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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Thursday 26 June 2014

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.

Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Wednesday 25 June 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Thursday 26 June 2014

For Written Questions for answer on the date of this paper, see Part 1 of this paper and the Order Paper.

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.

Thursday 26 June  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
 
★ 1
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): What assessment his Department has made of the main causes of insecurity in the workplace.
    (904468)
★ 2
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Office for National Statistics report on zero-hours contracts, published on 30 April 2014.
    (904469)
★ 3
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): What contribution the Regional Growth Fund has made to rebalancing the economy across regions.
    (904470)
★ 4
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): What steps he is taking to strengthen vocational training.
    (904471)
★ 5
Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): What support his Department is giving to the life sciences sector.
    (904472)
★ 6
Mark Menzies (Fylde): What steps he is taking to promote regional growth.
    (904473)
★ 7
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): What additional funding for training his Department has provided to support unemployed people and people aged 16-24 years old to get into employment.
    (904474)
★ 8
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): What assessment he has made of the effect of the Government’s policies on small businesses and the self-employed.
    (904475)
★ 9
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): What plans he has to encourage Foreign Direct Investment.
    (904476)
★ 12
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): What steps he is taking to reduce the burden of regulation on businesses.
    (904479)
★ 13
Robert Halfon (Harlow): What steps he is taking to safeguard the economic position of people on low pay.
    (904480)
★ 14
David Mowat (Warrington South): What steps his Department is taking to support energy-intensive industries.
    (904481)
★ 16
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke): What support his Department is providing to apprenticeships.
    (904483)
★ 17
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): What steps he is taking to safeguard the economic position of people on low pay.
    (904484)
★ 18
Andy Sawford (Corby): What resources have been allocated for enforcement action against employers who do not pay the national minimum wage.
    (904485)
★ 20
Neil Carmichael (Stroud): What assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of manufacturing.
    (904487)
★ 21
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What schemes are currently in place to encourage 16-24 year olds to start apprenticeships.
    (904488)
★ 23
Mark Pawsey (Rugby): What recent support his Department has provided to small businesses.
    (904490)
★ 24
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What recent support his Department has provided to small businesses.
    (904491)
★ 25
John Stevenson (Carlisle): What steps he is taking to promote regional growth.
    (904492)
At 10.15am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 2
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (904494)
★ 3
Mark Menzies (Fylde):  
    (904495)
★ 5
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend):  
    (904497)
★ 6
Grahame M. Morris (Easington):  
    (904498)
★ 8
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):  
    (904500)
★ 9
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian):  
    (904501)
★ 10
Neil Carmichael (Stroud):  
    (904502)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 19 June

1
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many different stretches of road works are currently taking place on the M1 between London and junction 32 with the M18; and for what reasons such works have not been phased to take place consecutively rather than concurrently.
    (201460)
2
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations the UK has made at a European level on the introduction of more rounded front designs of HGV lorry cabs to increase fuel efficiency.
    (201461)

