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Part 2: Oral and Written Questions from
Tuesday 21 May 2013

Notes:
* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
[N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 20 May 2013
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 2: Oral and Written Questions from
Tuesday 21 May 2013

For Written Questions for answer on the day of issue of this paper, see Part 1 of this paper and the Order Paper.

Questions in this paper are arranged in the following way: date for answer; Oral before Written under each date; date of tabling under each answering date; unstarred and transferred questions followed by answering departments in alphabetical order.

TUESDAY 21 MAY 

Questions for Oral Answer

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

*1
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): What recent discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on the costs and benefits of his reforms to judicial review.
(156173)
*2
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): What steps he plans to take to reduce the number of offences committed by people on probation.
(156174)
*3
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): What progress he has made on improving the feedback from tribunal judges to the Department for Work and Pensions on the reasons for the overturning of employment and support allowance refusal decisions.
(156175)
*4
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): What the Government's strategy is on the future of the Probation Service.
(156176)
*6
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): What plans he has to assist ex-offenders into employment.
(156178)
*7
Ann Coffey (Stockport): What recent progress he has made on the implementation of Section 28 of the Youth and Criminal Justice Act 1999.
(156179)
*8
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): What the Government's plans are for the future of legal aid.
(156180)
*9
Steve Brine (Winchester): What plans he has to assist ex-offenders into employment.
(156181)
*10
John Mann (Bassetlaw): How many prison staff have current unspent convictions for firearms offences.
(156182)
*11
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): What support he provides for ex-service personnel in the criminal justice system.
(156183)
*12
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): What steps he is taking to reduce re-offending.
(156184)
*13
Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): What plans he has to assist ex-offenders into employment.
(156185)
*14
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): What recent progress he has made on reform of the probation system.
(156186)
*15
Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth): What plans he has to assist ex-offenders into employment.
(156187)
*16
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): What recent representations he has received on the reform of legal aid; and if he will make a statement.
(156188)
*17
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): What steps he is taking to reduce drug addiction in prisons.
(156189)
*18
Mark Menzies (Fylde): What plans he has to assist ex-offenders into employment.
(156190)
*20
Gareth Johnson (Dartford): What steps he plans to take to reduce the number of offences committed by people on probation.
(156192)
*21
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): What steps he is taking to improve the value for money of the legal aid system.
(156193)
*22
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): What the Government's strategy is for victims of crime.
(156194)
*23
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): What steps he plans to take to reduce the number of offences committed by people on probation.
(156195)
*24
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What steps he is taking to reduce the cost of vehicle insurance through the reform of personal injury claim arrangements.
(156196)
*25
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): What plans he has for probation.
(156197)

At 12.15pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.

*1
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
(156198)
*2
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside):
(156199)
*3
Karl McCartney (Lincoln):
(156200)
*4
David Mowat (Warrington South):
(156201)
*5
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East):
(156202)
*6
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):
(156203)
*7
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South):
(156204)
*8
Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East):
(156205)
*9
Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood):
(156206)
*10
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):
(156207)
Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 8 May
1
N 		Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities failed to identify and work with 75 per cent or more of their target families in 2012-13; which such authorities will have their funding cut in 2013-14 because of such failure; which other local authorities will receive less than 100 per cent of their provisional maximum funding for 2013-14; and for what reasons each such reduction in funding will occur.
(153898)

Notices given on Monday 13 May
1
N 		Sir Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the equality of access available for deaf people whose first language is British Sign Language in terms of communicating with (a) cultural, media, sporting and business organisations and (b) the agencies and public bodies for which she is responsible; and if she will make a statement.
(155497)
2
N 		Mrs Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding was (a) made available and (b) paid to the Salvation Army Victim Support Scheme in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13; and whether the funding commitment is open-ended.
(155662)

