Session 2014-15
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The Questions Book
Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Friday 21 November 2014
Notes:
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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 Thursday 20 November 2014
(the ‘Questions Book’)
Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Friday 21 November 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.
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Tuesday 11 November
1
N
Mark Durkan
(Foyle):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will pilot a scheme on automatic information exchange with a developing country.
(214410)
Notices given on Monday 17 November
1
N
Greg Mulholland
(Leeds North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to attend the UNHCR Global Resettlement Pledging Conference on 9 December 2014.
(214608)
2
N
Greg Mulholland
(Leeds North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her international counterparts on the resettlement of Syrian refugees in (a) the UK and (b) Europe.
(214610)
3
N
Jessica Morden
(Newport East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for legal aid the Director of Legal Aid Casework has (a) granted and (b) refused for adoption cases in (i) Wales and (ii) Newport East constituency.
(214609)
Notices given on Tuesday 18 November
1
N
Iain McKenzie
(Inverclyde):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what additional support he plans to give small and medium-sized businesses in the UK.
(215037)
2
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure harmonisation of the approaches of the UK, the US and the EU in freezing assets of people suspected of funding international terrorism.
(214875)
3
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Minister in his Department has responsibility for overseeing investigations into freezing assets of people suspected of funding international terrorism.
(214876)
4
N
Guto Bebb
(Aberconwy):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received on the Financial Conduct Authority's decision to extend the settlement negotiation period to January 2015; and if he will make a statement.
(214850)
5
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the devolution of corporation tax in 2014.
(215036)
6
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reason is for the difference in the number of projects and programmes listed in the infrastructure pipeline data published by his Department in 2013 and 2014.
(215093)
7
N
Mr David Nuttall
(Bury North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) preparing, (b) printing and (c) posting the personalised annual tax statements in 2014.
(214854)
8
N
Mr David Nuttall
(Bury North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of families in Bury North constituency who will be eligible for support under the Childcare Payments Bill.
(214928)
9
N
Mr Jamie Reed
(Copeland):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received which make a case for more funding to be allocated to the NHS in the autumn statement.
(215080)
10
N
Helen Jones
(Warrington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when a Minister in his Department last visited Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service; and who was met on that visit.
(214905)
11
N
Helen Jones
(Warrington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Fire Brigades Union on firefighters' pensions.
(214906)
12
N
Helen Jones
(Warrington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions his Department has had with the devolved administrations on the firefighters' pension dispute; and if he will make a statement.
(215062)
13
N
Mr Gareth Thomas
(Harrow West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he informed local authorities that dedicated funding for local welfare assistance schemes would no longer be available from April 2015 before the publication of the provisional local government finance settlement; and if he will make a statement.
(214879)
14
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War.
(214917)
15
N
Iain McKenzie
(Inverclyde):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with his Scottish counterpart the roll-out of superfast broadband for the West Coast of Scotland and those parts of central Scotland which do not yet have access to superfast broadband; and if he will make a statement.
(214880)
16
N
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
(Na h-Eileanan an Iar):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress his Department has made on constructing mobile masts under the Mobile Infrastructure Project.
(215081)
17
N
Chi Onwurah
(Newcastle upon Tyne Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what impact assessment his Department conducted on the duration of its consultation on tackling partial not-spots in mobile phone coverage.
(215090)
18
N
Mr John Baron
(Basildon and Billericay):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average age is for (a) privates, (b) junior NCOs, (c) senior NCOs, (d) junior officers and (e) senior officers (i) in the Army Reserve and (ii) recruited into the Army Reserve since the commencement of Operation Fortify.
(214877)
19
N
Mr John Baron
(Basildon and Billericay):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average age is of all ranks in the (a) Army Reserve and (b) Army Reserve infantry.
(214878)
20
N
Mr John Baron
(Basildon and Billericay):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what change there has been in the latest projected cost of the Army Reserve reforms when compared to the initial cost estimates.
(215078)
21
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to whom honours for courage and gallantry have been posthumously awarded since 1984; and when (a) the incident to which each award relates occurred and (b) each such honour was granted.
(215024)
22
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's policy is on providing support or assistance for film or television projects.
(215025)
23
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support and assistance his Department has offered to the makers of the film Kajaki.
(215026)
24
N
Alison McGovern
(Wirral South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will introduce a medal for service personnel and medical staff deployed to West Africa as part of the fight against Ebola.
(215004)
25
N
Mrs Madeleine Moon
(Bridgend):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 33 of the Service Complaints Commissioner's Annual Report 2013, if he will place the results of the sexual harassment survey undertaken by the Army between March and April 2014 in the Library; and if he will make a statement.
(215063)
26
N
Mr Peter Bone
(Wellingborough):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will investigate whether EU citizens are being wrongly recorded on the electoral roll as being able to vote in all elections in (a) Wellingborough, (b) Kettering and (c) Corby.
(214870)
27
N
Mr Peter Bone
(Wellingborough):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many EU citizens are on the electoral roll and noted as not being able to vote in general elections in (a) Wellingborough, (b) Kettering, (c) Corby and (d) England.
(214871)
28
N
Mr Peter Bone
(Wellingborough):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many EU citizens of voting age are living in (a) Wellingborough, (b) Kettering, (c) Corby and (d) England.
(214872)
29
N
Mr Peter Bone
(Wellingborough):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent estimate he has made of the number of EU citizens in (a) Wellingborough, (b) Kettering, (c) Corby and (d) England who are on the electoral roll but incorrectly designated as being able to vote in all elections.
(214873)
30
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of nursery care for children with disabilities.
(214874)
31
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places have been available in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) Tower Hamlets, (c) London and (d) England in each year since 2010.
(214908)
32
N
Kevin Brennan
(Cardiff West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what resources her Department has provided to Academy chains for the development of teaching resources since May 2010.
(214913)
33
N
Kevin Brennan
(Cardiff West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what arrangements she has in place to reclaim funds paid from the public purse which have been used to help develop teaching resources subsequently sold commercially.
(214914)
34
N
Kevin Brennan
(Cardiff West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations she has received on proposed content for the new religious studies GCSE.
(214915)
35
N
Kevin Brennan
(Cardiff West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations she has received on the teaching of British values as they relate to same sex marriage and relationships; and if she will make a statement.
(214916)
36
N
Helen Jones
(Warrington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria her Department uses to decide whether to approve an application to set up a university technical college; and whether such criteria includes the number of (a) students already recruited and (b) surplus secondary places available in the local authority area.
(214904)
37
N
Alison McGovern
(Wirral South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) median and (b) mean wage was for childcare workers in each of the last five years.
(215075)
38
N
Alison McGovern
(Wirral South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the proportion of workers in the childcare sector who are employed on zero-hour contracts.
(215076)
39
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which official in his Department has lead responsibility for solid biomass fuel classifications.
(214972)
40
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
(Chesham and Amersham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether (a) straw, (b) grass pellets and (c) other non-wood biomass fuels are included in the biomass suppliers list as approved fuels.
(215074)
41
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to reduce the effects of coastal erosion; and if she will make a statement.
(214824)
42
N
Angela Smith
(Penistone and Stocksbridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the disposal of commercial dog waste from breeding establishments and other places dogs may be kept.
(215031)
43
N
Angela Smith
(Penistone and Stocksbridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that commercial dog waste from breeding establishments is not reaching the human or animal food chains and water supply.
(215032)
44
N
Angela Smith
(Penistone and Stocksbridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department issues to commercial dog breeding establishments on the disposal of faeces, bedding, dog carcasses and other waste.
(215033)
45
N
Guto Bebb
(Aberconwy):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage Iran to clarify issues relating to possible military dimensions of its nuclear material and implement the additional protocol.
(214849)
46
N
Guto Bebb
(Aberconwy):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2014 to Question 211909, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Pakistani government and (b) his EU counterparts on the case of Aasia Bibi.
(214851)
47
N
Margaret Curran
(Glasgow East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2014 to Question 214210, what the cost to his Department was of providing support to the Scottish Minister for External Affairs and International Development on his visits to (a) Geneva in November 2014, (b) Brussels in July 2014, (c) Brussels in June 2014, (d) Vancouver and San Francisco in April 2014, (e) Vienna in February 2014, (f) UAE and Qatar in November 2013, (g) Pakistan in October 2013, (h) India, Delhi and Mumbai in October 2013, (i) Geneva in September 2013, (j) Latvia in July 2013, (k) China and Hong Kong in June 2013 and (l) Hanover in May 2013.
