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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 Monday 21 July 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

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

Monday 21 July  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
 
★ 1
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): What steps she has taken to raise attainment among less affluent children at school.
    (904948)
★ 2
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): What steps she is taking to reform the support available for children with special educational needs in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if she will make a statement.
    (904949)
★ 3
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): What steps she is taking to make childcare more affordable and improve the flexibility of childcare provision.
    (904950)
★ 4
Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): What steps she is taking to support school governors.
    (904951)
★ 5
Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth): What recent assessment she has made of the performance of free schools; and if she will make a statement.
    (904952)
★ 6
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): What assessment she has made of the effects on performance of sixth-form colleges of funding changes since 2010.
    (904953)
★ 7
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): What steps she is taking to support children with special educational needs.
    (904954)
★ 8
Chris Evans (Islwyn): What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of work-related learning in schools.
    (904955)
★ 9
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): What assessment she has made of the effect on admission numbers for sixth-form colleges of funding changes since 2010.
    (904956)
★ 10
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): What assessment she has made of the effects on performance for sixth-form colleges of funding changes since 2010.
    (904957)
★ 11
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): What progress has been made on the traineeships programme; and if she will make a statement.
    (904958)
★ 12
Lyn Brown (West Ham): What progress she has made on introducing the Technical Baccalaureate.
    (904959)
★ 13
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): What steps she is taking to make childcare more affordable and improve the flexibility of childcare provision.
    (904960)
★ 14
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): What recent assessment she has made of the performance of free schools; and if she will make a statement.
    (904961)
★ 15
Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): What steps she is taking to improve the quality of childcare.
    (904962)
★ 16
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): What steps she is taking to improve the oversight of schools at a local level.
    (904963)
★ 17
Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon): What steps she has taken to involve employers in devising vocational education; and if she will make a statement.
    (904964)
★ 18
Henry Smith (Crawley): What steps she is taking to reform support for children with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement.
    (904965)
★ 19
Neil Carmichael (Stroud): What assessment she has made of progress on promoting STEM subjects in schools.
    (904966)
★ 20
David Mowat (Warrington South): What her proposals are for the adoption of a revised funding formula for schools.
    (904967)
★ 21
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): What sources of funding are available to academies and free schools to enable them to expand to meet parental demand.
    (904968)
★ 22
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): What steps she is taking to support children with special educational needs.
    (904969)
★ 23
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): What steps she is taking to strengthen the autonomy of schools within an academy chain.
    (904970)
★ 25
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): What progress her Department has made on closing the attainment gap between pupils receiving free school meals and others; and if she will make a statement.
    (904972)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Henry Smith (Crawley): If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
    (904938)
★ 2
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central):  
    (904939)
★ 3
Lisa Nandy (Wigan):  
    (904940)
★ 4
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South):  
    (904941)
★ 6
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):  
    (904943)
★ 7
Nick de Bois (Enfield North):  
    (904944)
★ 9
Graeme Morrice (Livingston):  
    (904946)
★ 10
David Rutley (Macclesfield):  
    (904947)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 10 July

1
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 142, on military aircraft, what the main capabilities are which any future military patrol aircraft will need to possess; whether such capabilities will include (a) surveillance capabilities against (i) sub-surface, (ii) surface and (iii) land targets, (b) attack capabilities against each of those types of targets, (c) command, control and intelligence-gathering capabilities and (d) maritime rescue capabilities; and when a final decision will be taken on the mix of capabilities which will be required on a future maritime patrol aircraft.
    (205174)
2
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what different roles a multi-function maritime patrol aircraft will be required to perform.
    (205175)
3
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether a maritime patrol aircraft capability will be available for carrier taskforce protection duties by the time that HMS Queen Elizabeth joins the Fleet; and if he will make a statement.
    (205176)
4
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment his Department has made of the UK's ability to mount persistent and enduring aerial surveillance of strategically important areas east of the Suez Canal after UK withdrawal from Afghanistan; what assets will be required for this purpose after 2015; and if he will make a statement.
    (205177)

