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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Thursday 10 July 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 9 July 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Thursday 10 July 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 10 July  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
 
★ 1
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): What progress his Department has made on a second railway line to connect Plymouth with London and the Midlands.
    (904748)
★ 2
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): What plans he has to relieve congestion on roads.
    (904749)
★ 3
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): What proportion of Britain's rail track mileage is capable of accommodating full-sized lorry trailers on trains.
    (904750)
★ 4
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): What assessment he has made of the level of domestic and international connectivity provided by regional airports.
    (904751)
★ 5
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal): What plans he has to relieve congestion on roads.
    (904752)
★ 8
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): What assessment he has made of the economic effect of high-speed rail services to Kent.
    (904755)
★ 9
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): What assessment he has made of the level of domestic and international connectivity provided by regional airports.
    (904756)
★ 10
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): When he last used the Caledonian sleeper service for travel in an official capacity.
    (904757)
★ 11
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): What recent progress his Department has made on provision of rolling stock in the north of England.
    (904758)
★ 12
Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): What assessment he has made of recent trends in reported road casualties.
    (904759)
★ 13
David Mowat (Warrington South): What the estimated cost-benefit ratio is for the High Speed 2 Wigan spur.
    (904760)
★ 14
David Rutley (Macclesfield): What plans he has to relieve congestion on roads.
    (904761)
★ 15
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): What recent progress he has made on improving the A417-A419 at Nettleton Bottom and Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire; and if he will make a statement.
    (904762)
★ 16
Mr Frank Doran (Aberdeen North): What recent assessment he has made of the safety of passengers in the offshore oil and gas helicopter transport system.
    (904763)
★ 17
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): What assessment he has made of the economic and social contribution of airports to (a) the Exchequer and (b) the local communities they serve; and if he will make a statement.
    (904764)
At 10.05am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Neil Carmichael (Stroud): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (904778)
★ 2
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West):  
    (904779)
★ 3
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East):  
    (904780)
★ 4
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham):  
    (904781)
★ 6
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow):  
    (904783)
★ 7
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean):  
    (904784)
★ 8
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde):  
    (904785)
★ 9
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):  
    (904786)
★ 10
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton):  
    (904787)
At 10.15am
Oral Questions to the Leader of the House and the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission
 
★ 1
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues on making statements to the House before they are made to the media.
    (904788)
★ 2
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues about Private Members' Bills.
    (904789)
★ 3
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues about providing timely answers to written questions.
    (904790)
★ 4
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues about providing substantive answers to written questions.
    (904791)
★ 5
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of service to hon. Members provided by Parliamentary ICT.
    (904792)
★ 6
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Leader of the House, for what reasons he has not brought forward proposals to implement the Coalition Agreement commitment to set up a House Business Committee.
    (904793)
★ 7
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues on making statements to the House before they are made to the media.
    (904794)
★ 8
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment he has made of the procedures for the appointment of the next Clerk of the House and Chief Executive; and if he will make a statement.
    (904795)
★ 9
Pat Glass (North West Durham): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues on making statements to the House before they are made to the media.
    (904796)
★ 10
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues about providing substantive responses to select committee reports.
    (904797)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 27 June

1
N
Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Care Act 2014 and the care and support statutory guidance, whether self-funders and those with personalised care budgets are under an obligation to show that they are paying social care firms enough to pay their staff at least the minimum wage, including remuneration for travel time between appointments.
    (202967)
2
N
Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Care Act 2014 and the care and support statutory guidance, what guidance his Department gives to local authorities on the action they should take if they receive evidence that self-funders and those with personalised care budgets are not paying social care firms enough to pay their staff at least the minimum wage, including remuneration for travel time between appointments.
    (202968)

Notices given on Thursday 3 July

1
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the economic and social contribution of airports to (a) the public purse and (b) local communities.
    (204033)

Notices given on Friday 4 July

1
N
Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in which month the redress arrangements concerning letting and managing agents will commence.
  [R] (204060)
2
N
Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will publish a code of practice for the management of residential property.
  [R] (204061)
3
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2014, Official Report, column 520W, on telemedicine, when NHS England will publish a set of consistent measures for commissioners to demonstrate the effect of telehealth technologies on health outcomes.
    (204071)
4
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2014, Official Report, column 520W, on telemedicine, how many telehealth, telecare and telecoaching connections there were in each region of England in 2011.
    (204072)
5
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2014, Official Report, column 520W, on telemedicine, when NHS England will issue the first in its regular surveys on the number of individuals who benefit from telehealth services; to whom the survey will be issued; when the survey will report and be published; how it will be analysed; and how often it will be repeated.
    (204073)
6
N
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people over the age of 75 years were diagnosed with dementia after being admitted to hospital as an emergency inpatient in England in each year since 2009-10.
    (204074)

