Notes:
* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
[N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
[R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.


(DRAFT)

Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Monday 9 June 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)


Questions in this paper are arranged in the following way: date for answer; Oral before Written under each date; date of tabling under each answering date; unstarred and transferred questions followed by answering departments in alphabetical order.

Monday 9 June  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 4 June

1
 
Gareth Johnson (Dartford): To ask the Attorney General, how many reported cases of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged 13 to 16 under section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 were not prosecuted because of the 12 month statute of limitations for that offence in the last (a) year, (b) five years and (c) 10 years.
    (199041)
2
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to improve job security for people employed indefinitely on temporary or fixed-term contracts.
    (198616)
3
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people on (a) temporary and (b) fixed-term contracts in each of the last four years.
    (198617)
4
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding has been allocted to (a) York College and (b) Askham Bryan College by the Skills Funding Agency and the Young People's Learning Agency in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in each year since 2009-10.
    (198510)
5
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number and proportion of young people aged 16 to 24 in York in (a) training, (b) employment and (c) education in each year since 1995-96.
    (198511)
6
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people from (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area (i) applied for and (ii) started a degree course in each year since 2009-10.
    (198512)
7
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much capital funding the Government allocated to (a) York College, (b) Askham Bryan College, (c) the University of York and (d) York St John University in each year since 1995-96.
    (198513)
8
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding for each (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate student the Higher Education Funding Council for England allocated to (i) the University of York and (ii) York St John University in (A) cash and (B) at current prices in each year since 1997-98.
    (198514)
9
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications for undergaduate study were made to (a) the University of York, (b) York St John University and (c) all English universities in each year since 2009-10.
    (198515)
10
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many business start-ups there were in City of York local authority area in each year since 2008.
    (198516)
11
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber were exporting to (a) the EU and (b) all countries in each year since 2008.
    (198517)
12
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many bankruptcies were registered in (a) York, (b) Yorkshire and (c) England in each year since 2005.
    (198518)
13
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much foreign investment in Yorkshire and the Humber there has been in each year since 2008; and what estimate he has made of the number of (a) new and (b) safeguarded jobs generated by such investments.
    (198519)
14
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people (a) started and (b) completed apprenticeships in (i) York Central constituency, (ii) York local education authority, (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber and (iv) England in each year since 1995-96.
    (198521)
15
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber received how much funding from the Regional Growth Fund in each year since 2011-12.
    (198522)
16
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber received how much funding from the Yorkshire Regional Development Agency in each year that body was in existence.
    (198523)
17
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber received how much funding from Local Enterprise Partnerships in each year since 2010-11.
    (198524)
18
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many UK-domiciled (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate students enrolled at the (i) University of York and (ii) University of York St John in each year since 2009-10.
    (198525)
19
 
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to address the shortage of skilled workers in the digital and technology sector.
    (198735)
20
 
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress his Department has made on the Information Economy Strategy published in June 2013.
    (198736)
21
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding is currently allocated to higher education institutes to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities to disabled students under the Equality Act 2010.
    (198940)
22
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will carry out a public consultation on proposed changes to disabled students' allowances.
    (198941)
23
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students of each type of main disability are in receipt of disabled students' allowance.
    (198942)
24
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his written statement of 7 April 2014, Official Report, columns 1-2WS, on Higher Education: student support, what impact assessment his Department has made of the proposed changes to disabled students' allowance.
    (199002)
25
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase the manufacture of electronic components in the UK.
    (198575)
26
 
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on a minimum monetary threshold for a late payment which affects an individual's credit rating.
    (199030)
27
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what benefits he expects to accrue to the UK economy from the agreement signed in China on 26 May 2014 between the Building Research Establishment and the Shenzhen Municipal Government to set up a training and research and development centre on sustainable building construction in China.
    (198981)
28
N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on research for a cure for Type 1 diabetes in the last three years; and if he will take steps to increase such funding in the forthcoming financial year.
    (198819)
29
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support the Government is providing for community projects being conducted by UK zoos in collaboration with universities.
    (199020)
30
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that the forthcoming single pot funding and new round of European Regional Development Funding encourages economic development potential through science discovery collaborations planned between research-intensive universities and zoos.
    (199024)
31
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assistance is available to disabled people who wish to start their own businesses.
    (198945)
32
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) cats, (b) dogs and (c) horses were rehomed after their release from laboratories following research in 2012.
    (198952)
33
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will instruct UK Trade and Investment to issue a statement cautioning UK businesses against trade and investment in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
    (198629)
34
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he has taken to speed up payments by public bodies and private concerns to small businesses; and what recent assessment he has made of average payment times.
    (199086)
35
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will consider changing student loan payments from three termly instalments to monthly instalments; and what steps his Department has taken to help students learn to budget.
    (198825)
36
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of zero-hours contracts in the UK which bar any additional employment.
    (198782)
37
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198862)
38
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many undergraduate students were resident in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198591)
39
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to encourage insurance companies to set travel insurance premiums for the elderly based on their state of health rather than their age.
    (199078)
40
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many animals have experienced severe suffering in scientific research funded by the Government since 2010; and if he will provide funding aimed at developing scientific advances allowing the reduction or avoidance of severe suffering of animals used in procedures.
    (198601)
41
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many insolvencies there were in each (a) region of England and (b) London borough in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
    (199141)
42
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women who were employed (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in York Central constituency for the 12-month Annual Population Survey periods ending in September in each year since the inception of the survey.
    (198531)
43
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the median gross weekly earnings of (a) men, (b) women and (c) all people employed (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in the areas covered by (A) York travel to work area, (B) City of York local authority area and (C) York Central constituency (1) in cash terms and (2) at constant prices in each year since 1997.
    (198532)
44
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly gross earnings of full-time (a) men, (b) women and (c) people in York has been in (i) cash terms and (ii) at constant prices in each year since 2006-07.
    (198533)
45
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of average net weekly household income in the City of York Council area in each year since 2004-05 in (i) cash terms and (ii) at current prices.
    (198534)
46
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths there were from (a) drug poisoning and (b) drug misuse in (i) York local authority area, (ii) North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust, (iii) Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group area and (iv) England in each year since 2009.
    (198535)
47
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent civil servants of each Department or Executive Agency were employed in (a) the City of York and (b) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs central science laboratory at Sand Hutton on 31 March in each year since 1997.
    (198536)
48
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many businesses there were in City of York local authority area in each year since 2001.
    (198537)
49
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the ease of use for the public of the complaints systems across public services; and if he will make a statement.
    (198659)
50
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of levels of public confidence in complaints systems across public services.
    (198660)
51
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints were received by each ombudsman service in England in each of the last five years.
    (198690)
52
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the potential merits of introducing an automatic trigger for inspections of individual public services when a certain number of people using that service have made complaints about it.
    (198691)
53
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will assess the potential merits of allowing designated bodies to be given the power to make super-complaints against public service providers such as those that exist in private markets.
    (198692)
54
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress departments have made on implementing the Guidance on Customer Service Lines published in December 2013.
    (198817)
55
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the mutuals which provide public services.
    (198921)
56
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what mechanisms are in place to allow an investigation into an allegation that an individual Minister may have breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct during their time in office when that Minister is no longer a serving Minister; who is responsible for initiating such an investigation; and if he will make a statement.
    (198573)
57
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many days of employee absence there were in each Government department in each of the last 10 years.
    (198582)
58
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) subjective and (b) objective measures the Office for National Statistics uses to measure public wellbeing; and whether that Office is considering any changes to those measures.
    (198857)
59
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198863)
60
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the proposals on medals policy put forward by Sir John Holmes will be published.
    (198810)
61
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which claims for medals remain outstanding following Royal approval of the latest proposals put forward by Sir John Holmes.
    (198811)
62
N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with its Somali counterpart on ensuring that remittances can continue from UK financial institutions.
    (198752)
63
N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the action group on remittances will next meet to consider the issue of money transfer abroad.
    (198754)
64
N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress has been made on enabling the continuation of money transfer abroad from UK financial institutions; and if he will make a statement.
    (198756)
65
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to improve access to free to use cash machines.
    (198801)
66
 
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the threshold charge payable for a type 2 machine for the purposes of calculating machine gaming duty was set at £5.
    (199029)
67
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to encourage young savers.
    (198958)
68
 
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the Exchequer of equalising the tax relief given on employee contributions to pension schemes at 30 per cent.
    (198645)
69
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Prudential Regulatory Authority will report on details of new bank authorisations.
    (198922)
70
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission an assessment of the amount of investment in small and medium-sized enterprises from peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding platforms.
    (198923)
71
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had on the development of guidance on the use of social media for promotion of financial services.
    (198928)
72
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of revenue accruing to the Exchequer from air passenger duty in respect of (a) domestic and (b) international flights from each airport in Scotland in 2013-14.
    (198983)
73
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority to publish their review on removing barriers to entry and expansion in retail banking.
    (198990)
74
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Payments System Regulator on its market study into the ownership of payments systems by the largest banks.
    (198991)
75
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many homes in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Birmingham have been bought under the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme to date.
    (198626)
76
 
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding for the extraction of North Sea oil has come from (a) the Government, (b) the Scottish Executive and (c) the private sector in each of the last 20 years.
    (198595)
77
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the provision of debt advice for carers in a) Glasgow North West, b) Glasgow, c) Scotland and d) the UK.
    (198898)
78
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the minutes of the meetings of the HM Revenue and Customs' Board and associated sub-committees for a) 2013 and b) 2014.
    (198899)
79
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what issues the HM Revenue and Customs' Scrutiny Committee has addressed since its establishment in 2013.
    (198900)
80
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198873)
81
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people having difficulty making mortgage repayments have requested help from the Financial Ombudsman Service in each of the last three years.
    (199080)
82
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantees and (b) Help to Buy: Equity Loans have been taken out in (i) the North West, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) Pendle to date.
    (198974)
83
 
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received about the publication of personal and business lending data by postcode; and if he will make a statement.
    (199106)
84
 
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require banks to publish data on the number of new small business accounts in 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
    (199107)
85
 
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of members of credit unions and (b) their total savings in each (i) region of the UK and (ii) London borough in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12, (C) 2012-13 and (D) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
    (199108)
86
 
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were members of a credit union in each (a) region of England and (b) each borough of London in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
    (199109)
87
 
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of total lending by (a) credit unions and (b) community development finance institutions in each (i) region of England and (ii) London borough in (A) 2011-12, (B) 2012-13 and (C) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
    (199110)
88
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require the Prudential Regulation Authority to conduct an analysis of recently released personal and business lending data by postcode to examine (a) levels of disparity in lending and (b) progress in achieving financial inclusion; and if he will make a statement.
    (199137)
89
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require banks and their financial institutions to release further personal and business lending data by postcode; and if he will make a statement.
    (199138)
90
N
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 24 February 2014, Official Report, column 29W, if he will make an assessment of the effect of US regulatory authorities' interventions in the gold market on gold market-related securities in ISAs.
    (199054)
91
N
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Bank of England has engaged in any selling, leasing, loaning, hypothecating or re-hypothecating either independently or in conjunction with other parties, which could have had the effect of lowering or suppressing the quoted market price of gold since May 2010.
    (199055)
92
 
Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the Help to Buy Scheme to housing built with local affordable conditions attached.
    (199044)
93
N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 19 December 2013, Official Report, column 714W, on homelessness: Greater London, what use his Department makes of the statistical return provided to his Department by local authorities in London on the number of homeless families placed out of borough.
    (198944)
97
N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications have been made (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully under the first stage of the Government's Help to Buy scheme in Huntingdon constituency.
    (199059)
98
N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the total value of Government assistance provided under the Help to Buy scheme is in the Huntingdon constituency.
    (199060)
99
N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average (a) household income and (b) house property acquisition price was of those buying under the Government's Help to Buy scheme in Huntingdon constituency.
    (199062)
100
N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average age of buyers using the Government’s Help to Buy scheme was in Huntingdon constituency.
    (199063)
101
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Severe Weather Recovery Scheme awarded to local authorities for costs incurred during the recent floods has been (a) allocated to and (b) received by local authorities to date.
    (198648)
102
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Government's Business Rates Relief Fund for flooded businesses has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by businesses to date.
    (198655)
103
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Government's Council Tax Relief Fund for people whose homes have been flooded has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by residents to date.
    (198657)
104
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 18 March 2012, Official Report, columns 527-8W, on the Bellwin scheme, how much has been (a) allocated to and (b) received by each of the authorities which have registered for funding under the Bellwin scheme.
    (198704)
105
N
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average rent was for new homes built under the Affordable Homes programme in each local authority from the launch of that programme to date.
    (198762)
106
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many tenants from elsewhere in the UK have taken advantage of Home Swap Direct to arrange exchanges to Scotland in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
    (199053)
107
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if it remains Government policy that barn conversions to dwellings without the need for planning permission will not be permitted in national parks; and if he will make a statement.
    (198987)
108
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has given to local authorities about churches and same sex marriage.
    (198732)
109
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses to assess the saleability of new houses when determining the potential for five-year housing supply.
    (198538)
110
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account he takes of local referendums on the desirability of specific sites being allocated to new housing.
    (198539)
111
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new houses are under construction in Bassetlaw district.
    (198795)
112
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new houses have been built in Bassetlaw district in each of the last five years.
    (198799)
113
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, of how many local authority plans arising from which authorities he has rejected the proposed local development framework and required additional housing supply in excess of that specified in the regional spatial strategy.
    (198800)
114
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people registered for social housing in (a) Liverpool, (b) the North West and (c) England are non-UK nationals.
    (198910)
115
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will undertake an assessment of the effectiveness and progress of the Anfield regeneration project.
    (198911)
116
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average house price was in (a) Liverpool, (b) the North West and (c) England in each year since 1994.
    (198912)
117
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198864)
118
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost was of translation and interpreter services used by each borough and county council in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198563)
119
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what change there was in the number of homelessness acceptances arising from the end of a private sector tenancy in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198572)
120
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average price has been for houses sold under (a) the Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee and (b) the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme in (i) the North West, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) Pendle.
    (198937)
121
 
Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations his Department has received from UNESCO on the proposed Navitus Bay Wind Farm development.
    (198602)
122
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the Flood Relief Fund for Sport announced to restore damaged pitches, sport centres and facilities has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by sports facilities to date.
    (198649)
123
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the Tourism Industry Fund for businesses in flood-affected parts of England has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by businesses to date.
    (198653)
124
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which cathedrals will receive funding from the new grant scheme for cathedral repairs announced in Budget 2014.
    (198924)
125
 
