Session 2013-14
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The Questions Book
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 12 September 2013
Notes:
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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Thursday 12 September 2013
(the ‘Questions Book’™)
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 12 September 2013
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on the date of issue of this paper of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper.
For other Written Questions for answer on the date of this paper of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.
For Written and Oral Questions for answer on future days, see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1
Adam Afriyie
(Windsor):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much inward foreign direct investment UK Trade and Industry South East and its private sector partners attracted into Berkshire in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169082)
2
Adam Afriyie
(Windsor):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that the work of regional UK Trade and Investment offices is accurately measured and monitored.
(169083)
3
Adam Afriyie
(Windsor):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in Berkshire have started exporting for the first time as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Industry South East in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169084)
4
Adam Afriyie
(Windsor):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in Berkshire have started exporting to a new market for the first time as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Industry South East in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169085)
5
N
Richard Burden
(Birmingham, Northfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what advice his Department has issued to (a) retailers and (b) importers on the correct implementation for cosmetic products of the mandatory origin labelling requirements of EU Regulation 1223/2009.
(168490)
6
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the extent to which supermarkets offering discounts on bulk purchases benefits consumers on low budgets.
(168568)
7
Nick de Bois
(Enfield North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in London have started exporting to a new market for the first time as a direct result of the work of the London UK Trade and Investment office in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169065)
8
Nick de Bois
(Enfield North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in London have started exporting for the first time as a direct result of the work of the London UK Trade and Investment office in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169066)
9
Nick de Bois
(Enfield North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much additional export volume has been generated for businesses in London as a direct result of the work of the London UK Trade and Investment office in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169095)
10
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to prevent travel companies significantly raising prices during school holidays.
(168997)
11
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Royal Mail post offices there were in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
(168998)
12
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much was spent on travel for his Department's officials in each of the last five years.
(169001)
13
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many projects in Ashfield constituency have been (a) selected to receive funding and (b) received final offer letters from the Regional Growth Fund in the latest period for which figures are available.
(169003)
14
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications were received from businesses in Ashfield constituency for funding from the Regional Growth Fund in the latest period for which figures are available.
(169004)
15
Daniel Kawczynski
(Shrewsbury and Atcham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new overseas contracts were won by businesses in the West Midlands as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Investment West Midlands in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169096)
16
Daniel Kawczynski
(Shrewsbury and Atcham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how often UK Trade and Investment West Midlands has contacted local hon. Members in Shropshire to help it secure inward investment into Shropshire in 2013 to date.
(169097)
17
Daniel Kawczynski
(Shrewsbury and Atcham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which (a) foreign companies, (b) investors, (c) sovereign wealth funds and (d) governments UK Trade and Investment worked with to secure inward investment into Shropshire in (i) 2011 and (ii) 2012.
(169098)
18
Daniel Kawczynski
(Shrewsbury and Atcham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which (a) foreign companies, (b) investors, (c) sovereign wealth funds and (d) governments UK Trade and Investment West Midlands and its private sector partners are working with to secure inward investment into Shropshire.
(169099)
19
Daniel Kawczynski
(Shrewsbury and Atcham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether UK Trade and Investment West Midlands and its private sector partners maintain a list of the top 10 inward investment opportunities in Shropshire.
(169100)
20
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to protect vulnerable people from scam mail.
(169016)
21
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the performance of local enterprise partnerships in rural areas.
(169035)
22
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many post office managers were employed in each of the last 10 years.
(168928)
23
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Crown Post Office closures have been halted after public consultation in each of the last 5 years.
(168937)
24
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the projected saving is from the closure of Crown post office buildings in Rhyl.
(168940)
25
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with local authorities on reducing rates and rents for the 70 Crown Post Offices proposed for relocation.
(168957)
26
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff in his Department work on enforcement of regulations that apply to employment agencies and employment businesses.
(168973)
27
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many visits to employment agencies the Employment Standards Authority Inspectorate has made in each of the last five years; how many breaches of the law were found through such visits; what estimate he has made of the number of people found to have been underpaid through such visits; and how many successful prosecutions his Department has made against employment agencies and businesses found not to be operating within the law as a result of such visits.
(168974)
28
N
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) date and (b) location was of each overseas trade mission to promote British exports in which UK Trade and Industry was involved in each month since May 2010; and which of those trade missions were attended by each Minister.
(168918)
29
N
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his speech of 11 September 2012 at Imperial College London, whether he still plans to publish specific sector strategy documents for (a) the digital and creative industries and (b) advanced manufacturing.
(168919)
30
N
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many officials of his Department are working on plans to introduce a fine for late payment.
(168920)
31
N
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which stakeholders have met Ministers or officials of his Department to date as part of his Department's review of zero-hours contracts; on what date and with whom each such meeting took place; which stakeholders have submitted written evidence to that review; and on what date each such submission was received.
