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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 9 June 2014

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Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Monday 9 June 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on

Monday 9 June 2014

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on the date of issue of this paper of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper.

For other Written Questions for answer on the date of this paper of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer on future days, see Part 2 of this paper.

Monday 9 June  
Questions to the Attorney General
1  
Gareth Johnson (Dartford): To ask the Attorney General, how many reported cases of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged 13 to 16 under section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 were not prosecuted because of the 12 month statute of limitations for that offence in the last (a) year, (b) five years and (c) 10 years.
      (199041)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
2  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to improve job security for people employed indefinitely on temporary or fixed-term contracts.
      (198616)
3  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people on (a) temporary and (b) fixed-term contracts in each of the last four years.
      (198617)
4  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding has been allocted to (a) York College and (b) Askham Bryan College by the Skills Funding Agency and the Young People's Learning Agency in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in each year since 2009-10.
      (198510)
5  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number and proportion of young people aged 16 to 24 in York in (a) training, (b) employment and (c) education in each year since 1995-96.
      (198511)
6  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people from (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area (i) applied for and (ii) started a degree course in each year since 2009-10.
      (198512)
7  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much capital funding the Government allocated to (a) York College, (b) Askham Bryan College, (c) the University of York and (d) York St John University in each year since 1995-96.
      (198513)
8  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding for each (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate student the Higher Education Funding Council for England allocated to (i) the University of York and (ii) York St John University in (A) cash and (B) at current prices in each year since 1997-98.
      (198514)
9  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications for undergaduate study were made to (a) the University of York, (b) York St John University and (c) all English universities in each year since 2009-10.
      (198515)
10  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many business start-ups there were in City of York local authority area in each year since 2008.
      (198516)
11  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber were exporting to (a) the EU and (b) all countries in each year since 2008.
      (198517)
12  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many bankruptcies were registered in (a) York, (b) Yorkshire and (c) England in each year since 2005.
      (198518)
13  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much foreign investment in Yorkshire and the Humber there has been in each year since 2008; and what estimate he has made of the number of (a) new and (b) safeguarded jobs generated by such investments.
      (198519)
14  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people (a) started and (b) completed apprenticeships in (i) York Central constituency, (ii) York local education authority, (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber and (iv) England in each year since 1995-96.
      (198521)
15  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber received how much funding from the Regional Growth Fund in each year since 2011-12.
      (198522)
16  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber received how much funding from the Yorkshire Regional Development Agency in each year that body was in existence.
      (198523)
17  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber received how much funding from Local Enterprise Partnerships in each year since 2010-11.
      (198524)
18  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many UK-domiciled (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate students enrolled at the (i) University of York and (ii) University of York St John in each year since 2009-10.
      (198525)
19  
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to address the shortage of skilled workers in the digital and technology sector.
      (198735)
20  
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress his Department has made on the Information Economy Strategy published in June 2013.
      (198736)
21  
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 87W, on holiday leave, what assessment his Department has made of the conclusions of the Citizen's Advice Bureau's Report entitled Give us a Break on the lack of awareness and denial of paid holiday entitlement to UK workers.
      (199434)
22  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding is currently allocated to higher education institutes to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities to disabled students under the Equality Act 2010.
      (198940)
23  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will carry out a public consultation on proposed changes to disabled students' allowances.
      (198941)
24  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students of each type of main disability are in receipt of disabled students' allowances.
      (198942)
25  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his written statement of 7 April 2014, Official Report, columns 1-2WS, on Higher Education: student support, what impact assessment his Department has made of the proposed changes to disabled students' allowances.
      (199002)
26  
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase the manufacture of electronic components in the UK.
      (198575)
27  
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on a minimum monetary threshold for a late payment which affects an individual's credit rating.
      (199030)
28  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what benefits he expects to accrue to the UK economy from the agreement signed in China on 26 May 2014 between the Building Research Establishment and the Shenzhen Municipal Government to set up a training and research and development centre on sustainable building construction in China.
      (198981)
29 N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on research for a cure for Type 1 diabetes in the last three years; and if he will take steps to increase such funding in the forthcoming financial year.
      (198819)
30  
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support the Government is providing for community projects being conducted by UK zoos in collaboration with universities.
      (199020)
31  
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that the forthcoming single pot funding and new round of European Regional Development Funding encourages economic development potential through science discovery collaborations planned between research-intensive universities and zoos.
      (199024)
32 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assistance is available to disabled people who wish to start their own businesses.
      (198945)
33 N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) cats, (b) dogs and (c) horses were rehomed after their release from laboratories following research in 2012.
      (198952)
34  
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will instruct UK Trade and Investment to issue a statement cautioning UK businesses against trade and investment in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
      (198629)
35  
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has invited representatives of the devolved administrations to join the ad hoc ministerial-led steering group on the implementation of his Department's national space security policy.
      (199367)
36  
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that industry and academia in Northern Ireland are able to benefit from opportunities in support of national space security interests.
      (199368)
37  
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether public sector organisations in Northern Ireland will be eligible for the terms of use for postcode address finder from 1 April 2015.
      (199370)
38  
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions officials in his Department had with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive before publication of the National Space Security Policy.
      (199371)
39 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he has taken to speed up payments by public bodies and private concerns to small businesses; and what recent assessment he has made of average payment times.
      (199086)
40  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students received disabled students' allowance in Brighton and Hove local authority area in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
      (199423)
41  
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) UK Chamber of Shipping and (b) European Community Shipowners Association on pay rates for seafarers subject to UK National Insurance employed on vessels working from UK ports who are paid hourly rates below the National Minimum Wage; and if he will request data on such pay rates from maritime employers' associations.
      (199356)
42  
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what resources will be available for targeted enforcement of the National Minimum Wage amongst employers in the maritime sector in the next two financial years.
      (199357)
43  
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will outline the content of the Service Level Agreement between his Department and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on the work of the HMRC National Minimum Wage Enforcement Team; what resources have been allocated to the enforcement team for work in the maritime sector; and what period the Agreement covers.
      (199359)
44  
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent (a) correspondence and (b) discussions he has had with individual employers in the maritime industry about pay rates below the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for seafarers subject to UK National Insurance employed on vessels working from UK ports; and if he will take steps to enforce in the maritime sector his Department's policy on enforcement, prosecutions and naming employers who break the law on the NMW.
      (199360)
45 N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will consider changing student loan payments from three termly instalments to monthly instalments; and what steps his Department has taken to help students learn to budget.
      (198825)
46 N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of zero-hours contracts in the UK which bar any additional employment.
      (198782)
47  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198862)
48  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many undergraduate students were resident in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198591)
49  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding was available through the Skills Funding Agency for (a) adult learning courses to support return-to-work programmes and (b) English as a Second Language courses in each of the last three years.
      (199410)
50  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to educate adults in literacy, numeracy and ICT skills.
      (199220)
51  
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many animals have experienced severe suffering in scientific research funded by the Government since 2010; and if he will provide funding aimed at developing scientific advances allowing the reduction or avoidance of severe suffering of animals used in procedures.
      (198601)
52 N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many insolvencies there were in each (a) region of England and (b) London borough in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
      (199141)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
53  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women who were employed (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in York Central constituency for the 12-month Annual Population Survey periods ending in September in each year since the inception of the survey.
      (198531)
54  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the median gross weekly earnings of (a) men, (b) women and (c) all people employed (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in the areas covered by (A) York travel to work area, (B) City of York local authority area and (C) York Central constituency (1) in cash terms and (2) at constant prices in each year since 1997.
      (198532)
55  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly gross earnings of full-time (a) men, (b) women and (c) people in York has been in (i) cash terms and (ii) at constant prices in each year since 2006-07.
      (198533)
56  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of average net weekly household income in the City of York Council area in each year since 2004-05 in (i) cash terms and (ii) at current prices.
      (198534)
57  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths there were from (a) drug poisoning and (b) drug misuse in (i) York local authority area, (ii) North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust, (iii) Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group area and (iv) England in each year since 2009.
      (198535)
58  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent civil servants of each Department or Executive Agency were employed in (a) the City of York and (b) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs central science laboratory at Sand Hutton on 31 March in each year since 1997.
      (198536)
59  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many businesses there were in City of York local authority area in each year since 2001.
      (198537)
60  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the ease of use for the public of the complaints systems across public services; and if he will make a statement.
      (198659)
61  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of levels of public confidence in complaints systems across public services.
      (198660)
62  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints were received by each ombudsman service in England in each of the last five years.
      (198690)
63  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the potential merits of introducing an automatic trigger for inspections of individual public services when a certain number of people using that service have made complaints about it.
      (198691)
64  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the potential merits of allowing designated bodies to be given the power to make super-complaints against public service providers such as those that exist in private markets.
      (198692)
65 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress departments have made on implementing the Guidance on Customer Service Lines published in December 2013.
      (198817)
66  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the mutuals which provide public services.
      (198921)
67  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what mechanisms are in place to allow an investigation into an allegation that an individual Minister may have breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct during their time in office when that Minister is no longer a serving Minister; who is responsible for initiating such an investigation; and if he will make a statement.
      (198573)
68  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many days of employee absence there were in each Government department in each of the last 10 years.
      (198582)
69  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) subjective and (b) objective measures the Office for National Statistics uses to measure public wellbeing; and whether that Office is considering any changes to those measures.
      (198857)
70  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198863)
71  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gross value added per capita was for the (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) South Hampshire built-up areas in the latest period for which figures are available.
      (199400)
72  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gross value added was for the (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) South Hampshire built-up areas in the latest period for which figures are available.
      (199401)
73 N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the proposals on medals policy put forward by Sir John Holmes will be published.
      (198810)
74 N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which claims for medals remain outstanding following Royal approval of the latest proposals put forward by Sir John Holmes.
      (198811)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
75 N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with its Somali counterpart on ensuring that remittances can continue from UK financial institutions.
      (198752)
76 N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the action group on remittances will next meet to consider the issue of money transfer abroad.
      (198754)
77 N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress has been made on enabling the continuation of money transfer abroad from UK financial institutions; and if he will make a statement.
      (198756)
78 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to improve access to free to use cash machines.
      (198801)
79  
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the threshold charge payable for a type 2 machine for the purposes of calculating machine gaming duty was set at £5.
      (199029)
80  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been paid through working tax credits to people in Bolton North East constituency in each of the last three years.
      (199151)
81 N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications have been made (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully under the second stage of the Government's Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme in Huntingdon constituency.
      (199061)
82 N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to encourage young savers.
      (198958)
83  
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the Exchequer of equalising the tax relief given on employee contributions to pension schemes at 30 per cent.
      (198645)
84  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Prudential Regulatory Authority will report on details of new bank authorisations.
      (198922)
85  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission an assessment of the amount of investment in small and medium-sized enterprises from peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding platforms.
      (198923)
86  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had on the development of guidance on the use of social media for promotion of financial services.
      (198928)
87 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of revenue accruing to the Exchequer from air passenger duty in respect of (a) domestic and (b) international flights from each airport in Scotland in 2013-14.
      (198983)
88  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority to publish their review on removing barriers to entry and expansion in retail banking.
      (198990)
89  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Payments System Regulator on its market study into the ownership of payments systems by the largest banks.
      (198991)
90  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many homes in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Birmingham have been bought under the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme to date.
      (198626)
91  
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding for the extraction of North Sea oil has come from (a) the Government, (b) the Scottish Executive and (c) the private sector in each of the last 20 years.
      (198595)
92 N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of the average claim for tax credit made by people who were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
      (198956)
93 N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of tax credit claimants were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
      (198957)
94  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the provision of debt advice for carers in a) Glasgow North West, b) Glasgow, c) Scotland and d) the UK.
      (198898)
95  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the minutes of the meetings of the HM Revenue and Customs' Board and associated sub-committees for a) 2013 and b) 2014.
      (198899)
96  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what issues the HM Revenue and Customs' Scrutiny Committee has addressed since its establishment in 2013.
      (198900)
97  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198873)
98  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the levels of (a) public sector investment, (b) private sector investment, (c) investment in intangibles and (d) other investment was in each G7 country in each of the last 10 years.
      (199413)
99  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people having difficulty making mortgage repayments have requested help from the Financial Ombudsman Service in each of the last three years.
      (199080)
100  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to exempt people in receipt of attendance allowance from paying vehicle excise duty.
      (199105)
101  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantees and (b) Help to Buy: Equity Loans have been taken out in (i) the North West, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) Pendle to date.
      (198974)
102  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received about the publication of personal and business lending data by postcode; and if he will make a statement.
      (199106)
103  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require banks to publish data on the number of new small business accounts in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
      (199107)
104  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of members of credit unions and (b) their total savings in each (i) region of the UK and (ii) London borough in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12, (C) 2012-13 and (D) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
      (199108)
105  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were members of a credit union in each (a) region of England and (b) each borough of London in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
      (199109)
106  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of total lending by (a) credit unions and (b) community development finance institutions in each (i) region of England and (ii) London borough in (A) 2011-12, (B) 2012-13 and (C) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
      (199110)
107 N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require the Prudential Regulation Authority to conduct an analysis of recently released personal and business lending data by postcode to examine (a) levels of disparity in lending and (b) progress in achieving financial inclusion; and if he will make a statement.
      (199137)
108 N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require banks and their financial institutions to release further personal and business lending data by postcode; and if he will make a statement.
