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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 15 July 2013

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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 15 July 2013
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 15 July 2013

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 15 July of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 15 July of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 15 July see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Attorney General
1
Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Attorney General, what guidance the (a) Law Officers and (b) Crown Prosecution Service has produced in relation to fraudulently obtaining an advantage through deception.
(165771)
2
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments have spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165684)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
3
Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses paying salaries between the value of the minimum wage and the living wage in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
(165543)
4
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2013, Official Report, columns 49-50W, on Interest Rate Swap Transactions, how many customers of (a) Barclays Bank, (b) RBS Groups, (c) HSBC Banking Group and (d) Lloyds Banking Group have received financial redress as part of the Financial Conduct Authority redress scheme.
(165540)
5
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses have received support through the Export Refinancing Facility.
(164754)
6
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to his statement of 10 July 2013, Official Report, columns 361-76, on Royal Mail, what information Royal Mail has provided to his Department to demonstrate its ability to fulfil its assurance on keeping a predominantly full-time workforce.
(165500)
7
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to his statement of 10 July 2013, Official Report, columns 361-76, on Royal Mail, what information Royal Mail has provided to his Department to demonstrate its ability to fulfil its assurance on using the current workforce with no change to the current structure of the company.
(165501)
8
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to his statement of 10 July 2013, Official Report, columns 361-76, on Royal Mail, what information Royal Mail has provided to his Department to demonstrate its ability to fulfil its assurance on not outsourcing any additional services.
(165502)
9
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to his statement of 10 July 2013, Official Report, columns 361-76, on Royal Mail, what the evidential basis is for his statement that under public ownership there is simply not the freedom for Royal Mail to raise capital in the markets.
(165503)
10
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to his statement of 10 July 2013, Official Report, columns 361-76, on Royal Mail, what alternatives to privatisation were explored by his Department as a means of providing the Royal Mail with access to capital.
(165504)
11
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of sub-postmasters in (a) Glasgow and (b) Glasgow South West constituency likely to take up compensated exit from the network as a result of the Network Change Programme.
(165561)
12
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assistance the Government provides to UK firms that wish to invest in Mozambique.
(165709)
13
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on the safety of personnel of downgrading local Post Office counter security from Fortress Counter level to open plan desks.
(165711)
14
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the potential cost of retraining Post Office staff in order to undertake roles in marketing or retail of commercial, business and new financial services.
(165712)
15
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the likely change in revenue for Post Office Ltd as a result of separating from Royal Mail; and what support his Department plans to provide to post offices which cannot achieve the volume of sales of commercial, business or new financial services necessary to provide their current service level.
(165713)
16
N 		Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on enforcement of the national minimum wage.
(164865)
17
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for how many years the provision of a six day universal service after any privatisation of Royal Mail will continue; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to guarantee future universal service provision.
(163721)
18
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Chief Executive of Royal Mail was paid in 2012-13; and what percentage change in his salary there was between (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13.
(163856)
19
N 		Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2012, Official Report, column 728W, on cosmetics: EU law, if he will make it his policy to instruct local Trading Standards officers to examine the product information files accompanying cosmetic products to ensure compliance with the marketing ban on animal-tested cosmetics introduced by the seventh amendment to the European Cosmetics Directive, Directive 76/768 EEC.
(165236)
20
N 		Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many signatories to the Prompt Payment Code are members of the FTSE 350 index; and how many private firms have signed the Code to date.
(165381)
21
N 		Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many local enterprise partnerships have a female (a) chair and (b) chief executive.
(165239)
22
N 		Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses which have secured funding under the Start-Up Loans scheme to date.
(163687)
23
Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many complaints the Certification Officer has received in relation to the Unite trade union in each of the last five years; and what the outcome was in each case.
(165772)
24
Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if (a) his Department and (b) the Certification Officer will make an assessment of the probity and appropriateness of trades unions purchasing political party memberships from political fund revenues (i) with and (ii) without the consent of the trades union members who are joined up.
(165785)
25
Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what guidance (a) his Department and (b) the Certification Officer has produced on how trade unions may (i) spend monies from political funds and (ii) purchase memberships of political parties from political funds.
(165786)
26
Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value was of the political fund of the Unite trade union in each of the last five years according to records held by the Certification Officer.
(165787)
27
Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what investigations the Certification Officer has undertaken in relation to the Unite trade union in each of the last five years.
(165788)
28
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs created by recycling between 2013 and 2020.