Notices given on Monday 7 July

1
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether public sector organisations from the devolved administrations have been invited to participate in Healthcare UK's Business Forum for stakeholders on 24 July 2014.
    (204220)
2
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of apprenticeships commenced in the last 12 months were with (a) small and medium-sized enterprises, (b) larger firms, (c) public sector employers and (d) voluntary sector employers.
    (204315)
3
N
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to tackle copycat websites which are charging for free Government services.
    (204211)
4
N
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent meetings he has had with internet search engine companies on steps to tackle copycat websites which are charging for free Government services.
    (204213)
5
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2014, Official Report, column 506W, on official visits, what domestic visits each of the Ministers of his Department has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
    (204377)
6
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions officials from his Department have held with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Office about that Department accepting placements from the Civil Service fast stream programme.
    (204147)
7
N
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the (a) compliance and (b) performance of Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited following HM Revenue and Custom's last audit of such compliance and performance of Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited in respect of the Annual PM Schedule under 17.1(a) of the Private Finance Initiative contract between HM Revenue and Customs and Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited.
    (204244)
8
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to introduce a derelict land tax.
    (204221)
9
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with the Football Association the development of safe standing areas in Premiership Club grounds.
    (204214)
10
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 665W, on official visits, what domestic visits each of the Ministers of his Department has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
    (204376)
11
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 221W, on Combined Cadet Force, if he will make an assessment of the effect of recruitment to existing community-based cadet forces.
    (204145)
12
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost was of the extension of the C-17 Globemaster III sustainment package contract; and for how long that contract will run.
    (204369)
13
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions the Military Aviation Authority has recommended that the F-35B be (a) grounded and (b) restricted in operations; what the reason was for each such recommendation; and what the duration of the grounding or restriction was in each such case.
    (204370)
14
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Military Aviation Authority recommended that F-35B BK-3 should not transit the Atlantic Ocean in time for the Royal International Air Tattoo.
    (204371)
15
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the level of funding for each pupil aged 16 to 18 years old in each academic year until 2020.
    (204202)
16
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of an increase in the numbers of young people at school age on funding for provision for 16-18 year olds in each year of the next Parliament.
    (204208)
17
N
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications were received from academies to expand to meet parental demand as part of Round 1 of the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund 2014-15; and how many such applications were approved.
    (204264)
18
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of secondary school students in Gloucestershire qualify for the pupil premium.
    (204206)
19
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage farmers to extend the seasonal production of fresh fruit and vegetables.
    (204219)
20
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce legislative proposals to enshrine the concept of a listed landscape.
    (204222)
21
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise at the UN the Amendment to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights adopted at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union.
    (204218)
22
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2014, Official Report, column 639W, on official visits, what domestic visits each of the Ministers of his Department has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
    (204374)
23
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with Public Health England on progress made by the BeClear Campaign to improve the detection of rare cancers over the last (a) six months and (b) year.
    (204310)
24
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS trusts offer a screening programme of osteoporosis to reduce falls and fractures.
    (204311)
25
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis received an annual review in each of the last five years.
    (204312)
26
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of (a) NHS expenditure and (b) other expenditure for which his Department is responsible has been for the (i) treatment and (ii) prevention of obesity in each of the last five years.
    (204313)
27
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were admitted to hospital with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of liver disease in each year since 2010.
    (204314)
28
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Institute for Health Research has reported to his Department the results of the research commissioned on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    (204216)
29
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on allegations that tissue samples were sold by the Christie NHS Foundation Trust to pharmaceutical companies without the knowledge of the patients concerned; whether his attention was drawn to any such allegations; and what investigation his Department has (a) conducted and (b) plans to conduct into such allegations.
    (204255)
30
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will direct Monitor to publish its strategy for engaging with whistleblowers in its fact-finding investigation into alleged wrongdoing at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
    (204257)
31
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that no settlement is reached between the Christie NHS Foundation Trust and its chief executive, Caroline Shaw, on the termination of her employment until Monitor and the Care Quality Commission have concluded their current investigations into allegations of wrongdoing and published the outcome.
    (204258)
32
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that whistleblowers willing to give evidence on allegations of wrongdoing at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust will not be victimised or otherwise suffer detriment from the Trust for so giving evidence.
    (204259)
33
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether a compromise agreement has been reached, or is in the process of being reached, with the currently suspended chief executive of the Christie NHS Foundation Trust on the termination of her employment.
    (204260)
34
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to address regional inequalities in health outcomes for interstitial lung disease in the last year; and if he will make a statement.
    (204151)
35
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve support for people with aphasia.
    (204363)
36
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulance calls were responded to by (a) the police and (b) the fire service in (i) England, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) Hyndburn constituency in each of the last five years.
    (204157)
37
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of ambulances responding to the most serious calls failed to respond within eight minutes in (a) England, (b) Lancashire and (c) the Hyndburn Constituency in each of the last 10 years.
    (204212)
38
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices have closed since May 2010.
    (204309)
39
N
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that people who visit Scotland to participate in or watch the Commonwealth Games in 2014 are not able to remain in the country illegally after the Games have finished.
    (204199)
40
N
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who came to the UK to participate in the 2012 Paralympic Games who remain in the country illegally; and if she will make a statement.
    (204201)
41
N
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have entered the UK in each of the last five years to participate in the London marathons and who remain in the country illegally; and if she will make a statement.
    (204205)
42
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of her Department's expenditure on the (a) immigration system once associated fee income has been deducted and (b) asylum system in each of the last three financial years for which figures are available.
    (204254)
43
N
Sir John Randall (Uxbridge and South Ruislip): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 9 April 2014, Official Report, column 274W, on human trafficking: victim support schemes, how many of those referred were (a) men and (b) women, by country; what steps are taken to ensure that after the victim exits the shelter into which they have been placed by the Salvation Army they are not retrafficked or enter contact with their former traffickers; and if she will make a statement.
    (204316)
44
N
Sir John Randall (Uxbridge and South Ruislip): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answers of 9 April 2014, Official Report, column 274WS and 14 January 2014, Official Report, column 481W, on human trafficking: victim support schemes, for what reason information on each individual and on their gender and location was not given in the former Answer; and if she will provide that information in response to future parliamentary questions seeking equivalent information.
    (204317)
45
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation of displaced Rohingya Muslims in Burma.
    (204198)
46
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what additional support she is providing to authorities in West Africa to help them with the recent ebola outbreak.
    (204215)
47
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 681W, on official visits, what domestic visits each of the Ministers of her Department has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
    (204375)
48
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been paid to Triple Line Consulting Ltd for the management and running of the Global Poverty Action Fund in each year since 2010.
    (204159)
49
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent from the Rapid Response Facility in each country in each year since its launch.
    (204160)
50
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent from the Conflict Pool in each country in each year since its launch.
    (204161)
51
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether decisions to award funding under the Global Poverty Action Fund were made by the Civil Society Department, Policy and Research Division of her Department or by Triple Line Consulting Ltd.
    (204162)
52
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many reports of fraud or corrupt practices her Department has received (a) in writing and (b) through the development tracker website in each year since 2010.
    (204163)
53
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will introduce mandatory training for lawyers dealing with children.
    (204364)
54
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners committed suicide in each of the last 10 years.
    (204365)
55
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether secure colleges will contain segregation units.
    (204372)
56
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for compensation were rejected by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date; and if he will list in each case the injuries sustained by the applicant and the reason for the application being refused.
    (204261)
57
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Court of Appeal hearings have been televised since cameras were first allowed in court.
    (204262)
58
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department will impose a cap on the number of contracts any one bidder can be awarded to undertake the work of the 21 community rehabilitation companies.
    (204265)
59
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many minutes in total of Court of Appeal hearings have been televised since cameras were first allowed in court.
    (204267)
60
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the maximum share of the total contract value for community rehabilitation companies any one successful bidder will be able to be awarded.
    (204268)
61
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, columns 724-5W, on official visits, what domestic visits each of the Ministers of her Department has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
    (204373)
62
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she intends to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Bury South constituency of 12 June 2014 on a youth summit on building a shared future.
    (204146)
63
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions she has had with the Chief Executive of Healthcare UK to ensure that business, academia, health and public sector organisations in Northern Ireland are included in Healthcare UK's priorities for 2014-15.
    (204204)
64
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much transport grant was given to Warrington Borough Council in each year since 2008-09.
    (204149)
65
N
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding has been allocated to support rural bus routes in Cornwall in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
    (204153)
66
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public inquiries into bus performance were undertaken by each traffic commissioner in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
    (204152)
67
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it a condition of the Bus Service Operators Grant incentive for real time information equipment that the performance data generated should be made available to the traffic commissioners.
    (204207)
68
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local transport authorities achieve the bus punctuality targets set by the Senior Traffic Commissioners.
    (204210)
69
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Bradford will be included in any future northern high speed rail line across the Pennines.
    (204158)
70
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants from (a) England, (b) London and (c) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency were sanctioned in the last 12 months.
    (204200)
71
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants from Bethnal Green and Bow constituency had benefit sanctions overturned in the last 12 months.
    (204203)
72
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to work with Remploy factory workers since the factory closure programme began; how many former Remploy factory employees are now in mainstream work; and how many former Remploy employees have been supported by the Access to Work scheme since the factory closure programme began.
    (204148)
73
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methodology is used by his Department to assess the comparative costs and benefits of the Access to Work scheme.
    (204252)
74
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people entered the Access to Work scheme in each year since 2004.
    (204256)
75
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on learning disability outcomes of the closure of the Independent Living Fund.
    (204155)
76
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with learning disability charities on the closure of the Independent Living Fund.
    (204156)
77
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency received winter fuel payments in the last year for which figures are available.
    (204150)
78
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Warrington Borough and (b) Warrington North constituency were in (i) relative and (ii) absolute poverty in 1997-98 and each year since.
    (204253)
79
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received in support of maintaining the local welfare provision grant to local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
    (204263)
80
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for jobseeker's allowance made by (a) men and (b) women in the first quarter of 2014 were made within six months of a previous claim ending.
    (204266)

