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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Monday 1 December 2014

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Friday 28 November 2014

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Monday 1 December 2014

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

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

Monday 1 December  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
 
★ 1
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): What steps the Government is taking to (a) highlight to young people the benefits of working in the logistics sector and (b) provide teaching in the necessary skills for work in that sector.
    (906328)
★ 3
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): What progress she has made on reducing pupil absence from schools.
    (906330)
★ 4
Stephen Timms (East Ham): What recent discussions she has had with the CBI on careers education in schools.
    (906331)
★ 6
Neil Carmichael (Stroud): What steps she is taking to promote the study of STEM subjects at school.
    (906333)
★ 7
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): What steps her Department is taking to help more schools offer nursery classes.
    (906334)
★ 8
Ann Coffey (Stockport): What recent assessment she has made of the vulnerability of children missing from school and home to child sexual exploitation.
    (906335)
★ 9
Simon Wright (Norwich South): What steps she has taken to ensure that the best school leaders are recruited to work in the most challenging schools.
    (906336)
★ 10
Ian Austin (Dudley North): What steps she is taking to ensure that more apprenticeships are available for 16 to 18-year-olds.
    (906337)
★ 11
Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): What assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing nursery schools to become academies.
    (906338)
★ 12
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): If she will make an assessment of the public benefit contributed by schools in the private sector.
    (906339)
★ 13
Andrew George (St Ives): When she plans to announce the outcome of the next phase of the Priority School Building Programme.
    (906340)
★ 14
Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): What recent assessment she has made of the performance of free schools.
    (906341)
★ 15
Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley): When she plans to announce the successful applicants for the Priority Schools Building Programme 2.
    (906342)
★ 16
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): What steps she is taking to ensure that local authorities recruit and retain an adequate number of qualified children and families social workers.
    (906343)
★ 17
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): What steps her Department is taking to make additional resources available to schools in areas that experience high levels of in-year admissions.
    (906344)
★ 18
Mr Robin Walker (Worcester): What progress she has made on reducing pupil absence from schools.
    (906345)
★ 19
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): What progress her Department has made on ensuring that children's centres have access to live birth data for their catchment areas.
    (906346)
★ 20
John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead): What recent representations she has received on the National Audit Office's report, Academies and maintained schools: oversight and intervention, published on 30th October 2014, HC 721; and if she will make a statement.
    (906347)
★ 21
Duncan Hames (Chippenham): What additional capital funding she plans to make available to help schools provide free hot meals to all infant pupils.
    (906348)
★ 22
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): What support her Department has made available to small primary schools for providing free school meals.
    (906349)
★ 23
Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): What steps she is taking to ensure that schools have policies in place for identifying and supporting young carers.
    (906350)
★ 24
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East): What recent assessment she has made of trends in the cost of nursery care.
    (906351)
★ 25
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): What recent assessment she has made of the performance of free schools.
    (906352)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Education
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Gareth Johnson (Dartford): If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
    (906318)
★ 2
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East):  
    (906319)
★ 3
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire):  
    (906320)
★ 4
Nick de Bois (Enfield North):  
    (906321)
★ 6
Julie Hilling (Bolton West):  
    (906323)
★ 7
David Mowat (Warrington South):  
    (906324)
★ 9
Stephen Timms (East Ham):  
    (906326)
★ 10
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North):  
    (906327)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 25 November

1
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is providing to the Your Life campaign promoting take-up of maths and science subjects.
    (906332)
2
N
Guy Opperman (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department expects the refurbishment of Ovingham Bridge in Hexham constituency to be finished; and if he will publish a stage by stage assessment of likely progress points.
    (215833)