(215082)
48
N
Margaret Curran
(Glasgow East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2014 to Question 214210, what the cost to his Department was of providing support to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs on his visits to (a) Dublin in October 2014, (b) Brussels in October 2014, (c) Italy in October 2014, (d) Ireland in May 2014, (e) Poland in May 2014, (f) Paris in April 2014, (g) Helsinki in March 2013, (h) Paris in December 2013, (i) Denmark and Sweden in December 2014, (j) Brussels in November 2013, (k) Rome in October 2013, (l) Philadelphia in July 2013, (m) Venice in May 2013, (n) Dublin in May 2013 and (o) Berlin in April 2013.
(215083)
49
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on developments in the peace process in Colombia; and if he will make a statement.
(215058)
50
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Zimbabwe on the (a) democratic process and (b) seizure of land.
(214823)
51
N
Norman Baker
(Lewes):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the ability of people to access Sativex in the NHS.
(214957)
52
N
Norman Baker
(Lewes):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were given an opiate-based treatment (a) within a hospital, (b) on prescription and (c) otherwise in the last 12 months.
(214958)
53
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who in his Department is responsible for implementation of the Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England.
(215084)
54
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the consequences for public health of prostitution and sex trafficking; and what steps he is taking to minimise those consequences.
(215085)
55
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to tackle the stigma around HIV and AIDS.
(215086)
56
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects home testing HIV kits to become available for use throughout the UK.
(215087)
57
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the Public Health England review of sexual health services.
(215089)
58
N
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospitals have been rated poor for infection control and cleanliness in each month since May 2010.
(214924)
59
N
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals have not met their staffing requirements for registered nurse day hours in each month since May 2010.
(214925)
60
N
Gemma Doyle
(West Dunbartonshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many veterans have been referred for priority NHS treatment since May 2010.
(214931)
61
N
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will collect information on the number and occupations of agency and contract workers employed by NHS foundation trusts.
(214926)
62
N
Ms Harriet Harman
(Camberwell and Peckham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS trusts possess (a) an arts for health and (b) a music for health team.
(214932)
63
N
Dr Julian Huppert
(Cambridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinicians not affiliated with his Department and NHS England his Department consulted on the Off-patent Drugs Bill.
(214852)
64
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2013 to Question 158873, which 28 NHS front-line services, and which seven accident and emergency departments, he has visited since September 2012.
(215027)
65
N
Tessa Munt
(Wells):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 41 of section 1.5.1 of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published by NHS England on 3 November 2014, what the supportive literature is verifying the clinical efficiency of all three delivery systems.
(215038)
66
N
Tessa Munt
(Wells):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 42 of section 1.5.1 of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and Radiotherapy (SRT) Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published by NHS England on 3 November 2014, which hospitals deliver SRS and SRT to tumours in the brain without the use of a frame.
(215039)
67
N
Tessa Munt
(Wells):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 43 of section 1.5.1 of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published by NHS England on 3 November 2014, what the evidence is that there are no significant differences between the machines delivering its treatments.
(215040)
68
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent research he has commissioned into the health benefits of fish oils.
(214822)
69
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ethiopian nationals are on the UK travel exclusion list.
(215059)
70
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the Metropolitan Police Service review on criminal finances that was produced in 2012.
(215060)
71
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Malawi nationals are on the UK travel exclusion list.
(215061)
72
N
Paul Blomfield
(Sheffield Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the business case for extending the electronic visa waiver scheme to Kuwait.
(215091)
73
N
Paul Blomfield
(Sheffield Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the impact assessment for extending the electronic visa waiver scheme to Kuwait.
(215092)
74
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications have been received from asylum seekers temporarily resident in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and how many such applications have been successful.
(214918)
75
N
Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 17 November 2014 to Question 213402 and of 11 November 2014 to Question 213405, how many of the Libyan service personnel who were in receipt of military training in the UK since June 2014 have been returned to Libya.
(215064)
76
N
Ian Lucas
(Wrexham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the Refugee Council to discuss the number of Syrian refugees that have been settled in the UK.
(214922)
77
N
Ian Lucas
(Wrexham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who will represent the UK in the UN High Commissioner for Refugees meeting on resettling Syria's refugees in December 2014.
(214923)
78
N
Ian Lucas
(Wrexham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees from Syria have been settled in the UK in each of the last 24 months; and if she will make a statement.
(215041)
79
N
Sarah Teather
(Brent Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian nationals have been returned under the Dublin Regulation to (a) Bulgaria, (b) Italy and (c) Greece in each of the last five years.
(214846)
80
N
Sarah Teather
(Brent Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will halt any expansion of the immigration detention estate until the report from the inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration has been published.
(214847)
81
N
Sarah Teather
(Brent Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual running costs of the immigration detention estate are.
(214848)
82
N
Sarah Teather
(Brent Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much compensation her Department has paid for unlawfully detaining individuals under immigration powers in each of the last five years.
(214974)
83
N
Ian Lavery
(Wansbeck):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what reviews his Department has commissioned on the longevity of prison officers once they have retired from service in the last five years.
(214919)
84
N
Ian Lavery
(Wansbeck):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for how long on average a retired prison officer draws their pension.
(214920)
85
N
Ian Lavery
(Wansbeck):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for how long on average a prison officer lives following retirement from the prison service.
(214921)
86
N
Charlotte Leslie
(Bristol North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of offering non-contact boxing programmes to violent offenders.
(214927)
87
N
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release of 16 November 2014 entitled Crackdown on violence in prisons, how his Department plans to (a) measure and (b) monitor the effect of the new joint protocol on violence in prisons on the number of assaults on prison staff.
(215054)
88
N
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release of 16 November 2014 entitled Crackdown on violence in prisons, what consultations his Department carried out with unions and professional associations on policy options to reduce violence in prisons before implementing the joint protocol on violence in prisons.
(215055)
89
N
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release of 16 November 2014 entitled Crackdown on violence in prisons, what estimate he has made of the number of additional court appearances which will result from the implementation of the joint protocol on violence in prisons.
(215056)
90
N
Mr Andy Slaughter
(Hammersmith):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release of 16 November 2014 entitled Crackdown on violence in prisons, what estimate he has made of the aggregate increase in days of imprisonment which will result from convictions for criminal offences conducted in prison under the joint protocol on violence in prisons; and what estimate he has made of the additional prison places required to accommodate that increase.
(215057)
91
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
(Lagan Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Minister of Justice on the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights on the investigation of historic cases linked to the Troubles; and if she will make a statement.
(215073)
92
N
Margaret Curran
(Glasgow East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the relative pay of men and women among staff of his Department.
(215034)
93
N
Margaret Curran
(Glasgow East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many 18 to 24 year olds in Scotland had been unemployed for 12 months or more in each year since 2007.
(215035)
94
N
Richard Burden
(Birmingham, Northfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the savings to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency generated by the abolition of the tax disc will be returned to the Treasury.
(214856)
95
N
Richard Burden
(Birmingham, Northfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the European Commission's draft Regulation supplementing Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 with regard to the classification of serious infringements of the Union rules, which may lead to the loss of good repute by the road transport operator; and what his policy is on the proposals in that draft Regulation.
(214970)
96
N
Richard Burden
(Birmingham, Northfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether a person using a mobility scooter without a number plate is required to pay vehicle excise duty.
(215079)
97
N
Lilian Greenwood
(Nottingham South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what provision is made for rail passengers under the Think Autism strategy; what steps he has taken to raise awareness of the needs of rail passengers with learning and developmental disabilities; and what recent discussions he has held with train operating companies and Network Rail about the structure and effectiveness of their disability awareness training courses.
(215088)
98
N
Dr Julian Huppert
(Cambridge):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what predictions are made by the National Transport Model from 2015 onwards for the (a) average number of trips and stages made annually per person in England and (b) average length of trips by transport mode in the (i) low, (ii) medium and (iii) high growth scenarios.
(214853)
99
N
Alison McGovern
(Wirral South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many individual visits there were to the Transport Direct website in each of the last five years.
(215077)
100
N
Rushanara Ali
(Bethnal Green and Bow):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of housing costs on levels of child poverty.
(214907)
101
N
Mr Frank Field
(Birkenhead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether responsibility for designating a bedroom for housing benefit purpose lies with his Department or with the social landlord.
(214855)
102
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether claimants are able to telephone Access to Work programme offices (a) in general and (b) to discuss late payment of monthly wages for their support workers.
(215028)
103
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what communication options are offered for claimants to contact Access to Work programme offices.
