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MONDAY 20 OCTOBER
Questions for Oral Answer Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions *1
| Andrew George (St Ives): When his Department will announce the result of the competition for the contract to provide the Post Office Card Account. | | (227672) | *2
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): What assessment he has made of trends in the proportion of the labour force comprised of UK nationals. | | (227673) | *3
| Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): If he will commission research on the effect on benefit payments of provision to patients with rheumatoid arthritis of treatment that enables them to continue in or return to work. | | (227674) | *4
| Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): What assessment he has made of recent trends in levels of unemployment in the UK. | | (227675) | *5
| Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): What assessment he has made of the future trends in the level of unemployment in the UK. | | (227676) | *6
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): How many people with HIV have had their (a) disability living allowance and (b) incapacity benefit reduced or withdrawn in the last 12 months. | | (227677) | *7
| Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): What recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of meeting the Government's 2010 child poverty target. | | (227678) | *8
| Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): When he plans to make an announcement on the outcome of the bidding process to operate the Post Office Card Account. | | (227679) | *9
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle): When he expects to announce the successful bidder for the contract to provide the Post Office Card Account. | | (227680) | *10
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): What steps he is taking to co-ordinate the work of local job centres, the Social Fund and Jobcentre Plus to deal promptly with distress cases. | | (227681) | *11
| Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): What recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of meeting the Government's 2010 child poverty target. | | (227682) | *12
| Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): What forecasts he has made of future trends in unemployment in the UK. | | (227683) | *13
| Willie Rennie (Dunfermline and West Fife): What assessment he has made of the effect on recipients of pension credit of the reduction of the backdating period for the credit. | | (227684) | *14
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): What his policy is on the use of Departmental funds to sponsor television programmes; and if he will make a statement. | | (227685) | *15
| Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the transfer of Child Support Agency cases to the 2003 maintenance scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (227686) | *16
| Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): What his policy is on the modernisation of Remploy; and if he will make a statement. | | (227687) | *17
| Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East): What progress the Health and Safety Executive has made in the updating of its leaflet INDG209 on the use of ultraviolet tanning equipment. | | (227688) | *18
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): What steps he is taking to assist the long-term workless to enter employment. | | (227689) | *19
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): What his Department's policy is on the modernisation of Remploy; and if he will make a statement. | | (227690) | *20
| Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): When his Department expects to announce the successful bidder for the contract to provide the Post Office Card Account. | | (227691) | *21
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): What steps he is taking to increase take-up of pension credit. | | (227692) | *22
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): What estimate he has made of (a) the number of people who will be affected by and (b) the financial effects of reducing the backdating period for pension credit, housing benefit and council tax benefit. | | (227693) | *23
| Mr Andrew Mackay (Bracknell): What assessment he has made of future trends in the level of unemployment in the UK. | | (227694) | *24
| Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): When he plans to award the contract for the delivery of work and pensions benefits. | | (227695) | *25
| Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): If he will bring forward proposals to extend the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to include the time that support workers are obliged to spend sleeping at their place of work; and if he will make a statement. | | (227696) | At 3.15 p.m. Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question. *1
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. | | (227697) | *2
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): | | (227698) | *3
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): | | (227699) | *4
| Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): | | (227700) | *5
| Bob Russell (Colchester): | | (227701) | *6
| Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): | | (227702) | *7
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): | | (227703) | *8
| Paul Flynn (Newport West): | | (227704) | *9
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute): | | (227705) | *10
| Lorely Burt (Solihull): | | (227706) |
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Monday 6 October 1
N | James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of those registered for tax credits were receiving payments in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (225753) |
Notices given on Wednesday 8 October 1
N | Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many private finance initiative projects have not met their contractual obligations; for how many projects contracts have been re-registered; and how many projects have reverted to public ownership. | | (226335) |
Notices given on Monday 13 October 1
N | Sir Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will arrange for the Hydrographic Office to issue tide times for 2009. | | (227632) | 2
N | Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what targets the Commercial Director of his Department must achieve to qualify for bonus payment; and what bonus levels are in place. | | (227459) | 3
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sites her Department has identified as suitable for alternative to detention programmes for asylum seeking families; and when she expects those sites to become operational. | | (227551) | 4
