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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 27 January 2015

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Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Tuesday 27 January 2015

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on

Tuesday 27 January 2015

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 27 January  
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if the Government will consider extending the student loans system to cover training and apprenticeships for the freight industry.
      (221616)
2 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people applied for part-time university courses in each year since May 2010.
      (221806)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
3 N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of women earned less than two-thirds of the median hourly pay, excluding overtime, of all full- and part-time employees in each year since 2010.
      (221739)
4 N
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions Ministers and officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in the Ministry of Defence on Ministry of Defence Police pensions.
      (221774)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
5  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Action Plan on Modern Slavery, to be prepared by HM Revenue and Customs' new Modern Slavery Strategic Lead, will be published.
      (221881)
6  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made on his fiscal consolidation plans.
      (221838)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
7 N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of houses in England and Wales whose owners do not have household insurance; and if he will make an assessment of the number of households in the social and private rented sectors which do not have household insurance.
      (221749)
8 N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will investigate the destination of the £9 million spent by Lancaster City Council on the Chatsworth Gardens area of the west end of Morecambe over the last 10 years.
      (221786)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
9 N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department is providing for UK cities considering a bid for the title of 2023 European Capital of Culture.
      (221734)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
10 N
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the proposals of the Defence Police Federation on Ministry of Defence Police pensions.
      (221773)
11 N
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the suitability of the new Civil Service Pensions Scheme for Ministry of Defence Police officers.
      (221775)
12 N
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to confirm future arrangements for Ministry of Defence Police pensions.
      (221803)
13  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what retraining his Department provides to reservists who are discharged as a result of injury sustained during training or mobilisation and are unable to resume their civilian occupation as a result.
      (221824)
14  
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to reach a decision on the future use of the shipbuilding sheds in Portsmouth which have been handed back to his Department by BAE Systems.
      (221835)
15 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the services currently available to military personnel suffering from mental illness.
      (221805)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
16 N
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital the Government has provided for investment in York schools in each of the last 10 years.
      (221784)
17  
Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the Philips HeartStart FRx devices on which her Department negotiated a discounted price have been sold to which schools.
      (221839)
18 N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of bullying incidents reported at schools in England but not recorded centrally in each of the last three years.
      (221748)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
19 N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will conduct an impact assessment on freezing energy bills on the energy sector and its potential effect on the workforce that sector employs.
      (221785)
20 N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the value and proportion of UK content of the forthcoming Race Bank offshore windfarm.
      (221256)
21 N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the value and proportion of the UK content of each completed UK offshore wind farm is.
      (221257)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
22 N
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made on the level of funding available for the Northamptonshire Action with Communities in Rural England.
      (221789)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
23  
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the consequences of Iran's refusal to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors access to its Arak and Parchin nuclear-related facilities.
      (221808)
24  
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of Iran's financial and material support for Hezbollah.
      (221809)
25 N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support the establishment of an independent, international inquiry to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Rakhine State, Burma.
      (221792)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
26 N
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has issued guidance on the appropriate ratio in hospitals of permanent staff to locum staff.
      (221678)
27 N
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has issued to hospitals on their use of management consultants.
      (221680)
28 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of GP appointments for people in Dudley.
      (221730)
29 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs there were in Dudley in (a) 2010 and (b) each year since 2010.
      (221731)
30 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs per head of population were in practice in (a) Dudley, (b) the Black Country and (c) England in the most recent period for which figures are available.
      (221732)
31 N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date negotiations on the price of the new meningitis B vaccine began; and whether an end date has been set for those negotiations.
      (221807)
32 N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2015 to Question 220130, which member of the expert panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority had an email exchange with one of the authors of the research published in Fertility and Sterility; how that member of the expert panel shared this information with other members of the expert panel; and for what reason it would not be appropriate for this correspondence to be placed in the Library.
      (221693)
33 N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 February 2014 by Earl Howe on 24 February 2014, Official Report, columns WA174-5, how many human embryos have been destroyed in the UK; and how many of those embryos were generated by (a) somatic cell nuclear, (b) pronuclear and (c) spindle-chromosomal complex transfer.
      (221752)
34  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on cancer patients of the delisting of treatments from the Cancer Drugs Fund; and if he will make a statement.
      (221865)
35  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he took to ensure that the process of reviewing the treatments listed on the Cancer Drugs Fund fully took into account the needs of patients who have cancers with limited treatment options.
