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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Monday 27 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 Friday 24 October 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Monday 27 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.

Monday 27 October  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
 
★ 1
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): What recent progress her Department has made on increasing the number and quality of apprenticeships.
    (905628)
★ 2
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): What recent steps her Department has taken to improve schools which have been placed in special measures.
    (905629)
★ 3
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What assessment she has made of the effect of her Department's policy on qualified teacher status on educational outcomes.
    (905630)
★ 4
John Pugh (Southport): What assessment she has made of the effect of pension changes on school budgets; and if she will make a statement.
    (905631)
★ 5
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): What assessment she has made of the adequacy of the provision of primary school places in a) Kingswood constituency and b) England.
    (905632)
★ 6
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): What progress she has made on introducing the Technical Baccalaureate.
    (905633)
★ 7
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): What steps the Government has taken to improve participation rates of female pupils taking STEM subjects.
    (905634)
★ 8
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): What steps her Department is taking to improve school buildings where most needed.
    (905635)
★ 9
Stephen Timms (East Ham): What plans she has to increase the number of apprenticeships for 16 to 18 year olds; and if she will make a statement.
    (905636)
★ 11
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): What steps her Department is taking to improve school buildings where most needed.
    (905638)
★ 12
David Rutley (Macclesfield): What steps she is taking to equip young people with the skills they need to succeed in the work place.
    (905639)
★ 13
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): What plans she has to reform careers advice.
    (905640)
★ 14
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South): What steps she is taking to ensure there is an adequate number of school places; and if she will make a statement.
    (905641)
★ 15
John Mann (Bassetlaw): If she will bring forward legislative proposals to allow failed academies to return to local authority control.
    (905642)
★ 16
Mr Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley): What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the system of academy sponsorship; and if she will make a statement.
    (905643)
★ 17
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): What steps she is taking to help schools deliver free school meals to all infant pupils.
    (905644)
★ 18
Ian Mearns (Gateshead): What plans she has for Sure Start children's centres.
    (905645)
★ 19
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): How many free schools for 16 to 18 year olds have opened in the last four years.
    (905646)
★ 20
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): What steps she is taking to ensure that parents wishing to send their children to faith schools can do so.
    (905647)
★ 21
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): What her policy is on future funding of sixth form colleges.
    (905648)
★ 22
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): What steps she is taking to ensure sixth form colleges can attract able maths teachers.
    (905649)
★ 23
Steve Brine (Winchester): What support her Department has given to primary schools to ensure that they can provide sufficient places.
    (905650)
★ 24
David Mowat (Warrington South): What progress her Department has made on the roll-out of Studio Schools.
    (905651)
★ 25
Simon Wright (Norwich South): What steps she is taking to support young carers in school.
    (905652)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
    (905653)
★ 2
Hugh Bayley (York Central):  
    (905654)
★ 3
Duncan Hames (Chippenham):  
    (905655)
★ 4
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East):  
    (905656)
★ 5
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe):  
    (905657)
★ 6
Julie Hilling (Bolton West):  
    (905658)
★ 7
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):  
    (905659)
★ 8
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):  
    (905660)
★ 9
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton):  
    (905661)
★ 10
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North):  
    (905662)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 16 October

1
N
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much central Government funding has been allocated to the College of Social Work from each Department in the 2014-15 financial year.
    (210862)

Notices given on Tuesday 21 October

1
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been charged to date under sections (a) 2A and (b) 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 who could not have been charged using sections (i) 2 and (ii) 4.
    (211307)
2
N
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to simplify the provision and commissioning of secondary care; and if he will make a statement.
    (211309)
3
N
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government's benchmark waiting time is to see a General Practitioner for a routine appointment; and how that benchmark was set.
    (211311)
4
N
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the effectiveness of National Health Service purchasing and promote procurement on a regional or national scale.
    (211312)
5
N
Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the signature authorising Individual Funding Requests made to NHS England for Gamma Knife treatment by University College Hospital London, Queen Square, is that of a senior clinician employed by University College Hospital London.
    (211310)
6
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many restraining orders were issued by the courts under the provisions of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013; and how many of those restraining orders were (i) breached or (ii) enforced.
    (211306)
7
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, of the people who have been charged under (a) section 2A and (b) section 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, how many have so far (a) received a custodial sentence, (b) received a non-custodial sentence, (c) not proceeded with and (d) still pending.
    (211308)