Notices given on Tuesday 8 July

1
N
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in road safety statistics.
[Question Unstarred]   (904765)
2
N
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to relieve congestion on roads in Hampshire.
[Question Unstarred]   (904753)
3
N
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans the Government has for further high-speed rail developments.
[Question Unstarred]   (904766)
4
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in reported road casualties.
[Question Unstarred]   (904767)
5
N
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on the pilot of a new enforcement process for foreign-registered vehicles that have overstayed.
[Question Unstarred]   (904754)
6
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the aggregate household debt was in the final quarter of the 2013-14 financial year.
[Transferred]   (204217)
7
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with banks about the consequences for a mortgage application of taking out a payday loan.
[Transferred]   (204209)
8
N
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what guidance the Minister of State for Cities and Constitution has given to local enterprise partnerships on informing (a) district councils and (b) hon. Members about Growth Deal schemes before briefing the media; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred]   (204251)
9
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review existing trade descriptions legislation and its effect on regulating companies that describe themselves or hold themselves to be acting as legal firms.
[Transferred]   (204154)
10
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Attorney General, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by the Law Officers' Departments in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204463)
11
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Attorney General, what costs his Department has incurred in prosecuting the case of (a) Christopher Huhne and (b) Vasiliki Pryce.
    (204655)
12
 
Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many higher apprenticeships were delivered via the (a) Higher Education Funding Council for England and (b) Skills Funding Agency in each of the last five years.
    (204399)
13
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204462)
14
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in their Department and its agencies.
    (204494)
15
 
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what dates (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department had meetings with Adrian Beecroft between May 2012 and June 2014.
    (204448)
16
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many investigations of illegal money lenders have been carried out by illegal lending units in England, Scotland and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many such investigations have resulted in criminal convictions.
    (204420)
17
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how (a) the UK Government and (b) Northern Ireland is represented on the EU Consultative Multi-stakeholder Group on Social Business.
    (204614)
18
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the practice of blacklisting in public sector procurement contracts.
    (204523)
19
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204464)
20
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Government departments administer their own departmental civil service payrolls.
    (204611)
21
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency who are paid at a rate below the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
    (204636)
22
 
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Lords Lieutenant in England and Wales are (a) from an ethnic minority community, (b) women and (c) from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; and what steps are being taken to increase the proportion of Lords Lieutenant who are representatives of such communities.
    (204621)
23
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204478)
24
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what reduction in consumer credit licences for short-term loans he expects when the authorisation process under the new Financial Conduct Authority regime has been completed in 2016.
    (204419)
25
 
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the next revised, non-binding Estates Strategies issued by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will take account of a proposed boundary change at Priory Court, Dover, in respect of the number of available business square metres required by HMRC at the facility under 10.14(a) of the Private Finance Initiative contract between HMRC and Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited.
    (204575)
26
 
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the issue of a proposed boundary change at Priory Court, Dover, in respect of the number of available business square metres required by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) at the facility under 10.14(a) of the Private Finance Initiative contract between HMRC and Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited was discussed during the six month consultation before the previous revised, non-binding Estates Strategies issued by HMRC.
    (204580)
27
 
Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of whether changes made to child benefit legislation since May 2010 have resulted in unfair tax burdens falling on people who are living with a partner who has his or her own children in the household.
    (204403)
28
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the European Fuel Quality Directive Article 7a (a) on petrol prices and (b) generally.
    (204433)
29
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will conduct a separate consultation into the intellectual property implications of standardised tobacco packaging and its potential effect on the Exchequer.
    (204639)
30
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the effect on the Scottish economy of house prices in Scotland.
    (204501)
31
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the right hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by the Church Commissioners in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204465)
32
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204466)
33
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average level of local authority debt is per capita.
    (204610)
34
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was paid in (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit to people in prison in the last period for which figures are available.
    (204437)
35
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many second homes there were in each parish in Westmorland and Lonsdale on the most recent date for which data is available.
    (204423)
36
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to assist local authorities in acquiring necessary skills, partnerships and capacity to utilise the increased borrowing allowed against the Housing Revenue Account.
    (204424)
37
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to promote off-site methods of house building construction.
    (204425)
38
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in which instances the Planning Inspectorate has (a) removed and (b) amended to weaken (i) the code for sustainable homes or (ii) BREEAM standards from a development plan document prepared by a local planning authority since 13 March 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (204645)
39
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many public libraries have closed in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands in each of the last five years.
    (204447)
40
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new build libraries have opened in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Birmingham in each of the last five years.
    (204461)
41
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many public libraries there were in each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last five years.
    (204510)
42
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) financial, (b) staffing and (c) capacity-building support and assistance his Department has given to Sussex Safer Roads Partnership in respect of (i) activities relating to Operation Crackdown and (ii) all other activities in each year since its inception.
    (204565)
43
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what metrics his Department applies to assess the performance of Sussex Safer Roads Partnership's contribution to Operation Crackdown.
    (204566)
44
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish his assessment of the effectiveness of the protocols governing Sussex Safer Roads Partnership's contribution to Operation Crackdown.
    (204567)
45
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204467)
46
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games will provide lasting benefits to the area.
    (204615)
47
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the report of the independent review of the BBC's coverage of rural arrairs commissioned by the BBC Trust and published in June 2014, if he will discuss with the BBC Trust the finding of that report that BBC coverage does not fully reflect the economic and social concerns of people who live in the countryside.
    (204561)
48
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the benefits to (a) tourism and (b) the economy following the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
    (204511)
49
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his priorities are for the forthcoming NATO summit in Newport, Wales.
    (204612)
50
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has plans to offer military support to countries facing Islamic extremism in Africa; and if he will make a statement.
    (204391)
51
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Office in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204468)
52
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department provides for early years professionals on support for children with cerebral palsy; and if he will make a statement.
    (204515)
53
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on a national pay grading structure for teaching assistants.
    (204429)
54
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of teaching assistants that administer medicine to children in local authority schools in England.
    (204509)
55
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204469)
56
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what value of land has been sold off by academy trusts since 2010.
    (204507)
57
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the first tier tribunal decision notice of 2 July 2014, reference EA/2013/0270*, if he will take steps so that personal information in all future free school applications can be redacted easily and quickly and at reasonable cost; if he will make it his policy to release all future free school applications with any personal information that could identify individuals redacted; and if he will make a statement.
    (204581)
58
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to prevent bullying in infant and junior schools.
    (204382)
59
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that parents are made aware of the use of halal meat in school dinners where non-halal meat is not an option.
    (204383)
60
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that pupils prevented from attending school as a result of strike action are given an opportunity to catch up on school work missed owing to the absence of teaching staff.
    (204398)
61
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of qualified teachers who completed their studies in the last three years have a permanent teaching position.
    (204490)
62
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of foreign languages in schools.
    (204492)
63
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people who had been in receipt of free school meals applied to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 2010-11.
    (204496)
64
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204470)
65
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in their Department and its agencies.
    (204493)
66
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what security evaluation he has made of the proposed designs of the reactors and spent nuclear fuel for small modular reactor nuclear power plants.
    (204418)
67
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the annual budget is of his Department's new Nuclear Innovation and Research Office (NIRO); how many staff work full-time at NIRO; how many of those are secondees and from which organisations they are seconded; whether secondees are paid from public funds; what consideration was given to appointing a social scientist to the board of NIRO; what publications have been issued to date by NIRO; whether all research undertaken by or for NIRO is published in full; and what the web address is where minutes of the NIRO board are posted.
    (204421)
68
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what criteria were used to appoint members to the Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board; what annual budget is allocated to support the Board; what studies have been commissioned by or from the Board; and what the web address is where the Board's meeting agendas are posted.
    (204422)
69
 
