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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 12 February 2015

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Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Thursday 12 February 2015

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on

Thursday 12 February 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.

Thursday 12 February  
Questions to the Attorney General
1  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Crown Prosecution Service in respect of the possibility of prosecuting HSBC Bank for conspiracy to assist some of its customers to evade paying tax.
      (224063)
2  
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 3, Part 2 and the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine to interventions aimed at modifying the genome of the recipient's descendants.
      (224112)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
3  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding had been drawn down by successful bidders to the Regional Growth Fund by 31 December 2014; and what proportion of the overall allocation for each round that funding represents.
      (224047)
4  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding was awarded by the (a) Arts and Humanities Research Council, (b) Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, (c) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (d) Economic and Social Research Council, (e) Medical Research Council, (f) Natural Environment Research Council and (g) Science and Technology Facilities Council to institutions and Reseach Organisations in (i) Scotland, (ii) Wales, (iii) Northern Ireland and (iv) each government office region in England in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12, (C) 2012-13, (D) 2013-14 and (E) 2014-15.
      (224049)
5  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding was awarded by the (a) Arts and Humanities Research Council, (b) Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, (c) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (d) Economic and Social Research Council, (e) Medical Research Council, (f) Natural Environment Research Council and (g) Science and Technology Facilities Council to each university in the UK in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15.
      (224050)
6  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much capital and revenue research funding was awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to institutions in each government office region in England in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.
      (224051)
7  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to page 10 of the Government's publication entitled UK Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy, what revisions have been (a) made or (b) planned to the UK's Supply Chain Code of Practice in the offshore oil and gas industry since July 2014.
      (224029)
8  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to page 11 of the UK Government's publication entitled, Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy, what funding has been allocated to date to companies in the offshore industry supply chain through the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative during the current period of low oil prices.
      (224030)
9  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2015 to Question 223458, what the current (a) employment protections and (b) collective bargaining rights are for contractors working in the offshore oil and gas sector.
      (224044)
10  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps have been taken since July 2014 to revise the UK Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership; and when that Strategy is next due for review.
      (224046)
11 N
Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to increase apprenticeship places and support small businesses through greater use of government procurement.
      (907598)
12 N
Duncan Hames (Chippenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to remove financial barriers to postgraduate education.
      (907608)
13  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people living in Preston entered higher education in each of the last 20 years.
      (223982)
14  
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings he and Ministers in his Department had with the Prospect and Public and Commercial Services trades unions before taking the decision to change Ordnance Survey from a trading fund to a Government-owned company; and whether he plans further such meetings.
      (223970)
15  
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the staff of the Ordnance Survey being transferred into a government company will have their terms and conditions protected by TUPE.
      (224120)
16 N
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if his Department will make an assessment of the main causes of insecurity in the workplace.
      (907611)
17  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what briefing his Department provided on (a) the promotion and sale of arms and military equipment and (b) human rights to HRH the Prince of Wales before his trip to the Middle East; and if he will make a statement.
      (224053)
18 N
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent support he has provided to small businesses.
      (907599)
19  
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of people (a) qualified and (b) qualified at level 3 as hairdressers and barbers.
      (224048)
20 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to change Ordnance Survey into a Government-owned company.
      (223843)
21  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has received an invitation to the Crans Montana forum in Dakhla, occupied Western Sahara; and whether he plans to send a representative to that forum.
      (224137)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
22  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of commissioners from local government have attended the Commissioning Academy; and by which local authorities those commissioners are employed.
      (224134)
23 N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to protect organisations and businesses in the UK from cybercrime and large-scale cyber-attack.
      (223889)
24 N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the nature and the extent of voluntary work undertaken as part of the National Citizen Service in England.
      (223910)
25  
Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ensure that the change in definition of ambulance in Government Amendment 43 of the House of Lords Committee stage of the Deregulation Bill will continue to permit private ambulance and medical providers to operate (a) conventional ambulances and (b) fast response cars and motorbikes under blue lights.
      (223991)
26 N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 2.2 of the report The Performance of the Cabinet Office 2013-14, published by the National Audit Office in November 2014, when he expects the reports commissioned by his Department on examining the barriers faced by people (a) who declare disabilities, (b) from minority ethnic backgrounds and (c) who are LGBT in the civil service to be published.