Notices given on Wednesday 22 October

1
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that inward investment and job creation is encouraged on an equal basis in all the regions of the UK.
    (211579)
2
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received on consultations held with the Saharawi regarding proposed drilling for oil by Cairn Energy in the waters of Western Sahara.
    (211504)
3
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what exports from the UK were supported by UK Export Finance's loan guarantee for Mourne Ltd's Kotoka International Airport project in Ghana.
    (211503)
4
N
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what work his Department has conducted on identifying specific policy areas and sectors for which the UK will seek exemptions from the scope of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and what representations the UK has made to the EU on exemption of such policy areas or sectors.
    (211430)
5
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Urgent Question on 16 October 2014, Official Report, column 445, on Tata Steel, when he plans to publish his Department's metals strategy.
    (211585)
6
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Urgent Question on 16 October 2014, Official Report, column 445, on Tata Steel, what meetings (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have held with (a) Tata Steel and (b) trades unions to discuss the selling of the Long Products Division.
    (211586)
7
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much steel was produced in the UK in each year since 1985.
    (211593)
8
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate how many people would not be paying income tax and national insurance contributions if the threshold for both were equalised at the higher rate of the two.
    (211580)
9
N
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-UK citizens from (a) other EU countries and (b) the rest of the world are in receipt of working tax credit.
    (211619)
10
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has approved (a) the strategic outline business case and (b) the full business case for universal credit.
    (211587)
11
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what was spent on the Decent Homes Programme in each year since 2005.
    (211623)
12
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) the borough of Tower Hamlets, (c) London and (d) England failed to meet the decent homes standard in each year since 2010.
    (211624)
13
N
Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who he consulted about the membership of the expert working group on links between supporters and professional football clubs; and if he will make a statement.
    (211477)
14
N
Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who he consulted on the inclusion of consumer issues in the terms of reference of the expert working group on links between supporters and professional football clubs; and if he will make a statement.
    (211478)
15
N
Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the expert working group on links between supporters and professional football clubs will meet for the first time; how frequently that group will meet; and if he will make a statement.
    (211479)
16
N
Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received on the membership and terms of reference of the expert working group on links between supporters and professional clubs; and if he will make a statement.
    (211480)
17
N
Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the expert working group on links between supporters and professional clubs will report its findings; what deadline he has set for that report; and if he will make a statement.
    (211481)
18
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Chinese nationals visited the UK on tourist visas in 2010.
    (211502)
19
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to discuss tourism.
    (211645)
20
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to discuss tourism.
    (211646)
21
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met the Secretary of State for Transport to discuss tourism.
    (211647)
22
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of Chinese overseas tourists visited the UK in each year since 2010.
    (221656)
23
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the net annual financial benefit to British racing of extending the Horserace Betting Levy to overseas operators; and if he will make a statement.
    (211501)
24
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) financial and (b) other assistance his Department is providing to support the hosting of the Rugby World Cup in 2015; and if he will make a statement.
    (211482)
25
N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to recover the costs of his Department's contribution to programmes against Ebola from the UK's international aid budget.
    (211459)
26
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the number of former Gurkhas who left service on or after 1 July 1997 and transferred to Armed Forces Pension Scheme who are receiving less benefit than if they had remained in the Gurkha Pension Scheme.
    (211427)
27
N
Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how often his Department makes contact with former service personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and left the armed forces with life-changing injuries to inquire about their welfare.
    (211428)
28
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2014 to Question 210316, if she will publish the child rights impact assessments made in respect of the legislative proposals leading to the Education Act 2011 and the Children and Families Act 2014.
    (211621)
29
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2014 to Question 210316, if she will publish the outcome of considerations of the potential effect of government policy proposals and government proposals for legislation on the rights of children carried out by the Children's Commissioner under the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014.
    (211622)
30
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the World Health Organisation report, Investing in children: the European child maltreatment prevention action plans 2015 to 2020, if she will commission a national action plan on the prevention of child maltreatment.
    (211628)
31
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the reliability of the information provided to her Department by local authorities on implementation of special educational needs reform for children with hearing impairment.
    (211457)
32
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues on the circumstances in which trust members at academy trusts should be (a) elected and (b) selected; and what the process is in each case.
    (211474)
33
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues on the circumstances in which directors of the board at academy trusts should be (a) elected and (b) selected; and what the process is in each case.
    (211475)
34
N
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues on the circumstances in which parent governors at academy trusts should be (a) elected and (b) selected; and what the process is in each case.
    (211476)
35
N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) male and (b) female teachers there are in state primary schools; and if she will take steps to increase the number of male teachers.
    (211461)
36
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide funding for schools and colleges providing education for young people under the age of 19 to meet the additional costs arising from the (a) additional employer contribution as set out in the Teachers' Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 and (b) higher national insurance contributions which will be paid from 1 April 2016 as a result of the Pension Act 2014; and if she will make a statement.
    (211581)
37
N
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release of 19 October 2014, on the reduction of subsidies for solar farms to safeguard farmland, what estimate she has made of the potential annual change in mW of solar-generated energy as a result of that policy.
    (211422)
38
N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy in the P5+1 talks is on Iran's capability to build a nuclear weapon.
    (211460)
39
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the use of chemical weapons by ISIS in Kobani on 21 October 2014.
    (211494)
40
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Nigeria about the return of girls abducted by Boko Haram; and if he will make a statement.
    (211625)
41
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Thailand in the last six months regarding the prosecution of Andy Hall.
    (211574)
42
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of international efforts to tackle the spread of the Ebola virus; and if he will make a statement.
    (211483)
43
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries sustained as a result of conflict in Israel and Gaza in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
    (211484)
44
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the (a) recent incidence of rocket attacks on Israel and (b) present level of threat of such attacks; and if he will make a statement.
    (211485)
45
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Nigerian government about Nigerian schoolchildren abducted in April 2014; and if he will make a statement.
    (211486)
46
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases relating to contaminated blood were brought against the NHS Litigation Authority in each of the last three years; and how many such cases were successful.
    (211590)
47
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the requirement to eliminate mixed sex accommodation in NHS trusts on perinatal mother and baby units.
    (211591)
48
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any Commissioning for Quality and Innovation payments are currently in operation relating to (a) liver disease and (b) hepatitis C.
    (211592)
49
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendation in the World Health Organisation publication, Investing in children: the European child maltreatment prevention action plans 2015 to 2020, that a public health approach to child maltreatment should be adopted, if the Government will take steps to implement that recommendation in the UK.
    (211629)
50
N
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support NHS England is giving to the funding of robotic assisted surgical treatment for urology patients at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital; and if he will make a statement.
    (211620)
51
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the staff budgets of NHS trusts and foundation trusts consisted of expenditure on contract and agency staff in each of the last five financial years.