Notices given on Tuesday 15 July

1
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the net benefit to UK defence exports as a result of the recent Farnborough Airshow.
    (206008)
2
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the net benefit to the UK export sector as a result of the recent Farnborough Airshow.
    (206009)
3
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he, Ministers or officials in his Department have had with secondary ticketing websites about guidance to or implementation of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013.
    (205806)
4
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received from secondary ticketing websites about amendments tabled to the Consumer Rights Bill.
    (205807)
5
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he, Minister and officials in his Department have had with Ministers or officials in the (a) Department of Culture, Media and Sport and (b) Home Office about the resale of tickets and the Consumer Rights Bill.
    (205808)
6
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he received from representatives of secondary ticketing websites on the guidance to or implementation of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013.
    (205818)
7
N
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that secondary ticketing websites abide by the requirements of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013.
    (205864)
8
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consideration he has given to lowering the tuition fee cap for students studying STEM subjects.
    (205814)
9
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many firms have received assistance under the Direct Lending Scheme to date.
    (206025)
10
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assurances were sought from priority investors ahead of the privatisation of Royal Mail on long-term holding of shares by (a) Ministers in his Department (b) Officials in his Department (c) the Financial Adviser to the Government and (d) the banking syndicate working on the privatisation.
    (206026)
11
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many bids to the Export Refinancing Facility have been (a) received and (b) approved since its launch; and how many firms have received funds under the scheme to date.
    (206027)
12
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2014, Official Report, column 292W, on Royal Mail, from which directorate each member of staff working on the privatisation of Royal Mail was drawn.
    (206032)
13
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2014, Official Report, column 292W, on Royal Mail, how many staff of the Shareholder Executive worked on the privatisation of Royal Mail.
    (206033)
14
N
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HM Revenue and Customs will next audit the (a) compliance and (b) performance of Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited in respect of the Five Year Plan under 17.1 (a) of the private finance initiative contract between HM Revenue and Customs and Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited.
    (205999)
15
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the direct financial benefit of the abolition of air passenger duty bands C and D to airports in Northern Ireland.
    (205812)
16
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 438W, on tax evasion, what recent progress has been made by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in initiating proceedings against all current HMRC fugitives; and if he will make a statement.
    (206010)
17
N
David Wright (Telford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the HM Revenue and Customs leases for Abbey House and Parkside Court in Telford are up for renewal; whether Matheson House in Telford is part of the HM Revenue and Customs estate; and, if so, when its lease is due for renewal.
    (205796)
18
N
David Wright (Telford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HM Revenue and Customs staff in each (a) grade and (b) pay band were loaned to the UK Border Agency on 10 July 2014 to cover staffing shortfalls.
    (205797)
19
N
David Wright (Telford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many external contractors and consultants were employed in each business area in HM Revenue and Customs at the latest date for which figures are available.
    (205798)
20
N
David Wright (Telford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost was of employing external contractors and consultants on HM Revenue and Customs-related work in 2013-14.
    (205799)
21
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average debt level per capita is of local authorities in (a) England and (b) the North West; and what the level of debt per capita is in Warrington Borough Council.
    (205952)
22
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, When he expects the mobile infrastructure project to be completed.
    (205801)
23
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) masts are operational and (b) premises receive a mobile signal as a result of the Mobile Infrastructure Project.
    (205802)
24
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many masts will be erected in Cambridgeshire as part of the Mobile Infrastructure Project.
    (205803)
25
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of how many premises in Cambridgeshire will benefit from the Mobile Infrastructure Project.
    (205804)
26
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many masts are operational in Cambridgeshire as a result of the Mobile Infrastructure Project.
    (205805)
28
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has had discussions with Pan European Game Information on its pricing structure and effect on the UK video games industry.
    (205813)
29
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the National Lottery about extending funding to the video games industry.
    (205946)
30
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the cost of restructuring the shipbuilding agreement with BAE Systems.
    (206043)
31
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department will spend on the D-5 missile life extension programme in each of the next five years.
    (206044)
32
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate how much contract overruns in the Aircraft Carrier Alliance have cost the public purse to date.
    (206045)
33
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many additional Merlin helicopters will be upgraded from Mk1 standard to Mk2; and what the total cost of each upgrade will be.
    (206046)
34
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when Military Aviation Authority Regulatory Article 1210 replaced Ministry of Defence Business Procedure 1201 with regards to air safety.
    (206047)
35
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the criteria were for the choice of representation on the Northern Futures Board announced on 4 July 2014.
    (205795)
36
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is in the remit of Ofsted to investigate pupils’ safety from asbestos in school buildings when it inspects schools; and if she will make a statement.
    (205782)
37
N
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to engage with parents and staff at the University Academy, Liverpool, in relation to improving standards.
    (205791)
38
N
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her targets are for improvement at the University Academy, Liverpool; and in what timescale she will require such improvements to be made.
    (205793)
39
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many studio colleges that have fallen behind or failed to meet their student recruitment numbers have been given an extension of time to make further progress to achieve the numbers of students set out in their funding agreements; and what the average additional time given to those colleges to recruit enough students to fulfil funding agreement criteria was.
    (205787)
40
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many studio colleges have fallen behind or failed to meet the levels of student recruitment required for them to meet the terms of their funding agreements.
    (205788)
41
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many studio colleges have fulfilled the terms of their funding agreements for student recruitment targets.
    (205789)
42
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department has made compensation payments to householders whose homes have suffered damage from work under the Affordable Warmth Obligation.
    (205828)
43
N
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he plans to publish his final Biomass Emissions and Counterfactual calculator.
    (205947)
44
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the total amount of gas consumed in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each month since June 2010.
    (206004)
45
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the quantity of gas imported to the UK through the (a) Bacton-Zeebrugge pipeline and (b) the St Fergus-Frigg/Heimdal pipeline in each month since June 2010.
    (206005)
46
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on what dates he has met representatives from (a) Cuadrilla, (b) Dart Energy, (c) iGas, (d) Europa Oil and Gas, (e) Greenpeace, (f) Friends of the Earth and (g) the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in each month since June 2010.
    (206006)
47
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of total gas storage capacity in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland; and how much such capacity is (i) short range storage and (ii) long range storage.
    (206007)
48
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what conversations he has held with (a) energy companies, (b) cavity wall insulation companies and (c) local authorities on the effect of the Government’s changes to the Energy Company Obligation on the UK’s ability to meet its carbon-saving obligations.
    (205790)
49
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will hold discussions with cavity wall insulation companies on potential job losses arising from changes in the Energy Company Obligation.
    (205792)
50
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of whether support levels for accredited solar PV plants will be maintained for the 20 year duration specified in the Renewables Obligation order; and what the Government’s policy is on (a) Renewables Obligation scheme and (b) solar PV.
    (205820)
51
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what guarantees he has sought from Israel that weapons sold to it by the UK will not be used on civilians in Palestine; and what assessment he has made of the reliability of those guarantees.
    (205885)
52
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he had with his Libyan counterparts about violence in Tripoli.
    (205816)
53
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the security situation in Tripoli.
    (205817)
54
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the commercial tuna-fishing licences sold by the British Indian Ocean Territory Government in 2010.
    (205886)
55
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many claims of sexual abuse within the NHS were made to the NHS Litigation Authority in each year since 2010.
    (206094)
56
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places for mental health talking therapists were (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each of the last five years as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.
    (206095)
57
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training health visitors receive to (a) detect, (b) refer and (c) support women with Postnatal Depression.
    (206096)
58
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2014, Official Report, column 712W, on Universal Credit, how many claimants will be able to access free prescriptions, eye tests and dental care once universal credit has been fully rolled out.
    (205938)
59
N
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the right hon. Member for Chelmsford can expect a response from the Chief Executive of NHS England to his letter of 30 May 2014 on his constituent Mr John McPhee.
    (205784)
60
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what role NHS England plays in the development of advice given by the Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group to Ministers on which specialised services should be included in regulations setting out those services which NHS England must commission.
    (206003)
61
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research (a) his Department and (b) NHS England is undertaking into comparative cancer survival rates for older people in the UK and other European countries.
    (205945)
62
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the findings of the Professional Standards Authority's Annual Performance Review of regulators relating to the General Dental Council.
    (206048)
63
N
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on legal fees since May 2010.
    (205866)
64
N
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) Public Health England spent on opinion polling and focus groups in 2013-14.
    (205867)
65
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether patients and their families are entitled to receive copies of consent forms they have signed.
    (205948)
66
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on (a) the current waiting time following referral for a first appointment at Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), (b) how many people are currently receiving treatment at that clinic and how long the average wait is between appointments; what assessment his Department has made of how many patients Charing Cross GIC can treat in a year according to best practice guidelines and within existing resources; what discussions he has had with the Chief Executive of NHS England on the steps necessary to increase provision of services for trans people; and if he will make a statement.
    (206001)
67
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to facilitate the establishment of a gender identity clinic in Brighton and Hove; and if he will make a statement.
    (206002)
68
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost per night is of a bed in (a) an intensive therapy unit or high dependency unit, (b) a district general hospital, (c) a spinal cord injury centre and (d) a spinal cord injury centre for a ventilated spinal cord injured patient.
    (205785)
69
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average time taken is in each health authority from a person being referred for a NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment to the eligibility decision being made.
    (205868)
70
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on wheelchairs and wheelchair vouchers by each clinical commissioning group in each of the last four years.
    (205869)
71
N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individual funding requests per indication were received by NHS England for radiotherapy treatment in the last financial year; and how many requests, per indication, were refused by NHS England.
    (205953)
72
N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons NHS England is instructing hospitals with patients presenting as clinically urgent to treat such patients with innovative radiotherapy at the hospital's financial risk while it decides whether to fund the patient; and how hospitals which have followed that instruction receive reimbursement for that expenditure if NHS England subsequently refuses to fund the treatment.
    (205954)
73
N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request NHS England to authorise the use of Gamma Knife for NHS patients at University College Hospital London.
    (206028)
74
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent meetings Ministers his Department have held with (a) representatives of manufacturers of homeopathic medicines and (b) organisations representing homeopathic practitioners.
    (205942)
75
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Chief Medical Officer on the efficacy of homeopathy.
    (205943)
76
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy that internal defibrillators be available on the NHS.
    (205821)
77
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women in each age group had hysterectomies in the UK in each of the last five years.
    (205822)
78
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy that the operation to remove fibroids by MR Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) be available on the NHS.
    (205823)
79
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the British Medical Association and cancer groups on studies of the potential effects of aspirin on cancer.
    (205824)
80
N
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications to the Disclosure and Barring service in each police authority in England were approved within (a) 14, (b) 18 and (c) 25 days in 2013.
    (205941)
81
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the amount of police time spent in accident and emergency departments accompanying people with mental illness.
    (206093)
82
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions are being made by her Department in conjunction with the NSPCC to ensure that calls from (a) professionals, (b) volunteers, (c) members of the public and (d) victims of modern slavery and human trafficking to the modern slavery helpline can be dealt with effectively; and when the modern slavery helpline will go live.
    (205863)
83
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the NSPCC about its current and future plans to train staff to run her planned modern slavery helpline; what that training will include; what the estimated cost is of such training; and which body will provide the training.
    (205949)
84
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to whom the NSPCC will refer cases of people (a) from EU countries and (b) who are not EU nationals, who call her planned modern slavery helpline and are identified as victims of modern slavery.
    (205950)
85
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation she undertook with (a) non-governmental organisations, (b) civil society, (c) church organisations, (d) front-line professionals, (e) social workers and (f) local authority and Health Service staff on the creation of a modern slavery helpline prior to her announcement that such a helpline was being set up.
    (205951)
86
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been placed under a discretionary bar from working with (a) children and (b) adults in each of the last five years; and for what (i) reasons and (ii) harm type each person was so placed.
    (205989)
87
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the use of slaves on (a) commercial vessels fishing within the UK Exclusive Economic Zone and (b) EU vessels fishing commercially on the high seas.
    (205944)
88
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who used the Assisted Voluntary Returns scheme (a) submitted their first asylum claim after being detained in an immigration removal and (b) had their asylum case decided within the Detained Fast Track in each of the last five years for which records are available.
    (205783)
89
N
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to encourage them to treat cyber crime involving theft of online items in video games with a monetary value as seriously as they would real-world crimes of a similar nature.
    (205870)
90
N
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to deter and punish the perpetrators of cyber crime attacking UK businesses from abroad.
    (205871)
91
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to reduce the cost of sending remittances to Africa.
    (205940)
92
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government has taken to meet the commitment made by the G20 heads of state in the final declaration of the Cannes Summit in November 2011 to reduce the average cost of transferring remittances to 5 per cent by 2014; and what assessment she made of the likelihood of the UK meeting this commitment.
    (206031)
93
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of times fathers have had access to their children restricted in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what the reasons were for the restrictions; and if he will make a statement.
    (205810)
94
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether courts link maintenance and contact with respect to children following the separation of the parents; and if he will make a statement.
    (205811)
95
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of child abduction where no attempt has been made to take the child out of the UK have reached court in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
    (205826)
96
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what restrictions are placed on fathers who visit their children in contact centres.
    (205865)
97
N
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that cyber criminals who steal online items in video games with a real-world monetary value received the same sentences as criminals who steal real-world items of the same monetary value.
    (205872)
98
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a breakdown of the £90 million cost of train wifi by (a) funding source and (b) proposed spend by train operator.
    (205862)
99
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the estimated income included in the business case for phase 1 of High Speed 2 comes from Birmingham to London commuters.
    (205819)
100
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the net economic effect of High Speed 2 for the North-West.
    (206042)
101
N
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of options for increasing service frequencies on the Nottingham-Lincoln line; and what the revenue subsidy and capital cost of implications are of each such option.
    (205825)
102
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Regional Air Connectivity Fund has been used to support air links to and from Northern Ireland since that fund was created.
    (205794)
103
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether guidance issued to local authorities on the Blue Badge scheme is mandatory; and if he will make a statement.
    (205809)
104
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on (a) mobile telephones, (b) tablet computers and (c) office furniture in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
    (206029)
105
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on (a) accommodation, (b) taxis or private cars and (c) alcoholic beverages in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
    (206030)
106
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost is of initiating payment of employment and support allowance (ESA) at the assessment rate; what the annual cost is of maintaining an existing claim for ESA; and what the cost is of closing a claim for ESA.
    (205882)
107
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost is of processing a new claim for jobseekers’ allowance; what the cost is of a jobseekers' allowance interview; and what the annual cost is of maintaining an existing claim for jobseekers’ allowance.
    (205883)
108
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where people from Brighton and Hove are being asked to travel to in order to have face-to-face personal independence payment (PIP) interviews; what assessment he has made of the range of challenges faced by people going for assessment for PIP payments who are asked to travel to another town for a face-to-face interview; if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of taxis for people from Brighton and Hove who cannot use public transport to get to PIP assessments up to 90 minutes away from their homes; and if he will make a statement.
    (205786)
109
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to publish the personal independence payment application form on his Department’s website in an interactive form; what assessment he made of the difficulties claimants have in completing those forms in long hand; and if he will make a statement.
    (205815)

Notices given on Wednesday 16 July

1
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Attorney General, if he will take steps to increase the number of replies within the Law Officers' Departments' working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206130)
2
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Attorney General, if he will estimate the annual cost to the Law Officers' Departments of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206141)
3
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will suspend all standard individual export licence and open individual export licences to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories until at least such time as a ceasefire in the present conflict in that region has been established.
    (206224)
4
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase opportunities for university leavers and to ensure that university leavers in all regions and constituent parts of the UK benefit from his efforts.
    (206222)
5
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether companies which have been previously ejected from the DSEI arms fair for selling equipment which could be used for torture are permitted to exhibit at future similar events in London.
    (206108)
6
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of properties in each London borough sold in each year since 2010 were sold to foreign buyers.
    (206265)
7
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206131)
8
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206140)
9
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on privatising part or all of the Student Loan book before May 2015.
    (206295)
10
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of suppliers to his Department have been paid within the time specified on their invoice in each of the last three years.
    (206340)
11
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of direct delivery competition on Royal Mail and the sustainability of the universal service obligation.
    (206359)
12
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many firms have taken part in the Passport to Export scheme in each year of its operation.
    (206267)
13
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many winning bidders under the Regional Growth Fund in each (a) bidding round and (b) region have withdrawn to date.
    (206268)
14
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the number of roles advertised through the National Apprenticeship Service which pay below the apprentice national minimum wage.
    (206269)
15
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what investigations he has made into allegations of mis-selling relating to loans made under the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme; and when such investigations were initiated.
    (206270)
16
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much match funding has been allocated to firms under the Passport to Export Scheme; and what proportion of these funds have been withdrawn.
    (206271)
17
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many firms have been allocated funds which have subsequently been withdrawn with the removal of match funding under the Passport to Export scheme.
    (206272)
18
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many firms are participating in the Passport to Export scheme.
    (206275)
19
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many firms (a) applied and (b) were approved to take part in the Passport to Export scheme in each month of its operation.
    (206276)
20
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of apprentices are working less than 16 hours per week as part of their apprenticeship.
    (206277)
21
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of apprentices are not currently receiving (a) on the job and (b) off the job training as part of their apprenticeship.
    (206278)
22
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of apprentices are not (a) contractually entitled to be paid and (b) receiving the apprentice national minimum wage.
    (206281)
23
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to (a) start and (b) publish the apprenticeship pay survey.
    (206282)
24
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206142)
25
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 291W, on Government Digital Service, whether all Government Digital Service staff are members of the Civil Service ICT professional group.
    (206242)
26
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 291W, on Government Digital Service, how many (a) male and (b) female (i) permanent and (ii) contract staff of the Government Digital Service were in each grade in each of the last five years.
    (206243)
27
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason no Minister in his Department was able to represent his Department in the debate on the political independence of charities scheduled to take place in Westminster Hall on 15 July 2014.
    (206244)
28
N
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of tax revenue foregone as a result of people who are UK resident, but not domiciled for tax purposes, not paying tax on non-UK source income.
    (206109)
29
N
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HM Revenue and Customs will next audit the compliance and performance of Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited in respect of all the STEPS Contractor's obligations under the agreement, including those applicable to the implementation of any change and all personnel and management policies and practices and quality management under 17.1 (d) of the private finance initiative contract between HM Revenue and Customs and Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited.
    (206250)
30
N
Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of whether there have been any benefits to the internal work of HM Revenue and Customs of the release of data about VAT registration to private credit ratings agencies.
    (206160)
31
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Preston constituency were self-employed and in receipt of working tax credit in each year since 2009-10.
    (206321)
32
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206155)
33
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many call attempts were made to HM Revenue and Customs contact centres on each working day between 16 June and 4 July 2014; how many such calls were answered; and how many answered calls led to a request for a needs enhanced support face-to-face meeting.
    (206218)
34
 