(168921)
32
Bill Wiggin
(North Herefordshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much inward foreign direct investment UK Trade and Investment and its private sector partners attracted into North Herefordshire in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169127)
33
Bill Wiggin
(North Herefordshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in North Herefordshire started exporting for the first time as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Investment in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169128)
34
Bill Wiggin
(North Herefordshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much additional export volume was generated for businesses in North Herefordshire as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Investment in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169129)
35
Bill Wiggin
(North Herefordshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in North Herefordshire started exporting to a new market for the first time as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Investment in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169130)
36
Bill Wiggin
(North Herefordshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new jobs were generated in North Herefordshire as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Investment in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
(169131)
37
Mr Iain Wright
(Hartlepool):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 30 November 2012, Official Report, column 526W, on manufacturing industries and with reference to his Department's announcements on the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative of 6 November 2011 and 26 November 2012, how much of the £125 million announced has been (a) allocated and (b) spent in the latest accounting period available; and if he will make a statement.
(168962)
38
Mr Iain Wright
(Hartlepool):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 30 November 2012, Official Report, column 526W, on manufacturing industries, how much funding of each round of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative has been (a) allocated and (b) provided to the applicant business; how much allocated to each round has been spent; and how many jobs have been (i) created or (ii) safeguarded through allocations in each round.
(168963)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
39
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he will next visit the Emergency Planning College; and if he will make a statement.
(169144)
40
N
Mr Tom Watson
(West Bromwich East):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2013, Official Report, column 538W, on Communities First Fund, if he will place in the Library a breakdown by local authority area of how much funding was allocated to the Community First programme in year (a) one and (b) two; and what proportion of that funding has been spent by local Community First panels.
(168479)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
41
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the Barnett consequential for Northern Ireland for the money that (a) has already been spent, (b) is contracted to be spent and (c) will be spent in England on High Speed 2.
(168488)
42
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the Barnett consequential for Wales from expenditure a) already spent, (b) currently contracted to be spent and (c) projected to be spent in England on High Speed 2.
(168489)
43
N
Mr Ivan Lewis
(Bury South):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, to which Government department the UK's official development assistance budget has been allocated in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014; and how much each such Department will administer in each such year.
(168462)
44
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2013, Official Report, column 457W, on tobacco: smuggling, what the revenue benefit to date is from reinvestment funding in activity by HM Revenue and Customs to tackle tobacco fraud; and what recent assessment he has made of HM Revenue and Custom's ability to meet the £1.4 billion revenue benefit from this activity originally forecast over the 2010 Spending Review period.
(168534)
45
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress has been made by HM Revenue and Customs in initiating proceedings against those included in the 2012 and 2013 most wanted lists of tax fugitives; and if he will make a statement.
(168536)
46
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the accuracy of the tax gap estimates produced by (a) HM Revenue and Customs and (b) alternative sources; and if he will make a statement.
(168537)
47
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what target HM Revenue and Customs has set for reducing the tax gap in each year of the 2013 Spending Round period as (a) an overall figure and (b) a proportion of tax liabilities.
(168538)
48
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the level of the maximum fine for a company found not to be paying the minimum wage.
(168975)
49
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made on the resources his Department has available to enforce the minimum wage.
(168976)
50
N
Mr David Ward
(Bradford East):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the proposed recapitalisation of the Co-operative Bank.
(168461)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
51
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in Ashfield constituency were homeless in the latest period for which figures are available.
(169000)
52
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on travel for departmental officials in each of the last five years.
(169009)
53
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the number of unoccupied residential properties in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the East Midlands.
(169021)
54
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new homes in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the East Midlands have been built as a result of the New Homes Bonus to date.
(169022)
55
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of properties in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England are graded at Band E for the purposes of council tax.
(169023)
56
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of how many household rents in the private rented sector fell below the average rent within each local authority area in the UK in each year since 2010-11.
(169140)
57
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's policies on child poverty in (a) Birkenhead constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and (c) the Liverpool City Region.
(169147)
58
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many children were homeless in (a) Birkenhead constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, (c) the Liverpool City Region and (d) the UK in the latest period for which figures are available.
(169148)
59
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to address child homelessness in (a) Birkenhead constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and (c) the Liverpool City Region.
(169149)
60
Andrew Jones
(Harrogate and Knaresborough):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total level of Government investment in affordable housing in North Yorkshire will be throughout the current Parliament.
(168923)
61
Andrew Jones
(Harrogate and Knaresborough):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the monetary benefit to the average household of the freeze in council tax in the current Parliament in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) England.
(168924)
62
Patrick Mercer
(Newark):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consideration he has given to the introduction of (a) exclusion zones and (b) minimum separation distances between large scale groups of wind turbines and the nearest residential properties.
(169060)
63
Dame Joan Ruddock
(Lewisham, Deptford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes have been built in the last 12 months in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Lewisham.
(169139)
64
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many library staff employed by local authorities in England were employed on a zero-hours contract in each of the last 5 years for which records are available.
(168972)
65
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons he took the decision to end the check-off system of payment of union subscriptions direct from wages.
(168977)
66
N
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the total (a) number of businesses benefitting from small business rate relief and (b) value of support offered under small business rate relief relates to businesses (i) in the retail sector and (ii) occupying a retail unit.
(168917)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
67
Mr William Bain
(Glasgow North East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what further steps her Department plans to take to tackle the problem of automatic telephone calls made to lines in domestic residences.
