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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.
[R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.

Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Monday 16 December 2013

(the ‘Questions Book’)

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.

Monday 16 December  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
 
* 1
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): What recent assessment he has made of the security of the UK's international supply chains.
    (901478)
* 2
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): How much humanitarian assistance has been provided by his Department to (a) the Philippines and (b) other parts of the world in 2013; and how much funding for such assistance has been reimbursed to his Department to date.
    (901479)
* 3
Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): What assessment he has made of the Royal Navy's involvement in the relief operation in the Philippines.
    (901480)
* 4
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): What estimate he has made of when service personnel who have suffered amputations will receive Genium prosthetics.
    (901481)
* 5
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): What support local authorities have given to implementation of the Community Covenant.
    (901482)
* 6
John Howell (Henley): What recent investment his Department has made in the armed forces' helicopter capabilities.
    (901483)
* 7
Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): What reports he has received on the use of the runway at MOD St Athan by private companies based in the nearby enterprise zone; and if he will make a statement.
    (901484)
* 8
Mr David Amess (Southend West): What assessment he has made of his Department's contribution to relief of the humanitarian situation in the Philippines.
    (901485)
* 9
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): What recent discussions he has had with the UK defence sector on the protection of intellectual property.
    (901486)
* 10
Steve Brine (Winchester): What objections his Department has made to applications for onshore wind farms in the last 12 months.
    (901487)
* 11
Mr Robert Syms (Poole): Which Urgent Operational Requirements he plans to bring into the core Ministry of Defence equipment programme.
    (901488)
* 12
Pat Glass (North West Durham): When he plans to publish the most recent recruitment figures for the reserve forces.
    (901489)
* 13
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): What support his Department is providing to veterans with mental health problems.
    (901490)
* 14
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): What funding his Department is providing to improve the prosthetics available to military personnel who are amputees.
    (901491)
* 15
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): What progress he has made on rationalising the defence estate.
    (901492)
* 16
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): When he plans to publish the annual Armed Forces Covenant Report.
    (901493)
* 18
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): What recent progress he has made on recruitment to the reserves.
    (901495)
* 19
Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): What assessment he has made of the level of competition in the bidding process for the GoCo contract.
    (901496)
* 20
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): What support local authorities have given to implementation of the Community Covenant.
    (901497)
* 21
Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): What recent discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on security in the Baltic region.
    (901498)
* 22
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): What research his Department has commissioned since 2010 on gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the military.
    (901499)
* 23
Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): What the future is of the defence estate in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
    (901500)
* 24
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What steps his Department is taking to encourage better relations between the EU and NATO.
    (901501)
* 25
Chris Williamson (Derby North): What assessment he has made of the level of competition in the bidding process for the GoCo contract.
    (901502)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
* 3
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (901505)
* 4
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):  
    (901506)
* 5
Fiona Bruce (Congleton):  
    (901507)
* 8
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):  
    (901510)
* 9
Mr David Hanson (Delyn):  
    (901511)
* 10
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South):  
    (901512)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 9 December

1
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether GEO has been approved for the purposes of competitive tendering for probation services in England and Wales.
    (179882)
2
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Delta has been approved for the purposes of competitive tendering for probation services in England and Wales.
    (179883)
3
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Stonham Home Housing Group has been approved for the purposes of competitive tendering for probation services in England and Wales.
    (179884)

Notices given on Tuesday 10 December

1
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to line (ii) of Table 2.5 of the Autumn Statement, whether his Department hs decided to sell parts of the pre-2012 income contingent repayment student loan book.
    (180000)
2
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2013, Official Report, column 824W, on students: fees and charges, what recent estimate of non-repayment of loans he has made.
    (180006)
3
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2013, Official Report, column 824W, on students: fees and charges, what the structural problems in the forecasting model were.
    (180009)
4
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to table 2.5 of the Autumn Statement 2013, what estimate his Department has made of (a) gross proceeds from sale of the student loan book, (b) surrendered repayment income and (c) net proceeds arising from the sale of the student loan book.
    (180047)
5
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK were admitted to their first choice university in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (180046)
6
N
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what criteria or conditions under contractual terms his Department will use to decide whether or not to withhold discretionary bonuses for banks and advisors involved in the Royal Mail privatisation.
    (179772)
7
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have met with Mr Lawrence Tomlinson since May 2010.
    (180007)
8
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether Mr Lawrence Tomlinson's report on RBS was (a) seen, (b) amended and (c) approved by (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) officials in his Department before its publication on 25 November 2013.
    (180008)
9
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to encourage more young people to be involved with charity.
    (180057)
10
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to encourage charities to appoint more young trustees.
    (180058)
11
N
Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Brigg and Goole constituency are employed in the retail sector.
    (179996)
12
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to his Department's budget has been of its work on the enhanced online service for universal credit to date; from which budget heading it has been met; and how much further spending he plans on this project from his Department's budget.
    (179816)
13
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for how long does he intend that staff in his Department will be engaged on developing the enhanced online digital service for universal cedit; and if he will make a statement.
    (179985)
14
N
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the continued use of the pound between each remaining constituent part of the UK, the Crown Dependencies and an independent Scotland; and whether he has considered any plans for a new currency in the remaining constituent parts of the UK.
    (179938)
15
N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2013, Official Report, columns 289-90W, on children: day care, how many (a) basic, (b) higher and (c) additional rate tax payers were in receipt of employer supported childcare vouchers in each of the last three years.
    (179832)
16
N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have to visit the HM Revenue and Customs' office in Newry to assess the (i) effectiveness of the service provided and (ii) specialist tax avoidance and tax evasion work undertaken in respect of the construction industry scheme.
    (179790)
17
N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of value of the specialist tax avoidance and tax evasion work undertaken by Newry HM Revenue and Customs office in respect of the construction industry scheme.
    (179791)
18
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2013, Official Report, column 412W, on Army: Germany, what meetings he, Ministers and Officials in his Department have had with counterparts in (a) the Ministry of Defence and (b) the Department for Education on the effect of re-basing on the local authorities in which (i) Dalton Barracks, Abingdon, (ii) Kendrew Barracks, Cottesmore and (iii) Imjin Barracks, Gloucester are situated.
    (179998)
19
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether any Minister in his Department has received verbal or written representations from the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet regarding the Radlett Rail Freight Terminal.
    (179818)
20
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether any Minister in his Department has received verbal or written representations from any hon. Members who are or have been Ministers in the Treasury since May 2010 regarding the Radlett Rail Freight Terminal.
    (179981)
21
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of right-to-buy leaseholders who regret their purchase because of the need to implement costly repairs.
    (179829)
22
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department offers right-to-buy leaseholders on steps to take to be informed of ongoing costs associated with their property.
    (179830)
23
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many jobs have been created to date at each enterprise zone; and how many jobs are currently based at each enterprise zone.
    (179936)
24
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many firms are currently based at each enterprise zone; and how many firms have begun occupying premises at each enterprise zone since each zone began operation.
    (179937)
25
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the annual exposure of children to alcohol advertisements on (a) television, (b) billboards, (c) cinema screens and (d) the internet.
    (180043)
26
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the safe maximum level of exposure children should have to alcohol advertising on (a) television, (b) billboards, (c) cinema screens and (d) the internet.
    (180044)
27
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in respect of which objects a decision on a licence application under the Export of Objects of Cultural Interest scheme was originally deferred, but a licence for permanent export was later granted in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
    (179796)
28
N
Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many pensioners claimed the over-75 free television licence in (a) Brigg and Goole constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (179994)
29
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to which enterprise zones superfast broadband has been provided to date.
    (179933)
30
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which external consultants are used by his Department regarding the formulation of its policy on reforming defence procurement; and what the cost to the public purse has been for each such consultant.
    (179989)
31
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse has been of the (a) salary, (b) hotel costs, (c) air fares, (d) rail fares, (e) taxi fares, (f) use of official car and driver and (g) any other benefits-in-kind accrued by the Chief of Defence Materiel since his appointment on 4 January 2011.
    (179990)
32
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the details were of each official overseas trip undertaken by the Chief of Defence Materiel since his appointment on 4 January 2011; and what the cost of each such trip was.
    (179991)
33
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what weight is given to sustainability and the inclusion of cycling schemes when assessing bids made under the local growth fund.
    (179939)
34
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children under 16 years of age are part of a sport or exercise club in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK.
    (179934)
35
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are studying politics at AS and A Level in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK.
    (179997)
36
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what work his Department has undertaken on assessing any link between energy prices and excess winter deaths.
    (179780)
37
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what requirements there are on energy companies to offer the same range of energy tariffs throughout the UK.
    (179827)
38
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on implementing the Government's commitment to require sustainable palm oil provided under public procurement contracts for food and catering.
    (179787)
39
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on Palestinian membership of the International Olive Council.
    (179782)
40
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with NHS England on changes to the funding formula for clinical commissioning groups.
    (179788)
41
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the proportion of accident and emergency departments which have at least one alcohol liaison nurse.
    (180042)
42
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2013, Official Report, column 700W, on cancer, what steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England is taking to ensure that cancer survival rates in Britain match the level of the best in Europe.
    (180059)
43
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the experience of older people with cancer.
    (180060)
44
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the prevention and earlier diagnosis of (a) kidney, (b) stomach, (c) ovarian and (d) colorectal cancer.
    (180061)
45
N
Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time in accident and emergency was (a) in Barking, Bexley, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) across London and (c) in England in each of the last four (i) quarters and (ii) years.
    (179940)
46
N
Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients visited accident and emergency departments in (a) Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) each London NHS Trust and (c) England in each year since 2010.
    (179941)
47
N
Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients waited longer than the admission target to accident and emergency in (a) Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) each NHS trust in London and (c) England in each month in 2012-13.
    (179942)
48
N
Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical posts in accident and emergency departments were left vacant in (a) Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) each NHS trust in London and (c) England in each year in 2009-10.
    (179943)
49
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last had discussions on the future of Warrington and Halton NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.
    (179797)
50
N
Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of clinical commissioning groups with a (a) specialist designed lead for perinatal mental health and (b) perinatal mental health strategy.
    (179992)
51
N
Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of GPs (a) with training in dealing with perinatal mental illness and (b) who have received refresher training in the last five years.
    (179993)
52
N
Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the smoking prevalence rate is in (a) Brigg and Goole constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber.
    (179995)
53
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the sale of alcohol at Government-controlled motorway service areas.
    (180041)
54
N
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what controls her Department has put in place to intercept the delivery of substances controlled by the Misuse of Drugs Act at (a) postal sorting offices and (b) distribution centres in the UK.
    (179784)
55
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force staff were made redundant and what the cost to the public purse was in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
    (179789)
56
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been detained following detection by sniffer dogs on more than one occasion at the ports of (a) Calais, (b) Dunkirk and (c) Channel Tunnel in each of the last three years.
    (179980)
57
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguarding measures are in place to prevent British nationals from being arrested on the basis of a politically-motivated or otherwise abusive Interpol Red Notice; and whether additional measures are in place for such warrants received from countries with a poor record of human rights.
    (179935)
58
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on the response of UK authorities when they encounter a person subject to an Interpol Red Notice.
    (179982)
59
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the amount of police time spent implementing Interpol Red Notices in the UK in each of the last five years.
    (179983)
60
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the policy of (a) the UK and (b) other EU member states is on deleting information received from Interpol once a Red Notice has been removed from Interpol's systems.
    (179984)
61
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many different prisons individuals who are detained solely under immigration powers are currently detained.
    (179793)
63
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 55.10.1 of her Department's Enforcement Instructions and Guidance, what information is used in decisions on transfers from the prison estate to immigration removal centres for time-served foreign national offenders based on the length of time an individual has been held in prison solely under immigration powers.
    (179795)
64
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the number of people in the Philippines who are in need of relief but are yet to receive any official aid.
    (179798)
65
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to those rice farmers in the Philippines who require seeds and tools following Typhoon Haiyan.
    (179799)
66
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the spread of water-borne diseases in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.
    (179800)
67
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on donations to the UN appeal following the Bohol earthquake.
    (179801)
68
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to promote science skills, research and understanding in Africa.
    (179826)
69
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) South Lanarkshire successfully appealed against a work capability assessment decision in 2013.
    (179773)
70
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the cost to his Department of appeals against the work capability assessment in 2013.
    (179779)
71
N
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people given (a) prohibited activity and (b) exclusion requirements in each probation trust area were electronically monitored, in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (179786)
72
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sex offenders are held at HM Prison Oakwood; and how many places on sex offender treatment programmes are available at that prison.
    (179774)
73
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidences of (a) suicide, (b) attempted suicide and (c) self-harm there were in (i) HM Prison Oakwood and (ii) on average in all adult prisons in each of the last three years.
    (179775)
74
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on (a) prisoners and (b) prison staff there were (i) in HM Prison Oakwood and (ii) on average in all adult prisons in each of the last three years.
    (179776)
75
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners Oakwood prison is contracted to hold; and whether its operator receives any payment for holding prisoners above its certified normal accommodation.
    (179783)
76
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Prime Minister, for what reasons Gordon Johncox, Managing Director of Aston Manor Brewery, was invited to join his recent delegation to China; and what role he played during the visit.
    (180045)
77
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Prime Minister, what business deals involving conducting business in Tibetan areas were signed during his recent visit to China.
    (180001)
78
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he raised specific political prisoners' cases with the Chinese government in his recent visit to that country.
    (180002)
79
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Prime Minister, which charitable organisations and non-governmental organisations campaigning on human rights issues he met during his recent visit to China.
    (180003)
80
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Prime Minister, whether Government officials and businesses who accompanied him on his recent visit to China used and referred to the UK's national action plan on business and human rights in their work on that visit.
    (180004)
81
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he plans to refer the alleged breaches of the Ministerial Code by the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet contained within the hon. Member for St Albans' letter of 10 September 2013 to the Independent Adviser on the Ministerial Code.
    (179815)
82
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Prime Minister, whether the Cabinet Secretary is conducting an investigation into the hon. Member for St Albans' letter of 10 September 2013 alleging breaches of the Ministerial Code by the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet.
    (179817)
83
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Prime Minister, when the Cabinet Secretary will reply to the hon. Member for St Albans' letter of 10 September 2013 alleging breaches of the Ministerial Code by the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet.
    (179819)
84
N
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether HS2 Ltd will be able to recover VAT on its spending; and what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on this matter.
    (179785)
85
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable his Department has set for improvements to the A27 corridor between Worthing and Shoreham; and if he will make a statement.
    (180005)
86
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the cost to his Department of appeals against the work capability assessment in 2013.
    (179777)
87
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff were employed by Atos Healthcare as part of the Medical Services Agreement in each month since 2010.
    (179778)
88
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what monthly targets he has set for those leaving prison and rolling onto the Work Programme.
    (179781)
89
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what digital assistance is available for people in Newcastle required to claim benefits online; and where any such assistance can be found.
    (179828)
90
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that requirements on those in receipt of jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance respect the religious adherence of individuals.
    (179771)
91
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of job seeker's allowance claimants waited longer than (a) one week, (b) two weeks, (c) three weeks and (d) one month to have their benefit claim processed in each year since 2006.
    (179986)
92
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing times of jobseeker's allowance claims were for each quarter since January 2006.
    (179987)
93
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the enhanced online digital service for universal credit whose development has been started by the Government Digital Services will relate to the universal credit system whose development has been led by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
    (179988)
94
N
Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children have been living in poverty in Lancashire in each year since 2009.
    (180056)