(165659)
29
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165683)
30
N 		Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of proposed changes to section 32 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 with Article 5(3)(a) of the Copyright Directive; and if he will make a statement.
(165238)
31
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effectivenesss of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) in providing services regarded as satisfactory by businesses; and what steps he plans to take to improve the effectiveness of the MAS.
(165549)
32
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what training UK Trade and Investment staff receive to ensure they identify potential markets and specific business opportunities for UK manufacturers.
(165550)
33
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department records on the (a) the levels of satisfaction of businesses participating in trade missions and delegations and (b) reasons why businesses chose not to participate in such missions and delegations; what steps he plans to take following assessment of that information; and if he will publish in anonymised form the data so collected.
(165551)
34
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what processes his Department has put in place to ensure that ongoing support is given to UK companies seeking to develop long-term business relationships overseas; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of such processes.
(165552)
35
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether UK Trade and Investment staff are remunerated through bonuses based on the increase in UK exports following trade missions and delegations.
(165553)
36
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what processes his Department uses to monitor the increase in UK exports following trade missions and delegations.
(165554)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
37
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Big Society community organisers living in Ashfield constituency have been trained to date.
(165780)
38
N 		Nigel Mills (Amber Valley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the contribution of the Minister of State for Northern Ireland on 9 July 2013, Official Report, column 311, on the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, what his policy is on whether a member of the European Parliament should be able to be a member of (a) the Northern Ireland Assembly, (b) the Scottish Parliament and (c) the Welsh Assembly.
(165365)
39
N 		Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of women were working in the (a) public sector and (b) private sector in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012.
(165289)
40
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165685)
41
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which assets the Government intends to sell by the end of financial year 2014-15; and if he will make a statement
(165645)
42
N 		Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish an evaluation of the Business Connectors pilots; and if he will make a statement.
(165132)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
43
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the number of automatic free-of-charge money dispensing machines which have been removed from communities in (a) Scotland, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Wales and (d) each region of England in each of the last four years.
(165634)
44
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of people without access to basic banking facilities in each parliamentary constituency in the UK; and what plans his Department has to reduce this number.
(165636)
45
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the number of automatic money dispensing machines which operate only by payment of a fee or charge which have been installed in communities in (a) Scotland, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Wales and (d) each region of England in each of the last four years.
(165637)
46
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Association of British Credit Unions to broaden the range of financial services provided by them to their members in areas of social deprivation.
(165639)
47
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2013, Official Report, column 551W, on financial services, what representations his Department has made to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) concerning the number of businesses that have been offered redress as a result of the FCA redress scheme announced in January 2013.
(165541)
48
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2013, Official Report, column 551W, on financial services, how many businesses mis-sold ineterest rate hedging products, as defined by the Financial Conduct Authority redress scheme announced in January 2013, have been offered financial redress; and if he will make a statement.
(165542)
49
N 		Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress his Department has made in supporting the development of simplified financial retail products.
(164338)
50
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual pay settlements in the NHS were between 1983 and 1997.
(165781)
51
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual pay settlements for doctors and consultants were between 1983 and 1997.
(165823)
52
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual pay settlements in the Civil Service were between 1983 and 1997.
(165824)
53
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Public Private Partnership infrastructure projects have been assisted through the temporary lending programme announced in July 2012; and what the total value of the support provided so far is.
(164720)
54
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which departmental capital budgets have been used to fund loans advanced through the temporary lending programme for Public Private Partnership infrastructure projects announced in June 2012.
(164721)
55
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the administrative costs to lenders for the implementation and running of the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme.
(164722)
56
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the change in median household real income before housing costs in Ashfield constituency since May 2010.
(165706)
57
N 		Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what amount has been raised through the Pension Infrastructure Platform (PIP) since its launch; and how much capital has been invested in infrastructure projects by PIP since its launch.
(165378)
58
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165700)
59
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how Government Departments are incentivised to offer up assets for disposal and complete sales rapidly to contribute to debt reduction; and if he will make a statement.
(165644)
60
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees of HM Revenue and Customs resident in Scotland have been made redundant through compulsory redundancy schemes since May 2010; and how much this has cost his Department.
(165559)
61
Stephen Williams (Bristol West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs spent on the Tackling Tobacco Smuggling strategy in (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13; how many of his Department's staff worked on implementing the strategy in each such year; and how many such staff were engaged in (i) detection, (ii) intelligence-gathering and analysis, (iii) investigations and (iv) the provision of legal advice.
(165649)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
62
N 		Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to review the current arrangements for electrical safety in the residential rental sector; and if he will make a statement.
