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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 21 October 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 Tuesday 21 October 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on

Tuesday 21 October 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.

Tuesday 21 October  
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
1 N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) men, (b) women, (c) people of an ethnic minority and (d) disabled candidates have been appointed to the boards of public bodies in each of the last five years.
      (210951)
2  
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged over (a) 65, (b) 70, (c) 75 and (e) 80 are living alone in (i) England, (ii) the East of England and (iii) Peterborough constituency.
      (210979)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
3 N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Pensions Technical Group and Income Tax Technical Group established to examine issues arising from the introduction of a Scottish rate of income tax have completed their work.
      (210913)
4 N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many requests the Scottish Government has made using the powers of Part 3 of the Scotland Act 2012 for the addition of new devolved taxes.
      (210914)
5 N
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in his Department are working on the Scottish rate of income tax project.
      (210915)
6 N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in employment in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 who will not earn enough to pay any income tax in (i) the UK, (ii) England, (iii) Wales, (iv) Scotland, (v) Northern Ireland and (vi) each English region respectively; and how many such people (A) are men, (B) are women and (C) have dependant children.
      (210950)
7 N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what reports he has received of problems experienced by hon. Members using the dedicated MP tax credit hotline; and if he will make a statement.
      (210921)
8  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual cost was of providing the rent-a-room tax scheme for each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
      (210995)
9  
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to extend Sharia financing within the UK banking system.
      (210980)
10  
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to prevent banks within the UK banking system being used for funding domestic or international terrorism.
     [R] (210981)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
11  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he intends to reply to the letter to him of 5 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton about Mr J Woodhead.
      (210977)
12 N
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the oral contribution from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of 4 September 2014, Official Report, columns 520-2, on non-league football, what discussions he has had with the Football Association on strengthening the owners and directors test.
      (210832)
13 N
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the oral contribution from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of 4 September 2014, Official Report, columns 520-2, on non-league football, what discussions his Department has had with the Football Association (FA) on the possible contravention of FA rules and regulations by Hereford United Football Club and the Southern League; and if he will make a statement.
      (210833)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
14 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any sales of equipment to the Colombian armed forces by any British company resulted from the conference aboard HMS Richmond in Cartagena in January 2014.
      (210858)
15 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has for the tented camp used by HM Forces at Kandahar; and whether Agility and any other organisation involved in the disposal of the camp have been instructed to considered urgent humanitarian requirements for such a camp.
      (210893)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
16 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether factors additional to geography, commercial viability and condition need are assessed by her Department when selecting schools in the Priority School Building Programme.
      (210856)
17 N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of students that completed further education in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England went on to (i) university, (ii) a full-time job and (iii) an apprenticeship in each of the last five years.
      (210953)
18 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 209053, which seven local safeguarding children's boards inspected since November 2013 have been found to be inadequate by Ofsted.
      (210922)
19 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority designated officers work in each local authority.
      (210923)
20  
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which primary schools in each local authority area have more than 600 pupils.
      (210963)
21  
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools have received a net reduction in funding between 2013-14 and 2014-15.
      (210964)
22  
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what figures her Department holds on pupil intake changes of schools founded before 2010 ranked by those which have experienced the most rapid growth in pupil numbers.
      (210965)
23 N
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether students who have A* to C grades in unregulated English and mathematics IGCSEs will be required to study for GCSEs in those subjects as a condition of receiving funding for a post-16 course.
      (210942)
24  
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were taught in schools rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted in (a) 2010 and (b) the last date for which figures are available.
      (211002)
25 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the Free School application for Kings Science Academy in Bradford.
      (210920)
26 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014, to Question 209601, on free schools: Sheffield, who was named as Chair of Governors in the application to establish a free school at Milner Fields in Bradford.
      (210939)
27 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014, to Question 209601, on free schools: Sheffield, who was named as Chair of Governors in the application to establish a free school at Darnall in Sheffield.