Notices given on Wednesday 11 December

1
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Attorney General, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180091)
2
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many local Crown Prosecution Service offices were located in the same building as the police force for that area in each of the last 10 years.
    (180169)
3
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, if he will list (a) the Crown Prosecution Service offices in England and Wales that have closed since 2010, (b) the function of each such office and (c) the number of (i) voluntary and (ii) compulsory redundancies at each such office.
    (180170)
4
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how much the Crown Prosecution Service has spent on administering witness care units in each of the last seven years.
    (180258)
5
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many Crown Prosecution Service staff were employed in front-line witness care in each of the last seven years.
    (180259)
6
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many Serious Fraud Office investigations are under way relating to each of the (a) banking, (b) pharmaceuticals and (c) energy sectors.
    (180297)
7
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, to how many firms the Serious Fraud Office has out sourced investigative work in the last three years.
    (180393)
8
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, if he will review the Serious Fraud Office's out sourcing controls and procedures following the prosecution of Victor Dahdaleh.
    (180394)
9
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, when the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) engaged the services of Akin Gump during its investigation of Victor Dahdaleh; and how much was paid by the SFO for any services Akin Gump provided.
    (180395)
10
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to the public purse was of the Serious Fraud Office's investigation and prosecution of Victor Dahdaleh.
    (180396)
11
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the decision of the trial judge to direct the jury to acquit Victor Dahdaleh on grounds that included the delegation by the Serious Fraud Office of parts of the investigation to a law firm that was suing the defendant; and if he will make a statement.
    (180397)
12
 
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people under 21 (a) started and (b) completed an apprenticeship in each of the 33 London local authorities in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 to date.
    (180262)
13
 
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to encourage all UK banks to allow their current account customers access at post offices.
    (180410)
14
 
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to provide full access to credit union services through the national post office network; and if he will make a statement.
    (180412)
15
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180090)
16
N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) black-owned and (b) minority ethnic group-owned businesses in the UK have been granted an Enterprise Finance Guarantee loan by the Partnership banks to date.
    (180067)
17
N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many female-led businesses in the UK have been granted an Enterprise Finance Guarantee loan by the Partnership banks to date.
    (180068)
18
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 383W, on overseas trade: females, what guidance his Department offers to UK Trade and Investment on promoting women in trade delegations and exporting.
    (180402)
19
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many UK-based patents have been granted for use of graphene in each year since that material's discovery.
    (180333)
20
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the implications of public policy on the number of UK-based patents for graphene; and if he will make a statement.
    (180334)
21
N
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's budget is for research into (a) carbon capture and storage and (b) carbon capture and use.
    (180284)
22
 
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the support of a majority of employees is required for the spinning out of an organisation as an employee-owned or employee-led public service mutual.
    (180156)
23
N
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in median gross weekly pay for (a) men and (b) women in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency since 2010.
    (180172)
24
 
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect of the National Citizen Service on Peterborough constituency; and if he will make a statement.
    (180157)
25
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180092)
26
 
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what representations his Department has received from the Scottish Government in the last 12 months on continuity of employment of UK Government civil servants working in Scotland in the event of Scottish independence, as outlined in Scotland's Future: Your Guide to An Independent Scotland.
    (180164)
27
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what savings the Government has achieved by reducing fraud against the public sector since May 2010; and what proportion of total fraud against the public sector do those savings represent.
    (180376)
28
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost of fraud to the public sector; and what steps have been taken since May 2010 to tackle such fraud.
    (180403)
29
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that its Departments and agencies are able to share confirmed fraud data both with other bodies in the (a) public and (b) private sector.
    (180404)
30
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the amount donated to UK charitable organisations through UK crowdfunding platforms in the last year
    (180121)
31
 
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to adopt the gross output measure of the economy developed by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis in order to reveal the total sales volume at all stages of production in the UK.
    (180207)
32
N
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to answer question 177828 from the hon. Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland tabled on 26 November 2013.
    (180171)
33
N
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential effect on financial markets of a move to staggering the release of economically sensitive headline data and supporting tables by the Office for National Statistics.
    (180222)
34
N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of income tax paid by those in Scotland is paid by (a) basic rate, (b) higher rate and (c) additional rate taxpayers.
    (180229)
35
N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) basic rate, (b) higher rate and (c) additional rate taxpayers there were in total and in each constituent part of the UK in 2012-13.
    (180230)
36
N
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the total receipts from Air Passenger Duty was attributable to (a) band C and (b) band D in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011, (iv) 2012 and (v) 2013 to date.
    (180409)
37
N
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs staff based in Nottingham are employed on work relating to the introduction of universal credit.
    (180089)
38
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in the London Borough of Southwark received child tax credits in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013.
    (180074)
39
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180109)
40
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to the Answer of 6 September 2013, Official Report, column 579W, on excise duties: tobacco, whether he has completed his assessment of the implications of Article 4 of Council Decision 2010/12/EU; and what plans HM Revenue and Customs and the UK Border Force have to enforce compliance with its provisions by travellers.
    (180368)
41
 
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many publicans have been in receipt of tax credits in each of the last five years.
    (180242)
42
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether maternity and paternity pay will be included in the cap on welfare spending announced in the Autumn Statement 2013.
    (180088)
43
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities are currently in breach of the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity.
    (180173)
44
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 157W, on the Curzon Institute, whether the contract agreed with the Curzon Institute (a) was advertised beforehand and (b) open to other organisations invited to bid for it.
    (180225)
45
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 157W, on the Curzon Institute, how much his Department is paying the Curzon Institute under this contract.
    (180226)
46
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 157W, on the Curzon Institute, whether Afzal Amin was involved in negotiating this contract.
    (180227)
47
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 157W, on the Curzon Institute, if he will publish the minutes of meetings between his Department and the Curzon Institute at which this contract was discussed.
    (180228)
48
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180093)
49
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many household fires were caused by electric heaters in each of the last 10 years; and how many such fires resulted in (a) injuries and (b) fatalities.
    (180336)
50
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to encourage local communities to fund social enterprises through crowdfunding.
    (180120)
51
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180094)
52
 
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations her Department has received from the Scottish Government in the last 12 months on the proposed establishment of a joint venture between the BBC and a Scottish Broadcasting Service in the event of Scottish independence, as outlined in Scotland's Future: Your Guide to An Independent Scotland.
    (180165)
53
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the amount invested in UK creative industries through UK crowdfunding platforms in the last year.
    (180129)
54
 
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2013, Official Report, column 327W, on unmanned aerial vehicles, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the legality of the armed drones programme.
    (180135)
55
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180095)
56
N
Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the financial savings that would be achieved over a 10 year period from (a) the Defence Equipment and Support plus model and (b) a government-owned, contractor-operated entity.
    (180231)
57
 