    (211594)
52
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to support research into new treatments for people with cystic fibrosis.
    (211584)
53
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of time was a deceased body spent in the mortuary of an English hospital in each year since 2004.
    (211473)
54
N
Dame Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients treated at hospitals in South East London were known or suspected to have been subject to female genital mutilation in the last five years for which figures are available.
    (211472)
55
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the NHS takes to assist mothers of stillborn children to come to terms with their grief.
    (211575)
56
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to support University College London in its work to enable people who have been paralysed to regain the ability to walk.
    (211576)
57
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that as many staff vacancies in the NHS as possible are filled by citizens of the UK.
    (211577)
58
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) total expenditure and (b) expenditure on operations by Border Force in 2014-15, including any allocation for the e-Borders arbitration costs.
    (211492)
59
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget was for Border Force (a) total and (b) operations expenditure in 2013-14.
    (221657)
60
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from each country were (a) added to and (b) removed from the travel exclusion list in each of the last 10 years.
    (221658)
61
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions visa bans have been used to prevent people from each country of origin considered to be involved in corruption or organised crime from travelling to the UK in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions such bans have been revoked.
    (221659)
62
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many clandestine entrants were identified within the UK after passing through one of the UK's points of entry in each of the last 10 years.
    (221661)
63
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many attempted clandestine entrants were identified at the UK's points of entry by means other than body scanning technology in each of the last 10 years.
    (221662)
64
N
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to set a maximum time for which a person can be on police bail following arrest and prior to any charge.
    (211616)
65
N
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people in England and Wales who are on police bail but have not been charged.
    (211617)
66
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what change there was in the number of passengers refused entry at port and subsequently deported from 2009 to 2010; and what assessment she has made of the reasons for that change.
    (211431)
67
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national prisoners released without consideration of deportation since 2010 have been (a) subsequently convicted of a crime in the UK, (b) sentenced to prison or community sentence in the UK and (c) been deported.
    (211423)
68
N
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) name, (b) offence and (c) date of deportation was of the foreign national prisoners released without consideration of deportation since 2010 who were subsequently convicted.
    (211424)
69
N
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been supported with accommodation under the auspices of the National Asylum Support Service in Peterborough constituency in each quarter since May 2010; and if she will make a statement.
    (211499)
70
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the cost to the caller for the 101 non-emergency number.
    (211487)
71
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on the 101 non-emergency number.
    (211488)
72
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of calls to the 101 non-emergency number originate in Scotland.
    (211489)
73
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the cost to callers of the 101 non-emergency number.
    (211490)
74
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department's contract for provision of the 101 non-emergency number is due to be reviewed.
    (211491)
75
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been identified as part of Operation Notarise; how many IP addresses have been linked to named people during that operation; and how many such people have been checked against (a) the Department for Work and Pensions database and (b) the Disclosure and Barring Service list of those working in regulated activity.
    (211463)
76
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of online child abuse were referred from the National Crime Agency to individual police forces in each of the last four years; and how many of those referrals included named individuals.
    (211464)
77
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the National Crime Agency has made a request to internet services providers to link an identified IP address with a name and address in each of the last four years; how many such requests were made in relation to investigations into online child abuse; and what the average charge made for each such request was.
    (211465)
78
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times digitally stored photographs seized by police forces in England and Wales investigating online child abuse were checked against the National Crime Agency's Childbase electronic database of known abuse images in each of the last four years; and how many times that database was used by each police force in England and Wales.
    (211467)
79
N
Dame Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what visa arrangements are being made for citizens of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea whose visas are expiring or expired and whose return flights have been cancelled by the relevant airlines.
    (211471)
80
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to make it possible for asylum seekers to make a complaint without it costing them money to call from their mobile phones.
    (211425)
81
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure complaints submitted by asylum seekers to G4S sub-contractors have been passed on to G4S by those sub-contractors.
    (211426)
82
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2014 to Question 210553, how many of the people granted humanitarian protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme (a) are family members of individuals who qualify as vulnerable under the scheme and (b) have been assessed as having serious medical needs.
    (221660)
83
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will arrange for the hon. Member for Walsall North to receive a reply to her letter to the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration of 22 September 2014 on behalf of a constituent, CTS reference M13587.
    (211458)
84
N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what funding was (a) allocated to the Commission in 2010 and (b) will be so allocated in 2015.
    (211644)
85
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to assist displaced children under five.
    (211578)
86
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many isolation centres the Government is erecting in West Africa to help tackle the Ebola virus.
    (211495)
87
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many protection suits the Government plans to provide to West Africa to help tackle the Ebola virus.
    (211496)
88
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure aid packages are not stolen by ISIS in northern Iraq and surrounding regions.
    (211497)
89
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure aid packages are dropped over and are received by the civilians most in need in northern Iraq.
    (211498)
90
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to help end violence against girls in developing countries; and if she will make a statement.
    (211626)
91
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people have received assistance from the Back Pack Health Worker Team programme funded by her Department.
    (211573)
92
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to prevent violence in young offenders institutions.
    (211568)
93
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to prevent self-harm in young offenders institutions.
    (211569)
94
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to provide emotional support for inmates of young offenders institutions.
    (211571)
95
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to prevent young people with mental illnesses and depression from being sentenced to custody in young offenders institutions.
    (211572)
96
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times officials conducting his Department's review of veterans in the criminal justice system have formally consulted the review's Advisory Committee since the launch of the review.
    (211583)
97
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, where, when and how often the job of HS2 Resident's Commissioner will be advertised.
    (211589)
98
N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, from where his Department plans to secure trains to run on the Midland mainline when electrification of that line is completed.
    (211462)
99
N
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of paying in-work benefits to non-UK citizens from (a) other EU countries and (b) the rest of the world in each of the last five years.
    (211618)
100
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to reduce waiting times experienced by (a) people on a low income and (b) other people using the HM Revenue and Customs tax credits helpline.
    (211582)
101
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the approved July 2011 business case for universal credit referred to on page 32 of his Department's publication, Universal Credit at Work, published in October 2014, was approved by (a) the Major Projects Authority and (b) HM Treasury; and whether that business case was a strategic outline business case or a full business case.
    (211588)
102
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait for a decision on a social fund application was in each year since 2003.
    (211466)
103
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made to the Social Fund to cover the cost of funerals in each year since 2010; and how many of those applications were rejected.
    (211468)
104
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many premises inspectors of the Health and Safety Executive visited as part of inspections of the licensed removal of asbestos in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
    (211627)

