Session 2014-15
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The Questions Book
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 27 October 2014
Notes:
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Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
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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.
[N]
Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
[R]
Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.
Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 27 October 2014
(the ‘Questions Book’)
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 27 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.
Questions to the Attorney General
1
N
Stella Creasy
(Walthamstow):
To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been charged under the provisions of section 4a of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 since 25 November 2012.
(211469)
2
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been charged to date under sections (a) 2A and (b) 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 who could not have been charged using sections (i) 2 and (ii) 4.
(211307)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
3
Adam Afriyie
(Windsor):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on excluding foreign university students from net immigration targets.
(211742)
4
Mr William Bain
(Glasgow North East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has held with stakeholders on the nature of the warranties sold by Scottish Power to its customers in the 1980s and 1990s.
(211767)
5
N
Mr Gregory Campbell
(East Londonderry):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that inward investment and job creation is encouraged on an equal basis in all the regions of the UK.
(211579)
6
N
Jeremy Corbyn
(Islington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received on consultations held with the Saharawi regarding proposed drilling for oil by Cairn Energy in the waters of Western Sahara.
(211504)
7
Robert Halfon
(Harlow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of people who completed apprenticeships went on to get (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the latest period for which figures are available.
(211784)
8
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff in his Department (a) are currently on a personal improvement plan, (b) have been on a persoanl improvement plan for over one year and (c) have been on a personal improvement plan for more than two consecutive years; and what the grades are or were of such staff.
(211820)
9
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff in his Department are responsible for mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.
(211821)
10
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many teams in his Department currently have more than one member of staff on personal improvement plans.
(211822)
11
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the procedure is in his Department for assessing grade boundaries and job roles; and how often such assessments take place.
(211823)
12
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on the Local Growth Fund allocation to North Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement.
(211753)
13
N
John Mann
(Bassetlaw):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what exports from the UK were supported by UK Export Finance's loan guarantee for Mourne Ltd's Kotoka International Airport project in Ghana.
(211503)
14
John Mann
(Bassetlaw):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessments were made of Mourne Ltd's payment of taxes in the UK and Ghana before UK Export Finance agreed to guarantee loans for the Kotoka International Airport project.
(211694)
15
N
Ian Murray
(Edinburgh South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what work his Department has conducted on identifying specific policy areas and sectors for which the UK will seek exemptions from the scope of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and what representations the UK has made to the EU on exemption of such policy areas or sectors.
(211430)
16
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made on the proposed relocation or closure of Rhyl Post Office.
(211757)
17
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2014 to Question 209889, how many complaints his Department received about Acorn Agriculture Finance (a) before and (b) after that company was granted licences.
(211785)
18
N
Mr Iain Wright
(Hartlepool):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Urgent Question on 16 October 2014, Official Report, column 445, on Tata Steel, when he plans to publish his Department's metals strategy.
(211585)
19
N
Mr Iain Wright
(Hartlepool):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Urgent Question on 16 October 2014, Official Report, column 445, on Tata Steel, what meetings (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have held with (a) Tata Steel and (b) trades unions to discuss the selling of the Long Products Division.
(211586)
20
N
Mr Iain Wright
(Hartlepool):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much steel was produced in the UK in each year since 1985.
(211593)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
21
Mr David Anderson
(Blaydon):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason his Department's consultation on transposition of the EU public procurement directive was limited to four weeks.
(211678)
22
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the Minister without Portfolio has travelled overseas on an official visit since his appointment to that post; what the (a) purpose and (b) cost of each such visit was; and what the class of travel was for each journey on each such visit.
(211797)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
23
Adam Afriyie
(Windsor):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential costs and benefits of removing the cap on entrepreneurs' tax relief.
(211741)
24
N
Richard Burden
(Birmingham, Northfield):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy that the Highways Agency, following its transfer from being a civil service agency to a government-owned company will be liable to pay (a) corporation tax and (b) additional payments of VAT.
(211500)
25
N
Mr Gregory Campbell
(East Londonderry):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate how many people would not be paying income tax and national insurance contributions if the threshold for both were equalised at the higher rate of the two.
(211580)
26
N
Mr Christopher Chope
(Christchurch):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-UK citizens from (a) other EU countries and (b) the rest of the world are in receipt of working tax credit.