      (199138)
109  
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many internal reports, briefings or analysis papers HM Revenue and Customs has produced on the taxation arrangements for bareboat charters in the oil and gas sector since 2007; and what the findings were of each such report.
      (199293)
110 N
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 24 February 2014, Official Report, column 29W, if he will make an assessment of the effect of US regulatory authorities' interventions in the gold market on gold market-related securities in ISAs.
      (199054)
111 N
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Bank of England has engaged in any selling, leasing, loaning, hypothecating or re-hypothecating either independently or in conjunction with other parties, which could have had the effect of lowering or suppressing the quoted market price of gold since May 2010.
      (199055)
112  
Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the Help to Buy Scheme to housing built with local affordable conditions attached.
      (199044)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
113 N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 19 December 2013, Official Report, column 714W, on homelessness: Greater London, what use his Department makes of the statistical return provided to his Department by local authorities in London on the number of homeless families placed out of borough.
      (198944)
114  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many rough sleepers there were in each local authority in the North West in each year since 2010.
      (199273)
115 N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications have been made (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully under the first stage of the Government's Help to Buy scheme in Huntingdon constituency.
      (199059)
116 N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total value of Government assistance provided under the Help to Buy scheme is in the Huntingdon constituency.
      (199060)
117 N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average (a) household income and (b) house property acquisition price was of those buying under the Government's Help to Buy scheme in Huntingdon constituency.
      (199062)
118 N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average age of buyers using the Government’s Help to Buy scheme was in Huntingdon constituency.
      (199063)
119  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Severe Weather Recovery Scheme awarded to local authorities for costs incurred during the recent floods has been (a) allocated to and (b) received by local authorities to date.
      (198648)
120  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Government's Business Rates Relief Fund for flooded businesses has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by businesses to date.
      (198655)
121  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Government's Council Tax Relief Fund for people whose homes have been flooded has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by residents to date.
      (198657)
122  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 18 March 2012, Official Report, columns 527-8W, on the Bellwin scheme, how much has been (a) allocated to and (b) received by each of the authorities which have registered for funding under the Bellwin scheme.
      (198704)
123 N
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average rent was for new homes built under the Affordable Homes programme in each local authority from the launch of that programme to date.
      (198762)
124 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many tenants from elsewhere in the UK have taken advantage of Home Swap Direct to arrange exchanges to Scotland in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
      (199053)
125  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 23 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr S Kneale.
      (199218)
126 N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if it remains Government policy that barn conversions to dwellings without the need for planning permission will not be permitted in national parks; and if he will make a statement.
      (198987)
127  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has given to local authorities about churches and same sex marriage.
      (198732)
128  
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses to assess the saleability of new houses when determining the potential for five-year housing supply.
      (198538)
129  
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account he takes of local referendums on the desirability of specific sites being allocated to new housing.
      (198539)
130 N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new houses are under construction in Bassetlaw district.
      (198795)
131 N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new houses have been built in Bassetlaw district in each of the last five years.
      (198799)
132 N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, of how many local authority plans arising from which authorities he has rejected the proposed local development framework and required additional housing supply in excess of that specified in the regional spatial strategy.
      (198800)
133 N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people registered for social housing in (a) Liverpool, (b) the North West and (c) England are non-UK nationals.
      (198910)
134 N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will undertake an assessment of the effectiveness and progress of the Anfield regeneration project.
      (198911)
135 N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average house price was in (a) Liverpool, (b) the North West and (c) England in each year since 1994.
      (198912)
136  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198864)
137  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost was of translation and interpreter services used by each borough and county council in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198563)
138  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what change there was in the number of homelessness acceptances arising from the end of a private sector tenancy in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198572)
139  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to assist homeowners facing problems paying their mortgages and to provide practical advice and support.
      (199225)
140  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average price has been for houses sold under (a) the Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee and (b) the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme in (i) the North West, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) Pendle.
      (198937)
141  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will provide incentives to developers to ensure that new homes planned for construction in 2014-15 will be (a) wheelchair accessible and (b) built to lifetime homes standards.
      (199265)
142  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses built in each of the last five years are (a) wheelchair accessible and (b) built to lifetime homes standards.
      (199276)
143  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the demand for (a) homes built to lifetime home standards and (b) wheelchair accessible homes.
      (199278)
144  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in receipt of disability living allowance or personal independence payments have received support from the Help to Buy scheme.
      (199284)
145  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average waiting time was in each local authority for an assessment for a disabled facilities grant in the most recent period for which figures are available.
      (199285)
146  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to ensure accessible housing, meeting internationally recognised visitability standards, for people who become disabled in 2014-15; and if he will make a statement.
      (199287)
147  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of homes in (a) Ebbsfleet and (b) other planned garden cities will be (i) wheelchair accessible and (ii) built to lifetime homes standards.
      (199288)
148  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities in the UK maintain a register of accessible or adapted homes; and what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on registers of accessible housing.
      (199290)
149  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses not compliant with Part M building regulations were built (a) in the last two years and (b) since 2010.
      (199291)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
150  
Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations his Department has received from UNESCO on the proposed Navitus Bay Wind Farm development.
      (198602)
151  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the Flood Relief Fund for Sport announced to restore damaged pitches, sport centres and facilities has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by sports facilities to date.
      (198649)
152  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the Tourism Industry Fund for businesses in flood-affected parts of England has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by businesses to date.
      (198653)
153  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which cathedrals will receive funding from the new grant scheme for cathedral repairs announced in Budget 2014.
      (198924)
154  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people in Warrington North constituency are currently in receipt of a free television licence.
      (198622)
155  
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to work with counterparts in other EU Member States to encourage tourism to the UK from Europe.
      (199032)
156 N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many reports on equality information and objectives each category of public authority has published under the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 in each year since the regulations came into force; and what the cost of producing those reports was for each category of public authority in each such year.
      (198764)
157 N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public authorities in each category of public authority published equality information and objectives under the Equality Act (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 in each year since they came into force.
      (198765)
158  
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his policy is on allowing internet service providers to restructure charging arrangements for faster network access.
      (198725)
159  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the average broadband speed in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK.
      (199154)
160  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198865)
161  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage primary school children to become active and involved in local sports organisations.
      (199221)
162  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints of (a) unsolicited marketing calls and (b) silent or abandoned calls were made by people in Pendle in each of the last five years.
      (198975)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
163  
Mr Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he was first made aware of health risks at Dalgety Bay.
      (198702)
164  
Mr Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the advice received by his Department on health risks of the radiation contamination at Dalgety Bay.
      (198703)
165  
Mr Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will visit Dalgety Bay to discuss the time taken to clean up radiation contamination there.
      (198994)
166  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide a skills breakdown of the civilian personnel employed at HMNB Clyde by (a) his Department, (b) Babcock, (c) Serco, (d) Rolls Royce, (e) Thales and (f) other main contractors.
      (198728)
167  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian personnel employed at HMNB Clyde are resident in (a) Argyll and Bute, (b) West Dunbartonshire, (c) other parts of Scotland and (d) other parts of the UK.
      (198729)
168  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian personnel are employed at HMNB Clyde by (a) his Department, (b) Babcock, (c) ABL Alliance, (d) Serco, (e) Rolls Royce, (f) Thales and (g) other main contractors.
      (198730)
169  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made in preparing a cost-benefit analysis of the recruitment and training of minors; and when he expects to publish a report on that issue.
      (198847)
170  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department is giving to the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict for the campaign to eradicate the recruitment of children by government armed forces by 2016.
      (198849)
171  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many soldiers who enlisted in the Army aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 years and above dropped out before completing phase two training in the last 10 financial years.
      (198851)
172  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 809W, on Army: length of service, on how many soldiers in each regiment or corps the figures are based.
      (198889)
173  
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 610W, on fuels: Gosport, when he expects the work to establish the preferred options and costs of replacement for the fuel tanks at the oil fuel depot in Gosport to be complete.
      (198720)
174 N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what annual percentage increases in starting rates of pay (a) lieutenant colonels, (b) majors, (c) captains, (d) lieutenants, (e) sergeants, (f) corporals and (g) privates in the Army have received since 1982.
      (198821)
175 N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies have registered an interest in the contract for the JAMES requirement.
      (198985)
176  
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to reply to the letters to him of 2 April and 9 May 2014 from the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse.
      (199043)
177  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what analysis has been carried out by the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston into the effects on (a) human beings, (b) other animals and (c) the wider environment of the use of a nuclear warhead in the UK nuclear arsenal.
      (198935)
178  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of when the Afghanistan Air Force will be ready to function independently of US and UK support.
      (199016)
179  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Afghanistan National Army has deserted in each month since January 2010.
      (199017)
180  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department provides to reserve military personnel forced to leave military service as a result of injury sustained in the course of duty.
      (199237)
181  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many requests for discharge were made by soldiers aged (a) 19 and (b) 20 years who had served at least three years in the regular Army in the last five years; and what the outcome was of each such request.
      (198845)
182  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what training programmes or qualifications are available to recruits who enlist as minors which are not available to those who enlist aged 18 years or over.
      (198846)
183 N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many black and minority ethnic personnel have served in each regiment of the Army in each of the last 10 years.
      (198951)
184  
Eric Joyce (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the UK armed forces would lose their jobs as a result of Scottish independence.
      (198711)
185  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases funded by legal aid against his Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by his Department in each of the last 10 years.
      (198663)
186  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in how many cases against his Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
      (198664)
187 N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide an update on the use of his Department's resources to help efforts to locate abducted girls in northern Nigeria.
      (199093)
188  
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many foreign and Commonwealth personnel from each country of origin who were made redundant from the armed forces in each year since 2010 were subsequently unable to meet the five-year rule to apply for citizenship; and if he will make a statement.
      (198549)
189 N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answers of 18 November 2013, Official Report, columns 696W and 698W and of 18 December 2013, Official Report, columns 632W, on armed forces: young people, if he will publish the terms of reference of the cost benefit analysis of the recruitment of young people into the armed forces; when he expects that report to be published; and if he will make a statement.
      (199067)
190  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Montrose will take over the Fleet Ready Escort task; and what ship it will replace in that role.
      (199112)
191  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times aircraft have been intercepted by Quick Reaction Alert flights by (a) intercepted aircraft type and (b) location in each of the last three years.
      (199113)
192  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions a foreign-requested aircraft has provided search and rescue assistance over UK territorial waters in each of the last three years; what role each such aircraft played; what the location of each incident was; and whether each occurrence was in response to obligations under Annex 12 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.
      (199114)
193  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what modifications to the original design of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers were necessary to accommodate repeated vertical landings by the Joint Strike Fighter; what estimate he has made of the heat produced by vertical landing by the Joint Strike Fighter which has the heaviest safe configuration to allow the procedure; and whether vertical landings can take place on any flat area of the carrier deck.
      (199115)
194  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, at which RAF bases the Joint Strike Fighter can regularly land vertically.
      (199116)
195  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many high-temperature concrete vertical landing pads will be constructed to accommodate the Joint Strike Fighter; where they will be located; and what estimate he has made of their cost.
      (199117)
196  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on Atomic Weapons Establishment facilities at Aldermaston in each of the last five years.
      (199128)
197  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times his Department has provided top-cover fixed-wing search and rescue assets for a search and rescue mission in each of the last two years; and what aircraft were used in each case.
      (199129)
198  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the unit production cost of the Joint Strike Fighter.
      (199130)
199  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the major factors that could change the unit production cost of the Joint Strike Fighter.
      (199131)
200  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total amount is of the financial risk provision within the Joint Strike Fighter programme budget.
      (199132)
201  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what current RAF airfields have (a) standard airfield concrete runways and (b) asphaltic concrete runways.
      (199133)
202  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any RAF pilot has flown the Joint Strike Fighter B at (a) supersonic speeds, (b) above 18 degrees angle of attack and (c) past 4.5 g-force.
      (199142)
203  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Joint Strike Fighter B procured by the RAF will have Block 3i software.
      (199143)
204  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the disposal cost for BAE System's Woodford site.
      (199144)
205  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the total disposal cost of the Nimrod MRA4 airframes.
      (199145)
206  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on a Tornado Collision Warning System since 1991.
      (199146)
207  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the progress on the trial installation and testing of the Tornado Collision Warning System at BAE Systems, Warton.
      (199147)
208  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what records his Department keeps of the monthly 2-star assessments of its risk registers.
      (199148)
209  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what maintenance HMS Montrose will undergo before being assigned to the Fleet Ready Escort task; and whether such tasking after a long deployment is a regular occurrence.
      (199149)
210  
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to decide whether Cape Pyla in the Cyprus sovereign base area of Dhekelia will be designated as a protected area.
      (198677)
211  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to publish a white paper in advance of the next Strategic Defence and Security Review.
      (199245)
212  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to confirm the decision to allow a process change to enable the Rivet Joint signal intelligence aircraft to be certificated under Military Aviation Authority regulations.
      (199247)
213  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 18 December 2013, Official Report, column 636W, on defence: procurement, what the final costs are of establishing a Golo and running the tendering process.
      (199274)
214  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the MRV-P programme concept phase to be completed; whether funding for a demonstration has been approved; and what funds have been allocated for this purpose.
      (199355)
215  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to put out to tender the contract to provide military air traffic management at British and overseas bases.
      (199408)
216  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many contracts have been awarded by his Department to Boskalis over the last five years; and on how many occasions during the contract period such contractors have been found responsible for breaching environmental guidance, thereby committing an offence.