(169135)
68
Jake Berry
(Rossendale and Darwen):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that rural areas in Rossendale and Darwen constituency can receive faster broadband.
(169146)
69
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on travel for departmental officials in each of the last five years.
(169010)
70
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage people to get involved in athletics.
(169024)
71
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much National Lottery funding was given to organisations in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years.
(169025)
72
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on sport in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
(169026)
73
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resources available to her Department to exercise the default powers of the Secretary of State provided for in the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964.
(168574)
74
Andrew Jones
(Harrogate and Knaresborough):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to what extent 3G mobile network coverage in North Yorkshire has been increased since May 2010; and what steps she is taking to increase that coverage further.
(168925)
75
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress she has made on her rural broadband strategy; and if she will make a statement.
(169038)
76
Dr Matthew Offord
(Hendon):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to support the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda's proposals to end roaming charges in the EU.
(168931)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
77
N
Mr Russell Brown
(Dumfries and Galloway):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many new entry officer cadets there were at (a) Dartmouth, (b) Royal Military Support Sandhurst and (c) Cranwell in (i) 2011 and (ii) 2012.
(168898)
78
N
Mr Russell Brown
(Dumfries and Galloway):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies financed the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme in each of the last five years; and how much was contributed by each.
(168902)
79
N
Mr Russell Brown
(Dumfries and Galloway):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many parliamentarians have taken part in the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme in each of the last five years.
(168903)
80
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to assist war veterans with mental health issues.
(169052)
81
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether flying pay is paid (a) at the same rate and (b) to the same criteria across the armed forces.
(168573)
82
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets and how many personnel will take part in Exercise Brilliant Mariner 2013; and what he estimates the cost to the public purse of that exercise will be.
(169169)
83
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets and how many personnel took part in Exercise Albanian Lion; what assessment the Commanding Officer of 42 Commando Royal Marines made of the Albanian force; and what estimate he has made of the likely cost to the public purse of that exercise.
(169170)
84
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets and how many personnel will take part in Exercise Bright Star; what he estimates the cost to the public purse of that exercise will be; and which (a) Egyptian and (b) United States Armed Forces units will participate.
(169171)
85
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets and how many personnel will take part in Exercise Red Alligator; what he estimates the cost to the public purse of that exercise will be; and which Saudi Arabian armed forces units will participate.
(169172)
86
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets and how many personnel will take part in Exercise Djibouti Scorpion and Exercise Djibouti Lion; what he estimates the cost to the public purse will be; and which Djibouti armed forces units will participate.
(169173)
87
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets and how many personnel will take part in Exercise Sea Khanjar; what he estimates the cost to the public purse will be; and which United Arab Emirates armed forces units will participate.
(169174)
88
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what UK military assets and how many UK military personnel will take part in Exercise Omani Cougar; at what cost to the public purse; and what Omani armed forces units will participate in that exercise.
(169175)
89
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what countries have accepted invitations for their service personnel to embark on Exercise Cougar 13; and how many personnel have embarked, by country.
(169176)
90
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what exercises are planned for the Royal Marine Commandos in Norway in 2014; and which units will participate.
(169177)
91
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he intends to Answer question number 162512 tabled on 26 June 2013 for Answer on 1 July 2013.
(169094)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
92
N
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many times the Local Growth Cabinet Committee has met in the last 12 months.
(168911)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
93
Tom Blenkinsop
(Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of records held on Edubase that are out-of-date or inaccurate.
(168960)
94
N
Annette Brooke
(Mid Dorset and North Poole):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration he has given to the effect of Ofqual's decision to remove the speaking and listening assessment from GCSE English and GCSE English Language on (a) the amount of teaching time allocated to speaking and listening skills, (b) the development of pupils' oral communication skills and (c) the accountability of teachers to teach speaking and listening skills at Key Stage 4.
(168478)
95
N
Annette Brooke
(Mid Dorset and North Poole):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions his Department has had with Ofqual about its decision to remove the Speaking and Listening Assessment from GCSE English and GCSE English Language.
(168480)
96
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on travel for departmental officials in each of the last five years.
(169011)
97
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants there are in schools in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the East Midlands.
(169028)
98
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of children in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the East Midlands who eat school-provided dinners instead of packed lunches.
(169030)
99
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that older teachers can retrain and rejoin the profession.
(169032)
100
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that children receive a healthy diet from school dinners.
(169033)
101
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse through the sale of sports fields in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England since May 2010.
(169034)
102
Mike Freer
(Finchley and Golders Green):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for how many days on average staff of his Department in each pay grade were absent from work as a result of ill health in each of the last 12 months.
(169008)
103
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson
(Washington and Sunderland West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many unscheduled inspections of childcare providers following complaints were undertaken by Ofsted in each month since August 2008.
(168492)
104
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson
(Washington and Sunderland West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many childcare providers subject to unscheduled inspections by Ofsted following complaints had their rating revised (a) down, (b) up, (c) from outstanding or good to unsatisfactory and (d) from outstanding or good to satisfactory in each month since August 2008.