Notices given on Monday 23 June

1
N
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to encourage businesses to free up their staff to volunteer in local schools.
    (201737)
2
N
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funds his Department will make available to universities as a result of transferring responsibility for the disabled students allowance to them.
    (201739)
3
N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the proportion of UK addresses end-to-end postal delivery companies would need to cover before there is a threat to the financial sustainability of the universal service.
    (201887)
4
N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the time it would take for Ofcom to undertake a review of the effects of end-to-end competition on the universal service.
    (201888)
5
N
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the change in mail volumes to the universal service provider in the NW postcode area as a result of end-to-end competition.
    (201889)
6
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the collapse of Comet arising from (a) former employees' redundancy payments, (b) payments to the administrator for its fees and (c) payments to the administrator for creditors.
    (201914)
7
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to improve competition in the Insolvency Practitioner market.
    (201831)
8
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how he plans to measure the insolvency industry's success in voluntarily implementing the recommendations of the Graham Review.
    (201907)
9
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has held with the Insolvency Service on the implementation of the recommendations made in the Graham Review on pre-pack administration.
    (201910)
10
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency are in receipt of disabled students' allowance.
    (201850)
11
N
Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to fund and support businesses in the horticulture sector to take on apprentices.
    (201713)
12
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have been sponsored to undertake an MBA or other business qualifications in the last five years; and how many such people passed such a qualification.
    (201876)
13
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid in corporation tax by businesses registered in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such taxation was paid by small and medium-sized enterprises.
    (201870)
14
N
Mark Durkan (Foyle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on the level of youth unemployment in the UK of the tourism VAT rate.
    (201704)
15
N
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Mapeley Group paid for the estate at Proxy Court, Dover; and where the company which paid for the estate is based.
    (201922)
16
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many self-employed people in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency were in receipt of each type of tax credit in each year from 2008.
    (201711)
17
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.43 of Delivering Tax-Free Childcare: the Government's response to the consultation on design and operation, published in March 2014, whether HM Revenue and Customs will (a) check declared earnings total and (b) run checks with the Department for Work and Pensions to confirm that parents have not begun claiming universal credit, for all parents reconfirming their eligibility at the end of every quarterly entitlement period.
    (201846)
18
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether all participating banks completed all customer review assessments for the sale of interest rate hedging products by the deadline set by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA); and what (a) fines and (b) other measures the FCA plans to impose on banks which missed the deadline.
    (201895)
19
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes have been built in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) each borough in Nottinghamshire in each of the last five years.
    (201707)
20
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many businesses in Warrington North constituency have qualified for the full business rate discount to date.
    (201712)
21
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Defence Consultant Adviser for Psychiatry about Asperger's syndrome in the context of the Defence Medical Services policy review; and whether he plans to change his Department's policy on the recruitment to the armed forces of people diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
    (201860)
22
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much the recent reception at Admiralty House to celebrate the Tour de France cost; how this cost was met; and who provided the staff for this event.
    (201745)
23
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which parliamentarians were invited to the reception held to celebrate the Tour de France at Admiralty House on 18 June 2014; and on what basis they were selected.
    (201746)
24
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the invitation list for the reception held to celebrate the Tour de France at Admiralty House on 18 June 2014; and on what basis each such organisation was selected.
    (201747)
25
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many years the longest serving headteacher on the panel which assessed the Institute of Education proposal to establish a university training school in Holborn and St Pancras had been a school head.
    (201869)
26
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria underlay his Department's decision that the Arts Council will in future be responsible for the funding of music in schools; and what criteria will be used to evaluate the outcome for schools of that decision.
    (201859)
27
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students sat the Citizenship GCSE in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012, (e) 2013 and (f) 2014.
    (201705)
28
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he has taken to assess whether the whole of the reduction in costs levied for investment in renewables has been passed on to consumers by energy suppliers.
    (201834)
29
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.
    (201835)
30
N
Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what change there has been in the number of dedicated counter-terrorism officials employed by his Department since the end of the last financial year.
    (201871)
31
N
Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on changes to funding for his Department's Counter Terrorism Directorate.
    (201872)
32
N
Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what change there has been in overall resources available for counter-terrorism work in his Department in the last financial year; and what change there will be in such funding over the next financial year.
    (201873)
33
N
Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much of its budget his Department spent on counter-terrorism in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2013-14.
    (201885)
34
N
Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many dedicated counter-terrorism officials were employed by his Department in the (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2013-14 financial year.
    (201886)
35
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the prevalence of human rights abuse in Bahrain.
    (201822)
36
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his Department will take steps to investigate reports of human rights abuses, torture and arrests of political prisoners in Bahrain.
    (201823)
37
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to encourage civil rights and democracy in Bahrain.
    (201824)
38
N
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Bangladeshi counterpart on allegations of human rights abuses in that country since January 2014.
    (201842)
39
N
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the operation and impartiality of the ongoing International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh.
    (201843)
40
N
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh.
    (201844)
41
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he next plans to reassess whether Bahrain should be designated a country of concern.
    (201833)
42
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Egyptian counterpart on allegations of brutality and torture of detainees in Azouli prison; and if he will raise this issue at EU meetings and with other international bodies.
    (201749)
43
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of 16 to 25 year olds in England had a chlamydia test in 2012-13.
    (201877)
44
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to encourage re-testing of all young adults who test positive for chlamydia; and how many young adults are being re-tested after receiving treatment for chlamydia.
    (201881)
45
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many 16 to 25 year olds in each local authority area (a) were tested for chlamydia and (b) tested positive for chlamydia in 2012-13.
    (201882)
46
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many chlamydia tests were supplied by (a) pharmacies, (b) GPs, (c) sexual health clinics and (d) an online service in 2012-13.
    (201883)
47
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the decision of the Scottish government to suspend the use of transvaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence.
    (201884)
48
N
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of hospitals in England have implemented a multidisciplinary team for cancer of unknown primary (CUP) as stated in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on CUP.
    (201748)
49
N
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the quality of the implementation of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on management of metastatic malignant disease of unknown primary.
    (201750)
50
N
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the minimum level of service provision in hospitals is for patients who have cancer of unknown primary.
    (201752)
51
N
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what focus Genomics England plans to give in its selection of cancer types for genetic sequencing to (a) cases of unknown primary and (b) other less common cancers with high mortality rates.
    (201858)
52
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 492W, on medical records: databases, whether the What about Youth? trial survey had support under section 251 of the NHS Act 2006; and whether the data has now been deleted.
    (201908)
53
N
Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department allocated for the treatment of pancreatic cancer in each of the last five years.
    (201702)
54
N
Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has allocated for research into pancreatic cancer in the most recent period for which figures are available.
    (201703)
55
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioner practices were (a) refurbished and (b) replaced in each of the last 10 years.
    (201710)
56
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to publish its report on its consultation on the future of civil partnership in England and Wales.
    (201825)
57
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent changes have been made to the structure of the Human Trafficking Unit in the Metropolitan Police; and which other police forces in the UK operate a modern slavery or human trafficking unit.
    (201840)
58
N
Duncan Hames (Chippenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers are assigned to (a) Operation Fernbridge and (b) any subsequent related investigations.
    (201751)
59
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees from Syria were accepted under the vulnerable person relocation scheme between 29 January 2014 and 23 June 2014.
    (201921)
60
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees from Syria are expected to enter the UK under the vulnerable person relocation scheme by 1 May 2015.
    (201923)
61
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative changes to ensure deaths are registered within five to 10 days of the death occurring without it being necessary for the cause of death to be established.
    (201851)
62
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 667W, on offences against children: internet, to which police forces intelligence packages were disseminated; and how many such packages were sent to each such force.
    (201832)
63
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to support the adoption of a target to ensure that adequate policy space is given to developing countries by the international organisations to establish and implement their policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development in Open Working Group negotiations on the sustainable development goals.
    (201890)
64
N
Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison (a) Hull, (b) Holloway, (c) Hollesby Bay and (d) Hindley spent (i) in cells and (ii) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of prisoners in each such prison were classed as unemployed on the most recent date for which data is available.
    (201847)
65
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison (a) Wymott, (b) Kirklevington and (c) Holme House spent (i) in cells and (ii) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of prisoners in each such prison were classed as unemployed on the most recent date for which data is available.
    (201845)
66
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in Ashfield constituency convicted of each category of offence received community sentences in each of the last five years.
    (201706)
67
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims bereaved by homicide have received support from the National Homicide Service in England and Wales since May 2010.
    (201874)
68
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of peer support groups supporting victims bereaved by homicide in each year since May 2010.
    (201875)
69
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Grant for Coordination and Delivery of Support to those Bereaved by Homicide advertised by his Department on Contract Finder on 12 February 2014 was a grant or a public contract.
    (201911)
70
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what bids were submitted for the Grant for Coordination and Delivery of Support to those Bereaved by Homicide advertised by his Department on Contact Finder on 12 February 2014.
    (201912)
71
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria were used to determine the winning bidder for the Grant for Coordination and Delivery of Support to those Bereaved by Homicide advertised by his Department on Contact Finder on 12 February 2014.
    (201913)
72
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many additional prison places have been purchased from private prison providers at each prison in each month since January 2014; and what the cost has been of such additional purchases.
    (201826)
73
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff at (a) prison officer grades and (b) operational support grades were employed at HM Prison Service on 31 March in each of the last 10 years.
    (201827)
74
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the staffing numbers were for each prison in England and Wales for each grade of staff on the latest date for which figures are available; and what the target staffing figure is for each grade in each establishment as set by the Business Development Group's Benchmarking Project.
    (201828)
75
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officer entry level training places NOMS are planning to fill in each of the next 12 months; and what the start date is for each individual course.
    (201829)
76
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the start date is for each currently planned prison officer entry level training course; how many places are available on each course; and where each course will be held.
    (201830)
77
N
Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Wellingborough spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201817)
78
N
Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Wetherby spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201818)
79
N
Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Warrington spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201819)
80
N
Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Belmarsh spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201820)
81
N
Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Whatton spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201821)
82
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Brixton spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201814)
83
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Birmingham spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and (b) what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201815)
84
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Kirkham spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201816)
85
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Erlestoke spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (201896)
86
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reduce the statute of limitations for whiplash claims.
    (201838)
87
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations his Department has received on reducing the statute of limitations on whiplash claims since May 2010.
    (201839)
88
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations his Department has received on increasing penalties for uninsured drivers since May 2010.
    (201868)
89
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many apprentices the Northern Ireland Office accepted as part of the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme in each year since the scheme started.
    (201742)
90
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether her Department has discussed the consideration of any specific parade application with any member of the Parades Commission since January 2014.
    (201743)
91
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how the Northern Ireland Office promotes the Civil Service Fast Stream programme in Northern Ireland.
    (201744)
92
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of staff in the Northern Ireland Office are senior civil servants.
    (201848)
93
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many new fast streamers were placed in the Northern Ireland Office in each year since 2010.
    (201849)
94
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) East Midlands and (d) the UK received council tax benefit in each of the last five years.
    (201708)
95
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of universal credit on landlords who have claimants as tenants; what the results were of the direct payment demonstration projects on the effect of paying housing benefit direct to tenants; and if he will reduce the two calendar month rent arrears trigger point before a landlord can go directly to his Department for direct payment.
    (201714)
96
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to jobcentre staff on information to provide to jobseeker's allowance claimants whose claim has been stopped on the other support options available.
    (201736)
97
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what penalties are incurred by jobcentre staff who fail to inform jobseeker's allowance claimants whose claim has been stopped of the other support options available to them.
    (201738)
98
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2014, Official Report, column 628W, on the employment and support allowance, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the recent Mind report entitled Fulfilling Potential? ESA and the fate of the Work-Related Activity Group.
    (201857)
99
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on offering interim payments to claimants of the personal independence payment while the backlog of applications is cleared.
    (201878)
100
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current waiting time for an Atos Healthcare-provided assessment for a personal independence payment claim is in (a) Hull and (b) nationwide.
    (201879)
101
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent evaluation he has undertaken of the performance of the firms undertaking personal independence payment evaluations on behalf of his Department.
    (201880)
102
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that adequate support exists for those affected by the abolition of the Independent Living Fund beyond the year of guaranteed funding made available to local authorities.
    (201841)
103
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 344W, on children: day care, what assumptions on the number of families claiming support for childcare in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19 have been built into the universal credit programme.
    (201909)
104
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether hours of care during overnight stays and holidays are included in calculations of payments to recipients of child support.
    (201837)
105
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the costs of administering employment and support allowance between 2014-15 and 2018-19.
    (201891)
106
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the comparative employment outcomes of people in receipt of (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit; and if he will make a statement.
    (201892)
107
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many home visits his Department made in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013; and for which purposes.
    (201893)
108
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of (a) employment and support allowance, (b) housing benfit, (c) income support and (d) jobseeker's allowance received a home visit in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011, (iv) 2012 and (v) 2013.
    (201894)