      (223890)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
27 N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of allowing savings bonds for older people to be used as part of an ISA.
      (223777)
28 N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the number of people currently paying income tax who would not pay that tax if the threshold at which it begins to be payable were to be raised to £15,000 per annum.
      (223778)
29  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to increase the island fuel rebate.
      (223964)
30  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he last reviewed the level of the island fuel rebate.
      (223966)
31  
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to review the level of compensation paid to Equitable Life policy holders; and if he will make a statement.
      (223969)
32  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2015 to Question 221932, what estimate he has made of the effect of the reduction in the rate of Supplementary Charge on levels of (a) employment, (b) exploration activity, (c) infrastructure maintenance and (d) decommissioning in the offshore oil and gas industry to date.
      (224042)
33  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2015 to Question 221932, when the Joint Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy was published; what discussions he has had regarding the Strategy with his ministerial colleagues in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills since the fall in international oil prices; and what updates his Department has proposed to the Strategy since July 2014.
      (224043)
34  
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 221932, what estimate he has made of the number of redundancies in the offshore drilling sector since the introduction of the Investment Allowance.
      (224045)
35 N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many basic rate taxpayers there are in each parliamentary constituency in the UK.
      (223886)
36  
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing higher rate tax relief on private pension contributions.
      (223929)
37  
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential revenues to the Exchequer arising from an EU financial transaction tax.
      (223995)
38 N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) small, (b) micro and (c) large employers are signed up to the real-time information system for the purposes of universal credit; and how many claims for universal credit have been made through the real-time information system by December 2014.
      (223813)
39  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the names of individuals with whom HM Revenue and Customs has reached an out of court agreement to settle cases of tax evasion that came to light as a result of information from HSBC's Swiss branch; and what the amount of tax evaded was in each case.
      (224064)
40 N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222161, what estimate he has made of the extent of the increase in UK GDP provided by falling oil prices.
      (223913)
41  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the possible risk of Greek sovereign default and subsequent effects on the UK banking sector.
      (224031)
42  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the number of employees at Eurostar International Limited who receive more than 50 days' paid holiday per year.
      (224040)
43 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February to Question 222929, if he will make an assessment of the effect on the market for Cloud services of refunding VAT for contracted-out-services but not for Cloud services.
      (223871)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
44  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has published to ensure local authorities fulfil their duty to consider economic, social and environmental well-being through procurement.
      (224129)
45  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what support he has given to commissioners in local government to attend the Commissioning Academy.
      (224131)
46  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which organisations and individuals responded to his Department's recent consultation on the proposed zero carbon homes exemptions for small sites; and which such responses were (a) in favour of and (b) against the Government's proposals to exempt sites of 10 homes or fewer from the allowable solutions.
      (224132)
47 N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many first time buyers have been assisted by the Help to Buy scheme in (a) Lancashire and (b) the UK.
      (223864)
48  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will introduce legislative proposals to ensure social care workers and home care providers are paid costs for travel to clients, training and on-call time in addition to being paid for the time spent with those for whom they provide care.
      (224122)
49  
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2015 to Question 223119, how many times the Minister-led working group set up to identify evidence of poor practice in the park homes sector has met to date; and if he will make a statement.
      (223952)
50 N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 218966, whether he plans to publish financial data on national non-domestic rates before 12 February 2015.
      (223911)
51  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes were purchased under Help to Buy in each local authority ward in each district and unitary council in Lancashire in 2014.
      (224136)
52  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to lay regulations before the House to make the provision of smoke alarms in private rented property compulsory; and if he will make a statement.
      (224062)
53 N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what projects in the City of Bristol have been supported by the Near Neighbours fund in each year since that fund was established; and how much that fund has awarded in total.
      (223888)
54 N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance he has issued to local authorities about the use of (a) Twitter and (b) other social media to communicate with the public.
      (223808)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
55 N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to inform older people about the implications of digital radio switchover.
      (223779)
56 N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to roll out superfast broadband in rural areas.
      (223865)
57  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to adopt the measures contained in the Football Governance Bill.
      (223983)
58 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2014 to Question 222384, on broadband, what the digital and video on demand outlets were and how much was spent with Facebook.