      (199409)
217  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle; and how much his Department has spent on the assessment process to date.
      (199414)
218  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to recognise the service of members of the Royal Navy in patrolling operations to tackle piracy off the coast of Somalia.
      (198740)
219  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have applied to join the Royal Navy cadet force in each of the last five years.
      (199104)
220 N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts are outstanding in the Astute programme.
      (198946)
221 N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the through life cost is for each of the 14 Voyager aircraft.
      (198947)
222 N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish his Department's assessment of lessons learned from the recent Libyan campaign.
      (199068)
223  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) rank and (b) length of service was of each RAF engineer (aerosystems) officer who left the service in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
      (199373)
224  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the reason was for the time taken to produce the Defence Air Safety Annual Report July 2012 to August 2013, published on 3 April 2014; and if he will make it his policy to publish future such reports within three months of the end of the relevant year.
      (199374)
225  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to mitigate the risks to defence aviation safety systems and culture referred to in the Defence Air Safety Annual Report July 2012 to August 2013; and if he will make a statement.
      (199375)
226  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) outflow and (b) inflow was for RAF (i) engineer (aerosystems) officers and (ii) aircraft tradesmen in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
      (199376)
227  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has plans to introduce maritime remotely-piloted air systems; and if he will make a statement.
      (199377)
228  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the advice provided by Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on drones, if his Department will take steps to investigate activities carried out at US bases owned by his Department which may be unlawful under domestic law.
     [R] (198639)
229  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 30 January 2014, Official Report, column 691W, on Yemen, whether his Department has undertaken any impact assessment of drone strikes in Yemen.
     [R] (198640)
230  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with its US counterpart on identifying how the US will support the new Joint User Group for Reaper.
     [R] (198641)
231  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where his Department plans to base the Watchkeeper remotely piloted air systems following completion of training at Salisbury Plain and West Wales Airport.
      (198643)
232  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will carry out an independent qualitative assessment of the psychological and workplace stresses on the operators of remotely piloted air systems.
      (198644)
233  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 474W, on unmanned air vehicles: guided weapons, if he will take steps to receive parliamentary approval before the deployment of the armed forces to the redeployment of armed drones abroad.
      (198710)
234 N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2014, Official Report, column 636W, on the Air Force, whether any such UK personnel are embedded or otherwise interact with the (a) 22nd, (b) 30th, (c) 867th and (d) 732nd Air Force Reconnaissance Squadrons.
      (199004)
235 N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2014, Official Report, column 636W, on the Air Force, whether any such UK personnel are embedded or otherwise interact with the US Air Force's 17th Reconnaissance Squadron.
      (199005)
236 N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2014, Official Report, column 169W, on Djibouti, whether the UK personnel embedded with US forces under US command at Camp Lemonnier provide any support to the US drone programme in Yemen; and if he will make a statement.
      (199008)
237  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Joint Services Publication 398 on UK Rules of Engagement has been amended to reflect use of remotely piloted aircraft systems.
      (199299)
238  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of lethal targeting by remotely-piloted air systems on security in Afghanistan.
      (199351)
239  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2014, Official Report, column 180W, on Africa, whether any service personnel are embedded with host forces or otherwise stationed in (a) Niger, (b) Nigeria and (c) the Seychelles.
      (199405)
240  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 473W, on unmanned air vehicles, when the Joint User Group for Reapers will become active; and if he will make a statement.
      (199415)
241  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 474, on unmanned air vehicles: guided weapons, if his Department will publish the method and results from the UK-US firing trials of Brimstone missiles from MQ-9 Reaper.
      (199420)
242  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department maintains (a) mission reports, (b) guided missile firing reports, (c) weapon system videos and (d) any other munitions release records for the UK Reaper fleet following the change of operational command to US pilots.
      (199421)
243  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 15 January 2014, Official Report, column 578W, on unmanned air vehicles, whether his Department maintains munitions records from the UK Reaper fleet on a sortie-by-sortie basis or for each operation carried out.
      (199422)
244  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2014, Official Report, column 169W, on Djibouti, from which squadron armed forces have been deployed at Camp Lemonnier; and what role is undertaken by each UK officer embedded with US forces at that location.
      (199424)
245  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any UK service personnel are embedded or otherwise stationed in (a) Ethiopia and (b) Chad.
      (199425)
246  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK service personnel are stationed in Yemen; and what the (a) rank, (b) squadron and (c) function is of each officer stationed in that country.
      (199426)
247  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many surveillance aircraft with capacity to intercept telephone or other electronic telecommunications his Department operates.
      (199427)
248  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has procured any contracts for life cycle maintenance of the Reaper fleet; and for what periods.
      (199429)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
249  
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what meetings he has had with (a) the First Minister, (b) the Deputy First Minister and (c) both the First and Deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland in the last 12 months.
      (199366)
250  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use in Northern Ireland of prize draws to increase voter registration.
      (198963)
251  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has had with (a) church and community leaders from black and minority ethnic communities and (b) Operation Black Vote on increasing registration levels for voters in those communities.
      (198964)
252  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether monies collected from fixed penalty notices issued for failure to register on the electoral register will be retained by the local authority which issues that notice.
      (198967)
253  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when electoral registration officers will be able to impose fixed penalty notices for non-registration.
      (198968)
254  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide that the freeze dates for population size for boundary reviews and the census be in the same year.
      (198970)
255  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what training has been given to electoral registration officers in the implementation of fixed penalty notices for non-registration.
      (198971)
256  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he is taking to disseminate the lessons learned from the data mining pilots for the introduction of individual electoral registrations; and if he will make a statement.
      (198972)
257  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the introduction of individual electoral registration in Northern Ireland.
      (198973)
258  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 20 May 2013, Official Report, column 443W, on electoral register, what the results were of his Department’s cooperation with data holding organisations on datasets that can be used to ensure completeness and accuracy of the electoral register.
      (199000)
259  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 27 January 2014, Official Report, column 387W, on electoral register, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of gathering and holding information on the proportion of attainers who are registered to vote; and what assessment he has made of the usefulness of such information for improving the introduction of individual electoral registration.
      (199037)
260  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 28 January 2014, Official Report, columns 509-10W, on electoral registration, whether his Department provides funding to Bite the Ballot to increase voter registration.
      (199047)
261  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 23 April 2012, Official Report, column 623W, on electoral register, what steps he has taken to improve student registration in the run up to individual electoral registration.
      (199048)
262  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 8 November 2011, Official Report, column 283W, on electoral register, if he will make it his policy to collect information on the number of fixed penalty notices issued for non-registration in the run up to the introduction of individual electoral registration.
      (199049)
263 N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date of commissioning, (c) date of polling and (d) cost of polling commissioned by the Devolution Team in his Department on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters from (i) Ipsos-MORI and (ii) other opinion survey companies since May 2011.
      (198768)
264 N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date and (c) cost of contracts for public relations services commissioned by the Devolution Team in his Department from (i) Engine Partners and (ii) other public affairs and public relations consultancies since May 2011.
      (198769)
265 N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the findings of all market research on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters commissioned by the Devolution Team in his Department since May 2011.
      (198770)
266 N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans his Department has to commission polling on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters before 18 September 2014; and what the (a) scope and (b) value of each such contract is.
      (198771)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
267 N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish his correspondence with the Secretary of State for the Home Department relating to extremism in schools.
      (198881)
268 N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what dates he has met the Secretary of State for the Home Department to discuss extremism in schools since May 2010.
      (198882)
269 N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he was first informed about concerns relating to extremism in schools.
      (198883)
270  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on the proposed changes to Disabled Students' Allowance and their effect on young people with special educational needs or a disability.
      (198939)
271  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the written statement by the Minister for Universities and Science of 7 April 2014, Official Report, columns 1-2WS, on Higher Education: student support, what revisions he plans to make to the draft statutory guidance, Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0 to 25 years.
      (199003)
272  
Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to swimming lessons for schoolchildren.
      (199325)
273 N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when (a) he and (b) officials in his Department first heard about allegations of misconduct at the Park View Educational Trust.
      (198888)
274 N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what reports on the management, financial conduct and teaching standards at the Park View Education Trust he has requested since the school became an academy.
      (198914)
275  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, within what time period Ofsted is required to provide feedback to a school after it has reported to his Department.
      (198706)
276  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) headteachers, (b) deputy headteachers and (c) teachers in Bolton Local Education Authority took early retirement on the grounds of ill-health in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
      (199211)
277  
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence his Department holds or has assessed on the effects of conversion to academy status on the test results of children in primary schools.
      (199446)
278  
John Glen (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all schools can provide free school meals for infant children by September 2014.
      (198708)
279  
John Glen (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of schools which will be unable to provide universal free school meals for infant children from September 2014.
      (198709)
280  
John Glen (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will allow universities offering Initial Teacher Training programmes to apply for additional places when they fill their annual allocation.
      (199362)
281  
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 637W, on sixth form education: student numbers, how the approximate total net cost of unfilled student places in school sixth forms, academy sixth forms and 16 to 19 free schools was calculated.
      (199347)
282  
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 637W, on sixth form education: student numbers, what these costs were per student.
      (199348)
283  
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 16 January 2014, Official Report, column 656W, what change there has been in the proportion of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalent at grades A*-C including English and maths in those (a) schools and (b) academies that have established a sixth form since September 2011.
      (199349)
284  
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in schools in Nuneaton will receive free school meals from 2014-15.
      (199236)
285 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what meetings (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families since she took up her post.
     [R] (199082)
286 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to liaise with the Secretary of State for Health over publication of reports into historic child abuse.
      (199083)
287 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what public speeches the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families has made since taking up her post; and where those speeches are published.
     [R] (199084)
288 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children in care in residential children's homes who have been placed outside their local authority area.
     [R] (199085)
289  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations his Department has received from families groups on allowing the names of parents and legal guardians to be included on a child's passport.
      (198577)
290  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what records his Department maintains of instances where a teacher has had a sexual relationship with a student under the age of 16 years in (a) maintained schools and (b) independent schools.
      (198580)
291  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 12 May 2014, Official Report, columns 366-7W, on children: databases, what his Department's policy is on sharing information in respect of vulnerable children and children at risk.
      (198604)
292  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, columns 59-61W, on private education: offences against children, how many referrals the National College for Teaching and Leadership has (a) received and (b) acted upon since that body's establishment.
      (198607)
293  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will introduce the teaching of the dangers of pornography into the school syllabus.
      (199200)
294  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's policy is on the easy visibility and access for children to overly sexualised and graphic magazines and periodicals in retail stores.
      (199203)
295  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the review Sexualisation of Young People by Dr. Linda Papadopoulos.
      (199353)
296  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will commission a review of the 50 per cent rule whereby a GCSE grade may only be awarded for course assessment in the event of a student being severely incapacitated through illness; and if he will make a statement.
      (199134)
297  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations he has received on the 50 per cent rule whereby a GCSE grade may only be awarded for course assessment in the event of a student being severely incapacitated through illness; and if he will make a statement.
      (199135)
298  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils have applied to be assessed for a GCSE grade on the basis of coursework under the 50 per cent rule in each of the last five years.
      (199136)
299  
Guy Opperman (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much in pupil premium has been paid to (a) first, (b) middle and (c) upper schools in (i) Hexham, (ii) Northumberland and (iii) the North East to date.
      (198548)
300 N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in (a) infant schools, (b) junior schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) sixth form colleges in (i) Liverpool, (ii) the North West and (iii) England are non-UK nationals.
      (198909)
301  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198866)
302  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free early years education places were provided in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198568)
303  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations he has received from (a) researchers, (b) academies, (c) pressure groups, (d) parents and (e) people working in education on the appropriate age for children to enter primary education.
      (198713)
304  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's School Admissions Code, published in February 2012, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the consistent and effectual application of sections 2.16 and 2.17 of that code to primary education admissions for summer-born children.
      (198714)
305  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of primary school starting age on (a) intellectual development, (b) social mobility and (c) results in (i) GCSE and (ii) A-level examinations.
      (198715)
306  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessments he has made of the successes and failures of the differing primary school starting age in other countries such as Finland and Norway.
      (198993)
307  
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in how many schools no pupils were entered for GCSEs in (a) history and (b) biology, chemistry and physics in the latest period for which figures are available.
      (198647)
308  
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives local authorities on the suspension of school staff.
      (199180)
309 N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North dated 30 April 2014, ref 2014/0036207, on behalf of a constituent.
      (198878)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
310  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in HM Treasury on the operation of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000; and if he will make a statement.
      (199186)
311  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the operation of (a) section 1 and (b) section 2 of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000; what recent representations he has received on the operation of this Act; and what responses he gave to such representations.
      (199187)
312  
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the potential need for additional gas storage capacity in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
      (198546)
313  
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to reassess the need for additional gas storage capacity in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
      (198547)
314  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of export of refuse-derived fuel and solid recovered fuel for use in energy from waste plants overseas has on the ability of the UK to meet renewable energy targets; and if he will make a statement.
      (198891)
315 N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will bring forward proposals to encourage households off the mains gas grid to use condensing boilers.
      (198780)
316 N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for what reasons condensing oil and liquefied petroleum gas condensing boilers were excluded from being eligible technologies for the purposes of the receipt of monies from the Green Deal Improvement Fund.