Notices given on Thursday 23 October

1
N
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been charged under the provisions of section 4a of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 since 25 November 2012.
[Transferred]   (211469)
2
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy that the Highways Agency, following its transfer from being a civil service agency to a government-owned company will be liable to pay (a) corporation tax and (b) additional payments of VAT.
[Transferred]   (211500)
3
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a comparative assessment of the criteria used to draw up the (a) UK, (b) US and (c) UN sanctions lists.
[Transferred]   (211493)
4
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to (a) treat and (b) prevent depression in young offenders institutions.
[Transferred]   (211570)
5
N
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints of stalking were recorded by the police in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
[Transferred]   (211470)
6
 
Adam Afriyie (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on excluding foreign university students from net immigration targets.
    (211742)
7
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has held with stakeholders on the nature of the warranties sold by Scottish Power to its customers in the 1980s and 1990s.
    (211767)
8
 
Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of people who completed apprenticeships went on to get (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (211784)
9
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff in his Department (a) are currently on a personal improvement plan, (b) have been on a persoanl improvement plan for over one year and (c) have been on a personal improvement plan for more than two consecutive years; and what the grades are or were of such staff.
    (211820)
10
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff in his Department are responsible for mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.
    (211821)
11
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many teams in his Department currently have more than one member of staff on personal improvement plans.
    (211822)
12
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the procedure is in his Department for assessing grade boundaries and job roles; and how often such assessments take place.
    (211823)
13
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on the local Growth Fund allocation to North Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement.
    (211753)
14
 
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessments were made of Mourne Ltd's payment of taxes in the UK and Ghana before UK Export Finance agreed to guarantee loans for the Kotoka International Airport project.
    (211694)
15
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made on the proposed relocation or closure of Rhyl Post Office.
    (211757)
16
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2014 to Question 209889, how many complaints his Department received about Acorn Agriculture Finance (a) before and (b) after that company was granted licences.
    (211785)
17
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason his Department's consultation on transposition of the EU public procurement directive was limited to four weeks.
    (211678)
18
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the Minister without Portfolio has travelled overseas on an official visit since his appointment to that post; what the (a) purpose and (b) cost of each such visit was; and what the class of travel was for each journey on each such visit.
    (211797)
19
 
Adam Afriyie (Windsor): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential costs and benefits of removing the cap on entrepreneurs' tax relief.
    (211741)
20
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received from (a) business organisations and (b) trade unions about (i) economic integration within the EU and (ii) the proposed introduction of a financial transaction tax.
    (211667)
21
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 15 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Reverend Ian Hamilton.
    (211687)
22
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made on the proposes closures of each HM Revenue and Customs office in North Wales; how many (a) forced and (b) voluntary redundancies each closure entails; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such closures on levels of service by HM Revenue and Customs in North Wales.
    (211760)
23
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average annual cost for a looked after child was in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (211674)
24
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether, in delivery of the Zero Carbon Homes policy, house builders can contract with a third party to deliver the carbon abatement measures outside of the built environment in (a) renewable energy technologies, (b) carbon capture and storage and (c) nuclear power in order to meet the house builder's zero carbon obligation.
    (211768)
25
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations he has received on recording of council meetings in public.
    (211754)
26
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on changes in spending on local government since May 2010 on (a) staff morale and motivation and (b) level of services.
    (211756)
27
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the speed of the delivery of superfast broadband to rural areas.
    (211748)
28
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made on the adaptation of the Brimstone Launch missile system onto the Typhoon fleet of aircraft.
    (211697)
29
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's planning assumptions are on which aircraft delivery platform will be used to house the Brimstone Launch missile system once the No 2 Tornado squadron has been disbanded in April 2016 until the fitting of Brimstone to the Typhoon aircraft has been completed.
    (211698)
30
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nursery places his Department offers; how many applications have there been for such places in each year since 2010; and how many such places currently on offer are occupied.
    (211788)
31
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on teaching English in each year since 2010.
    (211789)
32
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been placed on his Department's referral scheme co-ordinated by the Joint Service Housing Advice Office in each year since 2010; and how many personnel so referred successfully found accommodation through the scheme in each year since 2010.
    (211790)
33
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications there have been to the Armed Forces' Help to Buy scheme since it was launched in April 2014; and how many applicants to that scheme have successfully secured mortgages through the scheme.
    (211791)
34
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of veterans in the UK.
    (211792)
35
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what income has accrued to his Department from the sale of surplus defence equipment in countries with Ministry of Defence bases; and what the details are of each such sale.
    (211795)
36
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many engineers have been recruited by his Department in each year since 2010.
    (211796)
37
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Statement of 21 October 2014, Official Report, column 63WS, on the Middle East, how many of the UK's Reaper aircraft will be deployed for surveillance missions over Syria.
    (211832)
38
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Statement of 21 October 2014, Official Report, column 63WS, on the Middle East, from which bases the UK's (a) Reaper UAVs and (b) River Joint aircraft operate for their surveillance missions over Iraq and Syria.
    (211833)
39
 
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 commanding officers have requested legal advice following allegations of (i) sexual assault, (ii) exposure, (iii) voyeurism, (iv) sexual activity in a public lavatory and (v) other forms of sexual misconduct; and if he will make a statement.
    (211672)
40
 
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many allegations of (a) sexual assault, (b) exposure, (c) voyeurism, (d) sexual activity in a public lavatory, (e) rape and (f) other forms of sexual misconduct have been recorded by the Crime Statistics and Analysis Cell in each month since April 2014 relating to the (i) Army, (ii) Navy, (iii) RAF and (iv) reservists; and if he will make a statement.
    (211673)
41
 
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made in assessing the systems used by (a) his Department, (b) the Army, (c) the Navy and (d) the RAF for recording service complaints; and if he will make a statement.
    (211692)
42
 
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reports of allegations of (a) sexual assault, (b) exposure, (c) voyeurism, (d) sexual activity in a public lavatory and (e) other forms of sexual misconduct were made by commanding officers to each of the service police forces in (i) 2013 and (ii) 2014 to date; and if he will make a statement.
    (211693)
43
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to close the Army Recruitment Centre, Rhyl; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the closure on opportunities for recruitment in the Rhyl area.
    (211758)
44
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in light of the announcement that a new set of standards is to be established for teaching assistants in England, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in the devolved administrations on ensuring consistency in standards for teaching assistants across the UK.
    (211668)
45
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many service children have been recorded in the UK in each year since 2010.
    (211793)
46
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the actual and percentage change in pay for school support staff has been in each of the last 15 years.
    (211755)
47
 
Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many green jobs which have lasted more than six months have been created in each parliamentary constituency since May 2010.
    (211663)
48
 
Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information is collected on new jobs created in the UK in (a) manufacturing, (b) installation and (c) allied services relating to (i) renewable energy technologies and (ii) energy-saving technologies and services.
    (211664)
49
 
Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what modelling has been conducted to estimate the effect on UK employment levels of movements upwards and downwards in energy prices.
    (211665)
50
 
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the economic viability of small nuclear reactors.
    (211762)
51
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff in his Department (a) are currently on a persoanl improvement plan, (b) have been on a personal improvement plan for over one year and (c) have been on a personal improvement plan for more than two consecutive years; and what the grades are or were of such staff.
    (211828)
52
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many staff in his Department are responsible for mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.
    (211829)
53
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many teams in his Department have more than one member of staff on personal improvement plans.
    (211830)
54
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the procedure is in his Department for assessing grade boundaries and job roles; and how often such assessments take place.
    (211831)
55
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will review his policy on feed in tariffs for the provision of energy.
    (211752)
56
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on (a) the transportation of detainees held by another state through UK territory, including UK colonies and dependent territories, other than pursuant to a lawful extradition proceeding, (b) attendance of UK agents at interrogations of detainees by or on behalf of a foreign state and (c) supplying questions for use in interrogating detainees held by foreign states.
    (211801)
57
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to encourage the authorities in Malaysia to prosecute effectively violations of fundamental freedoms of religion.
    (211671)
58
 
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness and outcomes of the Building Stability Overseas Strategy.
    (211690)
59
 
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on the future of the Building Stability Overseas Strategy; and if he will make a statement.
    (211691)
60
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on language training in each year since 2010.
    (211814)
61
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on security and hostile environment training in each year since 2010.
    (211815)
62
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on private security companies in each year since 2010; and what the contractual arrangements were with each such company.
    (211816)
63
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 to Question 210389, which groups who previously accessed free inoculations now no longer do so.
    (211765)
64
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to revise the pay bands introduced in the NHS Agenda for Change programme.
    (211746)
65
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that NHS staff performing the same role in different parts of the country are placed in the same pay bands.
    (211747)
66
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department made to international counterparts during the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Moscow.
    (211810)
67
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason his Department attended the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Moscow.
    (211811)
68
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department received urging them to boycott the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
    (211812)
69
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on attendance at the conference of the parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Moscow; and whose travel, accommodation and other expenses related to attendance at the conference his Department paid for.
    (211813)
70
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the (a) uptake and (b) effectiveness of the influenza immunisation vaccine campaign.
    (211669)
71
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the use of folic acid prior to conception as a preventative measure for neural tube defects.
    (211670)
72
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the next annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology.
    (211707)
73
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the next annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology to be laid before parliament.
    (211708)
74
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Risk Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
    (211709)
75
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the Impact Assessment for his Department's decision to bring the production of the annual report on Research and Development Work Relating to Assistive Technology in house from 2015.
    (211710)
76
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the number and value was of clinical negligence payments made by the NHS as a result of negligence committed by private healthcare providers in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (211786)
77
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the number and value has been of clinical negligence payments made by the NHS as a result of negligence committed by Vanguard Healthcare.
    (211787)
78
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 16 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms S Whyatt.
    (211689)
79
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on the prescription of drugs for the treatment of motor neurone disease in each of the last five years.
    (211727)
80
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups in England provide some form of falls service.
    (211728)
81
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the public purse has been spent on research into motor neurone disease in each of the last five years.
    (211730)
82
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on prescriptions for the treatment of osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
    (211731)
83
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the publich purse has been spent on research into osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
    (211732)
84
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent specialist nurses for a neurological condition were employed in each region of England in each of the last five years.
    (211733)
85
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the public purse has been spent on the development of new drugs to prevent or treat symptoms of motore neurone disease in each of the last five years.
    (211734)
86
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much from the public purse has been spent on the development of new drugs to treat symptoms of osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
    (211735)
87
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much clinical commissioning groups in England spent on falls services in each of the last five years.
    (211736)
88
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men under the age of 18, (b) women under the age of 18, (c) men between the ages of 18 and 60, (d) women between the ages of 18 and 60, (e) men over the age of 60 and (f) women over the age of 60 have been diagnosed with osteoporosis in each of the last five years.
    (211737)
89
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups in England provide a fracture liaison service.
    (211738)
90
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on campaigns intended to raise public awareness of osteoporosis and its symptoms in each of the last five years.
    (211739)
91
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much clinical commissioning groups spent on fracture liaison services in each of the last five years.
    (211740)
92
 
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Irish nationals had (a) one and (b) more than one abortion via NHS England in 2013.
    (211676)
93
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the police response to the demonstration in Parliament Square on 21 October 2014; and if she will make a statement.
    (211761)
94
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the use of predictive analytics as a law enforcement tool.
    (211675)
95
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the proposed revision of EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive on individuals and companies in the UK.
    (211714)
96
 
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time frames is for processing firearms licences.
    (211743)
97
 
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms certificates were issued in each region and constituent part of the UK in the last year.
    (211744)
98
 
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time taken to process firearms licensing (a) applications and (b) renewals is in each region.
    (211745)
99
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to the police on co-operation with the Food Standards Agency and the new Food Crime Unit; and if she will make a statement.
    (211751)
100
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has reclassified fraud as a notifiable recorded offence.
    (211711)
101
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the fraud level was in each of the last six years.
    (211712)
102
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes have been made to the process of recording notifiable recorded crime categories since 2010.
    (211713)
103
 
Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on lowering the minimum income threshold limit required by those wishing to bring family members to the UK.
    (211715)
104
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her Ghanaian counterparts on the use of UK aid to support small-scale farmers in that country.
    (211766)
105
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) open and (b) closed cases are listed on her Department's fraud register; and to which countries each such case relates.
    (211817)
106
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on language training in each year since 2010.
    (211818)
107
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on security and hostile environment training in each year since 2010.
    (211819)
108
 
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 17 September 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs M Lawson.
    (211688)
109
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on the closure of courts in the Vale of Clwyd; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such closures on staff numbers and levels of service.
    (211759)
110
 
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Irish government on the findings of the Smithwick Tribunal.
    (211716)
111
 
Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on (a) regional air routes to Northern Ireland and (b) other regional UK routes of the sale of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports to a Spanish and Australian consortium.
    (211666)
112
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide funding for road improvements and a dual carriageway for the A64 between York and Scarborough; and if he will make a statement.
    (211749)
113
 