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations his Department has received from the Scottish Government in the last 12 months on the proposed transfer of armed forces personnel in the event of Scottish independence, as outlined in Scotland's Future: Your Guide to An Independent Scotland.
    (180163)
58
N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2013, Official Report, column 483W, how many full-time equivalent staff are assigned to work supporting the Historical Enquiries Team and the National Archives in identifying files for release.
    (180288)
59
N
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects a legal agreement between his Department and Taylor Wimpey plc to be signed in respect of the discharge of rain water from the new housing estate on former Ministry of Defence (MoD) land off Berechurch Hall Road, Colchester, into Friday Wood Brook watercourse through MoD land; what the reasons are for the time taken to conclude such an agreement; and if he will make a statement.
    (180277)
60
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether military, civil servants and privately contracted staff within the Defence Equipment and Support plus will receive different terms and conditions of employment for similarly qualified and graded positions.
    (180137)
61
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the application of project trust funds to defence contracts.
    (180182)
62
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the staffing of the new DE&S+ security will be; whether it will use existing Civil Service grades; and what accountability arrangements there will be.
    (180183)
63
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the new DE&S+ entity will be established; when he expects it to take over the running of procurement for his Department; and when he expects the service pillars to transfer to the new entity.
    (180184)
64
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Statement of 10 December 2013, Official Report, columns 146-8, on defence procurement, whether he will publish an impact assessment of the changes announced.
    (180186)
65
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he expects the chief executive of the arm's length company that will run DE&S will also act as Chief of Defence Materiel.
    (180187)
66
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will details the breakdown of the costs incurred to date by his Department in establishing a GoCo and running the tendering process.
    (180188)
67
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprenticeships are offered in the Army in each year.
    (180234)
68
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprenticeships the Army offers each year; and what steps he is taking to ensure that figure is reached in 2013 and 2014.
    (180235)
69
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that regular Army numbers are maintained until the numbers of those serving in the Territorial Army is increased to prevent a manpower shortfall arising from his restructuring plans.
    (180236)
70
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to work better with the Department for International Development.
    (180238)
71
 
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of pupils that will sit the EBacc at GCSE in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
    (180117)
72
 
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school days were lost in England this year due to strike action in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180118)
73
 
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in which local education authority in England average per pupil funding is the (a) highest and (b) lowest.
    (180119)
74
N
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an assessment of how the position of England in the recent PISA results tables, published on 3 December 2013 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, would have differed if the rest of England performed at the same level as the Trafford local education authority area.
    (180221)
75
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the records of monitoring visits to all Free Schools opened since May 2010.
    (180283)
76
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures are in place to ensure clarity of responsibility between his Department and the Ministry of Defence over safeguarding concerns in Combined Cadet Forces.
    (180300)
77
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the results of the Military ethos in schools programme.
    (180301)
78
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to expand the Military ethos in schools programme.
    (180302)
79
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for the benefits of a Military ethos in schools.
    (180303)
80
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration was given to sources other than the Military in the design of a programme to foster the values of self-discipline and teamwork.
    (180304)
81
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what activities military ethos programmes in alternative provision consist of; and whether pupils can choose not to participate.
    (180305)
82
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what alternatives to physical activities are available for those unable to take part in military ethos programmes as a result of a disability or for other reasons.
    (180306)
83
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in mentoring schemes provided by Skillforce progressed into (a) further education, (b) a civil apprenticeship, (c) the armed forces and (d) other employment for each year the scheme has been available.
    (180307)
84
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many instances of bullying, abuse or neglect were reported by cadets in school Combined Cadet Forces in each academic year between 2010 and 2013.
    (180308)
85
 
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools relinquished School Direct places which had been allocated to them in 2012-13 for training commencing in 2013-14; and to which primary phase or secondary subject each such place related.
    (180150)
86
 
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether a Teach First trainee who is recruited to focus on mathematics can switch subject specialism after two years.
    (180151)
87
 
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is possible for a school to bid for and be allocated to a School Direct place for a physics trainee teacher without having a trained physics teacher as a member of staff.
    (180168)
88
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many School Direct numbers were requested by school clusters by (a) primary phase and (b) secondary subject (i) nationally and (ii) by English region; and how many places were allocated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership to those school clusters in the 2014-15 allocations.
    (180175)
89
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher education places have been allocated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership for (a) each secondary subject and (b) primary phase (i) nationally and (ii) by English region to (A) HE providers, (B) SCITTs, (C) School Direct and (D) salaried School Direct.
    (180190)
90
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what basis his Department agreed the allocations of teacher education places in 2014-15 by the National College of Teaching and Leadership to meet the future need for primary and secondary subject teachers.
    (180191)
91
 
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effects of the time taken to allocate subject knowledge enhancement places on the capacity of universities to recruit to those programmes in the 2013-14 academic year.
    (180298)
92
 
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the allocation of subject knowledge enhancement places to universities in academic year 2013-14 was not made until 8 November 2013.
    (180299)
93
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher education places the National College of Teaching and Leadership has estimated are required by secondary subject and primary phase in each English region in 2014-15.
    (180391)
94
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the National College of Teaching and Leadership has allocated more teacher education places than estimated need in 2014-15 for secondary subject and primary phase.
    (180392)
95
 
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary school places needed by 2020 in (i) England, (ii) Greater London and (iii) the London Borough of Southwark.
    (180256)
96
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180096)
97
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support exists for children and adoptive parents post adoption.
    (180341)
98
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much children's social work departments spent on agency workers in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
    (180360)
99
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in public sector spending on services for children with special educational needs.
    (180363)
100
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department provides to advertise marriage and relationship support courses; and if he will make a statement.
    (180192)
101
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the number of pre-payment energy customers who are in fuel poverty.
    (18014)
102
N
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the market share of (a) British Gas, (b) E.ON, (c) EDF, (d) RWE npower, (e) SSE and (f) Scottish Power in the domestic (i) electricity and (ii) gas supply market in each of the last 10 years.
    (180082)
103
N
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 630, on energy bills, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's assessment of the energy freeze proposal.
    (180083)
104
N
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Statement of 31 October 2013, Official Report, column 1095, if he will publish the terms of reference of the annual review of the state of competition in the energy markets.
    (180084)
105
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on vertical integration in the electricity industry.
    (180112)
106
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make it his policy to introduce a ring-fence between generation and supply businesses in vertically integrated energy companies.
    (180140)
107
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the average annual expenditure on energy for off-grid gas households.
    (180142)
108
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much electricity capacity which was connected directly to the distribution network there was in each of the last 16 years.
    (180143)
109
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much installed electricity capacity connected directly to the transmission capacity there was in each of the last 16 years.
    (180144)
110
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 398, on energy security, how many of the new gas plants that have come online since May 2010 (a) received planning consent and (b) began construction before May 2010.
    (180145)
111
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 397, on green policies, what assessment his Department has made of satisfaction ratings for the Green Deal.
    (180146)
112
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 390, on energy efficiency, how many insulation measures were installed in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
    (180147)
113
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 390, on energy efficiency, how many insulation measures were installed through (a) Warm Front, (b) CERT, (c) CESP and (d) ECO.
    (180148)
114
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Statement of 31 October 2013, Official Report, column 1096, by what criteria he will assess the level of transparency of the fianancial accounts of the energy companies.
    (180152)
115
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Statement of 31 October 2013, Official Report, column 1095, on Annual Energy Statement, by what criteria he will assess the state of competition in the energy markets.
    (180153)
116
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of how many people are eligible for the Warm Home discount core group rebate in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
    (180159)
117
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will require all electricity suppliers to pay the Warm Home discount in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
    (180160)
118
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the number of customers eligible for the Warm Home discount who are not customers of suppliers who participate in the scheme.
    (180161)
119
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 398, on energy security, if he will make a statement on the proposals for 12 new nuclear reactors.
    (180180)
120
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 394, on energy costs, what the evidential basis for the statement is that there has been a huge increase in wholesale gas prices.
    (180181)
121
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 386, on decarbonisation, what the evidential basis is for the statement that £31 billion has been invested in renewable electricity since 2010.
    (180193)
122
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 385, on decarbonisation, what estimate his Department has made of the difference in cost to consumers of setting a decarbonisation target in (a) 2014 and (b) 2016.
    (180194)
123
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 392, on energy efficiency, what the evidential basis is for the statement that over 100,000 Green Deal measures are to be installed in people's homes.
    (180195)
124
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to Oral Answer of 28 November 2013, Official Report, column 390, on energy efficiency, what the evidential basis is for the statement that 4.8 million insulation measures have been installed through Government schemes.
    (180196)
125
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 627, on energy bills, what the evidential basis is for the statement that (a) rising wholesale energy costs and (b) investment in energy infrastructure are the main driver of energy price rises.
    (180197)
126
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 627, on energy bills, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the Government is increasing competition in the energy market.
    (180198)
127
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 627, on energy bills, what measures he has taken to force the energy companies to (a) open up their books and (b) justify price rises to customers.
    (180199)
128
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 627, on energy bills, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of Ofgem's retail market review on consumer engagement in the energy market.
    (180200)
129
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 627, on energy bills, what the evidential basis is for the statement that Ofgem's reforms for competition in the retail market are making it easier for consumers to (a) understand their bills, (b) work out where they can get the best deal and (c) switch providers.
    (180201)
130
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 628, on energy bills, (a) when and (b) how the £12 rebate to domestic electricity customers will be paid.
    (180202)
131
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 628, on energy bills, what the evidential basis is for the statement that changes to the energy company obligation will result in a reduction in bills of between £30 and £35.
    (180203)
132
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 631, on energy bills, when his Department will publish the (a) consultation paper and (b) impact assessment on the proposed changes to the energy company obligation.
    (180204)
133
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 631, on energy bills, what assessment his Department has made of the distributional effects of paying for social and environmental obligations on (a) energy bills and (b) taxes.
    (180205)
134
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to his Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 635, on energy bills, what estimate his Department has made of the likely reductions in solid wall insulations as a result of the proposed change to the energy company obligation.
    (180223)
135
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to section 3 of his Department's response to the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee's Report on Energy prices, profits and poverty, published on 10 October 2013, HC 717, if he will make it his policy to require energy companies to disclose their trading profits in their segmental statements.
    (180239)
136
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to section 3 of his Department's response to the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee's Report on Energy prices, profits and poverty, published on 10 October 2013, HC 717, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of segmental statements provided by the vertically integrated energy companies.
    (180240)
137
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of off-grid gas households who are in fuel poverty.
    (180241)
138
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to table 1.2 of his Department's statutory security of supply report, published October 2013, if he will list each plant scheduled to close in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2023-24.
    (180246)
139
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 1.16 of his Department's Statutory security of supply report, published October 2013, what estimate he has made of the time required to make each mothballed plant operational.
    (180247)
140
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what forecast his Department has made of the capacity of Eggborough Power Station in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16, (c) 2016-17, (d) 2017-18 and (e) 2018-19.
    (180257)
141
N
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Statement of 31 October 2013, Official Report, column 1096, on Annual Energy Statement, what the terms of reference of the report on the transparency of the financial accounts of the energy companies are; and if he will make a statement.
    (180276)
142
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 38 of update 3: contract award process, final investment decision enabling for renewables, for what reason he has introduced technology-based rules to the selection process when allocating investment contracts.
    (180343)
143
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 38 of update 3: contract award process, final investment decision enabling for renewables, published by his Department on 4 December 2013, what representations he has received on the introduction of technology based rules to the selection process when allocating investment contracts.
    (180344)
144
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to update 3: contract award process, final investment decision enabling for renewables, published by his Department on 4 December 2013, how many of the applications for final investment decision enabling contracts for renewables phase 2 have engineering and construction contracts in place.
    (180345)
145
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to update 3: contract award process, final investment decision enabling for renewables, published by his Department on 4 December 2013, how many of the applications for final investment decision enabling contracts for renewables phase 2 are expected to come online in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018, (e) 2019 and (f) 2020 or later.
    (180346)
146
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to Final investment decision enabling for renewables, update 3: contract award process, published by his Department on 4 December 2013, how many of the applications for final investment decision enabling contracts for renewables phase 2 have received planning consent.
    (180415)
147
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what new resources he has made available for new nuclear research through (a) the National Nuclear Laboratory, (b) University of Manchester, (c) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, (d) Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and (e) the Technology Strategy Board; what projects at what value have been given support; and what the source of funding has been in each case.
    (180265)
148
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education and his Welsh counterpart on the inclusion of educational material supporting the use of nuclear power in the national curriculum; what the cost is of the preparation of this work; and from which departmental budget it is funded.
    (180356)
149
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much funding his Department has provided to the European Marine Energy Centre in each year since 2003.
    (180287)
150
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the cost of administering the Renewable Heat Incentive in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Scotland and Wales in each year since 2010.
    (180369)
151
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the cost of decommissioning existing nuclear power stations in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Scotland.
    (180370)
152
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the total amount paid out in the form of constraint payments to wind installations in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) Wales in each month since June 2010.
    (180372)
153
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of marginal fuel allowances on investment in North Sea resource extraction since their introduction.
    (180373)
154
 
Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the evidential basis is for his Department's statement that scientific evidence shows that extreme weather events are most certainly intensifying.
    (180349)
155
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180097)
156
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many solid wall installations he expects to be completed in financial years (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15, (c) 2015-16 and (d) 2016-17.
    (180244)
157
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the total spend on fuel poverty measures will be for 2013 compared to each of the last five years.
    (180245)
158
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 1.261 of the Autumn Statement, what new incentives will be in the schemes to support the take-up of energy efficiency measures.
    (180248)
159
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of the changes to the Energy Companies Obligation announced in the Autumn Statement on meeting the UK's climate obligations for the period up to 2020.
    (180249)
160
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the average saving on energy bills for (a) those on direct debit schemes, (b) those who pay the bill upon receipt and (c) those who use prepayment meters following the changes announced in the Autumn Statement.
    (180250)
161
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the insulation industry about potential job losses as a result of the changes to the Energy Companies Obligation announced in the Autumn Statement.
    (180251)
162
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the amount by which energy companies' spending on people in fuel poverty will change over the course of the current Parliament as a result of the changes to the Energy Companies Obligation announced in the Autumn Statement.
    (180252)
163
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average household fuel poverty gap was for the most recent period for which figures are available; and whether he expects this to increase following the changes to the Energy Companies Obligation announced in the Autumn Statement.
    (180253)
164
N
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department has budgeted to spend on research into (a) carbon capture and storage and (b) carbon capture and use in the next five years.
    (180232)
165
 
Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to reduce the risks to the environment posed by Chinese lanterns.
    (180149)
166
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dogs and puppies entered the UK under the Balai Directive in the last 12 months; how old these animals were; and what their country of origin was.
    (180154)
167
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the increase in incidences of zoonotic diseases entering the UK since the relaxation of the regulations under the pet travel scheme in January 2012; and what action his Department plans to take in response to recent rabies cases in the Netherlands and France.
    (180155)
168
 
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the use of sustainable urban drainage systems to support water management in urban areas.
    (180351)
169
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180098)
170
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many households in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area have been flooded in the last three years.
    (180335)
171
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Sudan on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
    (180209)
172
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the hunger strike of Bhai Gurbakhash Singh in India.
    (180374)
173
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on Sikh prisoners in India remaining in prison despite having completed their sentences.
    (180375)
174
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 142W, on Afzal Amin, whether Afzal Amin is employed in any other capacity by his Department.
    (180401)
175
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180099)
176
 
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the possible effects of Scottish independence on the UK diplomatic network.
    (180162)
177
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to prevent forces fighting in the Central African Republic from profiting from illegal trade in diamonds, uranium or petroleum.
    (180407)
178
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance his Department offers to construction companies in the Middle East and North Africa to prevent disruption of their work.
    (180237)
179
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of religious freedoms for Christians in Pakistan.
    (180354)
180
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has commissioned an investigation into reports by Human Rights Watch that ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have been committed against the ethnic Rohingya in Burma.
    (180285)
181
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with Aung San Suu Kyi on visiting places in Burma where anti-Muslim violence has taken place.
    (180286)
182
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180310)
183
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180311)
184
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180312)
185
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180313)
186
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180314)
187
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Bradford City Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180315)
188
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Leeds North Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180316)
189
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Bradford Districts Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180317)
190
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180318)
191
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Airedale, Wharfdale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180319)
192
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180320)
193
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180321)
194
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180322)
195
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180323)
196
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180324)
197
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180325)
198
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180326)
199
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS North Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180327)
200
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS North East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180328)
201
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180329)
202
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Harrogate Rural District and Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180330)
203
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180331)
204
 
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on local services of NHS England's proposed changes to the funding formula for NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
    (180332)
205
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in implementing the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on perinatal mental health.
    (180063)
206
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the (a) demand for and (b) capacity of perinatal mental health services in each NHS trust area.
    (180064)
207
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of mother and baby mental health units have been running over capacity in the last five years.
    (180065)
208
 
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on improving the prevention and detection of perinatal mental health issues.
    (180115)
209
 
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding each NHS Trust and Foundation Trust has (a) allocated and (b) been spent on perinatal mental health services in the last five years.
    (180116)
210
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department made of the performance of IT systems in hospitals in England.
    (180377)
211
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who provides the IT services to each hospital in NHS England.
    (180378)
212
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the IT systems in use in hospitals in England.
    (180379)
213
 
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of migrant health workers from developing countries working in the National Health Service.
    (180357)
214
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the proportion of people in the latest survey with suspected cancer is who have seen a cancer specialist within the two weeks target in (a) Donacaster and (b) South Yorkshire.
    (180158)
215
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients were provided with a GP appointment within 48 hours in (a) Doncaster and (b) South Yorkshire for the last quarter for which figures are available.
    (180167)
216
 
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses are engaged in full-time daily care of patients in (a) England and (b) Greater London.
    (180254)
217
 
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of pay is of each grade of nurse working in (a) administration, (b) education and (c) clinical care in (i) England and (ii) Greater London; and how many nurses were working in each such grade at the latest date for which figures are available.
    (180255)
218
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to implement the recommendations in the report, Tackling FGM in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
    (180279)
219
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what study trips to America (a) his Department and (b) the NHS undertook in 2008; which senior staff in (i) his Department and (ii) NHS London took part in each such trip; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such trip.
    (180371)
220
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what external consultancy contracts were procured by NHS London in each year since 2005; what the value of each such contract was; and what the date of each such contract was.
    (180384)
221
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts NHS England awarded to Carnall Farrar LLP in the last five years; and what the (a) value and (b) date was of each such contract.
    (180385)
222
 
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the implementation of Article 21.1 of EU Directive 2011/24 regarding cross border access to health care; and if he will make a statement.
    (180413)
223
 
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many EU member states have transposed into national law EU Directive 2011/24, on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare; and if he will make a statement.
    (180414)
224
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180101)
225
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue guidance to employers and employees on identifying signs of early dementia; and if he will make a statement.
    (180264)
226
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds are available to juveniles who have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act with violent behaviour as one of the indicators; and where each such bed is situated.
    (180271)
227
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the use of cannabis in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
    (180113)
228
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent studies his Department has commissioned on the medicinal uses of cannabis.
    (180114)
229
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the accounts of the Police Federation from 2003 to 2013.
    (180380)
230
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police officers are required to be members of the Police Federation.
    (180381)
231
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Police Federation is funded by her Department.
    (180382)
232
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police officers acting as an officer of the Police Federation are given paid time off to undertake their duties as Federation officers.
    (180383)
233
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the National Crime Agency on its work in Northern Ireland.
    (180122)
234
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the operation of the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland.
    (180123)
235
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged over 65 have been murdered in each year since 2010; and how many people have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of such murders to date.
    (180124)
236
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from which country of origin were granted asylum on grounds of religious persecution in each year since 2007.
    (180125)
237
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the speed and methods by which missing people are traced.
    (180126)
238
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of each age group and gender are currently registered as missing.
    (180127)
239
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the procedures used on animals at Imperial College London; and if she will make a statement.
    (180263)
240
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have received the (a) maximum fine and (b) maximum prison sentence for (i) possession and (ii) trafficking of (A) Class A drugs (B) Class B drugs and (C) Class C drugs in each of the last five years.
    (180267)
241
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the trend has been of the number of people using mephedrone since it was made a controlled drug in 2010.
    (180269)
242
 
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of appeals for witnesses in criminal investigations.
    (180260)
243
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180102)
244
 
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations her Department has received from the Scottish Government in the last 12 months on the proposed continued membership of the Common Travel Area for residents of an independent Scotland, as outlined in Scotland's Future: Your Guide to An Independent Scotland.
    (180166)
245
 
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual offences reported to the police in the last five years occurred (a) more than 20 years ago, (b) between one and 20 years ago and (c) in the last year.
    (180189)
246
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to what extent Europol shares information with Interpol; and what steps Europol takes to ensure that information it relies on has not been obtained by Interpol in breach of human rights.
    (180062)
247
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Interpol has charged and received for providing major event support teams in (a) the UK and (b) EU member states in each of the last five years.
    (180066)
248
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2013, Official Report, column 762W, on Interpol, for what reasons it is not possible for figures for Red Notices for UK nationals issued by other countries to be provided.
    (180071)
249
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Interpol major event support teams cost for the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
    (180174)
250
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2013, Official Report, column 2, on Interpol, what the length of time between issue and withdrawal or revocation was of each of the eight Interpol Red Notices which were withdrawn or revoked by the UK.
    (180398)
251
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the tourist visa application process.
    (180085)
252
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to refine the working visa application process.
    (180086)
253
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the number of fatalities from yellow fever in Sudan's West and Southern Kordofan states in the last year.
    (180210)
254
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has made to the United Nations on the polio vaccination campaign that had been due to take place in Sudan's Southern Kodorfan and Blue Nile states.
    (180211)
255
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of the recent polio vaccination campaign in Sudan's Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
    (180212)
256
 
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to address the shortage of health workers in developing countries; and if she will make a statement.
    (180358)
257
 
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to increase human resources available for health services in developing countries.
    (180362)
258
 
Naomi Long (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will attend the Sanitation and Water for All high level meeting in Washington DC on 11 April 2014.
    (180206)
259
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180103)
260
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that the commitment to distribute 4.5 million mosquito nets in Ghana by 2015 is reached.
    (180233)
261
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with (a) her international counterparts, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) the Philippine government about increasing investment in disaster risk reduction within the Philippines.
    (180280)
262
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and for Defence about the situation in the Central African Republic.
    (180281)
263
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs about European Union aid to Belarus.
    (180282)
264
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment her Department has made of the work of the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
    (180130)
265
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to tackle drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in developing countries.
    (180131)
266
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions her Department has had with (a) the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (b) the World Bank and (c) other international bodies on improving the tax collecting capabilities of developing countries
    (180132)
267
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to help developing countries develop their own capital markets.
    (180133)
268
 
John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Government has made of trends in the take-up of mediation following recent legal aid changes applicable to matrimonial law.
    (180342)
269
 