(168493)
105
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson
(Washington and Sunderland West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints Ofsted has received from childcare providers about the quality or result of an unscheduled inspection following a complaint in each month since August 2008; and how many of these complaints were upheld (a) by the initial investigating official, (b) following an internal review and (c) by the Independent Complaints Adjudication Service for Ofsted.
(168494)
106
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson
(Washington and Sunderland West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many revisions to the rating of childcare providers Ofsted has made following an upheld complaint by a chilcare provider subject to an unscheduled inspection in each month since August 2008.
(168495)
107
N
Dr Julian Huppert
(Cambridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration he gave to including emergency life savings skills in the school curriculum.
(168834)
108
Andrew Jones
(Harrogate and Knaresborough):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children studying GCSEs have met the English Baccalaureate performance measure in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) England in 2013 to date.
(168922)
109
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps he has taken to better integrate children with challenging behaviour into schools.
(169062)
110
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average GCSE results are of (a) boys and (b) girls from low income families; and if he will make a statement.
(169063)
111
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have visited the schools with the highest proportion of students in poverty since May 2010; and if he will make a statement.
(169064)
112
Greg Mulholland
(Leeds North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost was of closing all primary schools closed in Leeds in 2003-04; what the annual cost of maintaining and securing the empty buildings is; and what additional cost is generated through a shortage of places in primary schools in Leeds.
(168959)
113
N
Mr David Ward
(Bradford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what changes his Department intends to make to how sex and relationship education is taught under the PSHE curriculum.
(168460)
114
N
Mr Tom Watson
(West Bromwich East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the delegated spending threshold against which spending needs to be authorised by a Minister in his Department.
(168469)
115
N
Mr Tom Watson
(West Bromwich East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library his Department's statistics for absenteeism in the last three financial years.
(168532)
116
N
Mr Tom Watson
(West Bromwich East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's property assets.
(168533)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
117
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on travel for departmental officials in each of the last five years.
(169012)
118
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to open the energy market to greater competition.
(169037)
119
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to keep pensioners warm in winter.
(169040)
120
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the average annual energy bill for a typical family in Ashfield constituency in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13; and if he will make a statement.
(169053)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
121
Tom Blenkinsop
(Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding he will provide to increase the flood resilience of Guisborough.
(168950)
122
Tom Blenkinsop
(Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding he will provide to increase the flood resilience of (a) Skinningrove, (b) Brotton, (c) Loftus, (d) Skelton and (e) surrounding areas.
(168951)
123
Tom Blenkinsop
(Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding he will provide to increase the flood resilience of Teesside.
(168952)
124
Tom Blenkinsop
(Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding he will provide to increase the flood resilience of Saltburn.
(168953)
125
N
Mary Creagh
(Wakefield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which UK companies are licensed to deal with category 1 waste; and how many tonnes of category 1 waste (a) in total and (b) from abattoirs in the UK each such company dealt with in each of the last three years.
(168463)
126
N
Mary Creagh
(Wakefield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many tonnes of category 1 waste was produced by abattoirs in the UK in each of the last three years.
(168464)
127
N
Mary Creagh
(Wakefield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the most common final end uses of category 1 waste after processing were in each of the last three years.
(168465)
128
N
Mary Creagh
(Wakefield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the £500,000 allocated by his Department for badger vaccination has been distributed to farmers in the cull areas to date.
(168477)
129
N
Mary Creagh
(Wakefield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many monitors have been employed by Natural England to monitor the humaneness of the pilot badger culls.
(168484)
130
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on developing a food pricing policy that tackles food poverty alongside public health concerns.
(168566)
131
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on travel for departmental officials in each of the last five years.
(169013)
132
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) financial and (b) other support his Department gives to animal rescue centres.
(169018)
133
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date the findings of the trial badger cull will be published.
(169019)
134
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animal rescue centres there were in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
(169059)
135
N
Sir Roger Gale
(North Thanet):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to be in a position to publish the report that his Department has commissioned with regard to the effects of land-based wind farms upon property prices in rural areas.
(168842)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
136
N
Mr James Clappison
(Hertsmere):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of attacks on the historic Christian town of Maaloula by elements of Syrian opposition forces; whether groups affiliated to or members of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) were involved in any such attacks; and what representations he has made to the SNC concerning toleration of religious minorities, including the Christian minority in Syria.
(168835)
137
N
Jeremy Corbyn
(Islington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contacts there have been with representatives of the government of Iran during the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
(168338)
138
N
Jeremy Corbyn
(Islington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what monitoring is undertaken of the activities of British-based mining companies operating in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); and what discussions he has held with the government of DRC on the operation of Extractive Industries Transparency Protocol.
(168340)
139
N
Stephen Doughty
(Cardiff South and Penarth):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what range of diplomatic responses and sanctions are available to the Government in its relationships with another state when a UK citizen is being detained illegally by that state.
(168483)
140
N
Stephen Doughty
(Cardiff South and Penarth):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the UK Ambassador to the Dominican Republic has requested a meeting with the (a) Attorney-General, (b) President of the Supreme Court and (c) President of the Dominican Republic to discuss the case of Nicole Reyes a constituent of the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth.