(211619)
27
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received from (a) business organisations and (b) trades unions about (i) economic integration within the EU and (ii) the proposed introduction of a financial transaction tax.
(211667)
28
Sir Gerald Kaufman
(Manchester, Gorton):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 15 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Reverend Ian Hamilton.
(211687)
29
N
Rachel Reeves
(Leeds West):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has approved (a) the strategic outline business case and (b) the full business case for universal credit.
(211587)
30
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made on the proposed closures of each HM Revenue and Customs office in North Wales; how many (a) forced and (b) voluntary redundancies each such closure entails; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such closures on levels of service by HM Revenue and Customs in North Wales.
(211760)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
31
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what was spent on the Decent Homes Programme in each year since 2005.
(211623)
32
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) the borough of Tower Hamlets, (c) London and (d) England failed to meet the decent homes standard in each year since 2010.
(211624)
33
Mr Nicholas Brown
(Newcastle upon Tyne East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average annual cost for a looked after child was in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
(211674)
34
Paul Flynn
(Newport West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether, in delivery of the Zero Carbon Homes policy, house builders can contract with a third party to deliver the carbon abatement measures outside of the built environment in (a) renewable energy technologies, (b) carbon capture and storage and (c) nuclear power in order to meet the house builder's zero carbon obligation.
(211768)
35
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations he has received on recording of council meetings in public.
(211754)
36
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on changes in spending on local government since May 2010 on (a) staff morale and motivation and (b) level of services.
(211756)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
37
N
Clive Efford
(Eltham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who he consulted about the membership of the expert working group on links between supporters and professional football clubs; and if he will make a statement.
(211477)
38
N
Clive Efford
(Eltham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who he consulted on the inclusion of consumer issues in the terms of reference of the expert working group on links between supporters and professional football clubs; and if he will make a statement.
(211478)
39
N
Clive Efford
(Eltham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the expert working group on links between supporters and professional football clubs will meet for the first time; how frequently that group will meet; and if he will make a statement.
(211479)
40
N
Clive Efford
(Eltham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received on the membership and terms of reference of the expert working group on links between supporters and professional clubs; and if he will make a statement.
(211480)
41
N
Clive Efford
(Eltham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the expert working group on links between supporters and professional clubs will report its findings; what deadline he has set for that report; and if he will make a statement.
(211481)
42
N
Ms Harriet Harman
(Camberwell and Peckham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Chinese nationals visited the UK on tourist visas in 2010.
(211502)
43
N
Ms Harriet Harman
(Camberwell and Peckham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to discuss tourism.
(211645)
44
N
Ms Harriet Harman
(Camberwell and Peckham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to discuss tourism.
(211646)
45
N
Ms Harriet Harman
(Camberwell and Peckham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met the Secretary of State for Transport to discuss tourism.
(211647)
46
N
Ms Harriet Harman
(Camberwell and Peckham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of Chinese overseas tourists visited the UK in each year since 2010.
(221656)
47
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the speed of the delivery of superfast broadband to rural areas.
(211748)
48
N
Mr Laurence Robertson
(Tewkesbury):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the net annual financial benefit to British racing of extending the Horserace Betting Levy to overseas operators; and if he will make a statement.
(211501)
49
N
Mr Gareth Thomas
(Harrow West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) financial and (b) other assistance his Department is providing to support the hosting of the Rugby World Cup in 2015; and if he will make a statement.
(211482)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
50
N
Mr Philip Hollobone
(Kettering):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to recover the costs of his Department's contribution to programmes against Ebola from the UK's international aid budget.
(211459)
51
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made on the adaptation of the Brimstone Launch missile system onto the Typhoon fleet of aircraft.
(211697)
52
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's planning assumptions are on which aircraft delivery platform will be used to house the Brimstone Launch missile system once the No 2 Tornado squadron has been disbanded in April 2016 until the fitting of Brimstone to the Typhoon aircraft has been completed.
(211698)
53
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nursery places his Department offers; how many applications have there been for such places in each year since 2010; and how many such places currently on offer are occupied.
(211788)
54
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on teaching English in each year since 2010.
(211789)
55
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been placed on his Department's referral scheme co-ordinated by the Joint Service Housing Advice Office in each year since 2010; and how many personnel so referred successfully found accommodation through the scheme in each year since 2010.
