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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 10 September 2014

Notes:
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+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
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Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Wednesday 10 September 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on

Wednesday 10 September 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.

Wednesday 10 September  
Questions to the Attorney General
1  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful appeals against bail were made by prosecutors in Crown courts since 3 December 2012.
      (208542)
2  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Attorney General, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that a victim of crime who is under 18 years of age and who has no legal guardian or person with parental responsibility can gain access to the Crown Prosecution Service Victims' Right to Review Scheme; and by what means such a victim would gain such access.
      (208464)
3  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 since 2004.
      (208607)
4  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the Crown Prosecution Service London region has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 where the victim was under 18 years of age in the last five years.
      (208608)
5  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under sections 57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in the last five years.
      (208609)
6  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under sections 57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 where the victim was under 18 years in the last five years.
      (208610)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
7  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices there were in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years.
      (208541)
8 N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Minister for Education in the Welsh Government on tackling extremism and radicalisation in UK universities; and if he will convene a meeting with his counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss this matter.
      (208390)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
9 N
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent jobs with the Civil Service or government agencies there were in Yorkshire in May 2010; and how many such jobs there are now.
      (905301)
10  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what university each intern on the Summer Diversity Internship Programme attended in each year since that programme started.
      (208530)
11  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people were self-employed in Ashfield constituency in each year since 2010.
      (208537)
12  
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings he had with Nesta between 2010 and 2012.
      (208580)
13  
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to make it easier for small businesses to access the tendering process for government contracts.
      (208517)
14  
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have participated in National Citizen Service schemes in (a) England and (b) North Swindon in each year since 2010.
      (208518)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
15 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects HM Treasury to sign off the full and final business case for universal credit.
      (208391)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
16 N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of named day written questions were answered by his Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
      (208443)
17  
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what additional funding is being allocated to local authorities for their commissioning responsibility for the Healthy Child Programme from October 2015; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure a smooth transition to that commissioning responsibility.
      (208583)
18 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department gives to planning authorities on applications for fast-food restaurants (a) near schools and (b) in residential areas.
      (208406)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
19  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what targets the Government has set for tackling homophobia in sports; and what steps have been taken to achieve those targets in the last 12 months.
      (208533)
20  
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was invested in each region or constituent part of the UK as a result of London hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
      (208490)
21  
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the sports participation figures in each sport in each region and constituent part of the UK were in the (a) two years before and (b) two years after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
      (208491)
22  
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent in each region and constituent part of the UK in each year as part of the Olympic legacy.
      (208497)
23 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress his Department has made on the Broadband Delivery UK programme; and if he will make a statement.
      (208407)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
24  
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to make a decision on the Royal Navy's long-term heavyweight torpedo requirement.
      (208467)
25  
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) his Department and (b) BAE Systems have paid for work on HMS Daring since she was handed over to the Royal Navy.
      (208506)
26  
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) his Department and (b) BAE Systems have paid for work on HMS Dauntless since she was handed over to the Royal Navy.
      (208507)
27  
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) his Department and (b) BAE Systems has paid for work on HMS Diamond since she was handed over to the Royal Navy.
      (208508)
28 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to improve its Information and Information Communication Technology capability.
      (208408)
29 N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many suitably qualified and experienced personnel staff are currently required and how many such positions are vacant in (a) Astute, (b) Vanguard and (c) Trafalgar class submarine crews.
      (208440)
30 N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the standard length was of deployment for service personnel aboard (a) frigates and (b) destroyers in 2012; and what the standard length of such deployments is at present.
      (208441)
31  
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with which NATO allies the UK is working to establish a Joint Expeditionary Force; and if he will make a statement.
      (208516)
32  
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which UK units he plans to allocate to the NATO Joint Expeditionary Force.
      (208519)
33  
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what size the NATO Joint Expeditionary Force will be.
      (208520)
34  
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) NATO Readiness Action Plan, (b) Alliance's Review of the Arrangements for NATO Interim Ballistic Missile Defence Capability, (c) NATO Framework Nations Concept and (d) NATO Enhanced Cyber Defence Policy.
      (208524)
35  
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former service personnel have received the Arctic Star medal.
      (208544)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
36  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what targets the Government has set for tackling homophobia in schools; and what steps have been taken to achieve those targets in the last 12 months.
      (208535)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
37  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with (a) the Health and Safety Executive, (b) offshore trade unions and (c) Oil and Gas UK on accommodation standards for offshore oil and gas workers on installations in the North Sea.
      (208466)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
38  
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions her Department has had with EU institutions on the ban on the import of mangoes from India.
      (208521)
39  
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to help UK businesses adversely affected by the ban on the import of mangoes from India.