(168485)
141
N
Stephen Doughty
(Cardiff South and Penarth):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will personally raise the case of Nicole Reyes a constituent of the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth with his counterpart in the Dominican Republic.
(168486)
142
N
Stephen Doughty
(Cardiff South and Penarth):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Prime Minister will raise the case of Nicole Reyes, a constituent of the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth, who is detained illegally in the Dominican Republic with the President of the Dominican Republic.
(168487)
143
N
Stephen Doughty
(Cardiff South and Penarth):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK citizens are being detained illegally in the Dominican Republic.
(168499)
144
N
Paul Goggins
(Wythenshawe and Sale East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Iranian government about the murder of Mr Ataollah Rezvani on Saturday 24 August 2013; and if he will make a statement.
(168904)
145
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress he has made on co-operation with his European counterparts in Syria; and if he will make a statement.
(169036)
146
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he was made aware of the relevance of the judicial arrest warrant for Mr Almog when granting the application for Mr Almog's special mission.
(169090)
147
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the purpose of Mr Almog's special mission to the UK was; which official engagements he attended during in his mission; in which capacity he visited the UK; and if he will make a statement.
(169092)
148
N
Mr David Winnick
(Walsall North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the UK has made representations to the Israeli authorities on the state of the Shu'fat refugee camp which is within the Jerusalem municipality; if he will make a statement on the health of the inhabitants of the camp; and if he will make a statement.
(168498)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
149
Ms Diane Abbott
(Hackney North and Stoke Newington):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many inpatient beds for child and adolescent mental health services there were in each year from 2009.
(168926)
150
Mr David Blunkett
(Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department gives on the circumstances where ambulance crews should turn on blue lights and sirens.
(168958)
151
N
Mr Crispin Blunt
(Reigate):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2013, Official Report, column 721W, on Warfarin, what responsibility NHS England has for the enforcement of the NHS Constitution with regards to patients' legal rights to medicines approved by NICE.
(167750)
152
N
Mr Crispin Blunt
(Reigate):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2013, Official Report, column 721W, on Warfarin, what action NHS England may take to direct (a) NHS medicines management organisations and (b) Clinical Commissioning Groups to alter prescribing protocols which it judges to be in conflict with the provisions of the NHS constitution as it pertains to patients' legal rights to access to medicines approved by NICE.
(167751)
153
N
Mr Crispin Blunt
(Reigate):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2013, Official Report, column 721W, on Warfarin, what steps have been taken by NHS England to date against those NHS organisations which may have breached the NHS constitution by publishing prescribing protocols on the use of anticoagulants which restrict patient access to novel oral anticoagulants to a second-line therapy.
(167752)
154
Sir Tony Cunningham
(Workington):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recent decision by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the meningococcal B vaccine on the life sciences industry.
(168966)
155
Sir Tony Cunningham
(Workington):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the conclusions in the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer, 2011 that (a) an effective vaccine against meningitis B would have a substantial impact on morbidity and mortality from meningitis and (b) a greater emphasis needs to be placed on preventative health measures.
(169017)
156
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people classified as obese in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England.
(169042)
157
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise the nutritional standards of meals in NHS hospitals.
(169043)
158
Mr Roger Godsiff
(Birmingham, Hall Green):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on hospitals supplying personal contact data of new mothers on hospital wards to private companies.
(169049)
159
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged 75 years and over were readmitted to hospital within one month of discharge in Brighton, Kemptown in the latest period for which figures are available.
(168969)
160
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the treatment of elderly people whilst in hospital.
(168970)
161
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department gives to assist people who have given up their jobs to care for older relatives.
(168971)
162
Peter Luff
(Mid Worcestershire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral statement of 26 March 2013, Official Report, column 1473, on Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, what progress he has made on the development of a barring scheme to prevent managers found guilty of gross misconduct from finding a job in another part of the NHS.
(169091)
163
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the operation of the 111 telephone service; and if he will make a statement.
(169027)
164
Dr Matthew Offord
(Hendon):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evaluation his Department has made of the pilot national aortic aneurysm screening programme; and what plans he has for national roll-out of that programme.
(168930)
165
Priti Patel
(Witham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the productivity of the National Health Service in each of the last 10 years.
(169145)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
166
N
Chris Bryant
(Rhondda):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a contract has been signed with a company allowing them to take on the operation of the Cyclamen nuclear monitoring system.
(168528)
167
N
Chris Bryant
(Rhondda):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Cyclamen nuclear monitoring system is in operation at any UK ports.
(168901)
168
N
Jeremy Corbyn
(Islington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many legacy asylum applications are still outstanding; how many have been resolved in each of the last 12 months; and how many staff are allocated to this task.
(168341)
169
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to encourage neighbourhood watch schemes in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) the UK.
(169020)
170
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many speed cameras there have been in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
(169046)
171
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were caught speeding by a speed camera in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
(169047)
172
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been generated through speed cameras in (a) the East Midlands and (b) England in each of the last five years.
(169080)
173
N
Sir Roger Gale
(North Thanet):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when, and under whose authority, the practice of requiring Eurostar passengers travelling between Brussels and London to keep their boarding passes for checking on arrival at St Pancras was introduced.
