required standard in English

Sep 2006/Aug 07(%)

Sep 2007/Aug 08(%)

Change

% of 11yr olds achieving required standard in Maths

Sep 2006/Aug 07

Sep 2007/Aug 08

% Change

Derby

75

78

+4.0

Derby

72

76

+5.6

East Midlands

80

81

+1.3

East Midlands

77

79

+2.6

England

80

81

+1.3

England

77

79

+2.6

% of 15yr olds achieving 5 or more GCSEs A-C (or equivalent)

Sep 2006/Aug 07(%)

Sep 2007/Aug 08(%)

Change

 

 

 

 

Derby

55

64

+16.7

 

 

 

 

East Midlands

58

63

+8.7

 

 

 

 

England

61

65

+6.6

 

 

 

 

Crime

Recorded Crime for Six Key Offences

Apr 2006/Mar 07

Apr 2007/Mar 08

% Change

Robbery

Apr 2006/Mar 07

Apr 2007/Mar 08

% Change

Derby

10,333

9,717

-6.0

Derby

566

519

-8.3

Derbyshire

32,430

30,815

-5.0

Derbyshire

870

796

-8.5

East Midlands

171,903

158,759

-7.6

East Midlands

5,785

4,949

-14.5

Domestic Burglary

Apr 2006/Mar 07

Apr 2007/Mar 08

% Change

Theft of and from a Motor Vehicle

Apr 2006/Mar 07

Apr 2007/Mar 08

% Change

Derby

1,439

1,183

-17.8

Derby

3,170

2,517

-20.6

Derbyshire

4,417

3,764

-14.8

Derbyshire

10,015

8,459

-15.5

East Midlands

26,810

24,313

-9.3

East Midlands

55,614

49,271

-11.4

Police Officers

Sep 2007

Sep 2008

% Change

Community Support Officers

Sep 2007

Sep 2008

% Change

Derbyshire

2,079

2,118

+1.9

Derbyshire

158

186

+18.0

East Midlands

9,275

9,308

+0.4

East Midlands

934

988

+5.9

England

N/A

N/A

N/A

England

14,703

15,062

+2.4

Health

No. Waiting for Inpatients Treatment

Apr 2008

Apr 2009

% Change

GPs

Sep 2006

Sep 2008

% Change

Derby

2,662

2,999

+12.7

Derby

171

176

+2.9

Nurses

Sep 2006

Sep 2008

% Change

 

 

 

 

East Midlands SHA

23,365

23,495

+0.6

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Office for National Statistics. Last updated 23 June 2009.


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