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with regard to the Mapeley-Salisbury STEPS contract for cleaning services in Northern Ireland, how much HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has paid towards the Mapeley-Salisbury STEPS contract for cleaning services in Northern Ireland; what arrangements HMRC and Mapeley have in place to monitor the STEPS contract with staff representatives; for what reasons former civil servants employed by ISS on the Mapeley STEPS contract have not received a pay award in 2013 in line with the terms of the contract; and if he will make a statement.
    (206334)
35
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many unresolved tax enquiries there were in the Large Business Service (LBS) in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date; and how many unresolved tax enquiries in the LBS are (i) one year old and (ii) more than three years old.
    (206355)
36
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were employed by HM Revenue and Customs in the Large Business Service (LBS) in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date; and how many companies the LBS worked with in each of those years.
    (206356)
37
 
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse was of external consultants employed by his Department in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.
    (206287)
38
 
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential liability to Government should the take-up rate in the proposed 2015 firefighters' pension scheme be lower than anticipated.
    (206187)
39
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes in each London Borough failed to meet the decent homes standard in each year since 2010.
    (206256)
40
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many children were recorded as living in overcrowded housing in each London Borough in each year since 2010.
    (206257)
41
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people were recorded as living in overcrowded housing in each London Borough in each of the year since 2010.
    (206258)
42
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of new homes needed annually to meet London's housing needs into 2020.
    (206259)
43
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new affordable homes in each London Borough were rented at below (a) 70 per cent, (b) 60 per cent and (c) 50 per cent of market rent in each year since 2010.
    (206260)
44
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes were built in each London Borough in each year since 2010.
    (206261)
45
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many council homes were built in each London Borough in each year since 2010.
    (206262)
46
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average sector rent was in each London Borough in each year since 2010.
    (206263)
47
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties in each London borough were classified as empty in each year since 2010.
    (206264)
48
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206143)
49
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of funds allocated in each region under the European Regional Development Fund have been returned as a result of slippage and underperformance in each region; and on what dates each such withdrawal took place.
    (206266)
50
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which bids in each region have been (a) accepted and (b) rejected under the European Regional Development Fund since May 2010.
    (206274)
51
 
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 3 December 2013, Official Report, column 630W, on EU grants and loans, how much and what proportion of 2007 to 2013 European Regional Development Fund monies allocated to the UK with match-funding in place have been (a) contractually committed and (b) drawn down in (i) each English region and (ii) in total to date.
    (206317)
52
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many households in Northern Ireland held a black and white television licence in January (a) 2009 and (b) 2014.
    (206164)
53
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage community organisations to take up EU funding offered by the Europe for Citizens Programme and similar schemes in order to commemorate the centenary of World War I through exchanges and visits.
    (206181)
54
N
Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many broadcasters in (a) Wales and (b) the UK have been closed as a result of their inability or refusal to pay the Authority for Television On Demand's regulatory fees.
    (206114)
55
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which tourist and cultural attractions (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department (i) have visited and (ii) plan to visit in (A) Preston constituency, (B) Lancashire, (C) North West England and (D) London in 2014.
    (206325)
56
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how often Lancashire has specifically been featured in his Department's overseas promotion of tourism in the UK in the last four years.
    (206326)
57
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with the BBC Trust measures to increase coverage of life, history and culture in Lancashire across the BBC national television and radio network.
    (206327)
58
 
Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to consult local residents on decisions on the construction of mobile telephone masts under the mobile infrastructure project where plans for construction have been through pre-planning and published.
    (206306)
59
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on where naval vessels should be constructed after 2014.
    (206162)
60
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to promote recruitment to the army cadets in Northern Ireland in 2014-15.
    (206163)
61
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost was of each successfully trained recruit of (a) Phase 1 and 2 training at ITC Catterick, (b) Phase 1 training at ATC Pirbright, (c) Phase 1 training at ATR Bassingbourn and (d) Phase 1 training at AFC Harrogate including trainee salaries and associated costs in the most recent years for which figures are available.
    (206117)
62
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost of running Phase 1 training at AFC Harrogate including trainee salaries and associated costs was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (206118)
63
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost of running the Combat Infantryman's Course (Phase 1 and 2 training) at ITC Catterick including trainee salaries and associated costs was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (206119)
64
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans the Government has to preserve HMS Illustrious when she is withdrawn from service in December 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (206370)
65
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the Government will investigate the tourism potential of preserving HMS Illustrious.
    (206371)
66
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions since 2010 product recall notices have been issued for equipment being used by the armed forces.
    (206183)
67
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the new contract to extend the life of the Sentinel aircraft until 2018 will be signed.
    (206329)
68
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what hospitality the Chief of Defence Materiel has received from Lockheed Martin in each year since 2010.
    (206330)
69
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what meetings have been held between the Chief of Defence Materiel and representatives from Lockheed Martin in each year since 2010; and what was discussed at each.
    (206331)
70
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what events were hosted by Lockheed Martin which (a) Ministers in and (b) senior officials of his Department attended in an official capacity in each year since 2010; and what was discussed at each.
    (206332)
71
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials in his Department have held with representatives of Lockheed Martin in each year since 2010; and what was discussed at each such meeting.
    (206335)
72
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department will announce a decision on the future of the Apache helicopter upgrade.
    (206336)
73
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what weighting his Department will give to (a) UK content, (b) UK employment and (c) a wider strategy of support for the UK helicopter production industry in taking a decision on the future of the Apache helicopter upgrade.
    (206337)
74
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206144)
75
 
Stephen Pound (Ealing North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what grounds he has concluded that the use of RAF Northolt for commercial flights does not constitute state aid; and if he will make a statement.
    (206188)
76
 
Stephen Pound (Ealing North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) attendance by RAF Northolt personnel and (b) related marketing materials at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition on 20 to 22 May 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (206197)
77
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions her Department has had with (a) the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust and (b) that Trust's auditors on possible fraud within the Trust.
    (206165)
78
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will place in the Library a copy of the service level agreement between the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust and the schools in which it operates.
    (206166)
79
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have been approved by her Department which do not have identified sites; and in which local authority area each such school wishes to operate.
    (206167)
80
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what checks the Education Funding Agency makes on the quality of auditors and others taking professional fees for services provided to academies.
    (206234)
81
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average duration is of all completed traineeships to date.
    (206126)
82
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many traineeships completed to date have lasted six weeks or less.
    (206127)
83
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what target she has set for the number of 16 to 17 year olds to (a) enrol on the Youth Contract programme, (b) be re-engaged into a positive outcome following the Youth Contract programme and (c) be retained in that positive outcome for five out of six months over the course of the Youth Contract programme.
    (206128)
84
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been paid to each provider of the Youth Contract for 16 to 17 year olds since September 2012.
    (206180)
85
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the responsibilities will be of the Minister of State in her Department, the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton.
    (206249)
86
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to increase maintenance loans for university accommodation in respect of (a) students in places with expensive accommodation costs and (b) other students.
    (206377)
87
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government's proposed reforms to A-levels will entail that students will have to decide which subjects they wish to continue to A-levels at the beginning of Year 12 rather than later in that year.
    (206378)
88
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Government's proposed reforms to A-levels, if she will bring forward safeguards to prevent students making uninformed decisions about their subject choices and being limited as to the degree they can apply for at university as a result of having to make subject decisions at the beginning of Year 12.
    (206379)
89
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on the basis of what research findings the Government developed its proposals to decrease the role of coursework in GCSE and A-level curriculums.
    (206380)
90
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the turnover of head teachers has been in state-funded schools in each year since 2010.
    (206384)
91
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of applications her Department has received for free schools in districts experiencing a high or severe need for extra primary school places in the present academic year.
    (206385)
92
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a list of all free schools that are planned to open in September 2014 that still have places available before they reach their planned admission number; and how many places at each such school are currently available.
    (206386)
93
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which free school projects pre-approved to open in September 2014 have since been (a) cancelled or withdrawn and (b) delayed; and what the pre-opening expenditure was for each such project.
    (206387)
94
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the size is of the (a) external and (b) internal play area on the (i) temporary and (ii) permanent site of each free school that is (A) open and (B) planning to open in September 2014.
    (206388)
95
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 75W, on academies: land, what (a) amount of public investment and degree of enhancement, (b) amount of private investment and degree of enhancement, (c) length of time the land has been in public use and (d) value of land at the date of determination would trigger a determination in order to protect the public investment in land where it ceases to be used by an academy.
    (206202)
96
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if she will make a statement.
    (206145)
97
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2014, Official Report, column 636W, on free schools, what assessment she has made of the feasibility of changes to the way personal information is recorded in free school applications to reduce the cost of redaction of that information; and if she will make a statement.
    (206239)
98
 
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Ofsted inspections were carried out in the local education authority of Birmingham in (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) straight-through, (d) nursery and (e) other schools in the academic years (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
    (206315)
99
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance (a) her Department and (b) Ofsted provides to Ofsted inspectors about the monitoring of school engagement with Prevent.
    (206357)
100
N
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the core target group of 16 to 19 year olds have (a) applied for and (b) been accepted onto a traineeship to date.
    (206213)
101
N
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many 16 to 19 year olds who have not achieved English and mathematics to level two are not continuing to study these subjects.
    (206214)
102
N
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many 16 to 19 year olds are not undertaking a study programme.
    (206215)
103
N
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy brokers there are; and how much her Department has spent on academy brokers in the last financial year.
    (206216)
104
N
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on legal costs on appealing decision notices served by the Information Commissioner since 2010.
    (206217)
105
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on what dates the no-fly zones around nuclear facilities have been violated since May 2010; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure such violations do not occur in future.
    (206186)
106
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the total staff cost has been of (a) the Office of Unconventional Oil and Gas, (b) the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, (c) his Department's human resources services, (d) the EMR delivery unit and (e) his Department's press office in each year since June 2010.
    (206298)
107
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the amount of gas transferred from (a) Scotland to England and (b) England to Scotland through onshore interconnectors in each month since June 2010.
    (206341)
108
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206146)
109
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to restrict the use of antibiotics on farms to the treatment of sick animals.
    (206200)
110
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many meetings (a) Chris Elliot and (b) members of his team have had with representatives from the meat importation sector during the investigation into criminality in the food chain.
    (206279)
111
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made on the investigation into criminal prosecutions as a result of the adulteration of beef products with horsemeat; and if she will make a statement.
    (206280)
112
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if she will make a statement.
    (206147)
113
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the restricted grant-in-aid to Royal Gardens Botanical, Kew has been in each financial year since 2007.
    (206134)
114
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the CITES Management Authority has declared that the Cayman Turtle Farm is a humane facility.
    (206288)
115
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken in response to the discovery of horsemeat in other foods in 2013 to improve co-operation between Government departments on public health issues.
    (206397)
116
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will investigate whether any UK manufactured weapons or components have been used by Israeli military forces during Operation Protective Edge.
    (206225)
117
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether Israeli military action during Operation Protective Edge has complied with its international legal obligations.
    (206229)
118
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Sri Lankan counterpart (a) on that country's duties to uphold human rights and (b) in response to recent attacks on Muslims in that country.
    (206124)
119
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps the Government has taken to help the 223 girls kidnapped in North East Nigeria.
    (206372)
120
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how the £1 million pledged by the UK to the UN's Safe Schools Initiative is being used to ensure that children are being protected.
    (206373)
121
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made on the delivery of the package of assistance pledged by the Prime Minister to the Nigerian government following the recent kidnapping of schoolgirls in that country.
    (206374)
122
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) Palestinians and (b) Palestinian children who have been killed as a result of Israeli military action in the last 10 years.
    (206375)
123
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) Israelis and (b) Israeli children who have been killed as a result of Israeli military action in the last 10 years.
    (206376)
124
 