(215029)
104
N
Mr Jim Murphy
(East Renfrewshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken by a local Access to Work office to process monthly claims from registered disabled persons for wages for their support workers was over the last 12 months.
(215030)
105
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Jobcentre Plus key performance indicators in ensuring jobseekers secure sustainable employment.
(214909)
106
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU countries on the role of people aged over 50 in the EU labour market.
(214910)
107
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on the weekly allowance element of the new enterprise allowance in each month since that scheme's inception.
(214911)
108
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which Work Programme providers have achieved an excellent accreditation through the Merlin Standards since 2012.
(214912)
Notices given on Wednesday 19 November
1
N
Ms Harriet Harman
(Camberwell and Peckham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure that any proposals from the European Commission for reform of the European copyright framework do not undermine the incentive to invest in film and television content in the UK.
[Transferred]
(214930)
2
N
Norman Baker
(Lewes):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people died from the effects of (a) tobacco, (b) alcohol and (c) cannabis in the last year for which figures are available.
[Transferred]
(215053)
3
N
Maria Miller
(Basingstoke):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to mobile telephone companies on their legal obligations in respect of the sending and storing of nude and sexually explicit images of people under the age of 18 by their customers.
[Transferred]
(214929)
4
N
Mr David Ward
(Bradford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce child poverty in Bradford.
[Transferred]
(214973)
5
Andrew Bridgen
(North West Leicestershire):
To ask the Attorney General, what bodies can prosecute without the approval of the Crown Prosecution Service.
(215172)
6
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in the Law Officers' Departments; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215177)
7
Mr Liam Byrne
(Birmingham, Hodge Hill):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the potential effect of the recent changes to the design of patent box as agreed at the recent G20 summit on inward research and development investment.
(215251)
8
Mr Douglas Carswell
(Clacton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of his policies to support small and medium-sized enterprises on businesses in Clacton constituency.
(215147)
9
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215176)
10
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research he has commissioned on the economic loss incurred as a result of the emigration of highly-skilled workers from the UK.
(215135)
11
Mr Mike Hancock
(Portsmouth South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether there is a preferred business which has shown interest in Shipyard Portsmouth following the closure of the period for expressions of interest in acquiring ownership of the shipyard.
(215229)
12
Sir Peter Luff
(Mid Worcestershire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with his Ministerial colleagues on the creation of a new bank holiday on 11 November to honour the armed forces.
(215232)
13
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will confirm whether his Department has conducted a sectoral impact assessment of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on UK business.
(215265)
14
Teresa Pearce
(Erith and Thamesmead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Department for Work and Pensions about the future of the Post Office card account after the current contract ends in March 2015; and when he expects a decision on this matter to be announced.
(215313)
15
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to promote overseas products that have been made in England.
(215156)
16
Mr John Spellar
(Warley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration on the recruitment of seafarers to work on (a) UK flagged and (b) non-UK flagged vessels in the short sea shipping sector.
(215317)
17
Mr William Bain
(Glasgow North East):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate how many (a) men and (b) women in (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employment in each parliamentary constituency earned less than the rate defined by the Living Wage Foundation as a living wage in (A) 2013 and (B) 2014 to date.
(215207)
18
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215178)
19
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men working in the Office of the Prime Minister have made a statutory application to request flexible working; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215321)
20
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of consolidating Government schemes relating to the accreditation of tradespeople.
(215318)
21
Mr Liam Byrne
(Birmingham, Hodge Hill):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential fiscal effect of the changes to the design of patent box as agreed at the recent G20 summit.
(215250)
22
Mr Alan Campbell
(Tynemouth):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Tynemouth constituency paid the top rate of income tax in each of the last five years.
(215256)
23
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215194)
24
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential for UK pension funds to invest in public infrastructure projects.
(215264)
25
Austin Mitchell
(Great Grimsby):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will request the EU's inspection teams to provide details of all preferential tax deals between (a) Luxembourg, (b) the Netherlands and (c) Ireland and multinational corporations which trade in the UK.
(215308)
26
Austin Mitchell
(Great Grimsby):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has made to the government of Luxembourg about that country's tax agreements with multinational corporations who trade in the UK.
(215309)
27
Austin Mitchell
(Great Grimsby):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evidence he has given to the EU inquiry into the extent and means of tax avoidance by multinational corporations through Luxembourg and Ireland.
(215310)
28
Austin Mitchell
(Great Grimsby):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has made to the Irish government about the double-Irish system of reducing the UK tax obligations of multinational corporations.
(215311)
29
Austin Mitchell
(Great Grimsby):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of UK tax revenue foregone as a result of the double-Irish system.
(215312)
30
Mr Andrew Robathan
(South Leicestershire):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance has been issued on the qualifications required to become an ombudsman in the Financial Ombudsman Service.
(215218)
31
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what supply side reforms he is undertaking to encourage investment in start-up technology businesses in the UK.
(215122)
32
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to ensure the sustainability of market towns in the UK.
(215124)
33
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the Japanese recession on the UK economy.
(215130)
34
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of slow economic growth in Europe on the UK.
(215132)
35
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the contribution to the UK economy of the UK music industry in each of the last 10 years.
(215159)
36
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215179)
37
Caroline Dinenage
(Gosport):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to support the work of the UK Men's Sheds Association.
(215138)
38
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses that have relocated to enterprise zones since 2012.
(215263)
39
Mr Nick Raynsford
(Greenwich and Woolwich):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2014 to Question 209429, and the Housing Standards Review Technical Consultation issued in September 2014, if he will make it his policy that a national standard to replace the existing space standards used by local authorities apply to new dwellings created by conversion from other uses under permitted development rights.
[R]
(215249)
40
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of local housing allowance and shared accommodation rate on the density of young people living in houses of multiple occupation in seaside towns.
(215164)
41
Andy Sawford
(Corby):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities he has written to about the frequency of their publications since entry into force of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.
(215230)
42
Sir Andrew Stunell
(Hazel Grove):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations his Department has received on the timing of the introduction of the carbon compliance element of the zero carbon standard for new homes; and if he will make a statement.
(215227)
43
Sir Andrew Stunell
(Hazel Grove):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the evidence he has received on the practicality of introducing the carbon compliance element of the zero carbon standard for new homes in 2016; and if he will make a statement.
(215228)
44
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent conversation he has had with Ofcom on the introduction of a gaining provider-led switching system in the mobile sector.
(215197)
45
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on consumers of the implementation of a gaining provider-led switching system in the mobile sector.
(215198)
46
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to support the introduction of gaining provider-led switching systems since the publication of his Department's report, Connectivity, Content and Consumers in July 2013.
(215247)
47
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215180)
48
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Arts Council England funding was awarded to organisations in (a) the London Borough of Havering, (b) Essex, (c) London and (d) the East of England in each of the last three years.
(215160)
49
Dame Angela Watkinson
(Hornchurch and Upminster):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what access arrangements are in place for broadband subscribers to make complaints via Openreach about poor quality of service.
(215154)
50
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2014 to Question 211635, what progress he has made on reviewing the cost-benefit analysis of the recruitment and training of minors; and when he plans to publish that report.
(215248)
51
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215181)
52
Caroline Dinenage
(Gosport):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the net additional cost of military operations was allocated to Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court in financial year 2012-13.
(215139)
53
Caroline Dinenage
(Gosport):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the net additional cost of military operations allocated to Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court was spent on commissioned treatments and services from private sector healthcare providers in financial year 2012-13.
(215140)
54
Caroline Dinenage
(Gosport):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the net additional cost of military operations allocated to Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court was spent on (a) living and mobility aids and (b) rehabilitation programmes and other associated healthcare services in financial year 2012-13.
(215141)
55
Paul Flynn
(Newport West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page EU 94 of Attachment 1 to the written evidence submitted by the British Pugwash Group, in the Sixth Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Session 2009-10, Global Security: UK-US relations, HC 114, on what occasions and for what purposes US nuclear weapons laboratories have used experimental facilities at the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston to conduct tests that were prohibited in the US.
(215163)
56
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Typhoon aircraft will be equipped with Captor-E scan radar; when he expects the first aircraft equipped with Captor-E scan radar to achieve initial operating capability; how much the Government has spent on developing that radar to date; and what estimate he has made of the total cost to the public purse.
(215199)
57
Angus Robertson
(Moray):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the overall quantitative accident tolerability level for (a) the Tornado GR4, (b) the Typhoon and (c) the nine primary accident sets for each such platform.