David Mowat (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department issues to the Civil Aviation Authority on the amount of time that body should take to process applications for licences.
    (211695)
114
 
Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will review the decision to postpone the implementation of the driver training elements of EU regulation No. 181/2011 for up to four years.
    (211763)
115
 
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what recent representations she has received on the role of women in public life; and if she will make a statement.
    (211750)
116
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will include data on the average length of time taken to process personal independence payment claims in his Department's next quarterly statistics release.
    (211677)
117
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claimants in Ashfield local authority area have a housing cost element in their payment.
    (211798)
118
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of universal credit claimants who have a housing cost element in their payment in Ashfield local authority area are in arrears on rent payment.
    (211799)
119
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants in Ashfield local authority area are in arrears on rent payment.
    (211800)
120
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many veterans have claimed benefits in each year since 2010.
    (211794)
121
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department (a) are on a personal improvement plan, (b) have been on a personal improvement plan for over one year and (c) have been on a personal improvement plan for more than two consecutive years; and what the grades are or were of such staff.
    (211824)
122
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department are responsible for mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.
    (211825)
123
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department have more than one member of staff on personal improvement plans.
    (211826)
124
 
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the procedure is in his Department for assessing grade boundaries and job roles; and how often such assessments take place.
    (211827)
125
 
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average length of time is taken to process a personal independence payment from (a) a motor neurone disease sufferer and (b) another disabled person.
    (211729)
126
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had the mobility component of their disability living allowance reduced in each year since 2010.
    (211704)
127
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training is required before a disability living allowance can take up the role.
    (211705)
128
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of disability living allowance reassessments are conducted over the telephone.
    (211706)
129
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against disability living allowance there have been since 2010; and how many such appeals resulted in a reversal of the original decision.
    (211764)
Tuesday 28 October  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
 
★ 1
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): Whether the UK will be officially represented at the conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons to be held in Vienna in December 2014.
    (905688)
★ 2
Naomi Long (Belfast East): What recent representations he has made to the Algerian government on ensuring that Christians and other religious minorities are protected from persecution and discrimination.
    (905689)
★ 3
Henry Smith (Crawley): What progress his Department has made with the British Indian Ocean Territory Chagossian resettlement feasibility study; and if he will make a statement.
    (905690)
★ 4
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): What recent assessment he has made of the security situation in Turkey.
    (905691)
★ 5
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): What recent steps the Government has taken to assist with the reconstruction of Gaza.
    (905692)
★ 6
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds): What steps he is taking to offer support to the government of Ukraine.
    (905693)
★ 7
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): If he will encourage Israelis and Palestinians to participate in projects which bring them together and build a new generation of leaders committed to peace and dialogue.
    (905694)
★ 8
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of EU sanctions against Russia in encouraging a change of approach by that country towards eastern Ukraine.
    (905695)
★ 9
Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of UK military strikes in Iraq in helping to tackle the advance of ISIL.
    (905696)
★ 10
Ian Austin (Dudley North): What steps his Department is taking to support projects that foster co-operation and co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians.
    (905697)
★ 11
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): Whether he has discussed with his Israeli counterpart the content of the debate in the House on 13 October 2014 on Palestine and Israel; what recent discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on the future of the peace process; and if he will make a statement.
    (905698)
★ 12
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): What steps the Government is taking to support the Kurdish peshmerga.
    (905699)
★ 13
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): When he last raised with the Burmese government the subject of political prisoners in Burma.
    (905700)
★ 14
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): What assessment he has made of the effect of coalition airstrikes on ISIL.
    (905701)
★ 15
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): What recent assessment he has made of the security situation in southern Lebanon.
    (905702)
★ 16
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): What the Government's policy is on the building of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
    (905703)
★ 17
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): What precautions his Department is taking to protect its staff based in West Africa from the Ebola virus.
    (905704)
★ 18
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): What precautions his Department is taking to protect its staff based in West Africa from the Ebola virus.
    (905705)
★ 19
Guy Opperman (Hexham): What steps the Government has taken to ensure that UN Security Council Resolution 2139 is being complied with in relation to the humanitarian crisis in Syria; and if he will make a statement.
    (905706)
★ 20
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): What steps he plans to take in response to the decision of the House on 13 October 2014 in respect of recognition of Palestine.
    (905707)
★ 21
Robert Jenrick (Newark): What recent progress has been made on negotiating the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement; and if he will make a statement.
    (905708)
★ 22
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): If he will make an assessment of the potential effect on British citizens living in other EU member states of any restrictions on freedom of movement in the EU.
    (905709)
★ 23
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): What recent representations he has made to the government of Qatar about alleged abuse of migrant workers in that country.
    (905710)
★ 24
Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of EU sanctions against Russia in encouraging a change of approach by that country towards eastern Ukraine.
    (905711)
★ 25
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the decision of the House on 13 October 2014 in respect of recognition of Palestine.
    (905712)
At 12.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (905678)
★ 2
Pat Glass (North West Durham):  
    (905679)
★ 3
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys):  
    (905680)
★ 4
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore):  
    (905681)
★ 5
Mike Crockart (Edinburgh West):  
    (905682)
★ 6
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield):  
    (905683)
★ 7
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton):  
    (905684)
★ 8
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West):  
    (905685)
★ 9
Hugh Bayley (York Central):  
    (905686)
★ 10
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts):  
    (905687)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 21 October

1
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount that will be saved by the non-issuing of vehicle excise discs.
    (211358)
2
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason it is his Department's policy to collect vehicle excise duty from both the vendor and the purchaser of a motor vehicle for the full month in which that motor vehicle is sold.
    (211359)
3
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of additional revenue will be raised by the recent change to the law that results in both the vendor and the purchaser of a motor vehicle paying vehicle excise duty on that vehicle for the whole month in which it is sold.
    (211360)
4
N
Sir Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases currently under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission have been live for more than 11 months.
    (211361)