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her Department's evaluation of the alternatives to detention scheme at Millbank, Ashford, Kent. | | (227552) | 5
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis is for statements by Ministers in her Department that somebody is removed from the United Kingdom every eight minutes. | | (227553) | 6
N | Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department expects the capacity of the immigration detention estate to be in (a) October 2009, (b) October 2010, (c) October 2011 and (d) October 2012. | | (227554) | 7
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent steps the Government has taken to increase the use of innovation in small business. | | (227369) | 8
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent steps the Government has taken to assist small businesses with improving the skills of their workforces. | | (227370) | 9
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what recent steps the Government has taken to assist small businesses in undertaking research. | | (227371) | 10
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps the Government has taken to encourage people to pay into pension schemes. | | (227372) | 11
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps the Government has taken to encourage employers to provide pensions for their staff. | | (227373) |
Notices given on Tuesday 14 October 1
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to support small businesses. | | (228038) | 2
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many TC647 forms have been produced since their introduction; and how many unused forms have been (a) discarded and (b) recycled since their introduction. | | (227947) | 3
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether tax credits claimants are entitled to receive form TC647 upon request. | | (227948) | 4
N | Danny Alexander (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what measures his Department has taken to ensure that staff working in tax credit helpline call centres are properly trained about claimants' entitlement to be sent TC647 forms. | | (227949) | 5
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to protect the assets of British citizens living in the Isle of Mann whose savings were deposited with Laupthing, Singer and Friedlander Ltd. | | (228039) | 6
N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government will guarantee the investments of individual savers in Icelandic banks if they are held in the subsidiary accounts of British banks based in (a) Guernsey and (b) the Isle of Mann; and if he will make a statement. | | (228040) | 7
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what correspondence Treasury (a) Ministers and (b) officials have had with banks and their representatives on the provision of affordable credit in each year since 1997; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each item of correspondence. | | (227880) | 8
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings Treasury (a) Ministers and (b) officials have had with banks and their representatives to discuss the provision of affordable credit in each year since 1997; in each case which banks were represented; and what the date and location of each meeting was. | | (227881) | 9
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people in West Chelmsford parliamentary constituency have (a) applied for a grant for energy efficient measures under the Warm Front scheme and (b) been awarded a grant for energy efficient measures under the scheme. | | (228034) | 10
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much has been spent on grants under the Warm Front scheme in West Chelmsford parliamentary constituency since its introduction. | | (228035) | 11
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pharmaceutical licences have been awarded under Section 13 of the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 in (a) West Chelmsford parliamentary constituency, (b) Chelmsford local authority area and (c) England. | | (228033) | 12
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effects of the reclassifying of cannabis on the number of offenders receiving a custodial sentence each year. | | (227806) | 13
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many detainees have escaped from the Oakington Immigration Centre in Cambridgeshire in the last five years; how many have since been recaptured; how many are still missing as whereabouts unknown; how many of these were illegal immigrants and suspected illegal immigrants; and if she will make a statement. | | (227808) | 14
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure that police officers armed with stun guns only use the same in exceptional circumstances and then only after approval from a senior officer has been obtained. | | (227809) | 15
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice she has issued to police on the use of stun guns against farm animals; and if she will make a statement. | | (227810) | 16
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, how many students in West Chelmsford parliamentary constituency are waiting to receive education maintenance allowance payments. | | (228036) | 17
N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken to process a new application for child benefit was in the latest period for which figures are available; and what steps he is taking to expedite the process. | | (228032) | 18
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many failed telephone calls were made to the Jobcentre Plus helpline (a) in each region and (b) nationally (i) in each quarter of 2008-09 and (ii) in each month of 2008-09 to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (227950) | 19
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the most recent workload forecasts by Jobcentre Plus are for the volume of claims for (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) income support, (c) incapacity benefit and (d) Social Fund loans for (i) the second, (ii) the third and (iii) the fourth quarters of 2008-09 and (iv) 2009-2010, broken down by region; and if he will make a statement. | | (227951) | 20
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on his plans for the reorganisation of Jobcentre Plus offices and processing centres in the South East of England. | | (228031) | 21
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on the future of the Jobcentre Plus office at Sunley House, Aylesbury. | | (228037) | 22
N | Anne Moffat (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assistance he plans to make available to lone parents who move from income support to jobseekers allowance when their youngest child reaches the age of 12 years to provide the flexibility needed for family commitments with job seeking. | | (227807) |
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