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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Thursday 16 October 2014

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Wednesday 15 October 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Thursday 16 October 2014

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

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

Thursday 16 October  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
 
★ 1
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): What steps he is taking to review the rules relating to non-payment of the TV licence fee.
    (905458)
★ 2
Nigel Mills (Amber Valley): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of competition in the mobile network operators' market.
    (905459)
★ 3
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): What recent assessment he has made of the effect of government funding decisions on the arts and culture outside London.
    (905460)
★ 4
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): What recent assessment he has made of the balance of funding for arts organisations in the English regions.
    (905461)
★ 5
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): What recent estimate he has made of the contribution of tourism to the economy.
    (905462)
★ 6
Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): What assessment he has made of the conclusions of the 50th Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 2013-14, on The rural broadband programme.
    (905463)
★ 8
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): What steps he is taking to support people with a disability to get online.
    (905465)
★ 9
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): What steps he is taking to ensure better representation of women in the media.
    (905466)
★ 11
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What steps he is taking to protect music venues from closure as a result of noise complaints.
    (905468)
★ 12
John Howell (Henley): What recent assessment he has made of mobile phone coverage in rural areas.
    (905469)
★ 13
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): What representations he has received on funding for culture in the East Midlands.
    (905470)
★ 14
Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): What assessment he has made of the role of the arts and the creative industries in supporting economic regeneration in coastal communities.
    (905471)
★ 15
Andrew George (St Ives): What his policy is on the UNESCO proposal for mediation with Greece on the Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum.
    (905472)
★ 16
Mr David Nuttall (Bury North): What plans he has to provide superfast broadband to those areas not covered by existing policies.
    (905473)
★ 17
Robert Jenrick (Newark): What steps the Government is taking to increase the number of Chinese tourists visiting the UK.
    (905474)
★ 18
Jim McGovern (Dundee West): What amount the Government has allocated to the Creative Skillset Skills Investment Fund; how much of that funding has been allocated to the video games industry; and what assessment he has made of the effects of that funding.
    (905475)
★ 19
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): What assessment he has made of the speed of delivery of superfast broadband to rural areas.
    (905476)
★ 20
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): What steps his department is taking to support theatre and the arts in the provinces.
    (905477)
At 10.05am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 2
Simon Wright (Norwich South): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (905479)
★ 4
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton):  
    (905481)
★ 5
David Mowat (Warrington South):  
    (905482)
★ 6
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent):  
    (905483)
★ 7
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):  
    (905484)
★ 8
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale):  
    (905485)
★ 9
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North):  
    (905486)
★ 10
Andy Sawford (Corby):  
    (905487)
At 10.15am
Oral Questions to the Ministers for Women and Equalities
 
★ 1
Karen Lumley (Redditch): What recent progress she has made on encouraging women to set up their own businesses.
    (905448)
★ 3
Andrew George (St Ives): What steps she is taking to ensure equal pay in the workplace.
    (905450)
★ 4
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What recent discussions she has had with her ministerial colleagues on protecting the rights of women and girls overseas.
    (905451)
★ 5
Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): What steps she is taking to increase representation of women on the boards of public institutions.
    (905452)
★ 6
Peter Aldous (Waveney): What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on tackling violence against women.
    (905453)
★ 7
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): What recent progress she has made on encouraging women to set up their own businesses.
    (905454)
★ 8
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on tackling violence against women.
    (905455)
★ 9
Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth): What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on tackling violence against women.
    (905456)
★ 10
Richard Graham (Gloucester): What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on tackling violence against women.
    (905457)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 10 September

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the Government will change regulations to provide a war widow's pension for life for those who were awarded war widows' pensions between 31 March 1973 and 5 April 2005.
    (208933)

Notices given on Friday 10 October

1
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason a benefit sanction was imposed on Mr David Clapson in June 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (209266)