Gavin Shuker (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many women have been involved in senior negotiations and decisions on the UKs withdrawal from Afghanistan; and what proportion of the total number of senior negotiators and decision makers this figure represents.
    (180138)
270
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2013, Official Report, column 308W, on prison sentences, if he will provide a gender breakdown of the figures contained in Table 3.
    (180134)
271
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants were sentenced to between six and 12 months custody by a Crown Court for one either way offence in each of the last three years.
    (180347)
272
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of jails are free of illegal drug use.
    (180268)
273
 
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were received into custody for contempt of court in each month since January 2012.
    (180224)
274
 
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to offer parents legal aid for placement proceedings involving their children.
    (180243)
275
N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average wait for a benefit appeal tribunal hearing for benefit claimants from the Kettering constituency is; what steps he is taking to reduce these waiting times to at least the national average; and what the reasons are for the length of wait faced by claimants in Kettering constituency.
    (180278)
276
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much of the Government's funding for rape support centres has been spent in each region in each year since 2011.
    (180215)
277
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which domestic violence helplines received how much funding in each year since 2011.
    (180216)
278
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which rape support centres have received what funding in each year since 2011.
    (180217)
279
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff at HM Prison Oakwood have less than one year's service at this establishment.
    (180077)
280
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been kept overnight in (a) police cells and (b) court cells in each month since May 2010.
    (180078)
281
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much of the victim surcharge has gone uncollected since the surcharge was introduced.
    (180079)
282
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much of the victim surcharge has been (a) collected and (b) uncollected in each year since 2010.
    (180080)
283
 
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme by (a) insufficient and (b) delayed guidance from his Department.
    (180272)
284
 
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost per annum to the Probation Service in England and Wales is of supervising a person on licence for (a) 12 months, (b) 24 months and (c) 36 months.
    (180273)
285
 
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risk posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme of a failure of the programme to be delivered either in scope or within the timescale set by Ministers.
    (180274)
286
 
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme of insufficient Ministry of Justice capacity to manage the process due to its scale and a lack of coordination between different Ministry of Justice work streams.
    (180275)
287
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme of a failure due to a lack of resources and preparation.
    (180296)
288
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180104)
289
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what provision is made for video conferencing for Child Support Agency Tribunal cases when one party is unable to attend in person.
    (180352)
290
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Leader of the House, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180105)
291
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180106)
292
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180107)
293
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how much in total was spent in salary costs to all hon. Members for performance of their parliamentary duties in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180070)
294
 
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ensure that the Crown Dependencies are consulted on the recommendations of the Airports Commission before a decision on this matter is made.
    (180208)
295
N
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the practicality of fitting sensors to heavy goods vehicles for the protection of cyclists.
    (180220)
296
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, why policy option two, institutional reform without legislation, set out in the roads reform impact assessment was not considered in the consultation on transforming the Highways Agency.
    (180350)
297
 
Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to tackle delays by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to process type approval testing for HGV trailers.
    (180359)
298
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons undamaged stretches of steel central reservation barriers are being replaced with concrete ones; what the cost of new concrete barrier installation is; and if he will make a statement.
    (180214)
299
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180108)
300
 
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local authorities are currently developing or implementing programmes to increase the prevalence of audio-visual systems on buses in their area compared to the same time last year.
    (180337)
301
 
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the success of his Department's attempts to encourage bus and coach providers to increase the proportion of their staff who have received training in disability matters.
    (180338)
302
 
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether guidance given to train operators on designing Disabled People's Protection Policies promotes the need to educate staff on interchange to other modes of transport for disabled people.
    (180339)
303
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect on marginal airline route services of transferring responsibility for aviation security from his Department to the Civil Aviation Authority from 1 April 2014.
    (180387)
304
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that any new charges to the aviation industry as a result of transferring responsibility for aviation security from his Department to the Civil Aviation Authority are phased in to mitigate the potential negative effects on marginal airline route services.
    (180388)
305
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of his Department's impact assessments in the field of aviation reform.
    (180389)
306
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the (a) general accuracy of impact assessments prepared by his Department and submitted to Parliament prior to enactment of the Civil Aviation Act 2012 and (b) estimated annual costs in the form of new charges to be met by the aviation industry when responsibility for regulating aviation security transfers from his Department to the Civil Aviation Authority from 1 April 2014.
    (180390)
307
N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, of 26 November 2013, Official Report, column 188W, on Driver and Vehicle Agency: Coleraine, when a decision on the future of the Driver and Vehicle Agency at Coleraine will be made and announced.
    (180289)
308
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of First Great Western's recent performance and their capacity to manage passenger demand to Plymouth and the South West over the Christmas and New Year period.
    (180270)
309
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180110)
310
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180100)
311
 
Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he envisages all Child Support Agency arrears cases with no ongoing maintenance liabilities to be moved off the 1993 and 2003 computer systems; how many cases it is anticipated will be moved off the two computer systems at this stage; and whether all relevant cases will be transferred on to the new 2012 scheme computer system.
    (180355)
312
 
Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases he expects to fall within each of the five segments scheduled for closure, listed in the Government's full response to the Supporting separated families; securing children's futures consultation Cm 8742.
    (180364)
313
 
Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what Child Support Agency (CSA) cases will come within Segment 2 of his Department's proposed order for CSA case closure; and what period of nil compliance with child maintenance will be necessary for a case to be included in Segment 2.
    (180365)
314
 
Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that, following the planned process of Child Support Agency (CSA) arrears validation that will accompany the case closure programme, the Child Maintenance Service will give the same priority to the active recovery of any CSA arrears which a parent with care of a dependent child wishes to have collected, regardless of whether a £20 application fee has been paid to the Child Maintenance Service in respect of continuing maintenance for the child.
    (180366)
315
 
Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance will be given to Child Maintenance Service officials in respect of Child Support Agency cases closed within Segment 2 of his Department's case closure programme because of nil compliance, where a parent with care who applies to use the new Child Maintenance Service asks to use the statutory collection service straight away, on the grounds that the non-resident parent's nil payment record means they are unlikely to pay the new maintenance liability in accordance with the calculation if left to do so via a voluntary Direct Pay arrangement.
    (180367)
316
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2013, Official Report, column 154W, on universal credit, who is providing jobcentre plus advisors with training; and at what cost.
    (180406)
317
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will use a non-geographic number for the Personal Independence Payment helpline.
    (180348)
318
 
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people declared fit for work have subsequently reapplied and been classed as unfit for work within a three month period.
    (180340)
319
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he received the evidence review commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the landscape of food aid provision and access in the United Kingdom; and when he expects to comment to that Department.
    (180399)
320
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average annual income of non-single parent households in the London Borough of Southwark was in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013.
    (180075)
321
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average annual income of single parent households in the London Borough of Southwark was in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013.
    (180076)
322
 
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that adequate support is being offered to people in financial hardship following the abolition of crisis loans and community care grants.
    (180213)
323
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in each region have received an exemption from conditions applied to claimants of jobseeker's allowance because they have been victims of domestic violence since April 2012.
    (180219)
324
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the Work Programme has performed against its targets for those leaving prison in each month since the Programme's inception.
    (180081)
325
 
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what basis the contract for the Post Office card account will be tendered if a new contract is continued into 2015; and if he will make a statement.
    (180411)
326
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on ministerial salaries in the last year for which figures are available.
    (180111)
327
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will commission an assessment of the effects on employers and the additional support they may require owing to the potential increase in the number of people of employment age who have dementia as a result of the extension in retirement age; and what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on the needs of older workers.
    (180266)
328
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to the Child Support Agency on the implications of the Armed Forces Covenant in respect of child custody and visiting rights.
    (180353)
329
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 11 June 2012, Official Report, column 282W, on universal credit, what recent estimate he has made of IT development and implementation costs related to universal credit in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
    (180069)
330
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he was first informed that some claimants would not transfer to universal credit by the end of 2017-18.
    (180087)
331
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he was first informed that the phasing out of new claims to existing benefits and credits would be delayed until after April 2014.
    (180408)

Notices given on Thursday 12 December

1
N
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding from LIBOR fines has been distributed to military charities to support the Armed Forces Covenant to date.
[Question Unstarred]   (901494)
2
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many unemployed households with children there were in the London Borough of Southwark in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013.
[Transferred]   (180072)
3
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many in-work households with children there were in the London Borough of Southwark in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013.
[Transferred]   (180073)
4
 
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to (a) support and (b) increase the number of youth workers in Greater London.
[Transferred]   (180261)
5
 
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Stafford and (b) the UK were claiming each of the major in-work benefits in each of the last 10 years; and what the cost of such benefits was to the Exchequer.
[Transferred]   (180128)
6
N
Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which benefits (a) will and (b) will not be included in the welfare cap.
[Transferred]   (180218)
7
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what help his Department is providing to local authorities affected by the recent flooding.
[Transferred]   (180309)
8
 
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which Minister is accountable to Parliament for (a) oversight of broadband roll-out in Wales and (b) the funding of Sianel Pedwar Cymru.
[Transferred]   (180185)
9
 
Gavin Shuker (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment she has made of progress in the human rights situation in Sri Lanka as a result of the UK presence at CHOGM.
[Transferred]   (180139)
10
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of agency social workers employed by local authorities in 2013-14.
[Transferred]   (180361)
11
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the commitment in page 10 of the National Infrastructure Plan to invest £5 million during 2014-15 in a large-scale electric vehicle readiness programme for public sector fleets, what that programme will include; how many public sector contracts will be awarded under this investment; and when the procurement procedure for this process will start.
[Transferred]   (180136)
12
 
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of school leavers in each constituency went to (a) Russell Group Universities and (b) the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the latest year for which data is available.
    (180448)
13
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase the number of people advanced a learner loan in order to undertake an apprenticeship.
    (180469)
14
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the median pay was in each sector of Government sponsored apprenticeships in each of the last three years; and what the median pay for each such sector in each such year was for (a) women and (b) men.
    (180505)
15
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the gender breakdown was of Government-sponsored hairdressing apprenticeships in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
    (180515)
16
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the gender breakdown was of Government-sponsored engineering apprenticeships in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
    (180516)
17
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) average gross hourly pay and (b) median annual salary was of Government-sponsored hairdressing apprenticeships in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
    (180523)
18
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) average gross hourly pay and (b) median annual salary was of Government-sponsored engineering apprenticeships in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
    (180524)
19
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) median and (b) mean (i) annual and (ii) hourly salary is for (A) men and (B) women in Government-sponsored apprenticeship schemes; and what the equivalent figures were in each of the last three years.
    (180596)
20
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to support small businesses in Hendon constituency in accessing finance.
    (180477)
21
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the pressure of regulation on small businesses.
    (180478)
22
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the red tape challenge.
    (180479)
23
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of how his Department's retail strategy will benefit retailers in Hendon constituency.
    (180480)
24
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to support the retail industry.
    (180481)
25
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to ensure small businesses can receive assured advice on regulation.
    (180530)
26
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of small businesses in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Hendon constituency UKT&I has helped to start exporting.
    (180569)
27
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the number of new apprenticeship schemes created in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Hendon constituency since 2010.
    (180570)
28
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings and discussions took place between (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department and (i) the Financial Conduct Authority (ii) the Prudential Regulation Authority and (iii) the Serious Fraud Office on Mr Lawrence Tomlinson's report on RBS ahead of its publication.
    (180531)
29
 