Notices given on Wednesday 15 May
1
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take to address low student satisfaction rates in UK universities.
(156317)
2
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will investigate the variations in teaching hours between undergraduate courses in UK universities.
(156362)
3
N 		Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the success of steps taken by universities to recruit and retain female staff in clinical and medical STEM subjects.
(156368)
4
N 		Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to encourage UK universities to recruit and retain female staff in clinical and medical STEM subjects.
(156369)
5
N 		Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plan his Department has to consider the European Commission report, She Figures 2012 on gender in research and innovation.
(156371)
6
N 		Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in respect of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury's appearance at the Scottish Affairs Committee on 15 May 2013, (a) on what date his Office first received the invitation to appear at this session and (b) on what date his Office accepted the invitation to appear at this session.
(156416)
7
N 		Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the abortion statistics for 2012 in England and Wales will be published.
(156417)
8
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that all accident and emergency units have at least 10 consultants assigned to them.
(156364)
9
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he gives to accident and emergency units on ensuring that staff are not overworked.
(156365)
12
N 		Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of (a) Custody Plus and (b) Custody Minus outlined in the then Home Office programme following publication of the Holloway Report, with an update in current prices; and if he will make a statement.
(156370)
13
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will undertake an assessment of the potential effect on unemployment in the event that the UK were to exit the European Union.
(156363)