(168841)
174
N
John Healey
(Wentworth and Dearne):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the Government's response to the Second Report of the Home Affairs Committee, Session 2013-14, on Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming HC 68-I.
(168530)
175
N
John Healey
(Wentworth and Dearne):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Second Report of the Home Affairs Committee, Session 2013-14, on Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming, HC 68-I, what plans she has to strengthen protection for children from grooming and sexual exploitation.
(168531)
176
Gordon Henderson
(Sittingbourne and Sheppey):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will request that Kent Police publish information on the number of persons (a) arrested, (b) charged, (c) convicted and (d) jailed under (i) Section 2a and (ii) Section 4a of the Protection from Harrassment Act 1997 since that Act's implementation.
(169089)
177
N
Dr Julian Huppert
(Cambridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many joint investigation teams the UK has been involved in for each of the last five years.
(168496)
178
N
Dr Julian Huppert
(Cambridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU citizens, not born in the UK, are employed as police officers in the UK.
(168497)
179
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers of each rank have received training on investigating and gathering evidence in relation to complaints of stalking.
(168836)
180
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) arrested, (b) charged, (c) convicted and (d) jailed for offences under (i) section 2A and (ii) section 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in Northamptonshire to date.
(168839)
181
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) arrested, (b) charged, (c) convicted and (d) jailed for offences under (i) section 2A and (ii) section 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in Surrey to date.
(168840)
182
Fiona Mactaggart
(Slough):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many responses her Department's recent consultation on immigration and private rented housing received; and how many such responses were from people who are currently acting as landlords.
(168954)
183
Fiona Mactaggart
(Slough):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many responses her Department's recent consultation on health care for migrants received; and how many such responses were from practitioners and managers in the NHS or related bodies.
(168955)
184
Dr Matthew Offord
(Hendon):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 in each of the last five years.
(168929)
185
Ian Paisley
(North Antrim):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to reduce the cost of a UK visa to bring it into line with the cost of a Schengen Visa.
(169029)
186
N
Mr David Ward
(Bradford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on reducing the income thresholds for family visas applications.
(168472)
187
N
Mr David Ward
(Bradford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family visa applications have been paused since 5 July 2013.
(168473)
188
N
Mr David Ward
(Bradford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department plans to amend spouse visa rules following the High Court judgement on 5 July 2013.
(168474)
189
N
Mr David Winnick
(Walsall North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will arrange for the hon. Member for Walsall North to receive a reply to her letter of 23 July 2013 to the interim Director General of UK Visas and Immigration on behalf of a constituent, CTS ref M01314/13; and what the reason is for the length of time taken to reply.
(168254)
Questions to the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission
190
N
Dr Julian Huppert
(Cambridge):
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the policy of PICT is on (a) the use of open source software and (b) the choice of computer languages used for developing ICT services; and when this policy was last reviewed.
(168482)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
191
N
Richard Burden
(Birmingham, Northfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2013, Official Report, column 279W, on Palestinians, when her Department will complete its consideration of the costs and benefits of additional assistance for vulnerable communities in Area C.
(168475)
192
Stephen Doughty
(Cardiff South and Penarth):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when (a) she and (b) officials of her Department last met representatives of Puntland and Jubaland.
(169005)
193
Stephen Doughty
(Cardiff South and Penarth):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when (a) she and (b) officials of her Department next plan to meet with representatives of Puntland and Jubaland.
(169006)
194
N
Mr Ivan Lewis
(Bury South):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how her Department plans to allocate the additional £52 million of UK aid to Syria.
(168481)
195
N
Mr Ivan Lewis
(Bury South):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what consideration determined the timing of her announcement in April 2013 that the UK's bilateral aid programme to South Africa would end in 2015.
(168582)
196
N
Mr Ivan Lewis
(Bury South):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether representatives of the South African government expressed concern about her decision to end the UK's bilateral aid programme to South Africa in 2015 before the announcement of the decision on 30 April 2013.
(168583)
197
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in Egypt.
(169031)
198
Dr Matthew Offord
(Hendon):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations her Department has made to the government of Montserrat in relation to the draft Conservation and Environmental Management Bill.
(168932)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
199
N
Sir Edward Garnier
(Harborough):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (b) the Attorney General, (c) the Lord Chief Justice and (d) Ministers and officials in his Department on further training for (i) police forces, (ii) the Crown Prosecution Service (iii) the Probation Service, (iv) magistrates and (v) judges on the application of sections 2A and 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997; and if he will make a statement.
(168833)
200
N
Mr Nick Gibb
(Bognor Regis and Littlehampton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many post-charge bail applications were (a) refused, (b) granted with conditions and (c) granted unconditionally in cases where a defendant has been charged with an offence contrary to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2011.
(168466)
201
N
John Healey
(Wentworth and Dearne):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there have been for cruelty to or neglect of children in each English police force area in each year since 1995.
(168476)
202
N
John Healey
(Wentworth and Dearne):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there have been for cases of sexual activity with a child under 16 in each English police force area in each year since 1995.
(168535)
203
Gordon Henderson
(Sittingbourne and Sheppey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons were convicted for breach of a restraining order under the terms of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in 2012.