(165388)
63
N 		Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he instituted a scheme to reward his Department's staff with shopping vouchers for ideas on departmental savings; who will decide on such awards; and when they will be made.
(165524)
64
N 		Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the value is of shopping vouchers awarded to his Department's staff as a reward for ideas on savings; and what budget is allocated for this scheme.
(165525)
65
N 		Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what ideas from his Tree of Ideas scheme were (a) implemented and (b) not implemented.
(165526)
66
N 		Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will provide a list of all catering outlets available in his Department's buildings.
(165527)
67
N 		Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what ideas staff in his Department have been given shopping vouchers for ideas on savings to date.
(165537)
68
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what analysis he has made of waiting lists for (a) one bedroom houses, (b) two bedroom houses, (c) three bedroom houses and (d) bungalows for each registered social landlord and local authority in England and Wales since January 2013.
(165735)
69
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to increase the availability and supply of affordable housing in rural areas.
(165730)
70
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on how many acres of land in rural areas (a) planning permission has been granted to build affordable homes since 2010 and (b) applications are currently under consideration by a planning committee to allow the building of affordable homes.
(165731)
71
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many units of affordable housing were developed in rural areas in each of the last three years.
(165732)
72
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many empty homes were redesignated as second homes in the last financial year.
[R] (165714)
73
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential financial implications for his Department of not discounting demolitions on regeneration sites from the New Homes Bonus calculations over the lifetime of the scheme.
[R] (165734)
74
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to encourage wider collection of recyclable plastics from households.
(165657)
75
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the development of plastics recycling infrastructure in the UK.
(165658)
76
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165686)
77
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the Environmnetal, Cultural and Protective Services block grant is distributed using indicators of (a) social deprivation, (b) population density and (c) population sparsity.
(165545)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
78
N 		Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the target coverage is for broadband for each (a) local authority, (b) nation of the UK and (c) contractor employed by BD:UK
(164243)
79
N 		Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the broadband coverage targets are for each (a) local authority, (b) nation of the UK and (c) contract held by BD:UK
(164244)
80
N 		Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the value of the motorsport industry and community rallies to tourism in the UK.
(164339)
81
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2012, Official Report, column 113W, on broadband, what her Department recommends as the optimum broadband speed to enable businesses and education institutions in this country to match competitor companies in other countries.
(165704)
82
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165687)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
83
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the future of the Royal Marine Commando Base in Poole; and if he will make a statement.
(165548)
84
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets have been assigned to (a) Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, (b) Standing NATO Maritime Group 2, (c) Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 and (d) Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 2 since 2012; and for how long each asset was assigned to each group.
(165779)
85
N 		Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what equipment his Department intends to donate to the government of Afghanistan when British troops withdraw from that country.
(165535)
86
N 		Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the size of workforce and the skills mix required in that workforce to deliver the Type 26 frigate over the lifetime of the planned programme.
(165133)
87
N 		Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last met BAE Systems to discuss skills levels in the UK shipbuilding sector.
(165134)
88
N 		Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the contribution to the wider economy of shipbuilding for the Royal Navy in each of the (a) last five years and (b ) next five years.
(165135)
89
N 		Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that the three services have sufficient trained capability managers.
(165136)
90
N 		Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the number of shipbuilding jobs in the defence sector required to deliver the vessels for the Royal Navy currently planned for (a) 2015, (b) 2020 and (c) 2025.
(165137)
91
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what occasions (a) he, (b) Ministers and (c) officials in his Department have met representatives of the Business Services Association.
(165782)
92
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the building and renovation timetable for the sites earmarked for use as part of the re-basing requirements for forces returning from Germany; and which lead contractors have been appointed.
[R] (165783)
93
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165688)
94
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there are any plans to use reserve officers as combat pilots in the RAF along the lines of the US National Guard.
(165646)
95
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department resident in Scotland have been made redundant through compulsory redundancy schemes since May 2010; and how much this has cost his Department.
(165557)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
96
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he plans to bring forward proposals for 200 all-postal primaries following the undertaking to do so in the Coalition Agreement.
(165792)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
97
N 		Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new schools have been built in each (a) local education authority area and (b) parliamentary constituency in England since May 2010; and if he will make a statement.
(165298)
98
N 		Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools offer hours from 8 am to 6 pm; and if he will make a statement.
(165301)
99
N 		Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been spent by his Department on media training in each year since 2010.