Notices given on Wednesday 22 October

1
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Prison Service Reserve Band 4 staff have been employed at each prison establishment in each of the last five years.
    (211648)
2
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether staff employed in the Prison Service Reserve are classed as mobile grades as defined by the Civil Service Management Code.
    (211649)
3
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether staff employed in the Prison Service Reserve can be ordered to perform detached duty.
    (211650)
4
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of probation staff have received training in sections 2A and 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
    (211651)

Notices given on Thursday 23 October

1
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, if he will place in the library a table of Crown Prosecution Service child-abuse flagged (a) pre-charge decisions, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions for each financial year since 2006-07.
    (211679)
2
N
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury): To ask the Attorney General, if he will place in the library a list of the local authorities who have adopted the information-sharing protocol launched by the Crown Prosecution Service in January 2014.
    (211680)
3
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in each parliamentary constituency in the East Midlands received disabled students' allowance in each of the last five years.
    (211838)
4
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 20 February 2012, Official Report, column 643W, on tax allowance pensions, what proportion of income tax relief on contributions accrued to, or is expected to accrue to, individuals with an annual income of (a) up to £19,999, (b) between £20,000 and £44,999, (c) between £45,000 and £74,999, (d) between £75,000 and £99,999, (e) between £100,000 and £149,999 and (f) over £150,000 in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15.
    (211726)
5
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what methodology his Department recommends for the calculation of five year land supplies; whether planning authorities are required to use regional spatial strategy figures in such calculations; and if he will make a statement.
    (211685)
6
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2014 to Question 206821, what assessment his Department has made of the risk of PMSE market failure if PMSE users are not allocated alternative spectrum in which to operate before the 799 MHz band is cleared; what discussions his Department has had with Ofcom regarding mitigating that risk; and if he will make a statement.
    (211778)
7
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2014 to Question 206821, how many meetings (a) his Department and (b) Ofcom have had with HM Treasury on compensation for the Programme Making and Special Events sector if the 700 MHz band was cleared of such users; and if he will make a statement.
    (211779)
8
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2014 to Question 206823, what assessment his Department has made of the future possibility of mobile network operators demanding access to more spectrum; what steps his Department is taking to test the validity of such future demands; and if he will make a statement.
    (211780)
9
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the budget is for the Armed Forces Day national event in Guildford on 27 June 2015; how much of that cost is being met by (a) his Department and (b) Guildford Borough Council; whether any public funding so provided is dependent on match funding from industry or other sources; and if he will make a statement.
    (211802)
10
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service leavers resident in Northern Ireland have benefited from further and higher educational support under the Service Leavers Scheme funded by his Department.
    (211681)
11
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to address the issues raised with him by the First Minsiter of Northern Ireland concerning the transfer of the former St Lucia barracks in Omagh to the Northern Ireland Executive.
    (211682)
12
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason Northern Ireland is defined as an overseas location for the purposes of offering further and higher educational support under the Service Leavers Scheme.
    (211683)
13
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on teaching English in each year since 2010.
    (211774)
14
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nursery places his Department offers; how many applications there have been for those places in each year since 2010; and how many of the nursery places are occupied.
    (211775)
15
N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 to Question 210743, when the changes to the habitation of offenders legislation came into force; when his Department became aware of this change; and if he will make a statement.
    (211772)
16
N
Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 to Question 210743, what the nature is of the disciplinary action taken against the four serving members of the armed forces who lodged complaints which were subsequently and remain stayed; and if he will make a statement.
    (211773)
17
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2013 to Question 210316, if she will publish the minutes of her meetings with her Cabinet colleagues on the proposed contents of the Family Test announced by the Prime Minister on 18 August 2014.
    (211723)
18
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools to the Earl of Listowel, Official Report, House of Lords, column 553, what estimate she has made of the number of schools that do not prioritise looked-after children.
    (211783)
19
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government about the re-instatement of former opencast coal sites in East Ayrshire.
    (211771)
20
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made towards meeting the recovery target for construction and demolition waste in the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC); and what steps she is taking to meet and enforce that target.
    (211686)
21
N
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2014 to Question 208409, what the maximum level of fine and sanction available for illegal tree felling was in each year since 1982; and when the level of fine or sanction was last reviewed and last increased under provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 1982.
    (211724)
22
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS was of (a) furniture, (b) crutches and (c) other equipment given out to people with a short-term need in each of the last three years.
    (211696)
23
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on public awareness campaigns on cancer in each of the last five years.
    (211804)
24
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff are helping with Ebola in West Africa; and what steps he has taken to provide cover for those staff.
    (211805)
25
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) his Department, (b) Public Health England, (c) NHS England and (d) each non-departmental public body spent on (i) iPads and (ii)iPhones in each of the last five years; and how many of each were purchased in each of those years.
    (211806)
26
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2014 to Question 210930, when the final independent market survey will report.
    (211834)
27
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 from the Minister of State for Care and Support, Official Report, column 749, on mental health nurses, what significant improvements to perinatal mental services have been made.
    (211840)
28
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of waiting times for young people attempting to access child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will publish average national waiting times in each of the years 2011, 2012 and 2013.
    (211725)
29
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have lost their sight as a result of diabetes in each of the last five years.
    (211699)
30
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have had their feet amputated as a result of diabetes in each of the last five years.
    (211700)
31
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) under and (b) over 18 were diagnosed with type two diabetes in each of the last five years.
    (211701)
32
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished hospital admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of asthma there were among people aged (a) under and (b) over 18 in each of the last five years.
    (211702)
33
N
Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) under and (b) over 18 were diagnosed with asthma in each of the last five years.
    (211703)
34
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what rationale lies behind NICE's advice that end-of-life criteria should only apply to medicines that extend life by at least three months.
    (211807)
35
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to health technology appraisal committees on application of NICE's end of life criteria when appraising treatments for patients with terminal illness.
    (211809)
36
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on commissioning the Child Abuse Image Database; whether this database will include all image-data known to Interpol; what steps she has taken to ensure that police forces can access this database; what specialist software regional police forces will require to access this database; and what additional funds she is making available to cover the costs of such software.
    (211721)
37
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her future policy is on the Childbase database of known online child abuse; how she envisages this database interacting with the Child Abuse Image Database; and if she will make a statement.
    (211722)
38
N
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures are in place to prevent the illegal importation of bushmeat into the UK.
    (211776)
39
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether G4S records (a) telephone calls made to it by asylum seekers who have ended the call as they have not been able to explain that they need an interpreter and (b) all other telephone calls received in connection with its contract to deliver accommodation for asylum seekers.
    (211808)
40
N
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to raise awareness of the dangers of eating bushmeat in those countries where it is currently practised.
    (211777)
41
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates there are in each local authority area; what the gender and ethnic composition is of magistrates in each such area; and what recruitment of magistrates there has been in each such area in the last five years.
    (211837)
42
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made on his Department's plan in Rail Fares and Ticketing published in October 2013 to trial flexible ticketing; when he expects flexible ticketing to be rolled out and available across the whole rail network; what recent representations he has received from train operating companies on such tickets; and if he will make a statement.
    (211803)
43
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how many (a) men and (b) women her Department has publicly appointed in each of the last five years; and how much has been paid to each (i) man and (ii) woman.
    (211836)
44
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments to universal credit claimants have been made direct to a landlord in Ashfield local authority area.
    (211835)
45
N
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants in (a) the support group, (b) the work-related activity group and (c) overall in Ashfield local authority area will be affected by the social sector under-occupancy penalty.
    (211839)
46
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of former disability living allowance claimants who use a Motability vehicle have had the vehicle removed after being moved to personal independence payment; and what savings have accrued to the Exchequer as a result.
    (211782)
47
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in East Ayrshire have had housing benefit capped since the introduction of the benefit cap at the latest date for which figures are available.
    (211769)
48
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in East Ayrshire are currently subject to housing benefit being capped as a result of the benefit cap introduced in April 2013.
    (211770)
49
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to waive the habitual residency test for jobseeker's allowance claimants when the claimant has lived abroad because of a parent being posted as a memember of the armed forces; and if he will make a statement.
    (211684)
50
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Health and Safety Executive inspectors have received training on the removal of asbestos from licensed premises since 2009.
    (211717)
51
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mentors are working to assist the delivery of the New Enterprise Allowance.
    (211718)
52
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the exposure of HM armed forces to the risks of asbestos.
    (211719)
53
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) qualifications and (b) experience are required to be an adviser on the New Enterprise Allowance programme.
    (211720)
54
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recommendations the Work Programme Building Best Practice Group has made to help the over 50s back to work.
    (211781)
Wednesday 29 October  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
 