(169086)
204
Gordon Henderson
(Sittingbourne and Sheppey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons were given a restraining order under the terms of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in 2012.
(169087)
205
Gordon Henderson
(Sittingbourne and Sheppey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether mental health assessments are made available to individuals (a) charged with and (b) convicted of stalking.
(169088)
206
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to issue revised sentencing guidelines in respect of new offences under sections 2A and 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
(168838)
207
Greg Mulholland
(Leeds North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that prison sentences without the possibility of release undermine a prisoner's human rights.
(169081)
208
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the future of Corby Magistrates' Court.
(168978)
209
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he intends to Answer question number 163254 tabled on 1 July 2013 for Answer on 3 July 2013.
(169093)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
210
Mr David Anderson
(Blaydon):
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will consider establishing an independent panel to investigate events surrounding the Ballymurphy Massacre in August 1971.
(169134)
211
Mr David Anderson
(Blaydon):
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will work with members of the Dail to seek a way to fully investigate the events surrounding the Ballymurphy Massacre in August 1971.
(169142)
212
Paul Murphy
(Torfaen):
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 4 March 2013, Official Report, column 771W, on the Army, for what reasons she has decided that a public inquiry into the deaths at Ballymurphy on 9 August 1971 would not be in the public interest.
(169143)
Questions to the Prime Minister
213
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to his Answers of 15 December 2011, Official Report, column 875W, on Ministerial Policy Advisers, and 6 September 2012, Official Report, column 454W, on Ministerial Policy Advisers, when he last published a list of special advisers in post; whether the commitment to publish such a list on a quarterly basis has been adhered to; and when he will next publish an up-to-date list of special advisers in post and their number and costs.
(168529)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
214
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what requests he has made for Barnett consequentials for Scotland arising from the High Speed 2 project.
(168468)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
215
N
Paul Burstow
(Sutton and Cheam):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with the Mayor of London on the extension of the South London Tramlink to Sutton town centre.
(168580)
216
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on travel for departmental officials in each of the last five years.
(169014)
217
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to protect Grade I and Grade II listed buildings during the construction of High Speed 2.
(169044)
218
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road deaths were recorded in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
(169045)
219
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people are in receipt of a free bus pass in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England.
(169048)
220
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of people resident in Ashfield constituency who do not live within half a mile of a bus stop.
(169058)
221
N
Charlie Elphicke
(Dover):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration he has given to banning lorries from overtaking on motorways and dual carriageways.
(900273)
222
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the consultation on compensation for Phase 1 of High Speed 2 will be issued by his Department.
(168565)
223
Mr Roger Godsiff
(Birmingham, Hall Green):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to review the adequacy of the current regulatory framework for civil use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
(169050)
224
N
Lady Hermon
(North Down):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will visit Northern Ireland to meet the hon. Member for North Down and other local politicians to discuss the retention of vehicle licensing services in Northern Ireland.
(168527)
225
N
Barbara Keeley
(Worsley and Eccles South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to support cycling.
(900270)
226
N
Andrea Leadsom
(South Northamptonshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to launch the re-run consultation on compensation for those affected by the High Speed 2 scheme; and when he expects a new dicretionary scheme to be in place.
(168470)
227
N
Andrea Leadsom
(South Northamptonshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses were received to (a) the draft Environmental Statement and (b) the Design Refinement Consultation for phase one of the High Speed 2 scheme.
(168471)
228
N
Charlotte Leslie
(Bristol North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the (a) economic and (b) transport benefits to the West and South West of High Speed 2.
(168575)
229
N
John Woodcock
(Barrow and Furness):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place copies of (a) the proposed revision to the passenger service requirement for the Transpennine franchise from May 2014 and (b) the responses received from consultees in the Library.
(168914)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
230
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what requests he has made for Barnett consequentials for Wales arising from the High Speed 2 project.
(168467)
Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities
231
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent progress she has made on fairer representation for women in public life; and if she will make a statement.
(169039)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
232
N
Paul Burstow
(Sutton and Cheam):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish figures on incapacity benefit reassessments and decisions by condition group.
(168576)
233
N
Paul Burstow
(Sutton and Cheam):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group have a prognosis of unlikely to return to work in the longer term.
(168577)
234
N
Paul Burstow
(Sutton and Cheam):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people previously in receipt of incapacity benefit have been placed in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group without being seen by an assessor.
(168578)
235
N
Paul Burstow
(Sutton and Cheam):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a progressive condition are being placed on the Work Programme; and what the success rate for placing these claimants back into work has been to date.
(168579)
236
N
Jeremy Corbyn
(Islington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what level of transitional funding for housing allowance has been allocated to each London borough for the financial year (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13 to date; and what the intended level is in 2013-14.
(168337)
237
N
Jeremy Corbyn
(Islington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current average level of housing allowance paid to claimants in the private rented sector in each London borough is; and what the equivalent payment was in each of the last three years.
(168339)
238
Mike Crockart
(Edinburgh West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to allow underspends in the (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 discretionary housing payment budget to be carried over.