(165311)
100
N 		Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teachers have retired at or before 60 years of age in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
(165312)
101
N 		Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the repair and maintenance backlog cost for schools in (a) England and (b) each local education authority; and if he will make a statement.
(165313)
102
N 		Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the First Steps pilot scheme and its effectiveness in improving outcomes for families with multiple problems.
(165240)
103
N 		Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his plans are for the future funding of the First Steps scheme.
(165290)
104
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of temporary classrooms in Nottinghamshire Local Education Authority.
(165707)
105
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Ashfield constituency are entitled to the pupil premium; and what assessment he has made of whether receipt of that premium has had a corresponding effect on levels of attainment.
(165723)
106
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new childrens centres have opened in (a) the West Midlands, (b) Birmingham and (c) Selly Oak constituency since 2010; and what funding his Department has provided to such centres in each year since 2010.
(165539)
107
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165689)
108
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) Campsfield House, (b) Tinsley House and (c) the Cedars pre-departure accommodation are regulated by the Children Act 1989 and the guidance and regulations which his Department issues on children's welfare.
(165627)
109
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the 308 free schools listed on his Department's website as open or planned to open in September 2013 and beyond are in areas of (a) surplus places and (b) basic need.
(165307)
110
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measure of basic need his Department uses to calculate the number of free schools intending to open in areas of basic need.
(165308)
111
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the capital costs of the free schools where building costs have been finalised and contracts signed and (a) which opened in September 2011, (b) which opened in September 2012 and (c) plan to be opened in future.
(165387)
112
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's and its agencies' planned spending from departmental expenditure limit is in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 under the headings (i) activities to support all functions, (ii) school infrastructure and funding of education, (iii) education standards, curriculum and qualifications, (iv) workforce training and development, (v) early years, (vi) children, young people and families and (vii) standards and testing agency; and what was spent under each such heading in 2012-13.
(165528)
113
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's programme costs will be in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 under the headings (i) basic need schools capital grant, (ii) Building Schools for the Future capital grant, (iii) National Framework Academies capital grant, (iv) maintenance capital grants to local authorities, (v) primary capital grant, (vi) other capital grants, (vii) dedicated schools grant, (viii) area-based grant, (ix) Standards Fund, (x) school standard grant, (xi) Pupil Premium, (xii) early intervention grant, (xiii) Sure Start current grants to local authorities, (xiv) 16-18 apprenticeships, (xv) school sixth forms (local authority maintained), (xvi) school sixth forms (academies and free schools), (xvii) pre-16 participation (academies), (xviii) 16-19 further education, (xix) PFI special grant, (xx) other current grants, (xxi) other current expenditure and (xxii) research and development; and what programme costs were under each such heading in 2012-13.
(165529)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
114
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make it his policy to support the creation of a global sanctuary in the Arctic off limits to new oil and gas exploitation and industrial fishing and covering the area of international waters around the North Pole beyond Arctic states' exclusive economic zones; and if he will make a statement.
(165641)
115
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of (a) the area of Arctic sea ice that will remain during September 2015 and (b) the plausible date range for the earliest ice free summer in the Arctic; and if he will make a statement.
(165642)
116
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of scenarios and probabilities on (a) further Arctic warming, (b) sea ice melt, (c) increasing climate extremes and reduced crop production, (d) Arctic methane emissions and (e) global sea level rise until 2100; and if he will make a statement.
(165643)
117
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of (a) the amount of solar energy that was absorbed in the Arctic Ocean during 2012 and (b) the minimum cooling required to halt this level of retreat of sea ice; and if he will make a statement.
(165647)
118
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Natural Environment Research Council about the CryoSat-2 satellite measurements of Arctic sea ice (a) extend and (b) volume; and if he will make a statement.
(165648)
119
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165690)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
120
N 		Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish details of expenditure on the Forestry Commission identified in his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12 in each of the last three years; and what the projected spend for each of the next three years by (a) scheme and (b) individual project is.
(165233)
121
N 		Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish details of expenditure under the Rural Payments Agency other programme identified in his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12 in each of the last three years; and what the projected spend for each of the next three years by (a) scheme and (b) individual project is.
(165234)
122
N 		Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish details of expenditure under the Rural Payments Agency running costs programme identified in his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12 in each of the last three years; and what the projected spend for each of the next three years by (a) scheme and (b) individual project is.
(165235)
123
N 		Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many apprentices were employed by (a) his Department, (b) each of its executive agencies and (c) its key delivery partners in each of the last three years.
(165251)
124
N 		Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2013, Official Report, column 120W, on internal drainage boards, what the names are of the two internal drainage boards that overlap the Arun District; and who the members are of each board.