(211790)
56
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications there have been to the Armed Forces' Help to Buy scheme since it was launched in April 2014; and how many applicants to that scheme have successfully secured mortgages through the scheme.
(211791)
57
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of veterans in the UK.
(211792)
58
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what income has accrued to his Department from the sale of surplus defence equipment in countries with Ministry of Defence bases; and what the details are of each such sale.
(211795)
59
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many engineers have been recruited by his Department in each year since 2010.
(211796)
60
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Statement of 21 October 2014, Official Report, column 63WS, on the Middle East, how many of the UK's Reaper aircraft will be deployed for surveillance missions over Syria.
(211832)
61
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Statement of 21 October 2014, Official Report, column 63WS, on the Middle East, from which bases the UK's (a) Reaper UAVs and (b) River Joint aircraft operate for their surveillance missions over Iraq and Syria.
(211833)
62
Mrs Madeleine Moon
(Bridgend):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 commanding officers have requested legal advice following allegations of (i) sexual assault, (ii) exposure, (iii) voyeurism, (iv) sexual activity in a public lavatory and (v) other forms of sexual misconduct; and if he will make a statement.
(211672)
63
Mrs Madeleine Moon
(Bridgend):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many allegations of (a) sexual assault, (b) exposure, (c) voyeurism, (d) sexual activity in a public lavatory, (e) rape and (f) other forms of sexual misconduct have been recorded by the Crime Statistics and Analysis Cell in each month since April 2014 relating to the (i) Army, (ii) Navy, (iii) RAF and (iv) reservists; and if he will make a statement.
(211673)
64
Mrs Madeleine Moon
(Bridgend):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made in assessing the systems used by (a) his Department, (b) the Army, (c) the Navy and (d) the RAF for recording service complaints; and if he will make a statement.
(211692)
65
Mrs Madeleine Moon
(Bridgend):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reports of allegations of (a) sexual assault, (b) exposure, (c) voyeurism, (d) sexual activity in a public lavatory and (e) other forms of sexual misconduct were made by commanding officers to each of the service police forces in (i) 2013 and (ii) 2014 to date; and if he will make a statement.
(211693)
66
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to close the Army Recruitment Centre, Rhyl; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of that closure on opportunities for recruitment in the Rhyl area.
(211758)
67
N
Derek Twigg
(Halton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the number of former Gurkhas who left service on or after 1 July 1997 and transferred to Armed Forces Pension Scheme who are receiving less benefit than if they had remained in the Gurkha Pension Scheme.
(211427)
68
N
Derek Twigg
(Halton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how often his Department makes contact with former service personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and left the armed forces with life-changing injuries to inquire about their welfare.
(211428)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
69
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2014 to Question 210316, if she will publish the child rights impact assessments made in respect of the legislative proposals leading to the Education Act 2011 and the Children and Families Act 2014.
(211621)
70
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2014 to Question 210316, if she will publish the outcome of considerations of the potential effect of government policy proposals and government proposals for legislation on the rights of children carried out by the Children's Commissioner under the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014.
(211622)
71
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the World Health Organisation report, Investing in children: the European child maltreatment prevention action plans 2015 to 2020, if she will commission a national action plan on the prevention of child maltreatment.
(211628)
72
N
Annette Brooke
(Mid Dorset and North Poole):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the reliability of the information provided to her Department by local authorities on implementation of special educational needs reform for children with hearing impairment.
(211457)
73
N
Mr Liam Byrne
(Birmingham, Hodge Hill):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues on the circumstances in which trust members at academy trusts should be (a) elected and (b) selected; and what the process is in each case.
(211474)
74
N
Mr Liam Byrne
(Birmingham, Hodge Hill):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues on the circumstances in which directors of the board at academy trusts should be (a) elected and (b) selected; and what the process is in each case.
(211475)
75
N
Mr Liam Byrne
(Birmingham, Hodge Hill):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues on the circumstances in which parent governors at academy trusts should be (a) elected and (b) selected; and what the process is in each case.
(211476)
76
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in light of the announcement that a new set of standards is to be established for teaching assistants in England, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in the devolved administrations on ensuring consistency in standards for teaching assistants across the UK.
(211668)
77
N
Mr Philip Hollobone
(Kettering):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) male and (b) female teachers there are in state primary schools; and if she will take steps to increase the number of male teachers.