Notices given on Thursday 16 May
1
N 		Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) male and (b) female medically qualified academic staff are employed by universities in England and the UK.
(156366)
2
N 		Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) male and (b) female medically qualified academic staff employed by universities in England and the UK also have an honorary contract with the NHS.
(156367)
3
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to tackle loan sharks and illegal money lenders.
(156497)
4
N 		Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2013, Official Report, column 257W, on apprentices, what steps he is taking to ensure that people with an offer of an apprenticeship provided through the National Farriery Training Association that was due to begin in autumn 2013 can start their farriery apprenticeship this year.
(156564)
5
N 		Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2013, Official Report, column 128W, on climate change, what the likelihood of the cited statistical model is relative to a driftless autoregressive integrated model.
(156639)
6
N 		Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to respond to the European Commission report, She Figures 2012 in respect of England.
(156522)
7
N 		Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the residents of each parliamentary constituency in Scotland were born in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland.
(156555)
8
N 		Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people HM Revenue and Customs has stopped paying benefits to for having no right to be in the country for each of the past five years; and what the total amount of benefits claimed by these people was for each of the past five years.
(156644)
9
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in East Renfrewshire constituency were in receipt of (a) child benefit, (b) working families tax credits, (c) incapacity benefit, (d) disability living allowance and (e) income support in May (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013.
(156634)
10
N 		Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to the letter to him of 13 March 2013 from the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South and the follow up letter sent by the hon. Member on 25 April 2013.
(156546)
11
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to make tenants aware of deposit protection schemes.
(156498)
12
N 		Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications for wind turbines have been overturned on appeal where the decision has been taken by the Secretary of State in (a) Cornwall and (b) England in each year since 2008.
(156563)
13
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received seeking her agreement to enact the provisions of the Digital Economy Act 2010 as it relates to the extension of public lending right to the lending of e-books and audio books.
(156500)
14
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that local authorities properly reward writers and creators for the use of their works in lending e-books and audio books via public libraries in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
(156648)
15
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what targets are in place to ensure that his Department's personnel are treated within 10 weeks by NHS trusts.
(156621)
16
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's personnel have not been treated within 10 weeks for (a) urgent and (b) non-urgent care by NHS trusts.
(156622)
17
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what rights are in place to ensure his Department's personnel are treated within 18 weeks, in line with the NHS constitution, if commissioned by his Department.
(156635)
18
N 		Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures are in place to ensure his Department's personnel are treated within 10 weeks by NHS trusts if commissioned by his Department.
(156636)
19
N 		Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make lessons on online safety and responsible use of social networking sites part of the national curriculum.
(156499)
20
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of teachers who have left their employment with between two and five years' experience in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013 to date.
(156556)
21
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school children have received training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in (a) Feltham and Heston constituency, (b) Hounslow, (c) London and (d) England in the last five years.
(156638)
22
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary schools in (a) Feltham and Heston constituency, (b) London and (c) England will be offering cardiopulmonary resuscitation training in 2013.
(156640)
23
N 		Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions in 2013 (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) departmental officials have met representatives of teaching organisations and trade unions to discuss the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
(156561)
24
N 		Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions in 2013 (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) departmental officials have met representatives of teaching organisations and trade unions to discuss the 2013 School Teachers' Pay and Conditions document.
(156562)
25
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to promote maintained federations.
(156617)
26
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many multi-academy trust arrangements there are; and what proportion of academies are in such an arrangement.
(156618)
27
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority maintained federations there are in England; and how many such federations are of (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools.
(156619)
28
N 		Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs about the implementation of the Montreal Protocol and a strategy to reduce HFCs.
(156626)
29
N 		Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the capacity of feral cats to act as a reservoir for bovine tuberculosis.
(156624)
30
N 		Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will support an EU ban on the use of HFCs in commercial refrigeration equipment.
(156625)
31
N 		Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which UK supermarkets were invited to his Department's stakeholder meeting to discuss F Gas Regulation in March 2013.
(156627)
33
N 		Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce paperwork and bureaucracy for farmers.
(156518)
34
N 		Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on UK farmers of the EU's decision to transfer agriculture payments from Pillar 1 to Pillar 2; and if he will make a statement.
(156551)
35
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the West Bank covered by agreed Israeli master plans.
(156616)
36
N 		Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason NHS England has withdrawn its BHIVA guidelines commissioning policy; and whether it intends to commission HIV treatment and services according to authoritative clinical guidelines.
(156623)
37
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individual breast screenings were conducted under the NHS Breast Cancer Screening Programme in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Birmingham in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 to date.