Notices given on Monday 13 October

1
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made by his Department in 2014 on implementing and maintaining the Government Digital Services training programme.
    (210277)
2
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to include both non-compulsory and non-guaranteed overtime in calculations of holiday pay; and if he will make a statement.
    (210148)
3
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to change funding of the Apprenticeship scheme.
    (210186)
4
N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many overseas students were studying at each UK university in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014.
    (210184)
5
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government Digital Service has made of the viability of the British Sign Language interface for online services.
    (210276)
6
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total funds provided by Government for (a) corporate welfare grants and support schemes and (b) tax forgone.
    (210154)
7
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of government financial support to business through grants and tax foregone.
    (210155)
8
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Government has spent in grants and support schemes to businesses since 2010.
    (210156)
9
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of tax relief to businesses since 2010.
    (210157)
10
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how often he reviews the cost effectiveness of corporate welfare schemes; and what the criteria are for such schemes to be continued.
    (210158)
11
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total amount is of commercial loan values that have been transferred to RBS Capital Resolution since its inception.
    (210140)
12
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses with commercial loans transferred to RBS Capital Resolution have been taken out of that division of the bank and restored to the good bank.
    (210141)
13
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to ensure that businesses in the RBS Capital Resolution bank are restored to the good bank within RBS.
    (210142)
14
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much DEL Resource from his Department was allocated to integration and tackling extremism in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2014-15.
    (210272)
15
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to Annex B of his Department's Explanatory Memorandum to its main Estimate 2013-14, how the savings in the resource budget for Integration and Tackling Extremism in 2013-14 and 2014-15 were achieved.
    (210273)
16
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new houses completed in the last 12 months in England have been built on sites of (a) less than one ha, (b) one to two ha, (c) two to four ha, (d) four to six ha, (e) six to eight ha, (f) eight to 10 ha and (f) above 10 ha.
    (210274)
17
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average time taken to grant access for housing associations to properties to undertake statutory gas safety checks.
    (210160)
18
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the costs to housing associations of implementing the legal power to enter a property to undertake a statutory gas safety check.
    (210161)
19
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to change the Local Welfare Assistance scheme; and if he will make a statement.
    (210187)
20
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effectiveness of an Agent of Change law to protect music venues and cultural centres from noise complaints.
    (210213)
21
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his policy to encourage his Department to work with private companies based at MOD St Athan.
    (210185)
22
N
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Statement on 13 October 2014 by the Secretary of State for Health, from which departmental budget the costs associated with deploying RFA Argus to West Africa will be recovered.
    (210159)
23
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academies have articles of association which require the Academy Trust to consider any advice given by the principal of a school in the Academy Trust before resolving to take action; and in how many academy trusts the consideration of such advice is discretionary.
    (210150)
24
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on the appointment of a director who does not play an active role, otherwise known as a sleeping partner, to be a director of an academy trust.
    (210151)
25
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints she has received that an academy trust is not complying with its articles of association (a) following an Ofsted inspection, (b) following an inspection by the Education Funding Agency and (c) from any other source.
    (210152)
26
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy trusts have boards of directors with no more than three members.
    (210153)
27
N
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to increase the number of science graduates teaching in primary schools.
    (210285)
28
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make an assessment of the danger to the public as a result of cracks in the graphite of a reactor at Hunterston B nuclear power station, North Ayrshire; and if he will make a statement.
    (210076)
29
N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of households in rural areas have participated in Carbon Saving Communities Obligation measures; and what proportion of the funding of such measures is contributed by such households through their fuel bills.
    (210283)
30
N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many installations under the Rural Safeguard Scheme there have been to date; and what proportion such installations form of (a) Energy Company Obligation measures and (b) Carbon Saving Communities Obligation measures.
    (210284)
31
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made so far by the agricultural sector towards meeting its Greenhouse Gas Action Plan; what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of that initiative; and what the relationship is of the Plan to international emission comparisons.
    (210078)
32
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on whether adequate preparations are being made in Nigeria for holding free, fair, timely and national elections in February 2015.
    (210275)
33
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received about discrimination faced by British Muslims on entering and exiting Israel.
    (210278)
34
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the detention of Gao Zhisheng in China; and what representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on Mr Gao Zhisheng's behalf.
    (210079)
35
N
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department provides to clinical commissioning groups about commissioning services on treatments from hospitals (a) in Scotland and (b) outside their own area.
    (210196)
36
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the third stage review report into the closure of children's heart surgery at the Leeds General Infirmary in 2013 to be published.
    (210271)
37
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to bring forward delegated legislation under the Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010; and what the reason is for the time taken to bring forward such regulations.
    (210188)
38
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2014 to Question 208590, how many local authorities have (a) submitted satisfactory, (b) submitted unsatisfactory and (c) failed to submit final statements of assurance for the Public Health Grant for 2013-14.
    (210189)
39
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department provides to public health directors on the Lobbying Act 2014.
    (210190)
40
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the European Medicines Agency's review of valproate and related substances and their use by pregnant women to report; and if he will make a statement.
    (210191)
41
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the implications are for his policy of the statement by the Chief Medical Officer that e-cigarettes represent one of the three major health threats to the UK.
    (210193)
42
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment for people who have experienced sexual abuse in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Warrington.
    (210279)
43
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to screen all visitors entering the UK from West Africa for Ebola.
    (210075)
44
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what overtime costs were incurred by HM Passport Office in (a) July, (b) August and (c) September 2014.
    (210194)
45
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual offence prevention orders have been implemented in the last 12 months.
    (210146)
46
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2014 to Question 207956, how much of the funds given to local authorities under the Prevent programme was spent in each of the last five years; and what funds under that programme were spent by (a) police forces, (b) other frontline agencies and (c) central government in each of those years.
    (210147)
47
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how funding under the Channel programme is allocated to local authorities and police forces.
    (210198)
48
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the New Psychoactive Substances review was not published on 25 September 2014 as scheduled; and when she expects to publish that review.
    (210214)
49
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will discuss with the (a) Attorney General, (b) Crown Prosecution Service, (c) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and (d) Health and Safety Executive the reasons for the time taken by the Independent Police Complaints Commission to conclude its further investigation into the death of Thomas Orchard on 3 October 2012; and if she will make a statement.
    (210288)
50
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the full jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice on how the UK deals with information received from other EU Member States about the policing of international football matches if the UK opts back in to Council Decision 2002/348/JHA.
    (210180)
51
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014, Official Report, column 466W, for what reason the relevant authorities of other EU Member States would not act on information pertinent to policing international football matches that was passed on by UK authorities in the event that the UK ceased to be bound by Council Decision 2002/348/JHA; and whether the UK ceasing to be bound by this Decision would be a material cause of such lack of action.
    (210181)
52
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the likelihood of the UK concluding memoranda of understanding or other similar agreements with other EU Member States to formalise the exchange of information about policing football matches with an international dimension in the event that the UK ceases to be bound by Council Decision 2002/348/JHA.
    (210182)
53
N
Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the Answers to Questions 40890, on 15 February 2011 and 43770, on 8 March 2011, how many overseas students from each country were granted visas in 2013.
    (210183)
54
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library the annual reports of the Conflict Pool for 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14.
    (210197)
55
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in each security category are missing, having absconded from each prison in England and Wales.
    (210144)
56
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are missing, having absconded from prisons in England and Wales, by offence type.
    (210145)
57
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to create a statutory right for grandparents to have access to their grandchildren in the case of family breakdown involving the children's parents.
    (210136)
58
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases in the family courts resulted in removed children being returned to their parents in each of the last five years.
    (210137)
59
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the suitability of provisions for grandparents to have access to their grandchildren in the case of family breakdown involving the children's parents.
    (210138)
60
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many injunctions have been issued that prevent grandparents from having contact with their grandchildren in the last five years.
    (210139)
61
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to bring forward proposals to reform joint enterprise legislation in the 2010-15 Parliament.
    (210143)
62
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will meet the Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association campaigners.
    (210215)
63
N
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what financial penalties would be incurred by the cancellation of the contract with Lend Lease for the construction of HM Prison Wrexham.
    (210200)
64
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will meet the Scottish CBI to discuss the implications for business in Scotland of the outcome of the recent referendum; and if he will make a statement.
    (210074)
65
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 208875, on road safety regulations to metric mixers, what specific concerns are raised in the 14 pieces of correspondence; what assessment he has made of the road safety risk posed by the current regulations; whether that issue is part of the review into exemptions on safety regulations for HGVs; and when the conclusions of that review will be published.
    (210201)
66
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of people who undertook driving tests at the test centre in (a) Irvine and (b) Cumnock since the closure of the Kilmarnock driving test centre ordinarily reside in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.
    (210106)
67
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people normally resident in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency undertook driving tests in (a) Irvine and (b) Cumnock test centres in each month since the closure of the Kilmarnock driving test centre.
    (210107)
68
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will assess the merits of establishing a driving test centre at the site of the current HGV testing centre in Kilmarnock.
    (210108)
69
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will assess the effects of the closure of the driving test centre in Kilmarnock on (a) costs incurred by driving instructors, (b) costs incurred by candidates and (c) traffic in the vicinity of nearby test centres.
    (210109)
70
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons retention bonuses have been paid to Network Rail executives; and what his policy is on the further payment of such bonuses.
    (210268)
71
N
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the most recent average waiting time is for (a) an assessment and (b) a decision on applications for personal independence payments.
    (210270)
72
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will discuss with the (a) Attorney General, (b) Crown Prosecution Service, (c) Secretary of State for the Home Department and (d) Independent Police Complaints Commission the reasons for the time taken by the Health and Safety Executive to conclude its further investigation into the death of Thomas Orchard on 3 October 2012; and if he will make a statement.
    (210287)
73
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many balance checks for Post Office card accounts were undertaken in each of the last five years at (a) ATMs and (b) Post Office counters.
    (210269)
74
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there are who also hold another bank account in the UK, broken down by (a) age profile, (b) constituent part of the UK and (c) parliamentary constituency.
    (210280)
75
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card account holders there are in the UK (a) in total and (b) by age profile, broken down by (i) constituent part of the UK and (ii) by parliamentary constituency.
    (210281)
76
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the sum of withdrawals from Post Office card accounts has been in each of the last five years from (a) ATMs and (b) Post Office counters.
    (210282)
77
N
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research his Department has undertaken in the last 10 years to examine the needs of Post Office card account holders; and if he will make a statement.
    (210286)
78
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will arrange for the hon. Member for Walsall North to receive a reply to his email to Capita-PIP of 4 September 2014 and subsequent email of 18 September 2014 on the same case, ref PIP10036052/101.
    (210199)
79
N
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who will be claiming universal credit in April 2015.
    (210195)