Notices given on Tuesday 24 June

1
N
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what resources have been allocated for enforcement action against employers who do not pay the national minimum wage.
[Question Unstarred]   (904478)
2
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what resources have been allocated for enforcement action against employers who do not pay the national minimum wage.
[Question Unstarred]   (904486)
3
N
Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the recent trends have been in survival rates for pancreatic cancer.
[Transferred]   (201701)
4
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in Warrington North constituency are in receipt of child benefit at the most recent date for which figures are available.
[Transferred]   (201740)
5
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether hours of care during overnight stays and holidays are included in calculations of payments to recipients of child benefit.
[Transferred]   (201836)
6
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
[Transferred]   (201741)
7
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by the Law Officers' Departments received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202048)
8
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) investigations were carried out, (b) individuals were charged, (c) corporates were charged, (d) criminal prosecutions were launched and (e) criminal convictions were secured by the Serious Fraud Office in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) each of the five preceding years.
    (201977)
9
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many directors of companies were disqualified as a result of a criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in (a) 2012-13 and (b) each of the five preceding years.
    (201978)
10
 
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff in Sheffield are employed at the headquarters of the British Business Bank.
    (202119)
11
 
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the cost of medicine procurement for the NHS.
    (202107)
12
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the educational testing service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202232)
13
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202047)
14
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many start-up loans have been granted to local businesses in (a) Thirsk and Malton constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) North of England in each of the last five years.
    (202142)
15
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many projects have received funds from the Regional Growth Fund in (a) Thirsk and Malton constituency, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) the North of England in each of the last five years.
    (202143)
16
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support his Department is giving to small and medium-sized businesses in North Yorkshire.
    (202144)
17
 
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much he allocated to the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
    (202104)
18
 
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time and part-time staff were employed to work in the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which records are available.
    (202197)
19
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to encourage universities in the UK to enter into partnerships and twinning arrangements with the British University in Egypt.
    (202261)
20
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans for the next Government trade delegation to visit Egypt; and if he will include in that delegation construction companies from the UK.
    (202262)
21
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many assessments of (a) nuclear facilities and (b) other critical infrastructure have been undertaken against his Department's information assurance maturity model; and if he will publish all such assessments undertaken since May 2010.
    (202073)
22
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202049)
23
 
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will retract his request to government departments to end check-off payroll deductions for trades union subscriptions.
    (202194)
24
 
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 395W, on Revenue and Customs, which personnel attended discussions between HM Revenue and Customs, Mapeley and Network Rail regarding the sale of land on the western perimeter of the Priory Court site.
    (202196)
25
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202176)
26
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202064)
27
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in tax accrued to the Exchequer in fuel duty on diesel in 2013; and what quantity of diesel this figure represents.
    (201996)
28
 
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has accrued to the Exchequer in VAT receipts from the sale of sanitary products in each of the last five years; and if he will review the applicability of such a tax with equality legislation.
    (202135)
29
 
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish his Department's risk assessment of the potential under-resourcing of fire and rescue services during strike action.
    (202132)
30
 
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many crew were available in each fire and rescue authority area during the 24-hour strike on 12 June 2014; and how many crew are available in each area on non-strike days.
    (202133)
31
 
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish his assessment of the workability of the protocol agreed between his Department and the Fire Brigades Union on recall to duty in the event of a major incident or national disaster.
    (202134)
32
 
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many creditors remained unpaid by his Department on 1 June 2014; and of those, how many had been unpaid for (a) 45 days, (b) 60 days, (c) 75 days and (d) more than 76 days.
    (202111)
33
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies holds with the Educational Testing Service or its subsidiaries.
    (202241)
34
 
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether a local planning authority which rejects a housing development application which is subsequently approved on appeal by the Planning Inspectorate are still eligible for the New Homes Bonus.
    (202127)
35
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202050)
36
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether levels of poverty and deprivation in coastal towns are considered by his Department when making grants from the Coastal Communities Fund.
    (202072)
37
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what grants have been given by the Coastal Communities Fund to date; which town, county and constituency received each such grant; and what the size and purpose of each grant was.
    (202076)
38
 
Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will amend paragraph 98 of the National Planning Policy Framework to require applicants for onshore wind energy developments to demonstrate an overall national need for renewable energy.
    (202034)
39
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department (a) spent in each of the last 10 years and (b) plans to spend in each of the next three years on maintaining war graves; and if he will make a statement.
    (202022)
40
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department (a) spent in each of the last 10 years and (b) plans to spend in each of the next three years on maintaining national memorials; and if he will make a statement.
    (202023)
41
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department gave to the Memorials Grant Scheme in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
    (202024)
42
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will provide funding to refurbish war graves and war memorials (a) in the UK and (b) overseas as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement.
    (202025)
43
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with which countries his Department has (a) held discussions and (b) plans to hold discussions on (i) joint events and (ii) a UK presence at overseas events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War; when any such discussions (A) took place and (B) are due to take place; and if he will make a statement.
    (202026)
44
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received on the establishment of a national cemetery; and if he will make a statement.
    (202027)
45
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department are engaged (a) full-time and (b) part-time in preparations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement.
    (202178)
46
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to apply a motif on all his Department's commemorative items and events associated with the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement.
    (202179)
47
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding his Department has allocated to the maintenance of war memorials in each of the next three years; what steps it takes to ensure that war memorials are maintained to a high standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (202184)
48
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been allocated for commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement.
    (202185)
49
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the (a) number and (b) location of memorials to commemorate the war dead in the (i) First World War and (ii) Second World War; and if he will make a statement.
    (202192)
50
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202166)
51
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202051)
52
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the level of broadband coverage in (a) the UK and (b) other major European nations.
    (202112)
53
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a suitable commemoration of the First World War; and if he will support the Royal Sussex Regiment Association's efforts for a memorial to be erected in Priez, France.
    (202113)
54
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department (a) has given in each of the last 10 years and (b) plans to give in the next three years to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to (i) mark and (ii) maintain the graves of those who died during the World Wars; and if he will make a statement.
    (202186)
55
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many graves are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, by (a) cemetery and (b) country.
    (202190)
56
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which cemeteries are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, by country; and if he will make a statement.
    (202191)
57
 
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the (a) Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, (b) 2 Close Support Battalion REME and (c) 110 Provost Company RMP are scheduled to move to Leuchars; how many military personnel make up each unit; and how many (i) spouses and (ii) school-age children are attached to each unit.
    (202097)
58
 