(156557)
38
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) NHS doctors and (b) NHS nurses who have left their employment with between two and five years' experience in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 to date.
(156559)
39
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women diagnosed with heart disease in (i) Hounslow, (ii) London and (iii) England.
(156554)
40
N 		Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency in (i) Hounslow, (ii) London and (iii) England.
(156637)
41
N 		Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to next amend the GP contract.
(156628)
42
N 		Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps GPs are taking to keep elderly, frail people out of hospital.
(156629)
43
N 		Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the 111 service in the South East; and if he will make a statement.
(156630)
44
N 		Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce a rota of general practitioners into all accident and emergency departments.
(156632)
45
N 		Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will require general practitioners to provide a 24 hour a day service seven days a week.
(156633)
46
N 		Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people without the right to remain in the country for each year since 2005.
(156646)
47
N 		Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of rebranding the Identity and Passport Service to Her Majesty's Passport Office will be.
(156615)
48
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education about support to families of drugs and alcohol users.
(156553)
49
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had as part of the Interministerial Group on Drugs with stakeholders; how many meetings the Interministerial Group on Drugs has had in each of the last 12 months; and if she will publish details of such meetings.
(156647)
50
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits UK Border Agency staff made to sponsors in each of the last 24 months.
(156558)
51
N 		Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for sponsor licences have been received in each of the last 24 months.
(156560)
52
N 		Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice she has given to police authorities on the employment in civilian roles of former police officers.
(156486)
53
N 		Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who the members of (a) the Police Advisory and Police Negotiating Boards, (b) the Police Arbitration Tribunal, (c) the Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal, (d) the Security Industry Authority, (e) the Serious Organised Crime Agency and (f) the Technical Advisory Board were on 1 January 2013; and what the (i) ethnicity, (ii) term of office and (iii) remuneration is in each case.
(156631)
54
N 		Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what initiatives she is supporting to streamline the licensing of new HIV medicines in developing countries.
(156620)
55
N 		Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that a post-2015 development framework is inclusive of people with disability.
(156547)
56
N 		Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to represent the Government at the UN High Level Meeting on disability and development on 23 September 2013.
(156548)
57
N 		Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with (a) the European Commission and (b) other EU bodies about funding for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; and if she will make a statement.
(156501)
58
N 		Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of how much the carbon footprint of the UK's roads could be reduced through the sustainable production of asphalt at lower temperatures over the next 10 years.
(156519)
59
N 		Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of how much the production of asphalt contributes to the annual carbon footprint of the UK's roads.
(156520)
60
N 		Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to answer the letter from the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South dated 21 January 2013.
(156565)
61
N 		Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people his Department has stopped paying benefits to for having no right to be in the country for each of the past five years; and what the total amount of benefits claimed by these people was for each of the past five years.
(156645)
62
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on housing benefit in each local authority area in each of the last 30 years.
(156610)
63
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people in (a) each local authority area and (b) constituency live in households with incomes below 60 per cent of contemporary median net disposable household income (i) before and (ii) after housing costs.
(156611)
64
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency live in households with incomes below 60 per cent of contemporary median net disposable household income (i) before and (ii) after housing costs.
(156612)
65
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency live in households with incomes below 60 per cent of contemporary median net disposable household income (i) before and (ii) after housing costs.
(156613)
66
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have successfully claimed universal credit in the pathfinder to date.
(156614)
67
N 		Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of new claims for jobseeker's allowance in Scotland were made online in each of the last 12 months.
(156521)
68
N 		Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East constituency who are eligible to receive pension credit but do not currently receive it.
(156552)
69
N 		Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of Work Programme participants who will not have found sustainable work after completion of their two-year Work Programme in (a) Wales and (b) the UK in the six months from June 2013.
(156549)
70
N 		Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has for Work Programme participants who have not found sustainable work after completion of that programme.
(156550)
71
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) the league table and (b) the stricter benefit regime figures referred to in the internal staff memorandum by the Walthamstow Jobcentre adviser manager, dated 20 February 2013.
(156523)
72
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants were assessed as a member of a protected group and exempt from housing benefit restrictions for 52 weeks, on the grounds that an occupant of their home had died within the previous 12 months in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
(156641)
73
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants in employment at the time of their initial claim were awarded protected group status on the grounds that they could previously afford their rent in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
(156642)
74
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants were granted 13 weeks protection from housing benefit restrictions in 2012 on the grounds that they could previously afford their rent, and were single, under 35 years, without child dependents and living in the private rented sector.
(156643)