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to de-escalate the situation in Gaza.
    (206289)
125
 
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent talks Ministers in his Department have had with (a) Israeli and (b) Palestinian leaders on the current situation in Gaza.
    (206290)
126
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2014, Official Report, column 643W, on Diego Garcia, if he will immediately publish the contents of all the records referred to in the Answer.
    (206294)
127
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent changes in Japan's constitution and its defence doctrine.
    (206184)
128
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent the use and development of nuclear weapons by North Korea; and what assessment he has made of the recent missile tests in the Gongwan Province.
    (206223)
129
 
Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many emergency travel documents were issued in (a) June 2013 and (b) June 2014.
    (206105)
130
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implementation of each of the recommendations in the report, Children in Military Custody, published in June 2012.
    (206208)
131
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the timetable is for the Montserrat Conservation and Environmental Management Bill.
    (206343)
132
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Ugandan government and (b) his EU counterparts on the Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect on Uganda of the sanctions against that country announced by the US administration on 19 June 2014 in response to the Anti-Homosexuality Act.
    (206360)
133
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that West Nile virus is not introduced from the United States to Ascension Island.
    (206361)
134
 
Mr Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham, Perry Barr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statement of 10 July 2014 by the Secretary General of the UN on the escalating tensions between Israel and Palestine.
    (206284)
135
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the degree to which the Cayman Turtle Farm is a humane captive breeding facility.
    (206226)
136
N
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise with the government of Burma reported threats that ethnic Rohingya identifying themselves as such in the census could face arrest.
    (206292)
137
 
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average salary gap is between women and men in his Department.
    (206220)
138
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of doctors against whom allegations of abuse made by patients have been in each year since 2010.
    (206350)
139
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) eating disorder beds and (b) eating disorder services have been delivered by the private sector in each year since 2010.
    (206351)
140
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department allocated to National Breastfeeding Week in each year since 2010.
    (206352)
141
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has an infant feeding coordinator.
    (206353)
142
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his assessment is of the trial publication online of the Red Book for expectant mothers.
    (206354)
143
N
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the World Health Organisation budget was contributed by the Government in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the sterling value of that contribution was.
    (206203)
144
N
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what formula determines the proportion of the World Health Organisation annual budget that should be contributed by each member state government; and when that formula was last updated.
    (206204)
145
N
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the UK contribution to the World Health Organisation budget is counted towards the Government's target of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national product to international development.
    (206205)
146
N
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what audit has taken place in each of the last five financial years of the extent to which the uses to which the UK contribution to the World Health Organisation budget has been put have met Government objectives; and what those objectives were.
    (206206)
147
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Lancashire residents were admitted to a mental health unit that was not their nearest facility in urgent or emergency situations because of a lack of beds since April 2012; how many such patients lived in West Lancashire constituency; and how much has been spent on private sector provision for such patients.
    (206122)
148
 
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of (a) the tobacco industry and (b) tobacco control charities to discuss proposals for legislation on plain packaging of cigarettes in the last 12 months.
    (206333)
149
 
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 313W, on ovarian cancer and 24 June 2014, Official Report, columns 156-7W, on ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, if his Department will collect data on the number of women admitted to hospital with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS); if he will take steps to ensure systematic reporting of OHSS from egg sharing and egg donation; if he will make it his policy that ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome be notifiable; and if he will take steps to ensure that women are accurately informed of the risk of hospitalisation from OHSS when considering egg donation or egg sharing procedures.
    (206103)
150
 
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have suffered complications following knee and hip operations related to osteoarthritis in the last five years.
    (206190)
151
 
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of supporting people with cerebral palsy.
    (206285)
152
 
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average age at which children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
    (206286)
153
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to engage with the public about (a) care.data and (b) ways of opting-out of care.data before data is collected.
    (206189)
154
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206148)
155
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Care Quality Commission look at (a) current and (b) historic patient files and consent forms.
    (206241)
156
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds in each UK spinal cord injury centre have been ring fenced for the treatment of spinal cord injured readmissions or outpatients in each of the last five years.
    (206236)
157
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds in each UK spinal cord injury centre are ring fenced for the exclusive treatment of spinal cord injured readmissions or outpatients.
    (206237)
158
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will investigate the alleged misallocation of the specialist spinal injury beds at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the use by non-spinal cord injury patients.
    (206238)
159
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what payments have been received by the NHS in return for the advertising of Optical Express services on the NHS Choices website.
    (206198)
160
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason the NHS logo appears on the Optical Express website; what the relationship between Optical Express and the NHS is; whether NHS funding (a) is and (b) has been provided to Optical Express in order to carry out procedures on NHS patients; and how many NHS patients were referred to Optical Express by the NHS in each of the last 10 years.
    (206230)
161
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the advertising of Optical Express under the services section of the NHS choices website, for what reason his Department concluded that Optical Express does not fall under the excluded advertising categories set out in the NHS Choices terms and conditions for offering cosmetic surgery and procedures including Botox and sunbeds; and what assessment he has made of whether advertising Optical Express services is an appropriate use of NHS funding used to maintain the website.
    (206231)
162
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contractual arrangement is in place between the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and St Bartholomew's Hospital Trust regarding (a) ownership of the Gamma Knife and (b) leases that HCA may have in relation to the property.
    (206111)
163
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much St Bartholomew's Hospital Trust invested in the establishment of its Gamma Knife Centre in 2009; what the source of such funding was; and how much of that investment has since been recouped.
    (206112)
164
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the revenue division is between the Hospital Corporation of America and St Bartholomew's Hospital Trust London for fees charged to NHS England for treating NHS patients on the Gamma Knife housed in St Bartholomew's Hospital.
    (206113)
165
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which senior medical and administrative staff responsible for the operation of the Gamma Knife Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital Trust are employees of (a) the Trust and (b) the Hospital Corporation of America.
    (206125)
166
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and which private sector companies awarded NHS contracts have subcontracted work from NHS hospitals and surgeries to prisons in England; and which prisons are involved in such contracts.
    (206161)
167
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to co-ordinate with the devolved administrations to plan for the effects of an ageing population.
    (206395)
168
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to put in place a media campaign to educate the public about alternatives to antibiotics.
    (206396)
169
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to improve the transparency and accountability of the NHS complaints process; and if he will take steps to prevent vexatious complaints being made.
    (206398)
170
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to support the establishment of charities that support people with learning disabilities working in communities throughout the UK.
    (206400)
171
 
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 310W, on diabetes, what information his Department collects centrally about diabetics.
    (206283)
172
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training on the potential risks of opioid substitution treatment medications is provided to pharmacists, social workers and health visitors.
    (206228)
173
 
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the recommendations in the report Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the Risks to Children published on 29 April 2014 by Adfam.
    (206273)
174
 
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to routinely refuse visas to foreign nationals who enter the UK with the aim of encouraging or assisting suicide.
    (206107)
175
N
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports she has received on the time taken for the Metropolitan Police to act in the case of a foreign national conducting a seminar which is alleged to have encouraged assistance with suicide in London, June 2013; and what steps she is taking to ensure that the case is now properly investigated.
    (206115)
176
N
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the amount to be paid in additional payments to staff at HM Passport Office who commited to work a set number of overtime hours between 5 July and 31 August 2014.
    (206344)
177
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from local authorities within Compass asylum contract areas on the (a) suitability of accommodation for asylum seekers provided by Compass, (b) overcrowding in that accommodation, (c) the need for local authorities to be notified when asylum seekers became resident there and (d) additional services required from local authorities when large numbers of asylum seekers move to an area.
    (206305)
178
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department gives to research councils for the purpose of conducting non-animal tests or research.
    (206207)
179
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department gives to research councils to fund tests or research involving animals.
    (206210)
180
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the people identified to date by the National Crime Agency investigation into online child abuse had previously worked in regulated activity.
    (206233)
181
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many discretionary referrals have been made from the National Crime Agency Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit to the Disclosure and Barring Service in each of the last five years.
    (206296)
182
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if she will make a statement.
    (206149)
183
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will commission an independent evaluation of the use of GPS tracking by police services in England and Wales.
    (206139)
184
 
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in securing the return of Agung Mantra to the UK.
    (206129)
185
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest period between inspection visits made to any UK establishment licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (as amended 2012) currently is for establishments deemed by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit to be of (a) high, (b) medium and (c) low risk.
    (206182)
186
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2013, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the changes in the number of procedures in the fundamental biological research category.
    (206311)
187
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2013, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the large number of procedures in the direct diagnosis category.
    (206312)
188
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2013, what procedures are included in the direct diagnosis category.
    (206313)
189
 
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of external consultants employed by her Department in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.
    (206232)
190
N
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what the names are of the candidates who have been short-listed for consideration for the position of Clerk of the House and Chief Executive; and what the country of residence of each such candidate is.
    (206209)
191
N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, who decided on which days to migrate the IT accounts of hon. Members and hon. Members' staff to Office 365.
    (206392)
192
N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2014, Official Report, column 176-7W, on computer software, what further feedback the Commission has received from (a) hon. Members, (b) hon. Members' staff and (c) other users on migration to Office 365 since that Answer was given.
    (206393)
193
N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2014, Official Report, columns 176-7W, on computer software, what estimate the Commission has made of the (a) average and (b) aggregate amount of time spent by (i) hon. Members, (ii) Members' staff and (iii) others in migrating to Office 365.
    (206394)
194
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the UK is taking to ensure that all Palestinian civilians made homeless during Operation Protective Edge will have their homes rebuilt as swiftly as possible.
    (206227)
195
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department allocates to Palestine; and if she will commission a review of how effective that funding is in serving her Department's objectives in Palestine.
    (206381)
196
 