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to fill the position of chair of the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office.
    (204608)
70
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many non-domestic customers have taken out a Green Deal loan.
    (204381)
71
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many off gas-grid properties have had renewable heating measures installed under the Renewables Heat Incentive.
    (204416)
72
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what further reviews of the non-domestic scheme of the Renewable Heat Incentive tariff rates are planned before April 2016.
    (204428)
73
 
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration he has given to supporting the micro combined heat and power fuel cell industry; and if he will make a statement.
    (204582)
74
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204471)
75
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 330W, on beavers: Devon, what other options have been discussed by his Department, Natural England and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency apart from recapturing and rehoming the population of wild beavers in Devon.
    (204413)
76
 
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 330W, on beavers: Devon, for what reasons he plans to recapture and rehome the wild beavers in Devon; and if he will make a statement.
    (204414)
77
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made relations with the government of Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement.
    (204528)
78
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204472)
79
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to emphasise adherence to fundamental freedoms of religion and association as part of the UK's foreign policy.
    (204616)
80
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to encourage the repeal of blasphemy laws in Pakistan.
    (204618)
81
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network and its Working Group on Voices of Victims of Terrorism in the last three years.
    (204620)
82
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consular assistance his Department offers to British nationals travelling in Bhutan.
    (204378)
83
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to strengthen trading relations between the UK and (a) Albania and (b) Montenegro.
    (204379)
84
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what condolences the UK has offered to Israel following the discovery of the bodies of the three murdered teenagers, Naftali Freikel, Gilad Sha'ar and Eyal Yifrah.
    (204384)
85
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the rise of Islamic terrorism in Northern Iraq.
    (204386)
86
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the rise in Islamic terrorism in Nigeria.
    (204387)
87
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department plans to offer to Nigeria in tackling the threat of Boko Haram.
    (204388)
88
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of links between Boko Haram and other Islamic extremist groups in Africa.
    (204389)
89
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss with his counterpart in Cameroon the need for constructive dialogue between that country and Nigeria in tackling Boko Haram; and if he will make a statement.
    (204390)
90
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on tackling the threat from Islamic extremism in northern Africa.
    (204392)
91
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Thai counterpart on allegations of the mistreatment of elephants in trekking camps in Thailand.
    (204394)
92
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals have required emergency consular assistance in Somalia in each of the last four years.
    (204395)
93
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what security guidance his Department provides to British nationals wishing to travel to Ukraine.
    (204396)
94
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to strengthen trading relations between the UK and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    (204397)
95
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with leading members of the Nigerian opposition party, the All Progressive Congress; and if he will make a statement.
    (204401)
96
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will commission an inquiry into the international support network for Boko Haram in Nigeria and Cameroon; and if he will make a statement.
    (204402)
97
 
Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice and training his Department provides to health visitors for supporting parents with children diagnosed with cerebral palsy; and if he will make a statement.
    (204524)
98
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204473)
99
 
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on providing translation and interpretation services in each year since 2010.
    (204637)
100
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money has been spent on hospital transport in each of the last five years.
    (204431)
101
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients received hospital transport in each of the last five years.
    (204432)
102
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost is of providing a patient with hospital transport.
    (204434)
103
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy that a final policy announcement on the standardised packaging of tobacco will be made on the floor of the House.
    (204638)
104
 
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have been admitted as day cases at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
    (204574)
105
 
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people have been seen as outpatients at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
    (204576)
106
 
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people attended the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
    (204577)
107
 
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people attended the paediatrics assessment unit but was not transferred from the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
    (204578)
108
 
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many babies were born at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
    (204579)
109
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 281W, on medical treatments, what the most plausible cost per quality adjusted life-year was for each technology appraisal conducted by the National Institute for Care Excellence since June 2010; what the estimated patient population was for each appraised indication; on which appraisals the end-of-life criteria were applied in each final appraisal determination; and on what dates each appraisal was (a) initiated and (b) concluded.
    (204436)
110
 
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received on allegations that the Government was warned about the dangers of the pregnancy testing drug Primodos in 1967 but did not ban it until 1978; and what steps he has taken as a result of those representations.
    (204438)
111
 
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will instigate a public inquiry into the issuing of prescriptions for Primodos to pregnant women through the NHS before 1978.
    (204489)
112
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department has spent on anti-smoking awareness campaigns in each of the last four years.
    (204385)
113
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of recent research findings published by Newcastle University which indicate that use of ibuprofen may retard premature ageing and the development of diabetes and dementia.
    (204554)
114
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage the organisers of the British Transplant Games to hold the games each year in Organ Transplant Week.
    (204555)
115
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's strategy is to ensure that GPs can detect cancer and refer cancer patients for treatment quicker.
    (204557)
116
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of progress by the NHS in making available to patients new types of bone-anchored hearing aid.
    (204558)
117
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the NHS has taken to address recent increases in the incidence of whooping cough in the UK.
    (204559)
118
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of recent research findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association which indicate that adding tomosynthesis to digital mammography improves the accuracy of breast screening; and whether this new technique will be made available on the NHS.
    (204560)
119
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps his Department has taken to raise awareness of charities set up to help those suffering from depression.
    (204491)
120
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the medical care for patients suffering from heart disease.
    (204512)
121
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police officers were deployed on the streets in each year since 2010; and if she will make a statement.
    (204525)
122
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by her Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204474)
123
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places are currently available for immigration detainees; how many such places are currently being occupied; what assessment she has made of the effect of fraud in English language tests on the number of immigration detainee places needed; and if she will make a statement.
    (204643)
124
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested following the recently uncovered English language test fraud; and how many of these people have been (a) held as an immigration detainee and (b) released.
    (204657)
125
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on the Sex Offenders Register failed to complete their annual notification in each of the last five years.
    (204659)
126
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on people in Northern Ireland of delays in handling passport applications.
    (204609)
127
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures are in place to offer safe passage to the UK for those seeking refuge from institutionalised religious persecution across the world.
    (204617)
128
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor UK citizens suspected to be travelling, or are found to have travelled, to the Middle East to fight for ISIS and similar radical groups, to ensure that upon their return they will not pose an internal threat through their own actions or the radicalisation of others.
    (204619)
129
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women were detained whilst seeking asylum for (a) less than three days, (b) between four and seven days, (c) between eight and 14 days, (d) between 15 and 28 days, (e) between 29 days and three months, (f) between three months and one year and (g) over one year in the latest year for which figures are available.
    (204426)
130
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of women who have been detained pending their asylum claims were subsequently granted asylum in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
    (204427)
131
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women who have sought asylum in the UK in each year since 2010 have (a) been granted asylum, (b) been detained pending application and (c) been refused asylum and removed.
    (204430)
132
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the number of people in (a) Kilmarnock and Loudoun, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK who have used the premium one day service for passport application in each month since January 2014.
    (204518)
133
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency who are enrolled in NEST and make additional payments by monthly direct debit.
    (204519)
134
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to ban the testing of household products on animals.
    (204393)
135
 