(211461)
78
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide funding for schools and colleges providing education for young people under the age of 19 to meet the additional costs arising from the (a) additional employer contribution as set out in the Teachers' Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 and (b) higher national insurance contributions which will be paid from 1 April 2016 as a result of the Pension Act 2014; and if she will make a statement.
(211581)
79
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many service children have been recorded in the UK in each year since 2010.
(211793)
80
N
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
(South Shields):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much central Government funding has been allocated to the College of Social Work from each Department in the 2014-15 financial year.
(210862)
81
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the actual and percentage change in pay for school support staff has been in each of the last 15 years.
(211755)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
82
Chris Heaton-Harris
(Daventry):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many green jobs which have lasted more than six months have been created in each parliamentary constituency since May 2010.
(211663)
83
Chris Heaton-Harris
(Daventry):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information is collected on new jobs created in the UK in (a) manufacturing, (b) installation and (c) allied services relating to (i) renewable energy technologies and (ii) energy-saving technologies and services.
(211664)
84
Chris Heaton-Harris
(Daventry):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what modelling has been conducted to estimate the effect on UK employment levels of movements upwards and downwards in energy prices.
(211665)
85
Mr David Jones
(Clwyd West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the economic viability of small nuclear reactors.
(211762)
86
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff in his Department (a) are currently on a persoanl improvement plan, (b) have been on a personal improvement plan for over one year and (c) have been on a personal improvement plan for more than two consecutive years; and what the grades are or were of such staff.
(211828)
87
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff in his Department are responsible for mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.
(211829)
88
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many teams in his Department have more than one member of staff on personal improvement plans.
(211830)
89
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the procedure is in his Department for assessing grade boundaries and job roles; and how often such assessments take place.
(211831)
90
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will review his policy on feed-in tariffs for the provision of energy.
(211752)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
91
N
Julie Elliott
(Sunderland Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release of 19 October 2014, on the reduction of subsidies for solar farms to safeguard farmland, what estimate she has made of the potential annual change in mW of solar-generated energy as a result of that policy.
(211422)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
92
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a comparative assessment of the criteria used to draw up the (a) UK, (b) US and (c) UN sanctions lists.
(211493)
93
Mr Nicholas Brown
(Newcastle upon Tyne East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on (a) the transportation of detainees held by another state through UK territory, including UK colonies and dependent territories, other than pursuant to a lawful extradition proceeding, (b) attendance of UK agents at interrogations of detainees by or on behalf of a foreign state and (c) supplying questions for use in interrogating detainees held by foreign states.
(211801)
94
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to encourage the authorities in Malaysia to prosecute effectively violations of fundamental freedoms of religion.
(211671)
95
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness and outcomes of the Building Stability Overseas Strategy.
(211690)
96
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on the future of the Building Stability Overseas Strategy; and if he will make a statement.
(211691)
97
N
Mr Philip Hollobone
(Kettering):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy in the P5+1 talks is on Iran's capability to build a nuclear weapon.
(211460)
98
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on language training in each year since 2010.
(211814)
99
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on security and hostile environment training in each year since 2010.
(211815)
100
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on private security companies in each year since 2010; and what the contractual arrangements were with each such company.
(211816)
101
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the use of chemical weapons by ISIS in Kobani on 21 October 2014.
(211494)
102
N
Mr Laurence Robertson
(Tewkesbury):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Nigeria about the return of girls abducted by Boko Haram; and if he will make a statement.
(211625)
103
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Thailand in the last six months regarding the prosecution of Andy Hall.
(211574)
104
N
Mr Gareth Thomas
(Harrow West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of international efforts to tackle the spread of the Ebola virus; and if he will make a statement.
(211483)
105
N
Mr Gareth Thomas
(Harrow West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries sustained as a result of conflict in Israel and Gaza in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
(211484)
106
N
Mr Gareth Thomas
(Harrow West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the (a) recent incidence of rocket attacks on Israel and (b) present level of threat of such attacks; and if he will make a statement.
(211485)
107
N
Mr Gareth Thomas
(Harrow West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Nigerian government about Nigerian schoolchildren abducted in April 2014; and if he will make a statement.
(211486)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
108
Mr David Anderson
(Blaydon):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 to Question 210389, which groups who previously accessed free inoculations now no longer do so.