(215200)
58
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics since its introduction in 2011; and what the principal policies are that his Department has introduced to improve the wellbeing of Britain's armed forces and veterans since 2010.
(215315)
59
Sammy Wilson
(East Antrim):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of how much his Department has spent on specific steps to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to date.
(215222)
60
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Office; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215182)
61
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215183)
62
Mr Barry Sheerman
(Huddersfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received from (a) education, (b) religious and (c) children's charities or groups on children who are homeschooled.
(215234)
63
Mr Barry Sheerman
(Huddersfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what statistics her Department collects on homeschooled children.
(215261)
64
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools, (c) sixth form colleges and (d) pupil referral units on dealing with (i) racist bullying, (ii) homophobic bullying, (iii) gender-based bullying and (iv) sexual exploitation.
(215257)
65
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people under the age of 18 in (a) the UK, (b) England and Wales, (c) London, (d) each London borough and (e) Streatham constituency have been enrolled at Pupil Referral Units in the latest period for which figures are available; and what proportion of such children have achieved five or more GCSEs.
(215358)
66
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215184)
67
Caroline Flint
(Don Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2014 to Question 198624, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's estimate of wholesale (a) electricity and (b) gas prices in each month between January 2007 and November 2014.
(215252)
68
Caroline Flint
(Don Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2014 to Question 198624, by which process his Department estimates wholesale (a) electricity and (b) gas prices.
(215253)
69
Mr Ben Bradshaw
(Exeter):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what account she takes when deciding on measures to reduce the mortality in bass stocks of the (a) value to the UK economy and the economies of other member states of recreational angling compared to commercial fishing, (b) mortality of bass stocks caused by recreational anglers compared to that caused by commercial fishing and (c) tax receipts from recreational angling compared to those from commercial fisheries.
(215206)
70
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215185)
71
Alison Seabeck
(Plymouth, Moor View):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the UK's annual quota for skate and rays was in each ICES area in each year since 2000; and what the annual take up of the annual allocations by the UK was in each ICES area.
(215166)
72
Sammy Wilson
(East Antrim):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse has been of compensating farmers for TB in their herds in each of the last five years.
(215306)
73
Sammy Wilson
(East Antrim):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of TB in cattle herds on the UK agri-food industry in each of the last five years.
(215307)
74
Mr Gregory Campbell
(East Londonderry):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that UK visitors to Egypt are aware of the dangers of H5N1 bird flu virus.
(215219)
75
Neil Carmichael
(Stroud):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assurances he has had from the US administration about the (a) treatment of remaining prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and (b) efforts to seek the release of Shaker Aamer.
(215169)
76
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215186)
77
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Egypt about freedom of the press in that country.
(215136)
78
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of the situation in Burkina Faso; and what steps he is taking to support a political transition in that country that is based on democratic principles and the rule of law.
(215137)
79
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to inform and advise British citizens who live and work in the United Arab Emirates about failures by the relevant authorities in that country to respond adequately to reports of domestic violence.
(215233)
80
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to safeguard fundamental freedoms of speech, expression and association in (a) Bahrain and (b) the Middle East.
(215305)
81
Gordon Henderson
(Sittingbourne and Sheppey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of a recent bomb attack by Hezbollah against Israeli soldiers on the Lebanon border with Israel.
(215203)
82
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the sustainability of anti-government forces in Syria.
(215129)
83
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of Aleppo falling to pro-government forces in Syria.
(215131)
84
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent the killing of hostages by ISIL.
(215201)
85
Sammy Wilson
(East Antrim):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of how much his Department has spent on specific steps to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to date.
(215224)
86
Mr Gregory Campbell
(East Londonderry):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies he has commissioned on the potential benefits of using dogs to establish early signs of cancer in humans.
(215220)
87
Glyn Davies
(Montgomeryshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients resident in Wales are registered with GPs in England; and how many patients resident in England are registered with GPs in Wales.
(215149)
88
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215187)
89
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to reduce further the rate of smoking, drug use and consumption of alcohol among secondary school pupils.
(215134)
90
Mrs Sharon Hodgson
(Washington and Sunderland West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission research on (a) innovative pathways to diagnose cancer earlier and (b) encouraging the use of such pathways in the NHS.
(215202)
91
Glenda Jackson
(Hampstead and Kilburn):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to support hospital trusts in London to deliver better experience of care for cancer patients; and if he will make a statement.
(215144)
92
Glenda Jackson
(Hampstead and Kilburn):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England is taking to improve the experience of cancer patients from ethnic minorities; and if he will make a statement.
(215145)
93
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs there were in the Hull local authority area in each of the last five years; what the ratio of GPs to population was in that area in those years; and what the ratio of GPs to population was for England in those years.
(215319)
94
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients waited longer than 18 weeks for treatment in hospitals in (a) Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and (b) England.
(215125)
95
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to educate vulnerable people about winter flu jabs; and what he expects the result of those steps to be.
(215127)
96
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of cancer survival in hospitals is in (a) Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and (b) England.
(215158)
97
Sir Bob Russell
(Colchester):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2014 to Question 210999, if he will publish the timetable for his further consideration of the collection of data on people registering as visually impaired who are veterans.
(215161)
98
Sir Bob Russell
(Colchester):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to include an option to identify vision-impaired veterans on the registration document with NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
(215162)
99
Sir Bob Russell
(Colchester):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Department for Education on changes in funding for speech therapy for children; and if he will make a statement.
(215167)
100
Mr Andrew Smith
(Oxford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to impose a statutory obligation on the employers of home care workers to provide free influenza vaccinations to their home care employees.
(215142)
101
Mr Andrew Smith
(Oxford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will require it to be a condition of commissioning home care provision that employers of home care workers pay for influenza vaccinations for their domiciliary workforce.
(215143)
102
Julian Sturdy
(York Outer):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the duties relating to adult social care currently carried out by local authorities that could be transferred to charities in order to increase efficiency and quality of care.
(215170)
103
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned on supporting young people moving from children's to adult's mental health services.
(215357)
104
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the take up of childhood vaccinations in (a) Lambeth, (b) Greater London and (c) the UK for each ethnic group.
(215362)
105
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the take up of childhood vaccinations in (a) Lambeth, (b) Greater London and (c) the UK among those subject to immigration control; and if he will make a statement.
(215363)
106
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the take up of the HPV vaccine in (a) Lambeth, (b) Greater London and (c) the UK for each ethnic group.
(215364)
107
Keith Vaz
(Leicester East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps health and wellbeing boards take to maintain their progress on raising awareness of diabetes.
(215146)
108
Mike Weatherley
(Hove):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of access on the NHS to new treatments for patients with rarer cancers.
(215320)
109
Dr Sarah Wollaston
(Totnes):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to send Regulations on the standardised packaging of cigarettes and tobacco products to the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee.
(215205)
110
Dr Sarah Wollaston
(Totnes):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to make a final decision on whether to proceed with the introduction of the standardised packaging of cigarettes and tobacco products; and if he will make a statement.
(215258)
111
Mr Gregory Campbell
(East Londonderry):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with hon. Members from Sinn Fein and the SDLP on the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland.
(215221)
112
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) target and (b) actual average waiting time for asylum seekers to receive an appointment for an initial screening interview is.
(215259)
113
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215188)
114
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit an adult in England and Wales sending a message with sexual content to a child.
(215133)
115
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil recoveries were aided by the National Crime Agency in each region of the UK in the last 14 months.
(215303)
116
Mr Nigel Dodds
(Belfast North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on the role of the National Crime Agency in tackling organised crime throughout the UK of the UK opting-in to 35 EU crime and justice measures.
(215304)
117
Jason McCartney
(Colne Valley):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what process she plans that businesses will report exploitation in their supply chains as a result of the Modern Slavery Bill.
(215322)
118
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what organisations in the UK have an affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.
(215123)
119
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Life in the UK test reflects contemporary Britain.
(215126)
120
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent incidents have been recorded at border check points in each year since January 2011.
(215155)
121
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police officers there were serving in Greater London in Safer Neighbourhood Teams in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
(215340)
122
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police positions in Greater London were vacant in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
(215341)
123
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police officers there were serving in Lambeth in Safer Neighbourhood Teams in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
(215342)
124
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police positions in Lambeth were vacant in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
(215343)
125
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of knife crime were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in (a) Greater London and (b) Lambeth in each year from 2005 to date.
(215344)
126
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of gun crime were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in (a) Greater London and (b) Lambeth in each year from 2005 to date.