      (223868)
59 N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2014 to Question 222384, whether regional data is available on any of the campaign spend.
      (223869)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
60  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officers of the rank of inspector and above at AWE Burghfield are currently under investigation.
      (224054)
61 N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the advertising budget is for the Troops for Teachers campaign; and how much his Department has spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the phrase Troops for Teachers since January 2012.
      (223855)
62 N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the advertising budget is for the Defence Discount Service campaign; and how much his Department has spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the phrase Defence Discount Service since January 2012.
      (223856)
63 N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people serving in the Army Reserve left in each year since 2010.
      (223862)
64  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a list of each of the parliamentary constituencies through which nuclear warheads are transported to and from RNAD Coulport, omitting all details of travel routes, times and frequencies.
      (223997)
65 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216388, if he will provide funding for Normandy Veterans to return to sites of Remembrance they choose rather than to sites chosen by the Royal British Legion as part of the D-Day Return scheme.
      (223850)
66 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216388, if he will permit Normandy Veterans to apply for funding for independent travel to Normandy as part of the D-Day Return scheme.
      (223851)
67  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to his Department was of providing Phase two training for the Royal Air Force Music Services at the Headquarters Music Services, Northolt in 2013-14.
      (224034)
68  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to his Department was of providing Phase two training for the Royal Marine Band Service at the Royal Marine School of Music in 2013-14.
      (224035)
69  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel undertook Phase two training for Royal Air Force Music Services at the Headquarters Music Services, Northolt in 2013-14.
      (224036)
70  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel undertook phase two training for the Royal Marine Band Service at the Royal Marine School of Music in 2013-14.
      (224037)
71  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel undertook phase two training for the regular army band at Kneller Hall in 2013-14.
      (224038)
72  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to his Department was of providing phase two training for the regular Army band at Kneller Hall in 2013-14.
      (224039)
73  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions UK military personnel have provided training in Colombia in each year since 2010; and how many such personnel provided that training in each such year.
      (224027)
74  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions Colombian armed forces personnel have trained in the UK in each year since 2010; and how many such personnel were trained in each such year.
      (224028)
75  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what briefing his Department provided to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on (a) the promotion and sale of arms and military equipment and (b) human rights before his trip to the Middle East; and if he will make a statement.
      (223924)
76  
Paul Murphy (Torfaen): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many guests he plans to invite to the service of commemoration at St Paul's Cathedral on 13 March 2015; and what proportion of those guests are family members of service personnel who died during operations in Afghanistan.
      (223958)
77  
Paul Murphy (Torfaen): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many family members of each of the service personnel who died in Afghanistan will be able to attend the service of commemoration at St Paul's Cathedral on 13 March 2015.
      (223961)
78  
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel are taking part in the Seedcorn initiative; what the location is of each such member of personnel; with what equipment those personnel are training; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the Seedcorn initiative in each of the next two years.
      (223968)
79 N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recipients of war disablement pensions there are in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
      (223822)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
80  
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2014 to Question 217539, when he plans to publish (a) the Invitation to Quote for that contract including the Specification Requirements document, (b) details of the criteria against which suppliers were judged and (c) the invoice submitted for that work; and what the reasons are for the time taken to publish those documents.
      (223994)
81  
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans his Department has to devolve greater responsibilities to democratically elected county councils and county unitary authorities.
      (224121)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
82  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many unqualified staff are currently teaching children in each local authority in the North West of England.
      (223925)
83  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many unqualified staff were teaching children in each local authority in the North West of England in April 2010.
      (223926)
84  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start Centres there are in Preston; and how many child care places each such centre offers.
      (223981)
85  
Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance she has given to Ofsted on (a) respecting the religious ethos of faith schools and the legal framewirk governing them, (b) exemptions for faith schools under the Equality Act 2010 and (c) the requirements of the law governing assemblies and religious education.
      (224059)
86  
Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance she has given to Ofsted about age-appropriate questioning of pupils regarding sexuality and transsexualism during inspections.
      (224118)
87  
Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will investigate reports by parents of pupils at Grindon Hall Christian School and Durham Free School that complaints to Ofsted about age-inappropriate and religiously hostile questioning of their children by inspectors were not investigated.