      (210940)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
28  
David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many professional chartered engineers his Department employs.
      (210984)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
29 N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department will respond to the State of Nature Capital report published by the Natural Capital Committee in March 2014.
      (210918)
30 N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to extend the life of the Natural Capital Committee beyond March 2015.
      (210919)
31 N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to receive the progress report from the Environment Agency and Natural England on the action plan in response to the Triennial Review of those agencies.
      (210941)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
32 N
Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) there is no impunity for perpetrators of rape and abuse and (b) women are represented in peace talks in South Sudan.
      (210925)
33  
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the case of Asia Bibi and the death sentence she has received in Pakistan for an alleged offence of blasphemy; what representations he has made to the government of Pakistan about that country's blasphemy laws; and whether he has received any representations on the possibility of excluding Pakistan from the Commonwealth on human rights grounds.
      (210994)
34 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when (a) each Minister and (b) officials in his Department last met the Ambassador of China to the UK.
      (210881)
35 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to facilitate constructive dialogue between the Chinese government, the authorities in Hong Kong and campaigners in Hong Kong.
      (210924)
36 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of access by ISIS to chemical weapons in Iraq; and what assistance his Department plans to give directly and through the international community to assist the government of Iraq in (a) safeguarding its citizens, (b) retrieving those materials and (c) preventing the use of those materials in the region.
      (210894)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
37 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will publish the response to the public consultation on the NHS National Tariff Payment System 2015-16.
      (210854)
38 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Chief Medical Officer will report on the UK-wide review of all alcohol guidelines.
      (210855)
39 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans to publish the results of the consultations on regulations on (a) smoking in cars with children present and (b) standardised packaging of tobacco; and when his Department plans to lay these regulations before the House.
      (210926)
40 N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that regulations regarding invasive cosmetic procedures provide the same level of protection as those concerning cosmetic surgery.
      (210880)
41  
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue a response from his Department to the comments of the British Medical Association in its press release on government guidance on abortion on the grounds of gender of 27 May 2014 entitled Abortion guidance ignores gender complexity; and if he will make a statement.
      (210985)
42  
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to tackle loneliness in elderly people and the adverse health effects of chronic isolation.
      (210982)
43  
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had on tackling loneliness and social isolation in elderly people with (i) charities, (ii) professional bodies and (iii) other government departments in each of the last three years.
      (210983)
44 N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many appeals have been made to the Skipton Fund Appeals Panel in respect of decisions made by that fund; and how many such appeals were decided in favour of (a) the appellant or (b) the Skipton Fund.
      (210937)
45 N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who contracted HIV following treatment with NHS-supplied blood products from the 1970s to the early 1990s have also contracted (a) Stage 1 Hepatitis C and (b) Stage 2 Hepatitis C.
      (210938)
46 N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms are in place for claimants of support from the (a) Macfarlane and Eileen Trust, (b) Skipton Fund, (c) Macfarlane Trust, (d) Eileen Trust and (e) Caxton Foundation to make complaints about and seek redress for level of support they receive; and what process those bodies use to decide entitlement to discretionary and non-discretionary support.
      (210954)
47 N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has allocated in grants to the (a) Macfarlane and Eileen Trust, (b) Skipton Fund, (c) Macfarlane Trust, (d) Eileen Trust and (e) Caxton Foundation in each year since their inception; whether such funding is allocated at the discretion of his Department; whether the size of those grants in each year is determined on the basis of a formula; what representations his Department has received from each of those organisations in the last four years to the amounts allocated; what entities fund each such body; and what his Department's planned future funding allocations to those bodies are for the next five years.
      (210955)
48 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cancelled operations there were in (a) London and (b) each London trust in each year since 2010.
      (210943)
49 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of cancer patients started treatment within 62 days in (a) London and (b) each London trust in each year since 2010.
      (210957)
50 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what happened to the stocks of Tamiflu vaccine bulk-purchased by the NHS.