      (221866)
36  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients with each type of cancer began first treatment within 62 days of a GP referral at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals in each quarter since 2005.
      (221810)
37  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of people in the Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group area waited more than a week to see a GP in each year since that Group was set up.
      (221811)
38  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of people in the Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group area who have a preferred GP saw another GP when they last went to their surgery in each year since that Group was set up.
      (221812)
39  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of people at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals waited more than 18 weeks to start consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions in each quarter since 2005.
      (221813)
40  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) district nurses, (b) health visitors, (c) community psychiatric nurses, (d) community matrons and (e) community learning disability nurses have been employed in each clinical commissioning group area in Nottinghamshire in each year since those groups were set up.
      (221814)
41  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals were seen by a consultant within two weeks of a GP referral with each type of cancer in each quarter since 2005.
      (221815)
42  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered (a) nurses, (b) midwives, (c) doctors and (d) surgeons have been made redundant at (i) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (ii) Nottingham University Hospitals in each year since 2010.
      (221816)
43  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses, (b) doctors, (c) surgeons and (d) midwives have been employed at (i) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (ii) Nottingham University Hospitals in each year since 2005.
      (221817)
44  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training posts for (a) nurses, (b) doctors, (c) surgeons and (d) midwives have been commissioned at (i) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (ii) Nottingham University Hospitals in each year since 2005.
      (221818)
45  
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Ashfield constituency have received social care in each of the last 10 years.
      (221834)
46 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Written Statements of 18 December 2013, Official Report, column 110WS and of 20 November 2014, WS14, and pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2014 to Question 214789, what his policy is on the role of clinical trials in ensuring the safety and efficacy of innovative treatments; and what Departments are responsible for the regulation of such trials.
      (221733)
47  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the full evaluation report of the Be Clear on Cancer regional pilot for ovarian cancer.
      (221893)
48  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department provides incentives to individual hospital trusts and clinicians to participate in (a) clinical trials in general and (b) clinical trials for ovarian cancer.
      (221894)
49  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what analysis his Department has made of the effect the Government's Strategy for UK Life Sciences on the referral of women with ovarian cancer to suitable trial centres in the UK.
      (221903)
50  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve the participation of women in trials for ovarian cancer treatments.
      (221904)
51  
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.
      (221905)
52 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of the number of children under the age of 16 who have been diagnosed with mental health problems in each year since 2010.
      (221804)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
53  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the terms of reference of her Department's evaluation of the effectiveness of its campaign to raise awareness of modern slavery; and if she will make a statement.
      (221875)
54  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training regional organised crime units have received on enforcement of labour standards as a means of preventing human trafficking for labour exploitation.
      (221876)
55  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to establish the EU forum on vulnerable workers proposed in her Department's Modern Slavery Strategy launched in November 2014; and if she will make a statement.
      (221877)
56  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the terms of reference are of the work the University of Derby is conducting for her Department to assess the need for extension of the remit of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority to sectors beyond its current remit.
      (221882)
57  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the need to extend the remit of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority to the (a) cleaning, (b) care, (c) hospitality, (d) construction and (e) manufacturing sectors.
      (221884)
58  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2014 to Question 216344, when the findings of her Department's evaluation of the effectiveness of its campaign to raise awareness of modern slavery will be published; and if she will make a statement.
      (221885)
59  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 4.31 of the Modern Slavery Strategy, published in December 2014, what the role the Gangmasters Licensing Authority will be in the work of the proposed Joint Border Intelligence units.
      (221900)
60  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many victims of human trafficking had been previously identified as having been trafficked into the UK in each year since 2011.
      (221901)
61  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the UK Human Trafficking Centre report, A strategic assessment on the nature and scale of human trafficking in 2012, published in August 2013, and the National Crime Agency strategic assessment, The nature and scale of human trafficking in 2013, published in September 2014, how many of the (a) 402 victims of trafficking in 2012 and (b) 594 victims of trafficking in 2013 who received a positive conclusive grounds decision from the National Referral Mechanism have subsequently claimed asylum in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
      (221902)
62  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Referral Mechanism Review, published in November 2014, if she will publish the terms of reference of the proposed National Referral Mechanism Pilots.
      (221907)
63  
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 219531, what recommendations have been made by the policy review undertaken by the Asset Recovery Task Force.