(165536)
125
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues in the Department for Communities and Local Government on the need for more affordable housing in rural areas.
(165728)
126
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken in order to increase the provision of affordable housing in rural areas.
(165729)
127
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2013, Official Report, column 72W, on food: exports, what (a) proportion and (b) value of UK food and drink exports came from (i) Singapore, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama collectively and (ii) India, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, the Gulf Co-operation Council, Canada and the US collectively in each of the last three years.
(165733)
128
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the rise in the use of cats and dogs for experimental purposes; and if he will make a statement.
(165624)
129
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to boost the recycling of (a) plastic films and (b) black plastics.
(165651)
130
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department is making in its efforts to meet plastics recycling targets.
(165652)
131
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department will next review PRN/PERN policy.
(165653)
132
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to encourage households to reduce food waste.
(165654)
133
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to increase public awareness of plastics recycling in the UK.
(165655)
134
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the export of plastics recyclate from the UK on the domestic plastics recycling market and the wider UK economy.
(165656)
135
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165691)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
136
Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications of Hezbollah activities for British interests in the Middle East.
(165716)
137
Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of Hezbollah involvement in Syria.
(165717)
138
Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent reports that the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has stated that Hezbollah fighters are active in Syria.
(165719)
139
Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on adding Hezbollah to the EU's list of recognised terrorist organisations.
(165727)
140
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date the UK gave recognition to the current administration of Egypt.
(165773)
141
N 		Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Burma urging it to repeal all repressive laws in that country.
(165248)
142
N 		Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Burma about recent reports of Burmese government security forces raping ethnic Rohingya women.
(165249)
143
N 		Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the demands made at the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union on 26 April 2012, urging the government of Burma to secure the status and welfare of the Rohingya, have been met by the government of Burma.
(165250)
144
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165692)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
145
N 		Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 25 April 2013, Official Report, column 1106W, on antibiotics, when the five-year antimicrobial strategy and action plan will be published; what assessment he has made of the findings reported in Science Transitional Medicine 2013, Vol. 5, Issue 192, on the effects of excessive or chronic use of antibiotics on those with mitochondrial disease; and whether concurrent use of N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine with antibiotic treatment is authorised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for those with mitochondrial disease.
(165126)
146
N 		Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under the age of 18 were admitted to hospital in each health care trust as a result of self-harm in each of the last three years.
(165306)
147
N 		Sir Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that people affected by muscle-wasting conditions will be able to continue to access neuromuscular co-ordinator support in the South East coast health region following September 2013; and if he will make a statement.
(164844)
148
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the consultation to decide on the capped care cost of social care for working age disabled people will be published.
(165376)
149
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the criteria for giving a Clinical Excellence Award (CEA); and if he will introduce more routine reviews of CEAs already made.
(165377)
150
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that the performance of individual consultants in every specialism is measured consistently and published; and if he will publish national guidance on this matter.
(165379)
151
Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many temporary non-EEA migrants are currently employed by NHS organisations in London.
(165650)
152
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has taken steps to implement recommendation 6 of the Murrison Report, A Better Deal for Military Amputees, calling for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to be tasked with the production of national guidelines for prosthetic prescription and rehabilitation for all amputees including provision for military amputees.
(163857)
153
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of recommendation 3 of the Murrison Report, A Better Deal for Military Amputees, published 2011; and if he will adopt this recommendation as his policy.
(164035)
154
N 		Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce clinical trials aimed at younger breast cancer patients.
(165283)
155
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165693)
156
N 		John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many serious unexpected incidents (SUIs) occurred at the Dova Acute Mental Health Unit in Barrow-in-Furness in the last three years; on what dates such incidents took place; what the nature of such incidents were; and on what dates relatives and the Care Quality Commission were informed of each SUI.
(165237)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
157
Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of Hezbollah activity within the UK.
(165726)
158
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the EU's role in promoting national resilience; and if she will make a statement.
(165546)
159
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the role of the EU training co-ordinator in relation to emergency services is; and if she will make a statement.
(165555)
160
N 		Margot James (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the use of legal highs.
(164851)
161
N 		Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to answer (a) questions 163403, 163404 and 163513, tabled by the hon. Member for Kingson upon Hull North on 2 July 2013, for answer on 5 July 2013 and (b) question 164126, tabled by the hon. Member on 4 July 2013, for answer on 9 July 2013; and what the reason was for the time taken to answer each question.