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost has been to date of all Typhoon Force-related capital works at RAF Lossiemouth; and what estimate he has made of the total cost of facilitating the future operation of the Typhoon Force and the Northern Quick Reaction Alert facility at that base.
    (202098)
59
 
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost has been of transfer of all Typhoon Force mission-specific equipment and related removable fittings and fixtures from RAF Leuchars to RAF Lossiemouth; and what estimate has been made of the total cost of the transfer.
    (202099)
60
 
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what Typhoon Force mission-specific infrastructure at RAF Leuchars has been identified for deconstruction as a result of the transfer of the transfer of the Typhoon Force to RAF Lossiemouth.
    (202100)
61
 
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what items of infrastructure have been (a) commissioned for installation and (b) installed at RAF Leuchars in preparation for the arrival of Army units and associated personnel; and how much each such item (i) is estimated to and (ii) has cost.
    (202101)
62
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202167)
63
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202052)
64
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his Egyptian counterpart on training and capacity building in the Egyptian army.
    (202265)
65
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases of (a) rape, (b) sexual assault and (c) domestic violence were investigated by each branch of the Armed Forces Police (Royal Military Police, the Royal Navy Police and the Royal Air Force Police) where the alleged offending took place in the UK in each year from 2009 to 2013; and of these, how many were (i) not referred to a prosecutor, (ii) referred to the Crown Prosecution Service and (iii) referred to the Services Prosecution Authority.
    (201980)
66
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he could place in the Library a table showing, for each branch of the Armed Forces Police (Royal Military Police, the Royal Navy Police and the Royal Air Force Police), the number of cases of (a) rape, (b) sexual assault and (c) domestic violence that were (i) reported, (ii) referred to a prosecutor, (iii) directed for trial, (iv) led to a conviction, (v) led to an acquittal and (vi) led to a custodial sentence in each year between 2009 to 2013.
    (201983)
67
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 28 January 2014, Official Report, column 510W, on electoral register: young people, how much funding his Department has made available to (a) Rock Enroll and (b) Bite the Ballot in each year for which data is available; and how many people each such organisation has directly registered in each year for which data is available.
    (202035)
68
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, with reference to the Answer of 1 April 2014, Official Report, columns 555-6W, on electoral register, Northern Ireland, what actions resulted from his discussions with the Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office concerning the schools programme for electoral registration.
    (202243)
69
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to compensate local authorities whose leasehold title to land is transferred to academy trusts when the associated school achieves academy status.
    (202246)
70
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the educational testing service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202233)
71
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202053)
72
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance he has issued to schools on the role of special educational needs coordinators in decisions on spending the pupil premium.
    (201974)
73
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the provision of advice for students with special educational needs.
    (202116)
74
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives schools and teachers on online abuse from a student towards a teacher.
    (202117)
75
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives teachers and those working in schools on responding to a violent student with special educational needs.
    (202118)
76
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of specialist support within maintained schools to help students with mental health problems.
    (202247)
77
 
Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many School Direct initial teacher training offers in (a) 2013-14 and 2014-15 in each subject area were made conditional on completion of a subject knowledge enhancement programme.
    (202236)
78
 
Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the graduates receiving bursaries to teach physics in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 at each of the four tiers had (i) a physics degree, (ii) a relevant degree in respect of physics as defined by the School Workforce Survey and (iii) any other degree.
    (202237)
79
 
Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the graduates receiving bursaries to teach mathematics in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 at each of the four tiers had (i) a mathematics degree, (ii) a relevant degree as defined by the School Workforce Survey and (iii) any other degree.
    (202238)
80
 
Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places for initial teacher training starting in 2014 have been allocated to (a) Schools Direct and (b) higher education providers.
    (202239)
81
 
Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher training bursaries for (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 have been allocated to high-priority subjects of physics and mathematics at each of the four bursary tiers.
    (202240)
82
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average turnaround is on applications for funding under the Green Deal scheme.
    (202075)
83
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the total amount of available coal-fired electricity generation capacity in the UK in each year up to 2030.
    (202029)
84
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 593W, on electricity, what recent discussions he has had with the Independent Renewables Generators Group on the timing of the introduction of auctioning; what assessment he has made of independent generators' ability to raise project finance against the Offtaker of Last Resort before October 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (202094)
85
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 595W, on electricity, what assessment he has made of whether the ability of auctions to drive value for money is dependent on market plurality and competition; and if he will make it a formal objective of his Department to ensure that independent generators are able to compete in Contracts for Difference auctions on an equal footing.
    (202195)
86
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Annual Report and Accounts for 2013-14, published on 23 June 2014, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policy on the evaluation of proposals for funded radioactive waste and decommissioning plans presented to him by private nuclear operators of the recent increase in the cost of dealing with legacy radioactive waste and decommissioning announced in that report.
    (202280)
87
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the evidential basis was for the statement made by his Department's Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in her forward to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Annual Report and Accounts for 2013-14, issued on 23 June 2014, that the continuation of Nuclear Management Partner's contract to manage the Sellafield site offers the potential of stability and focus on the priorities during a vital five-year period in the history of Sellafield as it transitions from an operational plant into a fully-fledged decommissioning site.
    (202281)
88
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Annual Report and Accounts for 2013-14, published on 23 June 2014, what estimate he has made of the additional cost to the public purse arising from the increased cost on an undiscounted basis of legacy radioactive waste and nuclear plant commissioning announced in that report.
    (202282)
89
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202168)
90
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many children in poverty lived in a household that did not receive a Warm Home Discount in 2013-14.
    (201993)
91
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department expects to consult on the future of the Warm Home Discount.
    (201994)
92
 
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of Government subsidies for the generation of biomass power using domestic wood feed stocks on the UK's wood panel industry; and if he will make a statement.
    (202114)
93
 
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of carbon reduction targets on jobs in the wood panelling sector.
    (202115)
94
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202054)
95
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will discuss (a) solar energy and (b) other alternative energies with his Egyptian counterpart.
    (202268)
96
 
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many employees of the big six energy companies are currently seconded to his Department.
    (202242)
97
 
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which areas of forestry and woodland in Huntingdon constituency are classed by his Department as ancient woodland.
    (201987)
98
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will assess the viability of limiting the extraction of water from Windermere and Ullswater only when flow levels are high to reduce the risk of over-extraction and flood control.
    (202031)
99
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will assess the viability of using Kielder Water as a water source and linking it to the national water grid.
    (202032)
100
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202169)
101
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the regulatory impact of the changes to the CAP on farmers.
    (202110)
102
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many herd owners have (a) failed to complete TB surveillance tests on time and (b) received reductions in their Single Payment Scheme payments since the introduction of a revised TB testing regime in January 2014.
    (202181)
103
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the causes and effects of falls in beef farm gate prices; and if he will make a statement.
    (202182)
104
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take in response to falls in beef farm gate prices.
    (202183)
105
 
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what appeals process is available for farmers who are subject to deductions from single farm payments for (a) cattle passport contraventions and (b) breaches of the conditions of the Rural Stewardship Scheme in (i) Cambridgeshire and (ii) England; and if he will make a statement.
    (202096)
106
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202055)
107
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on the introduction of further low emission zones outside London to reduce the levels of nitrogen dioxide air pollution in ambient air.
    (201995)
108
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities have been sent letters indicating that they may have to pay part or all of the fines arising from infraction proceedings following the European Court of Justice's finding against the UK for breach of nitrogen dioxide limit values under the EU Air Quality Directive.
    (201997)
109
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his counterparts in the Israeli government about the treatment of Palestinian child detainees in Israel.
    (202103)
110
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on how many of the recommendations made by UNICEF in its March 2013 report on children in Israeli military detention have been implemented by the government of Israeli; and what discussions he has had with his counterpart in Israel on the recommendations in that report that are yet to be implemented.
    (202234)
111
 