      (224119)
88  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 219289, whether the decision to delay the introduction of the Adoption Register received specific Ministerial approval.
      (223948)
89  
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of community schools in England have made their sports facilities available to members of the public outside school hours in each of the last five years.
      (223990)
90  
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers at local authority community schools have achieved Learning Outside the Classroom accreditation in each of the last 10 years.
      (223993)
91 N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason officials in her Department told the hon. Member for Walsall North that she would not be accompanied by a prospective parliamentary candidate on her visit to an academy in that constituency on 9 February 2015; and if she will make a statement.
      (223845)
92 N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she told the academy in the Walsall North constituency that she was going to visit on 9 February 2015.
      (223846)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
93  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what communications he has had with the European Commission in respect of his plans to hold a departmental golden share in the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant.
      (223998)
94  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how strict the standard of independent monitoring of shale gas fracking will be; and who will undertake that monitoring.
      (223916)
95  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the use of renewable energy in Northern Ireland.
      (223932)
96  
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his Department's expenditure was in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Wales in 2014.
      (223933)
97 N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the finding of the Evaluation of the Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme Phase Two, published by his Department on 28 January 2015, that 78 per cent of renewable heating installations in private homes were likely or very likely to have gone ahead in the absence of subsidy, what assessment he has made of the scope to revise that scheme to ensure better value for money.
      (223800)
98 N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2015 to Question 221753, whether his Department's three fossil fuel price projections used in policy-making include a projection in which the recent change in fossil fuel prices resembling the recent worldwide fall in such prices.
      (223842)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
99  
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has agreed arrangements with the Israeli government to ensure that all animal products exported from Israel to the UK originate wholly within Israel and not from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
      (223996)
100  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has received an invitation to the Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla, occupied Western Sahara; and whether she plans to send a representative to that forum.
      (224138)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
101  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, want his policy is on promoting the demilitarisation of Gaza.
      (223930)
102  
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of progress in the demilitarisation of Gaza.
      (223931)
103 N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department takes to monitor compliance with the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
      (223782)
104 N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what training his Department has provided to service and other personnel on the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
      (223783)
105 N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
      (223784)
106 N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will give a direction under section 59A of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 that the Intelligence Services Commissioner review the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
      (223785)
107 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of British citizens who have travelled to Syria and Iraq to support forces opposed to Islamic State.
      (223854)
108  
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what briefing his Department provided on (a) the promotion and sale of arms and military equipment and (b) human rights to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales before his trip to the Middle East; and if he will make a statement.
      (224052)
109 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Pakistan in support of resuming the moratorium on the death penalty in that country; and what assessment he has made of the prospects for a lasting moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan.
      (223786)
110 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the role of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.
      (223787)
111 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation of the Saharawi population in Western Sahara; and what discussions he has had with the government of Morocco on this issue.
      (223788)
112 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of Morocco's compliance with the (a) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, (b) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and (c) Convention on the Rights of the Child.
      (223789)
113 N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals are under sentence of death in Pakistan; and what assistance his Department is providing to each such nationals.
      (223790)
114  
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which organisations his Department consulted on the projects proposed by the Government's submission to the European Commission's Special Task Force on investment in the EU.
      (224061)
115  
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether a research analyst is advising his Department on the deployment of remotely piloted aircraft systems.
     [R] (224123)
116  
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received an invitation to the Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla, occupied Western Sahara; whether he plans to send a representative to that forum; and what reports he has received on the African Union's call for that forum to be cancelled.
      (224058)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
117 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2015 to Question 219495, how much the NHS plans to spend on commissioning independent providers (a) in total and (b) excluding not-for-profit providers in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
      (223802)
118 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2015 to Question 219495, how much the NHS spent on commissioning for-profit providers in (a) each of the last five full financial years and (b) 2014-15 to date.
      (223803)
119 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places for (a) midwives, (b) adult nurses, (c) children's nurses, (d) learning disabilities nurses and (e) mental health nurses were (i) commissioned and (ii) filled in each year since 2010-11.
      (223887)
120  
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people presented at A&E who were subsequently diagnosed as suffering from lung cancer in (a) the Nottingham area and (b) the UK in the last 12 months.