Notices given on Tuesday 14 October

1
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effects of the Government's reforms of taxi and minicab licensing on the safety of women passengers.
[Question Unstarred] [Transferred]   (905449)
2
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the UK voted against UN Resolution A/68/L.57/Rev.1, entitled Towards the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes, on 9 September 2014.
[Transferred]   (210225)
3
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the franchise to 16 and 17 year olds for the next UK General Election.
[Transferred]   (210077)
4
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Statement of 13 October 2014 on Ebola, how long it takes for the results from blood tests administered by the Public Health England laboratory to be communicated to the patient; and where that laboratory is located.
[Transferred]   (210192)
5
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what requirements exist for genetically modified food to be labelled as such; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred]   (210149)
6
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 and over who have been detained in immigration removal centres (IRCs) in England and Wales are missing having left the premises without permission from each IRC.
[Transferred]   (210110)
7
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has held with the Association of Gas Safety Managers about access to properties to undertake statutory gas safety checks.
[Transferred]   (210162)
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Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many confiscation orders were imposed by the CPS on individuals convicted of offences related to human trafficking in each of the last five years; what the size of these orders was; and how much has been recovered under such orders.
    (210496)
9
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, what the conviction rates for offences under Section 2A and 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 were in 2013-14.
    (210497)
10
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how much the CPS has spent on defending appeals against asset restraining orders in each of the last seven financial years.
    (210498)
11
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, when (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have met representatives of (i) Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials and (ii) the Ministry of Defence to discuss the SFO's investigation into GPT Special Project Management Ltd.
    (210499)
12
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) pre-charge decisions, (b) out-of-court disposals, (c) prosecutions, (d) convictions there have been for each offence created by the (A) Terrorism Act 2000, (B) Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, (C) Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, (D) Terrorism Act 2006 and (E) Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to date.
    (210500)
13
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the CPS has prosecuted cases of racially or religiously aggravated harassment in each of the last seven years.
    (210501)
14
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, whether costs from the convicted defendants in the phone-hacking trial that concluded on 25 June 2014 have been recovered.
    (210502)
15
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many times he has met with the Director of the SFO to discuss the investigation into GPT Special Project Management Ltd in the last six months.
    (210503)
16
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many exit packages the CPS agreed in the last financial year that were of a value above £100,000; and what the total cost of such packages were to the public purse.
    (210504)
17
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, under what article of the Protocol between the Attorney General and the Prosecuting Departments he has held discussions with the Director of the SFO about that body's investigation into GPT Special Project Management Ltd.
    (210505)
18
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many asset freezing orders the CPS applied for in each of the last eight years; and how many such applications were successful.
    (210506)
19
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, what value of asset freezing orders were applied for by the CPS in each of the last eight years.
    (210507)
20
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, whether the police have contacted the Crown Prosecution Service in regards to whether the practice of payday lenders or others issuing legal demands through letters from fake solicitors constitutes a criminal offence.
    (210566)
21
 
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of Crown Prosecution Service rape-flagged convictions were for (a) a rape charge, (b) another sexual offence, (c) an offence against the person and (d) a non-violent offence in each of the last five years.
    (210567)
22
 
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if his Department will undertake research into the impact of having a baby prematurely born on a mother's labour market attachment.
    (210336)
23
 
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if the Government will take steps to implement the recommendations made in the report entitled Management 2020 by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Management and the Chartered Management Institute.
    (210610)
24
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210473)
25
 
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's policy is on the introduction of restrictions on the ability of banks and other mortgage lenders to repossess a home where that would make a family homeless.
    (210330)
26
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy for the Cabinet Office to publish annual reports and accounts for spending in the Conflict Pool.
    (210508)
27
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to publish the latest review of the Conflict Pool.
    (210511)
28
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the budget for the Conflict Pool was in each of the last four years.
    (210564)
29
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with how many charities the Charity Commission has engaged on a regulatory issue in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date; and how many of those cases the Charity Commission made a public statement.
    (210434)
30
 
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the contracts entered into on 9 January 2014 by the Cabinet Office Devolution Team with Engine Partners LLP, if he will place in the Library (a) the Invitation to Quote for that contract including the Specification Requirements document, (b) details of the criteria against which suppliers were judged and (c) the invoice submitted for that work.
    (210492)
31
 
Chris White (Warwick and Leamington): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will update the report entitled Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 - 1 year on to reflect progress since that publication.
    (210329)
32
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Governor of the Bank of England in his role as Chairman of the Financial Stability Board has recently raised with him risks to the financial stability of the UK.
    (210335)
33
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research the Treasury has undertaken or commissioned into the impact of changes in the level of Stamp Duty Land Tax on the number of property transactions completed between 2005-06 and 2013-14.
    (210339)
34
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission research into the fiscal effects of raising the Stamp Duty Land Tax threshold.
    (210340)
35
 
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to promote investment in venture capital trusts.
    (210570)
36
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210485)
37
 
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with what strategic housing allocations priorities local communities must comply.
    (210402)
38
 
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether neighbourhood plans have to meet a minimum number of homes allocated.
    (210403)
39
 
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding is available for local authorities to support neighbourhood plans.
    (210404)
40
 
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what advice is available to communities formulating neighbourhood plans.
    (210405)
41
 
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many communities have produced neighbourhood development plans.
    (210406)
42
 
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to address health considerations in planning policies in relation to schools and hot-food outlets.
    (210572)
43
 
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to eradicate the commercial and aesthetic effects of derelict and abandoned buildings in town centres.
    (210611)
44
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210474)
45
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to encourage the provision of broadband in new homes.
    (210523)
46
 
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the cost to museums funded by his Department of pension responsibilities transfer to those museums; and how many (a) museums and (b) staff that transfer will affect.
    (210488)
47
 
Sir Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to support the tourist industry in North Devon.
    (210297)
48
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210475)
49
 
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the effect of the Maritime Support Delivery Framework will be on employment levels at HMNB Devonport.
    (210446)
50
 
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will assess his Department's relationship with private companies based at MOD St Athan.
    (210296)
51
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British forces have been deployed on the ground in northern Iraq since 26 September 2014.
    (210435)
52
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what communications (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have had with his US counterpart or US defense department officials in 2014 regarding the extension of the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement on atomic energy matters.
    (210436)
53
 
Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the use of depleted uranium by UK armed forces operating in Iraq and Syria.
    (210447)
54
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the military resources which have been provided to Kurdish forces by the UK in the last three years.
    (210378)
55
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the length of time that UK military forces will be engaged in Iraq.
    (210383)
56
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210476)
57
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from which companies each of the armed services have secured waterproof clothing requirement in the last four years.
    (210292)
58
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Army's waterproof clothing requirement and supplier last changed.
    (210293)
59
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of orders for waterproof military clothing have been progressed through DE and S Defence Clothing in the last four years.
    (210294)
60
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether an invitation to tender has been put out for military waterproof clothing contract.
    (210295)
61
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to ensure close combat soldiers are given the highest quality clothing for their future activities.
    (210532)
62
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish the next tape seam contract.
    (210575)
63
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last met the Armies Families Federation; and what was discussed at that meeting.
    (210398)
64
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the order of battle is for the Fleet.
    (210400)
65
 
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which units of the Colombian military have received British military training in the last three years.
    (210573)
66
 