Notices given on Friday 17 May
1
N 		Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that legal aid reforms do not decrease the quality of criminal legal justice provision.
[Question Unstarred] (156191)
2
N 		Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the timescale is for introducing the supermarket adjudicator; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred] (156517)
3
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Attorney General, how many officials in the Law Officers' Departments were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of the Law Officers' Departments' human resources functions was.
(156662)
4
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156661)
5
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2013, Official Report, column 84W, on prisons: education, what he means by learning aims.
(156720)
6
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156663)
7
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department takes to ensure that checks are made in Government procurement processes that no contractors or providers practise blacklisting of workers.
(156686)
8
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2013, Official Report, column 279W, on income tax, what estimate he has made of the number of households containing children and with only one adult earning above the threshold for income tax who will earn above £150,000 in 2013 and in the 2014 financial year.
(156702)
9
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2013, Official Report, column 279W, on income tax, what estimate he has made of the number of households containing children and with two adults each earning above the threshold for income tax who will both earn above above £150,000 in 2013 and in the 2014 financial year.
(156703)
10
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2013, Official Report, column 279W, on income tax, what estimate he has made of the number of households containing children and with only one adult earning above the threshold for income tax who will (a) be in receipt of tax credits and (b) not be in receipt of tax credits in (i) the current and (ii) the 2014 financial year.
(156719)
11
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the HS2 project will be subject to VAT; and if he will make a statement.
(156699)
12
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the National Audit Office's report on HS2 and its identification of a £3.3 billion shortfall.
(156701)
13
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156677)
14
Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to publish the regulations relating to property bids as defined in the Business Rates Supplements Act 2009; and what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the regulations.
(156667)
15
Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether it remains his policy to introduce property bids as defined in the Business Rates Supplements Act 2009.
(156751)
16
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156664)
17
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in her Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of her Department's human resources functions was.
(156665)
18
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many deduction of earnings requests from the Department for Work and Pensions for full-time volunteer mobilised reservists were deferred or suspended in financial years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
(156713)
19
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time volunteer mobilised reservists were subject to a deduction of earnings request from the Department for Work and Pensions in financial years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
(156714)
20
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156666)
21
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Seventieth Report of the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2010-12, HC 1636, what progress his Department has made in responding to the recommendations contained in that report on the cost and outcome analysis of high-needs provision for 16 to 25 year olds; and if he will make a statement.
(156649)
22
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National Audit Office Report, Oversight of special education for young people aged 16 to 25 years old, Session 2010-12, HC 1585, what progress his Department has made in collating comparable data on disability types and severity and student outcomes to understand and provide evidence for longer-term value-for-money criteria for post-16 specialist education; and if he will make a statement.
(156650)
23
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on the financial considerations to be made in commissioning placements in specialist colleges.
(156716)
24
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparison his Department has made between the social return of investment for post-16 specialist college provision for high-needs students and that for other provision; and if he will make a statement.
(156717)
25
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) long-term comparative costs, (b) value for money and (c) outcomes between (i) specialist college provision and (ii) other provision for high-needs students; and if he will make a statement.
(156718)
26
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average class size was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Corby constituency in each of the last three years.
(156660)
27
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156668)
28
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what specific steps the Government is taking to reduce air pollution in areas with high-pollution readings.
(156656)
29
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has any plans to review Yorkshire Water's proposals for the Butterley Reservoir Spillway, Marsden.
(156680)
30
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Butterley Reservoir Spillway, Marsden will remain a grade II listed building when Yorkshire Water's proposed spillway works goes ahead.
(156681)
31
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Control of Sensitive Water Company Information - Advice Note 11 empowers Yorkshire Water to withhold from the public its panel engineer's report on the Butterley Reservoir Spillway, Marsden.
(156760)
32
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156669)
33
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Countryside Stewardship Scheme agreements providing permissive public access have been put in place since the scheme's inception; and how many hectares of land were included in each such agreement.
(156682)
34
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding for agreements providing permissive public access has been provided under the Environmental Stewardship Scheme since the scheme's inception.
(156683)
35
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Environmental Stewardship Scheme agreements which provided public access have been put in place since the start of the scheme; and how many hectares of land have been included in each such agreement.
(156684)
36
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total level of funding has been for agreements under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme providing permissive public access since the scheme's inception.