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people in Warrington North constituency are currently in receipt of a free television licence.
    (198622)
126
 
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to work with counterparts in other EU Member States to encourage tourism to the UK from Europe.
    (199032)
127
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many reports on equality information and objectives each category of public authority has published under the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 in each year since the regulations came into force; and what the cost of producing those reports was for each category of public authority in each such year.
    (198764)
128
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public authorities in each category of public authority published equality information and objectives under the Equality Act (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 in each year since they came into force.
    (198765)
129
 
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his policy is on allowing internet service providers to restructure charging arrangements for faster network access.
    (198725)
130
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198865)
131
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints of (a) unsolicited marketing calls and (b) silent or abandoned calls were made by people in Pendle in each of the last five years.
    (198975)
132
 
Mr Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he was first made aware of health risks at Dalgety Bay.
    (198702)
133
 
Mr Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the advice received by his Department on health risks of the radiation contamination at Dalgety Bay.
    (198703)
134
 
Mr Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will visit Dalgety Bay to discuss the time taken to clean up the radiation contamination there.
    (198994)
135
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide a skills breakdown of the civilian personnel employed at HMNB Clyde by (a) his Department, (b) Babcock, (c) Serco, (d) Rolls Royce, (e) Thales and (f) other main contractors.
    (198728)
136
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian personnel employed at HMNB Clyde are resident in (a) Argyll and Bute, (b) West Dunbartonshire, (c) other parts of Scotland and (d) other parts of the UK.
    (198729)
137
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian personnel are employed at HMNB Clyde by (a) his Department, (b) Babcock, (c) ABL Alliance, (d) Serco, (e) Rolls Royce, (f) Thales and (g) other main contractors.
    (198730)
138
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made in preparing a cost-benefit analysis of the recruitment and training of minors; and when he expects to publish a report on that issue.
    (198847)
139
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department is giving to the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict for the campaign to eradicate the recruitment of children by government armed forces by 2016.
    (198849)
140
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many soldiers who enlisted in the Army aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 years and above dropped out before completing phase two training in the last 10 financial years.
    (198851)
141
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 809W, on Army: length of service, on how many soldiers in each regiment or corps the figures are based.
    (198889)
142
 
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 610W, on fuels: Gosport, when he expects the work to establish the preferred options and costs of replacement for the fuel tanks at the oil fuel depot in Gosport to be complete.
    (198720)
143
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what annual percentage increases in starting rates of pay (a) lieutenant colonels, (b) majors, (c) captains, (d) lieutenants, (e) sergeants, (f) corporals and (g) privates in the Army have received since 1982.
    (198821)
144
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies have registered an interest in the contract for the JAMES requirement.
    (198985)
145
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to reply to the letters to him of 2 April and 9 May 2014 from the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse.
    (199043)
146
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what analysis has been carried out by the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston into the effects on (a) human beings, (b) other animals and (c) the wider environment of the use of a nuclear warhead in the UK nuclear arsenal.
    (198935)
147
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of when the Afghanistan Air Force will be ready to function independently of US and UK support.
    (199016)
148
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Afghanistan National Army has deserted in each month since January 2010.
    (199017)
149
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many requests for discharge were made by soldiers aged (a) 19 and (b) 20 years who had served at least three years in the regular Army in the last five years; and what the outcome was of each such request.
    (198845)
150
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what training programmes or qualifications are available to recruits who enlist as minors which are not available to those who enlist aged 18 years or over.
    (198846)
151
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many black and minority ethnic personnel have served in each regiment of the Army in each of the last 10 years.
    (198951)
152
 
Eric Joyce (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the UK armed forces would lose their jobs as a result of Scottish independence.
    (198711)
153
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases funded by legal aid against his Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by his Department in each of the last 10 years.
    (198663)
154
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in how many cases against his Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
    (198664)
155
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide an update on the use of his Department's resources to help efforts to locate abducted girls in northern Nigeria.
    (199093)
156
 
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many foreign and Commonwealth personnel from each country of origin who were made redundant from the armed forces in each year since 2010 were subsequently unable to meet the five-year rule to apply for citizenship; and if he will make a statement.
    (198549)
157
N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answers of 18 November 2013, Official Report, columns 696W and 698W and of 18 December 2013, Official Report, columns 632W, on armed forces: young people, if he will publish the terms of reference of the cost benefit analysis of the recruitment of young people into the armed forces; when he expects that report to be published; and if he will make a statement.
    (199067)
158
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Montrose will take over the Fleet Ready Escort task; and what ship it will replace in that role.
    (199112)
159
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times aircraft have been intercepted by Quick Reaction Alert flights by (a) intercepted aircraft type and (b) location in each of the last three years.
    (199113)
160
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions a foreign-requested aircraft has provided search and rescue assistance over UK territorial waters in each of the last three years; what role each such aircraft played; what the location of each incident was; and whether each occurrence was in response to obligations under Annex 12 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.
    (199114)
161
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what modifications to the original design of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers were necessary to accommodate repeated vertical landings by the Joint Strike Fighter; what estimate he has made of the heat produced by vertical landing by the Joint Strike Fighter which has the heaviest safe configuration to allow the procedure; and whether vertical landings can take place on any flat area of the carrier deck.
    (199115)
162
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, at which RAF bases the Joint Strike Fighter can regularly land vertically.
    (199116)
163
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many high-temperature concrete vertical landing pads will be constructed to accommodate the Joint Strike Fighter; where they will be located; and what estimate he has made of their cost.
    (199117)
164
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on Atomic Weapons Establishment facilities at Aldermaston in each of the last five years.
    (199128)
165
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times his Department has provided top-cover fixed-wing search and rescue assets for a search and rescue mission in each of the last two years; and what aircraft were used in each case.
    (199129)
166
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the unit production cost of the Joint Strike Fighter.
    (199130)
167
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the major factors that could change the unit production cost of the Joint Strike Fighter.
    (199131)
168
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total amount is of the financial risk provision within the Joint Strike Fighter programme budget.
    (199132)
169
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what current RAF airfields have (a) standard airfield concrete runways and (b) asphaltic concrete runways.
    (199133)
170
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any RAF pilot has flown the Joint Strike Fighter B at (a) supersonic speeds, (b) above 18 degrees angle of attack and (c) past 4.5 g-force.
    (199142)
171
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Joint Strike Fighter B procured by the RAF will have Block 3i software.
    (199143)
172
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the disposal cost for BAE System's Woodford site.
    (199144)
173
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the total disposal cost of the Nimrod MRA4 airframes.
    (199145)
174
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on a Tornado Collision Warning System since 1991.
    (199146)
175
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the progress on the trial installation and testing of the Tornado Collision Warning System at BAE Systems, Warton.
    (199147)
176
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what records his Department keeps of the monthly 2-star assessments of its risk registers.
    (199148)
177
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what maintenance HMS Montrose will undergo before being assigned to the Fleet Ready Escort task; and whether such tasking after a long deployment is a regular occurrence.
    (199149)
178
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to decide whether Cape Pyla in the Cyprus sovereign base area of Dhekelia will be designated as a protected area.
    (198677)
179
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to recognise the service of members of the Royal Navy in patrolling operations to tackle piracy off the coast of Somalia.
    (198740)
180
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have applied to join the Royal Navy cadet force in each of the last five years.
    (199104)
181
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts are outstanding in the Astute programme.
    (198946)
182
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the through life cost is for each of the 14 Voyager aircraft.
    (198947)
183
N
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish his Department's assessment of lessons learned from the recent Libyan campaign.
    (199068)
184
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the advice provided by Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on drones, if his Department will take steps to investigate activities carried out at US bases owned by his Department which may be unlawful under domestic law.
  [R] (198639)
185
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 30 January 2014, Official Report, column 691W, on Yemen, whether his Department has undertaken any impact assessment of drone strikes in Yemen.
  [R] (198640)
186
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with its US counterpart on identifying how the US will support the new Joint User Group for Reaper.
  [R] (198641)
187
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where his Department plans to base the Watchkeeper remotely piloted air systems following completion of training at Salisbury Plain and West Wales Airport.
    (198643)
188
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will carry out an independent qualitative assessment of the psychological and workplace stresses on the operators of remotely piloted air systems.
    (198644)
189
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 474W, on unmanned air vehicles: guided weapons, if he will take steps to receive parliamentary approval before the deployment of the armed forces to the redeployment of armed drones abroad.
    (198710)
190
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2014, Official Report, column 636W, on the Air Force, whether any such UK personnel are embedded or otherwise interact with the (a) 22nd, (b) 30th, (c) 867th and (d) 732nd Air Force Reconnaissance Squadrons.
    (199004)
191
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2014, Official Report, column 636W, on the Air Force, whether any such UK personnel are embedded or otherwise interact with the US Air Force's 17th Reconnaissance Squadron.
    (199005)
192
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2014, Official Report, column 169W, on Djibouti, whether the UK personnel embedded with US forces under US command at Camp Lemonnier provide any support to the US drone programme in Yemen; and if he will make a statement.
    (199008)
193
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use in Northern Ireland of prize draws to increase voter registration.
    (198963)
194
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has had with (a) church and community leaders from black and minority ethnic communities and (b) Operation Black Vote on increasing registration levels for voters in those communities.
    (198964)
195
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether monies collected from fixed penalty notices issued for failure to register on the electoral register will be retained by the local authority which issues that notice.
    (198967)
196
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when electoral registration officers will be able to impose fixed penalty notices for non-registration.
    (198968)
197
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people eligible to be on the most recent (a) census and (b) electoral register who were not recorded.
    (198969)
198
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide that the freeze dates for population size for boundary reviews and the census be in the same year.
    (198970)
199
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what training has been given to electoral registration officers in the implementation of fixed penalty notices for non-registration.
    (198971)
200
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he is taking to disseminate the lessons learned from the data mining pilots for the introduction of individual electoral registrations; and if he will make a statement.
    (198972)
201
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the introduction of individual electoral registration in Northern Ireland.
    (198973)
202
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 20 May 2013, Official Report, column 443W, on electoral register, what the results were of his Department’s cooperation with data holding organisations on datasets that can be used to ensure completeness and accuracy of the electoral register.
    (199000)
203
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 27 January 2014, Official Report, column 387W, on electoral register, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of gathering and holding information on the proportion of attainers who are registered to vote; and what assessment he has made of the usefulness of such information for improving the introduction of individual electoral registration.
    (199037)
204
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 28 January 2014, Official Report, columns 509-10W, on electoral registration, whether his Department provides funding to Bite the Ballot to increase voter registration.
    (199047)
205
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 23 April 2012, Official Report, column 623W, on electoral register, what steps he has taken to improve student registration in the run up to individual electoral registration.
    (199048)
206
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 8 November 2011, Official Report, column 283W, on electoral register, if he will make it his policy to collect information on the number of fixed penalty notices issued for non-registration in the run up to the introduction of individual electoral registration.
    (199049)
207
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish his correspondence with the Secretary of State for the Home Department relating to extremism in schools.
    (198881)
208
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what dates he has met the Secretary of State for the Home Department to discuss extremism in schools since May 2010.
    (198882)
209
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he was first informed about concerns relating to extremism in schools.
    (198883)
210
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on the proposed changes to Disabled Students' Allowance and their effect on young people with special educational needs or a disability.
    (198939)
211
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the written statement by the Minister for Universities and Science of 7 April 2014, Official Report, columns 1-2WS, on Higher Education: student support, what revisions he plans to make to the draft statutory guidance, Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0 to 25 years.
    (199003)
212
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when (a) he and (b) officials in his Department first heard about allegations of misconduct at the Park View Educational Trust.
    (198888)
214
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what reports on the management, financial conduct and teaching standards at the Park View Education Trust he has requested since the school became an academy.
    (198914)
215
 
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, within what time period Ofsted is required to provide feedback to a school after it has reported to his Department.
    (198706)
216
 
John Glen (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all schools can provide free school meals for infant children by September 2014.
    (198708)
217
 
John Glen (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of schools which will be unable to provide universal free school meals for infant children from September 2014.
    (198709)
218
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what meetings (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families since she took up her post.
  [R] (199082)
219
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to liaise with the Secretary of State for Health over publication of reports into historic child abuse.
    (199083)
220
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what public speeches the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families has made since taking up her post; and where those speeches are published.
  [R] (199084)
221
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children in care in residential children's homes who have been placed outside their local authority area.
  [R] (199085)
222
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations his Department has received from families groups on allowing the names of parents and legal guardians to be included on a child's passport.
    (198577)
223
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what records his Department maintains of instances where a teacher has had a sexual relationship with a student under the age of 16 years in (a) maintained schools and (b) independent schools.
    (198580)
224
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 12 May 2014, Official Report, columns 366-7W, on children: databases, what his Department's policy is on sharing information in respect of vulnerable children and children at risk.
    (198604)
225
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, columns 59-61W, on private education: offences against children, how many referrals the National College for Teaching and Leadership has (a) received and (b) acted upon since that body's establishment.
    (198607)
226
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will commission a review of the 50 per cent rule whereby a GCSE grade may only be awarded for course assessment in the event of a student being severely incapacitated through illness; and if he will make a statement.
    (199134)
227
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations he has received on the 50 per cent rule whereby a GCSE grade may only be awarded for course assessment in the event of a student being severely incapacitated through illness; and if he will make a statement.
    (199135)
228
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils have applied to be assessed for a GCSE grade on the basis of coursework under the 50 per cent rule in each of the last five years.
    (199136)
229
 
Guy Opperman (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much in pupil premium has been paid to (a) first, (b) middle and (c) upper schools in (i) Hexham, (ii) Northumberland and (iii) the North East to date.
    (198548)
230
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in (a) infant schools, (b) junior schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) sixth form colleges in (i) Liverpool, (ii) the North West and (iii) England are non-UK nationals.
    (198909)
231
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198866)
232
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free early years education places were provided in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198568)
233
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations he has received from (a) researchers, (b) academies, (c) pressure groups, (d) parents and (e) people working in education on the appropriate age for children to enter primary education.
    (198713)
234
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's School Admissions Code, published in February 2012, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the consistent and effectual application of sections 2.16 and 2.17 of that code to primary education admissions for summer-born children.
    (198714)
235
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of primary school starting age on (a) intellectual development, (b) social mobility and (c) results in (i) GCSE and (ii) A-level examinations.
    (198715)
236
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessments he has made of the successes and failures of the differing primary school starting age in other countries such as Finland and Norway.
    (198993)
237
 