(169126)
239
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on travel for departmental officials in each of the last five years.
(169015)
240
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people between 16 and 25 years old in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire had been claiming jobseeker's allowance for two years or more in each month since May 2010.
(169054)
241
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average weekly number of job applications submitted by each jobseeker in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last 24 months.
(169055)
242
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on refunding the cost of travel by jobseekers to jobcentres in Ashfield constituency in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
(169056)
243
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in private rented accommodation in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England are in receipt of housing benefit.
(169057)
244
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the number of people in each ward who have been unemployed for (a) six, (b) 12 and (c) 24 months in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.
(169078)
245
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of work capability assessments were successfully appealed in (a) Birkenhead constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Authority of Wirral, (c) the Liverpool City Region and (d) the UK in each year since 2010-11.
(169079)
246
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the full breakdown of sanctions issued against jobseeker's allowance claimants since 2010-11 is.
(169136)
247
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sanctions against jobseeker's allowance claimants were successfully appealed in (a) Birkenhead constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, (c) the Liverpool City Region and (d) the UK as a proportion of the total number of sanctions issued in each year since 2010-11.
(169137)
248
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of policy from his Department since May 2010 on child poverty in (a) Birkenhead constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, (c) the Liverpool City Region and (d) the UK.
(169138)
249
John Hemming
(Birmingham, Yardley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that people whose employment and support allowance is ceasing are clearly advised to claim jobseeker's allowance.
(169007)
250
Simon Kirby
(Brighton, Kemptown):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he intends to take to increase the number of people aged over 50 years old who want to return to work.
(168961)
251
N
Alison McGovern
(Wirral South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the resource requirements of any introduction of Jobcentre Plus interviews for universal credit claimants who are deemed to be earning too little.
(168913)
252
N
Alison McGovern
(Wirral South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proposals his Department has made for sanctions under universal credit for claimants who are deemed to be earning too little; and if he will make a statement.
(168915)
253
N
Alison McGovern
(Wirral South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had regarding possible Jobcentre Plus interventions for those earning less than £950 per month, following the introduction of universal credit; and if he will make a statement.
(168916)
254
N
Fiona O'Donnell
(East Lothian):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what agreements his Department has made with the Trussell Trust since May 2010; what the status of any such agreement is; and what discussions his Department has had with the Trussell Trust since May 2010.
(168564)
255
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason war disablement pension is disregarded under universal credit; and if he will make a statement.
(168581)
256
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the extent to which the jobseeker's allowance domestic violence easement is applied in jobcentres in practice; and if he will make a statement.
(168584)
257
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to implement the recommendations of his Department's research report entitled Domestic Violence: Implementation of JSA DV Easement and DDV Concession, published in June 2013; and if he will make a statement.
(168832)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
258
N
Mr Rob Wilson
(Reading East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, What progress his Department has made on procuring new rolling stock for the Great Western Line; and if he will make a statement.
[Question Unstarred]
(900286)
Questions to the Attorney General
259
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Attorney General, what training Crown Prosecutors have received on sections 2A and 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
[Transferred]
(168837)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
260
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England were paid the minimum wage in each of the last five years.
[Transferred]
(169002)
261
N
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Defence of 2 September 2013, Official Report, column 5, on the Trident Alternatives Review and the written Answer of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of 2 July 2013, Official Report, column 6W, on Trident, if he will provide details of the cost of the Trident Alternatives Review to the public purse in terms of (a) cost and (b) officials' time.
[Transferred]
(168912)
262
Fiona Mactaggart
(Slough):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the total additional cost borne by local authorities as a result of the shift to individual voter registration; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred]
(168956)
263
Andrew Stephenson
(Pendle):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths from prescription drug overdoses there were in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire in each of the last five years.
[Transferred]
(168968)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
264
Patrick Mercer
(Newark):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consideration he has given to the introduction of exclusion zones for wind turbines in National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
[Transferred]
(169061)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
265
Hywel Williams
(Arfon):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what formal assessment he has made of the potential effect of the provisions of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill on the functioning of the National Assembly for Wales.
[Transferred]
(168964)
266
Hywel Williams
(Arfon):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what formal assessment he has made of the potential impact of the provision of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill on the functioning of civil society in the devolved nations.
[Transferred]
(168965)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
267
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school leavers are not in employment, education or training within 12 months of leaving school.
[Transferred]
(169051)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
268
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many people in Ashfield constituency have received the Green Deal to date.
[Transferred]
(168999)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
269
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help make fresh fruit and vegetables more affordable.
[Transferred]
(168567)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
270
Andrew Bridgen
(North West Leicestershire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the (a) cost and (b) timescales of a procurement exercise for a contract for direct supply of milk as part of the Nursery Milk Scheme.
[Transferred]
(168967)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
271
N
Mr Nick Gibb
(Bognor Regis and Littlehampton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many post-charge bail applications have been (a) refused, (b) granted with conditions and (c) granted unconditionally in cases where a defendant has been charged with an offence against the person, in a domestic context in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2011.
[Transferred]
(168491)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
272
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands and (d) England were in receipt of the winter fuel allowance in each of the last five years.
[Transferred]
(169041)