      (198781)
317  
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 597W, on renewable energy, what assessment his Department has made of what the market conditions that will enable independent generators to use short-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and a wider variety of PPA counterparties will have developed in time for independent generators to secure necessary finance terms ahead of the first CfD auctions which are scheduled for October 2014.
      (199181)
318  
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 597W, on renewable energy, what the evidential basis was for the statement made in the Government's response on competitive allocation that Power Purchase Agreements could be signed on a conditional basis before a strike price needs to be submitted, allowing independent generators to receive indicative financing terms from lenders; and what representations he has received from generators on that statement.
      (199182)
319  
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2013, Official Report, column 1119W, on energy prices, what estimate his Department has made of changes to the wholesale cost of (a) electricity and (b) gas in (i) 2013 and (ii) January to May 2014.
      (198624)
320  
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2013, Official Report, column 1119W, on energy prices, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) wholesale and (b) retail cost of (i) electricity and (ii) gas in 2013.
      (198625)
321  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information has been provided to his Department by (a) EDF Energy and (b) the Office for Nuclear Regulation on the application by EDF Energy to extend the operating life of the Dungeness B reactor.
      (198936)
322  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with (a) electricity generators and (b) representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises and consumer groups on proposals to assist small business energy consumers.
      (198927)
323  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will list the energy companies which have agreed to (a) introduce arrangements before the end of 2014 to limit bad bills to businesses to one year where the supplier is at fault and (b) end automatic roll-overs for new customers.
      (199028)
324  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department will be attending the high-level Ministerial Dialogue on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action on 6 June 2014 in Bonn, Germany; what the Government's aims are in such talks; and if he will make a statement.
      (198587)
325  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 6 February 2014, Official Report, column 383W, on Energy Companies Obligation, what progress he has made on publishing proposals on the form, level and date for a new fuel poverty target in England; and when he expects to publish those proposals.
      (199295)
326  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of information for carers on affordable energy.
      (199155)
327  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with energy companies on the affordability of energy tariffs for carers.
      (199156)
328  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of potential health risks arising from (a) above-ground and (b) underground electricity cables which connect onshore windfarms to sub-stations.
      (198609)
329  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department makes funding available for onshore windfarm operators to place cables underground between the windfarm and the connecting sub-station.
      (198610)
330  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what length of cables between onshore windfarms and connecting sub-stations has been placed (a) above ground and (b) underground in each of the last five years.
      (198611)
331  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many onshore windfarms have been connected to sub-stations in each of the last five years.
      (198612)
332  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in which locations cables between onshore windfarms and connecting sub-stations have been placed completely underground in each of the last 10 years.
      (198613)
333  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to ensure that onshore windfarm developers take into account the costs of (a) overground cables and (b) underground cables between a windfarm and its sub-station when taking decisions on laying such cables.
      (198614)
334  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average distance is between an onshore windfarm and its connecting sub-station.
      (198618)
335  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions and relating to which locations proposals for overground cables between onshore windfarms and the connecting sub-station have been rejected in each of the last 10 years.
      (198619)
336  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198867)
337  
Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans his Department has to provide assistance to people with cold-related health conditions who are struggling to pay their heating bills.
      (198929)
338  
Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on support for people in fuel poverty who suffer from cold-related health conditions.
      (198976)
339  
Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will estimate (a) the number of households which were on social tariffs for their energy supplies before such tariffs were withdrawn and (b) the number of those households which included people considered especially vulnerable to cold-related illnesses.
      (199430)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
340  
Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what basic measures his Department takes in relation to (a) controls on abstraction and (b) prevent and control pollutants from diffuse sources in order to comply with Article 11.3 of the Water Framework Directive.
      (198576)
341  
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 41W, on drinking water, whether his Department has conducted a study of levels of psychotropic drugs in UK rivers and seawater.
      (198996)
342  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Support for Fishermen Fund to replace lost and damaged fishing gear has been received by fishermen and businesses to date.
      (198650)
343  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Farming Recovery Fund to cover the cost of restoration of agricultural land following the recent floods has been received by farmers and businesses to date.
      (198651)
344  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Flood Defence Repair Fund paid to the Environment Agency has been (a) allocated to the Environment Agency and (b) spent by the Environment Agency to repair flood defences to date.
      (198652)
345  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Repair and Renew Grant for flooded businesses or households has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by households or businesses to date.
      (198654)
346  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of his Department's partnership funding framework has been spent on property level protection schemes to date.
      (198656)
347 N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings (a) the Prime Minister and (b) officials in his Office had with the National Farmers' Union (NFU) on the pilot badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2013; what advice he has given to the NFU on communications with the media during the commencement of the culls; and if he will make a statement.
      (198753)
348 N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether (a) the Prime Minister or (b) officials in his Office have ever advised the National Farmers' Union not to communicate with journalists during the commencement phase of the pilot badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire in 2013.
      (198755)
349 N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings his Department had with the National Farmers' Union in the six months before the start of the pilot badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2013; and whether he advised that union to operate a media blackout during the first phase of the culls.
      (198763)
350  
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government expects to implement all the measures contained in Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act regarding sustainable urban drainage systems in this Parliament.
      (198995)
351 N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to check all lorries containing live animals for export at UK ports.
      (198838)
352 N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on the use of wild animals in circuses.
      (198953)
353  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance he has issued on the use of glyphosate to (a) national park authorities and (b) managers of public parks in urban areas; and if he will make a statement.
      (198627)
354  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer given in the House of Lords of 28 October 2013, Official Report, column 208W, on Agriculture: Pesticides, if he will place in the Library a list of the (a) published research being considered by the current review of the EU approval of glyphosate and (b) ongoing or completed research relating to potential links between glyphosate and chronic diseases and conditions in humans.
      (198628)
355 N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2013, Official Report, column 20W, on Bovine Tuberculosis, and to Answer 3 of his Department's response to Freedom of Information request RFI 6487, Investigations into culling as an option, published on 7 May 2014, for what reasons the Answer to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion did not give information on the trials into using gas as a potential method for culling badgers which began in Summer 2013; on what date those trials commenced; and if he will make a statement.
      (198791)
356  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the funding formula for flood defence; and if he will make a statement.
      (198854)
357  
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) his Department and (b) the Joint Nature Conservation Committee spent on biodiversity research in (i) the UK and (ii) the Overseas Territories in each of the last four years.
      (198675)
358  
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on biodiversity conservation in (a) the UK and (b) the Overseas Territories in 2013-14.
      (198676)
359  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198868)
360  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which companies have been (a) given warnings because of breaches of environmental law and (b) prosecuted for such breaches in each of the last five years.
      (199354)
361  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he or officials of his Department have had on the effects of digestion of sycamore tree seeds on horses; and what estimate he has made of the number of horses that have died as a result of ingesting such seeds.
      (198739)
362  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of song birds in the UK.
      (198742)
363  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of dog attacks on sheep flocks in each of the last three years.
      (198743)
364  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of merlins in the UK; and what steps his Department is taking to maintain their numbers and habitat.
      (198748)
365 N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 8 May 2014, Official Report, column 272W, on biofuels: air pollution, for what reasons estimated social costs of biomass emissions of fine particles contained in his Department's Answer of 26 March 2009, Official Report, column 697W, on air pollution, were not reflected in that Answer; and for what reasons his Department no longer estimates the social costs of fine particles emitted by biomass combustion.
      (198818)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
366  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how he plans to mark the 70th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg's arrival in Hungary; what recent discussions he has had with the government of (a) Sweden and (b) Hungary on this anniversary; and if he will make a statement.
      (199191)
367  
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Sudan about the imprisonment of Meriam Ibrahim.
      (198895)
368 N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will call on the Iranian authorities to halt the destruction of an historically important Bahá'i cemetary in Shiraz; and if he will make a statement.
      (198766)
369  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the new protocol to the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement will benefit the Saharawi population or Moroccan settlers.
      (199435)
370  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of how the ongoing conflict in Western Sahara affects the ability of Al Qaeda to recruit disaffected youth in Western Sahara.
      (199436)
371  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of delays on the border from British Gibraltar territory into Spain on vehicles crossing that border.
      (199447)
372  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the European Commission in respect of petitions from the government of Gibraltar for a representative to monitor the border crossing.
      (199448)
373  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is giving to the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict for the campaign to eradicate the recruitment of children by government armed forces by 2016.
      (198848)
374 N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support the full release of the United States Select Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program.
      (199056)
375 N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has made representations or had discussion or meetings with (a) the United States Select Intelligence Committee or (b) others on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program.
      (199057)
376  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote human rights in North Korea.
      (198570)
377 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether officials from the British Embassy have visited Huber Ballesteros in La Picota prison in Bogota.
      (198773)
378 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times officials from the British Embassy have asked to visit Huber Ballesteros in La Picota prison in Bogota.
      (198774)
379 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has made to the Colombian authorities over the treatment of Huber Ballesteros in the last eight months.
      (198775)
380 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether officials from the British Embassy will observe the trial of Huber Ballesteros in Colombia.
      (198776)
381 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what preliminary hearings in the case of Huber Ballesteros officals from the British Embassy in Bogota have attended.
      (198777)
382  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much (a) military and (b) humanitarian aid the UK provided to the Libyan government in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.
      (199015)
383  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of MINURSO in implementing its role in Western Sahara.
      (199050)
384  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of changes in the number of Moroccan troops along the Berm in Western Sahara from the levels specified in the 1991 agreement.
      (199052)
385  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many withdrawals of nuclear materials from safeguards applied under the tripartite UK-Euratom-IAEA Voluntary Safeguards Agreement there have been since May 2010; and how many such withdrawals were permanent.
      (199177)
386  
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Middle East peace process of recent reports that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said his organisation will not renounce violence or recognise Israel.
      (198658)
387  
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to European governments to secure as quickly as possible restitution for British citizens who had assets seized by the Nazis.
      (199234)
388  
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent reports that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said that his organisation will not renounce violence or recognise Israel.
      (199277)
389  
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the new Indian government to reopen investigations on the events in 1984 at the Golden Temple in Amritsar; and if he will make a statement.
      (198540)
390  
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will support an international enquiry into the events at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984.
      (198541)
391  
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the recent destruction of fruit trees at the Tent of Nations farm on the West Bank.
      (198634)
392 N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken in response to the recent violence in the Central African Republic.
      (198837)
393  
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support people affected by recent flooding in the Balkans
      (198545)
394  
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that reparations will be paid to HM Treasury as a result of damage caused by discharges in the Diego Garcia lagoon in the British Indian Overseas Territory by US vessels and those responsible for causing that damage are prosecuted.
      (199021)
395  
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress his Department is making on ensuring that a British-led team of experts carries out a scientific assessment of discharges by US vessels in the Diego Garcia lagoon in the British Indian Overseas Territory.
      (199022)
396  
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on allegations that some Turkish Cypriots were denied the right to vote in the recent European elections in the Republic of Cyprus.
      (199023)
397  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information he has received on allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan Security Forces.
      (198926)
398  
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will issue a statement cautioning UK businesses against investing in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
      (198630)
399  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the killing of two Palestinian teenagers at Ofer on 15 May 2014; and if he will make a statement.
      (198596)
400 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken with UN Women in the planning of the June 2014 summit to end sexual violence in conflict.
      (198823)
401 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which women's organisations from Burma have been invited to the global summit on sexual violence in conflict being held in London in June 2014.
      (198824)
402 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions on (a) collective action to promote human rights and (b) accountability for violations of the Commonwealth Charter were held at the Commonwealth Law Ministers' Meeting in May 2014.
      (198835)
403 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the resources and effectiveness of the Commonwealth Human Rights Unit; and what discussions he has had with (a) his Commonwealth counterparts and (b) the Commonwealth Secretariat on the role of the Commonwealth Human Rights Unit.
      (198836)
404 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of political developments in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement.
      (198804)
405 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what extra consular assistance his Department will provide for British citizens in Brazil attending the World Cup.
      (198806)
406 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Thai government on the restoration of democracy in that country.
      (198807)
407 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to address human rights abuses in Pakistan.
      (198808)
408  
Guy Opperman (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to raise the plight of persecuted Christians abroad; and what steps he is taking to raise the case of Meriam Ibrahim with his Sudanese counterpart.
      (198585)
409  
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the security situation in the South Caucasus.
      (199033)
410  
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of EUCAP Nestor in tackling insecurity in the Horn of Africa.
      (199034)
411  
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise the release of political prisoners in Eritrea with his Eritrean counterpart.
      (198578)
412  
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss sexual violence against women in India with his Indian counterpart.
      (198579)
413  
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates on the alleged torture of UK citizens in UAE prisons.
      (198716)
414  
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of the United Arab Emirates to ensure that Ahmad Zeidan is given his full legal rights and protections whilst in the custody of that government.
      (198717)
415 N
Sir John Randall (Uxbridge and South Ruislip): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department has provided to (a) Serbia and (b) Bosnia-Herzegovina following recent flooding in those countries.
      (199098)
416  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure that the outcome of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict reflects the wide range of people affected by such violence.
      (199118)
417  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the conflict in Central African Republic as described in UN OCHA Central African Republic Situation Report No. 2.
      (199119)
418  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what co-operation programmes between the UK and Thailand there are; and what steps he has taken to review that co-operation.
      (199121)
419  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the UK has taken to support UN Security Council Resolution 2139 regarding humanitarian access in Syria.