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British personnel have been deployed to Colombia to participate in training assistance in the last six months.
    (210574)
67
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of teacher workloads.
    (210347)
68
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that graduates work in the UK following participation in the Erasmus overseas study programme.
    (210438)
69
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department is making on improving public accountability of services for children with special educational needs through published performance data.
    (210579)
70
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which primary schools and academies in Nuneaton constituency with a 10 per cent proportion of pupils on free school meals receive sport premium.
    (210393)
71
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary schools and academies in Nuneaton constituency have received the sport premium to date.
    (210394)
72
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional physical education teachers and sports specialists have been recruited by schools in Nuneaton constituency in the last 18 months.
    (210395)
73
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which primary schools and academies in Nuneaton constituency have received the sports premium to date; and how much each such school and academy has been awarded under the premium.
    (210413)
74
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much schools in Nuneaton constituency received under the Pupil Premium in 2013-14; and how much such schools will receive in Pupil Premium in 2014-15.
    (210414)
75
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to kitchen staff in schools on steps to prevent food related illnesses.
    (210372)
76
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many visits were made by Ministers of her Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210477)
77
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to collect information on the (a) number, (b) religion and (c) ethnicity of children being homeschooled in England.
    (210289)
78
 
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many of the smart meters thus far installed in UK homes comply with the most recent recommended standards; how many will need to be replaced in the next 10 years to comply with such standards; and how many are currently (a) operational and (b) not operational.
    (210387)
79
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the title is of each document provided to the European Commission on the Application for State Aid provisions for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant since December 2013; and if he will publish all such documents on his Department's website.
    (210445)
80
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the proportion of existing global fossil fuel reserves that can be burned in order to achieve Government's international policy of limiting global temperature rises to below two degrees Celsius; and if he will make a statement.
    (210525)
81
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the Government's policy is on stranded assets in the fossil fuel sector; and if he will make a statement.
    (210565)
82
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210478)
83
 
Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to ensure bio-security and monitoring protocols are in place to ensure that Quagga mussels can be quickly identified and eradicated.
    (210515)
84
 
Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Quagga mussels do not spread from the Thames into the River Kennet and other tributaries.
    (210516)
85
 
Richard Benyon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to eradicate Quagga mussels in the Colne Valley.
    (210517)
86
 
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to ensure that statistics which record mis-stunning of animals are accurate; and if she will make a statement.
    (210291)
87
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the annual report on performance against greening government commitments will (a) for each department exclude (i) changes in energy use caused wholly or mainly by changes in the weather and (ii) carbon savings from closure of buildings or offices where they continue to be used either by government or by another occupier for whatever purpose, (b) provide information on the number and proportion of of (A) central and (B) local government buildings that meet the requirements for Display Energy certificates; on what date the 2014 annual report will be published; and if she will make a statement.
    (210530)
88
 
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2014 to Question 208678, what guidance her Department issues on the meaning of Best Available Technology to remove phosphates from water.
    (210491)
89
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many visits were made by Ministers of her Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210479)
90
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the welfare of animals during transportation.
    (210401)
91
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage religious equality and tolerance in central Europe.
    (210410)
92
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage respect for fundamental freedoms in Malaysia.
    (210411)
93
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress has been made on efforts to locate and release British abductees kidnapped by extremist groups in the Middle East.
    (210412)
94
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote religious tolerance and the safety of Christians in the Central African Republic.
    (210439)
95
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he or his officials have taken to request an update as to the whereabouts and wellbeing of the group of 28 Christians who were arrested by Saudi Arabian police at a house prayer meeting at the start of September 2014.
    (210578)
96
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many US citizens (a) work full time and (b) are seconded to work at the Government Communications Headquarters.
    (210390)
97
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the US has (a) sought from and (b) been granted permission by the UK for the National Security Agency to target second party persons or communications systems in the UK.
    (210392)
98
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his most recent assessment is of the relationship between increasing drug trafficking and the funding of terrorism in West Africa; and if he will make a statement.
    (210526)
99
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to adopt and promote the recommendations of the West Africa Commission on Drugs in its report, Not Just in Transit, Drugs, the State and Society in West Africa, published on 12 June 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (210527)
100
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his French counterpart on (a) drug and human trafficking and (b) terrorist groups in Mali; and if he will make a statement.
    (210529)
101
 
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent progress he has made on improving the quality and transparency of management information across front line services within his Department's Digital Services Performance Platform tool.
    (210531)
102
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of UK nationals being held by Islamic State.
    (210302)
103
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on Islamic State militants in Syria.
    (210303)
104
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance he is providing to UK nationals in (a) Syria and (b) Iraq to ensure their safety against kidnapping.
    (210305)
105
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on Russia of European Union-led sanctions.
    (210306)
106
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of links between Boko Haram and Islamic State.
    (210308)
107
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the stability of the al-Assad government in Syria.
    (210309)
108
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Syrian rebel groups have been identified as not being associated with Islamic fundamentalist beliefs.
    (210310)
109
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Afghanistan on the threat posed by the Taliban in that country.
    (210311)
110
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve economic relations with countries within the Commonwealth.
    (210357)
111
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate has been made of numbers of Yazidi people displaced by Islamic State forces in Northern Iraq.
    (210358)
112
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Australian counterpart on extremist activity in that country.
    (210359)
113
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on political stability of the ebola outbreak in countries having difficulty managing its spread.
    (210360)
114
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of the political situation in Egypt.
    (210362)
115
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Russian nationals have had assets frozen by the UK in the last five years.
    (210375)
116
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the policy of the European Commission is on border incursions into Gibraltarian water.
    (210376)
117
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions the Spanish Ambassador to the UK has been summoned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2014.
    (210377)
118
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the UK is providing to rebels operating in Syria.
    (210379)
119
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of Syrian rebels training on Turkish soil.
    (210380)
120
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals have been killed in Iraq since January 2014.
    (210381)
121
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Russian counterpart on Islamic extremism since the beginning of 2014.
    (210382)
122
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the threat posed by Islamic State to the town of Kobane.
    (210384)
123
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the threat posed by al-Shabab to political stability in Somalia.
    (210407)
124
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to introduce human rights training for Colombian aid programmes.
    (210493)
125
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that intelligence equipment sold to the Colombian navy and army personnel is not used to carry out surveillance on people involved in the Colombian peace talks and process.
    (210494)
126
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions to ensure that British companies working in Colombia are not involved in land-o grab from peasant land-owners.
    (210495)
127
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect and effectiveness of existing EU sanctions on Russia.
    (210396)
128
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department last changed its guidance on access to inoculation for influenza; and if he will make a statement.
    (210389)
129
 
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current commissioning arrangements for treating foetal alcohol syndrome and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if he will assess the merits of establishing a national service commissioned by NHS England for those conditions.
    (210443)
130
 
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered midwives were employed per 1,000 births in (a) 1980, (b) 1990, (c) 2000, (d) 2010 and (e) the latest year for which figures are available.
    (210408)
131
 