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to ensure that the parliamentary Counsel are made aware of the UK's international human rights obligations relating to children including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
    (180443)
30
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce the rural fuel duty discount for those independent fuel stations having a rateable value below £50,000.
    (180476)
31
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the Excise Payment Security to independent petrol stations; what assessment he has made of the effect on such petrol stations by failing to apply the scheme to them; and if he will make a statement.
    (180517)
32
 
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) strategic and (b) commercial links to the UK that (i) owners and (ii) managers of vessels applying for inclusion in the tonnage tax scheme are required to demonstrate in order to qualify for that scheme.
    (180594)
33
 
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) strategic and (b) commercial links to the UK that (i) owners and (ii) managers of vessels that have qualified for the tonnage tax scheme have demonstrated in each year that the scheme has been in operation.
    (180595)
34
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department next plans to review the rating of plant and machinery for the purposes of business rates.
    (180425)
35
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the value of receipts in each of the last five financial years from the additional premium applied to automatic fire sprinkler systems as part of plant and machinery valuations for the purposes of business rates is.
    (180529)
36
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department allocated to the Troubled Families initiative in each of the last three years; and how much funding he expects to allocate to this initiative in each year to 2015.
    (180499)
37
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department works with the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and the Department for Education in delivering the Troubled Families initiative.
    (180500)
38
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what capital grants were made by Arts Council England for culture-based projects in each region in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013 to date.
    (180430)
39
 
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to promote tennis participation to people between the ages of 16 and 25; and if she will make a statement.
    (180587)
40
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 198W, on unmanned air vehicles, whether he will place in the Library copies of the factual reports, studies and trials on which the legal review is based.
  [R] (180532)
41
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, columns 197-8W, on unmanned air vehicles, if he will disclose details of the funding provided by the United States Visiting Forces to meet their day-to-day activities at RAF Croughton and RAF Moleworth identified by reference to each (a) unit present, (b) activity carried out and (c) facility used by USVF.
  [R] (180546)
42
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 197W, on unmanned air vehicles, if his Department will implement the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism at paragraph 78 of his September 2013 report.
  [R] (180547)
43
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 198W, on unmanned air vehicles, what local force protection is currently provided for or planned by Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels.
  [R] (180548)
44
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Moray, of 15 October 2013, Official Report, column 640W, on unmanned air vehicles, whether his Department has overseen the development of any technologies used in the five new Reaper aircraft to enhance interoperability of those assets between the UK and NATO allied forces.
  [R] (180549)
45
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to promote the interoperability of capabilities and systems at RAF Waddington with the UK's NATO allies in 2013.
  [R] (180550)
46
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, column 70W, on unmanned aerial vehicles, what the (a) unit, (b) service and (c) rank is of each of the United States Visiting Forces personnel based at (i) RAF Croughton and (ii) RAF Marham.
    (180625)
47
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to tackle poor performance in school and academy sixth forms.
    (180465)
48
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) schools and (b) academy sixth forms have success rates in the education of 16 to 19 year olds lower than the minimum performance levels expected of further education colleges in that area.
    (180466)
49
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when (a) he, (b) the Minister of State for Schools and (c) the Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise received a copy of Ofsted's Annual Report 2013.
    (180468)
50
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to close his Department's 2012-13 financial accounts.
    (180470)
51
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Ofsted released its annual 2013 Annual Report to the media organisations before 10.00am on 11 December 2013.
    (180471)
52
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Statement of 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 629, on energy bills, what discussions he has had with (a) British Gas, (b) RWE Npower, (c) Scottish Power and (d) SSE on the effect of the changes to green levies on household energy bills.
    (180501)
53
 
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many lorries of live farm animals intended for further fattening or slaughter have been inspected by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency at (a) the point of loading, (b) the Port of Dover and (c) at both loading and at the Port of Dover in each month since 1 May 2013; and if he will make a statement.
    (180438)
54
 
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many lorries of live farm animals intended for further fattening or slaughter have left at the Port of Dover in each month since 1 May 2013; and if he will make a statement.
    (180439)
55
 
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many statutory notices for breaches of welfare during transport legislation have been issued at the Port of Dover against lorries of live farm animals intended for further fattening or slaughter in each month since 1 May 2013; and if he will make a statement.
    (180440)
56
 
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many statutory notices for breaches of welfare during transport legislation have been issued at the point of loading for lorries of live farm animals intended for further fattening or slaughter in each month since 1 May 2013; and if he will make a statement.
    (180446)
57
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the methodology used by the Government for full base-line badger population analysis to ensure that inaccuracies caused by (a) weather, (b) disease and (c) any other factors are addressed.
    (180578)
58
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward propsals for more accurate badger population counts.
    (180579)
59
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will support a badger vaccination trial in the South West of England in order to compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a vaccination programme with (a) the badger cull pilots and (b) gassing as a means of culling.
    (180580)
60
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the full costs of the extended pilot badger culls (a) in total and (b) for each badger culled to (i) the public purse and (ii) landowners.
    (180581)
61
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the membership of the Independent Expert Panel on the badger cull pilots to introduce additional scientific expertise; and if he will invite suggestions from independent organisations on the composition of that panel.
    (180582)
62
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that the remit of the Independent Expert Group on the badger cull pilot includes specific reference to monitoring humaneness, safety and effectiveness during (a) the original cull period and (b) the extended cull period.
    (180583)
63
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish immediately and in full (a) transcripts of all meetings of the Independent Expert Group on the badger cull pilot, (b) evidence presented to that Group and (c) that Group's report.
    (180584)
64
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that Parliament has an opportunity to debate the Independent Expert Panel's report on the pilot badger culls before his Department makes any decision to proceed with further culls.
    (180585)
65
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy that decisions on any further badger culls will only be taken following a debate in the House on a substantive motion relating to such culls.
    (180586)
66
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons the UK voted against Palestinian membership of the Olive Council.
    (180428)
67
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on revoking Military Order 418 and returning planning powers on Area C to the Palestinian Authorities.
    (180436)
68
 
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, columns 107-8W on vaccination: immigrants, which group is responsible for the commissioning of the specific vaccination programmes recommended by the World Health Organisation and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for newly arrived migrants from areas with high prevalence of a particular disease; and who is responsible for commissioning hepatitis B vaccinations for newly arrived migrants from areas of high prevalence of this disease.
    (180568)
69
 
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what safeguards are in place to ensure that NHS commissioners comply with guidance on the treatment and care of people with rheumatoid arthritis.
    (180426)
70
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, column 96W, on gender recognition, what the average waiting time from GP referral to an appointment at a gender identity clinic was in (a) the North West and (b) England in each of the last three years for which data are available.
    (180555)
71
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, column 96W, on gender recognition, how many people have been referred to gender identity clinics in each of the last three years for which data are available.
    (180556)
72
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent in what is now Harlow constituency in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2008-09, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2012-13.
    (180444)
73
 
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2013, Official Report, column 82W, on radiotherapy, who sat on the panel reviewing stereotactic radiosurgery; and when he expects NHS England to publish the results of that study.
    (180551)
74
 
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2013, Official Report, columns 349-50W, on cancer, how many patients were treated with gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery at (a) Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, (b) Nova Healthcare in Leeds, (c) the Thornberry Radiosurgery Centre, Sheffield, (d) Bart's Health, London and (e) BUPA-Cromwell, London in each of the last five years; and how many such centres have reached the maximum number of patients allowed under the terms of their contract to provide such surgery in 2013-14.
    (180552)
75
 
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2013, Official Report, column 703W, on health services, how many patients have agreed to be transferred from University College London Hospital to (a) BUPA-Cromwell, London and (b) HCA Bart's hospital for gamma knife radiosurgery treatment.
    (180553)
76
 
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2013, Official Report, column 703W, on health services, what is the procedure for patients to exercise their legal right to choose where they are treated after they have waited longer than 18 weeks for treatment.
    (180554)
77
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of dispensing Bexsero under general prescription.
    (180482)
78
 
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of provision of kidney transplant services to minority ethnic groups; and if he will make a statement.
    (180589)
79
 
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the inequalities in the provision of renal disease prevention and management.
    (180590)
80
 
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the report by the British Kidney Patient Association, entitled, Kidney Health: Delivering excellence.
    (180591)
81
 
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's overarching impact assessment of the Immigration Bill, published on 14 October 2013, if she will publish a breakdown of the £4.71 million estimated as the net annual cost to business.
    (180599)
82
 
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the Scottish Government's proposal for joint working between the UK and Scottish security services in the early period after independence, contained in the Scottish Government document, Scotland's Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland.
    (180588)
83
 
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what activities the National Crime Agency currently conducts in Scotland.
    (180592)
84
 
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the value of bringing forward legislative proposals to allow the reintroduction of standing areas for English football club stadia.
    (180467)
85
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons her Department's Balance of Compliance study was not published on 11 December 2013; and when she intends to publish this study.
    (180435)
86
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to the Minister of Immigration dated 31 October 2013 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Peter Solaja.
    (180432)
87
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to the Minister of Immigration dated 4 November 2013 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs S Parveen.
    (180433)
88
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 4 November from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms Sultanat Khan Ahmad Khan.
    (180434)
89
 
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library records of all the consultations received during the impact assessment for the Immigration Bill in relation to her statutory safeguarding children duties as set out in Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 from (a) the Office of the Children's Champion and (b) other bodies.
    (180472)
90
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2013, Official Report, columns 70-1W, on Afghanistan, how many Afghan nationals were trained in the Bost Airfield and Agricultural Park programme; how many of them were trained outside Afghanistan; and in what other countries they were trained.
    (180522)
91
 
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to section 8.2 of his Department's research paper, The strength and skills of the Judiciary in the Magistrates' Courts, Ministry of Justice Research Series 9/11, dated November 2011, for what reasons a volunteer cost of £10 per magistrate per hour is include within the costs directly associated with magistrates; and which other studies follow this approach.
    (180429)
92
 
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse (a) per hour, (b) per case and (c) per year of deploying (i) a district judge and (ii) a bench of three magistrates to reside over cases in magistrates' courts; and what the component elements are of that estimate in each case.
    (180431)
93
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisons in England and Wales were subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13.
    (180441)
94
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of prisons in England and Wales that will be subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by May 2015.
    (180445)
95
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons in England and Wales were (a) publicly-managed and (b) privately-run or contracted out to be run by the private sector in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12 and (iv) 2012-13..
    (180451)
96
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of the legal aid reform on family law costs; and if he will make a statement.
    (180447)
97
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidences of (a) suicide, (b) attempted suicide and (c) self-harm there were (i) in HM Prison Lewes and (ii) on average in all adult prisons in each of the last three years.
    (180557)
98
 
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of the Commissioners' Directions on passenger information on the UK's general aviation sector.
    (180571)
99
 