      (223953)
121 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason war disablement pensions are not fully exempted from local authority means tests for social care while Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Guaranteed Income Payments are so exempted.
      (223791)
122 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of cataract surgery procedures that were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
      (223792)
123 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many knee replacement operations were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
      (223793)
124 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many hip replacement operations were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
      (223794)
125 N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many varicose vein surgery procedures were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
      (223795)
126 N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 222671, what recommended alternatives to (a) eribulin, (b) lapatinib and (c) everolimus are available to treat breast cancer; and what clinical benefits each alternative offers in terms of (i) progression free survival, (ii) overall survival, (iii) quality of life and (iv) toxicity.
      (223908)
127 N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 222670, on what grounds the removal of cancer drugs from the national Cancer Drugs Fund list can be appealed; and by when such appeals must be made.
      (223909)
128  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the long-run sustainability of the maternity unit at Clacton Hospital.
      (223917)
129  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what alternative provision his Department is offering to the users of the Epping Chase Surgery, Clacton for access to primary care in response to that surgery's closure.
      (223920)
130  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to increase the number of practice staff working in GP surgeries in North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.
      (223921)
131  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to increase the number of GPs in North East Essex.
      (223934)
132  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that more diagnostic tests are carried out at Clacton Hospital.
      (223949)
133  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to reduce waiting times for diagnostic tests at Clacton Hospital.
      (223950)
134 N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many speech and language therapists were employed in England and Wales by (a) the NHS and (b) all providers in each year since 2005.
      (223882)
135 N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research evidence the NHS uses to indicate how to select the most appropriate treatment approach for an individual parent or child in stammer cases.
      (223883)
136 N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data his Department holds on long term outcomes for children who stammer.
      (223884)
137 N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies of long term outcomes for children who stammer his Department has conducted or commissioned through a long-term national cohort study of children from early years to adulthood.
      (223885)
138  
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to require the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to produce further regular scientific reviews of the evidence concerning the safety and effectiveness of mitochondrial donation.
      (224110)
139  
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to review the Mitochondrial Donation Regulations 2015 in the event that (a) research by Dr Shoukhrat Mitalipov at Oregon Health and Science University and (b) other research in non-human primates shows pro-nuclear transfer to be unsafe or ineffective.
      (224111)
140 N
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans NHS England has to support patients with cirrhosis to access treatment for hepatitis C after the waiver for the implementation period of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance for the medicine sofosbuvir.
      (223796)
141 N
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with NHS England on the fast track interim policy agreed by NHS England during the appraisal of sofosbuvir by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence.
      (223797)
142 N
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) treatments for mitochondrial disease involving mitochondrial donation and (b) treatments for mitochondrial disease that do not involve mitochondrial donation in each of the next five financial years.
      (223866)
143 N
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to monitor the long-term health and wellbeing of (a) people born following mitochondrial donation who have passed the age of 18 and choose not to remain part of a clinical trial and (b) the descendants of people born following mitochondrial donation.
      (223867)
144  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were waiting to be placed on a GP list in Preston constituency on the last working day of (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
      (223927)
145  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions took place at his most recent meeting with the European Health Commissioner, Vytenis Andriukaitis; whether he discussed (a) the likely timelines for the future setting of maximum permitted levels for nutrients under the provisions of Article 5 of the Food Supplements Directive and (b) the potential extension of the scope of that Directive to include supplements containing ingredients of plant, fish and animal origin at that meeting; and if he will make a statement.
      (224055)
146  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on consumer choice represented by the European Commission's plans to bring forward the setting of maximum premitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements through the food supplements directive.
      (224056)
147  
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on British businesses in the health and nutrition sector of the European Commission's plans to implement maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements through the food supplements directive.
      (224057)
148 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will increase spending on stroke research to the same level as the spending on cancer and coronary heart disease research.
      (223831)
149 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report Research spend in the UK, published by the Stroke Association on 3 December 2014, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of that report; and if he will make a statement.
      (223841)
150 N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve stroke research capacity in the UK.
      (223849)
151  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Dispensing Appliance Contractor licenses were issued over the last 10 years in England.
      (224033)
152  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of fresh produce supplied to the NHS through NHS supply chain contracts in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 was produced in the UK.