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to address the problem of revenge porn; and if she will meet representatives of the National Union of Students to discuss that matter.
    (204400)
136
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on immigration security at UK airports in 2013.
    (204497)
137
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) financial, (b) staffing and (c) capacity-building support and assistance her Department has given to Sussex Safer Roads Partnership in respect of (i) activities relating to Operation Crackdown and (ii) all other activities in each year since its inception.
    (204562)
138
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what metrics her Department applies to assess the performance of Sussex Safer Roads Partnership's contribution to Operation Crackdown.
    (204563)
139
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her assessment of the effectiveness of the protocols governing Sussex Safer Roads Partnership's contribution to Operation Crackdown.
    (204564)
140
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by the House of Commons Commission in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204475)
141
 
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, if the House of Commons Commission will make necessary funds available to the Welsh Affairs Committee to allow the hiring of Welsh translators to allow submissions to be provided without English translation.
    (204522)
142
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will take steps to make the latest edition of Erskine May's Parliamentary Practice available free of charge online.
    (204435)
143
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the UK plays a leading role in tackling violence against women and girls in the most disadvantaged parts of the globe; and if she will make a statement.
    (204529)
144
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by her Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204476)
145
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the processes governing the allocation of UK development assistance gives cognisance to the escalation of persecution against Christians.
    (204613)
146
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2014, Official Report, column 644W, on infrastructure projects: Jordan Valley, what positive benefits for Palestinians living in Area C have resulted so far from her Department's engagement with Israel.
    (204640)
147
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
    (204477)
148
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisations collect subscriptions through the employer's payroll service in his Department and its agencies.
    (204513)
149
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the wearing of the (a) niqab and (b) burka during interaction with (i) probation and (ii) prison officers.
    (204453)
150
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the names of people who have taken multiple cases against different employers to an employment tribunal.
    (204454)
151
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of the offence of squatting in a residential building under section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 on more than one occasion since its entry into force.
    (204455)
152
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners convicted of terrorist-related offences are held in open prisons.
    (204456)
153
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of absconds from prison by an individual offender has been in the last 20 years.
    (204457)
154
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of all sentences handed down at (a) Keighly Magistrates' Court and (b) Bradford Crown Court in each year since 2008 were custodial sentences.
    (204458)
155
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders of each offence type have escaped from mental health units in each of the last 10 years.
    (204459)
156
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners convicted of terrorist-related offences have been released from prison each of the last five years.
    (204460)
157
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, columns 506-8W, on sentencing: West Yorkshire, what proportion of offenders in each offence category the figures in the table represent for each of the years 2011, 2012 and 2013.
    (204500)
158
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have absconded from prison on more than one occasion in each of the last 20 years.
    (204502)
159
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many and what proportion of all offences resulting in a fine in courts was the maximum fine handed down in the last five years.
    (204503)
160
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders remain at large who absconded from mental health units in each of the last 10 years.
    (204504)
161
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) arrested for and (b) convicted of the offence of squatting in a residential building under section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 since its entry into force.
    (204505)
162
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the course materials used to train magistrates in relation to domestic violence.
    (204508)
163
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released on temporary licence from each category of prison in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (204514)
164
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average prison sentence was for offenders of each ethnicity convicted of each type of racially aggravated offence in the last five years.
    (204641)
165
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ethnicity of each (a) offender and (b) victim of each racially aggravated offence which resulted in a prison sentence was in the last five years.
    (204642)
166
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners convicted of terrorist-related offences have re-offended since being released in each of the last 10 years; and what the offence type was of each such re-conviction.
    (204644)
167
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those released from prison for offences committed during the riots in London in 2011 have been returned to prison following a further offence.
    (204646)
168
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average prison sentence was of an offender convicted of a religiously aggravated offence in each of the last five years by (a) type of offence and (b) the religious belief of the offender.
    (204652)
169
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the religious belief of the (a) offender and (b) victim of each religiously aggravated offence which resulted in a prison sentence was in each of the last five years.
    (204653)
170
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average spending per head on prison libraries was for (a) male and (b) female prisoners in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (204654)
171
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) offenders and (b) victims of religiously aggravated offences in each of the last five years were of each religious belief.
    (204656)
172
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners have been returned to each country where the UK has invested in prisons in each of the last 10 years.
    (204658)
173
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders convicted of failing to comply with the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders Register in each of the last five years were given each type of available sentence for the offence.
    (204660)
174
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which the highest number of previous convictions for failing to comply with the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders Register for an individual convicted of a further such offence without being sent to prison was in each year since 2010.
    (204661)
175
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of individual sentencing guidlines do not include the maximum sentence available to the court in the most serious offence range of the offence.
    (204662)
176
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 714W, on prison libraries, what the spending was by category of expenditure for HM Prison (a) Leeds and (b) Wakefield.
    (204680)
177
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 689W, on the Employment Tribunal Service, what the nature was of the complaint in the cases of the highest compensation payments for race in each of the last five years.
    (204681)
178
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what medical assessment is made of the mental health of ex-armed forces personal who are imprisoned in order to assess the presence of post traumatic stress disorder.
    (204516)
179
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has been made of the number of prisoners who have previously served in the armed forces; and how many such people have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.
    (204517)
180
 
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new matter starts were awarded in mental health in Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituency for (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.
    (204647)
181
 
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new matter starts were awarded in mental health in the North West for (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.
    (204648)
182
 
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new matter starts were awarded in mental health in Lancashire for (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.
    (204649)
183
 
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of new matter starts are held back from being awarded at the outset of the contract; and on what grounds they are so held back.
    (204650)
184
 
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the process is for awarding (a) new matter starts in mental health and (b) extra new matter starts in mental health when firms exhaust their original quota.
    (204651)
185
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been the subject of (a) reports and (b) letters resulting from Sussex Police's operation of Operation Crackdown in respect of (i) motoring and (ii) non-motoring incidents in each year since its inception.
    (204568)
186
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy that persons who receive letters from Sussex Police related to Operation Crackdown will be entitled to simultaneous disclosure of (a) all evidence held in relation to the incident that triggered the report and (b) any related incidents on which the the service seeks to rely.
    (204569)
187
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the compliance with the precepts of natural justice of the procedures adopted by Sussex Police in its promotion of Operation Crackdown.
    (204570)
188
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) financial, (b) staffing and (c) capacity-building support and assistance his Department has given to the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership in respect of (i) activities relating to Operation Crackdown and (ii) all other activities in each year since its inception.
    (204571)
189
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what metrics his Department applies to assess the performance of Sussex Safer Roads Partnership's contribution to Operation Crackdown.
    (204572)
190
 