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to aid Palestinian citizens who have been injured, orphaned, made homeless and lost their livelihoods as a result of Israel's recent air strikes; and whether she plans to keep the level of such funding under review in the light of future developments in that conflict.
    (206382)
197
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that UK assistance to the Democratic Republic of Congo is not misused or misappropriated.
    (206221)
198
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many programmes based in Papua New Guinea have been considered for funding since April 2004; and how many have received funding.
    (206185)
199
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if she will make a statement.
    (206150)
200
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will ensure that the UK's financial contribution to the Green Climate Fund is announced at the Climate Summit in September 2014.
    (206110)
201
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when the Government plans to announce the UK's contribution to the Green Climate Fund; and whether that contribution will be, proportionately, in accord with the funding being sought by the Fund for its initial resource mobilisation.
    (206291)
202
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will take steps to ensure that particular attention to the most marginalised and people in vulnerable situations is specifically referenced in the language of the targets and goals in the Sustainable Development Goals.
    (206178)
203
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will support proposals to amend the goal on education to provide free, equitable and inclusive quality education and life-long learning opportunities for all in the Sustainable Development Goals.
    (206179)
204
N
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports she has received of an increase in death rates in camps for the Rohingya following the expulsion of MSF and other agencies from Rakhine State, Burma.
    (206293)
205
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many times her Department has referred cases of suspected bribery, fraud or money laundering concerning UK aid money to (a) the Serious Fraud Office and (b) the Crown Prosecution Service since 2009-10.
    (206338)
206
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library any correspondence her Department has received from the Serious Fraud Office on what steps it is taking to investigate reports referred to it by her Department that UK aid may have been channelled via CDC Group and Energy Capital Partners into companies linked to James Ibori; and if she will make a statement.
    (206339)
207
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been made redundant by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in each year since the foundation of HMCTS; and what the cost of redundancies at HMCTS was in each of those years.
    (206322)
208
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on providing non-stipendiary magistrates with electronic copies of Sentencing Guidelines and updates thereof free of charge; and what plans his Department has to provide non-stipendiary magistrates with electronic copies of Sentencing Guidelines and updates thereof free of charge.
    (206323)
209
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many whole time equivalent staff were employed at each magistrates' and Crown court in England in each of the last five years.
    (206324)
210
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many businesses have been convicted under the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 in each magistrates' court in Lancashire in each of the last five years.
    (206328)
211
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent each month on court buildings that were closed in the period up to their disposal since May 2010.
    (206199)
212
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the likely effect on prison numbers of Clause 25 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.
    (206211)
213
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the monthly cost is of each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010.
    (206212)
214
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 326W, on young offenders, on what date each adult male establishment was first designated both as a prison and a young offender institution; and if he will make a statement.
    (206251)
215
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 326W, on young offenders, how many young offenders were held in each establishment on the latest day for which figures are available.
    (206297)
216
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206151)
217
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the capabilities are of the multi-purpose ankle tag; and what forms of surveillance and supervision it makes possible.
    (206133)
218
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the hardware and software providers in the new contract for electronic monitoring of offenders have been separated.
    (206135)
219
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what reasons were given to him by Buddi for its withdrawal from the new electronic contract in March 2014.
    (206136)
220
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on fitting tags and trackers at court or prison.
    (206137)
221
 
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on devolving responsibility for tagging contracts to police and crime commissioners.
    (206138)
222
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) first-tier and (b) upper-tier tax tribunal judges there were in 2013-14; for how many days (i) first-tier and (ii) upper-tier tax tribunal panel members sat in that year; how many (A) first-tier and (B) upper-tier tax tribunal expert panel members there were in that year; and how much was paid to tax tribunal panel members in that year.
    (206358)
223
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Leader of the House, with reference to the commitment in the Coalition Agreement, when he plans to introduce a Parliamentary Business of the House Committee.
    (206173)
224
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Leader of the House, if he will bring forward proposals to provide that the Leader of the House should be elected by the whole House, not appointed by the Prime Minister.
    (206174)
225
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Leader of the House, how many programme motions were proposed in each year since the introduction of such motions; and how many such motions were agreed to.
    (206175)
226
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Leader of the House, how many days were allocated to business not introduced by a Government Minister in each of the last 10 years.
    (206176)
227
N
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Leader of the House, how many amendments to Government bills were not debated in the House due to a lack of time in each of the last 10 years.
    (206177)
228
 
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to publish the names of the 228 on-the-runs with comfort letters after the publication of the Hallett Report; and if she will make a statement.
    (206248)
229
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if she will make a statement.
    (206152)
230
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206153)
236
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the punctuality of South West Trains' passenger rail services in each month since that company formally entered into a deep alliance with Network Rail in April 2012.
    (206196)
237
 
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the punctuality of South West Trains passenger rail services in each month since South West Trains formally entered into a deep alliance with Network Rail in April 2012.
    (206319)
238
N
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many train operating companies (TOCs) missed their annual punctuality targets in each year of Control Period 4, 2009-14; and whether the Office of Rail Regulation can impose fines on TOCs for missing punctuality targets for timetabled train services.
    (206345)
239
N
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on which occasions train operating companies have been fined by (a) his Department and (b) the Office of Rail Regulation for (i) missing punctuality targets or (ii) late running passenger services; and what the amount of the fine was in each such case.
    (206346)
240
N
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the existing franchise agreements between his Department and train operating companies contain punctuality targets for timetabled passenger services; what the target is in each case; and what the penalties are for missing such a target.
    (206347)
241
N
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria are used to establish whether delays over five minutes to a scheduled commuter train service in (a) London and (b) the South East were caused by (i) Network Rail, (ii) the train operating company or (iii) other factors; and what changes have been made to those criteria since January 2008.
    (206348)
242
N
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the punctuality score of South West Trains was in each month between 1 January 2009 and 2014 to date; and what the (a) national average and (b) national punctuality target was in each such month.
    (206349)
243
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206154)
244
 
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to replace the Class 170 units transferred to Chiltern Railways from the Transpennine Manchester to Cleethorpes service.
    (206219)
245
 
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the journey time from Cleethorpes to Manchester Airport on the service proposed in his Department's consultation document on the Transpennine franchise published in June 2014.
    (206307)
246
 
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the potential financial savings that would be incurred in his consultation document on TransPennine and Northern Rail franchises were implemented without change.
    (206383)
247
 
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, to whom and by what mechanism is Rail North accountable.
    (206389)
248
 
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which councillors represented on Rail North agreed to the consultation paper issued by his Department on the Transpennine and Northern Rail franchises; and what council each such councillor represented.
    (206390)
249
 
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what modifications Rail North made to the proposals recently put to his Department for the Transpennine and Northern Rail franchises.
    (206391)
250
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of drivers whose visual acuity was poor who were involved in road traffic accidents in each year since 2010.
    (206308)
251
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost is of road traffic accidents in the UK where poor visual acuity was a contributory factor in each year since 2010.
    (206309)
252
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were injured in road traffic accidents where the driver's visual acuity was found to be below the legal acceptable level in each year since 2010.
    (206318)
253
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents there were per 100,000 of the population in (a) the UK, (b) London and (c) Barnet in each of the last five years.
    (206320)
254
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206156)
255
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials are currently working on the universal credit programme.
    (206235)
256
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on legal fees in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14.
    (206240)
257
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in West Lancashire constituency have waited more than nine months to receive a work capability assessment interview in the last three years.
    (206120)
258
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department made of the staffing levels required to efficiently process the transfer of employment and support allowance claimants to the personal independence payments claims.
    (206121)
259
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the main reasons for the time taken to process personal independence payment claims.
    (206123)
260
 
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to (a) process claims for personal independence payments and (b) receive a work capability assessment appointment.
    (206132)
261
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2014, Official Report, column 278W, on personal independence payments, what his Department's definition is of a mature system; and how he proposes that the maturity of the system will be measured.
    (206342)
262
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 110W, on personal independence payment, if he will estimate the number of people who do not currently claim disability living allowance who go into debt while their claims for personal independence payment are pending.
    (206201)
263
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on how many claims for benefits made by telephone by people in Preston constituency in 2014 to date were interrupted by the claimant running out of credit.
    (206310)
264
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in housing benefit has been paid to private sector landlords in London in each year since 2010.
    (206254)
265
 
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total expenditure on housing benefit in London was in each year since 2010.
    (206255)
266
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
    (206157)
267
 
Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time is taken to process an application for funeral expenses from the Social Fund from the time an application is submitted to a decision being taken.
    (206104)
268
 
Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many current applications for funeral expenses from the Social Fund have been outstanding for longer than (a) 16 days, (b) 18 days and (c) 21 days.
    (206106)
269
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Contract wage incentive payments made since April 2012 have related to work activity of (a) over 30 hours' duration and (b) between 16 to 29 hours' duration per week.
    (206168)
270
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseekers were supported through the Flexible Support Fund in 2013; and what proportion of such were (a) men, (b) under 25 years old and (c) over 50 years old.
    (206169)
271
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people for whom Youth Contract wage incentives have been paid since April 2012 have been (a) male, (b) female, (c) disabled and (d) Black and minority ethnic.
    (206170)
272
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre Plus workclub schemes are in operation; and how many such clubs were established in each year since 2010.
    (206171)
273
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for trends in long-term unemployment among people over 50.
    (206172)

Notices given on Thursday 17 July

1
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to make an announcement on recommendations relating to the award of the National Defence Medal.
[Transferred]   (206314)
2
N
David Wright (Telford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions have taken place on the future of sites in Telford as part of the Building for the Future programme.
[Transferred]   (205800)
3
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to improve the support available to young carers; and what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on improving such support.
[Transferred]   (206399)
4
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will introduce an embargo on the export of weapons to Israel.
[Transferred]   (205884)
5
N
Chris Bryant (Rhondda): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2014, Official Report, column 668W, on Universal Credit, what definition he uses for lowest earning families; and what criteria he uses to assess members of this category.
[Transferred]   (205939)
6
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which local authorities in England publish on their websites (a) the names and addresses of individuals and businesses convicted under the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006, (b) details of the offences for which those individuals and businesses were convicted and (c) the penalty levied by the courts in each such case.
[Transferred]   (206316)
7
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps in co-operation with major retailers to prevent unhealthy food being marketed more favourably than healthier foods.
[Transferred]   (206401)
8
 
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Attorney General, which regulations of the Law Officers' Departments are under review; and if he will make a statement.
    (206416)
9
 