(215345)
127
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department defines gang related incidents when recording incidences; how many incidents of gang related crime were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in (a) Greater London and (b) Lambeth in (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007, (iv) 2008, (v) 2009, (vi) 2010, (vii) 2011, (viii) 2012, (ix) 2013 and (x) 2014.
(215346)
128
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests there have been in (a) Lambeth, (b) Greater London and (c) the UK related to female genital mutilation; and how many such arrests have led to prosecution.
(215347)
129
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the number of arrests and prosecutions related to female genital mutilation.
(215348)
130
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of incidents of female genital mutilation that were carried out on women and girls residing in (a) Lambeth, (b) Greater London and (c) the UK in each of the last three years.
(215349)
131
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support she gives to local authorities to tackle female genital mutilation; and if she will make a statement.
(215350)
132
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support she gives to the police to tackle female genital mutilation; and if she will make a statement.
(215351)
133
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce violence against women and girls in the London Borough of Lambeth; and if she will make a statement.
(215359)
134
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that a multi-agency approach is taken to address gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement.
(215360)
135
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the introduction of (a) time limits on length of stay and (b) quotas for local women within refuges or victims of domestic violence; and if she will make a statement.
(215361)
136
Mr Andrew Turner
(Isle of Wight):
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what the average daily number of letters sent from the House of Commons to each government department is.
(215204)
137
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215189)
138
Sammy Wilson
(East Antrim):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of how much her Department has spent on specific steps to tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to date.
(215223)
139
Mr Alan Campbell
(Tynemouth):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held in HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Swinfen Hall have been diagnosed with (a) ADHD and (b) Asperger's Syndrome.
(215255)
140
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215190)
141
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been reprimanded for accessing the internet without permission in each year since 2011.
(215128)
142
Andrew Rosindell
(Romford):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what has been the cost to the public purse of weddings within UK prisons in each year since January 2011.
(215157)
143
Mr Barry Sheerman
(Huddersfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that quangos comply with freedom of information legislation.
(215262)
144
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of prisoners had mental health difficulties upon arrival in adult prison in each year from 2005 to 2014 to date.
(215352)
145
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people in custody in youth offender institutions had mental health difficulties upon arrival in custody in each year from 2005 to 2014 to date.
(215353)
146
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding his Department has provided to prisons to offer care to prisoners with mental health problems.
(215354)
147
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to ensure prisoners diagnosed with mental health difficulties continue to receive support upon their release from custody; and if he will make a statement.
(215355)
148
Mr Chuka Umunna
(Streatham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to tackle sexual exploitation and sexual offences in (a) adult prisons and (b) youth offender institutions; and if he will make a statement.
(215356)
149
Mr David Ward
(Bradford East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to more effectively regulate claims management companies.
(215148)
150
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215191)
151
Andrew Gwynne
(Denton and Reddish):
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 17 November 2014, Official Report, column 49, what workarounds the Government is proposing so that Argentina can avoid technical default without paying vulture funds in full.
(215171)
152
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215192)
153
Chris Ruane
(Vale of Clwyd):
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what registration rate was achieved by use of (a) Department for Work and Pensions and (b) local authority data matching in the confirmation dry run; and what rate was achieved by using all levels of data matching in the confirmation live run.
(215316)
154
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215193)
155
Paul Maynard
(Blackpool North and Cleveleys):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the minimum manning levels are fore each Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre.
(215225)
156
Paul Maynard
(Blackpool North and Cleveleys):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the minimum manning levels are for the Maritime Operations Centre in Fareham.
(215226)
157
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215195)
158
Ms Diane Abbott
(Hackney North and Stoke Newington):
To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to address the gender pay gap in the financial sector and to increase female representation at board level in FTSE100 companies; and if she will make a statement.
(215168)
159
Mr Alan Campbell
(Tynemouth):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Tynemouth constituency have had income support capped since the introduction of the benefit cap.
(215254)
160
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
(215196)
161
Paul Flynn
(Newport West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department holds details on the total annual value of welfare benefits claimed in each EU member state by British citizens.
(215270)
162
Kate Green
(Stretford and Urmston):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of disabled people who have received assistance under the Access to Work scheme in between receiving a job offer and starting work.
(215231)
163
Kate Green
(Stretford and Urmston):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to monitor the effect on provision of (a) Blue Badges, (b) Carers' Allowance and (c) other interlinked support for people waiting longer than initially planned by his Department for decisions on personal independence payment claims.
(215260)
164
Teresa Pearce
(Erith and Thamesmead):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to reach a decision on the future of the Post Office card account after the current contract ends in March 2015.
(215314)
165
Dr Eilidh Whiteford
(Banff and Buchan):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on jobseekers allowance claimants undertaking a mandatory work activity or community work placement taking paternity leave.
(215266)
166
Dr Eilidh Whiteford
(Banff and Buchan):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants in Scotland since October 2008 were placed in the work-related activity group that had a diagnosis of (a) multiple sclerosis, (b) Parkinson's disease, (c) rheumatoid arthritis, (d) motor neurone disease and (e) cystic fibrosis.
(215267)
167
Dr Eilidh Whiteford
(Banff and Buchan):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Scotland were living in relative poverty and contained at least one person in work in each year since 1997.
(215268)
168
Dr Eilidh Whiteford
(Banff and Buchan):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to accept the invitation to appear before the Scottish parliament's welfare reform committee.
(215269)
Questions for Oral Answer
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
★
1
Toby Perkins
(Chesterfield):
What recent progress he has made on reserve recruitment; and if he will make a statement.
(906178)
★
2
Andrew Bridgen
(North West Leicestershire):
What steps he is taking to protect the pensions of war widows who subsequently remarry or cohabit.
(906179)
★
3
David Rutley
(Macclesfield):
What recent discussions he has had with his Middle East counterparts on steps to counter ISIL.
(906180)
★
4
Thomas Docherty
(Dunfermline and West Fife):
What recent discussions he has had with his Libyan counterpart on bilateral training programmes.
(906181)
★
5
Paul Flynn
(Newport West):
What recent progress has been made on the armed forces drawdown from Afghanistan.
(906182)
★
6
Angie Bray
(Ealing Central and Acton):
What progress he has made on strengthening the Armed Forces Covenant.
(906183)
★
7
Bob Blackman
(Harrow East):
What steps he is taking to promote service in the Army Reserve.
(906184)
★
8
Ian Austin
(Dudley North):
What recent assessment he has made of the level of recruitment to the Army Reserve; and if he will make a statement.
(906185)
★
9
Mr James Gray
(North Wiltshire):
What recent steps the UK has taken against ISIL in Iraq; and if he will make a statement.
(906186)
★
10
Ms Gisela Stuart
(Birmingham, Edgbaston):
When (a) HMS Queen Elizabeth and (b) HMS Prince of Wales will set out to sea under their own power for the first time.
(906187)
★
11
Karl Turner
(Kingston upon Hull East):
What recent assessment he has made of the quality of NHS care for veterans.
(906188)
★
12
Mrs Mary Glindon
(North Tyneside):
What progress he has made on meeting the objectives of the Army 2020 programme; and if he will make a statement.
(906189)
★
13
Stephen McPartland
(Stevenage):
What recent investment he has made in next generation equipment for the armed forces.
(906190)
★
14
Jeremy Lefroy
(Stafford):
What steps his Department is taking to assist those affected by the Ebola outbreak.
(906191)
★
15
Sandra Osborne
(Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock):
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of resources available to process compensation claims for injured armed forces veterans.
(906192)
★
16
Robert Jenrick
(Newark):
What steps he is taking to protect the pensions of war widows who subsequently remarry or cohabit.
(906193)
★
17
Alok Sharma
(Reading West):
What steps he is taking to promote service in the Army Reserve.
(906194)
★
18
Craig Whittaker
(Calder Valley):
What steps his Department is taking to assist those affected by the Ebola outbreak.
(906195)
★
19
Mr Graham Allen
(Nottingham North):
What recent assessment he has made of the situation in Libya and the effects of the Allied military intervention in that country.
(906196)
★
20
Christopher Pincher
(Tamworth):
What progress he has made on strengthening the Armed Forces Covenant.
(906197)
★
21
Pat Glass
(North West Durham):
What assessment he has made of the UK's performance in efforts to tackle ISIL; and if he will make a statement.
(906198)
★
22
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
What recent progress he has made on reserve recruitment; and if he will make a statement.
(906199)
★
23
Mr David Jones
(Clwyd West):
What steps he is taking to assist the Iraqi armed forces in countering ISIL.