      (223957)
153 N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for the Peaks Unit at Rampton Hospital.
      (223815)
154 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many type one A&E departments there were in (a) May 2010 and (b) the latest month for which figures are available.
      (223798)
155 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS walk-in centres there were in (a) May 2010 and (b) the latest month for which figures are available.
      (223799)
156 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs (a) excluding retainers and registrars and (b) including retainers but excluding registrars per one million population there were in (i) England and (ii) each Health Education England region in each year since 2009-10.
      (223809)
157 N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses, excluding midwives and health visitors per one million population there were in (a) England and (b) each Health Education England region in each year since 2009-10.
      (223810)
158 N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for research into mesothelioma.
      (223915)
159  
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's report, Hepatitis C in the UK, published in July 2014, what steps he is taking to approve for use new treatments for people with hepatitis C-related liver damage.
      (223984)
160 N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recipients of war disablement pensions access local authority support for non-residential care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
      (223820)
161 N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recipients of war disablement pensions access local authority support for residential care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
      (223821)
162 N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of fully exempting war disablement pensions from means tests for social care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in 2014-15.
      (223823)
163 N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses in North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have had their pay downgraded as a consequence of national consultations; and if he will make a statement.
      (223812)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
164 N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for British passports through the passport section of the British Embassy in Dublin between 2011 and 2014.
      (223780)
165  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to encourage police forces to allocate adequate resources towards reducing the incidence of dog fighting.
      (223985)
166 N
Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour injunctions have been issued in each quarter of the last two years for which figures are available.
      (223781)
167 N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which licensing authorities have introduced a late night levy in each of the last four years; and how much she estimates the levy has raised in each such authority in each of those years.
      (223914)
168 N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met representatives of the Police Federation of Northern Ireland.
      (223848)
169  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the guaranteed fulfilment period is for (a) issuing new and (b) renewing (i) children's and (ii) adult passports.
      (223960)
170 N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to discuss the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
      (223844)
171 N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that police forces (a) have a strategy and (b) are properly trained to respond to cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
      (223891)
172 N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into online child abuse have been delayed for 12 months or longer after being reported to the National Crime Agency; and how long the average delay is in investigating such cases.
      (223892)
173  
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2015 to Question 222873, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that UK users who acquire non-human primates ensure breeders and suppliers they deal with have proper controls and processes in place; how such controls and processes are monitored; and how many UK users have been found not to have sufficient controls and processes in place.
      (223951)
174 N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which department has lead responsibility for international counter-narcotics policy.
      (223814)
Questions to the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission
175 N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how much is being spent on works between Canon Row and Norman Shaw North; and what benefits to the functioning of the House will result from those works.
      (223840)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
176 N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's budget was allocated to least developed countries in 2014-15.
      (223847)
177 N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2015 to Question 220355, what steps she is taking to monitor the commitments made at the Girl Summit.
      (223912)
178 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to the protection of children in emergencies in each of the last 10 years.
      (223852)
179 N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her strategy is for the protection of children in countries receiving UK aid.
      (223853)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice
180  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for dog fighting in each of the last five years.
      (223989)
181  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many redundancies were (a) planned and (b) made in each (i) magistrates and (ii) Crown court in Lancashire in 2014.
      (223928)
182 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in severance and redundancy packages to prison officers in each month since May 2014.
      (223857)
183 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the eligibility criteria for legal aid are for those seeking Female Genital Mutilation protection orders.
      (223858)
184 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for legal aid in domestic violence cases were (a) granted and (b) refused in (i) the last full financial year before the provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into force and (ii) in each financial year since those provisions came into force.
      (223859)
185 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has saved as a result of the implementation of each of the legal aid provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
      (223860)
186 N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have taken severance and redundancy packages in each month since May 2014.
      (223861)
187  
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of existing arrangements for grandparents to have access to their grandchildren following the divorce of the parents of those children.
      (223947)
188  
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to simplify the form EX160 for application for fee remission.
      (223922)
189  
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the availability of front-of-house staff within the Courts Service to assist with the completion of official documents.
      (223923)
Questions to the Prime Minister
190  
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report from the Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy entitled Open Up, published in January 2015; and which recommendations of that report he plans to implement.
