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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 8 October 2013

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Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Tuesday 8 October 2013

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on

Tuesday 8 October 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.

Tuesday 8 October  
Questions to the Attorney General
1  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Attorney General, how many cases of joint enterprise were prosecuted in each of the last five years in each prosecution service.
      (169681)
2  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Attorney General, whether it is the policy of the Crown prosecution Service to provide wildlife crime training for all generalist prosecutors; and if he will make a statement.
      (169671)
3  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Attorney General, how many training sessions on wildlife crime offences the Crown Prosecution Service has delivered in each of the last 10 years.
      (169672)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
4  
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the prospectus for privatisation of Royal Mail will be drawn up and made available to the (a) public and (b) Royal Mail workforce.
      (169535)
5 N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff were employed by the UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation on 1 April 2013.
      (169597)
6 N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much public expenditure he estimates supports exports (a) of military and security equipment and (b) from all other industrial sectors.
      (169604)
7 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the provision of basic engineering training in the West Midlands.
      (169620)
8 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make a statement on the Financial Reporting Council Final Report of Disciplinary Hearing: MG Rover Group, Deloitte and Touche and Mr Maghsoud Einollahi.
      (169658)
9 N
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students entered medical school without any (a) A-level grades and (b) A grades in comparable qualifications in the latest year for which figures are available.
      (169273)
10  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been spent by his Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169502)
11  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of additional lifetime earnings of apprentices.
      (169532)
12  
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people started apprenticeships in (a) Essex and (b) Harlow in the last five years; and what proportion of those people go on to full-time employment.
      (169541)
13  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in the West Midlands started exporting for the first time as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Investment West Midlands in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
      (169475)
14  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in the West Midlands started exporting to a new market for the first time as a direct result of the work of UK Trade and Investment West Midlands in the last (a) 12 months and (b) two years.
      (169476)
15  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much additional export volume was generated for 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.
      (169477)
16  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new jobs were generated 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.
      (169478)
17  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that the effectiveness of, and results achieved by, UK Trade and Investment offices are accurately measured and monitored.
      (169678)
18  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the depth and range of data collected on regional UK Trade and Investment offices.
      (169680)
19  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many traders were found to be selling tobacco to children in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.
      (169520)
20  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many shops were found to be selling tobacco to children in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.
      (169521)
21  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many traders were given a restricted sales order as a result of being caught selling tobacco to children in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.
      (169522)
22  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many shops were given a restricted premises order as a result of being caught selling tobacco to children in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.
      (169523)
23 N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value of trade between the UK and Taiwan has been in each year since 2010.
      (169398)
24 N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many trade missions to which countries his Department has conducted in each year since 2010.
      (169400)
25  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to ensure that his Department does not give grants to charities whose principal officers or employees engage in criminal activity at protests.
      (169669)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
26  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent by his Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169503)
27  
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Big Society community organisers have been trained to date; and at what cost.
      (169542)
28 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy that businesses who use blacklisting should be prevented from bidding for Government contracts; and if he will make a statement.
      (169603)
29  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on external lawyers' fees in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169698)
30  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what value of (a) unsecured and (b) secured loans Big Society Capital has (i) committed to make and (ii) paid out in 2012-13; and what value it estimates of (A) unsecured and (B) secured loans it will (1) commit to make and (2) pay out in (aa) 2013-14, (bb) 2014-15 and (cc) 2015-16; and if he will make a statement.
      (169660)
31  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many unsecured loans Big Society Capital has (a) committed to make and (b) paid in 2012-13; and how many such loans it estimates it will (i) commit to paying and (ii) pay out in (A) 2013-14, (B) 2014-15 and (C) 2015-16; and if he will make a statement.
      (169679)
32  
Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly gross earnings of the full-time employed (a) men and (b) women in Cleethorpes constituency were in each year since 2005-06.
      (169547)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
33 N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how many people have taken out stocks and shares ISAs in each of the last 14 years.
      (169304)
34 N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how many people held stocks and shares ISAs on 31 December 2012.
      (169305)
35  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost of uprating, in line with inflation, the pensions of all UK pensioners living in non-EU countries.
      (169557)
36  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what revenue has accrued to the Exchequer from import taxes levied on goods imported into the UK from (a) Sudan, (b) Bangladesh, (c) Nigeria, (d) Pakistan, (e) India, (f) Afghanistan, (g) Tanzania and (h) Democratic Republic of Congo in each of the last three years.
      (169558)
37 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions Ms Poppy Mitchell-Rose has been registered as a visitor to his Department's main building since November 2012.
      (169402)
38 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions Mr Paul Stephenson has been registered as a visitor to his Department's main building since December 2012.
      (169403)
39  
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the £22.5 billion raised in the 3G auction in 2000 have mobile networks claimed back in tax relief.