      (208522)
40  
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to reverse the EU ban on import of mangoes from India.
      (208523)
41  
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what basis parts of the (a) body and (b) conclusions of the Rural Community Policy Unit report on Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts, published in March 2014, were redacted.
      (208611)
42  
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which Minister determined the redactions to the Rural Community Policy Unit report on Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts, published in March 2014.
      (208612)
43  
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the Rural Community Policy Unit report on Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts, published in March 2014, was redacted.
      (208613)
44 N
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the levels of fines and sanctions for the illegal felling of trees were last reviewed and updated; and what steps her Department takes to ensure that fines and sanctions for the illegal felling of trees are kept up-to-date and are effective.
      (208409)
45 N
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees have been illegally felled in England and Wales; how many restocking orders have been issued by the Forestry Commission or other relevant body; how many enforcement notices have subsequently been issued following restocking orders not being completed; and how many prosecutions have been taken forward by the Forestry Commission as a result of illegal felling of trees in each of the last 10 years.
      (208410)
46 N
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department issues on the time required to investigate cases where prosecution is being considered by the Forestry Commission for the illegal felling of trees.
      (208411)
47 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will discuss with her counterparts in the devolved administrations the need for discussions with the European Commission on the development of a relief package for farmers and the UK beef industry; and if she will make a statement.
      (208444)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
48  
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has requested the EU to implement targeted sanctions against people and organisations named in the UN Commission of Inquiry report on North Korea as being responsible for human rights violations in North Korea; and if he will discuss with his ministerial colleagues implementing sanctions in the event that the EU does not do so.
      (208489)
49  
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to end the persecution of Christians in Iraq by the Islamic State.
      (208526)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
50 N
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal College of Nursing on ensuring that nurses trained in the UK are able to obtain nursing posts at UK hospitals.
      (208400)
51 N
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to require NHS trusts to benchmark executive pay increases against salaries at similarly performing NHS trusts.
      (208403)
52 N
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues on whether pay increases at NHS trusts should be linked to the performance of hospitals at those trusts.
      (208404)
53  
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the quality and extent of postnatal care available during the first six to eight weeks after birth; and if he will make a statement.
      (208582)
54  
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that all pregnant women have easy access to a midwife as a first point of professional contact.
      (208603)
55  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will investigate the best methods to minimise the number of patients who do not arrive for (a) hospital and (b) GP appointments; and what the cost of missed appointments to the NHS was in the last year.
      (208455)
56  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of suspected cancer patients were seen by a consultant within 14 days of GP referral at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals Trust in each quarter since 2010.
      (208538)
57  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of suspected cancer patients received first treatment within 62 days of GP referral at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals Trust in each quarter since 2010.
      (208539)
58  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients waited more than four hours at accident and emergency wards at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals Trust in (i) each week since 2013 and (ii) each quarter since 2010.
      (208540)
59  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department provides to obstetricians, gynaecologists, midwives, paediatricians and other medical professionals on disorders of sexual development.
      (208492)
60  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what requirement he makes for education on disorders of sexual development as part of initial training and continuous professional development for obstetricians, gynaecologists, midwives, paediatricians and other medical professionals.
      (208493)
61  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individuals have been diagnosed with disorders of sexual development when they were aged (a) up to two, (b) two to five, (c) five to 11, (d) 11 to 16 and (e) over 16 years in each of the last 10 years.
      (208496)
62  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of people who have received physiological or psychological treatment as a result of previous surgical procedures or other medical interventions intended to assign a gender to a person diagnosed with a disorder of sexual development.
      (208584)
63  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of whether NHS clinical guidance on gender assignment surgery on infants conforms with Yogyakarta Principles on human rights laws in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity; and what steps he has taken to ensure that such guidance conforms to those principles.
      (208585)
64  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many surgical procedures or other medical interventions were carried out in the NHS on people diagnosed with disorders of sexual development aged (a) up to two, (b) two to five, (c) five to 11, (d) 11 to 16 and (e) over 16 years in each of the last 10 years.
      (208614)
65 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made towards the establishment of a Food Crime Unit.
      (208405)
66  
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department provides to the Great Western Hospital NHS Trust for the building of a new radiotherapy centre.
      (208514)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
67 N
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) cautions have been made in each of the last five years relating to cycling on pavements.
      (208401)
68  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers in each industry category set out in the Government's Office of National Statistics Standard Industrial Classification system hold a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence.
      (208458)
69  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employers in the UK motorsport industries hold a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence.
      (208459)
70  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests under the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme by (a) women and (b) men have (i) been made and (ii) been successful in each police force since the introduction of that scheme.
      (208515)
71  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police-instigated disclosures relating to (a) women and (b) men have been made under the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme in each police force since the introduction of that scheme.