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in how many schools no pupils were entered for GCSEs in (a) history and (b) biology, chemistry and physics in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (198647)
238
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North dated 30 April 2014, ref 2014/0036207, on behalf of a constituent.
    (198878)
239
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the potential need for additional gas storage capacity in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
    (198546)
240
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to reassess the need for additional gas storage capacity in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
    (198547)
241
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of export of refuse-derived fuel and solid recovered fuel for use in energy from waste plants overseas on the availability of such fuel for similar plants in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
    (198844)
242
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the amount of (a) refuse-derived fuel and (b) solid recovered fuel produced in the UK exported annually for use in energy from waste plants overseas.
    (198850)
243
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the amount of (a) refuse-derived fuel and (b) solid recovered fuel produced annually in the UK.
    (198852)
244
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will review the export of refuse-derived fuel and solid recovered fuel for use in energy from waste plants overseas; and if he will make a statement.
    (198890)
245
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of export of refuse-derived fuel and solid recovered fuel for use in energy from waste plants overseas has on the ability of the UK to meet renewable energy targets; and if he will make a statement.
    (198891)
246
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will bring forward proposals to encourage households off the mains gas grid to use condensing boilers.
    (198780)
247
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for what reasons condensing oil and liquefied petroleum gas condensing boilers were excluded from being eligible technologies for the purposes of the receipt of monies from the Green Deal Improvement Fund.
    (198781)
248
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2013, Official Report, column 1119W, on energy prices, what estimate his Department has made of changes to the wholesale cost of (a) electricity and (b) gas in (i) 2013 and (ii) January to May 2014.
    (198624)
249
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2013, Official Report, column 1119W, on energy prices, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) wholesale and (b) retail cost of (i) electricity and (ii) gas in 2013.
    (198625)
250
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information has been provided to his Department by (a) EDF Energy and (b) the Office for Nuclear Regulation on the application by EDF Energy to extend the operating life of the Dungeness B reactor.
    (198936)
251
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with (a) electricity generators and (b) representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises and consumer groups on proposals to assist small business energy consumers.
    (198927)
252
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will list the energy companies which have agreed to (a) introduce arrangements before the end of 2014 to limit bad bills to businesses to one year where the supplier is at fault and (b) end automatic roll-overs for new customers.
    (199028)
253
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department will be attending the high-level Ministerial Dialogue on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action on 6 June 2014 in Bonn, Germany; what the Government's aims are in such talks; and if he will make a statement.
    (198587)
254
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of potential health risks arising from (a) above-ground and (b) underground electricity cables which connect onshore windfarms to sub-stations.
    (198609)
255
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department makes funding available for onshore windfarm operators to place cables underground between the windfarm and the connecting sub-station.
    (198610)
256
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what length of cables between onshore windfarms and connecting sub-stations has been placed (a) above ground and (b) underground in each of the last five years.
    (198611)
257
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many onshore windfarms have been connected to sub-stations in each of the last five years.
    (198612)
258
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in which locations cables between onshore windfarms and connecting sub-stations have been placed completely underground in each of the last 10 years.
    (198613)
259
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to ensure that onshore windfarm developers take into account the costs of (a) overground cables and (b) underground cables between a windfarm and its sub-station when taking decisions on laying such cables.
    (198614)
260
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average distance is between an onshore windfarm and its connecting sub-station.
    (198618)
261
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions and relating to which locations proposals for overground cables between onshore windfarms and the connecting sub-station have been rejected in each of the last 10 years.
    (198619)
262
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198867)
263
 
Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans his Department has to provide assistance to people with cold-related health conditions who are struggling to pay their heating bills.
    (198929)
264
 
Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on support for people in fuel poverty who suffer from cold-related health conditions.
    (198976)
265
 
Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what basic measures his Department takes in relation to (a) controls on abstraction and (b) prevent and control pollutants from diffuse sources in order to comply with Article 11.3 of the Water Framework Directive.
    (198576)
266
 
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 41W, on drinking water, whether his Department has conducted a study of levels of psychotropic drugs in UK rivers and seawater.
    (198996)
267
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Support for Fishermen Fund to replace lost and damaged fishing gear has been received by fishermen and businesses to date.
    (198650)
268
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Farming Recovery Fund to cover the cost of restoration of agricultural land following the recent floods has been received by farmers and businesses to date.
    (198651)
269
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Flood Defence Repair Fund paid to the Environment Agency has been (a) allocated to the Environment Agency and (b) spent by the Environment Agency to repair flood defences to date.
    (198652)
270
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the Repair and Renew Grant for flooded businesses or households has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by households or businesses to date.
    (198654)
271
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of his Department's partnership funding framework has been spent on property level protection schemes to date.
    (198656)
272
N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings his Department had with the National Farmers' Union in the six months before the start of the pilot badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2013; and whether he advised that union to operate a media blackout during the first phase of the culls.
    (198763)
273
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government expects to implement all the measures contained in Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act regarding sustainable urban drainage systems in this Parliament.
    (198995)
274
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to check all lorries containing live animals for export at UK ports.
    (198838)
275
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on the use of wild animals in circuses.
    (198953)
276
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance he has issued on the use of glyphosate to (a) national park authorities and (b) managers of public parks in urban areas; and if he will make a statement.
    (198627)
277
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer given in the House of Lords of 28 October 2013, Official Report, column 208W, on Agriculture: Pesticides, if he will place in the Library a list of the (a) published research being considered by the current review of the EU approval of glyphosate and (b) ongoing or completed research relating to potential links between glyphosate and chronic diseases and conditions in humans.
    (198628)
278
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 25 November 2013, Official Report, column 20W, on Bovine Tuberculosis, and to Answer 3 of his Department's response to Freedom of Information request RFI 6487, Investigations into culling as an option, published on 7 May 2014, for what reasons the Answer to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion did not give information on the trials into using gas as a potential method for culling badgers which began in Summer 2013; on what date those trials commenced; and if he will make a statement.
    (198791)
279
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the funding formula for flood defence; and if he will make a statement.
    (198854)
280
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) his Department and (b) the Joint Nature Conservation Committee spent on biodiversity research in (i) the UK and (ii) the Overseas Territories in each of the last four years.
    (198675)
281
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent on biodiversity conservation in (a) the UK and (b) the Overseas Territories in 2013-14.
    (198676)
282
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198868)
283
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he or officials of his Department have had on the effects of digestion of sycamore tree seeds on horses; and what estimate he has made of the number of horses that have died as a result of ingesting such seeds.
    (198739)
284
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of song birds in the UK.
    (198742)
285
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of dog attacks on sheep flocks in each of the last three years.
    (198743)
286
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of merlins in the UK; and what steps his Department is taking to maintain their numbers and habitat.
    (198748)
287
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 8 May 2014, Official Report, column 272W, on biofuels: air pollution, for what reasons estimated social costs of biomass emissions of fine particles contained in his Department's Answer of 26 March 2009, Official Report, column 697W, on air pollution, were not reflected in that Answer; and for what reasons his Department no longer estimates the social costs of fine particles emitted by biomass combustion.
    (198818)
288
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Sudan about the imprisonment of Meriam Ibrahim.
    (198895)
289
N
Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will call on the Iranian authorities to halt the destruction of an historically important Bahá'i cemetary in Shiraz; and if he will make a statement.
    (198766)
290
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is giving to the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict for the campaign to eradicate the recruitment of children by government armed forces by 2016.
    (198848)
291
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support the full release of the United States Select Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program.
    (199056)
292
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has made representations or had discussion or meetings with (a) the United States Select Intelligence Committee or (b) others on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program.
    (199057)
293
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote human rights in North Korea.
    (198570)
294
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether officials from the British Embassy have visited Huber Ballesteros in La Picota prison in Bogota.
    (198773)
295
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times officials from the British Embassy have asked to visit Huber Ballesteros in La Picota prison in Bogota.
    (198774)
296
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has made to the Colombian authorities over the treatment of Huber Ballesteros in the last eight months.
    (198775)
297
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether officials from the British Embassy will observe the trial of Huber Ballesteros in Colombia.
    (198776)
298
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what preliminary hearings in the case of Huber Ballesteros officals from the British Embassy in Bogota have attended.
    (198777)
299
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much (a) military and (b) humanitarian aid the UK provided to the Libyan government in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.
    (199015)
300
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of MINURSO in implementing its role in Western Sahara.
    (199050)
301
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of changes in the number of Moroccan troops along the Berm in Western Sahara from the levels specified in the 1991 agreement.
    (199052)
302
 
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Middle East peace process of recent reports that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said his organisation will not renounce violence or recognise Israel.
    (198658)
303
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the new Indian government to reopen investigations on the events in 1984 at the Golden Temple in Amritsar; and if he will make a statement.
    (198540)
304
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will support an international enquiry into the events at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984.
    (198541)
305
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the recent destruction of fruit trees at the Tent of Nations farm on the West Bank.
    (198634)
306
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken in response to the recent violence in the Central African Republic.
    (198837)
307
 
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support people affected by recent flooding in the Balkans
    (198545)
308
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that reparations will be paid to HM Treasury as a result of damage caused by discharges in the Diego Garcia lagoon in the British Indian Overseas Territory by US vessels and those responsible for causing that damage are prosecuted.
    (199021)
309
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress his Department is making on ensuring that a British-led team of experts carries out a scientific assessment of discharges by US vessels in the Diego Garcia lagoon in the British Indian Overseas Territory.
    (199022)
310
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on allegations that some Turkish Cypriots were denied the right to vote in the recent European elections in the Republic of Cyprus.
    (199023)
311
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information he has received on allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan Security Forces.
    (198926)
312
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will issue a statement cautioning UK businesses against investing in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
    (198630)
313
 
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the killing of two Palestinian teenagers at Ofer on 15 May 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (198596)
314
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken with UN Women in the planning of the June 2014 summit to end sexual violence in conflict.
    (198823)
315
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which women's organisations from Burma have been invited to the global summit on sexual violence in conflict being held in London in June 2014.
    (198824)
316
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions on (a) collective action to promote human rights and (b) accountability for violations of the Commonwealth Charter were held at the Commonwealth Law Ministers' Meeting in May 2014.
    (198835)
317
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the resources and effectiveness of the Commonwealth Human Rights Unit; and what discussions he has had with (a) his Commonwealth counterparts and (b) the Commonwealth Secretariat on the role of the Commonwealth Human Rights Unit.
    (198836)
318
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of political developments in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement.
    (198804)
319
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what extra consular assistance his Department will provide for British citizens in Brazil attending the World Cup.
    (198806)
320
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Thai government on the restoration of democracy in that country.
    (198807)
321
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to address human rights abuses in Pakistan.
    (198808)
322
 
Guy Opperman (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to raise the plight of persecuted Christians abroad; and what steps he is taking to raise the case of Meriam Ibrahim with his Sudanese counterpart.
    (198585)
323
 
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the security situation in the South Caucasus.
    (199033)
324
 
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of EUCAP Nestor in tackling insecurity in the Horn of Africa.
    (199034)
325
 
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise the release of political prisoners in Eritrea with his Eritrean counterpart.
    (198578)
326
 
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss sexual violence against women in India with his Indian counterpart.
    (198579)
327
 
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates on the alleged torture of UK citizens in UAE prisons.
    (198716)
328
 
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of the United Arab Emirates to ensure that Ahmad Zeidan is given his full legal rights and protections whilst in the custody of that government.
    (198717)
329
N
Sir John Randall (Uxbridge and South Ruislip): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department has provided to (a) Serbia and (b) Bosnia-Herzegovina following recent flooding in those countries.
    (199098)
330
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure that the outcome of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict reflects the wide range of people affected by such violence.
    (199118)
331
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the conflict in Central African Republic as described in UN OCHA Central African Republic Situation Report No. 2.
    (199119)
332
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to (a) improve the security of humanitarian aid goods and workers and (b) speed up customs processes for humanitarian aid shipments in South Sudan.
    (199120)
333
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what co-operation programmes between the UK and Thailand there are; and what steps he has taken to review that co-operation.
    (199121)
334
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the UK has taken to support UN Security Council Resolution 2139 regarding humanitarian access in Syria.
    (199122)
335
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made by UK forces in the search for the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
    (199123)
336
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made towards negotiating a peaceful solution with Iran on the nuclear issue.
    (199124)
337
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what aid the Government has provided for the relief of flooding and landslides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
    (199125)
338
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the outbreak of the ebola virus in Western Africa.
    (199126)
339
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress he has made in working with the Commonwealth Secretary-General to review LGBT rights in Uganda.
    (199127)
340
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of living conditions and labour standards on commercial vessels long-lining in the waters of Ascension Island from 2010 to 2013.
    (198678)
341
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he took to ensure that the foreign commercial vessels fishing in the waters of Ascension Island from 2010 to 2013 did not use slave labour.
    (198679)
342
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Chinese government on the export of British cheeses to China.
    (198745)
343
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Brazil on the issue of the recent increase in the number of disappeared persons in that country.
    (198747)
344
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the value of (a) exports to and (b) imports from Egypt was in each of the last three years.
    (199103)
345
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on human rights abuses in Tibet.
    (198551)
346
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has received from (a) the Tibetan government in exile and (b) human rights charities on human rights abuses in that country.
    (198552)
347
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce human rights abuses in Tibet and to offer support for victims of such abuses.
    (198554)
348
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Nigerian counterpart on the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria.
    (198588)
349
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on Tibetan independence.
    (198590)
350
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will reply to the letter of 13 May 2014 from the hon. Member for Harrow West regarding Mr Dipesh Vadera of Harrow; and if he will make a statement.
    (199006)
351
 
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart about the destruction of an historically important Bahá'í cemetery in Shiraz.
    (198727)
352
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the advice provided by Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones, if he will agree a new Memorandum of Understanding or other bilateral agreement with the US on data transfer and use.
  [R] (198638)
353
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent employees of his Department are engaged in forward planning to 2030 for end-of-life care.
    (198793)
354
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the quality of emergency ambulance cover in the North West.
    (198948)
355
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust on its ability to meet emergency 999 calls in the Greater Manchester area.
    (198949)
356
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust on its emergency ambulance cover.
    (198954)
357
 
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how often the Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group meets per year; and if he will request that it will consider new specialised service applications for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency at its next meeting.
    (198965)
358
 
Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps NHS England takes to consider (a) all new specialised service applications and (b) new treatments for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency; and whether such steps are subject to review by his Department.
    (198966)
359
N
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendations of the Leeds Children's Heart Surgery Services Review, published on 13 March 2014, if he will make it his policy that continuing audits of performance should be conducted at all children's heart surgery units.
    (198761)
360
 
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on treating (a) anal cancer, (b) penile cancer, (c) cervical cancer, (d) vaginal cancer, (e) vulval cancer, (f) oropharyngeal cancer, (g) genital warts and (h) recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in the last year.
    (198632)
361
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to bring forward secondary legislation on (a) banning smoking in cars with children in them and (b) the introduction of standardised packaging of tobacco.
    (199087)
362
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which mental health services he and each Minister in his Department have visited since they were appointed; and what the date of each such visit was.
    (199088)
363
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who used to work in his Department have taken up jobs at Public Health England; and what their job titles and salary levels (a) were at his Department and (b) are at Public Health England.
    (199089)
364
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children were diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome in each of the last four years.
    (199090)
365
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what Government-funded education and support on alcohol consumption during pregnancy is available to pregnant women.
    (199091)
366
 
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Oral Answer of 1 April 2014, Official Report, column 714, on physical and mental health (parity of esteem), in what ways he plans to achieve complete transparency in the availability of data on mental health spending.
    (198646)
367
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to simplify ombudsman services in health and social care.
    (198693)
368
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness among service users of how to navigate the complaints systems in health and social care.
    (198694)
369
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment on the potential merits of merging health and social care ombudsman services in England.
    (198695)
370
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to implement improvements in health and social are services arising from complaints and feedback made by service users.
    (198696)
371
 
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of aligning health services in regulatory bodies and ombudsman services.
    (198697)
372
 
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients resident in England but receiving health care in Wales have requested that their treatment be delivered in England in the last year.
    (198553)
373
 
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients resident in England have requested that their treatment be delivered in Wales in the last three years.
    (198560)
374
 
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many appeals were made by applicants for social care at the end of their life in the last two years; how many such appeals were successful; and what proportion of total appeals against decisions about social care such appeals represent.
    (198962)
375
 
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England in receipt of free social care are terminally ill.
    (199001)
376
 
Mark Durkan (Foyle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 230W, on abortion, whether his Department has formed a view as to when the Royal college of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians publication, The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion, should be updated in order to take into account new research; and if he will make a statement.
    (198620)
377
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure access to CT scanning is more readily available to NHS patients.
    (198783)
378
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are taken to verify the competence of (a) doctors and nurses and (b) staff of pharmaceutical companies involved in the conduct of clinical trials.
    (198571)
379
N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve support for carers.
    (198796)
380
N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support, advice, guidance and funding his Department makes available for children and adults diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
    (198820)
381
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients discharged from hospital following a severe asthma attack receive appropriate care and support in the community; and if he will make a statement.
    (198829)
382
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of care given by GPs to people with asthma.
    (198830)
383
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the conclusions and recommendations of the report of the National Review of Asthma Deaths, published on 6 May 2014.
    (198831)
384
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of patients with asthma who have received an asthma care plan; and when he expects all patients with asthma to have received such a plan.
    (198832)
385
 
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many funding applications were made by GPs for new premises in 2013; and how many of such applications have been approved by NHS England.
    (198718)
386
 
Dame Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications for new GP premises of which an increase in rent formed a part NHS England approved in 2013.
    (198719)
387
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Health and Social Care Information Centre takes to ensure that all its registers are complete and can be easily cross-referenced.
    (198884)
388
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of the General Dental Council's fitness to practise regime.
    (198885)
389
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what salary the Chair of NHS Property Services receives for (a) that role and (b) his other roles in the Department of Health and the NHS; and for what hours he is contracted to work in each of his roles.
    (198886)
390
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 330W, on medical records: data protection, for what reason the Health and Social Care Information Centre's register of approved data releases does not contain entries on the Data Access Advisory Group (DAAG) register of approved applications for (a) Department of Health Dental and Eye Care Analytical Team DAAG application reference 240413-a, (b) HCV Research UK DAAG application reference MR1316, (c) Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust section 251 notification DAAG application reference MR1320 and (d) UK Biobank DAAG application reference MR1109.
    (198887)
391
N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, if he will require NHS England to publish the evidence on which it based its decision not to allow patients to be treated with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London.
    (198758)
392
N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 132W, on radiotherapy and with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, which primary care trusts in the south west of England commissioned treatment with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London for patients before 1 April 2013.
    (198759)
393
N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 132W, on radiotherapy, and with reference to section 3 of the guidance issued by Monitor on the Commissioning of Radiosurgery Services on 4 April 2014, for what reasons NHS England is not funding patients to be treated with the gamma knife at University College Hospital London.
    (198760)
394
 
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of administering the social care means test in England.
    (198597)
395
 
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual cost to the public purse is of processing applications for free social care in England.
    (198598)
396
 
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications for free social care were (a) approved and (b) rejected in England in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
    (198599)
397
N
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS England's review of Tier 4 Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services provision will be complete.
    (198794)
398
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average number of GP visits was required prior to diagnosis of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
    (198812)
399
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what methodology his Department uses to calculate workforce requirements for (a) community physiotherapists, (b) podiatrists and (c) occupational health therapists; and what future projection he has made of staffing levels in such professions.
    (198814)
400
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis received treatment within three months of symptom onset in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
    (198815)
401
 
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to meet the Chair of the College of Emergency Medicine.
    (198738)
402
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 12 November 2012, Official Report, columns 511-2W, on death, what the prevalence of adults living in private households in England having at least one psychiatric condition was in the most recent period for which figures are available.
    (198856)
403
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of trends in issuing of NHS prescriptions for (a) anti-depressants and (b) mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of repeat episode depression since 2008; and if he will make a statement.
    (198861)
404
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198869)
405
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital beds per head of population there were in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198567)
406
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects that artifical pancreases for treatment of diabetes will be available through the NHS.
    (198741)
407
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in the UK with a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder in each of the last five years.
    (198744)
408
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of women who are receiving IVF treatment who have been diagnosed with hypothelamic amenorrhea.
    (198746)
409
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with NHS England on the potential for exercise to reduce the need for patients to have back surgery.
    (198749)
410
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the time taken to prescribe drugs for heart disease.
    (198751)
411
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that there is no age discrimination in NHS treatment of breast, prostate and bowel cancer.
    (199079)
412
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people diagnosed with motor neurone disease there have been in the UK in each of the last five years.
    (199099)
413
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with motor neurone disease have been treated by the NHS with iGaze technology in each of the last five years.
    (199100)
414
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to make the treatment of mental health a priority within the NHS.
    (199101)
415
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people with mental health problems in each of the last five years.
    (199102)
416
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent meetings he has had with NHS England on the contracting of provision of television services in hospitals.
    (198561)
417
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to increase awareness of early screenings for prostate cancer for men at risk.
    (198998)
418
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to ensure that patients with prostate cancer receive the highest quality treatment.
    (198999)
419
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer in each of the last five years.
    (199035)
420
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received from (a) research bodies and academics, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) people at high risk for prostate cancer and prostate cancer patients about accessibility of early prostate cancer screenings.
    (199036)
421
 
Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust's report entitled Hope for More: Improving access to lung transplantation and care for people with cystic fibrosis, what assessment he has made of the donor lung utilisation rate for transplantation; and what measures he has identified as having the greatest potential to increase such utilisation.
    (199027)
422
 
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to help women suffering from endometriosis.
    (198726)
423
 
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of endometriosis.
    (198731)
424
N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which companies that have been asked to report on progress relating to the Responsibility Deal have not yet done so.
    (199066)
425
 
Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the adequacy of the sentences available under the Cancer Act 1939 for people convicted of fraudulently advertising offers to treat cancer.
    (198621)
426
 
Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prosecutions have taken place under the Cancer Act 1939 in each of the last 30 years.
    (198623)
427
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue funding her Department has allocated to the North Yorkshire Police Authority in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each year since 1995-96.
    (198504)
428
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent police officers of each rank and grade were employed by North Yorkshire police on (a) 31 March and (b) 30 September in each year since 2004.
    (198505)
429
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent (a) police officers, (b) police community support officers and (c) police civilian staff were employed by North Yorkshire police on (i) 31 March and (ii) 30 September in each year since 2004.
    (198506)
430
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the crime detection rate was for North Yorkshire police force in each year since 2004-05.
    (198507)
431
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences of (a) crime related to vehicles, (b) burglary of a dwelling, (c) other burglary, (d) criminal damage, (e) theft, (f) violence and (g) other crimes were committed in York in each year since 2004-05.
    (198508)
432
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were reported to the police in York in each year since 2004-05.
    (198509)
433
 
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Fire Arms Certificate (a) applications and (b) renewals were made in (i) 2011, (ii) 2012 and (iii) 2013.
    (198723)
434
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from what region of Albania the women referred to the victim support scheme operated by the Salvation Army in (a) February 2014 and (b) April 2014 came from; what evidence from cluster data she has to explain why most of them were pregnant when they were discovered in the UK; what steps she is taking to prevent access to the UK without the necessary visas by such Albanian nationals; and if she will make a statement.
    (198784)
435
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of victims of human trafficking through the UK; and if she will make a statement.
    (198785)
436
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the UK Border Agency's handling of the case of Aidah Asaba.
    (198569)
437
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the average waiting times at the UK border for the last three years at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Manchester, (e) Birmingham and (f) Luton airports.
    (199026)
438
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration officers are deployed at each UK airport.
    (199040)
439
 
Sir Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, 462W, on private investigation, whether she plans to consult upon the terms and conditions of licences for private investigators prior to their implementation under the new statutory licensing requirement.
    (198722)
440
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of measures adopted following the Kinsella Review of anti-knife crime projects, published in February 2011; and if she will make a statement.
    (198893)
441
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Government funding has been provided for tackling teenage knife crime in each year since publication of the Kinsella Review in February 2011.
    (198894)
442
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many telephone calls were received by the Government's passport helpline (a) in each month of 2013 and (b) between 1 January and 31 May 2014.
    (198903)
443
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what total income was received by the Passport Office in fees for (a) fast track and (b) premium service (i) in 2013 and (b) between 1 January and 31 May 2014.
    (198904)
444
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) permanent and (b) agency staff were employed by the Passport Office in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013 and (iii) 2014.
    (198905)
445
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications processed by the Passport Office between 1 January and 31 May 2014 which missed the three week target for processing.
    (198906)
446
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) passport renewal and (b) new passports were received by the Passport Office in each month between (i) 1 January and 31 May 2013 and (ii) 1 January and 31 May 2014.
    (198907)
447
N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional support she is providing to the Passport Office to ensure it continues to meet the deadlines for applications to be processed and returned during the holiday period.
    (198792)
448
 
Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her statement of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 831, on Stop-and-Search, which police forces have signed up to the revised code on stop-and-search to date.
    (198635)
449
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time is for dealing with passport applications.
    (198915)
450
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for passports have been made by residents in Kilmarnock and Loudoun in each of the last 12 months.
    (198916)
451
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications have been dealt with within the target timescale in each of the last 12 months.
    (198919)
452
 
Eric Joyce (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any UK citizens would lose resident citizenship as a result of Scottish independence.
    (198712)
453
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to the Immigration and Security Minister dated 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Asif Khan Uriakhel.
    (198698)
454
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 8 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Naraendra Singh Bhati.
    (198699)
455
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee.
    (198700)
456
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to the Immigration and Security Minister dated 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M Frimpong.
    (198701)
457
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department gives on appropriate action to be taken by border staff dealing with a parent with a British passport entering the UK with their child who has a different surname.
    (198583)
458
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions British passport holders were questioned on return to the UK in regard to problems with their child's name on documentation in the last three years.
    (198584)
459
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 222W, on teachers: guidance, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidance her Department provides to police services as to whether or not to notify arrests to regulators.
    (198603)
460
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 66W, on asylum: children, which local authorities have used the fund and how much to support asylum seekers who are care leavers in each of the last five years.
    (198605)
461
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 66W, on asylum: children, which local authorities have been granted extra funding because of their special circumstances.
    (198606)
462
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases funded by legal aid taken against her Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by her Department each of the last 10 years.
    (198661)
463
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases against her Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
    (198665)
464
 
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Immigration and Passport Service on (a) the service's ability to meet the three-week timescale for processing an application for a child passport and (b) possible extension of that timescale.
    (199081)
465
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport renewals have been completed within the advertised three week turnaround time from receipt in the last period for which figures are available.
    (198797)
466
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what performance indicators for the renewal of existing passports have been met by each passport office administrative centre.
    (198798)
467
 
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for citizenship were made in each year since 2009 from males recruited into the armed forces from Belize; and if she will make a statement.
    (198550)
468
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what use in formulating policy her Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198870)
469
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested and charged with possession of class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs in (i) Bury St Edmunds, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198565)
470
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of working time police officers in each police force spent on frontline policing duties in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198566)
471
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the EU on firearms' control and the European Firearms' Pass.
    (198750)
472
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what scientific purposes she has licensed procedures on animals that were likely to cause severe suffering since 2010; and what steps the Government is taking to reduce the number of animals experiencing severe suffering in scientific procedures.
    (198600)
473
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will measure changes in the number of animals used in scientific procedures in the UK following publication of Working to reduce the use of animals in scientific research in July 2011.
    (198633)
474
N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriages were reported to the Home Office as suspicious or sham in each year since 2009.
    (199064)
475
N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many marriages reported as suspicious or sham were (a) same sex marriages, (b) heterosexual marriages and (c) civil partnerships in each year since 2009.
    (199065)
476
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the advice provided by Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones, if her Department will take steps to prevent any unlawful practice by GCHQ.
  [R] (198637)
477
 
Mark Durkan (Foyle): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 8 May 2014, Official Report, column 279W, on developing countries: family planning, how much of her Department's budget has been allocated to achieving outcomes in her Department's policy paper Safe and Unsafe Abortion in each of the last two years.
    (198721)
478
 