      (169665)
40  
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the net receipt to the public purse was of the £22.5 billion raised in the 3G auction in 2000 from the mobile networks, taking into account the aggregate tax relief claimed in 2000 or subsequent years.
      (169666)
41  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish any assessment he has made of the effects on child poverty of changes in levels of public expenditure between 2009-10 and 2014-15.
      (169555)
42  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the expected increase in hours of employment resulting from its decision to lift the eligibility bar from 16 to 24 hours.
      (169556)
43  
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent banks from using money in a credit card account to settle that account in advance of the due date without the permission of the customer.
      (169487)
44 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse via income tax from pensioners in (a) Scotland and (b) Kilmarnock and Loudon constituency in each of the last five years.
      (169308)
45  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the implications of a reduction in bingo duty on (a) jobs and (b) the wider economy.
      (169587)
46  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the bingo industry on bingo duty.
      (169588)
47  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he will take to monitor the benefits to consumers of current account switching.
      (169590)
48  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the response to his Department's consultation, A new approach to financial regulation: transferring consumer credit regulation to the Financial Conduct Authority, will be published.
      (169655)
49  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many responses to his Department's consultation on harnessing the potential of the UK's natural resources: a fiscal regime of shale gas, were submitted by the closing date of 13 September 2013.
      (169656)
50  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to establish minimum standards for basic bank accounts.
      (169663)
51 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has received representations from the Scottish Government regarding the financial implications for restoration works for former open-cast coal sites where restoration bonds prove inadequate.
      (169685)
52 N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful criminal prosecutions were brought as a result of investigations by HM Revenue and Customs in 2009-10.
      (169659)
53 N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of HM Revenue and Customs' ability to meet the target of a five-fold increase in prosecutions announced in the 2010 Spending Review.
      (169661)
54 N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the conviction rate by percentage has been in each year since 2009-10 for prosecutions brought following investigations by HM Revenue and Customs.
      (169662)
55 N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of families with children aged under five in which one or more parents receives vouchers under the current childcare voucher scheme.
      (169623)
56 N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of families with children aged under five which would be eligible for the tax-free childcare scheme under the proposals published for consultation on 5 August 2013.
      (169624)
57 N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what employers he has met to discuss the proposed shift from childcare vouchers to the tax-free childcare scheme.
      (169625)
58 N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many children of each age there are in the 550,000 families that currently receive childcare vouchers.
      (169626)
59 N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of families entitled to receive vouchers under the current childcare voucher scheme that did not use those vouchers in each of the last five years.
      (169627)
60 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a post-implementation review has been conducted into the Simplified VAT Accounting Scheme.
      (169596)
61 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on the competitiveness of small companies and start-ups of the simplified import VAT accounting scheme approval criteria.
      (169648)
62 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the criteria for a liquidity risk assessment are published with respect to the granting of approval by HM Revenue and Customs for a business to use the simplified import VAT accounting scheme.
      (169653)
63 N
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2013, Official Report, column 553W, on Revenue and Customs: Rhyl, whether a decision has been made on the closure or relocation of the Rhyl tax office.
      (169598)
64 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the date by which all employers will be submitting PAYE data in real time.
      (169306)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
65 N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department had with the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, Raquel Rolnik during her visit to the UK in September 2013.
      (169265)
66 N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will rank each English local authority by the percentage change in the proportion of housing stock made up of social housing for rent between 1986 and the most recent year for which figures are available.
      (169279)
67 N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will rank each English local authority by the actual change in the number of units of social housing for rent between 1986 and the most recent year for which figures are available.
      (169280)
68 N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will rank each English local authority by the percentage change in the proportion of housing stock made up of private housing for rent between 2001 and 2011.
      (169281)
69 N
Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2013, Official Report, column 908W, on rented housing: electrical safety, what progress he has made with the review of licensing; what action he intends to take as a result of this review; and if he will make a statement.
      (169622)
70  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent by his Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169504)
71 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of social houses in the UK which have rooms between 50 and 70 square feet and which are currently classed as bedrooms.
      (169376)
72 N
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of retail outlets which have closed since 2007 and (b) value of the revenue non-domestic rates which has been foregone as a result of those closures.
      (169634)
73 N
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his announcement of 18 July 2013 on the creation of a reward scheme for officials in his Department who recommend money-saving ideas, what incentives he intends to offer through that scheme; on what basis those rewards will be offered; under which budgetary cost heading the purchasing of rewards will be made; and what the (a) minimum and (b) maximum reward under the scheme will be.
      (169282)
74 N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the value of extending rate relief for small businesses.
      (169399)
75  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to ensure that his Department does not give grants to charities whose principal officers or employees engage in criminal activity at protests.
      (169668)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
76 N
Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people in North Yorkshire do not yet have access to broadband speed of at least 2MBps.