      (199122)
420  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made by UK forces in the search for the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
      (199123)
421  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made towards negotiating a peaceful solution with Iran on the nuclear issue.
      (199124)
422  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aid the Government has provided for the relief of flooding and landslides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
      (199125)
423  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the outbreak of the ebola virus in Western Africa.
      (199126)
424  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress he has made in working with the Commonwealth Secretary-General to review LGBT rights in Uganda.
      (199127)
425  
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of living conditions and labour standards on commercial vessels long-lining in the waters of Ascension Island from 2010 to 2013.
      (198678)
426  
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he took to ensure that the foreign commercial vessels fishing in the waters of Ascension Island from 2010 to 2013 did not use slave labour.
      (198679)
427  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Chinese government on the export of British cheeses to China.
      (198745)
428  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Brazil on the issue of the recent increase in the number of disappeared persons in that country.
      (198747)
429  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the value of (a) exports to and (b) imports from Egypt was in each of the last three years.
      (199103)
430  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on human rights abuses in Tibet.
      (198551)
431  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has received from (a) the Tibetan government in exile and (b) human rights charities on human rights abuses in that country.
      (198552)
432  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce human rights abuses in Tibet and to offer support for victims of such abuses.
      (198554)
433  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Nigerian counterpart on the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria.
      (198588)
434  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on Tibetan independence.
      (198590)
435 N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will reply to the letter of 13 May 2014 from the hon. Member for Harrow West regarding Mr Dipesh Vadera of Harrow; and if he will make a statement.
      (199006)
436  
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart about the destruction of an historically important Bahá'í cemetery in Shiraz.
      (198727)
437  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the advice provided by Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones, if he will agree a new Memorandum of Understanding or other bilateral agreement with the US on data transfer and use.
     [R] (198638)
438  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the advice of Jemima Stratford QC to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones; and if he will make a statement.
      (199350)
439  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on how the ongoing conflict in Western Sahara affects the ability of terrorist and criminal gangs to recruit disaffected youth in the refugee camps or the occupied territory.
      (199262)
440  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2014, Official Report, column 515W, on Western Sahara, if the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa will also meet representatives of POLISARIO, the UN-recognised body, to discuss issues relating to Western Sahara.
      (199433)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
441 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent employees of his Department are engaged in forward planning to 2030 for end-of-life care.
      (198793)
442 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the quality of emergency ambulance cover in the North West.
      (198948)
443 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust on its ability to meet emergency 999 calls in the Greater Manchester area.
      (198949)
444 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust on its emergency ambulance cover.
      (198954)
445  
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how often the Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group meets per year; and if he will request that it will consider new specialised service applications for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency at its next meeting.
      (198965)
446  
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps NHS England takes to consider (a) all new specialised service applications and (b) new treatments for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency; and whether such steps are subject to review by his Department.
      (198966)
447  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) conducted and (b) evaluated into the circumstances in which a typical abortion is performed on the grounds that it is necessary to prevent the physical or mental health of any existing children of the family of the pregnant woman; and if he will make a statement.
      (199183)
448  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff of each grade are employed in his Department's Sexual Health Policy Team.
      (199184)
449  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women (a) of each age group, (b) in each health authority area and (c) of each type of complication and cause of death died following health complications after abortion procedures in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013 and (iii) 2014 to date.
      (199192)
450  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women (a) of each age group, (b) in each health authority area and (c) suffering from each type of complication suffered health complications following abortion procedures in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013 and (iii) 2014 to date.
      (199194)
451  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many human embryos have been (a) created for the purposes of experimentation and (b) created for the purposes of extermination and subsequently destroyed in each year since 1991.
      (199195)
452  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Directorate in his Department produced guidance on the provision of non-judgemental counselling; which Directorate has policy responsibility for implementation of this guidance; and if he will make a statement.
      (199212)
453  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) formal and (b) informal discussions officials had with (i) pro-life organisations, (ii) the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, (iii) Marie Stopes International and (iv) pro-choice organisations before the publication of guidance on the provision of non-judgemental counselling; and if he will make a statement.
      (199214)
454 N
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendations of the Leeds Children's Heart Surgery Services Review, published on 13 March 2014, if he will make it his policy that continuing audits of performance should be conducted at all children's heart surgery units.
      (198761)
455  
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on treating (a) anal cancer, (b) penile cancer, (c) cervical cancer, (d) vaginal cancer, (e) vulval cancer, (f) oropharyngeal cancer, (g) genital warts and (h) recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in the last year.
      (198632)
456 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to bring forward secondary legislation on (a) banning smoking in cars with children in them and (b) the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco.
      (199087)
457 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which mental health services he and each Minister in his Department have visited since they were appointed; and what the date of each such visit was.
      (199088)
458 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who used to work in his Department have taken up jobs at Public Health England; and what their job titles and salary levels (a) were at his Department and (b) are at Public Health England.
      (199089)
459 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children were diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome in each of the last four years.
      (199090)
460 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what Government-funded education and support on alcohol consumption during pregnancy is available to pregnant women.
      (199091)
461  
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of patients with cancer of the unknown primary first presenting at accident and emergency.
      (199342)
462  
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the collection and reporting of data relating to the incidence of cancer of the unknown primary.
      (199343)
463  
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the importance of psychological support services for patients suffering from cancer of the unknown primary.
      (199344)
464  
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the amount of research undertaken into ways to detect the origin of primary cancer in those suffering from cancer of the unknown primary.
      (199372)
465  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Oral Answer of 1 April 2014, Official Report, column 714, on physical and mental health (parity of esteem), in what ways he plans to achieve complete transparency in the availability of data on mental health spending.
      (198646)
466  
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to record and identify instances where non-pharmacological treatments have caused adverse reactions in patients.
      (199201)
467  
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed for foetal abnormality in each of the last five years which were reported to a foetal abnormality register but were not notified through the submission of an HSA4 abortion notification form to the Chief Medical Officer.
      (199204)
468  
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed beyond the 24 week limit where feticide was declined in each of the last five years.
      (199205)
469  
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients seeking abortion counselling are not subject to pressure to agree to the procedure as a result of his Department's requirement that abortion treatment must be delivered within 10 days of the first appointment; and if he will make a statement.
      (199239)
470  
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he intends to take to endure that literature distributed by abortion clinics informing women about adoption as an alternative to abortion under the new Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy is of the highest possible quality and objectivity.
      (199240)
471  
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy, what assessment he has made of the possibility that inaccurate diagnoses will follow his Department's decision to allow women to refrain from informing their GP of a prior abortion.
      (199241)
472  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to simplify ombudsman services in health and social care.
      (198693)
473  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness among service users of how to navigate the complaints systems in health and social care.
      (198694)
474  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment on the potential merits of merging health and social care ombudsman services in England.
      (198695)
475  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to implement improvements in health and social are services arising from complaints and feedback made by service users.
      (198696)
476  
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of aligning health services in regulatory bodies and ombudsman services.
      (198697)
477  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the incidence of dental caries among school children (a) in Bolton and (b) nationally since 2010.
      (199206)
478  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to co-ordinate healthy eating initiatives among the homeless.
      (199209)
479  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the five most common causes of admission to hospital have been for (a) children and (b) adults in Bolton since 2010.
      (199210)
480  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients resident in England but receiving health care in Wales have requested that their treatment be delivered in England in the last year.
      (198553)
481  
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients resident in England have requested that their treatment be delivered in Wales in the last three years.
      (198560)
482  
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many appeals were made by applicants for social care at the end of their life in the last two years; how many such appeals were successful; and what proportion of total appeals against decisions about social care such appeals represent.
      (198962)
483  
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England in receipt of free social care are terminally ill.
      (199001)
484  
Mark Durkan (Foyle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 230W, on abortion, whether his Department has formed a view as to when the Royal college of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians publication, The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion, should be updated in order to take into account new research; and if he will make a statement.
      (198620)
485 N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure access to CT scanning is more readily available to NHS patients.
      (198783)
486  
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are taken to verify the competence of (a) doctors and nurses and (b) staff of pharmaceutical companies involved in the conduct of clinical trials.
      (198571)
487 N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve support for carers.
      (198796)
488 N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support, advice, guidance and funding his Department makes available for children and adults diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
      (198820)
489  
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that food labels include details of any genetically modified ingredients used in a product's manufacture; and if he will make a statement.
      (198896)
490  
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that commissioning of service provision for obstructive sleep apnoea is appropriate to the predicted prevalence in local areas in England.
      (199266)
491  
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what body has responsibility for the implementation of recommendations made by his Department's former Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Working Group.
      (199267)
492  
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce a quality standard for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disordered breathing covering the range of conditions from simple snoring to obstructive sleep apnoea.
      (199286)
493  
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce clinical guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and management of obstructive sleep apnoea; and if he will make a statement.
      (199292)
494  
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will abolish prescription charges for asthma medication.
      (199363)
495  
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what basis the conditions exempt from prescription charges are decided.
      (199364)
496 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients discharged from hospital following a severe asthma attack receive appropriate care and support in the community; and if he will make a statement.
      (198829)
497 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of care given by GPs to people with asthma.
      (198830)
498 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the conclusions and recommendations of the report of the National Review of Asthma Deaths, published on 6 May 2014.
      (198831)
499 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of patients with asthma who have received an asthma care plan; and when he expects all patients with asthma to have received such a plan.
      (198832)
500  
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many funding applications were made by GPs for new premises in 2013; and how many of such applications have been approved by NHS England.
      (198718)
501  
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications for new GP premises of which an increase in rent formed a part NHS England approved in 2013.
      (198719)
502 N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Health and Social Care Information Centre takes to ensure that all its registers are complete and can be easily cross-referenced.
      (198884)
503 N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of the General Dental Council's fitness to practise regime.
      (198885)
504 N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what salary the Chair of NHS Property Services receives for (a) that role and (b) his other roles in the Department of Health and the NHS; and for what hours he is contracted to work in each of his roles.
      (198886)
505 N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 330W, on medical records: data protection, for what reason the Health and Social Care Information Centre's register of approved data releases does not contain entries on the Data Access Advisory Group (DAAG) register of approved applications for (a) Department of Health Dental and Eye Care Analytical Team DAAG application reference 240413-a, (b) HCV Research UK DAAG application reference MR1316, (c) Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust section 251 notification DAAG application reference MR1320 and (d) UK Biobank DAAG application reference MR1109.
      (198887)
506  
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations have been cancelled because of scheduling error in (a) St Albans, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England since 2005.
      (199361)
507  
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current average waiting time is for elective surgery in (a) St Albans constituency, (b) Hertfordshire, (c) the East of England and (d) England.
      (199445)
508 N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, if he will require NHS England to publish the evidence on which it based its decision not to allow patients to be treated with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London.
      (198758)
509 N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 132W, on radiotherapy and with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, which primary care trusts in the south west of England commissioned treatment with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London for patients before 1 April 2013.
      (198759)
510 N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 132W, on radiotherapy, and with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, for what reasons NHS England is not funding patients to be treated with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London.
      (198760)
511  
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of administering the social care means test in England.
      (198597)
512  
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual cost to the public purse is of processing applications for free social care in England.
      (198598)
513  
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications for free social care were (a) approved and (b) rejected in England in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
      (198599)
514 N
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS England's review of Tier 4 Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services provision will be complete.
      (198794)
515  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve standards of NHS care for dementia sufferers.
      (199335)
516  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funds his Department has provided for research into cures for dementia since 2012; and what progress has been made on such cures since the launch of the Dementia Challenge.
      (199336)
517  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many local authorities have signed up to become dementia friendly since the launch of the Dementia Challenge; and what other progress has been made since that date.
      (199337)
518  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to help Malpas to develop a dementia friendly community.
      (199338)
519  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what resources his Department has allocated to help carers of dementia patients.
      (199341)
520 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average number of GP visits was required prior to diagnosis of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
      (198812)
521 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what methodology his Department uses to calculate workforce requirements for (a) community physiotherapists, (b) podiatrists and (c) occupational health therapists; and what future projection he has made of staffing levels in such professions.
      (198814)
522 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis received treatment within three months of symptom onset in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
      (198815)
523  
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to meet the Chair of the College of Emergency Medicine.
      (198738)
524  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 21 November 2012, Official Report, columns 511-2W, on death, what the prevalence of adults living in private households in England having at least one psychiatric condition was in the most recent period for which figures are available.
      (198856)
525  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of trends in issuing of NHS prescriptions for (a) anti-depressants and (b) mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of repeat episode depression since 2008; and if he will make a statement.
      (198861)
526  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198869)
527  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital beds per head of population there were in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198567)
528  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people (a) sought chlamydia screening and (b) tested positive in each local authority in 2012-13.
      (199243)
529  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average charge levied by healthcare professionals for written reports requested by patients who require them for (a) setting up power of attorney and (b) other purposes is in each commissioning area.
      (199246)
530  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the costs of a patient who presents with eye conditions as a first point of call (a) a GP, (b) a hospital eye service, (c) an accident and emergency department and (d) a primary eyecare acute referral scheme.
      (199248)
531  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 12 May 2014, Official Report, column 401W, on mental health services, whether the Mental Health Intelligence Network has been established.
      (199324)
532  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many secure places there are in the South West region for children with mental health conditions involving violent behaviour.
      (199412)
533  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects that artifical pancreases for treatment of diabetes will be available through the NHS.