(156685)
37
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions he or other representatives of the UK Government have discussed with their US counterparts the case of Shaker Aamer.
(156687)
38
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions the Government has had with the Indian government regarding the trial of Professor Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar.
(156706)
39
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to argue the case against the use of the death penalty.
(156707)
40
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156670)
41
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has to update its 2010 guidance on the management of low-risk basal cell carcinomas in the community to take account of the abolition of primary care trusts.
(156688)
42
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure doctors are aware of the risks of sodium valproate for pregnant women; and what steps he is taking to ensure National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines are followed in this respect.
(156715)
43
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children affected by sodium valproate after their mother was prescribed the drug during pregnancy.
(156729)
44
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to receive the final report of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel examining the report of the Safe and Sustainable Review into Children's Heart Surgery.
(156700)
45
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156671)
46
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to reduce the ratio of patients to GPs in Essex.
(156711)
47
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to publish guidelines on a maximum ratio of GPs to patients.
(156712)
48
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Statement issued by the Minister for Immigration on 13 May 2013, on the Identity and Passport Service, what plans she has to reduce the price of passports to UK citizens in light of the removal of any function relating to a viable identity register; and if she will make a statement.
(156704)
49
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials in her Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of her Department's human resources functions was.
(156672)
50
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what work her Department has undertaken with the Ministry of Defence in the field of conflict resolution; what plans she has for further work with the Ministry of Defence in future; and if she will make a statement.
(156691)
51
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what conflict resolution activities her Department has undertaken in each of the last five years.
(156692)
52
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was spent by her Department on conflict resolution in each of the last five years.
(156693)
53
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many officials in her Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of her Department's human resources functions was.
(156673)
54
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many allegations of each category of criminal activity in the workplace have been made in the Prison Service in each year since 2010; and how many were (a) referred and (b) not referred to the police in each such year.
(156651)
55
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many allegations of criminal activity in the workplace have been made in the Prison Service in each year since 2010 for each category of offence.
(156652)
56
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times and for what offences employees of the Prison Service have been charged with criminal activity in the workplace in each year since 2010.
(156653)
57
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions employees of the Prison Service have been (a) charged and (b) found guilty of each category of criminal activity in the workplace in each year since 2010.
(156689)
58
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for prison-to-prison prisoner transit movements in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
(156690)
59
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the costs of jobs procured outside the framework agreement between his Department and Capita IT under the interpreting and translation services and applied language solutions contract.
(156698)
60
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many jobs are available for prisoners in each prison in the UK.
(156654)
61
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156674)
62
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on unpaid work programmes being introduced to prisons as a condition of prisoners' sentences.
(156708)
63
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential for increased job creation for prisoners in prisons.
(156709)
64
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the extent to which prison governors can exercise discretion in awarding extra privileges to prisoners.
(156710)
65
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2013, Official Report, columns 6-7W, on crimes against property, how many of those arrested on property damage charges were sent to prison.
(156721)
66
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of legal aid in North Wales in each of the last five years.
(156694)
67
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the likely cost of legal aid in each of the next 10 years.
(156695)
68
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many legal firms have participated in the legal aid system in each of the last five years.
(156696)
69
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people qualified for legal aid in North Wales in each of the last five years.
(156697)
70
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many officials in her Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of her Department's human resources functions was.
(156675)
71
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to encourage commuters to cycle to work.
(156655)
72
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156676)
73
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) overall and (b) unit cost is of providing free bus travel to pensioners in Corby constituency.
(156658)
74
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) total and (b) unit cost of providing free bus travel to 16 to 18 years olds in education or training in Corby constituency.
(156659)
75
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156678)
76
Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in his Department were employed in human resources functions in each of the last five years; at what grades such staff were employed; and what the total cost of his Department's human resources functions was.
(156679)
77
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of jobseekers who lack skills to use the internet in (a) Corby constituency and (b) the UK.
(156657)
MONDAY 3 JUNE 
Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 10 May
1
N 		Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations his Department has received on the Connaught Income Series 1 Fund; and what consideration he has given to role of the Financial Conduct Authority in respect of that fund.
(155224)