     R (169410)
77  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent by her Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169505)
78 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on how many occasions Mr Adam Smith has been registered as a visitor to her Department's main building since May 2012.
      (169404)
79 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many businesses in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency have been pursued for non-payment of television licences since 2010.
      (169267)
80 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations she has received on the creation of a national memorial for war widows and orphans.
      (169270)
81  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to reply to the letter to her dated 1 August 2013 from the Rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regards to Mr A. Chan.
      (169481)
82 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much contingency is included in BT's bids for delivering the rural superfast broadband programme.
      (169274)
83 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to ensure that the invoices submitted by BT for delivering the rural superfast broadband programme accurately reflect its costs.
      (169494)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
84 N
Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average response time is of the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency to queries raised with it by veterans in the latest period for which figures are available.
      (169687)
85 N
Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints were received by the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency about its procedures for veterans making a claim for their pensions in the latest period for which figures are available.
      (169688)
86 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions Mr Oliver Waghorn has been registered as a visitor to his Department's main building since November 2011.
      (169636)
87 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions Mr Luke Coffey has been registered as a visitor to his Department's main building since November 2011.
      (169637)
88 N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time members of staff of (a) his Department and (b) his Department's executive agencies were engaged on the processing of applications for (i) Arctic Stars and (ii) the Bomber Command Clasp in each calendar month since the first application for each medal was made.
      (169371)
89 N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to issue (a) Arctic Stars and (b) the Bomber Command Clasp to (i) living veterans, (ii) surviving spouses and (iii) other next of kin from applications received by 1 September 2013.
      (169372)
90 N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many awards have been made of the (a) Arctic Star and (b) Bomber Command Clasp to (i) living veterans, (ii) surviving spouses and (iii) other next of kin as of 1 September 2013.
      (169373)
91 N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications had been received for the (a) Arctic Star and (b) Bomber Command Clasp from (i) living veterans, (ii) surviving spouses and (iii) other next of kin as of 1 September 2013.
      (169374)
92 N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for (a) Arctic Stars and (b) the Bomber Command Clasp made by surviving spouses have been awarded to next of kin because of the death of the applicant during the processing period.
      (169375)
93 N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether UK defence contractors supplying personnel for use in UK defence bases abroad are prohibited from including in the contracts of those deployed in theatre a clause denying the right to report sexual offences; and if he will make a statement.
      (169406)
94 N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many sexual violence perpetrator programmes are available to (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force personnel; where each such programme is made available; and if he will make a statement.
      (169407)
95 N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether domestic homicide reviews are carried out by military police in relation to UK garrisons based overseas; and if he will make a statement.
      (169408)
96 N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many places are available on his Department's domestic violence perpetrator programmes; what the length is of each such programme; how many participants failed to conclude each of the programmes in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
      (169409)
97  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assets and how many personnel from Royal Airforce (RAF) Regiment 20 have been deployed to RAF Akrotiri.
      (169580)
98  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate what proportion of the monetary value of the work on the Helicopter Support contract for Apache AH.1 and AW 1010 Merlin helicopters will be undertaken in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) overseas over the course of that contract.
      (169581)
99  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the suitability of the BAe 146 as an air tanker.
      (169582)
100  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there is a radiation protection officer assigned to each of his Department's sites that handles ionising radioactive materials.
      (169695)
101 N
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has commissioned any outside reviews of the proposed new GoCo from (a) Deloitte, (b) Ernst and Young, (c) PricewaterhouseCoopers and (d) KPMG; and if he will place a copy of such advice in the Library.
      (169264)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
102  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much his office spent on external lawyers' fees in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169696)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
103 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department makes of a contractor's previous performance in paying sub-contractors when awarding that company further contracts.
      (169641)
104 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that all contractors shortlisted for the new schools framework comply with the Government's new contractual requirements for suppliers' payments; and if he will take steps to ensure that all sub-contractors are also paid within their payment terms.
      (169642)
105 N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will rank the 50 state secondary schools in England with the (a) highest and (b) lowest entitlement to free school meals; and in each case what the type of school is.
      (169277)
106 N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will rank every state secondary school in London by level of entitlement to free school meals; and in each case what the type of school is.
      (169278)
107 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions Mr James O'Shaughnessy has been registered as a visitor to his Department's main building since January 2012.
      (169405)
108  
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent on (a) conferences and (b) newspapers in each of the last five years.
      (169544)
109  
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department will give to schools on changes made to the teaching of the curriculum following the National Curriculum Reform; and when such guidance will be given.
      (169518)
110  
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what extra money he will provide to schools to prepare them for the changes made to the teaching of the curriculum following the National Curriculum Reform; and when he will decide on the level of any such budgetary support.