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the recent announcement by the Office of Rail Regulation of investment in the North Wales coast mainline, what the timetable is for the signalling improvements to the line.
    (180502)
100
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effects of the review of Local Transport Note 2/95 on policy and practice of devolved government in Northern Ireland.
    (180503)
101
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) Local Transport Note 2/95 continues to apply and (b) the Zebra, Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings Regulations and General Directions 1997 remain in force in Northern Ireland.
    (180504)
102
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to publish his Department's green paper on the safety of young drivers.
    (180534)
103
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the outcome of his Department's consultation on Regulations about the new offence of driving with a controlled drug in the body above a specified limit; and when he plans to consult on the proposed such limit for amphetamines.
    (180535)
104
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with First Trans-Pennine Express on the number of carriages in use on peak commuter trains between Bolton and Manchester.
    (180437)
105
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2012, to the hon. Member for Hertsmere, Official Report, columns 947-8W, on aviation: Hertfordshire, how many meetings Ministers from his Department have had with counterparts in the Department for Communities and Local Government on general planning issues relating to strategic rail freight interchanges since June 2010; and at how many such meetings the Radlett application was mentioned.
    (180597)
106
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2012, to the hon. Member for Hertsmere, Official Report, columns 947-8W, on aviation: Hertfordshire, when the conversation with the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst took place and whether it was minuted.
    (180598)
107
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the number of (a) pelican, (b) puffin and (c) countdown crossings in operation.
    (180572)
108
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the number of new (a) pelican and (b) puffin crossings installed in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012.
    (180573)
109
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local highways authorities installed pelican crossings in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
    (180574)
110
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the puffin pedestrian crossing accident study published by TRL in March 2011, for what reasons his Department permits local authorities to install new pelican crossings.
    (180575)
111
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of whether available research evidence permits firm conclusions about the relative safety performance of pelican and other types of pedestrian crossing; and what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on that matter.
    (180576)
112
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will issue guidance to local authorities on the dangers of pelican crossings on roads with multi-lane approaches.
    (180577)
113
 
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions the M62 between Leeds and Manchester was closed to traffic due to (a) road accidents and (b) inclement weather conditions in each of the last three years.
    (180518)
114
 
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions the A57 Snake Pass between Glossop and the Rivelin Valley was closed to traffic due to (a) road accidents and (b) inclement weather conditions in each of the last three years.
    (180519)
115
 
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13 the A628 between Flouch and Mottram was closed to traffic because of (i) road accidents and (ii) weather conditions.
    (180521)
116
 
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the total number of (a) UK, (b) EEA and (c) non-EEA nationals employed as ratings on ships qualified on for the tonnage tax scheme.
    (180520)
117
 
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the latest estimate his Department has made of the total number of (a) UK, (b) EEA and (c) non-EEA seafarers working on ships qualified for the tonnage tax scheme is.
    (180593)
118
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what material on the current or proposed use of remotely piloted aircraft systems in UK airspace is collated by or on behalf of the Cross-Government Working Group on remotely piloted aircraft systems.
    (180543)
119
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2013, Official Report, column 198W, on unmanned air vehicles, which RPAS-related departmental polices, are informed by the Cross-Government Working Group on Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems.
  [R] (180544)
120
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged 22 or over resident in each (a) local authority area and (b) parliamentary constituency, were employed in jobs paying less than the national minimum wage in 2013.
    (180489)
121
 
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the total discretionary housing budget that was spent during the first six months of 2013-14.
    (180542)
122
 
Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2013, Official Report, column 669W, on employment and support allowance, with what medical conditions those people transferred from incapacity benefit to an employment and support allowance work-related activity group without being seen by an assessor have been diagnosed; and how many such people have been diagnosed with each such condition.
    (180442)
123
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the gender breakdown was of people in receipt of tax credits in each of the last five years.
    (180536)
124
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of annual changes in the size of the universal credit caseload in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16, (c) 2016-17, (d) 2017-18 and (e) 2018-19.
    (180449)
125
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how large the universal credit caseload will be in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16, (c) 2016-17, (d) 2017-18 and (e) 2018-19.
    (180450)
126
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's Impact Assessment, Child maintenance fees reforms: CSA case closure, introducing CMS fees, supporting family-based arrangements, when he expects the new statutory scheme for child maintenance to attain post-transition steady state.
    (180427)
127
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's Impact Assessment on Child maintenance reforms: CSA case closure, introducing CMS fees, supporting family-based arrangements, dated 31 March 2013, (a) on what basis and (b) over what period his Department has estimated that the amount of the child maintenance fee income expected to accrue during the transition from the present two statutory schemes to the new 2012 statutory scheme will be £2,220 million.
    (180533)
Tuesday 17 December  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
 
* 1
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): What recent representations he has received about UK withdrawal from the European Court of Human Rights; and if he will make a statement.
    (901648)
* 2
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): What reports he has received on the progress of investigations into the alleged misuse of public money by private providers that hold contracts with his Department.
    (901649)
* 3
Jessica Morden (Newport East): What assessment he has made of the effects of reductions in funding for civil legal aid.
    (901650)
* 4
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): What recent assessment he has made of family mediation services.
    (901651)
* 5
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): What his policy is on probation trusts tendering for probation services.
    (901652)
* 6
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): What steps he plans to take to enforce the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime.
    (901653)
* 7
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): What plans he has to review sentencing for causing death by dangerous driving.
    (901654)
* 8
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): What his strategy is for supporting victims of crime.
    (901655)
* 9
David Mowat (Warrington South): What assessment he has made of the potential for further savings to the public purse from the justice system.
    (901656)
* 10
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): How many young people currently in young offenders' institutions and specialist children's homes are being held on human trafficking offences.
    (901657)
* 11
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): How his Department's funding for restorative justice is being disbursed.
    (901658)
* 12
Henry Smith (Crawley): What professional development support his Department plans to put in place for those supervising offenders in the community.
    (901659)
* 13
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): What steps he plans to take to ensure access to justice regardless of ability to pay.
    (901660)
* 14
Steve Brine (Winchester): What steps he is taking to tackle rogue PPI claim companies and nuisance calling by those companies.
    (901661)
* 15
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): What steps he plans to take to ensure access to justice regardless of ability to pay.
    (901662)
* 16
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): What steps he is taking to support victims of domestic violence.
    (901663)
* 17
Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): What recent steps he has taken to support victims of crime.
    (901664)
* 18
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): What steps he is taking to tackle rogue PPI claim companies and nuisance calling by those companies.
    (901665)
* 19
Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury): What steps he is taking to reduce the use of cautions for repeat offences.
    (901666)
* 20
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): What steps he is taking to ensure that no prisoner leaves prison unable to read.
    (901667)
* 21
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): What steps he plans to take to ensure that the voluntary sector is able to compete for rehabilitation contracts.
    (901668)
* 22
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): What plans he has for Stafford Prison.
    (901669)
* 23
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): What plans he has for the future of HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
    (901670)
* 24
John Pugh (Southport): What assessment he has made of trends in the number of cracked trials.
    (901671)
* 25
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): What steps he is taking to tackle rogue PPI claim companies and nuisance calling by those companies.
    (901672)
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
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (901673)
* 2
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East):  
    (901674)
* 3
Priti Patel (Witham):  
    (901675)
* 4
Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate):  
    (901676)
* 5
Andrew George (St Ives):  
    (901677)
* 6
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough):  
    (901678)
* 7
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):  
    (901679)
* 8
Mr David Ward (Bradford East):  
    (901680)
* 9
Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire):  
    (901681)
* 10
Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough):  
    (901682)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 11 December

1
N
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to support the creation of jobs in Greater London.
    (180290)
2
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions Mr Lawrence Tomlinson has met officials from the Insolvency Service in relation to his report on RBS; and on which dates such meetings took place.
    (180419)
3
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether officials from the Insolvency Service were consulted ahead of the publication of Mr Lawrence Tomlinson's report on RBS; and whether the report was approved by the Insolvency Service.
    (180420)
4
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether investigations are being carried out by the Insolvency Service into the findings of Mr Lawrence Tomlinson's report on RBS.
    (180421)
5
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings have taken place between (a) Ministers and (b) officials at his Department and staff at the Insolvency Service in relation to Mr Lawrence Tomlinson's report on RBS.
    (180422)
6
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her policy is on the (a) drinking and (b) advertising of alcohol in cinemas.
    (180179)
7
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are currently being housed with foster parents in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK.
    (180416)
8
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children who are being cyber-bullied in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
    (180417)
9
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the steering group to reduce the admission of young people with alcohol dependency will next convene.
    (180178)
10
N
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what 24 hour GP services operate in (a) England, (b) Greater London and (c) the London Borough of Southwark.
    (180405)
11
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many early morning restriction orders have been imposed since their introduction.
    (180176)
12
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many late night levies have been imposed since their introduction.
    (180177)
13
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme of insufficient attention and support from his Department due to other demands.
    (180291)
14
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme by the scale and speed of the programme making it unachievable or achievable only superficially.
    (180292)
15
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme of a failure of poorly designed operational processes.
    (180293)
16
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme of a failure of poor engagement with trusts and failure to take on board their views.
    (180294)
17
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed to the Transforming Rehabilitation Probation programme of insufficient testing of operational design.
    (180295)
18
N
Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to improve road safety for cyclists in Greater London.
    (180386)