(906200)
★
24
Duncan Hames
(Chippenham):
What steps he is taking to improve the Service complaints system.
(906201)
★
25
Mr John Baron
(Basildon and Billericay):
What change there has been in the overall cost of the reforms to the Army Reserve against the initial cost estimate of that programme.
(906202)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★
1
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
(906168)
★
2
Stephen Mosley
(City of Chester):
(906169)
★
3
Debbie Abrahams
(Oldham East and Saddleworth):
(906170)
★
5
David Mowat
(Warrington South):
(906172)
★
6
Mr Barry Sheerman
(Huddersfield):
(906173)
★
7
John Glen
(Salisbury):
(906174)
★
8
Bob Blackman
(Harrow East):
(906175)
★
9
Mr John Baron
(Basildon and Billericay):
(906176)
★
10
Nick de Bois
(Enfield North):
(906177)
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Monday 10 November
1
N
Chris Williamson
(Derby North):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department plans to give to the removal of unexploded remnants of war in civilian areas in Gaza.
(214023)
2
N
Chris Williamson
(Derby North):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what help her Department plans to give to children in Gaza requiring specialised psychosocial support as a result of recent conflict.
(214024)
3
N
Chris Williamson
(Derby North):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance she plans to provide for the reconstruction or repair of schools destroyed or badly damaged in the Gaza conflict.
(214025)
4
N
Chris Williamson
(Derby North):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
(214061)
Notices given on Tuesday 11 November
1
N
Mark Durkan
(Foyle):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how he plans to respond to the OECD's proposals on involvement of low income countries in development of the automatic exchange of tax payer information.
(214411)
2
N
Mark Durkan
(Foyle):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the Base Erosion and Profit Sharing process; and if he will make a statement.
(214412)
Notices given on Monday 17 November
1
N
Guy Opperman
(Hexham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of how many small firms and shops in (a) England and (b) the Northumberland County Council area have been affected by the recent reduction in business rates.
(214717)
2
N
Guy Opperman
(Hexham):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with North East Local Enterprise Partnership on the timing and size of the second phase of Local Growth Deals.
(214612)
3
N
Guy Opperman
(Hexham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on long-term commercial forestry.
(214611)
Notices given on Tuesday 18 November
1
N
Graham Stringer
(Blackley and Broughton):
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will estimate the amount of carbon emitted to the UK atmosphere by subsidised generation of (a) heat by biomass boilers and (b) electricity by biomass power stations in the last 30 years.
(214933)
2
N
Stuart Andrew
(Pudsey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in training every GP and GP nurse in child physical and mental health.
(214998)
3
N
Stuart Andrew
(Pudsey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to introduce a named doctor or health professional for every child with a long-term condition.
(214999)
4
N
Stuart Andrew
(Pudsey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will extend the patient survey of young people in inpatient settings to cover outpatient and community settings.
(215000)
5
N
Stuart Andrew
(Pudsey):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will develop a Mortality Plan aimed at reducing the number of preventable child deaths in England.
(215001)
6
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations or reports his Department has received from the (a) Caxton Foundation, (b) Macfarlane Trust and (c) Eileen Trust or those organisations' trustees on (i) the needs of their beneficiaries, (ii) the support available to trust beneficiaries and (iii) the take-up of discretionary and non-discretionary support.
(214995)
7
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many lump sum payments of £43,500 (a) have been made by MFET Ltd and (b) were made by MSPT1 and MSPT2 to the estates of people who contracted HIV following treatment with NHS blood products but who died before the lump sum payments scheme was established.
(214996)
8
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, before what date a person infected with HIV has to have received treatment with NHS blood products in order to qualify for registration with (a) MFET Ltd and (b) the Eileen Trust.
(214997)
Notices given on Wednesday 19 November
1
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all open individual export licences with Qatar in force in the last 12 months.
(215272)
2
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all open individual export licences with Kuwait in force in the last 12 months.
(215273)
3
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all standard individual export licences with Qatar in force in the last 12 months.
(215274)
4
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all standard individual export licences with Kuwait in force in the last 12 months.
(215275)
5
N
Gloria De Piero
(Ashfield):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been (a) committed to and (b) spent in each parliamentary constituency in England through the Regional Growth Fund in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013 and (v) 2014 to date.
(215216)
6
N
Sir Oliver Heald
(North East Hertfordshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to help young people develop pre-employment and basic skills to help them into work; and if he will make a statement.
(215215)
7
N
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU member states on the proposed disputes procedure in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
(215292)
8
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the rate of (a) employment and (b) unemployment is for people aged (i) 50, (ii) 51, (iii) 52, (iv) 53, (v) 54, (vi) 55, (vii) 56, (viii) 57, (ix) 58, (x) 59, (xi) 60, (xii) 61, (xiii) 62, (xiv) 63, (xv) 64 and (xvi) 65.
(215277)
9
N
Lilian Greenwood
(Nottingham South):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 213271, what the estimated cost to the Exchequer in the calendar year 2015 will be of (a) raising regulated national rail fares by the retail price index (RPI), (b) raising Transport for London rail fares by RPI and (c) removing train operators' flexibility to vary regulated fare levels within the basket of fares.
(215333)
10
N
Charlotte Leslie
(Bristol North West):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will have discussions with representatives of the banking sector on the possibility of instituting a system whereby registered charities would be entitled to preferential interest rates on (a) borrowing and (b) investments.
(215210)
11
N
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the infrastructure projects prequalified under the UK Guarantees scheme have received financing since the inception of that scheme.
(215290)
12
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.144 of the Budget report 2014, when he plans to consult on measures to strengthen the Government's response to tobacco smuggling and improve anti-forestalling controls.
(215150)
13
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.140, page 75, of the Budget Report 2014, HC1104, what progress he has made on (a) introducing a registration scheme for alcohol wholesalers by 2016 and (b) requiring traders to take reasonable steps to ensure their customers are legitimate by the end of 2014.
(215325)
14
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.140, page 75, of the Budget Report 2014, HC1104, whether he expects the registration scheme for alcohol wholesalers to take effect by 2016; and whether he plans to introduce legislative proposals for that scheme in the 2015 Finance Bill.
(215326)
15
N
Catherine McKinnell
(Newcastle upon Tyne North):
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to pages 31 to 36 of HM Revenue and Customs' publication Measuring tax gaps 2014 edition, October 2014, what steps he has taken to reduce the alcohol tax gap since 2012-13.
(215365)
16
N
Daniel Kawczynski
(Shrewsbury and Atcham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, under what criteria and procedures on hon. Member can seek reference to the Secretary of State of a planning application that has been rejected by a planning authority.
(215239)
17
N
Daniel Kawczynski
(Shrewsbury and Atcham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information he holds on when Shropshire Unity Authority will be in a position to ban an agreed five year land supply.
(215240)
18
N
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs created in Enterprise Zones since 2012.
(215291)
19
N
Sir Oliver Heald
(North East Hertfordshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the speed of delivery of superfast broadband to rural areas in East Hertfordshire.
(215209)
20
N
Helen Jones
(Warrington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the amount of arts funding per head spent in (a) London and (b) the North-West; and what discussions he has had with arts organisations on ensuring balance in spending between those regions.
(215237)
21
N
Stephen Barclay
(North East Cambridgeshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Qatari defence companies in each of the last four years.
(215271)
22
N
Mr Christopher Chope
(Christchurch):
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the Government plans to publish its response to the McKay Commission report; and if he will make a statement.
(215242)
23
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to her Department was of the Bailey Review on the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood.
(215282)
24
N
Kevin Brennan
(Cardiff West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the payment of maintained school business managers on the senior leadership pay spine; and if she will make a statement.
(215217)
25
N
Helen Jones
(Warrington North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of university technical colleges on the (a) funding available and (b) courses which can be offered in (i) local schools and (ii) local further education colleges; and if she will make a statement.
(215211)
26
N
Chi Onwurah
(Newcastle upon Tyne Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to ensure consistency between marking and remarking of A levels; and what recourse is available to students who have missed out on university places due to variable grade marking.
(215238)
27
N
Guto Bebb
(Aberconwy):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received about Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's nine point plan for the destruction of Israel.
(215151)
28
N
Guto Bebb
(Aberconwy):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the prospect of Iran neutralising its stockpile of 20 per cent enriched uranium.
(215336)
29
N
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
(Na h-Eileanan an Iar):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to Tanzania and Dubai to prevent the expropriation of traditional Masai land in Tanzania for a big game hunting reserve for the Royal Family of Dubai.