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): 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 then-Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's statement in April 2014 that kidnapping Israelis was a top priority on the agenda of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance.
    (202235)
112
 
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on sanctions against Israel; and what assessment he has made of the compliance of that policy with international law and relevant UN resolutions.
    (202145)
113
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202056)
114
 
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the commitment made by the UK Government in its economic pact with the Northern Ireland Executive in June 2013, what specific actions he has taken to encourage British embassies in emerging markets to promote jobs and growth in Northern Ireland.
    (202074)
115
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the briefing notes issued by the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights dated 20 June 2014, on the legislative amendment before the Israeli Knesset relating to force-feeding and medical treatment of prisoners on hunger strike, what steps he is taking to ensure that international human rights and international humanitarian law human rights are upheld by all parties.
    (202068)
116
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the UK will support the request from the Palestinian Authority for an emergency session of the UN Security Council on the treatment of Palestinian detainees.
    (202109)
117
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Iranian government about the imprisonment of Paston Behnam Irani.
    (202259)
118
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Iranian govrnment on the arrest of Silas Rabbani, Karaj Farshid, Fathi Alireza, Seyydin, Mohammad Rohangir, Surush Saraie, Escander Rezale, Shahnin Lahouty and Medhei Ameruni; and if he will urge that government to confirm that those people are healthy and safe in the location where they are and that their families be made aware of this.
    (202260)
119
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to encourage more tourists to visit Egypt.
    (202269)
120
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that British expertise will be used in the building of the nuclear power station in Egypt.
    (202271)
121
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss with his counterparts in Egypt and Libya lessening the threat along the borders of those countries caused by terrorist networks in Libya.
    (202272)
122
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Egyptian government on the Muslim Brotherhood.
    (202275)
123
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 73W, on Israel, how many complaints about differential treatment of British nationals have been made since 2010 by the UK embassy in Tel Aviv to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and on which dates.
    (202128)
124
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 384W, on Western Sahara, if the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa will meet representatives of POLISARIO, the administering power de facto in the area east of the Berm dividing Western Sahara, to discuss security and terrorism.
    (202069)
125
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS was of provision of abortions in (a) NHS hospitals and (b) approved independent sector places in 2013.
    (202021)
126
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed in each of the last five years; and how many and what proportion of such procedures were performed (a) to save the life of the mother and (b) in cases of rape.
    (202180)
127
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated since May 2011 on (i) the earliest point in its development of an unborn child will experience pain, (ii) the earliest gestational age at which an unborn child may be capable of being born alive, (iii) the number of occasions when an unborn baby is wrongly diagnosed as being handicapped and is subsequently born without disability or handicap and (iv) the suicide rate among women who have had an abortion; and if he will make a statement.
    (202187)
128
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of women who had an abortion in 2013 were married at the time of the abortion; what the modal (a) age of the women, (b) length gestation of the pregnancy, (c) number of previous children born to the women and (d) number of previous abortions undergone by the women was; and what the most common legal grounds was under which such abortions were performed.
    (202188)
129
 
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of reports by disability campaigners that the German government was complicit in preventing British victims of thalidomide from securing compensation from Grünenthal; and if he will make representations to his German counterpart on that matter.
    (202189)
130
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the additional need weighting is for each GP surgery in South Lakeland.
    (202030)
131
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many rural GP surgeries have fewer than 1,000 patients registered.
    (202033)
132
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202170)
133
 
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on diagnosing food allergy in children and young people in a primary care and unit setting are adhered to by general practitioners.
    (202125)
134
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Batley and Spen, of 4 March 2011, Official Report, column 664W, on health professions, whether the robust evidence-based cost-benefit risk analysis on the regulation of unregulated healthcare professionals has been undertaken by his Department; and whether he plans to publish that analysis and its conclusions.
    (202036)
135
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of plans of health providers to recruit nurses and midwives from overseas in the 2014-15 academic year; and how many such nurses and midwives he anticipates will be recruited.
    (202070)
136
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on negotiations between Health Education England and university providers of undergraduate health education courses for health allied professional staff regarding the benchmark price for the 2014-15 academic year.
    (202071)
137
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on negotiations in respect of the National Framework Contract between Health Education England and university providers of undergraduate health education courses for the health-allied professions.
    (202078)
138
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202058)
139
 
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women resident in Scotland have had a late termination after 20 weeks which took place in England in each of the last 10 years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
    (202077)
140
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the availability of free prescriptions for congenital heart disease across England.
    (202129)
141
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the efficacy and potential cost-savings to the NHS of self-monitoring machines for blood testing for sufferers of congenital heart disease.
    (202130)
142
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people died of congenital heart disease below the age of 40 in each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last 15 years.
    (202131)
143
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) adults and (b) children in each region and constituent part of the UK suffer from congenital heart disease.
    (202136)
144
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the chronic conditions that (a) do and (b) do not qualify for free prescriptions.
    (202137)
145
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much in real terms was spent on children's mental health services in each year for which data is available.
    (202139)
146
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 244W, on prescriptions: fees and charges, what the cost was of administering prescription charges in each of the last 10 years.
    (202244)
147
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what current contracts (a) her Department and (b) each of her Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202171)
148
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by her Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202059)
149
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to prevent UK citizens from joining terrorist movements in Egypt and Syria.
    (202276)
150
 
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to ensure that Welsh language service provisions are maintained whilst her Department clears the passport applications backlog.
    (202193)
151
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to the (a) International Planned Parenthood Federation and (b) United Nations Population Fund in each year since 2009.
    (202028)
152
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what current contracts (a) her Department and (b) her Department's non-departmental public body hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202172)
153
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by her Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202060)
154
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what help the Government is giving to Egypt to source gas and oil fields.
    (202263)
155
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her Egyptian counterpart on structural reform in Egypt to improve employment opportunities.
    (202264)
156
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the Egyptian government on creating job opportunities for people under 30.
    (202266)
157
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will take steps to support the introduction of green tourism in Egypt.
    (202267)
158
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in Israel on the need for negotiations with Egypt to develop agriculture in that country.
    (202270)
159
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she plans to take in conjunction with the Egyptian government to develop the Nile delta for the production of food.
    (202273)
160
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government has taken to increase the number of women in the Egyptian political system.
    (202274)
161
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking with her Egyptian counterpart to reduce the level of poverty in Egypt.
    (202277)
162
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Government has offered support to the Egyptian government to help put in place the Egyptian parliament.
    (202278)
163
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many of the masterplans funded by her Department in Area C of the Occupied Palestinian Territory have received full approval by the Israeli government; and how long the approval process took in each case.
    (201984)
164
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of Area C of the Occupied Palestinian Territory is covered by approved masterplans.
    (201985)
165
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when the construction of the first infrastructure project funded by her Department in Area C of the Occupied Palestinian Territory will commence.
    (201986)
166
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Glen Parva spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202120)
167
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Gloucester spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (202121)
168
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Grendon spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (202122)
169
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Guys Marsh spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (202123)
170
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Haslar spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (202124)
171
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of DNA profiles on the DNA database which had been previously removed.
    (201979)
172
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many DNA profiles of current prisoners have not been added to the DNA database.
    (201981)
173
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful matches there have been between DNA profiles taken from crime scenes and those stored on the National DNA Database in each of the last two years.
    (201982)
174
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 28 February 2014, Official Report, column 548W, on prisoners: females, what programmes and interventions are provided to male victims of domestic violence in prison; in which men's prisons such programmes and interventions are available; how much central Government funding has been made available to such programmes and interventions in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15; which domestic violence programmes and interventions will be delivered in 2014-15; and in which prisons.
    (202016)
175
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202173)
176
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Blantyre House spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (201988)
177
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Blakenhurst spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (201989)
178
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Bedford spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (201990)
179
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Aylesbury spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (201991)
180
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Acklington spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (201992)
181
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202061)
182
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison The Verne, spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202017)
183
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Thorn Cross, spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202018)
184
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Prescoed, spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202019)
185
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Swinfen Hall, spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202020)
186
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Wakefield spent (a) in cells and (b) working by prisoners in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202108)
187
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reoffending rates of prisoners held in each prison was in each of the last 10 years.
    (202138)
188
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what current contracts (a) her Department and (b) each of her Department's non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202174)
189
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by her Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202062)
190
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Prime Minister, how often the official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East reports back to the Quartet constituent parties; what form that reporting takes; if he will publish a URL link to published outputs of the Envoy's work; how many visits the Envoy has made to the Middle East since his appointment in June 2007; how many of these visits were to (a) Israel, (b) the West Bank Palestinian Territories and (c) the Gaza Palestinian Territories; and what the annual cost to the UK has been of supporting the office and travel of the Envoy.
    (202106)
191
 