Notices given on Friday 17 May
1
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to promote voluntary mentoring and tutoring charities aimed at widening access to universities.
(156723)
2
N 		Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of Technology Strategy Board programmes have been allocated to each region in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
(156742)
3
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many employees in his Department were paid in excess of (a) £80,000 and (b) £100,000 in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
(156752)
4
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many employees in his Department were paid in excess of (a) £80,000 and (b) £100,000 in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
(156750)
5
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the new project assessment review for the universal credit programme will take place.
(156759)
6
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many employees in his Department were paid in excess of (a) £80,000 and (b) £100,000 in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
(156749)
7
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will assess the effect of targets for participation in school sports on children's physical activity levels.
(156726)
8
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many employees in her Department were paid in excess of (a) £80,000 and (b) £100,000 in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
(156748)
9
N 		Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many employees in his Department were paid in excess of (a) £80,000 and (b) £100,000 in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
(156747)
10
N 		Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 26 March 2013, Official Report, column 1057W, on lobbying, whether he has any plans to meet with interested parties before publishing his revised proposals.
(156735)
11
N 		Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the regulatory impact of a statutory register of lobbyists on (a) multi-client agencies and (b) other businesses.
(156755)
12
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the recent report from the British Medical Association, Growing Up in the UK, on the effects of austerity on child poverty.
(156722)
13
N 		Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2013, Official Report, column 255W, on traineeships, what the total funding available for 16-19 Study Programmes in 2013-14 is; and how much of that funding has been earmarked to cover the cost of funding traineeships in 2013-14.
(156705)
14
N 		Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, further to the Answer of 15 May 2013, Official Report, column 256W, on traineeships, what figures his Department currently holds regarding the projected number of eligible traineeship providers for the academic year 2013-14; and if he will list the areas which will not have access to any eligible traineeship providers in 2013-14.
(156732)
15
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority-maintained federations there are in England; and how many are special schools.
(156764)
16
N 		Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority-maintained federations there are in England; and how many are a combination of primary, secondary and special schools.
(156765)
17
N 		Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2013, Official Report, columns 897-8W, on phenylbutazone, what the outcome was of the 12 investigations into the validity of horse passprts from horse carcasses which tested positive for phenylbutazone.
(156733)
18
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to make progress towards meeting the World Health Organisation target of a 25 per cent reduction in premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by 2025 agreed in May 2012.
(156728)
19
N 		Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what expenditure his Department has incurred in respect of (a) equine DNA and (b) phenylbutazone testing in (i) phase 1, (ii) phase 2 and (iii) phase 3 of the EU co-ordinated testing regime.
(156756)
20
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to seek agreement from governments attending the 2013 G8 Summit to finance country agriculture plans identified in the G8's 2012 accountability report.
(156725)
21
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Government will be seeking agreement at the G8 Summit for binding principles of land disclosure, pre-deal transparency, and free, prior and informed consent of affected communities on international land deals.
(156730)
22
N 		Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans the Government has to establish a new multilateral Land Transparency Inititiative to address international land grabs at the 2013 G8 Summit meeting.
(156731)
23
N 		Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much bilateral assistance is programmed to be delivered through multilateral agencies in 2013-14.
(156741)
24
N 		Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners wrongly released were still at large in each of the last three years; and what crimes they committed in each such year.
(156736)
25
N 		Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, of those prisoners wrongly released from prison (a) what category of prisoner they were, (b) what offence they had been found guilty of, (c) which prison they were released from, (d) how many were released from public prisons, (e) how many were released from private prisons and (f) how long it took to return them to prison in each of the last three years.
(156737)
26
N 		Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were wrongly released from prison in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
(156738)
27
N 		Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoner transit movements were made between (a) court and prison and (b) prison to prison in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012.
(156739)
28
N 		Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoner transit movements there were (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
(156740)
29
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents there have been of (a) abuse of prison staff, (b) breach of health and safety regulations and (c) misuse of tools, equipment and other offences against good order and discipline in each of the last five years; and how many prisoners have been disciplined for these actions in each such year.
(156724)
30
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners are in receipt of (a) unemployment pay and (b) the minimum employed rate of pay.
(156743)
31
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration he has given to introducing mandatory prisoner work schemes for those who are able to do so, as a condition of their sentence.
(156753)
32
N 		Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the participation rate is of prisoners in prison work schemes.
(156754)
33
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the likely effects of High Speed 2 on fares on other railway lines.
(156744)
34
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effects of High Speed 2 on investment in areas near the line but not at the nodes.
(156745)
35
N 		Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that in all cases where the price of a house is adversely affected by High Speed 2 the household concerned is adequately compensated.
(156746)
36
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish statistics on jobseeker's allowance sanctions.
(156761)
37
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many participants in their second year of the Work Programme have not had a job outcome to date.
(156762)
38
N 		Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects new statistics on the number of vacancies by constituency to be released.
(156763)
39
N 		Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce legislative proposals to make allowances for human error in the adminstration of child maintenance payments.
(156727)
40
N 		Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2013, Official Report, column 703W, on jobcentre plus: digital exclusion, how many jobcentres identify or define vulnerable customers.
(156734)
41
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much he estimates his Department will spend in each of the next five years on compensating mesothelioma sufferers.
(156757)
42
N 		Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government has spent on compensation for mesothelioma sufferers and their dependents in each year snce 2008.
(156758)
TUESDAY 4 JUNE 
Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 10 May
1
N 		Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to launch a consultation on changes to the school day and school calendar.
(155225)
2
N 		Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent research he has commissioned on the effect of changes to the school day and school term on educational outcomes.
(155226)
3
N 		Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has initiated with the teaching unions to discuss changes to the schools calendar.
(155227)
4
N 		Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to provide support for victims identified under (a) Operation Pallial, (b) Operation Yewtree, (c) Operation Fernbridge and (d) the investigations into Stuart Hall; how much funding her Department has provided for supporting victims identified in each investigation; and with which agencies she has been in contact with regard to support for victims.
(155228)

Prepared 17th May 2013