      (208528)
72  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many men had convictions for offences related to consensual gay sex expunged from their criminal records in each year since 2012.
      (208531)
73 N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met Eurotunnel Group representatives to discuss illegal immigration into the UK through the Channel Tunnel.
      (208442)
74  
Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to ratify the Istanbul Convention.
      (208460)
Questions to the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission
75 N
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014 to Question 207883, if the Commission will make available to the right hon. Member for Chelmsford all the records of all the discussions of the panel considering the appointment of the new Clerk of the House and Chief Executive with the personal data of the applicants redacted.
      (208377)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
76  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make representations to her counterpart in the Israeli government to allow building materials to enter Gaza for the rebuilding of homes; and if she will make funding available towards the rebuilding of homes in Gaza.
      (208468)
77 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to encourage clothing retailers to interrogate their supply chains in China to assess the working conditions of people working in that country.
      (208392)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
78 N
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what increase there has been in the salary of (a) Mary Archer and (b) Alan Hubbard for posts connected with probation services in Essex over the last 12 months.
      (208402)
79 N
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that departments meet targets for clearing public records for transfer to the National Archives.
      (905297)
80  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been collected in sureties when defendants breached their bail conditions and a surety had been given on their behalf before bail was granted in each of the last three years.
      (208509)
81  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost to the public purse was of the court hearings about the bail sureties given in the case of Julian Assange.
      (208510)
82  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average proportion of (a) male and (b) female prisoners held in (i) open, (ii) closed and (iii) resettlement prisons was in each of the last five years.
      (208511)
83  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list (a) how much and (b) what proportion of the surety offered by each individual to secure bail for Julian Assange has been collected.
      (208512)
84  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the sale price was of magistrates' court buildings sold in 2014; and how long each was not used for court business before it was sold.
      (208529)
85  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders were released from Crown courts on post-conviction bail for the offences of (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) manslaughter, (d) attempted murder and (e) child sex abuse in each of the last three years.
      (208543)
86  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of states party to the European Convention on Human Rights whose prisons breach any term of that convention.
      (208572)
87  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) men and (b) women convicted of sexual activity with a child received a prison sentence in each of the last five years; and what the average prison sentence was for (i) men and (ii) women.
      (208573)
88  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders of which offence type released from Crown Courts on post conviction bail subsequently failed to surrender for sentencing in the latest period for which figures are available.
      (208575)
89  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women convicted of sexual activity with a child received (i) a conditional discharge, (ii) a fine, (iii) a community order and (iv) a suspended prison sentence in each of the last five years.
      (208576)
90  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders convicted of a single offence of possession of class A drugs received (a) a discharge, (b) a fine, (c) a community order, (d) a suspended prison sentence and (e) an immediate prison sentence in the most recent year for which figures are available.
      (208577)
91  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners are serving sentences in prisons for offences committed outside the UK.
      (208578)
92  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2014, Official Report, column 851W, on prisoners' release: terrorism, what offences were committed by those released in those years; and what the length of sentence (a) awarded by the court and (b) served in prison was by each offender.
      (208579)
93  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2014, Official Report, column 844W, on courts: fines, what offences were committed by those who were fined the maximum in magistrates' courts in the last five years.
      (208581)
94  
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of an offence under sections 136, 137, 156 and 157 of the Licensing Act 2003 in each of the last four years; how many of those people fined, were fined the maximum amount stipulated in that Act for those offences; how many of those people imprisoned were imprisoned for the maximum sentence stipulated in that Act for those offences; and how much money overall was raised in fines from those convicted in each such year.
      (208446)
95  
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many summary convictions there were for misuse of class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs under sections 4(2&3), 5(2&3), 6(2), 8, 9, 9(A), 11(2), 12(6), 13(3), 17(3), 17(4), 18(1-4), 20 and 23(4) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in each of the last four years; how many people who were fined were fined the maximum amount stipulated for those offences; how many people who were imprisoned were imprisoned for the maximum sentence stipulated for those offences; and how much was raised in fines from those convicted in each year.
      (208447)
96  
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of an offence under sections 138, 140, 143, 144, 145, 148, 150(1&2) and 158 of the Licensing Act 2003 in each of the last four years; how many people who were fined were fined the maximum amount stipulated in that Act for those offences; and how much overall was raised in fines from those convicted in each year.
      (208448)
97  
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2014, Official Report, column 386W, on licensing laws, how much was raised in fines on those convicted of offences contrary to sections 141, 142, 146, 147A, 149 (1, 3, 4, 7a and 7b), 151, 152 and 153 of the Licensing Act 2003 in each of the last four years.