      (198741)
534  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in the UK with a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder in each of the last five years.
      (198744)
535  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of women who are receiving IVF treatment who have been diagnosed with hypothelamic amenorrhea.
      (198746)
536  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with NHS England on the potential for exercise to reduce the need for patients to have back surgery.
      (198749)
537  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the time taken to prescribe drugs for heart disease.
      (198751)
538  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that there is no age discrimination in NHS treatment of breast, prostate and bowel cancer.
      (199079)
539  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people diagnosed with motor neurone disease there have been in the UK in each of the last five years.
      (199099)
540  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with motor neurone disease have been treated by the NHS with iGaze technology in each of the last five years.
      (199100)
541  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to make the treatment of mental health a priority within the NHS.
      (199101)
542  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people with mental health problems in each of the last five years.
      (199102)
543  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent meetings he has had with NHS England on the contracting of provision of television services in hospitals.
      (198561)
544  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to increase awareness of early screenings for prostate cancer for men at risk.
      (198998)
545  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to ensure that patients with prostate cancer receive the highest quality treatment.
      (198999)
546  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received from (a) research bodies and academics, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) people at high risk for prostate cancer and prostate cancer patients about accessibility of early prostate cancer screenings.
      (199036)
547  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress he has made on ensuring that mental health has equal standing with physical health.
      (199224)
548  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to maintain and improve specialist services for children suffering from brittle bone disease.
      (199226)
549  
Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust's report entitled Hope for More: Improving access to lung transplantation and care for people with cystic fibrosis, what assessment he has made of the donor lung utilisation rate for transplantation; and what measures he has identified as having the greatest potential to increase such utilisation.
      (199027)
550  
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to help women suffering from endometriosis.
      (198726)
551  
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of endometriosis.
      (198731)
552 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which companies that have been asked to report on progress relating to the Responsibility Deal have not yet done so.
      (199066)
553  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital day beds were taken because of delayed discharge relating to inaccessible housing available for disabled outpatients in (a) 2013-14 and (b) May 2014.
      (199260)
554  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to ensure that people do not face delayed discharge from hospital because there is no suitable housing for them to be discharged; and if he will make a statement.
      (199264)
555  
Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the adequacy of the sentences available under the Cancer Act 1939 for people convicted of fraudulently advertising offers to treat cancer.
      (198621)
556  
Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prosecutions have taken place under the Cancer Act 1939 in each of the last 30 years.
      (198623)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
557  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue funding her Department has allocated to the North Yorkshire Police Authority in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each year since 1995-96.
      (198504)
558  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent police officers of each rank and grade were employed by North Yorkshire police on (a) 31 March and (b) 30 September in each year since 2004.
      (198505)
559  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent (a) police officers, (b) police community support officers and (c) police civilian staff were employed by North Yorkshire police on (i) 31 March and (ii) 30 September in each year since 2004.
      (198506)
560  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the crime detection rate was for North Yorkshire police force in each year since 2004-05.
      (198507)
561  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences of (a) crime related to vehicles, (b) burglary of a dwelling, (c) other burglary, (d) criminal damage, (e) theft, (f) violence and (g) other crimes were committed in York in each year since 2004-05.
      (198508)
562  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were reported to the police in York in each year since 2004-05.
      (198509)
563  
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Fire Arms Certificate (a) applications and (b) renewals were made in (i) 2011, (ii) 2012 and (iii) 2013.
      (198723)
564  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) services and (b) jobs within the Passport Office were transferred to the private sector in the last five years; and when those transfers took place.
      (199369)
565  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport (a) applications and (b) renewal applications were received by the Passport Office in each (i) month and (ii) year of the last five years.
      (199406)
566  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to address the current backlog of applications within the Passport Office.
      (199407)
567  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the change in waiting times for an initial decision for Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa applications in the last year; what the average waiting time is for an initial decision for a Tier 1 application; and what assessment she has made of the economic effect of the time taken for such decisions on economic growth.
      (199152)
568  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the reduction in businesses fined for employing illegal immigrants since 2010.
      (199441)
569  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential need for a separate national policy on the collection, use and retention of data gathered by unmanned or other surveillance aircraft operating in the UK.
      (199442)
570 N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from what region of Albania the women referred to the victim support scheme operated by the Salvation Army in (a) February 2014 and (b) April 2014 came from; what evidence from cluster data she has to explain why most of them were pregnant when they were discovered in the UK; what steps she is taking to prevent access to the UK without the necessary visas by such Albanian nationals; and if she will make a statement.
      (198784)
571 N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of victims of human trafficking through the UK; and if she will make a statement.
      (198785)
572  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the UK Border Agency's handling of the case of Aidah Asaba.
      (198569)
573  
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the average waiting times at the UK border for the last three years at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Manchester, (e) Birmingham and (f) Luton airports.
      (199026)
574  
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration officers are deployed at each UK airport.
      (199040)
575  
Sir Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, 462W, on private investigation, whether she plans to consult upon the terms and conditions of licences for private investigators prior to their implementation under the new statutory licensing requirement.
      (198722)
576  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of measures adopted following the Kinsella Review of anti-knife crime projects, published in February 2011; and if she will make a statement.
      (198893)
577  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Government funding has been provided for tackling teenage knife crime in each year since publication of the Kinsella Review in February 2011.
      (198894)
578 N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many telephone calls were received by the Government's passport helpline (a) in each month of 2013 and (b) between 1 January and 31 May 2014.
      (198903)
579 N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what total income was received by the Passport Office in fees for (a) fast track and (b) premium service (i) in 2013 and (b) between 1 January and 31 May 2014.
      (198904)
580 N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) permanent and (b) agency staff were employed by the Passport Office in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013 and (iii) 2014.
      (198905)
581 N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications processed by the Passport Office between 1 January and 31 May 2014 which missed the three week target for processing.
      (198906)
582 N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) passport renewal and (b) new passports were received by the Passport Office in each month between (i) 1 January and 31 May 2013 and (ii) 1 January and 31 May 2014.
      (198907)
583 N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional support she is providing to the Passport Office to ensure it continues to meet the deadlines for applications to be processed and returned during the holiday period.
      (198792)
584  
Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her statement of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 831, on Stop-and-Search, which police forces have signed up to the revised code on stop-and-search to date.
      (198635)
585 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time is for dealing with passport applications.
      (198915)
586 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for passports have been made by residents in Kilmarnock and Loudoun in each of the last 12 months.
      (198916)
587  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications have been dealt with within the target timescale in each of the last 12 months.
      (198919)
588 N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) cats, (b) dogs and (c) horses were retired and rehomed under European Union Directive 2010/63/EU in 2013.
      (198950)
589  
Eric Joyce (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any UK citizens would involuntarily lose resident citizenship as a result of Scottish independence.
      (198712)
590  
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 Immigration and Security Minister dated 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Asif Khan Uriakhel.
      (198698)
591  
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 8 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Naraendra Singh Bhati.
      (198699)
592  
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 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee.
      (198700)
593  
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 Immigration and Security Minister dated 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M Frimpong.
      (198701)
594  
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 24 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Michael Adebayo Johnson.
      (199215)
595  
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 28 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Tanvir Shah.
      (199216)
596  
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 22 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr A Mehmood.
      (199217)
597  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department gives on appropriate action to be taken by border staff dealing with a parent with a British passport entering the UK with their child who has a different surname.
      (198583)
598  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions British passport holders were questioned on return to the UK in regard to problems with their child's name on documentation in the last three years.
      (198584)
599  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 222W, on teachers: guidance, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidance her Department provides to police services as to whether or not to notify arrests to regulators.
      (198603)
600  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 66W, on asylum: children, which local authorities have used the fund and how much to support asylum seekers who are care leavers in each of the last five years.
      (198605)
601  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 66W, on asylum: children, which local authorities have been granted extra funding because of their special circumstances.
      (198606)
602  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases funded by legal aid taken against her Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by her Department each of the last 10 years.
      (198661)
603  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases against her Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
      (198665)
604  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Immigration and Passport Service on (a) the service's ability to meet the three-week timescale for processing an application for a child passport and (b) possible extension of that timescale.
      (199081)
605 N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport renewals have been completed within the advertised three week turnaround time from receipt in the last period for which figures are available.
      (198797)
606 N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what performance indicators for the renewal of existing passports have been met by each passport office administrative centre.
      (198798)
607  
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for citizenship were made in each year since 2009 from males recruited into the armed forces from Belize; and if she will make a statement.
      (198550)
608  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what use in formulating policy her Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198870)
609  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested and charged with possession of class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs in (i) Bury St Edmunds, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198565)
610  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of working time police officers in each police force spent on frontline policing duties in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198566)
611  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the EU on firearms' control and the European Firearms' Pass.
      (198750)
612  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to prevent modern slavery.
      (199227)
613  
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what scientific purposes she has licensed procedures on animals that were likely to cause severe suffering since 2010; and what steps the Government is taking to reduce the number of animals experiencing severe suffering in scientific procedures.
      (198600)
614  
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will measure changes in the number of animals used in scientific procedures in the UK following publication of Working to reduce the use of animals in scientific research in July 2011.
      (198633)
615 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriages were reported to the Home Office as suspicious or sham in each year since 2009.
      (199064)
616 N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriages reported as suspicious or sham were (a) same sex marriages, (b) heterosexual marriages and (c) civil partnerships in each year since 2009.
      (199065)
617  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the advice provided by Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones, if her Department will take steps to prevent any unlawful practice by GCHQ.
     [R] (198637)
618  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has provided any advice to public communications providers on the consequences of the decision of the European Court of Justice in Digital Rights Ireland and Seitlinger and Others on data retention by those companies.
      (199437)
619  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether public communications providers have sought advice from her Department on the consequences of the decision of the European Court of Justice in Digital Rights Ireland and Seitlinger and Others on data retention by those companies.
      (199438)
620  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role the Information Commissioner's Office has in (a) the trial of the Aeroyn Skyranger drone around Gatwick Airport and (b) any other use of other surveillance aircraft operated by Government departments, agents or public bodies in the UK.
      (199439)
621  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role her Department's Centre for Applied Science and Technology has in (a) the trial of the Aeryon Skyranger drone around Gatwick Airport and (b) the trial or use of any other surveillance aircraft operated by government departments, agents or public bodies in the UK.
      (199440)
622  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the advice of Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones; and if she will make a statement.
      (199444)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
623  
Mark Durkan (Foyle): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 8 May 2014, Official Report, column 279W, on developing countries: family planning, how much of her Department's budget has been allocated to achieving outcomes in her Department's policy paper Safe and Unsafe Abortion in each of the last two years.
      (198721)
624  
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library a list of all projects supported by the International Climate Fund.
      (198892)
625 N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in which countries in receipt of her Department's funds in each of the last two financial years women are known to have been murdered (a) for apostasy and (b) in honour killings with impunity; and if she will make a statement.
      (198986)
626  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish a list of all consultancy groups and sub-contractors used by her Department on the Bost Agri-Business and Airfield projects in Afghanistan.
      (198544)
627  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what official agreements were made between her Department and the Afghan Investment Support Agency for any work relating to the (a) Bost Agri Industrial Park and (b) Bost Airfield.
      (198581)
628  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 5 September 2013, Official Report, column 461W, on Afghanistan, what works at the Bost Agri Park and Bost Airfield were left by USAID upon her Department taking control of the project in 2009.
      (198594)
629 N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on contracts for consultancy groups on the Bost Agri-Business Park and Airfield projects in Afghanistan in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
      (198786)
630 N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether it is her Department's policy to send only departmental development experts to oversee development projects overseas.
      (198787)
631 N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what criteria her Department uses for decisions on contracts to consultancy groups on development projects.
      (198788)
632 N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many consultancy groups currently have global contracts with her Department as development implementers.
      (198789)
633 N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to investigate allegations that employees of programmes in Bihar State funded by her Department are not receiving their salaries.
      (199094)
634 N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, columns 549-50W, on Nigeria, whether her Department collects this data on a state-by-state basis.
      (199097)
635 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she made of the humanitarian situation in Syria; and if she will make a statement.
      (198809)
636  
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 381W, on development aid, if she will publish the agreement (a) between her Department, the CDC and ACTIS on the Department for International Development impact fund and (b) between her Department and ACTIS when it was spun off from the CDC; and if she will make a statement.
      (199075)
637  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of lethal operations in Yemen on (a) the civilian population and (b) security in that country.
      (198642)
638 N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answers of 12 May 2014, Official Report, column 328W, on developing countries: marketing and of 21 June 2004, Official Report, coumn 1215W to question to 179188 on ACTIS/CDC, what the nature of the work conducted by Acanchi was; and how much was paid for that work.
      (198767)
639  
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid her Department has given to the Palestinian Authority in each of the last five years.
      (199228)
640  
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what arrangements are in place to monitor the use of funds given to the Palestinian Authority.
      (199229)
641  
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any UK aid given to the Palestinian Authority has been distributed to prisoners convicted of terrorism-related activities in the last five years.
      (199230)
642  
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any UK aid given to the Palestinian Authority has been distributed to individuals released from prison after serving sentences for terrorism-related activities.
      (199231)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
643  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of failure to return a completed abortion notification form in each of the last five years.
      (199193)
644  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) males and (b) females of what age group and in which police force area found guilty of an offence under section 14(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 opted to attend a driving safety course paid for by the offender that includes instruction on the benefits of wearing seat belts in lieu of a fine in the last 12 months for which information is available.