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Attorney General, what his policy is on reforming the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement.
    (206542)
10
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to increase the number of workers from ethnic minority backgrounds who are paid the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
    (206515)
11
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to support employed people who wish to start their own business.
    (206554)
12
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether UK Export Finance (UKEF) has taken steps to ensure that companies operating from the UK which gain support from UKEF support pay do not use artifical tax structures to avoid paying their fair share in the UK.
    (206422)
13
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether UK Export Finance monitors the use of booking centres as part of its anti-money laundering policy.
    (206423)
14
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when conducting due diligence on Jackson Square Aviation and JSA International Holdings LP, when and where UK Export Finance met representatives of that company.
    (206424)
15
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether Export UK Finance liaises with other government departments when conducting due diligence on partner companies.
    (206489)
16
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether UK Export Finance investigates links between politicians in the UK and companies in the UK and their partner companies abroad as part of its due diligence procedure.
    (206512)
17
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether UK Export Finance takes steps not to support companies which use complex artificial tax structures to adopt aggressive tax positions.
    (206513)
18
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the oral Answer from the right hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners to the hon. Member for York Central of 17 July 2014, what the details are of the joint visits made by Government Ministers and the Church to examine the role of food banks; what the Government's policies are to reduce the number of people living in poverty and dependent on food banks; and if he will make a statement.
    (206403)
19
 
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the oral Answer from the right hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners to the hon. Member for York Central of 17 July 2014, what information his Department holds on how many (a) food banks existed and (b) people made use of food banks in the UK in each of the last 10 years.
    (206404)
20
 
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people (a) of pensionable age and (b) over 80 years of age there are in Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency.
    (206564)
21
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206485)
22
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to address concerns that payday loan companies are exploiting vulnerable people.
    (206553)
23
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206483)
24
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the money annually raised through VAT on the restoration of heritage buildings.
    (206441)
25
 
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to reduce VAT on flood defence works carried out by individual householders to help protect their own homes against flooding.
    (206455)
26
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206475)
27
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount spent by his Department on tackling fly-grazing.
    (206470)
28
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will provide a list of the amount and proportion by which central government funding to each local authority in England, ranked in order by percentage, has been reduced in each year since 2010.
    (206420)
29
 
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the total amount of money awarded to good causes by the National Lottery in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) North Yorkshire in each of the last five years.
    (206563)
30
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206484)
31
 
Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects to repond to the Law Commission recommendations on reform of the Electronic Communications Code.
    (206469)
32
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, puruant to the Answers of 3 July 2014, Official Report, column 725W, on nuclear weapons and of 10 July 2014, Official Report, column 358W, on nuclear weapons, if he will publish the titles of reports requested for the longest most recent period of time that will not incur disproportionate cost.
    (206421)
33
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206476)
34
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to provide more effective support to children with disabilities in their formative years.
    (206555)
35
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her has any plans to increase the number of replies within her Department's working day standard; and if she will make a statement.
    (206486)
36
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is working with the History of Parliament Trust and the publishers St James' House on a publication to be published in 2015 to mark 750 years of Parliament; what reports she has received of schools being asked to contribute sponsorship towards that publication; and if she will make a statement.
    (206595)
37
 
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the organisations which will run the proposed new schools at the new town in Sherford, Devon will be selected.
    (206457)
38
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the changes made by the Valuation Office Agency to rates for gas storage facilities on security of supply and price stability in the UK.
    (206413)
39
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Valuation Office Agency about changes to the rates for gas storage facilities.
    (206414)
40
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206474)
41
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is in relation to the public forest estate; and what assessment she has made of the implications for that policy of the recommendations of the 2012 Independent Panel on Forestry.
    (206518)
42
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the European Commission on cane sugar imports.
    (206596)
43
 
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the annual cost of invasive species to the forestry industry.
    (206543)
44
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has any plans to increase the number of replies within her Department's working day standard; and if she will make a statement.
    (206478)
45
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy on 1 January 2015 in England; and if she will make a statement.
    (206402)
46
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the UK's obligations are in respect of badger culling under the Bern Convention.
    (206439)
47
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the UK missing the biodiversity targets in 2010; and what assessment she has made of the likelihood of the 2020 biodiversity target being met.
    (206440)
48
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she will assess more than six species of wildlife as potential carriers of bovine TB and in relation to tackling that disease.
    (206461)
49
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of dealing with animals involved in fly-tipping.
    (206472)
50
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether future badger culls will be independently monitored.
    (206519)
51
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations her Department has received on the checks by a vet on dogs for possible hereditary diseases before being used for breeding; and if she will make a statement.
    (206418)
52
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations her Department has received about the reduction of the number of puppy litters permitted during any 12 month period before a dog breeding licence is required; and if she will make a statement.
    (206460)
53
 
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential effects of the imposition of economic sanctions on Israel on that country's (a) actions towards and (b) relations with the areas governed by the Palestinian Authority since the beginning of Israel's current military action in Gaza.
    (206562)
54
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to offer support and advice to UK citizens visiting Kenya.
    (206551)
55
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the UK's policy is on EU negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and what consultation his Department has had with the devolved administrations in formulating this policy.
    (206552)
56
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answers to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South of 30 June 2014, Official Report, column 453W, on Colombia, for what reasons the Minister of State did not meet representatives of trades unions during his visit to Bogota; and if he will instruct the British Embassy in Bogota to monitor (a) the progress made by the Colombian authorities in bringing the perpetrators of assassinations of representatives of trades unions and (b) the efficacy of the Colombian Republic's commitment to ending the culture of impunity.
    (206566)
57
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions Ministers in his Department have had with the government of Kazakstan about human rights, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion.
    (206426)
58
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions Ministers in his Department have had with the government of Kazakstan on violation of fundamental labour rights and exploitation of child labour.
    (206427)
59
 
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Bexsero vaccine is licensed for (a) individual application and (b) use in conjunction with other vaccines.
    (206537)
60
 
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many intensive care places in the UK have been occupied by Meningitis B patients since January 2013.
    (206538)
61
 
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average daily cost is of keeping a patient in an intensive care unit.
    (206539)
62
 
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of Meningitis B there have been in the UK since January 2013; and in how many such cases individuals have (a) died, (b) required amputation of limbs, (c) become blind, (d) become deaf and (e) contracted other central nervous system complications as a result of Meningitis B.
    (206540)
63
 
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, at what age babies will be eligible for vaccination with the Bexsero vaccine.
    (206541)
64
 
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring in legislative proposals to (a) require that sunbeds should be supervised, (b) limit access to sunbeds for repeat customers and (c) obligate the display of health warnings.
    (206516)
65
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to implement a national screening plan for HIV.
    (206429)
66
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many iPads and iPhones have been purchased by (a) his Department, (b) Public Health England and (c) each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies since May 2010; and what the cost of such purchases has been.
    (206565)
67
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206487)
68
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the (a) emergency services and (b) NHS of dealing with injuries arising from wild horses on road in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (206471)
69
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take in response to the recommendations of the publication of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skin's inquiry into sunbed regulation in England in May 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (206594)
70
 
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that there are sufficient GPs to fill vacancies in surgeries in Devon and Cornwall.
    (206456)
71
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the feasibility and potential benefits of introducing real time information onto the police National Mobile Property Register.
    (206589)
72
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on changes to the Recyclers' Code of Practice in the last six months.
    (206590)
73
 
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the procurement process for a new provider of the search and screening functions at Parliament's three main entrances is expected to commence.
    (206463)
74
 
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the business case for the Security Arrangements Renewal Programme Board's recommendation that when the security contract with the Metropolitan Police Service for search and screening functions at the three main entrances of the Houses of Parliament ends on 31 March 2015, those functions should be provided by a specialised commercial provider.
    (206464)
75
 
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the Security Arrangements Renewal Programme Board to draw up the specifications for the new contract to provide for search and screening functions at the three main entrances of the Houses of Parliament.
    (206465)
76
 
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the contract with Metropolitan Police Service to provide search and screening functions at the Houses of Parliament is expected to cost by the the time it ends on 31 March 2015; whether any financial penalties have been incurred during the course of the contract; and whether the contract contains (a) a break clause and (b) an option to extend beyond March 2015.
    (206466)
77
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has any plans to increase the number of replies within her Department's working day standard; and if she will make a statement.
    (206481)
78
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the coroners' out-of-hours service.
    (206510)
79
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the extent to which the recommendations of her Department's report, Reforming the Coroner and Death Certification Service, published in 2004, have been implemented.
    (206511)
80
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to promote minimal invasive autopsies.
    (206514)
81
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason fire sprinklers were not installed at Campsfield House, Oxfordshire prior to the fire in those premises in October 2013.
    (206462)
82
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who met the costs of damaged caused by the fire in October 2013 at Campsfield House, Oxfordshire.
    (206467)
83
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department informed Campsfield House operators Mitie of the advice of the Oxfordshire Fire Service that sprinklers should be fitted there.
    (206468)
84
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she has any plans to increase the number of replies within her Department's working day standard; and if she will make a statement.
    (206479)
85
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many St Helenians are in fuel poverty.
    (206522)
86
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library a copy of the audit of the accounts of the St Helena airport construction project in each of the last three years.
    (206523)
87
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many St Helenians have emigrated since November 2011.
    (206524)
88
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the new airport terminal on St Helena will be equipped with (a) a biosecurity scanner and (b) a secure biosecurity facility.
    (206525)
89
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps are being taken to protect the mole spider population at Bradleys in the airport development area of St Helena.
    (206526)
90
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what change there has been in energy prices on St Helena in each of the last four years; and what estimate she has made of changes in such prices in each of the next three years.
    (206527)
91
 
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many packages of books delivered to HM Prison Drake Hall were found to contain drugs in each of the last five years.
    (206549)
92
 
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all prisoners at HM Prison Drake Hall have access to a library and at what times of the day.
    (206550)
93
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect that the coming into force of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 has had on the payment of costs incurred by claimants for mesothelioma compensation.
    (206517)
94
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2014, Official Report, column 678W, on Crown courts, what the number of defendants was in each category for each type of offence in 2013-14.
    (206588)
95
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many books are stocked in the libraries at HM Prison (a) Leeds and (b) Wakefield.
    (206591)
96
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of previous offences of burglary was for an individual convicted of a further offence of burglary without being sent to prison in each year since 2010.
    (206592)
97
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who had committed 15 or more previous offences were not sent to prison on conviction for (a) burglary and (b) violence against the person in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (206593)
98
 
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2014, Official Report, column 710W, on training, in which the Minister indicated that Ministers had received £3,000 worth of media training, which company provided media training in June 2010; what the nature of this training was; and which ministers received such training.
    (206536)
99
 
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of measures to prevent drugs being smuggled into HM Prison Dartmoor.
    (206459)
100
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether she has any plans to increase the number of replies within her Department's working day standard; and if she will make a statement.
    (206477)
101
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will commission a Northern Ireland-based inquiry on child abuse at Kincora; and if she will include it in either the current inquiry in Northern Ireland or the national inquiry into abuse in care homes.
    (206425)
102
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206480)
103
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206482)
104
 