Andrew Bingham (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in High Peak constituency have had to wait more than (a) 28 days, (b) three months and (c) six months for improving access to psychological therapies services in each of the last five years.
    (210409)
132
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to increase public awareness of bone marrow donation.
    (210348)
133
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, under what circumstances a deaf person can be provided with an interpreter under the Access to Work Scheme.
    (210349)
134
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on reporting to the police for investigation evidence of incomplete abortion notification (HSA4) forms held by his Department; and what period of time it is his policy that may elapse between receiving an incomplete HSA4 form and the full completion of said form before referring both the form and registered medical practitioner to the relevant authorities in accordance with section 2(3) of the Abortion Act 1967.
    (210441)
135
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women (a) accepted or (b) refused foetal anomaly screening in each of the last five years for which records are available.
    (210442)
136
 
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to lay before the House regulations permitting mitochondrial replacement techniques.
    (210471)
137
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what part his Department plays in the Government's No Health without Mental Health strategy.
    (210337)
138
 
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to educate young people on sugar intake and moderating sugar consumption to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
    (210608)
139
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the number of registered cases of Ebola within Europe.
    (210298)
140
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of survival was for babies born prematurely in each of the last 10 years.
    (210350)
141
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on agency (a) nurses, (b) midwives and (c) physiotherapists in 2014.
    (210351)
142
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under the age of 16 years, were diagnosed as clinically obese in 2013.
    (210352)
143
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to monitor the quality of the food supplied at hospitals.
    (210354)
144
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions has he had with his European counterparts on the threat of Ebola to Europe.
    (210361)
145
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote awareness of the warning signs of mental illness.
    (210363)
146
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the percentage of the population of (a) England and Wales and (b) Havering not getting the recommended amount of exercise per week.
    (210364)
147
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of the symptoms of oesophageal cancer.
    (210370)
148
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to (a) tackle the incidence of and (b) improve the outcomes for people with Barrett's oesophagus and oesophageal cancer.
    (210371)
149
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to ensure patients receiving cancer care also have access to necessary mental health counselling.
    (210373)
150
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the number of walk-in centres.
    (210467)
151
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to reduce hospital accident and emergency waiting times.
    (210522)
152
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of traffic noise on (a) physical and (b) mental health.
    (210513)
153
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210480)
154
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential monetary gain to the UK of claiming available subsidies under the EU School Milk Scheme.
    (210559)
155
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the introduction of a central contract for the Nursery Milk Scheme on the viability of the supply of school milk to over-fives.
    (210560)
156
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions officials of his Department have had on the supply of school milk to over-fives as part of the potential tendering process for a central contract for the Nursery Milk Scheme.
    (210561)
157
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the introduction of a central contract for the Nursery Milk Scheme on the price of school milk supplied to over-fives.
    (210562)
158
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the review of the Nursery Milk Scheme, what assessment officials of his Department have made of the potential effect of claiming subsidies for school milk under the EU School Milk Scheme on the UK's EU rebate.
    (210563)
159
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to diagnosis and treatment for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis.
    (210440)
160
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS Trusts (a) employ and (b) do not employ an Overseas Visitor Manager.
    (210341)
161
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that every NHS Trust employs an Overseas Visitor Manager.
    (210342)
162
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that those patients referred by a GP to a hospital for treatment and who are not eligible for free secondary care are identified and appropriately charged.
    (210343)
163
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients who should be charged for care are correctly identified.
    (210344)
164
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to prevent free access to GP services for people in the UK (a) illegally and (b) temporarily on visitor visas.
    (210345)
165
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of data-tagging as a tool for protecting against data breaches.
    (210388)
166
 
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consequences for police resources of trends in the level of crime in (a) Barnsley East constituency and (b) South Yorkshire in each of the last three years.
    (210328)
167
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure stowaway illegal immigrants entering UK ports are assessed for Ebola.
    (210391)
168
 
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many stalking and harassment cases were reported to the police in each year since 2011.
    (210569)
169
 
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to investigate the feasibility of rolling-out the NSPCC Young Witness Service that was launched in Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK.
    (210606)
170
 
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what alternative support the Government has offered the Women's Aid SOS Campaign countering domestic violence following funding reductions.
    (210607)
171
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many defined Christians entering the UK from Iraq and Syria have claimed asylum on the grounds of religious persecution in each year since 2012.
    (210299)
172
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many false passports have been confiscated from people (a) entering and (b) leaving the UK in each year since 2011.
    (210300)
173
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce levels of passport fraud.
    (210301)
174
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of prospective terrorist attacks in the UK with links to Islamic State which have been prevented in the last 12 months.
    (210304)
175
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been detained in the UK under counter-terrorism legislation as a result of links with Islamic State in the last 12 months.
    (210307)
176
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect foreign embassies within the UK from potential attack.
    (210353)
177
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK passports were revoked as a result of links to terrorist activity in each month since the beginning of 2014.
    (210356)
178
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent assaults have been reported to police in the London Borough of Havering in each year since January 2011.
    (210366)
179
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were registered as residing in the London Borough of Havering at the latest date for which figures are available.
    (210368)
180
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued to people living in the London Borough of Havering in each year since 2011.
    (210369)
181
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent children from being radicalised.
    (210466)
182
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners in UK prisons are serving life sentences with no possibility of parole.
    (210468)
183
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress the Government has made on steps to reduce the risk of radicalisation of British Muslims.
    (210568)
184
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits were made by Ministers of her Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210481)
185
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the operation of the cap on recruitment of non-EU workers.
    (210346)
186
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made towards introducing universal exit checks at UK borders.
    (210397)
187
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 general visas have been (a) made available and (b) issued since the introduction of a cap on those visas in 2010.
    (210469)
188
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 general visas have been (a) made available and (b) issued in each of the last three months.
    (210470)
189
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants who were (a) granted refugee status, (b) granted Humanitarian Protection or Discretionary Leave and (c) refused asylum, Humanitarian Protection or Discretionary Leave at initial decision in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 cohorts of asylum applicants; how many appeals against those decisions were lodged in each of those years; and of those appeals how many were (A) allowed and (B) dismissed.
    (210510)
190
 
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how many House of Commons staff have been supported by the House to gain nationally recognised management qualifications or degrees since 2010.
    (210417)
191
 
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what the cost was of running the (a) Leading for Parliament and (b) Milestones to Management training schemes; how many staff attended each such course; and how many staff nominally employed as a Clerk attended each such course.
    (210418)
192
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that UK aid provided to the Nigerian Government is allocated only to enact reforms to uphold fundamental freedoms.
    (210437)
193
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian aid has been allocated to meet the needs of Syrian refugees on the Turkish border.
    (210509)
194
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact report.
    (210512)
195
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 208787, what memoranda of understanding her Department has signed with other Afghan agencies in regards to the Bost Agri and Bost Airfield projects from 2009 to date; and if she will place in the Library copies of such memoranda.
    (210576)
196
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 208787, on Afghanistan, on what date her Department took the decision to discontinue the MOU; which individual authorised that decision; and for what reasons her Department ended the agreements made in the MOU.
    (210577)
197
 
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons priorities on a digital approach have not been included in her Department's latest individual performance objectives for 2014-15.
    (210571)
198
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the policy of the Government is on providing financial aid to Japan following Typhoon Vongfong.
    (210374)
199
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many visits were made by Ministers of her Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210482)
200
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners with determinate sentences with more than two years to serve until their earliest release date were moved to open prisons in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12.
    (210430)
201
 
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much NOMS has spent on subsidising its retail canteen service contract in each year since 2010.
    (210431)
202
 