Notices given on Wednesday 26 November

1
N
Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many children under the age of three died from entanglement in looped blind cords in the UK in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013.
    (216237)
2
N
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to increase the level of access to credit to businesses in Gillingham and Rainham constituency in the last 12 months.
    (216025)
3
N
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to support small and medium-sized businesses in Gillingham and Rainham constituency.
    (216026)
4
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions the Minister for Universities has had with the Welsh Government Minister for Education on tackling extremism and radicalisation in universities; and what plans he has to meet his counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss tackling extremism and radicalisation in universities across the UK.
    (216009)
5
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will have discussions with representatives of the construction industry on their use of umbrella companies; and if he will make a statement.
    (216035)
6
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library (a) a copy of the minutes and (b) a list of attendees of the meeting between the Prime Minister and Big Society Network that was held in July 2013.
    (216081)
7
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Report by Geoff Mulgan published on 21 August 2014 on NESTA support for the Big Society Network, when he was first made aware of NESTA's concerns about the capacity of the Big Society Network team, the gap between ambition and capability and the Big Society Network's relative newness as an organisation.
    (216084)
8
N
Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Government has spent on advertising campaigns aimed at reducing tax evasion and tax avoidance since 2010.
    (216054)
9
N
Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of tax avoidance and tax evasion.
    (216055)
10
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will respond to the letter of 17 November 2014 from the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton.
    (216083)
11
N
Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the tax revenues lost from the use of umbrella companies in the construction industry; and if he will make a statement.
    (216034)
12
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with Ministers of the Welsh Government on tackling extremism; and what plans he has to meet his counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss tackling extemism across the UK.
    (216130)
13
N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new houses are (a) being built and (b) projected to be built in the next 12 months in Lancaster district.
    (216128)
14
N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in Lancaster district live in private rented accommodation.
    (216129)
15
N
Guy Opperman (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish housing projections for 2012; and what those projections were for (a) Northumberland and (b) Ponteland.
    (216135)
16
N
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which parliamentary constituencies he has visited in an official capacity in 2014.
    (216176)
17
N
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the National Audit Office report, Financial sustainability of local authorities, published on 19 November 2014.
    (216230)
18
N
Andy Sawford (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take in response to the National Audit Office report, Financial sustainability of local authorities, published on 19 November 2014.
    (216238)
19
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support the Government has offered to the Woodland Trust for its tree-planting campaign to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
    (216119)
20
N
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many instances of fouling from abandoned or lost fishing gear affecting Royal Navy ships there have been in (a) UK or (b) non-UK waters in the last two years; how many operational days have been lost from (i) ship and (ii) personnel activities as a result of those instances; and what estimate he has made of the cost of the (A) loss of operational activity and (B) repairs as a result of those instances.
    (216042)
21
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason there is a 15-day turnaround period for her private office to respond to urgent requests from hon. Members for a meeting with her.
    (216224)
22
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with the Welsh Government Minister for Education on tackling extremism and radicalisation in schools; and whether she plans to meet her counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss tackling extremism and radicalisation.
    (216024)
23
N
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) schools and (b) academies have established sixth forms since January 2014; and how much (i) revenue and (ii) capital funding has been allocated to those sixth forms.
    (216125)
24
N
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) start-up, (b) revenue and (c) capital funding has been allocated to 16 to 19 academies and free schools that have opened since January 2014.
    (216126)
25
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much extra funding, over and above that provided to school sixth forms, her Department provides to sixth form colleges to cover their VAT costs.
    (216159)
26
N
Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that energy companies offering tariffs with an inbuilt charitable commitment pay both the additional payment and any interest accumulated to the charity concerned.
    (216039)
27
N
Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the value was of charitable donations made through energy bill tariffs in 2013.
    (216040)
28
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2014 to Question 214810, what steps he plans to take to encourage his Department's contractors to purchase Monckton Coke through the British Coal Concessionary Fuel Scheme; and if he will take steps to enable future purchases of that fuel to be brought forward.
    (216227)
29
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what change there has been in air quality in each UK city with a population in excess of 300,000 from 1994 to 2014.
    (216120)
30
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding her Department has allocated for implementing the Lancashire and Blackpool local flood risk management strategy; and whether any of that funding is ring-fenced for dredging in West Lancashire constituency.
    (216236)
31
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to improve the quality of the rivers Beane and Mimram; and if she will make a statement.
    (216087)
32
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of the WWF-UK report, The state of England's chalk streams, published in November 2014; and if she will make a statement.
    (216160)
33
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to publish its response to the consultation it launched on 22 July 2014 regarding the secondary legislation for the flood reinsurance (Flood Re) scheme.
    (216158)
34
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts at the UN about the persecution of Christians in other countries; and if he will make a statement.
    (216225)
35
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Burmese government about its Rakhine State Action Plan.
    (216011)
36
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of political prisoners in Burmese prisons.
    (216060)
37
N
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Burmese government on its decision not to change the constitution of that country until after the general election in 2015.
    (216157)
38
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide incentives to GPs to (a) promote keeping people in work and (b) help patients return to work after illness.
    (216028)
39
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) proportion and (b) number of GPs has completed the National Education Programme on Health at Work organised by the Royal College of GPs.
    (216134)
40
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the shortage of the BCG vaccine on the incidence of tuberculosis (a) worldwide and (b) in the UK.
    (216171)
41
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to make available alternative forms of bladder cancer treatment for patients who are affected by the shortage of the BCG vaccine.
    (216172)
42
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of patients whose treatment for bladder cancer will be affected by the shortage of the BCG vaccine; and what information has been provided to those patients.
    (216173)
43
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any patients currently receiving BCG treatment for bladder cancer have had their treatment suspended because of a shortage of vaccine supplies.
    (216174)
44
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to reply to the letter of 31 October 2014 from the right hon. Member for Exeter about the NHS in Devon.
    (216013)
45
N
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapies in (a) Gillingham and Rainham constituency, (b) Medway and (c) England.
    (216123)
46
N
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Gillingham and Rainham constituency, (b) Medway and (c) England has been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
    (216124)
47
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) do not inherit budget deficits when taking responsibility for commissioning or co-commissioning specialised services and (b) existing healh services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups are not adversely affected by the additional specialised services responsibilities of CCGs.
    (216131)
48
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will request that the Health Protection Agency undertakes an assessment of the effects on public health of modern hazardous waste sites and the materials put to landfill in those sites.
    (216132)
49
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether additional funding for running costs is provided to clinical commissioning groups given additional responsibilities for the commissioning or co-commissioning of specialised services.