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library a list of all projects supported by the International Climate Fund.
    (198892)
479
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in which countries in receipt of her Department's funds in each of the last two financial years women are known to have been murdered (a) for apostasy and (b) in honour killings with impunity; and if she will make a statement.
    (198986)
480
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish a list of all consultancy groups and sub-contractors used by her Department on the Bost Agri-Business and Airfield projects in Afghanistan.
    (198544)
481
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what official agreements were made between her Department and the Afghan Investment Support Agency for any work relating to the (a) Bost Agri Industrial Park and (b) Bost Airfield.
    (198581)
482
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 5 September 2013, Official Report, column 461W, on Afghanistan, what works at the Bost Agri Park and Bost Airfield were left by USAID upon her Department taking control of the project in 2009.
    (198594)
483
N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on contracts for consultancy groups on the Bost Agri-Business Park and Airfield projects in Afghanistan in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
    (198786)
484
N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether it is her Department's policy to send only departmental development experts to oversee development projects overseas.
    (198787)
485
N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what criteria her Department uses for decisions on contracts to consultancy groups on development projects.
    (198788)
486
N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many consultancy groups currently have global contracts with her Department as development implementers.
    (198789)
487
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to investigate allegations that employees of programmes in Bihar State funded by her Department are not receiving their salaries.
    (199094)
488
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, columns 549-50W, on Nigeria, whether her Department collects this data on a state-by-state basis.
    (199097)
489
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she made of the humanitarian situation in Syria; and if she will make a statement.
    (198809)
490
 
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 381W, on development aid, if she will publish the agreement (a) between her Department, the CDC and ACTIS on the Department for International Development impact fund and (b) between her Department and ACTIS when it was spun off from the CDC; and if she will make a statement.
    (199075)
491
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of lethal operations in Yemen on (a) the civilian population and (b) security in that country.
    (198642)
492
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answers of 12 May 2014, Official Report, column 328W, on developing countries: marketing and of 21 June 2004, Official Report, coumn 1215W to question to 179188 on ACTIS/CDC, what the nature of the work conducted by Acanchi was; and how much was paid for that work.
    (198767)
493
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much core grant was provided to fund Victim Support services in the (a) Crown Court Witness Service and (b) Magistrates' Court Witness Service in North Yorkshire in each year since 2004-05.
    (198526)
494
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on (a) civil and (b) criminal legal aid in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in (A) England and (B) York in each year since 1995.
    (198527)
495
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people with cases before (a) civil and (b) criminal courts received legal aid in (i) England and (ii) York in each year since 1995.
    (198528)
496
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of crime and witnesses were supported by the Witness Service at (a) York Crown Court and (b) York Magistrages' Court in each year since 2004-05.
    (198529)
497
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many custodial sentences were handed down at (a) York Magristrates' Court and (b) York Crown Court in each year since 2008.
    (198530)
498
 
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Romanian-born prisoners are being held in British prisons.
    (198705)
499
 
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons legal aid funding in relation to the case of the constituent of the hon. Member for Workington, Gary Tomlinson, Claim Number OWH0080, Cert number JBIRQK61BB77/A/E/1, was withdrawn.
    (199025)
500
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many calls were made on higher-rate telephone numbers to (a) magistrates' courts, (b) county courts and county court money claims centres in England in 2012-13 and 2013-14; and what the average duration was of calls to such numbers.
    (198816)
501
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who (a) were given a non-custodial sentence and (b) were given their first custodial sentence in each year from 2004 had previously had (i) no criminal convictions, (ii) one criminal conviction, (iii) two criminal convictions, (iv) three criminal convictions, (v) four criminal convictions, (vi) five to 10 criminal convictions, (vii) 11 to 20 criminal convictions, (viii) 21 to 30 criminal convictions, (ix) 31 to 40 criminal convictions, (x) 41 to 50 criminal convictions, (xi) 51 to 75, (xii) 76 to 100 criminal convictions and (xiii) more than 100 criminal convictions.
    (199092)
502
 
Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what rights prisoners in HM Prison High Down Sutton have to association and exercise; and whether he has received representations that prisoners at that prison are being permitted less than half an hour to exercise per day.
    (198853)
503
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Department for Work and Pensions in each of the last 10 years.
    (198669)
504
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Minstry of Defence in each of the last 10 years.
    (198670)
505
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Home Office in each of the last 10 years.
    (198671)
506
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases against the Department for Work and Pensions were funded by legal aid in each of the last 10 years.
    (198672)
507
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases against the Ministry of Defence were funded by legal aid in each of the last 10 years.
    (198673)
508
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases against the Home Office were funded by legal aid in each of the last 10 years.
    (198674)
509
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many private and third sector bidders for privatised probation work employ ex-offenders; and of these how many employ ex-prisoners.
    (198734)
510
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions coroners have attributed motor accidents involving fatalities to the age and deterioration of tyres on coaches since 1994.
    (198902)
511
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198871)
512
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persistent young offenders were registered in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many and what proportion of total offences were attributable to such offenders in that period.
    (198564)
513
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the level of sickness absence was at the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in (a) April 2014 and (b) May 2014.
    (198930)
514
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the level of sickness absence was at the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in each month since January 2012.
    (198931)
515
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects to transfer (a) the first and (b) the last Community Rehabilitation Company to an external provider.
    (198932)
516
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he obtained clearance from the European Commission for his Department to retain a golden share in each Community Rehabilitation Company.
    (198933)
517
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unfilled posts of each grade there were in the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in (a) April and (b) May 2014.
    (198934)
518
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the role of police and crime commissioners in the commissioning of probation services within their force areas; and if he will make a statement.
    (198938)
519
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he intends to formally abolish probation trusts.
    (198943)
520
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place a limit on the number of the Community Rehabilitation Companies that a single external provider may control; and if he will make a statement.
    (198977)
521
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unfilled posts of each grade there were in the Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust in each month since January 2012.
    (198978)
522
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the role of local authorities in the commissioning of probation services within their areas; and if he will make a statement.
    (198979)
523
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of morale within the National Offender Management Service; and what assessment he has made of the effect on levels of morale of the Transforming Rehabilitation programme.
    (198989)
524
 
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Transforming Rehabilitation programme risk register.
    (198992)
525
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mortgage possession claims were approved by the courts in each (a) region of England and (b) London borough in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
    (199139)
526
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) bankruptcy orders were granted and (b) individual voluntary arrangements were agreed in each (i) region of England and (ii) London borough in (A) 2011-12, (B) 2012-13 and (C) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
    (199140)
527
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many claims management companies were operating in the Yorkshire and Humber region in each year from 2008 to 2014.
    (198875)
528
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of car insurance fraud in Yorkshire and the Humber have been reported in each of the last five years.
    (198879)
529
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of car insurance fraud have been reported in each of the last five years.
    (198880)
530
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many claim management companies operated in each region since 2008.
    (198901)
531
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times she has met the Northern Ireland Minister for Social Development in the last 12 months.
    (198757)
532
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will attend the global leaders Climate Summit in September 2014 in New York; and if he will make a statement.
    (198574)
533
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Prime Minister, on what date and which Minister signed off the decision to give permission to the Chilcot Inquiry to disclose quotations or gists of the content of notes from Tony Blair or records of discussions between the UK Prime Minister and the President of the United States; when detailed consideration of the gists and quotations requested by the Inquiry bagan; how many (a) gists and (b) quotations of Tony Blair are under consideration; whether the publication of any gists or quotations has yet been agreed; and which Minister will approve the decisions on which gists or quotations can be published.
    (199046)
534
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the letter of 28 May 2014 from Sir John Chilcott to the Cabinet Secretary, which Government Minister agreed, and on what date, that there was no prospect of reaching agreement that Notes or records of discussions between the UK Prime Minister and the President of the United States should be disclosed in their entirety or with redactions.
    (199074)
535
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with the US President and others on the release of the files held by Boston College relating to Northern Ireland.
    (198589)
536
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many tenants in Scotland arranged mutually exchanges to elsewhere in the UK through Home Swap Direct in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
    (199058)
537
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date of commissioning, (c) date of polling and (d) cost of polling commissioned by his Department on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters since May 2011.
    (198680)
538
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date and (c) cost of contracts for public relations services commissioned by his Department from (i) Engine Partners and (ii) other public affairs and public relations consultancies since May 2011.
    (198681)
539
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the findings of all market research on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters commissioned by his Department since May 2011.
    (198682)
540
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what plans his Department has to commission polling on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters before 18 September 2014; and what the (a) scope and (b) value of each such contract is.
    (198683)
541
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, with reference to the Answer of 24 February 2014, Official Report, column 19W, on electoral register, with which civic society organisations the Electoral Commission is proactively seeking partnership for the purpose of increasing electoral registration.
    (198724)
542
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what (a) number and (b) proportion of voters voted (i) at a polling station and (ii) by postal ballot in each European parliamentary constituency in each such election since 1984.
    (198859)
543
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what (a) number and (b) proportion of voters voted (i) at a polling station and (ii) by postal ballot in each police authority area in the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
    (198860)
544
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the last meeting of (a) the Cycle Stakeholders Forum and (b) the safety sub-group of the Cycle Stakeholders Forum took place; and what future meetings are scheduled.
    (198790)
545
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made in reviewing the adequacy of the amount of time allowed for pedestrians to use pedestrian crossings including those crossings out of the scope of the consultation on the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions.
    (198803)
546
 
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what training is given to driving examiners who test students in laden lorries.
    (198687)
547
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help blind and partially sighted passengers travel on buses.
    (199038)
548
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to promote telematics in cars (a) for young drivers and (b) generally.
    (199042)
549
N
Richard Harrington (Watford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) enhanced frequency and (b) restoration of late night trains are mandatory requirements in the specification for the tendering process of Abbey Line between Watford Junction and St Albans Abbey station.
    (198822)
550
 
David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many approved driving instructors were registered in the Borough of Warrington in each year since 2007.
    (198608)
551
 
David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of applicants from the Borough of Warrington passed their driving test in each year since 2007.
    (198615)
552
 
Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to facilitate the integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems into UK civil airspace.
    (199031)
553
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received on the reopening of the Keswick to Penrith railway line.
    (198813)
554
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198872)
555
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in the East of England for road improvement in each of the last five years.
    (198593)
556
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether guidance provided to police officers on the implementation of the new drug driving offence will include information on the position of patients taking legitimately prescribed medications; and if he will make a statement.
    (198826)
557
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance will be provided to police officers on the implementation of the new drug driving offence; and if he will make a statement.
    (198827)
558
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 760W, on driving under influence: drugs, what the proposed timetable is for the steps his Department proposes to take to communicate the new drug driving offence.
    (198828)
559
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with external stakeholders regarding guidance for police officers of the implementation of the new drug driving offence; and if he will make a statement.
    (198833)
560
N
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with external stakeholders on planned communications regarding the new drug driving offence; and if he will make a statement.
    (198834)
561
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the incidence of traffic jams.
    (199076)
562
 
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to research the use of non-slip surfaces for man-holes in order to reduce the number of accidents involving motor cycles.
    (198631)
563
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects Atos to appoint new agency staff to administer appeals on reassessment of eligibility for disability benefits.
    (198778)
564
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration is given to fibromyalgia in the work capability assessment; and how many and what proportion of people diagnosed with fibromyalgia have been declared fit for work following such an assessment.
    (198802)
565
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of mandatory reconsideration periods have exceeded 14 days; and if he will make a statement.
    (198805)
566
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects Mr Andrew Cottrell of Prenton, to undergo his medical examination as part of his application for the personal independence payment.
    (199007)
567
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of vacancies on Universal Jobsmatch classified as employer confidential; and what checks are in place to ensure that such vacancies are not bogus, fraudulent or otherwise inappropriate.
    (199039)
568
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) net and (b) gross administration charges for the national insurance pension scheme were in each of the last 10 years.
    (199014)
569
 
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West of 21 March 2012, Official Report, column 705W on Atos Healthcare, on how many occasions a Jobcentre Plus decision-maker did not follow the advice of an Atos-approved healthcare professional when making a decision on the eligibility for employment and support allowance in each month since May 2010.
    (198542)
570
 
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have successfully appealed refusals of employment and support allowance as part of (a) the periodic reassessment of existing employment and support allowance claimants and (b) the reassessment of those in receipt of incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance and income support.
    (198543)
571
 
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken for decisions on requests for reconsideration of fit for work decisions in relation to applications for employment and support allowance has been since October 2013.
    (198667)
573
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce a statutory limit on the length of time decision makers in his Department can take to respond to a request to reconsider a refusal of employment and support allowance.
    (198908)
574
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Capita will incur penalties for delays in carrying out personal independence payments assessments.
    (199045)
575
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Capita have been given additional funding to deal with backlogs of personal independence payments assessments.
    (199051)
576
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impairment type or main disabling condition is experienced by people on a) employment and support allowance and b) job seeker's allowance and under sanction.
    (198980)
577
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of refunding travel expenditure by jobseekers to jobcentres in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency was between January 2014 and May 2014.
    (198918)
578
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households have been subject to the benefit cap in (a) each parliamentary constituency and (b) each local authority area in Scotland.
    (198982)
579
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households subject to the benefits cap in (a) each parliamentary constituency and (b) each local authority area in Scotland have received transitional support via discretionary housing payment to date.
    (198984)
580
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review his Department's policy on issuing travel warrants to rural residents for (a) fortnightly signing-on and (b) other interviews and advisory meetings to take account of the need for such residents to travel further than average to jobcentres.
    (198988)
581
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 228W, on social security benefits: disability, if he will take steps to reduce the national average waiting times for work capability assessments for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit reassessment.
    (199012)
582
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the target waiting time is for work capability assessment for both (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit reassessment; and what proportion of such assessments have been carried out within the target timescale in the last four quarters for which figures are available.
    (199013)
583
 
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants who received a benefits sanction are eligible for the 80 per cent hardship payment of their jobseeker's allowance personal entitlement allowance.
    (198688)
584
 
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants who had their benefits sanctioned and received 80 per cent of their jobseeker's allowance personal entitlement allowance (a) appealed and (b) did not appeal against the decision.
    (198689)
585
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Community Work Placement providers schemes (a) were operating by 28 April 2014, (b) were operating no later than 2 June 2014 and (c) are yet to commence; for what reasons any providers have breached of the 2 June 2014 commencement deadline; at what capacity the scheme is currently running; and when he estimates that the scheme will be fully operational (i) in Brighton and Hove Local Authority Area and (ii) nationally.
    (198636)
586
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Freedom of Information request made by Frank Zola to his Department on 28 April 2014, on community work placements, when his Department plans to publish the names of the 70 placement providers under the Help to Work scheme; how many current placement providers there are; if he will publish the names of all such organisations providing such placements under the Help to Work scheme in (a) Brighton and Hove local authority area and (b) in the UK; and if he will publish job descriptions for those placements (i) provided to date and (ii) planned to be provided.
    (198855)
587
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will amend the access to work scheme to enable deaf people to employ a full-time salaried support worker.
    (198733)
588
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential basis was for the decision to change the Access to Work scheme in regards to deaf people having to employ a full-time salaried support worker.
    (198737)
589
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases funded by legal aid against his Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by his Department in each of the last 10 years.
    (198662)
590
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases against his Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers have represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
    (198666)
591
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing a BSL interpreter for each individual needing one to fill an access to work position adequately.
    (199095)
592
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of applicants who have faced delays to their personal independence payment claim because of partial PA4 IT failures in the past 12 months.
    (199096)
593
N
Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants died in each month of the last three years (a) after attending a work capability assessment and (b) having been assessed as fit for work and then appealed, but died before that appeal was heard.
    (198772)
594
 