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish his assessment of the effectiveness of the protocols governing Sussex Safer Roads Partnership's contribution to Operation Crackdown.
    (204573)
191
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Prime Minister, when he last met the Prime Minister of Jamaica; and when he next plans to meet her.
    (204495)
192
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make it policy that ministers should (a) answer to Parliament on the contents of leaked Government documents and (b) not comment on documents leaked from organisations outside Government.
    (204380)
193
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Prime Minister, what support the Government provides to victims and survivors of Northern Ireland-related acts of terrorism in Great Britain; and if he will make a statement.
    (204449)
194
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Prime Minister, what estimate the Government has made of the number of victims and survivors of Northern Ireland-related acts of terrorism in Great Britain where such victims and survivors live in Great Britain; and if he will make a statement.
    (204450)
195
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Prime Minister, what research the Government has commissioned on the educational, psychological, welfare, justice and related needs of victims and survivors of Northern Ireland-related acts of terrorism in Great Britain; and if he will make a statement.
    (204451)
196
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will replicate for victims and survivors of Northern Ireland-related acts of terrorism in Great Britain the support services available in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.
    (204452)
197
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the costs of planned investment in (a) Wi-Fi access on trains, (b) provision of customer information and (c) SMART ticketing technology during the new franchise agreement with NXET Trains Ltd for passenger services on the Essex Thameside line; what proportion of each category of funding will fall to (i) the franchisee, (ii) Network Rail and (iii) the public sector.
    (204530)
198
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total annual public sector payment will be in each year to 2029 under the new franchise agreement for rail passenger services on the Essex Thameside line.
    (204531)
199
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the planned investment in stations on the Essex Thameside line during the new franchise agreement with NXET Trains Ltd will be funded by the (a) franchisee, (b) Network Rail and (c) the public sector in each case.
    (204532)
200
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the rolling stock maintenance arrangements will be for the franchise agreement with NXET Trains Ltd for rail passenger services on the Essex Thameside line.
    (204533)
201
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) funding and (b) ownership arrangements are for the 17 new trains ti be introduce on the Essex Thameside line under the terms of the new franchise agreement with NXET Trains Ltd; and what the deadline is for the introduction into service of the new fleet.
    (204534)
202
 
Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure disabled rail users can access all platforms at rural stations.
    (204417)
203
 
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on which rail lines and services will broadband improvements be financed from the £53.1 million fine imposed on Network Rail by the Office of Rail Regulation.
    (204506)
204
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of assaults on (a) staff and (b) customers on public transport in the last three years.
    (204526)
205
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many air accidents in the UK in the last five years arose from (a) pilot error and (b) mechanical breakdown.
    (204556)
206
 
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what action his Department is taking to address the exploitation of low-skilled workers.
    (204527)
207
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) males and (b) females in Kilmarnock and Loudoun are enrolled in the National Employment Savings Trust.
    (204520)
208
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) male and (b) female benefit claimants in (i) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency, (ii) Scotland and (iii) the UK have been sanctioned in the last (A) six months and (B) 12 months.
    (204521)
209
 
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes his Department has agreed to enable housing associations to be informed when tenants migrate to universal credit.
    (204415)
Monday 14 July  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
 
★ 1
Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): When his Department plans to let the contract for the replacement of the Apache fleet.
    (904798)
★ 2
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): What progress his Department has made on the Army 2020 programme.
    (904799)
★ 3
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): What policies he is pursuing to prevent political disintegration in Afghanistan similar to that occuring in Iraq after NATO forces leave.
    (904800)
★ 4
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): What discussions he has had with his counterparts in the Middle East about the situation in Iraq.
    (904801)
★ 5
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What the Government's priorities are for the NATO Summit in Wales.
    (904802)
★ 6
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): What recent discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on the situation in the Middle East.
    (904803)
★ 7
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): What progress he has made on strengthening the military covenant.
    (904804)
★ 8
Duncan Hames (Chippenham): What steps he is taking to improve the service complaints system.
    (904805)
★ 9
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): When he expects to announce a decision on the normal pension age for workers in the Defence Fire and Rescue Service.
    (904806)
★ 10
John Glen (Salisbury): What plans he has to consult partner countries in the Middle East about a solution to the current violence in Iraq.
    (904807)
★ 11
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What steps he is taking to ensure that the commitment and sacrifice of the armed forces is recognised by the public.
    (904808)
★ 12
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): What the Government's policy is on bereavement leave for parents and spouses of armed forces personnel killed during service.
    (904809)
★ 13
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): What progress his Department has made on the next Strategic Defence and Security Review; and if he will make a statement.
    (904810)
★ 14
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): What recent representations he has received on future employment at MoD Donnington; and if he will make a statement.
    (904811)
★ 15
Henry Smith (Crawley): What assessment he has made of the reccommendations of the Concluding Report of the Trident Commission set up by the British American Security Information Council.
    (904812)
★ 16
Priti Patel (Witham): What his policy is on the future of the UK's nuclear deterrent.
    (904813)
★ 17
Mr Mark Harper (Forest of Dean): What steps he is taking to ensure that the commitment and sacrifice of the armed forces is recognised by the public.
    (904814)
★ 18
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): What discussions he has had with his counterparts in the Middle East about the situation in Iraq.
    (904815)
★ 19
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): What plans he has to encourage public debate on the defence needs of the UK in advance of the Strategic Defence and Security Review in 2015.
    (904816)
★ 20
Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock): What steps he is taking to ensure that the commitment and sacrifice of the armed forces is recognised by the public.
    (904817)
★ 21
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): What plans he has to meet his Belgian counterpart to discuss the procurement of F-35 Joint Striker Fighters by that country.
    (904818)
★ 22
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): What recent representations he has received regarding reductions in expenditure on the Army.
    (904819)
★ 23
Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome): What his poliicy is on prescribing anti-malarial prophylaxis to members of the armed forces serving overseas.
    (904820)
★ 24
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): What recent discussions he has had with the defence industry on future maritime patrol craft.
    (904821)
★ 25
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): What progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Army 2020 programme.
    (904822)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (904838)
★ 2
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham):  
    (904839)
★ 3
Robert Jenrick (Newark):  
    (904840)
★ 4
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):  
    (904841)
★ 5
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough):  
    (904842)
★ 6
John Mann (Bassetlaw):  
    (904843)
★ 7
Julie Hilling (Bolton West):  
    (904844)
★ 8
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport):  
    (904845)
★ 9
John Glen (Salisbury):  
    (904846)
★ 10
Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome):  
    (904847)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 7 July

1
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of levels of trust held by the British Muslim community in the Prevent strategy.
    (204223)