      (221837)
64  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum were made within (a) one week, (b) one month, (c) three months, (d) six months, (e) between six months and one year and (f) more than one year of the applicant's arrival in the UK in each of the last three years.
      (221863)
65 N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many local authorities have (a) applied for and (b) received funding from her Department for the purposes of resettling Syrian refugees; and what the total value was of that funding.
      (221697)
66 N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it remains her policy that Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry into the relationship of the police and the press will take place; and when she expects that part of the inquiry to begin.
      (221692)
67 N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated to her Department's inquiry into child sexual abuse for (a) 2014-15 and (b) all future years for which funding has been estimated.
      (221790)
68 N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2015 to Question 219638, whether the potential timelines for legislative change to allow the mothers of brides and grooms to be named on marriage certificates include an option for the change to be made before the 2015 general election.
      (221750)
69 N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what courses her Department offers for training on FGM for regulated professions; and how many people attended those courses in each English region in each of the last five years.
      (221751)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
70  
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that UK aid programmes protect the resilience of small-scale farmers.
      (221833)
71 N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support refugee camps in (a) Jordan, (b) Lebanon, (c) Turkey, (d) Egypt and (e) Iraq.
      (221695)
72 N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with Saudi Arabia on supporting Syrian refugees.
      (221696)
73  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on family planning projects in each year since 2005-06.
      (221848)
74  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on health projects in each year since 2005-06.
      (221849)
75  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on projects in conflict states in each year since 2005-06.
      (221850)
76  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent in Brazil in each year since 2005-06.
      (221851)
77  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent in Russia in each year since 2005-06.
      (221852)
78  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent in India in each year since 2005-06.
      (221853)
79  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent in China in each year since 2005-06.
      (221854)
80  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent in Africa in each year since 2005-06.
      (221855)
81  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on health projects in Sierra Leone in each year since 2005-06.
      (221856)
82  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on water and sanitation projects in each year since 2005-06.
      (221857)
83  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on education projects in each year since 2005-06.
      (221858)
84  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on nutrition projects in each year since 2005-06.
      (221859)
85  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on economic development projects in each year since 2005-06.
      (221860)
86  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on projects in fragile states in each year since 2005-06.
      (221861)
87  
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on projects for women and girls in each year since 2005-06.
      (221862)
88  
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff in her Department worked on issues relating to taxation in the developing world in each of the last five years.
      (221906)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
89  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of existing civil torts in enabling victims of human trafficking to claim damages from their traffickers.
      (221878)
90  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what damages were awarded to victims of trafficking in actions under existing civil torts since 2010.
      (221879)
91  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of (a) trafficking for sexual exploitation, (b) trafficking for other exploitation and (c) forced labour, slavery and servitude (i) were prosecuted and (ii) resulted in convictions in 2013.
      (221880)
92  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of trafficking have brought claims against their traffickers under existing civil torts in the last five years; and how many such claims have resulted in awards for damages.
      (221883)
93  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to paragraph 6.3.11 of the National Referral Mechanism Review published in November 2014, if he will review the provision of legal aid to potential victims of human trafficking.
      (221908)
94  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will implement a victim's bill of rights.
      (221909)
95  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it mandatory for a victim's impact statement to be presented in criminal proceedings at Crown court.
      (221910)
96  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will give victims the right to be represented at mental health tribunals.
      (221911)
97  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review the cross examination of witnesses in child abuse prosecutions.
      (221914)
98  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it mandatory for prosecutors to meet victims before the start of trials at Crown court.
      (221915)
99  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will give transcripts of trials to the families of murder victims.
      (221917)
100  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to implement the European Directive 2012/29/EU on victims of crime; and what assessment he has made of the implications of that Directive for the work of the police and Crown Prosecution Service.
      (221918)
101 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to reduce the number of suicides within prisons in England and Wales.
      (221788)
102 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Transforming Rehabilitation contracts with Tier 1 providers state (a) that people on short prison sentences must be supervised and (b) the date from which such supervision must be provided.
      (221776)
103 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what dates the Transforming Rehabilitation contracts with (a) Tier 1, (b) Tier 2 and (c) Tier 3 providers were signed.
      (221777)
104 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date the successful bidders will assume control of the Community Rehabilitation Companies.
      (221778)
105 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date the supervision of people on short prison sentences by Community Rehabilitation Companies will begin.