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace capability assessments have been passed from his Department to Atos for processing in each of the last three years.
    (198555)
595
 
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace capability assessments have been processed by Atos within 35 working days to date.
    (198556)
596
 
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current actual average clearance time is for a workplace capability assessment.
    (198557)
597
 
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what penalties his Department is able to levy on workplace capability assessment providers who miss targets.
    (198558)
598
 
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace capability assessments have been submitted to Atos, processed and returned within 35 working days in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) West Lothian local authority area in each of the last three years.
    (198559)
599
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of housing benefit paid to claimants who were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
    (198955)
600
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of housing benefit claimants were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
    (198959)
601
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of the average claim for housing benefit made by those (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed was in each of the last five years.
    (198960)
602
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the real-terms income of carers in each of the years from 2010 to 2014; and what estimate he has made of the real-terms income of carers in 2015 in a) Glasgow North West constituency, b) Glasgow, c) Scotland, and d) the UK.
    (198897)
603
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effects on carers of (a) each change and (b) all changes to the benefits system since 2010.
    (199018)
604
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will conduct an assessment of the effect on carers of the implementation of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
    (199019)
605
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people who are currently unemployed who have repeat episode depressions; and what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on the use of mindfulness-based interventions in making people ready for work.
    (198858)
606
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
    (198874)
607
 
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on housing benefit in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (198592)
608
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of women in Pendle were in work in each of the last five years.
    (198562)
609
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have submitted a claim for personal independence payment and have been waiting for more than six months for a medical assessment in (a) the UK, (b) London and (c) the London Borough of Harrow; and if he will make a statement.
    (198779)
610
 
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each (a) region of England and (b) London borough had been waiting six months or longer for a medical examination as part of their assessment of entitlement to a personal independence payment on 1 May 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (199111)
611
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will arrange for replies to be sent to the hon. Member for Walsall North to his letters to (a) the Chief Operating Officer, Pension, Disability and Carers Service of 7 April and 7 May; and if he will arrange for a substantive reply to be sent to that hon. Member to his letter to the Chief Executive, Capita-PIP ref PIP100 34851/101 of 7 April 2014 on behalf of a constituent.
    (198876)

Notices given on Thursday 5 June

1
N
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications have been made (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully under the second stage of the Government's Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme in Huntingdon constituency.
[Transferred]   (199061)
2
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of the average claim for tax credit made by people who were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
[Transferred]   (198956)
3
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of tax credit claimants were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
[Transferred]   (198957)
4
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to exempt people in receipt of attendance allowance from paying vehicle excise duty.
[Transferred]   (199105)
5
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date of commissioning, (c) date of polling and (d) cost of polling commissioned by the Devolution Team in his Department on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters from (i) Ipsos-MORI and (ii) other opinion survey companies since May 2011.
[Transferred]   (198768)
6
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date and (c) cost of contracts for public relations services commissioned by the Devolution Team in his Department from (i) Engine Partners and (ii) other public affairs and public relations consultancies since May 2011.
[Transferred]   (198769)
7
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the findings of all market research on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters commissioned by the Devolution Team in his Department since May 2011.
[Transferred]   (198770)
8
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans his Department has to commission polling on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters before 18 September 2014; and what the (a) scope and (b) value of each such contract is.
[Transferred]   (198771)
9
N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings (a) the Prime Minister and (b) officials in his Office had with the National Farmers' Union (NFU) on the pilot badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2013; what advice he has given to the NFU on communications with the media during the commencement of the culls; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred]   (198753)
10
N
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether (a) the Prime Minister or (b) officials in his Office have ever advised the National Farmers' Union not to communicate with journalists during the commencement phase of the pilot badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire in 2013.
[Transferred]   (198755)
11
 
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that food labels include details of any genetically modified ingredients used in a product's manufacture; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred]   (198896)
12
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) cats, (b) dogs and (c) horses were retired and rehomed under European Union Directive 2010/63/EU in 2013.
[Transferred]   (198950)
13
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent steps the Government has taken to persuade the Scottish people that they will have a better future within the UK.
[Transferred]   (199077)
14
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which Scottish airports will benefit from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund.
[Transferred]   (198920)
15
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of administering the Potholes Challenge Fund.
[Transferred]   (198925)
16
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of changing the national urban default speed limit to 20 mph on (a) air pollution and (b) other environmental conditions; what similar studies in other developed nations his Department has assessed; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred]   (198586)
17
 
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, if he will make it his policy that the Government adopt when designing domestic policy the same gender equality provisions as contained in the International (Gender Equality) Act 2014 for development assistance provision.
[Transferred]   (198707)
18
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area were claiming jobseeker's allowance per Jobcentre Plus vacancy in each year since May 2007.
[Transferred]   (198520)
19
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on the abolition of the Independent Living Fund; what discussions he has held with his ministerial colleagues on this issue; and what steps he is taking to monitor the effect of this decision on disabled people at a national and local level.
[Transferred]   (198997)
20
 
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that Natwest and other subsidiaries of RBS remain as competitive as possible in the banking sector.
    (199219)
21
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to educate adults in literacy, numeracy and ICT skills.
    (199220)
22
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been paid through working tax credits to people in Bolton North East constituency in each of the last three years.
    (199151)
23
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many internal reports, briefings or analysis papers HM Revenue and Customs has produced on the taxation arrangements for bareboat charters in the oil and gas sector since 2007; and what the findings were of each such report.
    (199293)
24
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many rough sleepers there were in each local authority in the North West in each year since 2010.
    (199273)
25
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 23 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr S Kneale.
    (199218)
26
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to assist homeowners facing problems paying their mortgages and to provide practical advice and support.
    (199225)
27
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will provide incentives to developers to ensure that new homes planned for construction in 2014-15 will be (a) wheelchair accessible and (b) built to lifetime homes standards.
    (199265)
28
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses built in each of the last five years are (a) wheelchair accessible and (b) built to lifetime homes standards.
    (199276)
29
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the demand for (a) homes built to lifetime home standards and (b) wheelchair accessible homes.
    (199278)
30
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in receipt of disability living allowance or personal independence payments have received support from the Help to Buy scheme.
    (199284)
31
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average waiting time was in each local authority for an assessment for a disabled facilities grant in the most recent period for which figures are available.
    (199285)
32
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to ensure accessible housing, meeting internationally recognised visitability standards, for people who become disabled in 2014-15; and if he will make a statement.
    (199287)
33
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of homes in (a) Ebbsfleet and (b) other planned garden cities will be (i) wheelchair accessible and (ii) built to lifetime homes standards.
    (199288)
34
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities in the UK maintain a register of accessible or adapted homes; and what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on registers of accessible housing.
    (199290)
35
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses are not compliant with Part M building regulations were built (a) in the past two years and (b) since 2010.
    (199291)
36
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the average broadband speed in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK.
    (199154)
37
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage primary school children to become active and involved in local sports organisations.
    (199221)
38
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Departmnent provides to reserve military personnel forced to leave military service as a result of injury sustained in the course of duty.
    (199237)
39
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to publish a white paper in advance of the next Strategic Defence and Security Review.
    (199245)
40
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to confirm the decision to allow a process change to enable the Rivet Joint signal intelligence aircraft to be certificated under Military Aviation Authority regulations.
    (199247)
41
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 18 Decvember 2013, Official Report, column 636W, on defence: procurement, what the final costs are of establishing a Golo and running the tendering process.
    (199274)
42
 
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Joint Services Publication 398 on UK Rules of Engagement has been amended to reflect use of remotely piloted aircraft systems.
    (199299)
43
 
Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to swimming lessons for schoolchildren.
    (199325)
44
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) headteachers, (b) deputy headteachers and (c) teachers in Bolton Local Education Authority took early retirement on the grounds of ill-health in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
    (199211)
45
 
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 637W, on sixth form education numbers, how the approximate total net cost of unfilled student places in school sixth forms, academy sixth forms and 16 to 19 free schools was calculated.
    (199347)
46
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in schools in Nuneaton will receive free school meals from 2014-15.
    (199236)
47
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will introduce the teaching of the dangers of pornography into the school syllabus.
    (199200)
48
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's policy is on the easy visibility and access for children to overly sexualised and graphic magazines and periodicals in retail stores.
    (199203)
49
 
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives local authorities on the suspension of school staff.
    (199180)
50
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in HM Treasury on the operation of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000; and if he will make a statement.
    (199186)
51
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the operation of (a) section 1 and (b) section 2 of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000; what recent representations he has received on the operation of this Act; and what responses he gave to such representations.
    (199187)
52
 
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 597W, on renewable energy, what assessment his Department has made of what the market conditions that will enable independent generators to use short-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and a wider variety of PPA counterparties will have developed in time for independent generators to secure necessary finance terms ahead of the first CfD auctions which are scheduled for October 2014.
    (199181)
53
 
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 597W, on renewable energy, what the evidential basis was of the statement made in the Government's response on competitive allocation that Power Purchase Agreements could be signed on a conditional basis before a strike price needs to be submitted, allowing independent generators to receive indicative financing terms from lenders; and what representations he has received from generators on that statement.
    (199182)
54
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 6 February 2014, Official Report, column 383W, on Energy Companies Obligation, what progress he has made on publishing on the form, level and date for a new fuel poverty target in England; and when he expects to publish those proposals.
    (199295)
55
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of information for carers on affordable energy.
    (199155)
56
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with energy companies on the affordability of energy tariffs for carers.
    (199156)
57
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to mark the 70th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg's arrival in Hungary; what recent discussions he has had with the government of (a) Sweden and (b) Hungary on this anniversary; and if he will make a statement.
    (199191)
58
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many withdrawals of nuclear materials from safeguards applied under the tripartite UK-Euratom-IAEA Voluntary Safeguards Agreement there have been since May 2010; and how many such withdrawals were permanent.
    (199177)
59
 
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to European governments to secure as quickly as possible restitution for British citizens who had assets seized by the Nazis.
    (199234)
60
 
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent reports that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said that his organisation will not renounce violence or recognise Israel.
    (199277)
61
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on how the ongoing conflict in Western Sahara affects the ability of terrorist and criminal gangs to recruit disaffected youth in the refugee camps or the occupied territory.
    (199262)
62
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) conducted and (b) evaluated into the circumstances in which a typical abortion is performed on the grounds that it is necessary to prevent the physical or mental health of any existing children of the family of the pregnant; and if he will make a statement.
    (199183)
63
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff of each grade are employed in his Department's Sexual Health Policy Team.
    (199184)
64
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women (a) of each age group, (b) in each health authority area and (c) of each type of complication and cause of death died following health complications after abortion procedures in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013 and (iii) 2014 to date.
    (199192)
65
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women (a) of each age group, (b) in each health authority area and (c) suffering from each type of complication suffered health complications following abortion procedures in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013 and (iii) 2014 to date.
    (199194)
66
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many human embryos have been (a) created for the purposes of experimentation and (b) created for the purposes of extermination and subsequently destroyed in each year since 1991.
    (199195)
67
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Directorate in his Department produced guidance on the provision of non-judgemental counselling; which Directorate has policy responsibility for implementation of this guidance; and if he will make a statement.
    (199212)
68
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) formal and (b) informal discussions officials had with (i) pro-life organisations, (ii) the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, (iii) Marie Stopes International and (iv) pro-choice organisations before the publication of guidance on the provision of non-judgemental counselling; and if he will make a statement.
    (199214)
69
 
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of patients with cancer of the unknown primary first presenting at accident and emergency.
    (199342)
70
 
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the collection and reporting of data relating to the incidence of cancer of the unknown primary.
    (199343)
71
 
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the importance of psychological support services for patients suffering from cancer of the unknown primary.
    (199344)
72
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to record and identify instances where non-pharmacological treatments have caused adverse reactions in patients.
    (199201)
73
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed for foetal abnormality in each of the last five years which were reported to a foetal abnormality register but were not notified through the submission of an HSA4 abortion notification form to the Chief Medical Officer.
    (199204)
74
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed beyond the 24 week limit where feticide was declined in each of the last five years.
    (199205)
75
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients seeking abortion counselling are not subject to pressure to agree to the procedure as a result of his Department's requirement that abortion treatment must be delivered within 10 days of the first appointment; and if he will make a statement.
    (199239)
76
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he intends to take to endure that literature distributed by abortion clinics informing women about adoption as an alternative to abortion under the new Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy is of the highest possible quality and objectivity.
    (199240)
77
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Revised Standard Operating Procedures for the Approval of Independent Places for the Termination of Pregnancy, what assessment he has made of the possibility that inaccurate diagnoses will follow his Department's decision to allow women to refrain from informing their GP of a prior abortion.
    (199241)
78
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the incidence of dental caries among school children (a) in Bolton and (b) nationally since 2010.
    (199206)
79
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to co-ordinate healthy eating initiatives among the homeless.
    (199209)
80
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the five most common causes of admission to hospital have been for (a) children and (b) adults in Bolton since 2010.
    (199210)
81
 
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that commissioning of service provision for obstructive sleep apnoea is appropriate to the predicted prevalence in local areas in England.
    (199266)
82
 
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what body has responsibility for the implementation of recommendations made by his Department's former Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Working Group.
    (199267)
83
 
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce a quality standard for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disordered breathing covering the range of conditions from simple snoring to obstructive sleep apnoea.
    (199286)
84
 