      (224060)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
191  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make representations to Network Rail and Abellio Greater Anglia on introducing a higher frequency of train services on the line between London Liverpool Street and Clacton, particularly at weekday peak travel times.
      (223918)
192  
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to improve Clacton railway station.
      (223919)
193  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Stornoway was staffed at below risk-assessed levels in January 2015.
      (223979)
194  
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Belfast was staffed at below risk-assessed levels in January 2015.
      (223980)
195 N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road deaths there have been in (a) Lancashire and (b) the UK in each year since 2010.
      (223863)
196 N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the minutes of his Department's Executive Committee meetings since November 2012.
      (223801)
197  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the change in real terms of the cost of travelling by (a) private car, (b) bus, (c) train and (d) domestic air flight between (i) 2000 and 2010 and (ii) 2010 and 2014.
      (223954)
198  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government and Merseyrail on electrification of the Wrexham to Bidston railway line.
      (223959)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
199  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government and Merseyrail on electrification of the Wrexham to Bidston railway line.
      (223965)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
200 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which chemicals authorised for use in pest control are detrimental to human health.
      (223870)
201 N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 35099 of his Department's hardship payment guidance, if he will review that guidance.
      (223872)
202 N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects that the new Data Warehouse intended to facilitate strategic management information reporting on the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme (CMS) will come fully into operation; and for what reason the planned implementation date of 2014 anticipated in his Department's strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 CMS was not added to.
      (223811)
203  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people receiving jobseeker's allowance who have accessed Universal Jobmatch.
      (223956)
204  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Access to Work programme has spent on British Sign Language interpreters to date.
      (223962)
205  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of former jobseeker's allowance claimants moving into work from the Work Programme in Merseyside, Halton, Cumbria and Lancashire contract area started work on a zero-hours contract in the last 12 months.
      (223963)
206  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes his Department has agreed to enable housing associations to be informed when tenants migrate to universal credit.
      (223967)
207  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken from an application for reconsideration of an employment and support allowance decision to a decision being made on that case was in each month since October 2013.
      (223978)
208  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many zero-hours contracts were advertised on Universal Jobmatch in each of the last 12 months.
      (223999)
209 N
Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many persons in the Support Group for Employment and Support Allowance have been called in each month since January 2013, for further work-focused interviews after already assessed as not fit for this kind of activity in each month since January 2013; and what steps he is taking to reduce the number of such interviews.
      (223873)
210 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent from the Flexible Support Fund on supporting jobseekers to travel to job interviews in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014.
      (223804)
211 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the Flexible Support Fund will operate under universal credit.
      (223805)
212 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent by the Flexible Support Fund on training for jobseekers in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014.
      (223806)
213 N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was allocated by Jobcentre Plus district managers to local partnerships through the Flexible Support Fund in each year since 2011.
      (223807)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
214 N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that employees working on zero-hours contracts, who are in practice working regular hours over an extended period, have the right to a fixed-term contract.
   [Question Unstarred]  (907603)
215 N
Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of apprenticeships.
   [Question Unstarred]  (907609)
216  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to local authorities of the proposed takeover of responsibility for LLC1 searches by the Land Registry.
   [Transferred]  (224133)
217  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what definition the Government uses for classifying a zero hours contract.
   [Transferred]  (223955)
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
218  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has undertaken a post-legislative analysis of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
   [Transferred]  (224128)
219  
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the implementation by local authorities of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
   [Transferred]  (224130)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
220  
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the possible risk of Greek sovereign default and subsequent effects on the UK banking sector.
   [Transferred]  (224032)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
221  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the police on (a) dog theft and (b) dog fighting.
   [Transferred]  (223986)
222  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the extent of dog fighting in the UK.
   [Transferred]  (223987)
223  
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) dog theft and (b) dog fighting.
   [Transferred]  (223988)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
224  
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian aid is being provided to civilians in Ukraine caught up in the conflict in that country.
   [Transferred]  (224041)
Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities
225  
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people have applied for the Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund in each year since its establishment; and what estimate she has made of the total grants from that date to May 2015.
   [Transferred]  (223992)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
226  
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in council and housing association properties in each local authority in Lancashire have been subject to the underoccupancy penalty since its introduction.
   [Transferred]  (224135)

Prepared 12th February 2015