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 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 711W, on electoral register, if the Electoral Commission will make it its policy to collect data on the number and percentage of attainers registered to vote.
    (202067)
192
 
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 2 April 2014, Official Report, column 681W, on electoral register, how many students were registered to vote as a result of the cross-referencing of data from the Student Loans Company in the data matching pilots.
    (202245)
193
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202175)
194
 
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the consultation on the newly proposed compensation scheme for High Speed 2 (Phase 1) will (a) begin and (b) end.
    (202126)
195
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which external consultants were involved in the design of the rail passenger franchise directly awarded to West Coast Trains Ltd; and what the cost to his Department was in each case.
    (201975)
196
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will confirm the legal protections for existing collective bargaining agreements between recognised trade unions and West Coast Trains Ltd for the period of the rail passenger franchise directly awarded to the employer on 19 June and coming into effect on 22 June 2014.
    (201976)
197
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202063)
198
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the upgrade of the Manchester-Leeds-York railway line will begin; and if he will make a statement.
    (202140)
199
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the effect will be on the transpennine community of the upgrade of train lines on the Manchester-Leeds-York railway line.
    (202141)
200
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202065)
201
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by the Government Equalities Office received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202057)
202
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of employment and support allowance claimants who were employed in each of the last 12 months.
    (202095)
203
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of employment and support allowance claimants that were subject to sanctions in each of the last 12 months.
    (202102)
204
 
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation's subsidiaries.
    (202177)
205
 
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
    (202066)
Monday 30 June  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
 
★ 1
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): What recent assessment he has made of the scope for local authorities to make savings by reducing waste and inefficiency.
    (904503)
★ 2
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.
    (904504)
★ 3
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden): What assessment he has made of the performance of the Troubled Families Programme.
    (904505)
★ 4
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.
    (904506)
★ 5
Chloe Smith (Norwich North): What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.
    (904507)
★ 6
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): What steps he is taking to increase home-building.
    (904508)
★ 7
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): What assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of rent arrears in social housing.
    (904509)
★ 8
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): What assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of rent arrears in social housing.
    (904510)
★ 9
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): What discussions he has had with local authorities on the future of local welfare assistance schemes after April 2015.
    (904511)
★ 10
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): What progress his Department has made in advancing the agenda set out in its publication Creating the Conditions for Integration, published in February 2012.
    (904512)
★ 11
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.
    (904513)
★ 12
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): What recent assessment he has made of the effect on local authorities of the freeze on council tax.
    (904514)
★ 13
David Rutley (Macclesfield): What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.
    (904515)
★ 14
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): What assessment he has made of recent trends in the number of households being found homeless but not in priority need by local authorities.
    (904516)
★ 15
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): What steps the Government is taking to support community pubs.
    (904517)
★ 16
John Pugh (Southport): What assessment his Department has made of the extent to which the sequential test has inhibited out-of-town retail development.
    (904518)
★ 17
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): What recent assessment he has made of the scope for local authorities to make savings by reducing waste and inefficiency.
    (904519)
★ 18
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): What steps he is taking to give greater certainty of tenure and to improve affordability in the private rented sector.
    (904520)
★ 19
Mr Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley): What assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of rent arrears in social housing.
    (904521)
★ 20
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): When he next plans to meet district council representatives to discuss their Local Development Frameworks; and if he will make a statement.
    (904522)
★ 21
Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): What steps he is taking to help local firms with their business rate bills in (a) England, (b) Tamworth and (c) Lichfield.
    (904523)
★ 22
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the spending power of local authorities in relation to the level of demand for their statutory services.
    (904524)
★ 23
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): What plans he has to exercise his oversight role in relation to the North East Combined Authority and its scrutiny arrangements; and if he will make a statement.
    (904525)
★ 24
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What recent assessment he has made of the effect on local authorities of the freeze on council tax.
    (904526)
★ 25
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): What steps he is taking to increase the number of affordable homes being built.
    (904527)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (904543)
★ 2
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):  
    (904544)
★ 3
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley):  
    (904545)
★ 4
Steve Brine (Winchester):  
    (904546)
★ 5
Henry Smith (Crawley):  
    (904547)
★ 6
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke):  
    (904548)
★ 7
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):  
    (904549)
★ 8
Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon):  
    (904550)
★ 9
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle):  
    (904551)
★ 10
Pat Glass (North West Durham):  
    (904552)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 23 June

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for regional variations in the number of sanctions issued to benefit claimants by job centres.
    (201924)