(211765)
109
Ian Austin
(Dudley North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to revise the pay bands introduced in the NHS Agenda for Change programme.
(211746)
110
Ian Austin
(Dudley North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that NHS staff performing the same role in different parts of the country are placed in the same pay bands.
(211747)
111
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases relating to contaminated blood were brought against the NHS Litigation Authority in each of the last three years; and how many such cases were successful.
(211590)
112
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the requirement to eliminate mixed sex accommodation in NHS trusts on perinatal mother and baby units.
(211591)
113
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any Commissioning for Quality and Innovation payments are currently in operation relating to (a) liver disease and (b) hepatitis C.
(211592)
114
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendation in the World Health Organisation publication, Investing in children: the European child maltreatment prevention action plans 2015 to 2020, that a public health approach to child maltreatment should be adopted, if the Government will take steps to implement that recommendation in the UK.
(211629)
115
N
Mr Christopher Chope
(Christchurch):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support NHS England is giving to the funding of robotic assisted surgical treatment for urology patients at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital; and if he will make a statement.
(211620)
116
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to (a) treat and (b) prevent depression in young offenders institutions.
(211570)
117
Philip Davies
(Shipley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department made to international counterparts during the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Moscow.
(211810)
118
Philip Davies
(Shipley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason his Department attended the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Moscow.
(211811)
119
Philip Davies
(Shipley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department received urging them to boycott the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
(211812)
120
Philip Davies
(Shipley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on attendance at the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Moscow; and whose travel, accommodation and other expenses related to attendance at the conference his Department paid for.
(211813)
121
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the (a) uptake and (b) effectiveness of the influenza immunisation vaccine campaign.
(211669)
122
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the use of folic acid prior to conception as a preventative measure for neural tube defects.
(211670)
123
N
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the staff budgets of NHS trusts and foundation trusts consisted of expenditure on contract and agency staff in each of the last five financial years.
(211594)
124
Andrew Gwynne
(Denton and Reddish):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the next annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology.
(211707)
125
Andrew Gwynne
(Denton and Reddish):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the next annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology to be laid before parliament.
(211708)
126
Andrew Gwynne
(Denton and Reddish):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Risk Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
(211709)
127
Andrew Gwynne
(Denton and Reddish):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Impact Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
(211710)
128
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to support research into new treatments for people with cystic fibrosis.
(211584)
129
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the number and value was of clinical negligence payments made by the NHS as a result of negligence committed by private healthcare providers in the latest period for which figures are available.
(211786)
130
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the number and value has been of clinical negligence payments made by the NHS as a result of negligence committed by Vanguard Healthcare.
(211787)
131
Sir Gerald Kaufman
(Manchester, Gorton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 16 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms S Whyatt.
(211689)
132
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on the prescription of drugs for the treatment of motor neurone disease in each of the last five years.
(211727)
133
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups in England provide some form of falls service.
(211728)
134
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the public purse has been spent on research into motor neurone disease in each of the last five years.
(211730)
135
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on prescriptions for the treatment of osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
(211731)
136
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the publich purse has been spent on research into osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
(211732)
137
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent specialist nurses for a neurological condition were employed in each region of England in each of the last five years.
(211733)
138
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the public purse has been spent on the development of new drugs to prevent or treat symptoms of motore neurone disease in each of the last five years.
(211734)
139
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the public purse has been spent on the development of new drugs to treat symptoms of osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
(211735)
140
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much clinical commissioning groups in England spent on falls services in each of the last five years.
(211736)
141
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men under the age of 18, (b) women under the age of 18, (c) men between the ages of 18 and 60, (d) women between the ages of 18 and 60, (e) men over the age of 60 and (f) women over the age of 60 have been diagnosed with osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
(211737)
142
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups in England provide a fracture liaison service.
(211738)
143
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on campaigns intended to raise public awareness of osteoporosis and its symptoms in each of the last five years.
(211739)
144
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much clinical commissioning groups spent on fracture liaison services in each of the last five years.
(211740)
145
N
Pauline Latham
(Mid Derbyshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to simplify the provision and commissioning of secondary care; and if he will make a statement.
(211309)
146
N
Pauline Latham
(Mid Derbyshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government's benchmark waiting time is to see a General Practitioner for a routine appointment; and how that benchmark was set.