Notices given on Tuesday 8 July

1
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to prevent sister companies offering similar products to consumers at substantially different prices.
    (204404)
2
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with Ofcom on any regulatory changes in regard to the Universal Postal Service; and if he will make a statement.
    (204602)
3
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the manufacturing industry in Scotland.
    (204600)
4
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in England were registered as agricultural businesses in each of the last five years.
    (204540)
5
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent from the public purse on (a) wine and (b) food served at the Best of British Creative Industries reception on 30 July 2014; what the other costs to the public purse were of hosting the event; how many catering staff were required to facilitate the event; and which Ministers attended the event.
    (204444)
6
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) minor, (b) serious and (c) fatal accidents at work, have been reported in each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last five years.
    (204539)
7
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the £1.13 billion earmarked for the Glasgow area from the Growth Deal is dependent on the existence of shovel ready projects.
    (204598)
8
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Statement of 7 July 2014, Official Report, columns 46-7, on local growth deals, when Glasgow will receive the first tranche of the £1.13 billion allocated to it.
    (204671)
9
N
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department received the business case for the meningococcal B vaccine; and when he expects to make a decision whether or not to approve the business case.
    (204485)
10
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of employees hired under the Employment Allowance Scheme are paid below the living wage as set by the Living Wage Foundation.
    (204666)
11
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the current regulatory regime for dark pool trading in the UK.
    (204535)
12
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to monitor the functioning and usage of dark pool trading in the UK.
    (204536)
13
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the differences in the level of change in house prices in Scotland compared to the rest of the UK in the second quarter of 2014.
    (204544)
14
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on the economy of the Isle of Wight of the decision not to allow tonnage tax to apply to the Isle of Wight's ferry services.
    (204482)
15
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on (a) cadet training and (b) marine employment of the decision not to allow tonnage tax to apply to the Isle of Wight's ferry services.
    (204483)
16
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reasons are for HM Revenue and Customs change of policy with regards to the imposition of tonnage tax on Isle of Wight ferries; and if he will make a statement.
    (204499)
17
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the quality and consistency of youth services outsourced by local authorities.
    (204632)
18
N
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Leeds City Council Community Levy.
    (204538)
19
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the removal of recycling credits by Lancashire County Council on weekly waste collections in that county.
    (204408)
20
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the financial effect on Ribble Valley Borough Council of the withdrawal of recycling credits by Lancashire County Council.
    (204409)
21
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will provide support to district councils in Lancashire from which recycling credits have been withdrawn by Lancashire County Council.
    (204410)
22
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what support his Department provides to local authorities who wish to retain weekly general waste collections.
    (204411)
23
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on the provision of recycling credits by county councils to district councils.
    (204412)
24
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to promote the use of community land trusts as a way of delivering affordable housing.
    (204629)
25
N
Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the duration of his Department's lease at 2 Marsham Street is; and what break clause arrangements there are.
    (204622)
26
N
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service complaints were filed in the last five years; and how many such complaints related to allegations of bullying.
    (204443)
27
N
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service complaints went to a full board hearing in the last five years.
    (204445)
28
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future establishment, equipment and role of the Royal Armoured Corps; and if he will make a statement.
    (204541)
29
N
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he expects to reply to the question tabled on 11 June 2014 by the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.
    (204481)
30
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what notification his Department has received from the Scottish Government on the devolution from the Scottish Government of further decision-making powers to local authorities in the Clyde Valley area to allow them to attract further investment as part of the City Deal for Glasgow.
    (204675)
31
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what agreement has been reached with the Scottish Government on the devolution of funding for skills and training to the relevant local authorities as part of the City Deal for Glasgow.
    (204676)
32
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what agreement has been reached with the Scottish Government on the devolution of powers to allow the relevant local authorities to better regulate or procure bus services as part of the City Deal for Glasgow.
    (204677)
33
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what meetings Ministers or officials of his Department have had with Ministers of the Scottish Government to discuss the City Deal for Glasgow in the last 12 months.
    (204678)
34
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what agreement has been reached with the Scottish Government on (a) support and (b) funding for the infrastructure plan to build a rail link between Glasgow and the airport as part of the City Deal for Glasgow.
    (204679)
35
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what level of representation Liverpool will have on the Northern Futures Board.
    (204498)
36
N
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's press release, Deal to provide life-saving defibrillators to schools, published in April 2014, what progress has been made on securing a supplier who will offer defibrillators to all schools at a reduced price in time for autumn term.
    (204673)
37
N
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to encourage the upgrading of (a) oil and (b) liquefied petroleum gas boilers in off-gas grid areas.
    (204405)
38
N
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he plans to take to ensure the delivery in rural areas of the 15 per cent proportion of the carbon saving community obligation; and if he will make a statement.
    (204406)
39
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the total land mass of the UK was classified as a marine protected area or a marine conservation area in each of the last 10 years.
    (204634)
40
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of 7 July 2014, Official Report, columns 127-31, on Common Agricultural Policy, where the 10 centres for digital assistance for farmers will be located.
    (204672)
41
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many English rivers he assesses are of good ecological status.
    (204542)
42
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 drawing his attention to public support for human rights activists in Colombia.
    (204546)
43
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 about ensuring that British businesses and investors do not buy illegally obtained Colombian land before it is restored to its rightful owners.
    (204547)
44
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 about guarantees for the safety of Colombian land restitution claimants.
    (204550)
45
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the prevalence of Colombian paramilitary involvement with the police and the armed forces of that country.
    (204552)
46
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met his Israeli counterpart to discuss the political situation in Israel and Palestine; and if he will make a statement.
    (204601)
47
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether experts from the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative have been sent to Burma to investigate the attempted rate of an ethnic Chin woman by a soldier from the Burmese Army.
    (204480)
48
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what work has been done by experts from the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative on the reported use of sexual violence by the military in Burma.
    (204537)
49
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps HM British Embassy in Bangkok is taking to retrieve the passport of Andy Hall.
    (204441)
50
N
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy that all children's heart surgery units should be subject to the same level of scrutiny.
    (204553)
51
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 494W, on mental health services: young people, when NHS England's review of Tier 4 Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services provision will be published.
    (204667)
52
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of voluntary labelling to warn against drinking in pregnancy.
    (204668)
53
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of (a) foetal alcohol syndrome and (b) foetal alcohol syndrome disorders.
    (204669)
54
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of children who were not registered with a GP in each year since 2010.
    (204670)
55
N
Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the approval of his Department's business case for the meningococcal B vaccine.
    (204486)
56
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 43W, on ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, what information the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) collects about the (a) identity of drugs used in treatment and (b) dosage used and the associated regimen for ovarian stimulation at each clinic; and what comparative assessment he has made of the collection of such data by the HFEA and by other countries that report data to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
    (204590)
57
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that drug retailers accurately describe the operations of thier products; if he will require retailers of the drug Ulipristal acetate to detail accurately its abortifacient effects; and if he will make a statement.
    (204592)
58
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has allocated to the School Fruit and Vegetable scheme for the 2015-16 school year.
    (204446)
59
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on medical research; and if he will make a statement.
    (204543)
60
N
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have been seen in the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
    (204593)
61
N
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many young people have attended the accident and emergency department at Stafford Hospital in each year since 2009-10.
    (204595)
62
N
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many total bed nights children and young people stayed overnight at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
    (204596)
63
N
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people were treated as inpatients at Stafford Hospital in each of the years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
    (204597)
64
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 280W, on medical records: databases, for what reason the Health and Social Care Information Centre did not seek or obtain section 251 of the NHS Act (2006) support for the trial survey.
    (204407)
65
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 1 April 2014, Official Report, column 711, on brain tumours (children), what proportion of the £450 million which the Government has committed to enable earlier diagnosis of cancer has been allocated to reduce the delay of diagnosis of brain tumours in children.
    (204635)
66
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on non-pharmaceutical dementia treatments in each year since 2004.
    (204548)
67
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications were defined as work in progress on 7 July 2014.
    (204442)
68
N
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding has been committed to tackling malaria in each year since 2009-10.
    (204594)
69
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if officials in her Department will meet with displaced people from the Gambella region of Ethiopia to discuss forcible removal and abuse in the Ethiopian government's villagisation programme.
    (204545)
70
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when she last discussed the villagisation programme with the government of Ethiopia.
    (204549)
71
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what financial support for the Backpack Health Worker Team programme in Burma her Department will provide in the next two years.
    (204484)
72
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department is providing additional funding to The Border Consortium to help reverse recent ration cuts for refugees from Burma in camps in Thailand which they supply.
    (204439)
73
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which companies and organisations are subcontracted or given grants by the World Bank to carry out projects in Burma funded by British aid.
    (204440)
74
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims bereaved by homicide received support from Victim Support under the National Homicide Service in each region of England and in Wales in each year since 2011.
  [R] (204588)
75
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many court proceedings in England and Wales in each year since May 2010 video recording was taken to be (a) an available and (b) a not available special measure for eligible witnesses as defined in section 18 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
    (204589)
76
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 305W, on homicide: victim support schemes, what evaluation mechanisms are included in the Grant for Coordination and Delivery of Support to those Bereaved by Homicide.
  [R] (204663)
77
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 78W, on homicide, if he will require the Legal Aid Agency to record an offence type of homicide in future.
  [R] (204664)
78
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 78W, on homicide: victim support schemes, which of the peer support groups within the original victim support bid cater specifically for those bereaved through homicide abroad.
  [R] (204665)
79
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there have been significant delays in care proceedings involving children in family courts in England and Wales since the implementation of the legal aid reforms in 2013; and if he will publish statistics of the length of such proceedings.
    (204623)
80
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on the length of care proceedings involving children in England and Wales of the reforms to legal aid since April 2013.
    (204624)
81
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applicants did not receive legal aid to pursue residency and contact cases that they would have received before the reforms to legal aid since April 2013.
    (204625)
82
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for legal aid for family matters have been refused since April 2013; and how many of these were subsequently granted under the Exceptional Funding Scheme.
    (204626)
83
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many litigants in person have appeared before courts in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
    (204627)
84
N
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) arrested, (b) cautioned, (c) proceeded against and (d) convicted of an offence under the provisions of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 in each year since their enactment.
    (204551)
85
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the remedies available to people who are the subjects of erroneous or malicious reports to Sussex Police in respect of the Operation Crackdown online mechanism.
    (204603)
86
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what advice he has taken from the Information Commissioner's Office about data protection and freedom of information issues arising from Sussex Police's promotion of the Operation Crackdown.
    (204604)
87
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason people who have received letters from Sussex Police about alleged incidents within the remit of Operation Crackdown are advised that subject access requests under section 7 of the Data Protection Act are redundant.
    (204605)
88
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of online reports made to Sussex Police in respect of the Operation Crackdown online mechanism which are (a) malicious and (b) erroneous.
    (204606)
89
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been employed in web development and related roles in each year since the establishment of Operation Crackdown by Sussex Police; and what key performance indicators apply to them.
    (204607)
90
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 1W, on abortion, if he will request the withdrawal of the Department for International Development policy position paper entitled Safe and Unsafe Abortion pending a free vote in the House on the use of UK aid to (a) campaign for more liberal abortion laws in other countries and (b) provide abortion services in other countries.
    (204591)
91
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the new trains due to be introduced during the new franchise agreement with NXET Trains Ltd for rail passenger services on the Essex Thameside line will equipped with accommodation for a train guard.
    (204583)
92
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with NXET Trains Ltd about minimum levels of (a) on-train, (b) station and (c) ticket office staffing levels in each year of the new franchise agreement for rail passenger services on the Essex Thameside line; and what current staffing levels are in each such category on the line.
    (204584)
93
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with NXET Trains Ltd over plans to make staff more visible at stations on the Essex Thameside line during the term of the new franchise agreement for rail passenger services.
    (204585)
94
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what safeguards there are in the new franchise agreement on the Essex Thameside line with NXET Trains Ltd against unsafe reductions in staff over the life of the agreement.
    (204586)
95
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new (a) automatic ticket gates and (b) ticket vending machines will be introduced at stations on the Essex Thameside route under the terms of the new franchise agreement with NXET Trains Ltd for rail passenger services.
    (204587)
96
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve rail connections from northern England to Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
    (204599)
97
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of 18 to 24 year olds who have started a work experience placement whilst claiming jobseeker's allowance (JSA) were not claiming JSA within six months of starting the placement.
    (204628)
98
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the number of people aged between 16 and 24 who are not in employment or training and are not claiming jobseeker's allowance.
    (204630)
99
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the proportion of young people who have left and have subsequently returned to claiming jobseeker's allowance within six months in each year since 2010.
    (204631)
100
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of wage incentives claimed by employers who have recruited employees aged 16-24 through the Work Programme or Jobcentre Plus in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.
    (204633)
101
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to speed up the appeals process for people whose benefits have been sanctioned.
    (204674)
102
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the independent review of jobseeker's allowance sanctions being conducted by Matthew Oakley to be laid before Parliament.
    (204479)
Tuesday 15 July  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 8 July