    (216233)
50
N
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions for (a) Pregabalin and (b) Gabapentin were issued in each English local authority in each of the last five years.
    (216045)
51
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans NHS England has to ensure GP services in Buntingford expand in line with the increases in population as a result of new and proposed housing developments.
    (216027)
52
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the redevelopment of Royston Hospital; and if he will make a statement.
    (216044)
53
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for an appointment with child and adolescent mental health services in Warrington; and how many people referred have been waiting for treatment (a) more than three months and (b) more than six months.
    (216041)
54
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2014 to Question 215109, on which page of the NCA's Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2013 the information requested in the original Question relating to Politically Exposed Persons is given.
    (216241)
55
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2014 to Question 215111, on which page of the NCA's Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2013 the information requested in the original Question relating to consent is given.
    (216242)
56
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2014 to Question 215112, on which page of the NCA's Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2013 the information requested in the original Question relating to Politically Exposed Persons is given.
    (216243)
57
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2014 to Question 215108, on which page of the NCA's Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2013 the information requested in the original Question relating to consent is given.
    (216244)
58
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the National Crime Agency is making on preventing illegal wildlife trade over the internet.
    (216121)
59
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process is in place for triggering a review of the Shortage Occupation List insofar as it relates to the overhead line worker sector.
    (216234)
60
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons were for the voltage restriction placed on the overhead lineworkers category on the Shortage Occupation List by the Migration Advisory Committee in its review published in February 2013; what organisations gave evidence on the restriction of the category to high voltage workers; and what organisations were invited to give evidence on that restriction.
    (216235)
61
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last held discussions with Welsh Government Ministers regarding tackling extremism; and whether she plans to have further meetings with her counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss tackling extremism.
    (216023)
62
N
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which community and voluntary sector organisations are engaged with the Channel deradicalisation programme.
    (216033)
63
N
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been engaged with the National Offender Management Service deradicalisation programme in each of the last five years.
    (216154)
64
N
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget is of the National Offender Management Service deradicalisation programme.
    (216155)
65
N
Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the National Offender Management Service deradicalisation programme.
    (216156)
66
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by what date he has asked officials carrying out the Youth Offending Team Stock Take announced on 17 November 2014 to report.
    (216136)
67
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria will be used to decide which youth offending team will be assessed as part of the fieldwork for the Youth Offending Team Stock Take announced by the Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation on 17 November 2014.
    (216228)
68
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the job titles of each official from his Department with responsibility for carrying out the fieldwork for the Youth Offending Team Stock Take announced by the Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation on 17 November 2014.
    (216229)
69
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in (a) the North West and (b) Warrington entered sex discrimination claims at an employment tribunal in the (i) 12 months before and (ii) following the increase in fees in 2013.
    (216133)
70
N
Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on use of the Welsh language in civil proceedings relating to a matter in Wales which is being heard in England; what arrangements are made for witnesses who wish to give evidence through the medium of the Welsh language in those proceedings; and if he will make a statement.
    (216016)
71
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Leader of the House, what recent discussions he has had with other parties represented in the House of Commons on the payment of allowances to hon. Members representing Sinn Fein; and if he will make a statement.
    (216085)
72
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with HM Treasury about the effect on tax revenues in Northern Ireland resulting from cross-border smuggling.
    (216226)
73
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has had with the First Minister of Wales regarding tackling extremism; and what plans he has to discuss that issue at the next Joint Ministerial Council meeting.
    (216010)
74
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on finding a private sector partner for the Vehicle Certification Agency.
    (216086)
75
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many employees of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have resigned since 8 September 2014.
    (216232)
76
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many drivers have lost their licence due to hypoglycaemic incidents in each of the last five years.
    (216231)
77
N
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many instances affecting HM Coastguard ships there have been of fouling from abandoned or lost fishing gear in the last two years; how many operational days have been lost from (a) ship and (b) personal activities as a result of those instances; and what estimate he has made of the cost of (i) the loss of operational activity and (ii) repairs.
    (216043)
78
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average number of staff working the night shift at the National Maritime Operations Centre in Fareham was in the period October to November 2014.
    (216240)
79
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2014 to Question 215596, at what grades are the coastguards in place at the National Maritime Operations Centre.
    (216245)
80
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of coastguards opting for voluntary redundancy as part of the coastguard reform programmes received their redundancy payment within 30 days of leaving the service.
    (216246)
81
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff must be employed at each maritime reserve co-ordination centre (MRCC) and the National Maritime Operations Centre in order to avoid any shifts falling beneath risk-assessed staffing levels; and how many staff were employed at each MRCC on 1 November 2014.
    (216247)
82
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the Financial Conduct Authority to publish its thematic review of the annuity market.
    (216117)
83
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2014 to Question 215554 when the sourcing activity is likely to be concluded; and whether the information about costs will be available at that time.
    (216175)
84
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Association for Project Safety on revisions to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007; and if he will make a statement.
    (216012)
85
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects disabled people in Wirral with outstanding applications for personal independence payment to receive a decision on their claim.
    (216061)
86
N
Mr David Lammy (Tottenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government has spent on advertising aimed at reducing benefit fraud since May 2010.
    (216053)
87
N
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have made applications for funding from the Discretionary Housing Fund in Lancaster district since the inception of that fund.
    (216127)
88
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many, (b) what proportion of and (c) which jobcentres will be operating universal credit by spring 2015.
    (216014)
89
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which families claiming universal credit will be able to claim free school meals when universal credit is fully rolled out.
    (216015)
90
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people he expects to be claiming universal credit by May 2015.
    (216021)
91
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families with one person in work will be accessing universal credit by May 2015.
    (216022)
92
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families with children he expects to be claiming universal credit by May 2015.
    (216088)
93
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress he has made in implementing the recommendation in the Oakley Review that the Department should work with providers to pilot a new approach using warnings and non-financial sanctions following a first failure to comply with conditionality on the Work Programme.
    (216056)
94
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of claimants of universal credit on (a) 1 April 2015 and (b) 1 October 2015.
    (216057)
95
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of jobseeker's allowance have been issued with a three year benefit sanction in each month since October 2012.
    (216058)
96
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people returned to Job Centre Plus from the Work Programme in May 2014; and how many of those people are (a) in a community work placement, (b) subject to daily signing, (c) receiving intensive support, (d) no longer claiming benefit and (e) in none of those positions.
    (216059)