(211311)
147
N
Pauline Latham
(Mid Derbyshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the effectiveness of National Health Service purchasing and promote procurement on a regional or national scale.
(211312)
148
N
Tessa Munt
(Wells):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the signature authorising Individual Funding Requests made to NHS England for Gamma Knife treatment by University College Hospital London, Queen Square, is that of a senior clinician employed by University College Hospital London.
(211310)
149
Mark Pritchard
(The Wrekin):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Irish nationals had (a) one and (b) more than one abortion via NHS England in 2013.
(211676)
150
N
Steve Rotheram
(Liverpool, Walton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of time was a deceased body spent in the mortuary of an English hospital in each year since 2004.
(211473)
151
N
Dame Joan Ruddock
(Lewisham, Deptford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients treated at hospitals in South East London were known or suspected to have been subject to female genital mutilation in the last five years for which figures are available.
(211472)
152
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the NHS takes to assist mothers of stillborn children to come to terms with their grief.
(211575)
153
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to support University College London in its work to enable people who have been paralysed to regain the ability to walk.
(211576)
154
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that as many staff vacancies in the NHS as possible are filled by citizens of the UK.
(211577)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
155
Mr David Anderson
(Blaydon):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the police response to the demonstration in Parliament Square on 21 October 2014; and if she will make a statement.
(211761)
156
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) total expenditure and (b) expenditure on operations by Border Force in 2014-15, including any allocation for the e-Borders arbitration costs.
(211492)
157
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget was for Border Force (a) total and (b) operations expenditure in 2013-14.
(221657)
158
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each country were (a) added to and (b) removed from the travel exclusion list in each of the last 10 years.
(221658)
159
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people from each country of origin considered to be involved in corruption or organised crime from travelling to the UK in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions such bans have been revoked.
(221659)
160
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many clandestine entrants were identified within the UK after passing through one of the UK's points of entry in each of the last 10 years.
(221661)
161
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempted clandestine entrants were identified at the UK's points of entry by means other than body scanning technology in each of the last 10 years.
(221662)
162
Mr Nicholas Brown
(Newcastle upon Tyne East):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the use of predictive analytics as a law enforcement tool.
(211675)
163
N
Mr Christopher Chope
(Christchurch):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to set a maximum time for which a person can be on police bail following arrest and prior to any charge.
(211616)
164
N
Mr Christopher Chope
(Christchurch):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people in England and Wales who are on police bail but have not been charged.
(211617)
165
N
Stella Creasy
(Walthamstow):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints of stalking were recorded by the police in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
(211470)
166
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the proposed revision of EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive on individuals and companies in the UK.
(211714)
167
N
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what change there was in the number of passengers refused entry at port and subsequently deported from 2009 to 2010; and what assessment she has made of the reasons for that change.
(211431)
168
Richard Graham
(Gloucester):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time frames is for processing firearms licences.
(211743)
169
Richard Graham
(Gloucester):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms certificates were issued in each region and constituent part of the UK in the last year.
(211744)
170
Richard Graham
(Gloucester):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time taken to process firearms licensing (a) applications and (b) renewals is in each region.
(211745)
171
N
Mr David Hanson
(Delyn):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners released without consideration of deportation since 2010 have been (a) subsequently convicted of a crime in the UK, (b) sentenced to prison or community sentence in the UK and (c) been deported.
(211423)
172
N
Mr David Hanson
(Delyn):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) name, (b) offence and (c) date of deportation was of the foreign national prisoners released without consideration of deportation since 2010 who were subsequently convicted.
(211424)
173
N
Mr Stewart Jackson
(Peterborough):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been supported with accommodation under the auspices of the National Asylum Support Service in Peterborough constituency in each quarter since May 2010; and if she will make a statement.
(211499)
174
N
Cathy Jamieson
(Kilmarnock and Loudoun):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the cost to the caller for the 101 non-emergency number.
(211487)
175
N
Cathy Jamieson
(Kilmarnock and Loudoun):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on the 101 non-emergency number.
(211488)
176
N
Cathy Jamieson
(Kilmarnock and Loudoun):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of calls to the 101 non-emergency number originate in Scotland.
(211489)
177
N
Cathy Jamieson
(Kilmarnock and Loudoun):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the cost to callers of the 101 non-emergency number.