Notices given on Tuesday 24 June

1
N
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Attorney General, how many creditors remained unpaid by his Department as at 1 June 2014; and of those how many have been waiting for (a) 45, (b) 60, (c) 75 and (d) more than 76 days.
    (202147)
2
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to ensure that the six days a week universal Royal Mail service continues in rural areas.
    (202198)
3
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service has made payments of protective awards due to failures on the part of the company or administrator to conduct a proper collective consultation in each of the last five years; to which companies such awards were made; and how much was paid out in (a) statutory entitlements and (b) protective awards in each such case.
    (202006)
4
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service has made payments in cases where Deloitte was appointed the administrator in each of the last five years; how many such cases also involved payments made for protective awards; and how much was paid out for (a) statutory entitlements and (b) protective awards in each such case.
    (202007)
5
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times his Department has appeared at an employment tribunal to contest protective awards in each of the last five years.
    (202008)
6
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many outstanding protective awards to be paid by the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Services are owed to firms in which less than 20 people are employed on one site.
    (202009)
7
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what quality standards will be imposed on employers when apprenticeship funding moves directly to employers.
    (202149)
8
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what factors he took into account in deciding not to adopt a pure provider payment model in reform of apprenticeship funding.
    (202150)
9
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to consult family and micro-brewery pub owners on the proposed mandatory code of practice.
    (202039)
10
N
Mark Durkan (Foyle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of cutting the rate of tourism VAT on the tourism balance of payments.
    (202041)
11
N
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when assessments have been made of the value for money of the private finance initiative contract between HM Revenue and Customs and Mapeley Steps Contractor Limited; and when the first such assessment was made.
    (202079)
12
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 36W, on minimum wage: Northern Ireland, whether HM Revenue and Customs' national minimum wage enforcement team have any staff located in Northern Ireland outside the city of Belfast.
    (202044)
13
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 36W, on minimum wage: Northern Ireland, how many people are employed (a) full-time and (b) part-time in the HM Revenue and Customs national minimum wage enforcement team based in Belfast.
    (202256)
14
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential effect on the tax-free childcare scheme on childcare prices; and if he will make a statement.
    (202013)
15
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.22 of Delivering Tax-free childcare: the Government’s response to the consultation on design and operation, when the decision to make National Savings and Investments HM Revenue and Customs' delivery partner for tax-free childcare was.
    (202161)
16
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 674W, on children: day care, what the cost to the public purse was of the report prepared by Economic Insight for his Department.
    (202162)
17
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 6.10 of Delivering Tax-free childcare: the Government's response to the consultation on design and operation published in March 2014, what clear guidance and communications tools his Department plans to provide to help parents make informed decisions on which scheme is best for their circumstances.
    (202254)
18
N
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance he gives local authorities on assessing the infrastructure required for sites which are included in their site allocations process; and what steps he takes if local authorities do not adhere to that guidance.
    (202253)
19
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress his Department has made on developing a model for longer fixed-term tenancies with rent review clauses which are index linked to inflation.
    (202248)
20
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the average lettings agency fees charged to tenants in the private rented sector (a) at the start of a new tenancy and (b) when a tenancy is renewed.
    (202249)
21
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish a new model tenancy agreement for tenants and landlords in the private rented sector.
    (202250)
22
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has for the issuing of further licences for local television.
    (202202)
23
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the total value to the economy of the sale of UK film productions to foreign distributors in each year since 2005.
    (202160)
24
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which arts organisations and events in the North West he has visited since his appointment.
    (202151)
25
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.
    (202085)
26
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British armed forces personnel were operationally deployed to Northern Ireland in each year from April 1984 to April 2010; and how many such personnel were accompanied by a (a) souse or (b) civil partner in each such year.
    (202093)
27
N
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what capital funding has been made available to free schools in Enfield North constituency since May 2010.
    (202012)
28
N
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the guidance published by his Department on 25 March 2014, on Sure Start centres: local authority duties, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the core purpose of Sure Start children's centres.
    (202251)
29
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what penalties would be incurred by a free school, academy or other educational establishment which was found to be teaching or otherwise supporting creationism.
    (202221)
30
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure Ofsted is able to undertake the proposed increase in inspections of apprenticeship providers.
    (202000)
31
N
Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to which geographical areas the roll-out programme for smart meters will extend; and when the programme will happen in each area.
    (202159)
32
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive applications that have been received from (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland since April 2014.
    (202205)
33
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the number of domestic renewable heat incentive applications received since April 2014; and how many such applications have been turned down because they did not meet minimum insulation standards.
    (202208)
34
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions he has raised the issues of child soldiering and progress on tackling it with his counterparts in other countries in the last two years.
    (202201)
35
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make urgent representations to his counterpart in South Sudan on the reported re-arrest of Mariam Ibrahim in South Sudan.
    (202045)
36
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on which countries considers apostasy a crime and what sentence it carries.
    (202046)
37
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Colombian counterpart to support the requests for an investigation into the death of Yonni Steven Caicedo, a television cameraman in Colombia shot dead on 19 February 2014.
    (202086)
38
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Colombian counterpart supporting the requests for an investigation into the murders of four FENSUAGRO trades union members shot dead on 17 May 2014 in Alto Amarradero.
    (202087)
39
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Colombian counterpart that Colombia should guarantee the safety of Nubia Acosta, Nevis Niño Rodríguez and the families of El Tamarindo.
    (202088)
40
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Colombian counterpart supporting the requests for an investigation into the death of Thomas Rodriguez Cantillo, a SINTRAINAGRO trades union member killed on 9 May 2014.
    (202090)
41
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Colombian counterpart concerning the withdrawal on 26 May 2014, of precautionary safety measures recommended by the Inter American Court for Human Rights to protect the human rights activist Juan David Diaz.
    (202091)
42
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on mental health research in each year since 2010.
    (202212)
43
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to improve access to sexual health services.
    (202213)
44
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to support FPA Sexual Health Week 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (202214)
45
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to tackle sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men.
    (202215)
46
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how much arthritis has cost the UK economy in each year since 2010.
    (202216)
47
N
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, columns 27-8W, on pharmaceutical price regulation scheme, what payments have been made to the devolved administrations in the financial year 2014-15 to date; and what payments were made to the devolved administrations in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 financial years under the iteration of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme which has applied from 1 January 2014.
    (202163)
48
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to publish draft regulations associated with the standardised packaging of tobacco products and smoking in cars with children present in time for the measures to be made law before the end of March 2015.
    (202257)
49
N
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what radiotherapy services are located within West Sussex.
    (202211)
50
N
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cancer patients from (a) the coastal West Sussex area and (b) Bognor Regis and Littlehampton constituency received radiotherapy at hospitals in (i) Portsmouth, (ii) Brighton, (iii) Guildford and (iv) elsewhere outside West Sussex in 2013-14.
    (202223)
51
N
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of cancer patients from (a) West Sussex and (b) Bognor Regis and Littlehampton constituency who received radiotherapy at hospitals in (i) Portsmouth, (ii) Brighton, (iii) Guildford and (iv) elsewhere outside West Sussex since May 2007.
    (202252)
52
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many local authorities have a named autism lead.
    (202154)
53
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects his Department's statutory guidance for autism to be published for consultation.
    (202155)
54
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that regulations and guidance under the Care Act 2014 are compatible with the Autism Act 2009 and existing autism strategies and autism statutory guidance.
    (202156)
55
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Care Act 2014 Part I regulations are compatible with the revised Adult Autism Strategy (a) in general and (b) in relation to autism training for community care assessors.
    (202157)
56
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many services for adults with autism are commissioned under the Payments by Results framework.
    (202158)
57
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with a learning disability placed in assessment and treatment units (ATUs) had their placements reviewed between December 2012 and June 2013; how many such people were found to have been placed there inappropriately; and how many of those found to have been inappropriately placed in ATUs have since been moved into the community.
    (202217)
58
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS outpatient appointments were made through Choose and Book in each quarter of 2013-14 and to date in the first quarter of 2014-15.
    (202220)
59
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral statement of 10 December 2012 made by the Minister of State, Department of Health, Official Report, column 49, on Winterbourne View, how many meetings the Minister has had with (a) officials in his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) Ministers in the Department for Communities and Local Government to discuss progress on the commitments made in that statement.
    (202279)
60
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospital trusts are not currently meeting the 18-week target in respect of spinal services.
    (202204)
61
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department has gathered on opinions of members of the public of the recorded voice facility offered when they ring regional passport offices on urgent business.
    (202199)
62
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment officials in her Department have made of the feasibility of establishing US immigration, customs and agricultural pre-clearance at Belfast International Airport.
    (202092)
63
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a requirement on police forces to ensure that candidates for the role of police constable should have the Certificate in Knowledge of Policing; and whether such candidates have to pay for that certification personally.
    (202203)
64
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that there is greater equity across governments in donations to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations.
    (202200)
65
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to support the adoption of a target to promote an open, rules-based, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system that complies with the mandate for agriculture, services and non-agricultural products of the World Trade Organisation Doha Round and implements the outcomes of the World Trade Organisation Bali Declaration in Open Working Group negotiations on the sustainable development goals.
    (202219)
66
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to support the adoption of a target to increase trade-related capacity-building assistance to developing countries, including support for building their capacity to meet product regulations and standards; and if she will take steps to enhance Aid for Trade initiatives through (a) the Enhanced Integrated Framework in the Open Working Group negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals and (b) other measures.
    (202225)
67
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to support the adoption of a target to co-operate globally to reduce substantially international tax evasion and avoidance in the Open Working Group negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals.
    (202226)
68
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Hewell Grange spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (202003)
69
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Havering spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (202004)
70
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Hatfield spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which data is available.
    (202005)
71
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Highdown spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202014)
72
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Highpoint spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202015)
73
N
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders released from one life sentence have been given another life sentence in each of the last 30 years.
    (201998)
74
N
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders serving life sentences were held in open prisons in each of the last 20 years.
    (201999)
75
N
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders convicted of murder were held in open prisons in each of the last 20 years.
    (202001)
76
N
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many books are in each prison library.
    (202002)
77
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to achieve a prisoner transfer agreement between Iraq and the UK; and what steps he is taking to achieve a prisoner transfer agreement between Iraq and the UK with regard to Danny Fitzsimons.
    (202224)
78
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims bereaved by homicide have (a) applied for and (b) been successful in applications for legal aid since May 2010.
    (202206)
79
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to record the number of children summoned to give evidence in court.
    (202207)
80
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of active registered intermediaries that would be required to allow all vulnerable witnesses to have access to such support in court.
    (202209)
81
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken since May 2010 to improve the provision of (a) legal advice and legal representation, (b) trauma and emotional support services and (c) services for children for victims bereaved by homicide.
    (202210)
82
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Risley spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years.
    (202152)
83
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the planned timetable is for each prison in England and Wales to achieve Steady State under the systems introduced under the new Business Development Gateway programme; and if he will make a statement.
    (202080)
84
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many agency staff were used at each prison establishment in England and Wales on 9 June 2014 to carry out operational support grade functions.
    (202081)
85
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many training places and work-related experience places have been provided by the One3One Solutions, since it replaced the Prison Industries Unit, in each prison in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.
    (202082)
86
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many operational support grade staff employed by the National Offender Management Service on 31 March 2014 were employed on (a) temporary, (b) fixed-term and (c) full-time contracts.
    (202083)
87
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff from each prison establishment had been sent on detached duty on 9 June 2014; and how many staff had been received at each prison establishment on detached duty on that date.
    (202084)
88
N
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department's employment tribunal statistics are independently assessed for accuracy.
    (202164)
89
N
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the quarterly employment tribunal statistics published by his Department on 12 June 2014 were removed without notification and replaced the same day with a second set of statistics; and if he will make a statement.
    (202165)
90
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what work has been undertaken by officials in her Department to support Northern Ireland's regional and international air links in 2014 to date.
    (202089)
91
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she last discussed the potential devolution of corporation tax to Northern Ireland with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
    (202255)
92
N
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) discussions and (b) correspondence she has had with the Parades Commission over summer parades in North Belfast.
    (202146)
93
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many drivers who have provided the necessary medical evidence are waiting to have their driving licence restored following temporary suspension for medical reasons.
    (202010)
94
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how long drivers who have produced the necessary medical evidence have waitied before their licence is restored following suspension for medical reasons.
    (202011)
95
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the longest period waited was on the receipt of the necessary medical evidence, to restore a driving licence for those drivers who have temporarily had their licence suspended for medical reasons in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (202148)
96
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his latest estimate is of the cost of decking over Euston Station and the cutting approach to the station.
    (202037)
97
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of Crossrail 2 works required to deal with extra passengers at Euston Station resulting from High Speed 2.
    (202038)
98
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken to settle a personal independence payment claim is.
    (202222)
99
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of cases of a local authority paying a landlord directly because a tenant who receives universal credit was more than eight weeks behind on rent payments; and what steps his Department has taken to (a) encourage tenants in receipt of universal credit to pay rent on time and (b) tackle repeated non-payment of rent by universal credit claimants.
    (202218)
100
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with chronic conditions have been reassessed as eligible for higher-rate disability living allowance in each of the last five years.
    (202040)
101
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which (a) areas and (b) jobcentre plus offices universal credit will be available to couples in (i) June, (ii) July and (iii) August 2014.
    (202153)
Tuesday 1 July  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 20 June