★ 1
David Mowat (Warrington South): What assessment she has made of the value for money of the Saville Inquiry.
    (905663)
★ 2
Pat Glass (North West Durham): What discussions she has had with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive on ensuring the Police Service of Northern Ireland is adequately resourced.
    (905664)
★ 3
David Simpson (Upper Bann): What the geographical remit will be of the recently announced panel to discuss parading disputes in Northern Ireland.
    (905665)
★ 4
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What steps the Government is taking to strengthen the Northern Ireland economy.
    (905666)
★ 5
Chris Evans (Islwyn): What steps she is taking to tackle youth unemployment in Northern Ireland.
    (905667)
★ 6
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): What recent assessment she has made of the effect of the non-implementation of welfare reform on the Northern Ireland Executive's budget.
    (905668)
★ 7
Neil Carmichael (Stroud): What steps she is taking to promote economic growth in Northern Ireland.
    (905669)
★ 8
Dr William McCrea (South Antrim): When she expects the National Crime Agency to be fully operational in Northern Ireland.
    (905670)
★ 9
Jim Shannon (Strangford): What steps she is taking to ensure that the change in Northern Ireland's unemployment rates is similar to that of the rest of the UK.
    (905671)
★ 10
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): What steps she is taking to tackle youth unemployment in Northern Ireland.
    (905672)
★ 11
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): What the cost to her Department was of the Parades Commission in each of the last five years.
    (905673)
★ 12
Naomi Long (Belfast East): What lessons have been learnt from the previous talks processess and what outcomes she expects from the current round of talks.
    (905674)
★ 13
Mr David Amess (Southend West): What progress she has made on cross-party talks in Northern Ireland.
    (905675)
★ 14
Mr Andrew Robathan (South Leicestershire): What assessment she has made of the prevalence of serious and organised crime in Northern Ireland.
    (905676)
★ 15
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): What discussions she has ahd with (a) the Northern ireland Assembly and (b) the Northern Ireland Executive on ways of ending the impasse on the appointment of a Speaker of the Assembly.
    (905677)
At 12 noon
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister
Unless otherwise indicated the Members listed below will ask a question without notice
★ 1
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 29 October.
    (905713)
★ 2
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North):  
    (905714)
★ 3
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):  
    (905715)
★ 4
Ian Austin (Dudley North):  
    (905716)
★ 5
Tessa Munt (Wells):  
    (905717)
★ 6
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire):  
    (905718)
★ 7
Mr David Amess (Southend West):  
    (905719)
★ 8
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester):  
    (905720)
★ 9
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):  
    (905721)
★ 10
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin):  
    (905722)
★ 11
Jim Shannon (Strangford):  
    (905723)
★ 12
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central):  
    (905724)
★ 13
Margaret Beckett (Derby South):  
    (905725)
★ 14
Henry Smith (Crawley):  
    (905726)
★ 15
Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North):  
    (905727)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 22 October

1
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on bank transfer transactions for each type of benefit and pension payment in the last financial year; and what the total cost was of those transfers.
    (211429)
Thursday 30 October  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 21 October

1
N
Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will state the names and the organisations represented by the current members of the Gatwick Airport Consultative Committee.
    (211392)
Monday 3 November  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 20 October

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations the Government has made to the Government of Pakistan about security threats and terrorism in the Quetta region.
    (211132)
Monday 17 November  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 21 October

1
N
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the conditions of the recent report of the Dangers of Returning Home by Waging Peace on the monitoring of Sudanese nationals by Sudanese intelligence and security staff within UK borders and the use of the evidence gathered during detention and torture in Sudan, if the Government will reassess the appropriateness of the use of Detained Fast Track in Sudanese asylum cases.
    (211403)

Prepared 24th October 2014