      (221779)
106 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by what date all the Transforming Rehabilitation contracts with (a) Tier 1, (b) Tier 2 and (c) Tier 3 providers will be signed.
      (221780)
Questions to the Leader of the House
107  
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Leader of the House, what the cost to the public purse was of the Leader of the Opposition's Short Money travel allowance, paid to the Labour Party, in each individual financial year in the 2010 Parliament to date.
      (221925)
Questions to the Prime Minister
108 N
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to empower Ministers to compel public inquiries to publish reports by a given date.
      (221679)
109 N
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has had with the Chair of the Iraq inquiry on the publication of the findings of that inquiry.
      (221681)
Questions to the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
110  
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many people have been informed that their application for inclusion on the voting register was not valid because their national insurance number was not provided since the introduction of individual electoral registration.
      (221831)
111  
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what advice is offered to people on how to find their national insurance number or to be provided with one when they apply to vote.
      (221832)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
112 N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the budget is for relocating HS2 Ltd to Birmingham; how many HS2 Ltd staff will be relocated; what the annual cost is of the premises to be occupied by HS2 Ltd; and what the address and square footage of those premises is.
      (221801)
113 N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, from whom are the new premises into which HS2 Ltd are relocating being let.
      (221802)
114 N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses have been received to the consultation on the future of the Northern Rail and TransPennine Express franchises.
      (221735)
115 N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses to the Northern Rail and TransPennine Express franchise consultation (a) supported and (b) opposed driver-only operation.
      (221736)
116 N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what organisations responded to the Northern Rail and TransPennine Express franchise consultation; and whether those responses are publicly available.
      (221737)
117 N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the invitations to tender will be issued for the Northern Rail and TransPennine Express franchises.
      (221738)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
118 N
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of disability living allowance (a) have had their rate of entitlement changed, (b) have lost any entitlement and (c) no longer receive the mobility component since the transition to personal independent payments.
      (221781)
119 N
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time is for the completion of the mandatory reconsideration of disability living allowance claims in the latest period for which figures are available.
      (221783)
120  
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 219706, what criteria he has used to (a) specify the costs which are necessary for a simple, respectful, low-cost funeral and (b) determine the level of those costs.
      (221826)
121  
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are unable to afford a simple, respectful low-cost funeral due to the declining value in real terms year-on-year of Social Fund funeral payments.
      (221828)
122  
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the letter sent to people when they receive their national insurance number.
      (221829)
123  
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take in the next three months to advertise how people can (a) get a national insurance number if they do not have one and (b) find out their national insurance number if they do not know it.
      (221830)
124  
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people are informed when they are sent their national insurance number that they will need it in order to register to vote.
      (221864)
125  
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2014 to Question 207976, whether his Department's review of its provision of alternative formats for information provision for blind and partially sighted people has been completed; and if he will make the report of the review available to the disabled people who contributed to it, stakeholder organisations and Members of Parliament.
      (221836)
126 N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the eligibility criteria are for a UK pensioner living in France to receive winter fuel payments.
      (221740)
127 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the change in the inactivity rate recorded in the Office of National Statistics Labour Market statistics issued on 21 January 2015.
      (221787)
128 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre Plus staff were subject to disciplinary action in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
      (221791)
129 N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to provide an appropriate level of support to people with mental health problems on employment and support allowance participating in the Work Programme.
      (221782)
Questions to the Attorney General
130  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Attorney General, how many victims have exercised the right to review a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute; and in how many of those cases the decision was changed.
   [Transferred]  (221912)
131  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Attorney General, what the functions of Crown Prosecution Service victim liaison units are; and how their performance is monitored.
   [Transferred]  (221913)
132  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Attorney General, what training Crown prosecutors receive on victims issues.
   [Transferred]  (221916)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
133  
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on proactive inspection of houses of multiple occupation for cases of labour exploitation.
   [Transferred]  (221886)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
134 N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his Department's policy that Government funds paid to external organisations to provide abortions and ancillary services are not used to campaign for changes in UK law.
   [Transferred]  (221694)
135  
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer from the Secretary of State for Health of 2 January 2015 to Question 219648, if he will make arrangements for any decision to start collecting care.data information from GP practices to be approved by the House.
   [Transferred]  (221827)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
136  
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the consequence for his policies of the decision in the Appeal Court in the case of Doug Paulley v First Bus Group.
   [Transferred]  (221895)

Prepared 27th January 2015