(211490)
178
N
Cathy Jamieson
(Kilmarnock and Loudoun):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department's contract for provision of the 101 non-emergency number is due to be reviewed.
(211491)
179
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been identified as part of Operation Notarise; how many IP addresses have been linked to named people during that operation; and how many such people have been checked against (a) the Department for Work and Pensions database and (b) the Disclosure and Barring Service list of those working in regulated activity.
(211463)
180
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of online child abuse were referred from the National Crime Agency to individual police forces in each of the last four years; and how many of those referrals included named individuals.
(211464)
181
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the National Crime Agency has made a request to internet services providers to link an identified IP address with a name and address in each of the last four years; how many such requests were made in relation to investigations into online child abuse; and what the average charge made for each such request was.
(211465)
182
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times digitally stored photographs seized by police forces in England and Wales investigating online child abuse were checked against the National Crime Agency's Childbase electronic database of known abuse images in each of the last four years; and how many times that database was used by each police force in England and Wales.
(211467)
183
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to the police on co-operation with the Food Standards Agency and the new Food Crime Unit; and if she will make a statement.
(211751)
184
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has reclassified fraud as a notifiable recorded offence.
(211711)
185
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the fraud level was in each of the last six years.
(211712)
186
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes have been made to the process of recording notifiable recorded crime categories since 2010.
(211713)
187
N
Dame Joan Ruddock
(Lewisham, Deptford):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what visa arrangements are being made for citizens of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea whose visas are expiring or expired and whose return flights have been cancelled by the relevant airlines.
(211471)
188
N
Ian Swales
(Redcar):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to make it possible for asylum seekers to make a complaint without it costing them money to call from their mobile phones.
(211425)
189
N
Ian Swales
(Redcar):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure complaints submitted by asylum seekers to G4S sub-contractors have been passed on to G4S by those sub-contractors.
(211426)
190
N
Sarah Teather
(Brent Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2014 to Question 210553, how many of the people granted humanitarian protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme (a) are family members of individuals who qualify as vulnerable under the scheme and (b) have been assessed as having serious medical needs.
(221660)
191
Joan Walley
(Stoke-on-Trent North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on lowering the minimum income threshold limit required by those wishing to bring family members to the UK.
(211715)
192
N
Mr David Winnick
(Walsall North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will arrange for the hon. Member for Walsall North to receive a reply to her letter to the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration of 22 September 2014 on behalf of a constituent, CTS reference M13587.
(211458)
Questions to the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission
193
N
Mr Philip Hollobone
(Kettering):
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what funding was (a) allocated to the Commission in 2010 and (b) will be so allocated in 2015.
(211644)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
194
N
Mr Gregory Campbell
(East Londonderry):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to assist displaced children under five.
(211578)
195
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her Ghanaian counterparts on the use of UK aid to support small-scale farmers in that country.
(211766)
196
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) open and (b) closed cases are listed on her Department's fraud register; and to which countries each such case relates.
(211817)
197
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on language training in each year since 2010.
(211818)
198
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on security and hostile environment training in each year since 2010.
(211819)
199
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many isolation centres the Government is erecting in West Africa to help tackle the Ebola virus.
(211495)
200
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many protection suits the Government plans to provide to West Africa to help tackle the Ebola virus.
(211496)
201
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure aid packages are not stolen by ISIS in northern Iraq and surrounding regions.
(211497)
202
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure aid packages are dropped over and are received by the civilians most in need in northern Iraq.
(211498)
203
N
Mr Laurence Robertson
(Tewkesbury):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to help end violence against girls in developing countries; and if she will make a statement.
(211626)
204
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people have received assistance from the Back Pack Health Worker Team programme funded by her Department.
(211573)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
205
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to prevent violence in young offenders institutions.
(211568)
206
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to prevent self-harm in young offenders institutions.
(211569)
207
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to provide emotional support for inmates of young offenders institutions.
(211571)
208
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to prevent young people with mental illnesses and depression from being sentenced to custody in young offenders institutions.
(211572)
209
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times officials conducting his Department's review of veterans in the criminal justice system have formally consulted the review's Advisory Committee since the launch of the review.
(211583)
210
Sir Gerald Kaufman
(Manchester, Gorton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 17 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs M Lawson.