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there are sufficient magistrates in the Gwent Police Authority area.
    (210386)
203
 
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people served as district judges in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
    (210524)
204
 
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to provide an initial response to the Law Commission's report, Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements, published in March 2014.
    (210514)
205
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for offences related to human trafficking since January 2013.
    (210365)
206
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210483)
207
 
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Office of the Public Guardian.
    (210333)
208
 
Ian Paisley (North Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support the Government is providing to the Police Service of Northern Ireland to reduce the number of deaths on Northern Ireland's roads.
    (210609)
209
 
Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the fairness with which rail companies issue penalty fares notices.
    (210355)
210
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210484)
211
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to make utility companies more accountable for traffic delays arising from their street works.
    (210399)
212
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 209233 for what reason the information is not available.
    (210521)
213
 
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unemployed people are (a) not in receipt of any of the benefits to which they are entitled and (b) not registered at job centres.
    (210444)
214
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with disability groups on replacing tax-free disability living allowance and incapacity benefit with taxable contribution-based employment and support allowance.
    (210385)
215
 
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish data on the average wait for an assessment for a personal independence payment.
    (210327)
216
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will commission survey research to make an estimate of the proportion of income support claimants who are aware of social tariffs available to help them access landlines.
    (210290)
217
 
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes have been made to the benefits sanctions regime since 2010.
    (210487)
218
 
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that the gainful self-employment under universal credit takes into account (a) the freelance status of performers and (b) the irregular work patterns of performers when applied to those applicants.
    (210489)
219
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department is spending in the Disability Confident campaign; and how the effect of such spending is being measured.
    (210432)
220
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what change there has been in the proportion of children living in separated families who receive regular financial support from the non-resident parent since May 2014.
    (210433)
221
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people no longer eligible for contributions-based employment and support allowance (ESA) because of time-limiting to one year have qualified for an alternative income-related benefit at the termination of contributory ESA payments in each year since implementation of that policy; and what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the people affected by that policy who have moved into work as a result.
    (210605)
222
 
Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will assess the cumulative effect of welfare policy reforms instituted since May 2010; and if he will make a statement.
    (210415)
223
 
Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department gives to local authorities on ensuring that benefit claimants are not given conflicting appointments which carry non-attendance sanctions by both his Department and those authorities.
    (210416)
224
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance the Government provides to pension fund trustees on the consideration of environmental, social and governance factors as part of their fiduciary duties; and if he will make a statement.
    (210528)
225
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of EU migrants arriving in the UK for work since 1 January 2014.
    (210338)
226
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are entitled to the mobility element of personal independence payments.
    (210518)
227
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many scooters have been allocated under the mobility element of personal independence payments in the last year.
    (210519)
228
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cars have been allocated under the mobility element of personal independence payments in the last year.
    (210520)
229
 
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many visits were made by Ministers of his Department to Torbay constituency in the 12 months to 14 October 2014; whom the invitation for each such visit was issued by; and what the cost to the public purse was of each such visit.
    (210486)
230
 
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payments have taken longer than 26 weeks to receive a decision.
    (210331)
231
 
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that personal independence payments applications are not delayed to the extent that supporting medical information becomes outdated.
    (210332)
232
 
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have applied for personal independence payments are waiting to receive a decision.
    (210334)
233
 
Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged 18 to 21 claimed jobseekers allowance in Scotland; what total amount was claimed in each of the last three years; and what the average amount claimed per person was in each of the last three years.
    (210490)
Friday 17 October  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 10 October

1
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that asylum seekers receive face-to-face advice when making or following up a complaint.
    (209289)