(165138)
162
Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to revise the annual immigration statistics to ensure that they are provided with the latest census estimates of past immigration.
(165718)
163
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are currently on the sex offenders register; and what estimate she has made of the number of sex offenders in the UK who are not subject to the sex offenders register because their convictions took place prior to the implementation of the Sex Offenders Act 1997.
(163733)
164
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has held with the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Independent Police Complaints Commission regarding an investigation into the role of South Yorkshire Police at Orgreave coke works during the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.
(165625)
165
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to ensure the Independent Police Complaints Commission has the necessary powers and resources to conduct a robust examination of police tactics at Orgreave coke works during the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.
(165626)
166
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will open an independent public enquiry into the conduct of the police at Orgreave coke works during the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.
(165630)
167
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165694)
168
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children were subject to detention in adult immigration removal centres in each of the last three years.
(165628)
169
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of abuse in applications for the student visitor visas.
(165629)
170
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will exempt visa applicants who have previously undertaken study at a UK university from the pilot studies into the requirement for cash bonds for immigration purposes.
(165631)
171
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the introduction of a cash bond for immigration purposes on non-EU PhD candidates studying at UK universities who use student visitor visas to return for viva voce examinations.
(165632)
172
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the recent detention of children in Campsfield House adult immigration removal centre; and if she will make a statement.
(165633)
173
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if applications for student visitor visas will be included in pilot schemes on a requirement for a cash bond for visa applications.
(165638)
174
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many spousal visas were granted in each year since 2008.
(165663)
175
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many representations about the ending of a relationship with someone who has permission to enter or remain in the UK as a partner of a British citizen her Department received in each year from 2008 to date.
(165722)
Questions to the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission
176
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much has been spent by the House Service (a) in total and (b) on staff costs on promoting equality and diversity in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and how many people are employed in the House Service for this purpose.
(165715)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
177
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of British support for the Great Himalaya Trail; and if she will make a statement.
(165544)
178
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provides for health-related projects in Helmand province, Afghanistan; and if she will make a statement.
(165547)
179
N 		Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated in Burma to promote religious tolerance and multi-faith initiatives.
(165246)
180
N 		Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding by her Department for education in Burma which is being channelled through monastic schools is not being used to teach or encourage anti-Muslim hatred and prejudice.
(165247)
181
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165695)
182
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many officials in her Department resident in Scotland have been made redundant through compulsory redundancy schemes since May 2010; and how much this has cost her Department.
(165560)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
183
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the proposals outlined on page 23 of Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform, what training private sector employees will receive in respect of suitability for dealing with (a) breach of community orders and (b) recall to prison.
(165662)
184
N 		Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many dog owners have (a) been ordered to muzzle their dog, (b) received a custodial sentence for possession of a prohibited dog, (c) received a community sentence for possession of an out of control dog and (d) been banned from keeping a dog in each region of England in each of the last five years.
(165305)
185
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of foreign national offenders detained beyond the end of their sentence in prisons or immigration centres in each of the last three years in Scotland.
(165710)
186
N 		Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Answer of 3 July 2013, Official Report, column 641W, on prison sentences, if he will provide the information requested in the original question; and if he will fix the weblink provided in the original Answer.
(165480)
187
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many evictions and eviction proceedings in England and Wales took place in (a) April 2013, (b) May 2013 and (c) June 2013.
(165736)
188
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which secure youth establishments have (a) been closed, (b) been decommissioned and (c) had their use altered, by capacity of establishment, since 1997.
(165766)
189
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) capacity and (b) population of the secure youth estate was in each year since 1997.
(165767)
190
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was paid to private contractors for running each privately run prison in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13; and how much is budgeted to be spent in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15.
(165768)
191
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list all occasions on which performance points were accrued by private prisons since 2010; for what reason the points were accrued in each case; and what financial penalties were attached in each case.
(165769)
192
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) cost per place and (b) cost per prisoner was in (i) publicly run and (ii) privately run prisons in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12 and (C) 2012-13.
(165770)
193
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much income the Victims Surcharge (a) generated and (b) was originally projected to generate in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
(165774)
194
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish all responses to the recent legal aid consultation.
(165775)
195
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish its response to the findings of the Intensive Alternative to Custody pilot evaluations.
(165776)
196
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many out-of-court disposals for young people have been issued by type of disposal in each year from 2010 to date.
(165777)
197
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines were (a) issued by the courts and (b) collected in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012.
(165784)
198
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many contract failures there have been at HM Prison Oakwood since it opened; what those failures were; and what financial penalties were attached to them.