1
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) the UK and (b) East Yorkshire constituency no longer pay income tax as a result of changes in the personal income tax threshold introduced since 2010.
    (204487)
2
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require service stations to advertise their fuel prices so that they are visible from the highway so that motorists know them before leaving the public carriageway.
    (204488)
Wednesday 16 July  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
 
★ 1
David Mowat (Warrington South): What assessment she has made of the value for money of the Saville Inquiry.
    (904823)
★ 2
Mel Stride (Central Devon): What recent assessment she has made of the outlook for the Northern Ireland economy.
    (904824)
★ 3
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): What recent assessment she has made of the outlook for the Northern Ireland economy.
    (904825)
★ 4
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): What recent discussions she has had about the security situation in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
    (904826)
★ 5
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): What recent discussions she has had about the security situation in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
    (904827)
★ 6
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): What steps the Government is taking to tackle youth unemployment in Northern Ireland.
    (904828)
★ 7
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke): What recent discussions she has had about parades in Northern Ireland.
    (904829)
★ 8
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): What recent representations she has received on levels of inward investment into Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.
    (904830)
★ 9
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): What recent discussions she has had with the Minister for Education in the Northern Ireland Executive on shared education.
    (904831)
★ 10
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): What recent progress the Government has made on reducing youth unemployment levels in Northern Ireland.
    (904832)
★ 11
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): What role her Department is taking in commemorations to mark the centenary of the First World War.
    (904833)
★ 12
Dr Alasdair McDonnell (Belfast South): What recent assessment she has made of the current political situation in Northern Ireland.
    (904834)
★ 13
Mark Durkan (Foyle): What recent discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the future management and monitoring of annually managed expenditure and the welfare cap in Northern Ireland.
    (904835)
★ 14
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): What recent assessment she has made of the security situation in Northern Ireland.
    (904836)
★ 15
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): What recent assessment she has made of the security situation in Northern Ireland.
    (904837)

Prepared 9th July 2014