(215298)
30
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which (a) accident and emergency departments, (b) NHS trusts, (c) NHS foundation trusts and (d) mental health trusts he has visited in an official capacity in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15 to date.
(215280)
31
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to Question 213815, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the proportion of eligible discharges which are not followed up within seven days.
(215281)
32
N
Luciana Berger
(Liverpool, Wavertree):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which medical professionals are required to undergo re-certification or re-validation; and how often each such group of professionals are required to undergo such re-certification or re-validation.
(215332)
33
N
Annette Brooke
(Mid Dorset and North Poole):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS patients were prescribed off-patent drugs outside their licensed indications in (a) 2013, (b) 2012 and (c) 2011.
(215214)
34
N
Annette Brooke
(Mid Dorset and North Poole):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consultation with GPs he undertook when developing his position on the Off-patent Drugs Bill.
(215338)
35
N
Mr Christopher Chope
(Christchurch):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that a sufficient number of clinical psychologists is available to meet the needs of the NHS.
(215241)
36
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) consultants, (b) registrars, (c) other doctors and (d) nurse practitioners were employed in accident and emergency roles by Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust in each of the last five years.
(215329)
37
N
Charlotte Leslie
(Bristol North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether guidance has been issued to NHS trusts on the provision of Doppler scans to all pregnant women; and how many NHS hospitals routinely provide Doppler scans to pregnant women.
(215323)
38
N
Charlotte Leslie
(Bristol North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the research carried out by Professor Kypros Nicolaides into Doppler scans and their potential to cut the number of stillbirths; and if he will make a statement.
(215324)
39
N
Mr David Nuttall
(Bury North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the debate on the Second Reading of the Off-patent Drugs Bill on 7 November 2014, Official Report, column 1124, what the evidential basis was of his statement that the resorting to legislation to demand regulatory measures carries the risk of some serious and unintended consequences.
(215337)
40
N
Mr Andrew Turner
(Isle of Wight):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS (a) has spent and (b) plans to spend on Ebola in (i) Sierra Leone, (ii) the UK and (iii) elsewhere in this financial year.
(215174)
41
N
Mr Tom Watson
(West Bromwich East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the safety of the anti-bacterial agent Tricolsan; if he will place in the Library copies of reports his Department has received on the safety of this chemical in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
(215165)
42
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department were employed in non-frontline roles in each of the last five years.
(215331)
43
N
Mr David Jones
(Clwyd West):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on issuing visas to the 17 residents of Camp Liberty, Iraq, whose admission to the UK has been agreed in principle by the Government.
(215153)
44
N
Jim Shannon
(Strangford):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of sexual abuse against children and young people have been reported to police in each of the last five years.
(215208)
45
N
Mr Andrew Turner
(Isle of Wight):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under the age of 16 were victims of sexual offences in each county in the last year for which figures are available.
(215152)
46
N
Mr Andrew Turner
(Isle of Wight):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from which countries from outside the UK have been granted UK citizenship in the last five years.
(215213)
47
N
Mr Andrew Turner
(Isle of Wight):
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under 16 have been convicted of a sexual offence in each police authority in the most recent year available.
(215366)
48
N
Mr Andrew Turner
(Isle of Wight):
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department (a) has spent and (b) plans to spend on Ebola in (i) Sierra Leone, (ii) the UK and (iii) elsewhere in this financial year.
(215173)
49
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many officials from his Department are working on the Youth Offending Team Stock Take announced by the Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation on 17 November 2014.
(215235)
50
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which youth offending teams will be included in the sample that will be the focus of the fieldwork carried out for the Youth Offending Team Stock Take announced by the Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation on 17 November 2014.
(215236)
51
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2014 to Question 211583, who the advisers to the review of veterans in the criminal justice system are.
(215243)
52
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2014 to Question 213434, which individual ethnic group made up the proportion of black, Asian and minority ethnic offenders in youth custody in each year since May 2010.
(215244)
53
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2014 to Question 213434, what the (a) average number and (b) proportion of Black and minority ethnic offenders in youth custody was in each (i) young offenders' institution, (ii) secure training centre and (c) secure children's home in each year since May 2010.
(215299)
54
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish the results of the youth offending team stock take announced by the Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation on 17 November 2014; and if he will make a statement.
(215327)
55
N
Dan Jarvis
(Barnsley Central):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what budget his Department has allocated to the youth offending team stock take announced by the Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation on 17 November 2014.
(215328)
56
N
Diana Johnson
(Kingston upon Hull North):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost of enabling vitims of human trafficking to access legal aid in each of the last three years.
(215330)
57
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he next plans to visit (a) the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey and (b) other Crown Dependencies; and if he will make a statement.
(215245)
58
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
(Dwyfor Meirionnydd):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to send an external observer to Sark for the Chief Pleas election on 10 December 2014.
(215246)
59
N
Jessica Morden
(Newport East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which proceeding types are recorded on the Legal Aid Agency's IT systems for recording applications for civil legal aid.
(215212)
60
N
Mr Gordon Marsden
(Blackpool South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with (a) port operators and (b) relevant trade unions since the meeting of the Council of Ministers to discuss the proposed European Port Services Regulations on 8 October 2014.
(215293)
61
N
Mr Gordon Marsden
(Blackpool South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what bilateral discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU member states on the proposed European Port Services Regulations since the meeting of the Council of Ministers on 8 October 2014.
(215294)
62
N
Mr Gordon Marsden
(Blackpool South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the possible scope of any exemption for UK competitive ports from the proposed European Port Services Regulations.
(215295)
63
N
Mr Gordon Marsden
(Blackpool South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proposals the Government has drawn up to apply for an exemption for competitive UK ports from the proposed European Port Services Regulations.
(215296)
64
N
Mr Gordon Marsden
(Blackpool South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with representatives of the European Commission on the prospects of the UK receiving an exemption for competitive domestic ports from the proposed European Port Services Regulations.
(215297)
65
N
Jessica Morden
(Newport East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the Severn bridges to return to public ownership.
(215335)
66
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the implementation of the introduction of fees for employment tribunals.
(215285)
67
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of whether tribunal fees are deterring legitimate claims being made.
(215286)
68
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the change in the number of employment tribunal claims by women was between 2012 and 2013.
(215287)
69
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the change in the number of employment tribunal claims by people with disabilities was between 2012 and 2013.
(215288)
70
N
Mr Jim Cunningham
(Coventry South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the change in the number of employment tribunal claims for redundancy was between 2012 and 2013.
(215289)
71
N
Kate Green
(Stretford and Urmston):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme, whether he intends to publish the proportion which the levy represents of the total employers' liability gross written premium.
(215283)
72
N
Kate Green
(Stretford and Urmston):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he intends to use his powers under section 13, sub-section 2(b) of the Mesothelioma Act 2014 to reduce the total amount of the first levy on relevant active issuers designed to meet the costs of the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme.
(215284)
73
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Jobcentre Plus advisers was from a black and minority ethnic group in each of the last five years.
(215276)
74
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the rise in long-term unemployment for 18 to 24 year olds shown in the labour market statistics on 12 November 2014; and if he will make a statement.
(215278)
75
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre Plus staff were promoted to a higher grade in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
(215279)
76
N
Stephen Timms
(East Ham):
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total amount of benefit withheld as a result of benefit sanctions in each of the last 10 years was.
(215334)
Questions for Oral Answer
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
★
1
Andrew Bridgen
(North West Leicestershire):
What steps he is taking to deliver parity of esteem for mental health services.
(906218)
★
2
Kerry McCarthy
(Bristol East):
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of student health services.
(906219)
★
3
Grahame M. Morris
(Easington):
What representations he has received on exemption of the NHS from the provisions of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
(906220)
★
4
Mr Philip Hollobone
(Kettering):
How many patient episodes there were at Kettering General Hospital in (a) 2010 and (b) the last year for which figures are available; and what assessment he has made of the reasons for the change in the number of such episodes.
(906221)
★
5
Norman Baker
(Lewes):
What recent assessment he has made of the potential medicinal benefits of cannabis.
(906222)
★
6
Laura Sandys
(South Thanet):
What research his Department has commissioned on links between air pollution and ill health.
(906223)
★
7
David T. C. Davies
(Monmouth):
How many patients have received treatment through the Cancer Drugs Fund since the inception of that fund.
(906224)
★
8
John Robertson
(Glasgow North West):
Whether the Government has made a final decision on whether to introduce standardised packaging of tobacco products.