      (199213)
645  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much core grant was provided to fund Victim Support services in the (a) Crown Court Witness Service and (b) Magistrates' Court Witness Service in North Yorkshire in each year since 2004-05.
      (198526)
646  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on (a) civil and (b) criminal legal aid in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in (A) England and (B) York in each year since 1995.
      (198527)
647  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people with cases before (a) civil and (b) criminal courts received legal aid in (i) England and (ii) York in each year since 1995.
      (198528)
648  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of crime and witnesses were supported by the Witness Service at (a) York Crown Court and (b) York Magistrages' Court in each year since 2004-05.
      (198529)
649  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many custodial sentences were handed down at (a) York Magristrates' Court and (b) York Crown Court in each year since 2008.
      (198530)
650  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Romanian-born prisoners are being held in British prisons.
      (198705)
651  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to release statistics on the number of refusals by the Legal Aid Agency to pay legal aid in cases settled before the permission stage.
      (199207)
652  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the new judicial review regulations on people who are fighting eviction or the repossession of a house.
      (199208)
653  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on funding available for victims' services of devolution to police and crime commissioners.
      (199326)
654  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to ensure that funds devolved to the budgets of police and crime commissioners for victims' services are allocated according to crime rates.
      (199327)
655  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects to receive the Sentencing Council's review of sentencing guidelines for death by drink-driving; and what discussions he has had with that body on its progress on that programme of work.
      (199428)
656  
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons legal aid funding in relation to the case of the constituent of the hon. Member for Workington, Gary Tomlinson, Claim Number OWH0080, Cert number JBIRQK61BB77/A/E/1, was withdrawn.
      (199025)
657 N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many calls were made on higher-rate telephone numbers to (a) magistrates' courts, (b) county courts and county court money claims centres in England in 2012-13 and 2013-14; and what the average duration was of calls to such numbers.
      (198816)
658  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the people who have received the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by Letters Patent in the last 20 years; and if he will make a statement.
      (199269)
659  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there has been any occasion when the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy has been granted by way of Letters Close (Litterae Clausae); and if he will make a statement.
      (199270)
660  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the (a) Crown Office and (b) Office of the Lord President of the Council maintains a list of all Letters Patent issued in the last 20 years; and if he will make a statement.
      (199271)
661  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance notes used in his Department and in the Office of the Lord President of the Council regarding the wording, drafting, formatting, production, approval and processing of Letters Patent.
      (199272)
662 N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who (a) were given a non-custodial sentence and (b) were given their first custodial sentence in each year from 2004 had previously had (i) no criminal convictions, (ii) one criminal conviction, (iii) two criminal convictions, (iv) three criminal convictions, (v) four criminal convictions, (vi) five to 10 criminal convictions, (vii) 11 to 20 criminal convictions, (viii) 21 to 30 criminal convictions, (ix) 31 to 40 criminal convictions, (x) 41 to 50 criminal convictions, (xi) 51 to 75, (xii) 76 to 100 criminal convictions and (xiii) more than 100 criminal convictions.
      (199092)
663  
Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what rights prisoners in HM Prison High Down Sutton have to association and exercise; and whether he has received representations that prisoners at that prison are being permitted less than half an hour to exercise per day.
      (198853)
664  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Department for Work and Pensions in each of the last 10 years.
      (198669)
665  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Minstry of Defence in each of the last 10 years.
      (198670)
666  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Home Office in each of the last 10 years.
      (198671)
667  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases against the Department for Work and Pensions were funded by legal aid in each of the last 10 years.
      (198672)
668  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases against the Ministry of Defence were funded by legal aid in each of the last 10 years.
      (198673)
669  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases against the Home Office were funded by legal aid in each of the last 10 years.
      (198674)
670  
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many private and third sector bidders for privatised probation work employ ex-offenders; and of these how many employ ex-prisoners.
      (198734)
671 N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions coroners have attributed motor accidents involving fatalities to the age and deterioration of tyres on coaches since 1994.
      (198902)
672  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198871)
673  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persistent young offenders were registered in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many and what proportion of total offences were attributable to such offenders in that period.
      (198564)
674  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation officers his Department plans to recruit in the next 12 months; in which countries those posts will be advertised; and what his Department's budget for that advertising is.
      (199404)
675  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the level of sickness absence was at the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in (a) April 2014 and (b) May 2014.
      (198930)
676  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the level of sickness absence was at the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in each month since January 2012.
      (198931)
677  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects to transfer (a) the first and (b) the last Community Rehabilitation Company to an external provider.
      (198932)
678  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he obtained clearance from the European Commission for his Department to retain a golden share in each Community Rehabilitation Company.
      (198933)
679  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unfilled posts of each grade there were in the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in (a) April and (b) May 2014.
      (198934)
680  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the role of police and crime commissioners in the commissioning of probation services within their force areas; and if he will make a statement.
      (198938)
681  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he intends to formally abolish probation trusts.
      (198943)
682  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place a limit on the number of the Community Rehabilitation Companies that a single external provider may control; and if he will make a statement.
      (198977)
683  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unfilled posts of each grade there were in the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in each month since January 2012.
      (198978)
684  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the role of local authorities in the commissioning of probation services within their areas; and if he will make a statement.
      (198979)
685  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of morale within the National Offender Management Service; and what assessment he has made of the effect on levels of morale of the Transforming Rehabilitation programme.
      (198989)
686  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Transforming Rehabilitation programme risk register.
      (198992)
687 N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mortgage possession claims were approved by the courts in each (a) region of England and (b) London borough in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
      (199139)
688 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many claims management companies were operating in the Yorkshire and Humber region in each year from 2008 to 2014.
      (198875)
689 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of car insurance fraud in Yorkshire and the Humber have been reported in each of the last five years.
      (198879)
690 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of car insurance fraud have been reported in each of the last five years.
      (198880)
691 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many claim management companies operated in each region since 2008.
      (198901)
692  
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of fly-tipping in South Staffordshire in each year since 2009-10; and how many such people received the maximum allowable sentence.
      (199178)
693  
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those convicted of fly-tipping were handed the maximum possible sentence in each year since 2009-10.
      (199179)
694  
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of fly-tipping in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
      (199238)
Questions to the Leader of the House
695  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Leader of the House, how many questions to each department did not receive a substantive answer by the time of prorogation; and how long each question had been waiting for an answer.
      (199244)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
696  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, column 762W, on terrorism, if the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy to which she refers was by way of Letters Patent; and if she will make a statement.
      (199279)
697  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the people who are known to have received the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by Letters Patent or under any other authority, in the last 20 years; and if she will make a statement.
      (199280)
698  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy has been granted in Northern Ireland in the last 20 years by means of Letters Close (Litterae Clausae); and if she will make a statement.
      (199281)
699  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by which (a) documents and (b) other means the recipients of a Royal Pardon, following the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, are able to demonstrate to a court or any law enforcement agency, that they are the beneficiaries of exercise of the Royal Prerogative; and if she will make a statement.
      (199282)
700  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, column 762W, on terrorism, what steps she is taking to recover information for the period 1987-97 for which records could not be found; and if she will make a statement.
      (199283)
701 N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times she has met the Northern Ireland Minister for Social Development in the last 12 months.
      (198757)
702  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the Giro D'Italia in Northern Ireland; and what plans she has to ensure a positive legacy from the event.
      (199222)
Questions to the Prime Minister
703  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, how many documents provided by the Government to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war have been declassified; how many such documents he estimates will be declassified within the next six months; and if he will make a statement.
      (199185)
704  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with the (a) Chairman and (b) Secretary of the Chilcot Inquiry on the publication of its report since March 2013; and if he will make a statement.
      (199188)
705  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, when he expects the report of the Chilcot Inquiry into the war in Iraq to be published; what discussions Sir John Chilcot has had with those expected to be criticised in his report; if he will ensure that hon. Members are provided with a full paper copy of the report and all (a) oral and (b) written evidence that was presented to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war; and if he will make a statement.
      (199189)
706  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will seek the agreement of the US President to the publication of classified documents by the Chilcot Inquiry; and if he will make a statement.
      (199190)
707  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will discuss with the administrators of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war a final date for publication; and if he will make a statement.
      (199196)
708  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has had with the US President on the publication by the Chilcot Inquiry of conversations between (a) Tony Blair and George W. Bush and (b) the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and George W. Bush in the period (i) leading up to the conflict in Iraq and (ii) after the invasion of Iraq; what response was received from the President; and if he will make a statement.
      (199197)
709  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if it remains his policy to publish the report of the Chilcot Inquiry in full; and if he will make a statement.
      (199198)
710  
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent representations (a) he, (b) other Ministers and (c) officials of (i) 10 Downing Street and (ii) the Cabinet Office have made to the (A) Chairman and (B) secretariat of the Chilcot Inquiry on delays in publication of its report due to responses from officials of the US administration; what response was received to these representations; and if he will make a statement.
      (199199)
711  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will attend the global leaders Climate Summit in September 2014 in New York; and if he will make a statement.
      (198574)
712  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Prime Minister, on what date and which Minister signed off the decision to give permission to the Chilcot Inquiry to disclose quotations or gists of the content of notes from Tony Blair or records of discussions between the UK Prime Minister and the President of the United States; when detailed consideration of the gists and quotations requested by the Inquiry bagan; how many (a) gists and (b) quotations of Tony Blair are under consideration; whether the publication of any gists or quotations has yet been agreed; and which Minister will approve the decisions on which gists or quotations can be published.
      (199046)
713  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the letter of 28 May 2014 from Sir John Chilcott to the Cabinet Secretary, which Government Minister agreed, and on what date, that there was no prospect of reaching agreement that Notes or records of discussions between the UK Prime Minister and the President of the United States should be disclosed in their entirety or with redactions.
      (199074)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
714 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many tenants in Scotland arranged mutually exchanges to elsewhere in the UK through Home Swap Direct in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
      (199058)
715  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent steps the Government has taken to persuade the Scottish people that they would have a better future within the UK.
      (199077)
716  
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date of commissioning, (c) date of polling and (d) cost of polling commissioned by his Department on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters since May 2011.
      (198680)
717  
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date and (c) cost of contracts for public relations services commissioned by his Department from (i) Engine Partners and (ii) other public affairs and public relations consultancies since May 2011.
      (198681)
718  
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the findings of all market research on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters commissioned by his Department since May 2011.
      (198682)
719  
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what plans his Department has to commission polling on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters before 18 September 2014; and what the (a) scope and (b) value of each such contract is.
      (198683)
Questions to the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
720  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the Answer of 24 February 2014, Official Report, column 19W, on electoral register, with which civic society organisations the Electoral Commission is proactively seeking partnership for the purpose of increasing electoral registration.
      (198724)
721  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what (a) number and (b) proportion of voters voted (i) at a polling station and (ii) by postal ballot in each European parliamentary constituency in each such election since 1984.
      (198859)
722  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what (a) number and (b) proportion of voters voted (i) at a polling station and (ii) by postal ballot in each police authority area in the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
      (198860)
723  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission follows in determining whether statistics in answers to parliamentary questions are (a) provided in full, (b) provided via a link to a website and (c) placed in the Library.
      (199268)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
724 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the last meeting of (a) the Cycle Stakeholders Forum and (b) the safety sub-group of the Cycle Stakeholders Forum took place; and what future meetings are scheduled.
      (198790)
725 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made in reviewing the adequacy of the amount of time allowed for pedestrians to use pedestrian crossings including those crossings out of the scope of the consultation on the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions.
      (198803)
726  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's capacity to discharge its statutory duties to survey and inspect (a) domestic and (b) international shipping.
      (199365)
727  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what training is given to driving examiners who test students in laden lorries.
      (198687)
728  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that overcrowding on trains is (a) regulated and (b) effectively monitored.
      (199443)
729  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help blind and partially sighted passengers travel on buses.
      (199038)
730  
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to promote telematics in cars (a) for young drivers and (b) generally.
      (199042)
731 N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) enhanced frequency and (b) restoration of late night trains are mandatory requirements in the specification for the tendering process of Abbey Line between Watford Junction and St Albans Abbey station.
      (198822)
732  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which Scottish airports will benefit from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund.
      (198920)
733  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of administering the Potholes Challenge Fund.
      (198925)
734  
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department allocated to projects relating to cycling between (a) 2005 and 2010 and (b) 2010 to 2014.
      (199232)
735  
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on improvements to the railways in England and Wales in Control Period 4; and what estimate he has made of how much will be spent in Control Period 5.
      (199233)
736  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of changing the national urban default speed limit to 20 mph on (a) air pollution and (b) other environmental conditions; what similar studies in other developed nations his Department has assessed; and if he will make a statement.
      (198586)
737  
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) UK Chamber of Shipping and (b) European Community Shipowners Association on pay rates for seafarers subject to UK National Insurance payments employed on vessels working from UK ports; and if he will request data on pay rates from maritime employers' associations.
      (199358)
738  
David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many approved driving instructors were registered in the Borough of Warrington in each year since 2007.
      (198608)
739  
David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of applicants from the Borough of Warrington passed their driving test in each year since 2007.
      (198615)
740  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, columns 408-9W, on High Speed 2 railway line, whether his Dedpartment has subsequently compared double-decking with revised estimates of the costs and effects of High Speed 2.