      (210895)
51 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved interventions are available through the NHS for the treatment of mental health conditions.
      (210896)
52 N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence his Department holds on the potential efficacy of shikimic acid in tackling the Ebola virus.
      (210897)
53  
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost would be of awarding all NHS staff the annual increment plus a one per cent pay rise; and what the actual cost is of the Government's current proposals on pay for NHS staff.
      (210971)
54 N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the transparency and accountability of the Moscow Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
      (210958)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
55 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with the voluntary sector on the development of a standards framework to assist local commissioners in commissioning local domestic violence standards.
      (210882)
56 N
Sir Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to screen arrivals from West Africa via Europe at the Port of Dover for Ebola; and what steps her Department is taking to liaise with the French authorities to facilitate the screening of people temporarily resident in Calais while seeking to enter the UK illegally for Ebola.
      (210916)
57  
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish the terms of reference and full membership of the panel into the inquiry into child sexual abuse.
      (210966)
58  
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that victims of child sexual abuse have access to adequate support and counselling services.
      (210967)
59  
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to the Minister for Immigration and Security on 5 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton about Mr Paul Mendy.
      (210978)
60 N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2014, to Question 207060, whether UK police would be able to avoid arresting persons pursuant to an Article 26 alert under Council Decision 2007/533/JHA on grounds of lack of proportionality, should the UK connect to the Schengen Information System II, given the provisions of Article 25 of that Decision requiring a decision not to arrest to be taken by a judicial authority.
      (210932)
61 N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA would permit national legislation that required the relevant competent authorities to establish joint investigation teams under the Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, where that Protocol is available, rather than under the Framework Decision.
      (210933)
62 N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, through what secure means financial intelligence units of Egmont Group members exchange information; and how that means of exchange differs from information exchange through FIU.net.
      (210934)
63 N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2014, to Question 207060, on what grounds the Government considers that Article 34 alerts from other EU Member States under Council Decision 2007/533/JHA will not require UK authorities actively to ascertain and communicate the place of residence or domicile of the relevant persons, given the provision of Article 35 of that Decision.
      (210935)
64 N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2014, to Question 207074, what specific benefits Council Decision 2000/642/JHA provides for exchanging financial intelligence in addition to Egmont Group membership.
      (210936)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
65 N
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many different organisations made applications to be approved as community rehabilitation companies to date.
      (210602)
66 N
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many organisations that applied to be approved as community rehabilitation companies have had their applications approved to date.
      (210603)
67 N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the decision by the High Court that the Government's proposals for legal aid involving mesothelioma proceedings were not lawfully made, what plans the Government has to initiate a further review.
      (210956)
Questions to the Ministers for Women and Equalities
68 N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what information the Government Equalities Office holds on the number of sub-contracted staff servicing that Office who were not paid at or above the rate of the London Living Wage in each of the last five years.
      (210949)
69 N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what public appointments her Department has made in each of the last five years; and what payments each person so appointed is entitled to claim.
      (210952)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
70 N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Financial Assistance Scheme of recalculating annual entitlement related to services after 1997 and changes to annuity or notional annuity income in respect of (a) each individual overpayment and (b) total overpayments.
      (210857)
71 N
Sir Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of cases awaiting individual assessments by Atos; what estimate he has made of the waiting time between personal independence payment (PIP) claims, assessment and awards being made; and what estimate he has made of the amount due in PIP awards that is outstanding.
      (210917)
72  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information will be published by his Department on take-up of the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment scheme; and at what frequency such data will be published.
      (210968)
73  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims made under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment scheme have been (a) submitted, (b) accepted, (c) concluded, (d) remain outstanding and (e) resulted in a payment being made.
      (210969)
74  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid out under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment scheme to date.
      (210970)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
75 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote early intervention in improving child health.
   [Question Unstarred]  (905557)

Prepared 21st October 2014