      (169519)
111  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many placements will be made available to social work students as part of the frontline project in the next 12 months.
      (169538)
112  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much central Government funding the College of Social Work has received to date by Department.
      (169571)
113  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding will be provided to the Frontline project by his Department in the next 12 months.
      (169591)
114  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been provided to the Frontline project by his Department to date.
      (169592)
115  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to publish the responses to its consultation on the Draft Legislative Reform (Regulation of Providers of Social Work Services) (England and Wales) Order 2013.
      (169677)
116  
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether, in taking its recent decision to restrict the rights of parents to obtain permission to take their children to visit historic cultural sites abroad during school terms, the Government took account of the higher costs of overseas travel during school holidays.
      (169576)
117  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2013, Official Report, column 550W, on teachers: Lancashire, when exact numbers of teachers and special educational needs support staff in Pendle constituency and Lancashire awarded scholarships by Round Three (2013-14) of the National Scholarship Fund will be finalised.
      (169593)
118  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to tackle duplicate payments to its suppliers.
      (169682)
119  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library a list of departmental meetings attended by each non-executive board member of his Department; and what the purpose of any such meetings attended in the last six months was.
      (169683)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
120 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions Mr Chris Huhne has been registered as a visitor to his Department's main building since February 2012.
      (169492)
121  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he plans to take to support independent petrol retailers.
      (169589)
122  
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the Deep Geothermal Review Study, which he has commissioned from Atkins Global, will be published.
      (169574)
123  
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Cross Sectoral Correction factor on the competitiveness of UK manufacturing sectors covered by the EU Emissions Trading System.
      (169559)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
124 N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences have been issued allowing marksmen to take part in the pilot badger culls.
      (169310)
125 N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) annual value added to the UK economy by and (b) annual loss to the UK's slaughter and processing sectors arising from the export of live animals for fattening and slaughter outside the UK.
      (169275)
126 N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether, when the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency checks journey logs under Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport, consideration is given to the requirement for drivers of livestock vehicles to comply with the rules on driving times set out in Regulation EC 561/2006 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport.
      (169495)
127  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169579)
128  
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make available data from the Government's two pilot badger cull trials on the number of badgers culled in each of the pilot areas (a) at the midway point and (b) on completion of the pilot culls.
      (169539)
129  
Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy that raw data on the (a) proportion of area engaged and (b) proportion of badger population culled in each of the two pilot badger cull areas is published within a week of the completion of the projects.
      (169540)
130 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations he has received on possible links between the siting of wind farms and water pollution in rural areas.
      (169268)
131 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research his Department has conducted on potential links between the siting of wind farms and water pollution in rural areas.
      (169269)
132 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy that the new protocol to the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement states the geographic limits of the area to which it will apply.
      (169644)
133  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the EU Commission on mechanically separated meat; and if he will make a statement.
      (169512)
134  
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the closing dates for the two badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire are.
      (169528)
135  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ensure that his Department does not give grants to charities whose principal officers or employees engage in criminal activity at protests.
      (169667)
136  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on the review of civil sanctions granted in the Environmental Sanctions (England) Order 2010, as required by section 67 of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008.
      (169673)
137  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many wildlife crime incidents were dealt with by (a) Natural England and (b) the Environment Agency in each of the last five years; and how many of those incidents led to prosecutions in each year.
      (169674)
138  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit was provided by (a) his Department, (b) the Home Department, (c) the Scottish Government, (d) the Northern Ireland Executive, (e) the Association of Chief Police Officers and (f) other bodies in each of the last eight years.
      (169676)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
139 N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Cameroon regarding recent reports about a number of Pentecostal churches being closed due to supposed safety concerns.
      (169303)
140  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss with the Bahraini government the treatment in custody of Rihanna Almosawi.
      (169536)
141  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much has been spent by his Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169506)
142  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on whether the United Nations chemical weapons inspection team in Syria (a) discovered and (b) sampled any non-weaponised chemical agents.
      (169552)
143  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in which laboratories the analysis of possible chemical weapons agents collected in Syria by the UN inspection team was conducted.
      (169553)
144  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any UK officials were present during the analysis of the samples of possible chemical weapons material collected in Syria.
      (169554)
145  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has independently evaluated reports of rebel use of chemical weapons which have come from sources including the Russian Federation government, the United Nations and the Turkish state newspaper.
      (169568)
146  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of whether the Saudi Arabian government has supplied some rebel groups in Syria with chemicals that could be weaponised.
      (169569)
147 N
Mr David Hamilton (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made in securing compensation for UK citizens who incurred losses as a result of property fraud and the default of Alpha Bank in Cyprus.
      (169440)
148 N
Mr David Hamilton (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made on behalf of UK citizens who incurred losses as a result of property fraud and the default of Alpha Bank in Cyprus.