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce clinical guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and management of obstructive sleep apnoea; and if he will make a statement.
    (199292)
85
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve standards of NHS care for dementia sufferers.
    (199335)
86
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funds his Department has provided for research into cures for dementia since 2012; and what progress has been made on such cures since the launch of the Dementia Challenge.
    (199336)
87
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many local authorities have signed up to become dementia friendly since the launch of the Dementia Challenge and (b) what other progress has been made since that date.
    (199337)
88
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to help Malpas to develop a dementia friendly community.
    (199338)
89
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what resources his Department has allocated for helping carers of demential patients.
    (199341)
90
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people (a) sought chlamydia screening and (b) tested positive in each local authority in 2012-13.
    (199243)
91
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average charge levied by healthcare professionals for written reports requested by patients who require them for (a) setting up power of attorney and (b) other purposes is in each commissioning area.
    (199246)
92
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the costs of a patient who presents with eye conditions as a first point of call (a) a GP, (b) a hospital eye service, (c) an accident and emergency department and (d) a primary eyecare acute referral scheme.
    (199248)
93
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 12 May 2014, Official Report, column 401W, on mental health services, whether the Mental Health Intelligence Network has been established.
    (199324)
94
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress he has made on ensuring that mental health has equal standing with physical health.
    (199224)
95
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to maintain and improve specialist services for children suffering from brittle bone disease.
    (199226)
96
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital day beds were taken because of delayed discharge relating to inaccessible housing available for disabled outpatients in (a) 2013-14 and (b) May 2014.
    (199260)
97
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to ensure that people do not face delayed discharge from hospital because there is no suitable housing for them to be discharged; and if he will make a statement.
    (199264)
98
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the change in waiting times for an initial decision for Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa applications in the last year; what the average waiting time is for an initial decision for a Tier 1 application; and what assessment she has made of the economic effect of the time taken for such decisions on economic growth.
    (199152)
99
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 24 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Michael Adebayo Johnson.
    (199215)
100
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 28 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Tanvir Shah.
    (199216)
101
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 22 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr A Mehmood.
    (199217)
102
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring forward legislation to prevent modern slavery.
    (199227)
103
 
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid her Department has given to the Palestinian Authority in each of the last five years.
    (199228)
104
 
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what arrangements are in place to monitor the use of funds given to the Palestinian Authority.
    (199229)
105
 
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any UK aid given to the Palestinian Authority has been distributed to prisoners convicted of terrorism-related activities in the last five years.
    (199230)
106
 
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any UK aid given to the Palestinian Authority has been distributed to individuals released from prison after serving sentences for terrorism-related activities.
    (199231)
107
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for failure to return a completed abortion notification form in each of the last five years.
    (199193)
108
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) males and (b) females of what (i) age group and in which (ii) police force area found guilty of an offence under section 14(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 opted to attend a driving safety course paid for by the offender that includes instruction on the benefits of wearing seat belts in lieu of a fine in the last 12 months for which information is available.
    (199213)
109
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to release statistics on the number of refusals by the Legal Aid Agency to pay legal aid in cases settled before the permission stage.
    (199207)
110
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the new judicial review regulations on people who are fighting eviction or the repossession of a house.
    (199208)
111
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on funding available for victims' services of devolution to police and crime commissioners.
    (199326)
112
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to ensure that funds devolved to the budgets of police and crime commissioners for victims' services are allocated according to crime rates.
    (199327)
113
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the people who have received the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by Letters Patent in the last 20 years; and if he will make a statement.
    (199269)
114
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there has been any occasion when the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy has been granted by way of Letters Close, or Litterage Clausae; and if he will make a statement.
    (199270)
115
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the (a) Crown Office and (b) Office of the Lord President of the Council maintains a list of all Letters Patent issued in the last 20 years; and if he will make a statement.
    (199271)
116
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance notes used in his Department and in the Office of the Lord President of the Council regarding the wording, drafting, formatting, production, approval and processing of Letters Patent.
    (199272)
117
 
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of fly-tipping in South Staffordshire in each year since 2009-10; and how many such people received the maximum allowable sentence.
    (199178)
118
 
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those convicted of fly-tipping were handed the maximum possible sentence in each year since 2009-10.
    (199179)
119
 
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of fly-tipping in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
    (199238)
120
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Leader of the House, how many questions to each department did not receive a substantive answer by the time of prorogation; and how long each question had been waiting for an answer.
    (199244)
121
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, column 762W, on terrorism, if the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy to which she refers was by way of Letters Patent; and if she will make a statement.
    (199279)
122
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she willlist the people who are known to have received the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by Letters Patent or under any other authority, in the last 20 years; and if she will make a statement.
    (199280)
123
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy has been granted in Northern Ireland in the last 20 years by means of Letters Close (Litterae Clausae); and if she will make a statement.
    (199281)
124
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by which (a) documents and (b) other means the recipients of a Royal Pardon, following the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, are able to demonstrate to a court or any law enforcement agency, that they are the beneficiaries of exercise of the Royal Prerogative; and if she will make a statement.
    (199282)
125
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, column 762W, on terrorism, what steps she is taking to recover information for the period 1987-97 for which records could not be found; and if she will make a statement.
    (199283)
126
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the Giro D'Italia in Northern Ireland; and what plans she has to ensure positive legacy from the event.
    (199222)
127
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, how many documents provided by the Government to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war have been declassified; how many such documents he estimates will be declassified within the next six months; and if he will make a statement.
    (199185)
128
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with the (a) Chairman and (b) Secretary of the Chilcot Inquiry on the publication of its report since March 2013; and if he will make a statement.
    (199188)
129
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, when he expects the report of the Chilcot Inquiry into the war in Iraq to be published; what discussions Sir John Chilcot has had with those expected to be criticised in his report; if he will ensure that hon. Members are provided with a full paper copy of the report and all (a) oral and (b) written evidence that was presented to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war; and if he will make a statement.
    (199189)
130
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will seek the agreement of the US President to the publication of classified documents by the Chilcot Inquiry; and if he will make a statement.
    (199190)
131
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will discuss with the administrators of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war a final date for publication; and if he will make a statement.
    (199196)
132
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has had with the US President on the publication by the Chilcot Inquiry of conversations between (a) Tony Blair and George W. Bush and (b) the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and George W. Bush in the period (i) leading up to the conflict in Iraq and (ii) after the invasion of Iraq; what response was received from the President; and if he will make a statement.
    (199197)
133
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, if it remains his policy to publish the report of the Chilcot Inquiry in full; and if he will make a statement.
    (199198)
134
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent representations (a) he, (b) other Ministers and (c) officials of (i) 10 Downing Street and (ii) the Cabinet Office have made to (A) the Chairman and (B) secretariat of the Chilcot Inquiry on delays in publication of its report due to responses from officials of the US administration; what response was received to these representations; and if he will make a statement.
    (199199)
135
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission follows in determining whether statistics in answers to parliamentary questions are (a) provided in full, (b) provided via a link to a website and (c) place in the Library.
    (199268)
136
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department allocated to projects relating to cycling between (a) 2005 and 2010 and (b) 2010 to 2014.
    (199232)
137
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on improvements to the railways in England and Wales in Control Period 4; and what estimate he has made of how much will be spent in Control Period 5.
    (199233)
138
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, columns 408-9W, on High Speed 2 railway line, whether his Dedpartment has subsequently compared double-decking with revised estimates of the costs and effects of High Speed 2.
    (199261)
139
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2014, Official Report, columns 517-8W, on railways: passengers, what the evidential basis is for the stated forecast of increases in passenger numbers on the West Coast Main Line over the next 10 years.
    (199294)
140
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 408W, on High Speed 2 Railway Line, what the evidential basis is for the expense and disruption caused by double-decker carriage being greater than that caused by High Speed 2.
    (199296)
141
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 408W, on High Speed 2 Railway Line, what the evidential basis is for the practical limit to the expansion of capacity on the West Coast Mainline being lower than predicted growth for that line.
    (199297)
142
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 408W, on High Speed 2 Railway Line, what the evidential basis for double-decker carriages not releasing sufficient capacity for commuter services.
    (199298)
143
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, where the greatest overcrowding on the rail network is; and how High Speed 2 will reduce that overcrowding.
    (199331)
144
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how he expects High Speed 2 to reduce overcrowding at London Waterloo.
    (199332)
145
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the excess capacity on peak High Speed 2 services.
    (199333)
146
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish an updated cost benefit analysis for High Speed 2 in light of the decision not to link High Speed 2 with High Speed 1 and Eurostar services.
    (199334)
147
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how High Speed 2 improve reliability and reduce overcrowding on regional links between towns and cities in the North West.
    (199339)
148
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will move home as a result of the construction of High Speed 2 because of (a) demolition for construction of the line and (b) blight.
    (199340)
149
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government Minister for Transport and Veterans on the possibility of providing free or discounted travel for carers in Scotland.
    (199235)
150
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that costs of public transport do not increase.
    (199223)
151
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, if she will establish an ombudsman to cover complaints on the use of overly sexualised content on images and displays on high streets and other business advertisements easily visible to the public which are not covered by the Advertising Standards Association or Police and Crime Commissioners.
    (199202)
152
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people resident in (a) Bolton North East constituency and (b) Bolton have received pension credit since 2010.
    (199150)
153
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated relating to age discrimination in (i) the work place and (ii) Jobcentre Plus.
    (199242)
154
 
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of removing dedicated funding for local welfare assistance; and if he will review the current local welfare assistance arrangements introduced in 2013 before any change is made.
    (199275)
155
 
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of employment and support allowance applicants who have been waiting to be given an assessment appointment for more than (a) three, (b) four, (c) five, (d) six and (e) seven months.
    (199153)
156
 
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK have received support through the Access to Work scheme in each of the last three years.
    (199328)
157
 
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding has been provided to disabled people in Scotland and the UK through the Access to Work scheme in each of the last three years.
    (199329)
158
 
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to promote the Access to Work scheme to disabled people in Scotland.
    (199330)
159
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the UK Government voted against the establishment of a Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived.
    (199259)
160
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of a Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived on deprived communities in the UK.
    (199263)
Tuesday 10 June  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
 
1
Mr Robin Walker (Worcester): What recent assessment he has made of the role of the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund in improving access to GP services.
    (904103)
2
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): If he will commission a review of the safety of polypropylene transvaginal mesh implants.
    (904104)
3
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire): What progress his Department has made in introducing a cap on care costs.
    (904105)
4
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): What assessment he has made of the role of the comprehensive delivery dashboard in holding clinical commissioning groups accountable for their one-year cancer survival rates.
    (904106)
5
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): If he will meet the Chair of the College of Emergency Medicine to discuss A&E units.
    (904107)
6
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): What recent assessment he has made of the performance of the A&E department at Kettering General Hospital.
    (904108)
7
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): What discussions he has had with NHS England on the future of the Cancer Drugs Fund.
    (904109)
8
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): What steps his Department is taking to improve access to and standards of dental care.
    (904110)
9
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): What steps he is taking to ensure that whistle-blowers in the NHS are protected from (a) dismissal and (b) other punitive measures by their employers.
    (904111)
10
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): What statistics his Department keeps on babies damaged by alcohol consumed in pregnancy; and if he will make a statement.
    (904112)
11
Helen Jones (Warrington North): What steps he is taking to improve ambulance services.
    (904113)
12
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): What assessment he has made of the potential effect on health outcomes of phasing out minimum practice income guarantee funding from GP practices in England.
    (904114)
13
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): What the planned timetable is for his Department's congenital heart disease review.
    (904115)
14
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): If he will bring forward proposals to widen the range of services and treatments available in community hospitals in rural areas.
    (904116)
15
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): What steps he plans to take to improve the provision of health services in the East Midlands.
    (904117)
16
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of child and adolescent mental health services.
    (904118)
17
Mike Kane (Wythenshawe and Sale East): What recent estimate he has made of the number of patients visiting A&E departments after having been unable to make an appointment with their GP.
    (904119)
18
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): What steps his Department has taken to improve access to and standards of primary care.
    (904120)
19
David Mowat (Warrington South): What recent discussions he has had on improving the fairness of the health allocation formula.
    (904121)
20
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What assessment he has made of the effect on patient safety of prescription drug dispensing regulations.
    (904122)
21
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): What progress his Department has made in turning around failing hospitals.
    (904123)
22
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): What assessment he has made of the conclusions of the Healthier Together review of health and care in Greater Manchester.
    (904124)
23
Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): What progress his Department has made in improving maternity and early years care.
    (904125)
24
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): What support his Department provides to small rural hospitals in England to ensure that health services are available as close to the public as possible.
    (904126)
25
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): What estimate he has made of the average length of time between diagnosis of a mental health condition and the commencement of talking therapies in the Greater Manchester area.
    (904127)
At 12.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
1
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (904093)
2
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak):  
    (904094)
3
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):  
    (904095)
4
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North):  
    (904096)
5
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire):  
    (904097)
6
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed):  
    (904098)
7
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire):  
    (904099)
8
David Rutley (Macclesfield):  
    (904100)
9
Ian Swales (Redcar):  
    (904101)
10
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith):  
    (904102)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 4 June

1
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the costs to local authorities of proposals to extend fines on letting agents who fail to publish their fees tariff in full.
    (199070)
2
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received from local authorities about the extension of fines to letting agents who fail to publish their fees tariff in full.
    (199071)
3
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consultation he has had with local authorities about the extension of fines to letting agents who fail to publish their fees tariff in full.
    (199072)
4
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding each tenancy deposit protection scheme has received from the Government in each of the last 10 years.
    (199073)
5
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria are used to commission Ofsted to carry out spot inspections on schools.
    (199069)
6
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made by his Department's Justice for Vulnerable Road Users Working Group.
    (198917)