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the passenger figures are for each of the last five years for the Transpennine Cleethorpes to Manchester service; and what information is held on the number of people who (a) alight and (b) board in (i) Doncaster and (ii) Sheffield.
    (206419)
105
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the annual investment of each franchised train operating company in wi-fi services has been since the start of each franchise agreement with his Department.
    (206430)
106
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of annual private investment in (a) on train wif-fi services and (b) track side wi-fi infrastructure in each year of Control Period 5 2015 to 2019.
    (206431)
107
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he last discussed Network Rail's punctuality performance in Control Period 4 2009-14 with (a) Network Rail, (b) the Association of Train Operating Companies and (c) other members of the Rail Delivery Group.
    (206432)
108
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with the Office of Rail Regulation about the level of fine imposed on Network Rail for its punctuality performance in Control Period four 2009-14.
    (206433)
109
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria are used to establish whether delays over five minutes to a timetabled long distance train service are caused by (a) Network Rail, (b) the train operating company or (c) other factors; and what changes that have been made to those criteria since January 2008.
    (206434)
110
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his most recent estimate is of the annual number of timetabled passenger train services that arrived (a) within five minutes of and (b) five minutes or more after the scheduled time due to factors attributable to the franchised train operating company in each year since 2004.
    (206435)
111
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he had with the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) about the fine imposed on Network Rail for punctuality performance in Control Period four 2009-14 (CP4); and when he was informed that the ORR would be fining Network Rail for its punctuality performance in CP4.
    (206436)
112
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what mitigating factors the Office of Rail Regulation took into account in its calculation on the fine imposed on Network Rail for punctuality performance in Control Period 4 2009-14.
    (206437)
113
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total annual public investment in (a) on train wi-fi services and (b) track side wi-fi infrastructure will be in each year from 2014 to 2019.
    (206438)
114
 
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how (a) his Department and (b) the Office of Rail Regulation will distribute to train operating companies funds for investment in free passenger wi-fi on train services from the fine on Network Rail for punctuality performance; and whether those funds will be ringfenced.
    (206442)
115
 
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure that the A303 is dualled from Honiton to Amesbury within the next 10 years.
    (206458)
116
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206473)
117
 
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants with (a) rhumatoid arthritis, (b) cystic fibrosis, (c) multiple sclerosis, (d) motor neurone disease and (e) Parkinson's disease have undergone multiple work capability assessments on a single claim; and what proportion each of these comprise of the claimaint total.
    (206412)
118
 
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to his Department is of each work capability assessment carried out by Atos Healthcare (a) on paper and (b) through a face-to-face consultation; and if he will make a statement.
    (206415)
119
 
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants with (a) cystic fibrosis, (b) rheumatoid arthritis, (c) motor neurone disease, (d) multiple sclerosis and (e) Parkinson's disease have been (i) placed in the support group, (ii) placed in the work-related activity group and (iii) found fit for work since 2008; and if he will make a statement.
    (206428)
120
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has any plans to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
    (206488)
121
 
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the backlog for work capability assessments in Plymouth and Devon is reduced.
    (206454)
Tuesday 22 July  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
 
★ 1
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): What assessment he has made of whether the recent use of force by the Israelis in Gaza is proportionate; and what steps he is taking to promote a ceasefire in that conflict.
    (904983)
★ 2
Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): What steps his Department is taking to support projects which foster co-operation and co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians.
    (904984)
★ 3
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): What recent discussions he has had with his overseas counterparts on upholding freedom of religion and belief.
    (904985)
★ 4
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): What recent discussions he has had with his overseas counterparts on upholding freedom of religion and belief.
    (904986)
★ 5
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): What recent assessment he has made of the politicial, security and humanitarian situation in Iraq.
    (904987)
★ 6
Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): If he will take steps to support UK citizens who have been victims of property mis-selling in Cyprus.
    (904988)
★ 7
Mike Gapes (Ilford South): What the Government's policy is on the future constitutional and political status of Iraq; and if he will make a statement.
    (904989)
★ 8
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): What recent assessment he has made of progress in the P5+1 negotiations with Iran on that country's nuclear programme.
    (904990)
★ 9
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): What steps he is taking to support families attending murder trials of British nationals abroad.
    (904991)
★ 10
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): What recent progress has been made on negotiations on bilateral EU free trade agreements; and if he will make a statement.
    (904992)
★ 11
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): What recent discussions he has had with his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts and others on the continuing violence and loss of life in Gaza.
    (904993)
★ 12
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): What plans he has to visit Israel to discuss the current situation in that region.
    (904994)
★ 13
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): What assessment he has made of the EU's new strategic agenda; and if he will make a statement.
    (904995)
★ 14
Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton): What recent reports he has received on the human rights situation in Iran; and if he will make a statement.
    (904996)
★ 15
David Rutley (Macclesfield): What steps he is taking to reform the UK's relationship with the EU.
    (904997)
★ 16
Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): What recent discussions he has had with his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts on progress towards peace in that region.
    (904998)
★ 17
Mr Rob Wilson (Reading East): What recent assessment he has made of the prospects for the Middle East peace process.
    (904999)
★ 18
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): What recent assessment he has made of the situation in Israel and Palestine.
    (905000)
★ 19
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): What recent discussions he has had with opposition groups in Syria.
    (905001)
★ 20
Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): What progress his Department has made on creating marine protected areas in the UK's Overseas Territories.
    (905002)
★ 21
John Howell (Henley): What recent assessment he has made of the prospects for the Middle East peace process.
    (905003)
★ 22
Lyn Brown (West Ham): What recent discussions he has had with his overseas counterparts on upholding freedom of religion and belief.
    (905004)
★ 23
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke): What recent assessment he has made of the prospects for successful negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme.
    (905005)
★ 24
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): What discussions he has had with the French government on arms sales to Russia; and if he will make a statement.
    (905006)
★ 25
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What recent progress has been made on negotiations on bilateral EU free trade agreements; and if he will make a statement.
    (905007)
At 12.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (904973)
★ 2
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):  
    (904974)
★ 3
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West):  
    (904975)
★ 4
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke):  
    (904976)
★ 5
Karen Lumley (Redditch):  
    (904977)
★ 6
Chris Evans (Islwyn):  
    (904978)
★ 7
Keith Vaz (Leicester East):  
    (904979)
★ 9
Sarah Champion (Rotherham):  
    (904981)
★ 10
Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome):  
    (904982)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 11 July

1
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which websites detainees in each immigration detention centre are blocked from accessing.
    (205397)

Notices given on Monday 14 July

1
N
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the proportion of properties in which the costs of installing a smart meter will outweigh the benefits.
    (205668)

Notices given on Tuesday 15 July

1
N
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what average length of time was taken to provide individual taxpayers with refunds of overpaid tax in (a) the most recent year for which figures are available and (b) the preceding four years.
    (205873)
2
N
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many taxpayers qualified for a refund on their 2013-14 tax payments; how many of them received the refund; and what the average value is of these refunds.
    (205874)
3
N
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the progress made by suppliers and installer of smart meters on finding a solution for hard to install properties.
    (205955)
4
N
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what contingency plans his Department has in place if the deadline for SMETS 2 is not met.
    (206034)
5
N
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recent Supreme Court ruling concerning which individuals in care homes and hospitals should be subject to a deprivation of liberty assessment; and if he will make a statement.
    (206097)
6
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expertise the NSPCC has in dealing with victims of slavery; and what criteria were set by her Department for the securing of the contract to run the modern slavery helpline.
    (205956)
7
N
Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Law Society on its inclusion of Sharia succession rules in its guidance; and if he will make a statement.
    (205887)
8
N
Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the Law Society's inclusion of Sharia succession rules in its guidance and its compatibility with existing equalities legislation.
    (205888)
9
N
Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance judges will receive on settling inheritance disputes which were initially settled under the Sharia succession rules guidance issued by the Law Society.
    (205889)
10
N
Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Solicitors Regulation Authority is continuing to endorse the Law Society practice note on Sharia succession rules; and whether such an endorsement is compatible with the SRA's obligations under the Equality Act 2010; and if he will make a statement.
    (205890)

Notices given on Wednesday 16 July

1
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions and meetings (a) officials and (b) Ministers in his Department have held with the European Commission on takeovers and public interest tests since 20 April 2014.
    (206299)
2
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what studies, statistics or other briefings have been commissioned or purchased by his Department on the issue of Sunday trading in the last 12 months.
    (206300)
3
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 9 April 2014, Official Report, column 292W, on Royal Mail, by what date he expects to make a decision on whether a discretionary payment will be made; and whether he expects this decision to be made after the report of Lord Myners on the privatisation of Royal Mail has been submitted.
    (206362)
4
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) meetings and (b) discussions on the privatisation of Royal Mail took place between (i) Ministers, (ii) officials, (iii) the Financial Adviser to HM Government, (iv) the banking syndicate working on the privatisation and (v) priority investors (A) ahead of and (B) since the privatisation of Royal Mail.
    (206368)
5
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of post boxes that have been decommissioned since the privatisation of Royal Mail.
    (206301)
6
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the procedures for consultation before the decommissioning of post boxes by Royal Mail.
    (206302)
7
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make representations to Royal Mail on the need to conduct local consultation prior to the decommissioning of post boxes.
    (206303)
8
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will place in the Library all data he holds on the effect of the decommissioning of post boxes on (a) elderly and (b) disabled people.
    (206304)
9
N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met BLTV Ltd to discuss its progress on delivering the local television franchise for the Birmingham area.
    (206245)
10
N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how long a local television franchise is valid for; and whether BLTV will launch in Birmingham within the period of its existing franchise.
    (206246)
11
N
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2014, Official Report, column 63W, on teachers: offences against children, how many teachers have lost their job as a result of having a sexual or other relationship with a student under the age of 16 in each of the last five years.
    (206247)
12
N
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what representations he has received from Ofgem and other regulatory bodies on the decision to consult on a large-scale solar PV Renewables Obligation closure grace period deadline of 13 May 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (206116)
13
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funds have been made available to the NSPCC for the establishment and running costs of the modern slavery helpline.
    (206158)
14
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who the target demographic is for the modern slavery helpline run in conjunction with the NSPCC; and what services and support will be offered through this helpline.
    (206159)
15
N
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what (a) external organisations and (b) officials in the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland he has engaged with as part of the Scotland Analysis programme; and what was discussed at each such consultation.
    (206363)
16
N
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many officials of the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland have been allocated to work on the Scotland Analysis programme; and if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of that work.
    (206364)
17
N
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings (a) he and (b) officials of the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland have had with the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West as part of the Scotland Analysis programme; and what was discussed at each such meeting.
    (206365)
18
N
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what work the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland has commissioned by external consultants in relation to work on the Scotland Analysis programme; which consultants were used; and how much such consultancy has cost.
    (206366)
19
N
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in Banff and Buchan constituency whose incomes from benefit payments have reduced by (a) 10 per cent, (b) between 20 and 49 per cent and (c) 50 per cent or more since May 2010.
    (206253)
20
N
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the impact assessment of the single-tier pension published in October 2013, if he will make an estimate of how many people reaching state pension age after implementation of the single-tier pension in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland would have been eligible for savings credit in (i) 2020 and (ii) 2030 had savings credit not been abolished.
    (206369)
21
N
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in Perth and North Perthshire constituency whose incomes from benefit payments have reduced by (a) 10 per cent, (b) between 20 and 49 per cent and (c) 50 per cent or more since May 2010.
    (206252)