(906225)
★
9
Andrew Stephenson
(Pendle):
What steps his Department is taking to accelerate access to innovative medicine and healthcare technology in the NHS.
(906226)
★
10
Mark Durkan
(Foyle):
What recent representations he has received on access to off-patent drugs; and if he will make a statement.
(906227)
★
11
Mr David Crausby
(Bolton North East):
How many (a) NHS trusts and (b) foundation trusts are forecasting a deficit.
(906228)
★
12
Eric Ollerenshaw
(Lancaster and Fleetwood):
Whether it remains the policy of the Cancer Drugs Fund to provide drugs which NICE has rejected for general use in the NHS.
(906229)
★
13
Lorraine Fullbrook
(South Ribble):
What progress has been made in improving access to GPs.
(906230)
★
14
David Tredinnick
(Bosworth):
What steps he is taking to increase patient choice.
(906231)
★
15
Alec Shelbrooke
(Elmet and Rothwell):
What steps his Department has taken to measure and improve patient experience and compassionate care.
(906232)
★
16
Graham Evans
(Weaver Vale):
What progress his Department has made on establishing independent ratings for care homes and GP surgeries.
(906233)
★
17
Mr Gareth Thomas
(Harrow West):
What plans he has to reduce the number of patients attending A&E departments.
(906234)
★
18
Chi Onwurah
(Newcastle upon Tyne Central):
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of child and adolescent mental health services.
(906235)
★
19
Mr Graham Allen
(Nottingham North):
If he will commission a prevalence study on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
(906236)
★
20
Mark Menzies
(Fylde):
What steps his Department is taking to accelerate access to innovative medicine and healthcare technology in the NHS.
(906237)
★
21
Dr Sarah Wollaston
(Totnes):
If he will take steps to reduce the use of police cells for the assessment of people who are detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
(906238)
★
22
Mr Adrian Sanders
(Torbay):
What proportion of people with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes were offered access to diabetes education courses in the last year for which figures are available.
(906239)
★
23
Roberta Blackman-Woods
(City of Durham):
What plans he has to reduce the number of patients attending A&E departments.
(906240)
★
24
Bob Stewart
(Beckenham):
What steps his Department has taken to check on the health of service personnel who were wounded or hurt in the Second World War and subsequent conflicts.
(906241)
★
25
Charlotte Leslie
(Bristol North West):
What steps he is taking to improve recruitment of GPs.
(906242)
At 12.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★
1
Yasmin Qureshi
(Bolton South East):
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
(906243)
★
2
Sarah Newton
(Truro and Falmouth):
(906244)
★
3
Alex Cunningham
(Stockton North):
(906245)
★
4
Hugh Bayley
(York Central):
(906246)
★
5
Ann Coffey
(Stockport):
(906247)
★
6
Eric Ollerenshaw
(Lancaster and Fleetwood):
(906248)
★
7
David Rutley
(Macclesfield):
(906249)
★
8
Charlie Elphicke
(Dover):
(906250)
★
9
Sir Alan Beith
(Berwick-upon-Tweed):
(906251)
★
10
Mr Ben Bradshaw
(Exeter):
(906252)
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Monday 17 November
1
N
Sir Greg Knight
(East Yorkshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on the level of salaries paid to local authority chief executives; what guidance his Department gives to local councils on that matter; what measures are in place to prevent excessive salaries being paid by local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
(214718)
2
N
Robert Jenrick
(Newark):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the Arts Council funding allocated to Nottinghamshire has been spent in each of the last five years.
(214719)
3
N
Sir Greg Knight
(East Yorkshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what Arts Council funding has been allocated to East Yorkshire constituency in each of the last five years; and for what projects such funding was allocated.
(214666)
4
N
Dr Julian Lewis
(New Forest East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's announcement of 8 November 2014, on pensions of surviving spouses and civil partners of personnel, whether the widows of military personnel killed on duty who have previously lost their military pensions as a result of cohabiting will have such pensions restored if they cease cohabiting; and if he will make a statement.
(214644)
5
N
Dr Julian Lewis
(New Forest East):
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's announcement of 8 November 2014, on pensions of surviving spouses and civil partners of personnel, whether war widows who have had their military pensions restored on ceasing to cohabit will retain their restored pensions if they then begin cohabiting (a) with a new partner and (b) with a previous partner; and if he will make a statement.
(214645)
6
N
Sir Greg Knight
(East Yorkshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to install lighting on further sections of the M1 motorway; and if he will make a statement.
(214664)
7
N
Sir Greg Knight
(East Yorkshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reason is for the current roadworks on the M1 motorway south of junction 19; and when he expects those works to be completed and all carriageways open.
(214665)
Notices given on Wednesday 19 November
1
N
Bridget Phillipson
(Houghton and Sunderland South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014 to Question 209520, how many representations he has received on the court reform programme.
(215300)
2
N
Bridget Phillipson
(Houghton and Sunderland South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014 to Question 207412, if he will place in the Library the plans, blueprints and all associated documents relating to the purchase of land and the construction of a new court for Sunderland.
(215301)
3
N
Bridget Phillipson
(Houghton and Sunderland South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2014 to Question 209524, on courts: buildings, what his Department plans to spend on the package of investment in each of the last five years from 2015-16.
(215302)
4
N
Bridget Phillipson
(Houghton and Sunderland South):
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many officials in his Department are assigned to the court reform programme.
(215339)
Questions for Oral Answer
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
★
1
Guy Opperman
(Hexham):
If he will give guidance to the Smith Commission on ensuring that its proposals do not hamper cross-border trade with the North of England.
(906203)
★
2
Mrs Anne McGuire
(Stirling):
What recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on shipbuilding on the Clyde.
(906204)
★
3
Jim McGovern
(Dundee West):
What steps he is taking to encourage firms in Scotland to pay the living wage.
(906205)
★
4
John Stevenson
(Carlisle):
When he expects the Smith Commission to publish its report; and what steps are planned to implement its findings.
(906206)
★
5
Tom Greatrex
(Rutherglen and Hamilton West):
What assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of superfast broadband services in Scotland.
(906207)
★
6
Mark Menzies
(Fylde):
When he expects the Smith Commission to publish its report; and what steps are planned to implement its findings.
(906208)
★
7
Ann McKechin
(Glasgow North):
What progress has been made on the implementation of a Scottish rate of income tax; and if he will make a statement.
(906209)
★
8
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
(Na h-Eileanan an Iar):
What recent discussions he has has with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the benefits to Scotland of migrant workers.
(906210)
★
9
Ian Murray
(Edinburgh South):
What steps he is taking to encourage firms in Scotland to pay the living wage.
(906211)
★
10
Mr Graham Allen
(Nottingham North):
What recent discussions he has had on the potential effect on England of further devolution in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
(906212)
★
11
Sir Alan Beith
(Berwick-upon-Tweed):
If he will take steps to encourage cross-border co-operation in health services.
(906213)
★
12
Mark Lazarowicz
(Edinburgh North and Leith):
If he will bring forward proposals for secondary legislation to devolve further powers on road traffic matters to the Scottish Government.
(906214)
★
13
Michael Connarty
(Linlithgow and East Falkirk):
What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on devolution of powers of consent for fracking.
(906215)
★
14
Mary Macleod
(Brentford and Isleworth):
What estimate he has made of likely changes in the number of workless households in Scotland in the next five years.
(906216)
★
15
Mr Andrew Turner
(Isle of Wight):
What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the effect on island communities of Road Equivalent Tariffs on ferry services.
(906217)
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Tuesday 18 November
1
N
Sir Greg Knight
(East Yorkshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the scope and range of the business interests and landholdings of local authorities; and if he will introduce restrictions on the scope of acquisition, expenditure and activity by local authorities in areas which bear no relation to their functions.
(214934)
2
N
Greg Mulholland
(Leeds North West):
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had about democratic reform in the United Arab Emirates.
(214857)
3
N
Sir Greg Knight
(East Yorkshire):
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of pedal cyclists ignoring traffic lights and committing other road offences; and if he will make a statement.
(214935)
Notices given on Wednesday 19 November
1
N
Mr John Denham
(Southampton, Itchen):
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of (a) men and (b) women in (i) full-time and (ii) part-time work in each (A) local authority area and (B) parliamentary constituency earning less than the living wage.
(215175)
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Monday 17 November
1
N
Ian Swales
(Redcar):
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that off-patent bisphosphonate drugs are made routinely available for the new indication of preventing breast cancer spreading to the bone.
(214720)