(165789)
199
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average age of a magistrate was in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
(165790)
200
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates were (a) male, (b) female, (c) Black, Asian and minority ethnic and (d) registered disabled in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012.
(165791)
201
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for awarding the new tagging contracts.
(165793)
202
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those who breached the conditions of their tagging and were due to be recalled to prison failed to be recalled in 2012.
(165794)
203
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents there were of tags being incorrectly removed from offenders in 2012.
(165795)
204
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents there were of tags being incorrectly fitted to the wrong person in 2012.
(165796)
205
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the certified normal accommodation for HM Prison Oakwood has been in each month since it first opened; and how many offenders have been held in the prison in each month since it first opened.
(165797)
206
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints from (a) prisoners and (b) prison staff there have been about conditions at HM Prison Oakwood since it first opened.
(165798)
207
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many escaped prisoners remain at large.
(165799)
208
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents there were of prisons needing to have their locks replaced since May 2010; what the cost to the public purse was of such incidents; and in which prison each incident took place.
(165800)
209
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with which countries the Government is currently negotiating prison transfer agreements.
(165801)
210
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings Ministers in his Department have held with their EU counterparts on the EU Prisoner Transfer agreement; and when each such meeting was held.
(165802)
211
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many governors (a) Feltham, (b) Ashfield, (c) Cookham Wood, (d) Downview, (e) Eastwood Park, (f) Hindley, (g) New Hall, (h) Parc, (i) Warren Hill, (j) Werrington and (k) Weatherby young offenders institutions has had in the last five years.
(165530)
212
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) staff and (b) young offenders there were in (i) Feltham, (ii) Ashfield, (iii) Cookham Wood, (iv) Downview, (v) Eastwood Park, (vi) Hindley, (vii) New Hall, (viii) Parc, (ix) Warren Hill, (x) Werrington and (xi) Weatherby young offenders institutions in (A) 2010, (B) 2011, (C) 2012 and (D) 2013.
(165531)
213
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) education and (b) work places were available to young people in (i) Feltham, (ii) Ashfield, (iii) Cookham Wood, (iv) Downview, (v) Eastwood Park, (vi) Hindley, (vii) New Hall, (viii) Parc, (ix) Warren Hill, (x) Werrington and (xi) Weatherby young offenders institutions in each month in (A) 2010, (B) 2011, (C) 2012 and (D) 2013.
(165532)
214
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days Feltham Young Offenders Institution was without a governor in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
(165534)
215
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165696)
216
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how the theft of a network server from Salford Magistrates' Court in January 2012 took place; who stole the server; what the value of the server was; how it was recovered; what action has been taken against the thief; what documents were on the server; whether such documents (a) related to court staff, defendants, victims or witnesses and (b) included personal or confidential matters or matters related to evidence; what steps have been taken to inform those affected; for what reasons he believes that the information has not been accessed; for what reasons the theft was not reported to the police and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) until June 2012; when he expects the ICO to report; and if he will make a statement.
(165660)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
217
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much her Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165697)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
218
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165698)
219
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many officials in his Department resident in Scotland have been made redundant through compulsory redundancy schemes since May 2010; and how much this has cost his Department.
(165558)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
220
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the effect on motorcycle testing and training will be of the merger of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and the Driving Standards Agency.
(165708)
221
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will review the governance of motorcycle testing and training following the merger of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and the Driving Standards Agency; and if he will make a statement.
(165720)
222
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of whether the implementation in the UK of the EU requiring certain higher speed exercises in the motorcycle test to be conducted on a limited range of off-road testing areas has caused practical difficulties; and if he will make a statement.
(165721)
223
N 		Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department's transport strategy due by December 2013 will set out how cycling will be increased to 10 per cent of travel in accordance with the ambition set by the Get Britain Cycling report.
(165517)
224
N 		Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the new cycling delivery plan will be published.
(165518)
225
N 		Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce a separate indicator for increased levels of cycling.
(165519)
226
N 		Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons no target for increasing cycling in rural areas has been set within his Department's transport indicators.
(165520)
227
N 		Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to assess the feasibility of completing the North West relief ring road around Shrewsbury.
(165505)
228
N 		Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will visit Shrewsbury to assess the need for completion of the ring road around the town.
(165521)
229
N 		Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to work with Shropshire Council on completing the ring road around Shrewsbury.
(165522)
230
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments First Great Western has made to the Exchequer in each financial year since April 2004; and what payments First Great Western has received from the public purse in each such year.