Notices given on Thursday 12 December

1
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the turnout was in the most recent (a) general and (b) local elections in (i) Ribble Valley constituency, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) the UK.
[Transferred]   (180418)
2
N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what work the Met Office undertakes for foreign governments.
    (180525)
3
N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what work the Met Office undertakes for the (a) Scottish Government, (b) Welsh Assembly Government and (c) Northern Ireland Executive.
    (180528)
4
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many companies have (a) been announced as being the recipient of and (b) received money related to the advanced manufacturing supply chain initiative in rounds (i) one, (ii) two, (iii) three and (iv) four to date.
    (180488)
5
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health regarding assessment of work by Deloitte under its NHS contracts for consultancy services in the first quarter of 2010.
    (180514)
6
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the use of digital government services by those on the lowest incomes and unemployed.
    (180498)
7
N
Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will suspend fines against official UK motorcycle importers arising from unforeseen consequences of the recent Notification of Vehicle Arrivals (NOVA) legislation, pending development of NOVA procedures for those importers.
    (180607)
8
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of reductions in local authority budgets on bed blocking in NHS hospitals.
    (180485)
9
N
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to hold a consultation on broadcast advertising rights for community radio stations.
    (180537)
10
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in her Department are working on allowing same-sex couples to convert their civil partnerships to marriages.
    (180545)
11
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to review her Department's allocation of capital for culture projects to ensure that areas across the country are treated equitably.
    (180452)
12
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military attachés were part of British diplomatic missions in (a) 1990, (b) 2000, (c) 2010 and (d) 2013.
    (180510)
13
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to which British diplomatic missions a military attaché is currently attached.
    (180511)
14
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what the £1.8 billion underspend from his Department's 2012-13 budget has been spent on; and if he will make a statement.
    (180513)
15
N
Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles were carried out by British armed forces in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Pakistan in the last three years.
    (180624)
16
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in receipt of social services, by local authority in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (180600)
17
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much each local authority spent on child protection services per head of children receiving those services in 2012-13.
    (180601)
18
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role non-executive members of his Department's board play in directing the work of officials in his Department.
    (180562)
19
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what office facilities are provided for non-executive members of his Department's board in his Department's buildings.
    (180563)
20
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance he gives further education colleges on action to take if after intervention from the Education Funding Agency they receive insufficient funding from a local authority for a student with high needs.
    (180454)
21
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that all local authorities provide sufficient funding to (a) further education, (b) sixth form colleges and (c) specialist colleges that educate 16 to 25 year olds with high needs in 2014-15.
    (180455)
22
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have raised concerns with (a) his Department and (b) the Education Funding Agency on the amount of funding they have received from local authorities to educate pupils with high needs aged (a) five to 15 and (b) 16 to 25 years.
    (180456)
23
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many registered child care places in the London Borough of Southwark there were in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013.
    (180461)
24
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many two year olds in the London Borough of Southwark currently receive free early education.
    (180462)
25
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hours of education or training children receive each week in (a) young offenders institutions and (b) secure training centres.
    (180623)
26
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2013, Official Report, column 734, what his policy is on the proposed five per cent cap on land-based biofuels in the European Union Council negotiations on the EU Commission’s proposed reform of EU-biofuel policy.
    (180463)
27
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, column 13W, on energy: prices, for what reasons he has not held any meeting where he has asked energy companies to lower or not increase their prices.
    (180473)
28
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, column 13W, on energy: prices, how many meetings he had with the big six energy companies in November 2013.
    (180486)
29
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, column 13W, on energy: prices, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing the information requested on the dates of meetings.
    (180487)
30
N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the progress of the grant-assisted alleviation of shingle migration and flooding, Teal Bay, Morecambe.
    (180560)
31
N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the progress of construction of sea wall defences in the Hest Bank and Teal Bay area of Morecambe.
    (180561)
32
N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to introduce a new system of electronic certification to facilitate the export of poultry meat and breeding stock.
    (180608)
33
N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will defend the poultry industry against accusations of dumping made by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa.
    (180609)
34
N
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay of 23 August 2013 and subsequent letters of 15 October, 8 November and 9 December 2013 on Ms Gillian Willis.
    (180457)
35
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how his Department has implemented the Building Stability Overseas Strategy since 2011; and if he will make a statement.
    (180604)
36
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress he expects the Sri Lankan government to make on an independent investigation into war crimes and human rights abuses before the UK decides not to pursue a resolution on an international inquiry at the UN Human Rights Council in March 2014.
    (180494)
37
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on (a) the text of a UN Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka for the session in March 2014, (b) the terms of reference for such an inquiry and (c) the membership of such an inquiry.
    (180495)
38
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with which members of the UN Human Rights Council he has discussed the case for an independent, international inquiry into the Sri Lankan civil war; and what recent assessment he has made of the strength of international support for such an inquiry.
    (180496)
39
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the ability and willingness of the Sri Lankan government to conclude an independent investigation into alleged war crimes before March 2014; and what criteria he has set for such an inquiry to be considered credible.
    (180497)
40
N
Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the value to the UK of the British Council; and if he will make a statement.
    (180460)
41
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people between 10 and 16 years old had received at least one dose of the MMR vaccine as at 31 May 2013.
    (180602)
42
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the reasons for variations in the uptake of treatments for rheumatoid arthritis.
    (180458)
43
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 13 May 2013, Official Report, column 38W, on cancer, what measures the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set 2014/15 will include to drive improvements on five year cancer survival rates.
    (180507)
44
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve one and five year cancer survival rates for older people.
    (180508)
45
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the difference between cancer survival rates in the UK and comparable European countries.
    (180509)
46
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS Protect has been given in each year since 2005.
    (180610)
47
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of correspondence between Peter Coates and Deloitte MCS Limited on 5 February and 10 February 2010.
    (180611)
48
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff are employed by the NHS Trust Development Authority; which external consultants the NHS Trust Development Authority employs; and at what cost such staff are employed.
    (180612)
49
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedure will be used to appoint a new chairman of NHS Property Services.
    (180613)
50
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital chaplains were working in the NHS in each of the last five years.
    (180621)
51
N
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of fractures by (a) men and (b) women aged 50 or over of the (i) hip, (ii) wrist, (iii) vertebra, (iv) femur, (v) neck and (vi) knee can be attributed to osteoporosis in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
    (180526)
52
N
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men and (b) women aged 50 or over have broken a (i) hip, (ii) wrist, (iii) vertebra, (iv) femur, (v) neck and (vi) knee in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
    (180527)
53
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for reconfiguration of acute hospital trusts providing healthcare to the populations of north Cheshire and south Merseyside.
    (180474)
54
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which capabilities included in the original e-Borders business case (a) have been taken out of scope and (b) are under consideration for taking out of scope; and what the estimated cost was of each of those capabilities as defined at the time of the original tender.
    (180615)
55
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on compliance costs for enforcement of legislation relating to (a) academic institutions and (b) marriages in each of the last five years; how many full-time equivalent staff work on such compliance activity; and what estimate she has made of the amount her Department will spend annually on compliance with new legislation relating to (i) private sector landlords and (ii) NHS staff.
    (180616)
56
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children were entered onto the UK Border Agency database in each of the last five years; how many alerts requiring investigation were generated from that data, excluding false positives; and what the estimated cost of those investigations was.
    (180617)
57
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the capability to reconcile a passenger arriving on a foreign national passport and leaving on a UK passport as included in the original e-Borders business case, what body or company is responsible for delivering that capability; and by what date that capability is expected to be delivered.
    (180618)
58
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the likely cost to the public purse of adding finger print verification to second generation passports.
    (180619)
59
N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the specialist capabilities of the National Crime Agency currently used by Police Scotland.
    (180605)
60
N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has given any support to the Scottish Government in (a) tackling cyber crime or (b) combating cyber attacks against the Scottish Government.
    (180606)
61
N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the Scottish Government's proposal to continue to recognise any currently valid UK passports until their expiry date in the event of Scottish independence, as proposed in the Scottish Government document: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland.
    (180614)
62
N
Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are (a) currently seeking asylum in the UK and (b) waiting to be returned to their country of origin.
    (180459)
63
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to make a comprehensive estimate of non-EU international students who leave the UK at the end of their studies.
    (180558)
64
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how her Department has implemented the Building Stability Overseas Strategy since 2011; and if she will make a statement.
    (180603)
65
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been clawed back from sums allocated to TradeMark Southern Africa.
    (180538)
66
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) meetings, (b) telephone calls, (c) letters and (d) other forms of communication she and her Ministers have had with TradeMark Southern Africa in the last 12 months.
    (180539)
67
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much she personally gave approval to be granted to the TradeMark Southern Africa project.
    (180540)
68
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what grants her Department has granted in contravention of UK policy on restrictions, embargoes and sanctions since May 2010.
    (180541)
69
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what amount has been spent by schemes supported by her Department in Zimbabwe since May 2010.
    (180622)
70
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of gang-related violence in youth offender institutions.
    (180491)
71
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the transition of young offenders from custody back into mainstream society.
    (180492)
72
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of children in youth offender institutions suffer from mental health disorders.
    (180493)
73
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the relationship between the size of youth offenders institutions and ability to ensure the security and safety of staff and children resident there.
    (180512)
74
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on (a) prisoners and (b) prison staff there were (i) in HM Prison Lewes and (ii) on average in all adult prisons in each of the last three years.
    (180475)
75
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sex offenders are held at HM Prison Lewes; and how many places on sex offender treatment programmes are available at that prison.
    (180559)
76
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times tolls have been suspended on the Lower Thames Crossing since October 2011.
    (180490)
77
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles have used the Lower Thames Crossing while tolls were suspended since October 2011; and what estimate he has made of the value of the fees foregone.
    (180506)
78
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance claimants waited longer than (a) one week, (b) two weeks, (c) three weeks and (d) one month to have their benefit claim processed in each year since 2006.
    (180453)
79
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2013, Official Report, columns 49-50W, on universal credit, for what reason the estimated annual saving of £1.3 billion differs from the figure of £2.2 billion contained in his Department's Impact Assessment of December 2012; and if he will make a statement.
    (180483)
80
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing times were for incapacity benefit claims in (a) each quarter of (i) 2006 and (ii) 2007 and (b) the first two quarters of 2008; and what the average processing times for employment and support allowance were in (1) the second two quarters of 2008 and (2) each subsequent quarter to date.
    (180484)
81
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost to his Department of aligning the accounting treatment of profits from self-employment for the purpose of universal credit applications with the treatment of self-employment for tax purposes.
    (180620)
Wednesday 18 December  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
 
* 1
Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the employment interests of workers in the whisky industry in Scotland.
    (901633)
* 2
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): What steps the Government is taking to tackle low pay in Scotland.
    (901634)
* 3
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): What estimate he has made of the number of illegal immigrants in Scotland.
    (901635)
* 4
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): What plans the Government has to review the Barnett formula.
    (901636)
* 5
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on fisheries policy.
    (901637)
* 6
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): What assessment he has made of the effect of energy prices on consumers in rural areas of Scotland.
    (901638)
* 7
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): What assessment he has made of the interim report by Sir Ian Wood on the future regulation of oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
    (901639)
* 8
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of Scottish independence on the economy of the North East of England.
    (901640)
* 9
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): Whether he has had discussions with the Cabinet Secretary on the impartiality of the civil service in Scotland in relation to its involvement in preparing the Scottish Government document, Scotland's Future.
    (901641)
* 10
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): When he last met representatives of the Post Office to discuss the Network Transformation programme and its potential effect on post offices in Scotland.
    (901642)
* 11
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on HM Treasury's Scotland analysis papers.
    (901643)
* 12
Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw): What steps the Government is taking to tackle low pay in Scotland.
    (901644)
* 13
Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Government's infrastructure programme on Scotland.
    (901645)
* 14
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): What recent discussions he has had with the UK Civil Aviation Authority on helicopter safety.
    (901646)
* 15
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): What assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the Scottish Government document Scotland's Future; and if he will make a statement.
    (901647)
At 12 noon
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister
Unless otherwise indicated the Members listed below will ask a question without notice
* 1
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 18 December.
    (901683)
* 2
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):  
    (901684)
* 3
Mr Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich):  
    (901685)
* 4
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal):  
    (901686)
* 5
Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East):  
    (901687)
* 6
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):  
    (901688)
* 7
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):  
    (901689)
* 8
Derek Twigg (Halton):  
    (901690)
* 9
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington):  
    (901691)
* 10
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool):  
    (901692)
* 11
Stephen Pound (Ealing North):  
    (901693)
* 12
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North):  
    (901694)
* 13
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree):  
    (901695)
* 14
Mr Robin Walker (Worcester):  
    (901696)
* 15
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central):  
    (901697)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 11 December

1
N
John Glen (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are consulting with people with autism, their families and community-based charities as they develop local plans to implement the Adult Autism Strategy.
    (180400)

Notices given on Thursday 12 December

1
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children being cared for by a single patent in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK.
    (180564)
2
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to increase the number of young people who speak a second language.
    (180566)
3
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to promote education about energy and climate change among adults and children in the UK.
    (180567)
4
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding the Government plans to contribute to the African Elephant Action Plan; whether UK involvement in that plan will be led by Ministers or officials; what outcomes the Government is seeking from that work; and if he will make a statement.
    (180464)
5
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to promote campaigns to tackle breast cancer.
    (180565)
Thursday 19 December  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 10 December

1
N
Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the number of pelican crossings, puffin crossings and countdown crossings in operation on national and on local authority roads.
    (180051)
2
N
Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the circumstances in which a pelican crossing can have a superior safety record to that of a puffin crossing.
    (180052)
3
N
Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the puffin pedestrian crossing accident study published by TRL in March 2011, for what reasons his Department permits local authorities to install new pelican crossings.
    (180053)
4
N
Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department needs to commission further research before mandating that local highway authorities discontinue installation or renewal of pelican crossings.
    (180054)
5
N
Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will issue guidance to local highway authorities on the dangers of pelican crossings on roads with multi-lane approaches.
    (180055)

Notices given on Wednesday 11 December

1
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of progress of redress arrangements for businesses subject to interest rate swap mis-selling.
    (180424)

Prepared 13th December 2013