Notices given on Thursday 5 June

1
N
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what specialist one-to-one study skills support will be available for students with specific learning difficulties following the review of Disabled Students Allowance; and who will provide that support.
    (199301)
2
N
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the Electoral Commission's efforts to improve the conduct of elections in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
    (199175)
3
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 23 January 2014, Official Report, column 316W, on museums and galleries, what the financial contribution required from each institution in the museums and galleries sector is from the transfer in employers' contributions following the Cabinet Office review of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
    (199321)
4
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department are working on G Cloud.
    (199418)
5
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent staff (a) were employed by, (b) left and (c) joined the Government Procurement Services Commissioning Academy in each quarter since its introduction; how many students passed through the Commissioning Academy in each quarter; and what the average length was of courses taken by those students.
    (199431)
6
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made on (a) the Cabinet Office capabilities plan published in April 2013 and (b) the key area specified in that plan on redesigning services and delivering them digitally.
    (199432)
7
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the contribution by the Deputy Leader of the House, Official Report, columns 841-2, on New Clause 1 of the Deregulation Bill, how the information-sharing gateway will operate.
    (199417)
8
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average rent is for (a) privately rented homes and (b) new homes built under the Affordable Homes Programme in (i) Warrington and (ii) Warrington North constituency.
    (199161)
9
N
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the reason is for the time taken to make a decision on the Rushden Lakes development; and when he plans to announce that decision.
    (199254)
10
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 809-10W, on Arts Council England, how much Arts Council England spending on libraries was obtained from (a) grant-in-aid and lottery funding, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
    (199319)
11
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 809-10W, on Arts Council England, how much the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council spent on libraries in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12.
    (199320)
12
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the economic effects of deregulating school holidays on (a) tourism related jobs in seaside and coastal areas and (b) on seaside economies in general.
    (199378)
13
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Government's proposed Deregulation Bill on tourism employment in England.
    (199379)
14
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions his Ministers or official in his Department have had with colleagues in the Department for Education on the effect of deregulating shcool holidays on the tourism industry.
    (199380)
15
N
Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to meet victims of press abuse and their representatives.
    (199346)
16
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of British armed forces personnel operationally deployed to Northern Ireland in each year from April 1984 to April 2010 and (b) the number of such who were accompanied by (i) a spouse or (ii) a civil partner in each of those years.
    (199300)
17
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to the letter of 5 May 2014 from the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth on British Army processes of justice and requesting an urgent meeting.
    (199311)
18
N
Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he will respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central received by his office on 29 May 2014, relating to the recent situation in Birmingham.
    (199163)
19
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's policy is on beak trimming of chickens; and if he will make a statement.
    (199160)
20
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the findings from the US Senate Intelligence Committee, what information his Department holds on the number of detainees held in Diego Garcia.
    (199176)
21
N
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contacts and discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with the African National Congress regarding a possible successor to President Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
    (199309)
22
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the running costs for each of the academic health science networks are.
    (199345)
23
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government plans to respond to the recommendations set out in the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin's on sunbed regulation published in 2014.
    (199381)
24
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential cost of extending the human papilloma virus vaccination programme to include all boys aged 12 and 13.
    (199382)
25
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government's assessment is of the effectiveness of warning labels on alcoholic beverages regarding drinking during pregnancy; and what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of making such labels mandatory.
    (199389)
26
N
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the changes in the level of access to prostate cancer treatments since 2010.
    (199302)
27
N
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what treatments for prostate cancer are routinely funded by NHS England.
    (199303)
28
N
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of outcomes for men with advanced prostate cancer.
    (199304)
29
N
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people died from prostate cancer in (a) Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport constituency and (b) England in each of the last five years.
    (199306)
30
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Passport Agency's average process time for applications was in each month since January 2010.
    (199385)
31
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest time is for which a passport application has been waiting to be processed from receipt at the passport office to delivery to applicant for (a) new applications and (b) applications for renewal of passport in the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 May 2014.
    (199391)
32
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to commence each section of the Immigration Act 2014.
    (199249)
33
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2014, Official Report, column 437W, on telecommunications: databases, whether she has yet completed her assessment of (a) the consequences for the UK of the decision of the European Court of Justice in Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12 (Digital Rights Ireland and Seitlinger and Others) and (b) what implication that decision has for (i) enforcement of the Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 and (ii) her powers to reimburse any expenses incurred by a public communications provider in complying with those Regulations.
    (199250)
34
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were accommodated in (a) hotels and (b) bed and breakfasts, hostels and other establishments that provide lodging paid on a short-term basis in (i) Barnsley, (ii) Yorkshire and Humberside and (iii) the UK in each year since May 2010.
    (199171)
35
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent from the public purse on accommodating asylum seekers in (a) hotels and (b) bed and breakfasts, hostels and other establishments that provide lodging paid on a short-term basis in each year since May 2010; and how much was spent in each region.
    (199172)
36
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure oversight and scrutiny of private contractors responsible for the accommodation of asylum seekers.
    (199173)
37
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure proper support and welfare is available to asylum seekers accommodated in hotels and other establishments that provide lodging paid on a short-term basis.
    (199174)
38
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are currently detained for immigration purposes at HM Prison The Verne.
    (199157)
39
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the suitability of HM Prison The Verne for detaining individuals for immigration purposes.
    (199158)
40
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are currently being held solely under immigration powers in prisons.
    (199159)
41
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the ability for individuals detained for immigration purposes at HM Prison The Verne to access (a) legal and (b) health services.
    (199170)
42
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold an inquiry into trends in the number of deaths of individuals detained in immigration detention.
    (199416)
43
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of uninsured drivers have been reported, by region, in each of the last five years.
    (199253)
44
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of car insurance fraud have been reported, by region, in each of the last five years.
    (199252)
45
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of (a) staff and (b) senior staff in her Department are female.
    (199397)
46
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) permanent and (b) non-permanent staff were employed in her Department on 1 January 2014.
    (199419)
47
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Prime Minister, when he last attended a British-Irish Council summit; and how many such summits he has attended since becoming Prime Minister.
    (199388)
48
N
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in the recent conformation dry run conducted in the (a) Makerfield constituency and (b) Borough of Wigan.
    (199308)
49
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passengers used Greenfield station in Greater Manchester in each year since 2010.
    (199383)
50
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with train operating customers in Greater Manchester on last minute reductions in train configurations.
    (199384)
51
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a breakdown by firm of expenditure by his Department on (a) consultants and (b) consultancy firms in each of the last four years.
    (199392)
52
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people working in (a) HS2 Ltd and (b) his Department are (i) on secondment, (ii) on loan and (iii) paid for by another company; and in each case what the parent company or organisation of such people was.
    (199305)
53
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the costs to date has been of the preparation work for the connection of HS2 to HS1.
    (199307)
54
N
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of rail freight access and path allocation over the Welwyn Viaduct beyond January 2018; and what discussions he held with rail freight (a) operators and (b) industry groups regarding future freight access over the Welwyn Viaduct before he approved the InterCity East Coast invitation to tender.
    (199251)
55
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Government Equalities Office press release of 13 May 2014 entitled £1 million to help women start or grow their own business, whether that sum will be drawn from the budget of the Supper Connected Cities programme.
    (199322)
56
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding has been paid from the Help and Support for Separated Families (HSSF) Innovation Fund to each of the HSSF projects which signed contracts for delivery in April 2013.
    (199449)
57
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Help and Support for Separated Families Co-ordinated Telephone Network started full operation; and which organisations are taking part.
    (199450)
58
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many organisations hold the Help and Support for Separated Families Mark; and what the total cost to his Department has been of developing, awarding and promoting the mark.
    (199451)
59
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost has been to his Department of implementing and evaluating the Help and Support for Separated Families Co-ordinated Telephone Network to date; and what estimate he has made of the future costs of that initiative.
    (199452)
60
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the review of PIP operational systems and problems recommended by the National Audit Office in February 2014 was undertaken; what the outcome of the review was; and when it will be published.
    (199316)
61
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions have been held with HM Treasury about changes in costs of administering the PIP assessment process; what the outcomes of those discussions have been; and how they affect the current Spending Review benefits savings target and the proposed cap on benefit expenditure.
    (199317)
62
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of current performance towards achieving the target of assessing all current disabiolity living allowance claimants for personal independence payment by 2018; and if he will estimate the potential additional costs in (a) the amount of benefit claimed and (b) the cost of processing claims if the current rate of assessments were to be maintained.
    (199318)
63
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Warrington North constituency received universal credit at any time since the start of the Warrington pilot; and how many were in receipt of it as at 1 April 2014.
    (199162)
64
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the useful life of IT assets in his Department's annual report and accounts; and whether these will be amortised over a five year period.
    (199310)
65
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that his Department is able to cross-check data on housing costs within the universal credit programme in order to counter fraud.
    (199312)
66
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of universal credit assets is; and what changes there were to this value.
    (199313)
67
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff are employed by his Department to work exclusively on universal credit in (a) total, (b) communications, (c) IT development and (d) project delivery.
    (199314)
68
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many couple claims have been made for universal credit.
    (199315)
69
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants in the Employment and Support Alolowance Work Related Activity Group are currently on the Work Programme; and how many such claimants had the period before they were fit for work assessed as (a) up to three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to 12 months and (d) over 12 months.
    (199390)
70
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff will be employed in the specialist housing teams that will be established in Univesral Credit Centres.
    (199393)
71
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of employment and support allowance referred to the Work Programme since June 2011 had an estimated period before they were fit for work of (a) up to three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to 12 months and (d) over 12 months.
    (199394)
72
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a jobcentre is permitted to require a jobseeker to attend a voluntary employment support project in receipt of no statutory funding without the consent of that project.
    (199395)
73
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people gaining work through the Work Programme have entered self-employment since the inception of that programme.
    (199396)
Wednesday 11 June  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
 
1
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire): What assessment she has made of progress made by the Northern Ireland Executive on building a shared future in Northern Ireland.
    (904128)
2
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): When she expects the National Crime Agency to be operating in Northern Ireland.
    (904129)
3
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): When she plans to report to the House on her Department's inquiry into the administrative scheme for on-the-runs.
    (904130)
4
Jim Shannon (Strangford): What steps she has taken in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to attract jobs to Northern Ireland by promoting its film industry.
    (904131)
5
Naomi Long (Belfast East): What role she plans to play in advancing a comprehensive process for dealing with the past and its legacy.
    (904132)
6
Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): What assessment she has made of the current security situation in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
    (904133)
7
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): What assessment she has made of the social and economic effects of youth unemployment in Northern Ireland.
    (904134)
8
Neil Carmichael (Stroud): What assessment she has made of the prospects for economic growth in Northern Ireland.
    (904135)
9
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): What recent discussions she has had with the Chief Executive of UK Trade and Investment on attracting investment to Northern Ireland.
    (904136)
10
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke): What assessment she has made of progress on securing foreign direct investment in Northern Ireland.
    (904137)
11
Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): What recent discussions she has had with (a) the First Minister and (b) the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland on following up the Haass discussions.
    (904138)
12
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): What assessment she has made of the prevalence of hate crime in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
    (904139)
13
Mark Durkan (Foyle): What recent discussions she has had with her ministerial colleagues and ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive on the implementation of the welfare cap in Northern Ireland.
    (904140)
14
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): What assessment she has made of the effect of the Government's welfare reform policies in Northern Ireland.
    (904141)
15
Pat Glass (North West Durham): What steps she has taken to ensure that the Police Service of Northern Ireland has adequate resources to ensure a peaceful marching season.
    (904142)
At 12 noon
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister
Unless otherwise indicated the Members listed below will ask a question without notice
1
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 11 June.
    (904143)
2
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):  
    (904144)
3
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale):  
    (904145)
4
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood):  
    (904146)
5
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck):  
    (904147)
6
Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):  
    (904148)
7
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley):  
    (904149)
8
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields):  
    (904150)
9
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green):  
    (904151)
10
Mel Stride (Central Devon):  
    (904152)
11
Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury):  
    (904153)
12
Mike Kane (Wythenshawe and Sale East):  
    (904154)
13
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth):  
    (904155)
14
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View):  
    (904156)
15
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough):  
    (904157)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 4 June

1
N
Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many standard individual export licences were finalised in 2013; and what proportion of those licences were finalised within (a) 20 and (b) 60 working days.
    (199009)
2
N
Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of export licence appeals were finalised within (a) 20 and (b) 60 working days in 2013.
    (199010)
3
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many freedom of information requests to her Department remain unanswered after (a) 20 and (b) 90 days on 1 April 2014; and which freedom of information requests to her Department on what subjects remain unanswered.
    (199011)

Notices given on Thursday 5 June

1
N
Michael Ellis (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will provided a detailed itemised inventory of what works of art from Government collections were on loan to the British Embassy and Residence in Tehran at the time of the riots in November 2011; and what claims for compensation for loss, damage or destruction have been made by the UK Government to insurers in respect of those items.
    (199398)
2
N
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to monitor the delivery of the Mobile Infrastructure Project and to bring adequate mobile telephone coverage to people living in remote and rural areas.
    (199164)
3
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has to reappoint the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland.
    (199255)
Thursday 12 June  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 5 June

1
N
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Her Majesty's Passport Office is meeting the 2013-14 performance targets (a) to process 99.5 per cent of straightforward passport applications within 10 working days, (b) where additional information is required from customers to process 93 per cent of applications within 29 working days, (c) to process 99.5 per cent of premium and fast track applications within four hours or seven days and (d) to achieve a customer satisfaction rating of at least 90 per cent.
    (199399)
Wednesday 18 June  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 4 June

1
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department were in receipt of excess fare allowance in each year for which figures are available.
    (198840)
2
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 26 March 2014, Official Report, column 318W, on conflict resolution: females, if he will publish in the Library the minutes of the meetings on this matter on (a) 24 February, (b) 5 March, (c) 20 March, (d) 18 March, (e) 19 March and (f) 13 March 2014.
    (198842)
3
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential costs and benefits of bringing forward legislative proposals similar to those in the US Serviceman's Readjustment Act 1944.
    (198839)
4
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent progress her Department has made in promoting development relating to water sanitation and hygiene; and if she will make a statement.
    (198841)
5
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of compliance of operators with point 30 of the Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain guidance in Statutory Document 14: Local Bus Services.
    (198843)

Notices given on Thursday 5 June

1
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles built by Nissan are in the Government car pool.
[Transferred]   (198961)
2
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to support former armed services personnel to readjust to civilian life by providing (a) low cost mortgages, (b) low interest loans to start a business, (c) payment of tuition fees and living expenses for university or vocational educational and (d) health care bespoke to individual needs.
    (199323)
Thursday 19 June  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 5 June

1
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of 2014DIN04-053 Declaration of obsolete-medical, central and veterinary equipments.
    (199165)
2
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of 2014DIN03-010 Impact to outputs of defence electronic warfare center due to five yearly electrical testing.
    (199166)
3
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of 2014DIN05-011 Claims and insurance provisions for the use of Ministry of Defence vehicles in the UK and overseas and the process for ordering new motor insurance certificates or green cards.
    (199167)
4
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of 2014DIN03-007 Notification of a change in CBRN policy.
    (199168)
5
N
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of 2014DIN04-056 Sea King Hlicopter drawdown and disposal.
    (199169)
6
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to release the second stage of the review into the closure of surgery at Leeds Children's Heart Unit; and if he will make a statement.
    (199256)
7
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable for the new congenital heart disease review is.
    (199257)
8
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that children's heart surgery units receive equal and sufficient levels of scrutiny across the country.
    (199258)

Prepared 6th June 2014