(211688)
211
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many restraining orders were issued by the courts under the provisions of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013; and how many of those restraining orders were (i) breached or (ii) enforced.
(211306)
212
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, of the people who have been charged under (a) section 2A and (b) section 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, how many have so far (a) received a custodial sentence, (b) received a non-custodial sentence, (c) not proceeded with and (d) still pending.
(211308)
213
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on the closure of courts in the Vale of Clwyd; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such closures on staff numbers and levels of service.
(211759)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
214
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Irish government on the findings of the Smithwick Tribunal.
(211716)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
215
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on (a) regional air routes to Northern Ireland and (b) other regional UK routes of the sale of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports to a Spanish and Australian consortium.
(211666)
216
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, where, when and how often the job of HS2 Resident's Commissioner will be advertised.
(211589)
217
N
Mr Philip Hollobone
(Kettering):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, from where his Department plans to secure trains to run on the Midland mainline when electrification of that line is completed.
(211462)
218
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide funding for road improvements and a dual carriageway for the A64 between York and Scarborough; and if he will make a statement.
(211749)
219
David Mowat
(Warrington South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department issues to the Civil Aviation Authority on the amount of time that body should take to process applications for licences.
(211695)
220
Joan Walley
(Stoke-on-Trent North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will review the decision to postpone the implementation of the driver training elements of EU regulation No. 181/2011 for up to four years.
(211763)
Questions to the Ministers for Women and Equalities
221
Miss Anne McIntosh
(Thirsk and Malton):
To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what recent representations she has received on the role of women in public life; and if she will make a statement.
(211750)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
222
N
Mr Christopher Chope
(Christchurch):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of paying in-work benefits to non-UK citizens from (a) other EU countries and (b) the rest of the world in each of the last five years.
(211618)
223
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will include data on the average length of time taken to process personal independence payment claims in his Department's next quarterly statistics release.
(211677)
224
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claimants in Ashfield local authority area have a housing cost element in their payment.
(211798)
225
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of universal credit claimants who have a housing cost element in their payment in Ashfield local authority area are in arrears on rent payment.
(211799)
226
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants in Ashfield local authority area are in arrears on rent payment.
(211800)
227
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many veterans have claimed benefits in each year since 2010.
(211794)
228
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department (a) are on a personal improvement plan, (b) have been on a personal improvement plan for over one year and (c) have been on a personal improvement plan for more than two consecutive years; and what the grades are or were of such staff.
(211824)
229
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department are responsible for mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.
(211825)
230
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department have more than one member of staff on personal improvement plans.
(211826)
231
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the procedure is in his Department for assessing grade boundaries and job roles; and how often such assessments take place.
(211827)
232
Liz Kendall
(Leicester West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average length of time his Department took to process a personal independence payment from (a) a motor neurone disease sufferer and (b) another disabled person since the introduction.
(211729)
233
Steve McCabe
(Birmingham, Selly Oak):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had the mobility component of their disability living allowance reduced in each year since 2010.
(211704)
234
Steve McCabe
(Birmingham, Selly Oak):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training is required before a disability living allowance decision-maker can take up the role.
(211705)
235
Steve McCabe
(Birmingham, Selly Oak):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of disability living allowance reassessments are conducted over the telephone.
(211706)
236
Steve McCabe
(Birmingham, Selly Oak):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against disability living allowance there have been since 2010; and how many such appeals resulted in a reversal of the original decision.
(211764)
237
N
Rachel Reeves
(Leeds West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the approved July 2011 business case for universal credit referred to on page 32 of his Department's publication, Universal Credit at Work, published in October 2014, was approved by (a) the Major Projects Authority and (b) HM Treasury; and whether that business case was a strategic outline business case or a full business case.
(211588)
238
N
Steve Rotheram
(Liverpool, Walton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait for a decision on a social fund application was in each year since 2003.
(211466)
239
N
Steve Rotheram
(Liverpool, Walton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made to the Social Fund to cover the cost of funerals in each year since 2010; and how many of those applications were rejected.
(211468)
240
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many premises inspectors of the Health and Safety Executive visited as part of inspections of the licensed removal of asbestos in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
(211627)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
241
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to reduce waiting times experienced by (a) people on a low income and (b) other people using the HM Revenue and Customs tax credits helpline.
[Transferred]
(211582)