      (199261)
741  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2014, Official Report, columns 517-8W, on railways: passengers, what the evidential basis is for the stated forecast of increases in passenger numbers on the West Coast Main Line over the next 10 years.
      (199294)
742  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 408W, on High Speed 2 Railway Line, what the evidential basis is for the expense and disruption caused by double-decker carriages being greater than that caused by High Speed 2.
      (199296)
743  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 408W, on High Speed 2 Railway Line, what the evidential basis is for the practical limit to the expansion of capacity on the West Coast Mainline being lower than predicted growth for that line.
      (199297)
744  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 408W, on High Speed 2 Railway Line, what the evidential basis for double-decker carriages not releasing sufficient capacity for commuter services is.
      (199298)
745  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, where the greatest overcrowding on the rail network is; and how High Speed 2 will reduce that overcrowding.
      (199331)
746  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how he expects High Speed 2 to reduce overcrowding at London Waterloo.
      (199332)
747  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the excess capacity on peak High Speed 2 services.
      (199333)
748  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish an updated cost benefit analysis for High Speed 2 in light of the decision not to link High Speed 2 with High Speed 1 and Eurostar services.
      (199334)
749  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how High Speed 2 improve reliability and reduce overcrowding on regional links between towns and cities in the North West.
      (199339)
750  
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will move home as a result of the construction of High Speed 2 because of (a) demolition for construction of the line and (b) blight.
      (199340)
751  
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to facilitate the integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems into UK civil airspace.
      (199031)
752 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received on the reopening of the Keswick to Penrith railway line.
      (198813)
753  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government Minister for Transport and Veterans on the possibility of providing free or discounted travel for carers in Scotland.
      (199235)
754  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198872)
755  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in the East of England for road improvement in each of the last five years.
      (198593)
756  
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of seafarer fatigue on maritime safety; and what steps his Department is taking to enforce manning levels on vessels.
      (199411)
757 N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether guidance provided to police officers on the implementation of the new drug driving offence will include information on the position of patients taking legitimately prescribed medications; and if he will make a statement.
      (198826)
758 N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance will be provided to police officers on the implementation of the new drug driving offence; and if he will make a statement.
      (198827)
759 N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 760W, on driving under influence: drugs, what the proposed timetable is for the steps his Department proposes to take to communicate the new drug driving offence.
      (198828)
760 N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with external stakeholders regarding guidance for police officers of the implementation of the new drug driving offence; and if he will make a statement.
      (198833)
761 N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with external stakeholders on planned communications regarding the new drug driving offence; and if he will make a statement.
      (198834)
762  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the incidence of traffic jams.
      (199076)
763  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that costs of public transport do not increase.
      (199223)
764  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on how many journeys were made between Portsmouth and Brighton by (a) car, (b) rail and (c) bus in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
      (199402)
765  
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on how many journeys were made between Southampton and Brighton by (a) car, (b) rail and (c) bus in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
      (199403)
766  
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to research the use of non-slip surfaces for man-holes in order to reduce the number of accidents involving motor cycles.
      (198631)
Questions to the Ministers for Women and Equalities
767  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, if he will make it his policy that the Government adopt when designing domestic policy the same gender equality provisions as contained in the International (Gender Equality) Act 2014 for development assistance provision.
      (198707)
768  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, if she will establish an ombudsman to cover complaints on the use of overly sexualised content on images and displays on high streets and other business advertisements easily visible to the public which are not covered by the Advertising Standards Association or Police and Crime Commissioners.
      (199202)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
769  
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area were claiming jobseeker's allowance per Jobcentre Plus vacancy in each year since May 2007.
      (198520)
770  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people resident in (a) Bolton North East constituency and (b) Bolton have received pension credit since 2010.
      (199150)
771  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated relating to age discrimination in (i) the work place and (ii) Jobcentre Plus.
      (199242)
772 N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects Atos to appoint new agency staff to administer appeals on reassessment of eligibility for disability benefits.
      (198778)
773 N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration is given to fibromyalgia in the work capability assessment; and how many and what proportion of people diagnosed with fibromyalgia have been declared fit for work following such an assessment.
      (198802)
774 N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of mandatory reconsideration periods have exceeded 14 days; and if he will make a statement.
      (198805)
775 N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects Mr Andrew Cottrell of Prenton, to undergo his medical examination as part of his application for the personal independence payment.
      (199007)
776  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of vacancies on Universal Jobsmatch classified as employer confidential; and what checks are in place to ensure that such vacancies are not bogus, fraudulent or otherwise inappropriate.
      (199039)
777  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) net and (b) gross administration charges for the national insurance pension scheme were in each of the last 10 years.
      (199014)
778  
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West of 21 March 2012, Official Report, column 705W on Atos Healthcare, on how many occasions a Jobcentre Plus decision-maker did not follow the advice of an Atos-approved healthcare professional when making a decision on the eligibility for employment and support allowance in each month since May 2010.
      (198542)
779  
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have successfully appealed refusals of employment and support allowance as part of (a) the periodic reassessment of existing employment and support allowance claimants and (b) the reassessment of those in receipt of incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance and income support.
      (198543)
780  
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken for decisions on requests for reconsideration of fit for work decisions in relation to applications for employment and support allowance has been since October 2013.
      (198667)
781 N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce a statutory limit on the length of time decision makers in his Department can take to respond to a request to reconsider a refusal of employment and support allowance.
      (198908)
782  
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Capita will incur penalties for delays in carrying out personal independence payments assessments.
      (199045)
783  
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Capita have been given additional funding to deal with backlogs of personal independence payments assessments.
      (199051)
784  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impairment type or main disabling condition is experienced by people on a) employment and support allowance and b) job seeker's allowance and under sanction.
      (198980)
785  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on the abolition of the Independent Living Fund; what discussions he has held with his ministerial colleagues on this issue; and what steps he is taking to monitor the effect of this decision on disabled people at a national and local level.
      (198997)
786  
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of removing dedicated funding for local welfare assistance; and if he will review the current local welfare assistance arrangements introduced in 2013 before any such change is made.
      (199275)
787  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of refunding travel expenditure by jobseekers to jobcentres in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency was between January 2014 and May 2014.
      (198918)
788 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households have been subject to the benefit cap in (a) each parliamentary constituency and (b) each local authority area in Scotland.
      (198982)
789 N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households subject to the benefits cap in (a) each parliamentary constituency and (b) each local authority area in Scotland have received transitional support via discretionary housing payment to date.
      (198984)
790  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review his Department's policy on issuing travel warrants to rural residents for (a) fortnightly signing-on and (b) other interviews and advisory meetings to take account of the need for such residents to travel further than average to jobcentres.
      (198988)
791  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 228W, on social security benefits: disability, if he will take steps to reduce the national average waiting times for work capability assessments for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit reassessment.
      (199012)
792  
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the target waiting time is for work capability assessment for both (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit reassessment; and what proportion of such assessments have been carried out within the target timescale in the last four quarters for which figures are available.
      (199013)
793  
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants who received a benefits sanction are eligible for the 80 per cent hardship payment of their jobseeker's allowance personal entitlement allowance.
      (198688)
794  
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants who had their benefits sanctioned and received 80 per cent of their jobseeker's allowance personal entitlement allowance (a) appealed and (b) did not appeal against the decision.
      (198689)
795  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Community Work Placement providers schemes (a) were operating by 28 April 2014, (b) were operating no later than 2 June 2014 and (c) are yet to commence; for what reasons any providers have breached of the 2 June 2014 commencement deadline; at what capacity the scheme is currently running; and when he estimates that the scheme will be fully operational (i) in Brighton and Hove Local Authority Area and (ii) nationally.
      (198636)
796  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Freedom of Information request made by Frank Zola to his Department on 28 April 2014, on community work placements, when his Department plans to publish the names of the 70 placement providers under the Help to Work scheme; how many current placement providers there are; if he will publish the names of all such organisations providing such placements under the Help to Work scheme in (a) Brighton and Hove local authority area and (b) in the UK; and if he will publish job descriptions for those placements (i) provided to date and (ii) planned to be provided.
      (198855)
797  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will amend the access to work scheme to enable deaf people to employ a full-time salaried support worker.
      (198733)
798  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential basis was for the decision to change the Access to Work scheme in regards to deaf people having to employ a full-time salaried support worker.
      (198737)
799  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases funded by legal aid against his Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by his Department in each of the last 10 years.
      (198662)
800  
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases against his Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers have represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
      (198666)
801 N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing a BSL interpreter for each individual needing one to fill an access to work position adequately.
      (199095)
802 N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of applicants who have faced delays to their personal independence payment claim because of partial PA4 IT failures in the past 12 months.
      (199096)
803 N
Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants died in each month of the last three years (a) after attending a work capability assessment and (b) having been assessed as fit for work and then appealed, but died before that appeal was heard.
      (198772)
804  
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace capability assessments have been passed from his Department to Atos for processing in each of the last three years.
      (198555)
805  
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace capability assessments have been processed by Atos within 35 working days to date.
      (198556)
806  
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current actual average clearance time is for a workplace capability assessment.
      (198557)
807  
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what penalties his Department is able to levy on workplace capability assessment providers who miss targets.
      (198558)
808  
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace capability assessments have been submitted to Atos, processed and returned within 35 working days in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) West Lothian local authority area in each of the last three years.
      (198559)
809 N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of housing benefit paid to claimants who were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
      (198955)
810 N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of housing benefit claimants were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
      (198959)
811 N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of the average claim for housing benefit made by those (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed was in each of the last five years.
      (198960)
812  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the real-terms income of carers in each of the years from 2010 to 2014; and what estimate he has made of the real-terms income of carers in 2015 in a) Glasgow North West constituency, b) Glasgow, c) Scotland, and d) the UK.
      (198897)
813  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effects on carers of (a) each change and (b) all changes to the benefits system since 2010.
      (199018)
814  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will conduct an assessment of the effect on carers of the implementation of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
      (199019)
815  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of employment and support allowance applicants who have been waiting to be given an assessment appointment for more than (a) three, (b) four, (c) five, (d) six and (e) seven months.
      (199153)
816  
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the time between applications for employment and support allowance and an assessment appointment for people who applied in (a) September 2013, (b) October 2013, (c) November 2013, (d) December 2013, (e) January 2014, (f) February 2014, (g) March 2014 and (h) April 2014 in (i) Glasgow North West constituency, (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) the UK.
      (199352)
817  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people who are currently unemployed who have repeat episode depressions; and what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on the use of mindfulness-based interventions in making people ready for work.
      (198858)
818  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
      (198874)
819  
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on housing benefit in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
      (198592)
820 N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have submitted a claim for personal independence payment and have been waiting for more than six months for a medical assessment in (a) the UK, (b) London and (c) the London Borough of Harrow; and if he will make a statement.
      (198779)
821  
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each (a) region of England and (b) London borough had been waiting six months or longer for a medical examination as part of their assessment of entitlement to a personal independence payment on 1 May 2014; and if he will make a statement.
      (199111)
822  
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK have received support through the Access to Work scheme in each of the last three years.
      (199328)
823  
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding has been provided to disabled people in Scotland and the UK through the Access to Work scheme in each of the last three years.
      (199329)
824  
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to promote the Access to Work scheme to disabled people in Scotland.
      (199330)
825  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the UK Government voted against the establishment of a Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived.
      (199259)
826  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of a Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived on deprived communities in the UK.
      (199263)
827 N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will arrange for replies to be sent to the hon. Member for Walsall North to his letters to (a) the Chief Operating Officer, Pension, Disability and Carers Service of 7 April and 7 May; and if he will arrange for a substantive reply to be sent to that hon. Member to his letter to the Chief Executive, Capita-PIP ref PIP100 34851/101 of 7 April 2014 on behalf of a constituent.
      (198876)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
828 N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) bankruptcy orders were granted and (b) individual voluntary arrangements were agreed in each (i) region of England and (ii) London borough in (A) 2011-12, (B) 2012-13 and (C) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
   [Transferred]  (199140)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
829  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people eligible to be on the most recent (a) census and (b) electoral register who were not recorded.
   [Transferred]  (198969)
830  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer in each of the last five years.
   [Transferred]  (199035)
831  
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of women in Pendle were in work in each of the last five years.
   [Transferred]  (198562)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
832  
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that Natwest and other subsidiaries of RBS remain as competitive as possible in the banking sector.
   [Transferred]  (199219)
833  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to encourage insurance companies to set travel insurance premiums for the elderly based on their state of health rather than their age.
   [Transferred]  (199078)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
834  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of export of refuse-derived fuel and solid recovered fuel for use in energy from waste plants overseas on the availability of such fuel for similar plants in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
   [Transferred]  (198844)
835  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of (a) refuse-derived fuel and (b) solid recovered fuel produced in the UK exported annually for use in energy from waste plants overseas.
   [Transferred]  (198850)
836  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of (a) refuse-derived fuel and (b) solid recovered fuel produced annually in the UK.
   [Transferred]  (198852)
837  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the export of refuse-derived fuel and solid recovered fuel for use in energy from waste plants overseas; and if he will make a statement.
   [Transferred]  (198890)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
838  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions the Prime Minister has had with the US President and others on the release of the files held by Boston College relating to Northern Ireland.
   [Transferred]  (198589)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
839  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she has taken to (a) improve the security of humanitarian aid goods and workers and (b) speed up customs processes for humanitarian aid shipments in South Sudan.
   [Transferred]  (199120)

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