      (169441)
149 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Polisario on the new protocol of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement and the inclusion of the waters off Western Sahara within that protocol.
      (169645)
150 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Canadian counterparts on the effect on the UK music industry of the decision by the Canadian government to impose a fee on employers who book international musicians in venues whose primary source of income is not music.
      (169438)
151 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times he has (a) met and (b) had telephone conversations with the Yemeni Ambassador since January 2013.
      (169614)
152 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times he has (a) met and (b) had telephone conversations with the Yemeni Foreign Minister since January 2013.
      (169615)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
153 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made towards achieving the Alcohol Unit Reduction Pledge.
      (169619)
154 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2013, Official Report, column 678W, on health, which organisations have withdrawn from the Responsibility Deal; on what dates they withdrew; and for what reason they withdrew.
      (169635)
155 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how he plans to monitor the number of same-day appointments being offered by GPs in the NHS in England.
      (169643)
156  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he has taken in regard to the increasing number of complaints about South Essex Partnership Trust.
      (169490)
157  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to improve the oversight of Monitor's responsibility in regards to South Essex Partnership Trust.
      (169491)
158  
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to ambulance services on providing training to paramedics on new drugs before those drugs are brought into use.
      (169473)
159  
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to ambulance services on the use of text messages to pass information to fast response vehicles which are out on the road.
      (169474)
160 N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the findings of the NHS Support Federation's quarterly review for April to June 2013 on privatisation in the NHS in 2013.
      (169472)
161  
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2013, Official Report, column 1667W, how many (a) men, (b) women and (c) children have been admitted to hospital for drug poisoning showing ICD10 codes T36-T50 separately at a five character level in each of the last six years.
      (169573)
162 N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions Mr Bill Morgan has been registered as a visitor to his Department's main building since December 2012.
      (169638)
163  
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the formal audit of practice suggested by the UK National Screening Committee to establish how effectively guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is being implemented at a national level will include practice as well as a review of policy documents.
      (169479)
164  
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence his Department holds on the effectiveness of negative results for group B streptococcus from a urine test in early pregnancy as a predictor of maternal group B streptococcus colonisation in labour.
      (169561)
165  
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2013, Official Report, columns 432-3W, on streptococcus, whether the study to be commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research Health Techology Assessment programme will include a comparison of the effectiveness of the high risk factors at predicting GBS colonisation in labour with women without these high risk factors.
      (169562)
166  
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department received from North East NHS trusts regarding his recent allocation of winter funds.
      (169533)
167  
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department used to calculate allocation of winter funds to NHS trusts.
      (169534)
168 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to discuss plain packaging of cigarettes with his Scottish counterparts.
      (169657)
169 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to support those who have complex regional pain syndrome; and if his Department will create a strategy to address that syndrome.
      (169607)
170 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Statement of 10 September 2013, Official Report, columns 833-34, on accident and emergency departments, for what reasons the extra funds to relieve the pressures on accident and emergency departments have not been allocated to hospitals in North Cheshire; and if he will make a statement.
      (169271)
171 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library details of the figures used to calculate how the extra funds he has allocated to deal with the pressures on accident and emergency departments are to be disbursed.
      (169272)
172  
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to announce his decision on which areas have been chosen to become a pioneer site to support the delivery of integrated care.
      (169551)
173 N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Statement of 10 September 2013, Official Report, columns 45-48WS, on NHS winter planning, if he will publish the methodology used by NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority to allocate the winter planning funding; and if he will make a statement.
      (169384)
174  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made implementing the Government’s proposals to offer a new enhanced services to help patients with long-term conditions monitor their health.
      (169583)
175  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons information on the number of patients who are on long-term warfarin and use self-monitoring technology is not collected.
      (169584)
176  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of people on long-term warfarin who do not self-monitor their own condition due to the cost of buying the necessary self-monitoring devices.
      (169585)
177  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that International Normalised Ratio self-monitoring technology is available on NHS prescription and accessible to all eligible patients.
      (169586)
178  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to better identify and address the needs of patients with undiagnosed atrial fibrilation.
      (169654)
179 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times he has (a) met and (b) had telephone conversations with the Chinese Minister of Health to discuss diabetes since September 2012.
      (169616)
180 N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Statement of 10 September 2013, Official Report, column 46WS, on NHS winter planning, whether (a) recent changes to accident and emergency provision in hospitals, (b) reconfiguration of health services and awareness among the population of access to emergency care, (c) adequacy of local transport provision, (d) proportion of elderly people in the local population and (e) relative level of deprivation was considered as part of the criteria in selecting hospitals for additional funding.
      (169411)
181 N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Statement of 10 September 2013, Official Report, column 46WS, on NHS winter planning, whether (a) North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and (b) South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust applied for additional funding.