(165241)
231
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments East Coast has made to the Exchequer in each financial year since April 2004; and what payments East Coast received from the public purse in each such year.
(165242)
232
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments Chiltern has made to the Exchequer in each financial year since April 2004; and what payments Chiltern has received from the public purse in each such year.
(165243)
233
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments East Midlands Trains has made to the Exchequer in each financial year since April 2004; and what payments East Midlands Trains has received from the public purse in each such year.
(165244)
234
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments c2c train operating company has made to the Exchequer in each financial year since April 2004; and what payments c2c has received from the public purse in each such year.
(165245)
235
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165699)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
236
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165701)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
237
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of jobseeker's allowance in Ashfield constituency (a) received a sanction and (b) received a sanction and disputed it in each of the last five years; and how many such claimants had a sanction overturned as a result of it being reconsidered or appealed.
(165705)
238
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Ashfield constituency have found employment lasting more than six months through the Work Programme since its inception; how many such people were aged under 24 years old; and how many such people had a disability.
(165724)
239
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the likely number of households in Ashfield constituency in the poverty bracket following the implementation of universal credit.
(165725)
240
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the number of live job vacancies in Ashfield constituency.
(165778)
241
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefits sanctions are currently in force; and how many such sanctions have been in force in each of the last five years.
(165640)
242
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that miners being made redundant as a result of UK Coal going into administration receive 100 per cent of their pensions.
(165386)
243
N 		Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace inspections are planned by the Health and Safety Executive for Scotland; and how many such inspections will be carried out in the (a) agricultural sector and (b) construction sector.
(165380)
244
N 		Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace inspections were carried out by the Health and Safety Executive for Scotland in each year since 2010; and how many such inspections were carried out in the (a) agricultural sector and (b) construction sector.
(165382)
245
N 		Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people who will be moved from (a) higher and (b) middle rates of disability living allowance to the lower rate of personal independence payment in (i) the UK and (ii) Wales are female.
(165309)
246
N 		Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are financially disadvantaged in (a) the UK and (b) Wales as a result of the introduction of universal credit; and what proportion of such people are female.
(165310)
247
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of people claiming child benefit for children living outside the UK; and if he will make a statement.
(165661)
248
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on contracts with Grant Thornton in each year since 2008.
(165702)
249
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the scalability for national roll-out of the initial IT system being used to support the delivery of universal credit in the current pathfinders.
(165383)
250
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged over 50 and in receipt of employment and support allowance were referred to the Work Programme in its first two years; and how many such people have secured a sustained job outcome.
(165384)
251
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of (a) jobseeker's allowance recipients currently eligible for the new enterprise allowance (NEA), (b) people referred to the NEA in the last year, (c) recipients of the NEA in the last year and (d) NEA recipients have established a business to date who are over 50 years old.
(165385)
252
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people over 50 years old have been referred to the New Enterprise Allowance scheme in the last 12 months; and what proportion this figure is of all jobseeker's allowance recipients over 50 years old.
(165389)
253
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of eligible jobseeker's allowance recipients have been referred to the New Enterprise Allowance scheme in the last 12 months.
(165390)
254
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employees of the Health and Safety Executive resident in Scotland have been made redundant through compulsory redundancy schemes since May 2010; and how much this has cost his Department.
(165556)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
255
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the Government plans to implement the commitment in the Coalition Agreement to fund 200 all-postal primaries over the present Parliament, targeted at seats which have not changed hands for many years.
[Transferred] (165562)
256
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of funding 200 all-postal primaries for the selection of parliamentary candidates before the 2015 General Election.
[Transferred] (165563)
257
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of funding a pan-London primary to select mayoral candidates before the 2016 London mayoral election.
[Transferred] (165564)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
258
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on education in (a) Feltham, (b) Ashfield, (c) Cookham Wood, (d) Downview, (e) Eastwood Park, (f) Hindley, (g) New Hall, (h) Parc, (i) Warren Hill, (j) Werrington and (k) Weatherby young offenders institutions in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013.
[Transferred] (165533)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
259
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to repatriate motorcycle rider licensing powers from the European Union.
[Transferred] (165703)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
260
N 		Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the recommendations of the Löftstedt Report into Reclaiming health and safety for all: An independent review of health and safety legislation, published in November 2011, what steps he is taking to extend the Independent Regulation Panel's remit to include COMAH related regulatory decisions.
[Transferred] (165523)

Prepared 13th July 2013