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to carry out further consultations on changes to firefighter pensions in order to reach a settlement to the dispute on this issue.
    (201639)

Notices given on Tuesday 24 June

1
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what background checks his Department undertook on Lord Lingfield's charitable foundation before the transfer of the wreck of HMS Victory 1744.
    (202042)
2
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to issue further guidance on ecological focus areas; and if he will make a statement.
    (202227)
3
N
Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HMP Exeter spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which data is available.
    (202043)
4
N
Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Forest Bank spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available; and what the average number of hours per week spent working by prisoners in that prison was in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
    (202229)
5
N
Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Ford spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available; and what the average number of hours per week spent working by prisoners in that prison was in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
    (202230)
6
N
Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Featherstone spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available; and what the average number of hours per week spent working by prisoners in that prison was in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
    (202231)
7
N
Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Feltham spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the last date for which figures are available; and what the average number of hours per week spent working was by prisoners in that prison in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
    (202258)
8
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to reduce incidences of domestic abuse and violence against women in Peterborough; and if she will make a statement.
    (202228)
Wednesday 2 July  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
 
★ 1
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): What assessment he has made of the potential for international inward investment in Scotland after 2014.
    (904528)
★ 2
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): What steps he is taking to incentivise employers in Scotland to pay the living wage.
    (904529)
★ 3
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): What steps he is taking to inform the public about the Scottish independence referendum.
    (904530)
★ 4
Jim McGovern (Dundee West): What assessment his Department has made of the effect of the Regional Air Connectivity Fund on Scotland.
    (904531)
★ 5
David Mowat (Warrington South): What assessment he has made of the potential effect of Scottish independence on energy flows between Scotland and the rest of the UK.
    (904532)
★ 6
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): What discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on the transition costs of an independent Scotland.
    (904533)
★ 7
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): What assessment he has made of the effects of the distribution of housing benefit in Scotland.
    (904534)
★ 8
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): What assessment he has made of the effect on postal services in Scotland of competition between providers.
    (904535)
★ 9
Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): If he will take steps to provide compensation for people in Scotland who have lost out financially as a result of delayed passport applications.
    (904536)
★ 10
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): If he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide that, in the event of a vote for Scottish independence in the forthcoming referendum, residents of Scotland will not be entitled to vote in the 2015 UK general election.
    (904537)
★ 11
Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): What steps he is taking to help people in Scotland with the cost of energy bills.
    (904538)
★ 12
Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock): If he will take steps to provide compensation for people in Scotland who have lost out financially as a result of delayed passport applications.
    (904539)
★ 13
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): What discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on including Scotland in the Government's plans to build new high speed railway lines.
    (904540)
★ 14
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): If he will make an assessment of the effects of government policy on young people in Scotland who are not in training or employment.
    (904541)
★ 15
Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South): What plans the Government has for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament.
    (904542)

Prepared 25th June 2014