      (169412)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
182 N
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what charges are levied for visitor visas on (a) UK passport holders entering each Commonwealth country imposing such a charge and (b) residents of such Commonwealth countries who enter the UK.
      (169640)
183 N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions passengers disembarking from ships originating (a) in the EEA and (b) outside the EEA have been allowed to enter the UK without having their passports checked at UK sea ports in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 to date.
      (169307)
184 N
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's future plans are for forensic paediatric pathology services in the south west.
      (169471)
185  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent by her Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169508)
186 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on measures which enable international students to obtain visas which allow them to remain in Scotland beyond the duration of their studies for the purpose of gaining experience in employment related to their course of study.
      (169493)
187  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter to her dated 6 August 2013 from the Rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regards to Ms J. A. Neale.
      (169482)
188  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter to the Minister for Immigration dated 8 August 2013 from the Rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regards to Mr A. A. Gbadegesin.
      (169483)
189  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter to the Minister for Immigration dated 8 August 2013 from the Rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regards to Mr A. Rahman.
      (169484)
190  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter to the Minister for Immigration dated 15 July 2013 from the Rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regards to Mr M. Ax.
      (169485)
191  
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the cost of policing the pilot badger culls to date.
      (169529)
192  
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on police resources of policing the pilot badger culls.
      (169530)
193 N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will build detailed domestic homicide reviews on the basis of garrison communities within community safety partnerships; and if she will make a statement.
      (169401)
194 N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been subjected to disciplinary proceedings and, within six months, taken up employment with another police force in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) by each police force in England and Wales, excluding the Metropolitan Police Service.
      (169618)
195 N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in the Metropolitan Police Service have resigned on mental health grounds in each of the last five years; and how many of those officers were subject to disciplinary action prior to their resignation.
      (169628)
196 N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in each police force in England and Wales, excluding the Metropolitan Police Service, have resigned on mental health grounds in each of the last five years; and how many of those officers were subject to disciplinary action prior to their resignation.
      (169629)
197 N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in the Metropolitan Police Service have been subject to disciplinary proceedings and subsequently taken up employment with another police force within six months, in each of the last five years.
      (169630)
198 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks and safeguards are in place to ensure that all UK Border Agency staff give consistent advice to those applying for leave to remain in the UK.
      (169284)
199  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2013, Official Report, column 28W, on legal costs, if she will provide a breakdown of the sum of £16,584,000 spent on external legal advice by case and project.
      (169684)
200 N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals are currently held in prisons solely for immigration purposes.
      (169599)
201 N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants receiving support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 have been receiving that support for more than (a) two, (b) four and (c) six years; and if she will make a statement.
      (169647)
202 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employees of her Department under criminal investigation are suspended on full pay; and what the pay bands are of the employees suspended.
      (169600)
203 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the grounds are for the criminal investigation awaiting proceedings against nine employees of her Department.
      (169605)
204 N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government's policy remains that there should be full recovery of the firearms license fee costs.
      (169617)
205 N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to recover the costs of administering firearms licensing.
      (169631)
206 N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when changes to firearms licensing and the cost of licences will be introduced.
      (169632)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
207  
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that the role of women in civil society is given prominence in the successor to the Millennium Development Goals.
      (169570)
208  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been spent by her Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169509)
209 N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the technical assistance her Department plans to provide to India after 2015 will comprise support for measures to promote equality for women and girls in that country.
      (169613)
210  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made on the Bost Airfield and Agricultural Business Park programme.
      (169500)
211  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which Minister in her Department had overall responsibility for the Bost Airfield and Agricultural Business Park projects.
      (169501)
212  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2013, Official Report, column 35W, on Afghanistan, whether the consultant's report has been seen by a Minister from her Department.
      (169524)
213  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2013, Official Report, columns 823-4W, on Afghanistan, if she will name the Deputy Director referred to in that Answer.
      (169525)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
214  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to replace prison places that will be lost following the closure of prisons at (a) Blundeston, (b) Dorchester, (c) Northallerton, (d) Reading and (e) Dartmoor.
      (169563)
215  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have applied for the voluntary early departure scheme in each of the last four years.
      (169564)
216  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of prison places.
      (169565)
217  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of overcrowding in prisons.
      (169566)
218  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures his Department is taking to increase the number of prison places and reduce overcrowding in prisons.
      (169567)
219 N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there are any plans to support advocacy within the court system for the victims of stalking.
      (169439)
220 N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people successfully appealed against a work capability assessment decision in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2011, (c) 2010 and (d) 2009.
      (169612)
221  
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints the Office for Judicial Complaints received in relation to coroners in each category of complaint in each year since 2006.
      (169516)
222  
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the link between court-imposed fines and payday loans since August 2012.