Notices given on Thursday 17 July

1
N
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Attorney General, with reference to paragraph 10.52 of the Report of the Hallett Review, if he will publish the names of the 13 on-the-runs who have benefited from the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.
    (206530)
2
N
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Attorney General, following the publication of the Hallett Report, if he will now publish the names of the 228 on-the-runs who received comfort letters.
    (206531)
3
N
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Attorney General, if he will publish the advice the Law Officers' Department gave to Lady Hallett on the lawfulness of the administrative scheme operated for the benefit of on-the-runs.
    (206532)
4
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of his proposals to extend the powers of UK Export Finance on (a) the commitment on the Coalition Agreement for UK Trade and Investment and the Export Credits Guarantee Department to become champions for British companies that develop and export innovative green technologies around the world and (b) human rights; and if he will make a statement.
    (206521)
5
N
Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the most recent impact assessment his Department has carried out on the issue of Sunday trading.
    (206509)
6
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the responsibilities of the Parlimentary Under-Secretary for Coastal Communities will be; and whether Hull will be classed as a coastal community for this purpose.
    (206520)
7
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid to officials in HM Revenue and Customs in bonuses and other payments in addition to salary in each of the last five years; how many officials received such payments; and what the monetary value was of the 20 largest payments made in each year.
    (206497)
8
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of telephone calls were answered by HM Revenue and Customs in less than (a) five minutes, (b) 10 minutes, (c) 15 minutes and (d) 20 minutes in each quarter of the last three years; and how many and what proportion of telephone calls to HM Revenue and Customs went unanswered in each quarter of the last three years.
    (206498)
9
N
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has made (a) voluntarily and (b) compulsorily redundant in each of its areas of activity in each year from 2010-11; and how much HMRC has spent on redundancy costs in each such year.
    (206500)
10
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government has taken to promote competition in the market for business banking; and what the effect has been.
    (206494)
11
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2014, Official Report, column 617W, on housing revenue accounts, what criteria are used to assess bids for the allocation of extra borrowing allowed against the housing revenue accounts.
    (206545)
12
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the uprating of the pensions of UK veterans living overseas.
    (206411)
13
N
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many new claims for armed forces independence payment have been made since April 2013.
    (206560)
14
N
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are currently in receipt of the armed forces independence payment.
    (206561)
15
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether funding allocated by her Department to the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust is top-sliced by the Trust prior to its distribution to schools.
    (206405)
16
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the income of Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust was lost owing to fraud in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
    (206406)
17
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who the accounting officer was for the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
    (206407)
18
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what the money defrauded from the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust was intended to be used; and from which school's budget that money was taken.
    (206408)
19
N
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department was first made aware of fraud within the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust; and what steps it took in response to that information.
    (206409)
20
N
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Gateway to Growth: CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey 2014, what steps she is taking to ensure teachers are supported to deliver the five skills called for by Young Enterprise.
    (206546)
21
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the efficacy of incentives designed to keep experienced teachers in the classroom.
    (206443)
22
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what sanctions there are for schools which fail to spend the school sport premium appropriately.
    (206444)
23
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will request Ofsted to record how many children leave primary school able to swim.
    (206445)
24
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to help schools which are not spending the school sport premium appropriately.
    (206447)
25
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which music education hubs in England have placed the majority of their music teachers on notice of redundancy since they were first established in 2012; and which hubs do not employ their music teachers on regular terms and conditions; and what proportion of hubs such hubs are.
    (206450)
26
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role her Department sees for music education hubs in music curriculum teaching in schools; and how she expects those hubs to effectively fulfil their responsibilities.
    (206451)
27
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will publish an impact assessment of the principles of the Government's strategy for maximising economic recovery from the UK continental shelf; and what discussions he has had with (a) ministerial colleagues and (b) the Health and Safety Executive on the potential effect of the implementation of those principles and that strategy on the safety of offshore oil gas workers.
    (206506)
28
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will ensure that trade unions representing workers in the offshore oil and gas sector are included in official discussions about (a) establishing and (b) the regulatory powers of the Oil and Gas Authority recommended by the Wood Review.
    (206507)
29
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to promote the forestry industry.
    (206547)
30
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2014, Official Report, column 611W, on Biofuels, what steps her Department has taken to embed the importance of food security across her Department's policies; and what research her Department supports in this area.
    (206548)
31
N
Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the prospects for a successful solution to the Cyprus problem; and what steps he is taking to assist this development.
    (206544)
32
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received about the role of Egyptian border control policies in contributing to the shortage of basic medical supplies in Gaza.
    (206567)
33
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received of water supplies and sewage plants being the targets of Israeli air strikes in Gaza during the recent Israeli military action.
    (206568)
34
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the number of Israeli citizens killed by rockets launched from Gaza into Israel since the beginning of Israel's current military action in Gaza.
    (206569)
35
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to discourage the continued construction of illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories since the beginning of Israel's current military action in Gaza.
    (206573)
36
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to encourage the Israeli government to end the occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza since the beginning of Israel's current military action in Gaza.
    (206574)
37
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the (a) planning regulations and (b) environmental policies of the Montserrat government have been followed during the development of the new aquatic and sport centre.
    (206535)
38
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce inequalities covering his public health functions for the whole population.
    (206558)
39
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of moving the immunisation coordinator role from primary care trust into commissioning positions on the availability of immunisation advice to nurse-based practitioners.
    (206559)
40
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2014, Official Report, column 516W, on liver diseases, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in hospital admissions for primary and secondary liver disease in children since 2010.
    (206575)
41
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisations have withdrawn from the Responsibility Deal; and for what reason they withdrew.
    (206583)
42
N
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason the Chief Executive of NHS England has not replied to the letter of 30 May 2014 from the right hon. Member for Chelmsford on behalf of his constituent Mr John McPhee; and when he expects a substantive response to the letter.
    (206452)
43
N
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the cessation of manufacturing of the MSD Oestradiol implant in August 2011, what discussions his Department has had with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the licensing of a new HRT implant.
    (206499)
44
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisations have withdrawn from the Responsibility Deal; and for what reason they withdrew.
    (206585)
45
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have visited in an official capacity in the last 12 months.
    (206586)
46
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of the resignation letters from the former chairs of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (a) Dr Geoffrey Harris and (b) Maria Bell; and if he will make a statement.
    (206556)
47
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding and support his Department provides to the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives; and if he will make a statement.
    (206557)
48
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the process used to appoint Dr Anthony Marsh to the post of Chief Executive for (a) West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust and (b) East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust; if he will place in the Library copies of all correspondence between his Department and both ambulance trusts on these appointments; what level of salary Dr Anthony Marsh receives for each role; and if he will make a statement.
    (206570)
49
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have met Dr Anthony Marsh in the last three years; what the purpose was of such meetings; and if he will make a statement.
    (206572)
50
N
Wayne David (Caerphilly): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2014, Official Report, column 200W, on passports, when she expects to publish a reliable estimate of the additional costs arising from staff temporarily working away from their normal workplace and from overtime to deal with delays at the Passport Office.
    (206495)
51
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when a reply will be sent to the hon. Member for Harrow West's letter of 15 July 2014 regarding Mr and Mrs Patil of Harrow; and if she will make a statement.
    (206571)
52
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the nationality and gender of each suspected victim of trafficking to the Trafficking Victim Support Scheme operated by the Salvation Army in May 2014; in which (a) region and (b) county each of the suspected victims was found; which agency referred each person to the Scheme; in which town the shelter was to which they were placed for the relevant period; and what contact is had with each victim after they exit the shelter to ensure they are not re-trafficked.
    (206493)
53
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many biosecurity breaches have been reported in (a) Rupert's Valley and (b) Prosperous Bay Plain in each year since the start of the airport construction process in St Helena.
    (206528)
54
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether there are any plans for beacons associated with airport construction on St Helena to be located within national conservation areas on the island.
    (206529)
55
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the known habitat of the mole spider is estimated to have been destroyed during the construction of the airport on St Helena.
    (206533)
56
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the current cost is of transporting a container of goods to St Helena; and what estimate her Department has made of such a cost once the RMS St Helena is decommissioned.
    (206534)
57
N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an estimate of the number of people who will be resident 15 or more miles away from their nearest magistrates' court as a result of the closure of Spalding magistrates' courts.
    (206417)
58
N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of whether the bringing into force of the provisions of the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill will lead to fewer successful claims for damages under the current negligence laws.
    (206449)
59
N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the likely reduction in insurance premiums as a result of the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill.
    (206453)
60
N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his article of 2 June 2014 on the Conservative Home website, what the evidential basis is for his statement that time and again we see stories of a jobsworth culture or a legalistic culture that seems to stop common sense in its tracks.
    (206496)
61
N
Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Prime Minister, what response the Government has made of the petition presented to 10 Downing Street on 9 December 2013 on the return of Famagusta to its lawful inhabitants and the opening of the city's seaport; and what steps the UK is taking to support the return of that city to its former inhabitants.
    (206576)
62
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how much the Government Equalities Office has spent on (a) outside catering and refreshments, (b) artwork and (c) televisions in each year since 2010.
    (206584)
63
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how much the Government Equalities Office has spent on (a) plants and (b) wine in each of the last five years.
    (206587)
64
N
Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what additional assistance the Government gives to people using food banks to enable them to find work or additional hours of work; and if he will make funds available to food banks to enable them to do more to help their clients to find work.
    (206410)
65
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of implementing the Government's strategy for maximising economic recovery from the UK continental shelf will have on safety of offshore oil gas workers.
    (206448)
66
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of the introduction of (a) the Government's strategy for maximising economic recovery from the UK continental shelf and (b) the Oil and Gas Authority will have on the safety of offshore oil gas workers.
    (206508)
67
N
Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants have declined to move into a property with fewer bedrooms, having been offered that option of doing so under the Government's under-occupancy penalty policy.
    (206492)
68
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on claimants of extending the waiting-day period for new benefit claims from three to seven days; and whether he will make a statement.
    (206446)
69
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability employment advisers were employed by his Department and its executive agencies in each of the last 60 months; and what his future policy is on the number of advisers employed.
    (206577)
70
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many men aged 65 receive additional state pension after a contracted-out deduction is applied.
    (206490)
71
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to equalise guaranteed minimum pensions.
    (206491)
72
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the guidance issued by his Department to Atos Healthcare on Part 2, Regulation 7 of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013.
    (206501)
73
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of new claims for personal independence payments that were refused on application were subsequently allowed on appeal in the last 12 months.
    (206502)
74
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims for personal independence payments are outstanding.
    (206503)
75
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of new claims for personal independence payments have been successful since April 2013.
    (206504)
76
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claimants of persoanl independence payment have not received a decision within 26 weeks of the date of their claim.
    (206505)
77
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many bids he has received from companies tendering for the delivery of the Health and Work Service; and if he will make a statement.
    (206578)
78
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average employment and support allowance payment was in each year since 2008.
    (206579)
79
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost of processing employment and support allowance claims has been in each year since 2008.
    (206580)
80
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average employment and support allowance payment made to claimants aged over 50 was in 2013.
    (206581)
81
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants aged over 50 have been (a) referred to and (b) secured a sustained job outcome from the Work Programme; and, of those, how many have secured sustained job outcomes.
    (206582)

Prepared 18th July 2014