Notices given on Tuesday 14 October

1
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Attorney General, how many referrals were made about child abuse to the Crown Prosecution Service by the police in each of the last five years; and how many such cases resulted in subsequent (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions.
    (210322)
2
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) pre-charge decisions, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there were in child abuse cases in each year since 2006-07.
    (210545)
3
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of local authorities in England and Wales have adopted the new information-sharing protocol between the Crown Prosecution Service, police and councils.
    (210546)
4
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to support the aerospace industry following the announcement of 440 job losses at British Aerospace.
    (210590)
5
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to protect small businesses from vexatious claims by employees; and if he will make a statement.
    (210557)
6
N
Guy Opperman (Hexham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that Financial Conduct Authority disciplinary proceedings relating to Stewart Ford, formerly of Keydata Investment Services are concluded as quickly as possible.
    (210312)
7
N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost per child of providing childcare accounts for households in receipt of Tax free Childcare will be; and how much funding the Government has set aside for the administration and running costs of the tax free childcare system.
    (210465)
8
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on the availability of social housing of excluding properties in small rural settlements from the Right to Acquire scheme.
    (210423)
9
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward proposals to include properties in small rural settlements in the Right to Acquire scheme.
    (210424)
10
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to increase the size of fines the Information Commissioner's Office can give to companies and individuals who do not comply with nuisance call legislation.
    (210591)
11
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to reform the Telephone Preference Service; and what plans his Department has to give better protection and more choice to people who receive nuisance telephone calls.
    (210612)
12
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions bomb disposal units have been deployed to an incident in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years where the incident was more than 40 miles from their usual base.
    (210555)
13
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what hours MOD St Athan is available for use by private companies.
    (210321)
14
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the automatic landing equipment at RAF St Athan is in full working order.
    (210448)
15
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints his Department has received about the use of facilities at MoD St Athan in the last 12 months.
    (210449)
16
N
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will meet Cardiff Aviation to discuss access to the landing facilities at MoD St Athan.
    (210450)
17
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the policy on keeping the documentation of failed citations for military honours was last changed; and what the reasons were for that change.
    (210594)
18
N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the Conditioning report commissioned from Babcock International, dated 3 February 2011, on the approximate costs of repairing his Department's site at Ashchurch, in the Library; and if he will make a statement.
    (210595)
19
N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what options his Department is considering in seeking agreement on the future delivery of controlled humidity environment capability and related projects; and if he will make a statement.
    (210596)
20
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to implement a young person impact assessment for future policy proposals and funding changes.
    (210316)
21
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria her Department has used to decide which schools will receive Priority School Building Programme funding.
    (210420)
22
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish its detailed condition survey of schools in England.
    (210421)
23
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the application for Priority School Building Programme funding by Balaam Wood Academy; and what phase of the programme the Academy is at.
    (210422)
24
N
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consultation was carried out with serving teachers before the decision to remove iGCSEs from school league tables was taken.
    (210326)
25
N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching schools bid for funds from the early years self-improvement fund; how many of each type of teaching school applied; how much was available in the fund; what the average award was from that fund; and if she will publish a list of all applicants for that fund and their location.
    (210320)
26
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that personal, social, health and economic matters are taught in schools; and if she will make a statement.
    (210419)
27
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress she has made towards the introduction of a national funding formula for schools; and if she will make a statement.
    (210556)
28
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2013 to Question 159990, how many Green Deal apprentices had (a) begun and (b) completed their training on 1 October 2014.
    (210584)
29
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of the forecast levelised costs for nuclear power generation with a date of commission in (a) 2020, (b) 2025, (c) 2030 and (d) 2035.
    (210537)
30
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the operator's liability for decommissioning costs are capped in the contract for difference for Hinkley Point C, or whether these will be passed on to EDF in full.
    (210538)
31
N
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what compensation mechanisms are in place for EDF in the event that the Government closes Hinkley Point C for reasons other than safety or immediate environmental reasons.
    (210539)
32
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to prevent degradation and deforestation of woodland as a means of reducing the UK's carbon footprint and tackling climate change.
    (210585)
33
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on reduction of the virtual footprint of UK water usage.
    (210586)
34
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government has taken to unify carbon mitigation strategies between (a) the public and private sectors and (b) different industrial sectors.
    (210587)
35
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to reduce carbon dioxide release from agricultural practices while maintaining and increasing crop yields.
    (210588)
36
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to reduce the import of any hardwood timber from tropical forests.
    (210589)
37
N
Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the financial return from her Department's investment in agricultural research and development since 2010.
    (210429)
38
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Attorney General and (b) the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) about Saudi concerns over the SFO's investigation into GPT Special Project Management Ltd.
    (210317)
39
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department has discussed the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into GPT Special Project Management Ltd with the Saudi government.
    (210318)
40
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government plans to sign and ratify Protocol 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights.
    (210425)
41
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to prepare for the transfer of commissioning responsibilities for public health for 0 to five year olds to local authorities.
    (210463)
42
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the updated guidance for commissioners, GPs and providers on patients' choice in mental healthcare scheduled for release in September 2014 will be published.
    (210580)
43
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the statement from the Chief Executive of Public Health England that the number of cases of tuberculosis in Britain will soon exceed the number in the US for the first time; and what steps he is taking to tackle the increasingly antibiotic-resistant form of tuberculosis.
    (210582)
44
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 July 2014 to Question 206057, on anticoagulants, what plans the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has to update that guidance.
    (210583)
45
N
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the third stage of the review into the closure of surgery at Leeds children's heart unit.
    (210458)
46
N
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the third stage of the review into the closure of surgery at Leeds children's heart unit will be published.
    (210459)
47
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that homecare workers are paid for time spent travelling between clients; and if he will make a statement.
    (210315)
48
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that all local authorities include (a) arthritis and (b) other musculoskeletal conditions in their joint strategic needs assessment; and what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on this issue.
    (210533)
49
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which clinical commissioning groups in the North West have a fracture liaison service linked to their local hospital.
    (210536)
50
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the median time between arrival and departure from accident and emergency was in (a) London and (b) each London trust in each year since 2010.
    (210540)
51
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the median time was from arrival to assessment in accident and emergency units in (a) all of London and (b) each London trust in each year since 2010.
    (210541)
52
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the median time was from arrival to treatment in accident and emergency units in (a) all of London and (b) each London trust in each year since 2010.
    (210542)
53
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the median waiting times for GP appointments was in (a) London and (b) each London trust in each year since 2010.
    (210543)
54
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the median ambulance response time was for each category of call in (a) London and (b) each London trust in each year since 2010.
    (210544)
55
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase self-care education in public health campaigns in Liverpool.
    (210454)
56
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase cancer screening rates in Liverpool; and how much he has spent on public health campaigns to increase cancer screening rates in Liverpool in each year since 2010.
    (210455)
57
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the public health budget is in each core city in England.
    (210456)
58
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average of mortality rates is due to (a) cardiovascular disease, (b) respiratory disease, (c) lung cancer and (d) breast cancer in (i) England and (ii) Liverpool.
    (210457)
59
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the suitability of local commissioning for specialist domestic violence refuges.
    (210581)
60
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the time taken for the disembarkation of passengers at Londonderry Airport on 27 August 2014 as a result of the unavailability of Border Force personnel is not repeated.
    (210554)
61
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 13 January 2014 to Question 181067, how many identified victims of trafficking who (a) participated and (b) did not participate in criminal proceedings, were granted discretionary leave to remain on the grounds of personal circumstances in 2013; and if she will make a statement.
    (210551)
62
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many copies of her Department's publication Modern Slavery: how the UK is leading the fight have been printed to date; at what cost; and to whom it has been distributed.
    (210597)
63
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individual potential victims of trafficking the NSPCC Modern Slavery Helpline offered advice or information to during August 2014; and how many of those people were (a) adults and (b) children.
    (210598)
64
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many enquiries were made to the NSPCC Modern Slavery Helpline during August 2014; and how many of those calls were from (a) frontline professionals, (b) members of the public and (c) potential victims of human trafficking and modern slavery.
    (210599)
65
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for passports for those found living illegally in the UK without documentation from (a) India, (b) Bangladesh, (c) Pakistan, (d) Nigeria and (e) China were refused in each of the last five years.
    (210319)
66
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter of 9 September 2014 from the hon. Member for Edinburgh East.
    (210428)
67
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether the UK may be obliged to provide sensitive security or law enforcement information to EU evaluation teams under Joint Action 97/827/JHA if it opts back into that Joint Action after it has come under full CJEU jurisdiction.
    (210426)
68
N
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether Chapter VIII of Council Decision 2007/533/JHA will place police and border control checks conducted by UK authorities within the scope of EU law for the purposes of EU fundamental rights, if the UK connects to the Schengen Information System II.
    (210427)
69
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are being held in prisons solely under immigration powers.
    (210460)
70
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been deprived of their British Citizenship under subsection (2) of section 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981 in the last six months; how many such cases fell within subsection (4A) of that section; and if she will make a statement.
    (210461)
71
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian people have been resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme since the launch of that scheme.
    (210553)
72
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was paid in unemployment pay to offenders in each prison in England Wales under paragraph 2.2.1 of Prison Service Order 4460 in the latest (a) week, (b) month and (c) year for which data is available.
    (210451)
73
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each prison in England Wales were eligible for unemployment pay under paragraph 2.2.1 of Prison Service Order 4460 in the latest (a) week, (b) month and (c) year for which data is available.
    (210452)
74
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were working in industrial activity in each public sector prison in England and Wales in each year since 2010-11.
    (210453)
75
N
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 4 February 2014 to Question 902388, how many victims of human trafficking received pre-trial therapy and counselling in accordance with the victims' code service in each of the last three years; what the cost to the public purse was of such therapy; and if he will make a statement.
    (210552)
76
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department (a) has made or (b) plans to make any policy changes in response to the decisions in Weller vs. Associated News in 2014.
    (210558)
77
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many referrals have been made to Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements Approved Hostels and Interventions, including Programmes in each month of the last two years.
    (210462)
78
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the level of staff shortage was in the probation service (a) at the latest date for which data is available and (b) in October 2013.
    (210547)
79
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the opening and closing dates are for the Government's consultation on Secure College rules; and when he expects that the Government's response to the consultation will be published.
    (210592)
80
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria will be used to award the education contract for the Secure College; and if he will publish that criteria.
    (210593)
81
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the last five years; and in how many such cases was the victim a child.
    (210323)
82
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been under sections 57 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in each of the last five years; and in how many such cases was the victim a child.
    (210324)
83
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 in each of the last five years; and in how many such cases was the victim a child.
    (210325)
84
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2014 to Question 205882, what the full cost, including apportioned indirect costs, is of initiating payment of employment and support allowance (ESA) at the assessment rate; what the full cost is of an ESA change; and how many changes ESA claimants require on average per year.
    (210313)
85
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2014 to Question 205883, what the full cost, including apportioned indirect costs, is of processing a new claim for jobseeker's allowance; and what the full cost is of a jobseeker's allowance interview.
    (210314)
86
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants in Warrington have been sanctioned for failure to attend a mandatory work placement after they have reported a change of circumstances but before they are advised of their entitlement to another benefit.
    (210534)
87
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken by Warrington Jobcentre Plus is to review the conditionality group of a universal credit claimant who reports a change of circumstances.
    (210535)
88
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times in the last three years Ministers from his Department have met executives from Motability.
    (210548)
89
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to his Department of the mobility element of personal independence payments.
    (210549)
90
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about Motability have been raised with his Department in the last three years.
    (210550)
91
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures he uses to assess the timeliness of payments in the benefits system.
    (210464)
92
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people stopped claiming employment and support allowance (ESA) in 2013 after gaining insufficient points in a Work Capability Assessment; and how many such people were claiming jobseeker's allowance within four weeks of their ESA claim ending.
    (210472)
Monday 20 October  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
 