      (208488)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
98 N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2014, Official Report, column 462-3W, on domestic visits, what domestic visits she has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
      (208445)
99 N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what her most recent assessment is of the adequacy of the budget provision for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
      (208393)
Questions to the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
100  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the changes in accuracy of the electoral registers between December 2010 and March 2014.
      (208450)
101  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the (a) number and (b) proportion is of eligible people who are not registered to vote in each nation and region of the UK.
      (208604)
102  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the effects of (a) increased internal population mobility, (b) increased immigration, (c) electoral registration practices, (d) financial motivation and (e) any failure of electoral registration officers to conduct full door-to-door canvass of non-responders on electoral registration levels.
      (208605)
103  
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how much and what proportion of the Electoral Commission's annual budget the Electoral Commission Report into Completeness and Accuracy of the Electoral Register 2014 cost to produce.
      (208606)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
104  
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the comprehensiveness of coverage of London of charging points for electric cars.
      (208588)
105  
Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people likely to take up the alternative cash offer under the High Speed 2 compensation scheme.
      (208587)
106  
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the progress made in electrifying the Great Western Rail route.
      (208513)
Questions to the Ministers for Women and Equalities
107  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what discussions the Government Equalities Office has had with hate crime prevention groups in the last 12 months.
      (208532)
108  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the effect on organisational capacity and productivity of moving the Government Equalities Office between parent Departments since 2010.
      (208494)
109  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what the financial cost has been of moving the Government Equalities Office between parent Departments since 2010.
      (208495)
110  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the extent to which government policy on gender identity conforms to the Yogyakarta Principles on human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity; and what steps she has taken to ensure that policy conforms to those principles.
      (208586)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
111  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of (a) single, (b) two-person, (c) three-person and (d) four-person occupancy standards for accommodation cabins in the offshore oil and gas industry on (i) the health and safety of offshore workers and (ii) operational safety on offshore installations.
      (208451)
112  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which statutory safety tests the Health and Safety Executive apply to an application from an operator in the offshore oil and gas industry for an increase in the occupancy rates for accommodation cabins on installations in the North Sea.
      (208452)
113  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes have been made by the Health and Safety Executive to accommodation standards for offshore oil and gas workers on installations in the North Sea in the last three years; on what grounds the decision was made to approve such changes; and on what dates those changes were made.
      (208453)
114  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions (a) Ministers in his Departmant and (b) the Health and Safety Executive have had with trades union representatives on accommodation standards for offshore oil and gas workers on installations in the North Sea.
      (208454)
115  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions (a) Ministers in his Department and (b) the Health and Safety Executive have had with representatives of Oil and Gas UK on accommodation standards for offshore oil and gas workers on installations in the North Sea.
      (208457)
116  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the employment rate is for people (a) born with a disability and (b) disabled later in life.
      (208574)
117  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what targets the Government has set for tackling homophobia in the workplace; and what steps have been taken to achieve those targets in the last 12 months.
      (208534)
118  
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for a personal independent payment assessment by Atos in (a) England, (b) the South West and (c) Gloucester over the last 12 months.
      (208449)
119  
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to record and publish the reasons for applications for budgeting loans.
      (208461)
120  
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of funeral payment decisions were made within his Department's target time in each of the last three years.
      (208463)
121  
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average and (b) total cost was of processing claims for Social Fund Funeral Payments in the last year.
      (208465)
122 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2014, Official Report, column 639W on employment schemes: young people, what estimate he has made of how much of the £183.8 million allocated for the Youth Contract wage incentive scheme in this financial year will be used by that scheme.
      (208412)
123 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2014, Official Report, column 327W on employment schemes: young people, who represents his Department on the Growth and Enterprise Committee.
      (208413)
124 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work clubs are being run from Jobcentre Plus offices.
      (208414)
125 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the median length of service of Jobcentre Plus staff was in each of the last five years.
      (208415)
126  
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, by the Cabinet Secretary to Question 32 in oral evidence taken in the Committee of Public Accounts, when the Major Projects Authority informed him that the universal credit project was way off track.
      (208626)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
127  
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of weddings conducted annually in (a) Hindu temples, (b) mosques, (c) synagogues, (d) unlicensed churches, (e) gurdwaras and (f) any other religious establishments.
   [Transferred]  (208462)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
128  
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to support parents and children who were victims of forced adoptions in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
   [Transferred]  (208527)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
129  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) charged and (b) convicted of homophobic hate crimes in the UK in each of the last five years.
   [Transferred]  (208536)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
130  
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that people in Northern Ireland who were 14 and 15 years of age in 1947 and who paid national insurance have these contributions recognised in their pensions.
   [Transferred]  (208525)

Prepared 10th September 2014