      (169526)
223  
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison law cases funded by legal aid concerned (a) prison conditions, (b) treatment by staff, (c) discrimination, (d) communications and visits, (e) mother and baby issues, (f) compassionate release, (g) behaviour courses and (h) other treatment issues since May 2008; and what proportion of such cases were successful.
      (169527)
224  
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints were made relating to coroners, coroners' offices or inquests in each coroner district in each year since May 2010.
      (169560)
225  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department intends to collect on the use of pre-medical offers in road traffic accident personal injury claims.
      (169513)
226  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has with (a) insurance industry representatives and (b) claimant representatives about pre-medical offers in road traffic accident personal injury claims.
      (169514)
227  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to discourage the use of pre-medical offers in road traffic accident personal injury claims.
      (169515)
228  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to ensure that medical evidence is required before any compensation is paid in a road traffic accident personal injury claim.
      (169517)
229  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of pre-medical offers on the number of fraudulent and exaggerated whiplash claims.
      (169531)
230 N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for exceptional funding have been (a) received and (b) approved by the Legal Aid Agency since 1 April 2013.
      (169383)
231  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made by (a) the Sentencing Council and (b) the Magistrates' Association on the introduction of sentencing guidelines in relation to wildlife crime offences.
      (169675)
Questions to the Leader of the House
232 N
Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the contributioin of the Deputy Leader of the House of 10 September 2013, Official Report, column 893, when the planned meeting with the Shadow Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform, the Electoral Commission and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations will take place.
      (169397)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
233  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much her Department spent on external lawyers' fees in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169699)
Questions to the Prime Minister
234  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Prime Minister, how much his Office spent on external lawyers' fees in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169697)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
235 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what representations he has received from the Scottish Government regarding Enterprise Zone status for (a) Kilmarnock and (b) East Ayrshire.
      (169686)
236  
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the recent trends in the levels of employment in Scotland.
      (169595)
237 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent assessment he has made of the likely effect on families in Scotland of changes to welfare benefits.
      (169601)
238 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he last met anti-poverty campaigners in Scotland to discuss the effect in Scotland of welfare reforms; and if he will make a statement.
      (169602)
239 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the Deputy First Minister of Scotland on prohibiting businesses who use blacklisting from bidding for further Government contracts; and if he will make a statement.
      (169606)
240  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on external lawyers' fees in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169701)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
241  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken as a result of International Shipping Week.
      (169488)
242  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department will provide for International Shipping Week in the light of the success of its inaugural event.
      (169489)
243  
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of whether LED street lighting systems are cheaper to run and maintain than the current system of pressured sodium street lighting, and of whether the capital investment needed to convert current street lighting to LED systems on a significant scale can be justified by a reasonable timeframe required to recover such costs.
      (169577)
244  
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the consequences of using LED street lighting in residential areas and the effects of white light upon melatonin secretion and sleeping patterns; and if he will make an assessment of the (a) short and (b) long-term health and behavioural impacts which may subsequently arise from the artificial disruption of these normal conditions.
      (169578)
245 N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was paid to KPMG for the report on the regional economic effects of High Speed 2.
      (169377)
246 N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was paid to those who peer-reviewed KPMG's work on the regional economic effects of High Speed 2.
      (169378)
247 N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which items were included in the original estimate of £1.2 billion for the full scale works at Euston for High Speed 2; and what changes to this figure contributed to the revised cost of £2 billion for this work.
      (169379)
248 N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which items were included in the original estimate of £1.6 billion for the reduced High Speed 2 Scheme at Euston.
      (169380)
249 N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish all communications between his Department and KPMG (a) before and (b) during KPMG's assessment of the regional economic effects of High Speed 2.
      (169381)
250 N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the panel of experts who peer reviewed the KPMG report into High Speed 2; and what (a) interests they declared and (b) remuneration they received for their work.
      (169276)
251 N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the remit and all commissioning documents and instructions given to KPMG in advance of its production of its recent report into High Speed 2; what fee his Department has paid to KPMG for production of that report; and when that report was first commissioned.
      (169382)
252 N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether a decision has yet been taken on the distance applied to the property bond option currently being consulted on by his Department; and what consideration he has given to whether such a bond could be applied to affected properties more than 120 metres away from the High Speed 2 line used in the Deloitte report on the property bond design for High Speed 2 affected properties.
      (169646)
253  
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will undertake a review of the safety of rear fog lights and their effect on the visibility of brake lights.
      (169543)
254  
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage more children to walk to school.
      (169496)
255  
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what activities his Department undertook to support Walk to School Week in May 2013.
      (169497)
256  
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how his Department is working with the Department for Education to encourage more children to walk to school.
      (169498)
257  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2013, Official Report, column 718W, on legal costs, if he will provide a break down of the sum of £3,049,096 spent on external legal advice by case or project.