Notices given on Thursday 27 November

1
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people worked after their 65th birthday in each of the last three years.
[Transferred]   (216118)
2
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the mortality rates are of patients aged over 75 years suffering from (a) cardiovascular disease, (b) respiratory disease, (c) liver disease and (d) cancer; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the upper-age limit on the survival rates of those diseases.
[Transferred]   (216082)
3
N
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of days lost to long-term sick leave (a) in total and (b) for reasons related to mental health in (i) Gillingham and Rainham constituency and (ii) Medway in each of the last three years.
[Transferred]   (216122)
4
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what criteria must be met for an arms export licence to be revoked.
    (216328)
5
 
Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in which countries in the proposed TTIP trading bloc domestic courts have failed to provide compensation to foreign corporations whose property has been unfairly confiscated or whose contracts have been unfairly terminated; and what the reasons were for compensation not having been given.
    (216258)
6
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assistance and advice his Department is providing to small digital supply businesses potentially adversely affected by recent changes in the designation of place of supply in VAT regulations.
    (216308)
7
 
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HM revenue and Customs is taking to tackle the tobacco tax gap.
    (216318)
8
 
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on small digital supply businesses of recent changes in designation of place of supply in VAT regulations.
    (216309)
9
 
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to publish the Howell-Redesdale report on the future of local government archaeology services.
    (216315)
10
 
Richard Graham (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the speed of the delivery of superfast broadband to urban areas and progress in resolving black spots of coverage.
    (216314)
11
 