★ 1
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): What assessment he has made of the effect of the Maritime Support Delivery Framework on employment at UK naval bases.
    (905513)
★ 2
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): What progress his Department has made on the next Strategic Defence and Security Review; and if he will make a statement.
    (905514)
★ 3
Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): What steps he has taken to improve the process for applying to join the Reserves.
    (905515)
★ 4
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): What the timeline is for deployment of British troops in West Africa; and if he will make a statement.
    (905516)
★ 5
Laura Sandys (South Thanet): What progress was made in delivering the UK's priorities at the NATO Summit in September 2014.
    (905517)
★ 6
Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): What assistance his Department is giving to Ukraine.
    (905518)
★ 7
Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley): What contribution UK armed forces are making to the international effort against ISIL.
    (905519)
★ 8
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What contribution UK armed forces are making to the international effort against ISIL.
    (905520)
★ 9
Mark Menzies (Fylde): What steps the Government is taking to support the export of Typhoon and Hawk aircraft.
    (905521)
★ 10
Mr Robin Walker (Worcester): What assessment he has made of the contribution of armed forces community covenants to the Reserves and cadet forces.
    (905522)
★ 11
Richard Graham (Gloucester): What the next steps are for the commissioning of Type 26 frigates.
    (905523)
★ 12
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): What contribution armed forces are making to tackling the spread of Ebola; and if he will make a statement.
    (905524)
★ 13
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): What assessment he has made of trends in army recruitment from BME communities in Lancashire.
    (905525)
★ 14
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): What steps his Department is taking to assist areas affected by the Ebola outbreak.
    (905526)
★ 15
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): What steps he is taking to reduce the number of legal claims against his Department.
    (905527)
★ 16
Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty): What steps he is taking to increase home ownership among members of the armed forces in North Yorkshire.
    (905528)
★ 17
Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton): What assessment he has made of the effect of the Maritime Support Delivery Framework on employment at UK naval bases.
    (905529)
★ 18
Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): What contribution UK armed forces are making to the international effort against ISIL.
    (905530)
★ 19
Philip Davies (Shipley): What asssessment he has made of the criteria used by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to determine the level of maintenance of war graves; and if he will make a statement.
    (905531)
★ 20
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK's contribution to the future stability of Afghanistan.
    (905532)
★ 21
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): How much his Department plans to spend in each year of the Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme.
    (905533)
★ 22
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): What progress his Department has made in upgrading helicopter fleets across the armed forces.
    (905534)
★ 23
Heather Wheeler (South Derbyshire): What investment his Department has made in armoured vehicle capability for the Army.
    (905535)
★ 24
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): What steps he is taking to increase home ownership among members of the armed forces.
    (905536)
★ 25
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): What contribution UK armed forces are making to the international effort against ISIL.
    (905537)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (905503)
★ 2
Fiona Bruce (Congleton):  
    (905504)
★ 3
Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire):  
    (905505)
★ 4
John Pugh (Southport):  
    (905506)
★ 5
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge):  
    (905507)
★ 6
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock):  
    (905508)
★ 7
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde):  
    (905509)
★ 8
Charlie Elphicke (Dover):  
    (905510)
★ 9
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley):  
    (905511)
★ 10
Neil Carmichael (Stroud):  
    (905512)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 12 September

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department's review of the Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulation planned for 2015 will take place before the General Election.
    (209265)

Notices given on Friday 10 October

1
N
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been allocated by NHS England to piloting seven-day GP services in the North of England.
    (209309)
2
N
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices are currently operating services for patients from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.
    (210028)
3
N
Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to work with other government departments and local service providers to support better people at the end of life by use of the DS1500 form.
    (210009)

Notices given on Monday 13 October

1
N
Bob Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to reintroduce the Territorial Decoration for Reserve Army officers.
    (210163)

Notices given on Tuesday 14 October

1
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment NHS England has made of the effect of the 8am to 8pm seven-day-a-week service operated by the Barkantine Health Centre of the decision by NHS England to separate the walk-in centre at that location from the general services.
    (210600)
2
 
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices with 10-year contracts with NHS England have had those contracts (a) terminated and (b) renegotiated after five years of operation.
    (210601)
Tuesday 21 October  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 14 October

1
N
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many different organisations made applications to be approved as community rehabilitation companies to date.
    (210602)
2
N
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many organisations that applied to be approved as community rehabilitation companies have had their applications approved to date.
    (210603)
Wednesday 22 October  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
 
★ 1
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): What steps he is taking to ensure that the Welsh Government remains fiscally accountable following the next stage of the devolution process.
    (905488)
★ 2
Jessica Morden (Newport East): If he will estimate the potential effect of increasing the minimum wage rate by £1.50 on the economy in Wales.
    (905489)
★ 3
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn): What plans the Government has for further devolution of powers to Wales.
    (905490)
★ 4
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): What estimate he has made of the number of people in Wales working on zero-hours contracts.
    (905491)
★ 5
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What assessment he has made of trends in manufacturing in Wales since 2010.
    (905492)
★ 6
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): What recent discussions he has had with Ministers in the Welsh Government on improvements to the rail network in South Wales.
    (905493)
★ 7
Paul Flynn (Newport West): What discussions he has had with businesses in Wales on the effects of energy prices on their international competitiveness.
    (905494)
★ 8
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): What recent discussions he has had with the First Minister of Wales on income tax assignment to Wales.
    (905495)
★ 9
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the roll-out of superfast broadband in Wales.
    (905496)
★ 10
Bob Blackman (Harrow East): What discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on the effects of the Scottish referendum result on government policy on further devolution for Wales.
    (905497)
★ 11
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): What recent estimate he has made of the contribution of the creative industries to the economy in Wales.
    (905498)
★ 12
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): What discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on the effects of the Scottish referendum result on government policy on further devolution for Wales.
    (905499)
★ 13
Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): What discussions he has had with businesses in Wales on the effects of energy prices on their international competitiveness.
    (905500)
★ 14
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): What assessment he has made of difficulties facing the agricultural sector in Wales.
    (905501)
★ 15
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): What recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on improving cross-border healthcare provision.
    (905502)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 14 October

1
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of adults in the UK (a) aged 21 to 64 years old and (b) aged 65 years and over pay income tax; and how many in each group pay tax at the higher rate or above.
    (210604)

Prepared 15th October 2014