      (169703)
258  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2013, Official Report, columns 718W, on legal costs, if he will provide a breakdown of the sum of £11,982,668 spent on external legal advice by case or project.
      (169704)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
259  
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the Welsh Government regarding the proposed circuit of Wales.
      (169702)
260  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much has been spent by his Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169510)
261 N
Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the First Minister of Wales about the potential effects of the provisions of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill on third sector organisations in Wales.
      (169301)
262 N
Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which third sector organisations in Wales he has consulted about the potential effect on them of the provisions of Part 2 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill; and when those consultations took place.
      (169302)
263  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on external lawyers' fees in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169700)
Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities
264  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much has been spent by the Government Equalities Office on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169507)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
265 N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department had with the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, Raquel Rolnik during her visit to the UK in September 2013.
      (169266)
266 N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households he estimates will claim universal credit by 2017.
      (169608)
267 N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have made claims for universal credit on the pathfinder to date.
      (169609)
268 N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when companies will be invited to tender for his Department's medical services contract.
      (169610)
269 N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the median duration of a jobseeker's allowance claim is by age group.
      (169611)
270  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed the shared accommodation rate of housing benefit in each parliamentary constituency.
      (169545)
271  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average difference between local housing allowance awards and rent is for claimants receiving the (a) shared accommodation, (b) one bed, (c) two bed, (d) three bed and (f) four bed rate.
      (169546)
272  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent by his Department on offsetting costs for energy-related carbon dioxide in the last year for which figures are available.
      (169511)
273  
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost was to his Department of compiling and publishing its research report entitled Public perceptions of the Benefit Cap and pre-implementation impacts published on 12 July 2013.
      (169548)
274  
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department paid to Ipsos MORI as part of the work undertaken by his Department to compile its research report entitled Public perceptions of the Benefit Cap and pre-implementation impacts published on 12 July 2013.
      (169549)
275  
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to publish his Department's annual report and accounts for 2012-13.
      (169550)
276  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to reply to the letter to him dated 1 August 2013 from the Rt hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regards to Ms S. A. Khanuy.
      (169480)
277 N
Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date his Department plans to publish jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance sanction statistics.
      (169283)
278  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect of zero hours contracts on the administration costs to his Department of processing claims for benefits where a threshold of hours must be reached for a claim to be made.
      (169594)
279 N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average, (b) least and (c) greatest time is for an individual who is granted refugee status to be provided with a National Insurance number.
      (169633)
280 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how long it will take when a universal credit claimant reaches the eight-week rent arrears trigger for direct payments to be transferred to managed payments.
      (169309)
281 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects universal credit claimants in the Pathfinder scheme to be able to notify any changes of their circumstances online.
      (169621)
282 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make regular progress reports to Parliament on progress with universal credit.
      (169639)
283 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions the jobseeker's allowance domestic violence easement has been applied in each month since its introduction.
      (169649)
284 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate how many children live in households whose income would be reduced if the benefit cap were reduced to £20,000 per annum.
      (169689)
285 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how much will be saved by the omission of the 13-week housing benefit protection from universal credit.
      (169690)
286 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants in the pathfinders are receiving the housing costs component of universal credit; and how many such claimants are living in the private rented sector.
      (169691)
287 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current status is of the agreement signed between the Trussell Trust and Jobcentre Plus in 2011.
      (169692)
288 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate how many additional children would be living in households below the 60 per cent. relative poverty threshold if the benefit cap were reduced to £20,000 per annum.
      (169693)
289  
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-special rule PIP claims have been applied for, processed and awarded (a) since introduction of the pilot schemes in April 2013 and (b) since PIP was introduced in June 2013.
      (169486)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
290 N
Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, What progress he has made on the rollout of changes to the incentives and privileges scheme in prisons.
   [Question Unstarred]  (900372)
Questions to the Attorney General
291  
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Attorney General, how many employees of the Crown Prosecution Service have been trained in sections 2A and 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
   [Transferred]  (169705)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
292  
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase the provision of lip reading teaching (a) nationally and (b) in Leeds.
   [Transferred]  (169575)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
293  
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the current status is of the Government's review of school transport; and what conclusions have been reached on the role of walking in home to school transport.
   [Transferred]  (169499)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
294  
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Law Commission about its review of wildlife legislation; and if he will make a statement.
   [Transferred]  (169670)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
295  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the number of placements available for social work students in (a) the current year and (b) the previous year.
   [Transferred]  (169537)
296  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential shortfall in the placements available for social work students in the next 12 months.
   [Transferred]  (169572)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
297  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to (a) review and (b) strengthen the rights of freehold property owners who as part of the freehold purchase of their property have a management company imposed upon them.
   [Transferred]  (169664)

Prepared 8th October 2013