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made in establishment of the Single Source Regulations Office; what budget has been set for the first year of operation of that office; and what estimate he has made of the number of contracts it will consider in financial year 2014-15.
    (216326)
12
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the cap on the number of dental and medical students has not been extended to cover pharmacy students.
    (216260)
13
 
Bob Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ease the pressure of rising birth rates on schools.
    (216302)
14
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of addtional rooftop solar PV expected to be installed in 2015-16 as a result of the feed-in tariff changes announced on 2 October 2014.
    (216316)
15
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to paragraph 25 of the impact assessment of the Government response to the consultation on support for community energy projets under the feed-in-tariff scheme, for what reason those changes have been designed to deliver no additional overall deployment of solar PV to 2020-21; and if he will make a statement.
    (216317)
16
 
John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the £500 million provision for undergrounding old transmission lines in the UK's protected areas arranged by Ofgem on 10 November 2014 covers Scottish National Parks and National Scenic Areas; by what process candidate undergrounding projects are being identified; and what steps Ofgem is taking to ensure that funds are distributed equitably across England, Wales and Scotland.
    (216311)
17
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports the Department has received on the efforts of the Palestinian Authority to access water from the Eastern Mountain Aquifer.
    (216257)
18
 
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Legal Memorandum: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Eastern Myanmar published by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School in November 2014.
    (216319)
19
 
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff are employed by the (a) Macfarlane Trust and (b) Caxton Foundation; and what their (i) posts and (ii) current salaries are.
    (216250)
20
 
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change there has been in the salary of the Chief Executive of the Macfarlane Trust and Caxton Foundation since her appointment in 2013.
    (216251)
21
 
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were registered with (a) the Macfarlane Trust, (b) the Skipton Fund and (c) the Caxton Foundation in each year since 2011.
    (216252)
22
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the Bercow Review of support for children and young people with speech, language and communications needs.
    (216303)
23
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of adults in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last 10 years.
    (216305)
24
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapies in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire.
    (216306)
25
 
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of days lost to long-term sick leave (a) in total and (b) for reasons related to mental health in (i) Pendle constituency and (ii) Lancashire in each of the last three years.
    (216307)
26
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her speech on counter-terrorism at the Royal United Services Institute on 24 November 2014, on what dates in the last 12 months terrorist plots planned in the UK were thwarted by actions of security servies; and what information she is able to disclose about the character of the intended targets of those plots.
    (216310)
27
 
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days between 7 October 2013 and 3 November 2014 (a) she, (b) the Minister for Crime Prevention, (c) the Minister for Immigration and Security, (d) the Minister for Policing, (e) the Minister for Organised Crime and (f) the hon. Member for Forest of Dean attended meetings (i) in her Department, (ii) attended visits in their ministerial capacity and (iii) have contact with their Private Office outside of her Department.
    (216248)
28
 
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 214786, what access police forces have to the internal child abuse database set up on the closure of Childbase.
    (216249)
29
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 3 September 2014, Official Report, column 21WS, on Immigration Act 2014: implementation, how her Department plans to monitor and record information collected from the pilot scheme for landlords to make immigration checks in the West Midlands from 1 December 2014.
    (216301)
30
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will release the results of the immigration checks pilot in the West Midlands due to begin on 1 December 2014.
    (216312)
31
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with its international partners and the Palestinian Authority on the proposed construction of a water desalination plant in the Gaza Strip.
    (216256)
32
 
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring legislative proposals to Parliament to allow the legal recognition of humanist marriages.
    (216259)
33
 
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of offences under sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each of the last five years.
    (216313)
34
 
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the annual revenue cost of the proposed prison in North Wales.
    (216287)
35
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on enabling public registrars to print the full postal address including postcodes on death certificates.
    (216255)
36
 
Bob Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment she has made of the terrorist threat from dissident republicans.
    (216288)
37
 
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the target date is for the electrification of the Calder Valley route through Halifax.
    (216253)
38
 
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when a decision will be made on the next Northern Rail Franchise.
    (216254)
39
 
Bob Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to provide for easier access to London by train from stations in Beckenham.
    (216300)
40
 
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how the Government Equalities Office pilot project to improve links between schools and businesses to raise the career aspirations of young people, which has been awarded to the British Chambers of Commerce, will be co-ordinated with the work in this area at (a) Engineering UK, (b) the Royal Academy of Engineering, (c) the Royal Society and (d) STEMnet.
    (216327)
Tuesday 2 December  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
 
★ 1
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): What recent support his Department has offered to peace talks in Colombia.
    (906368)
★ 2
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): What steps he has taken to prepare for renegotiation of the terms of the UK's membership of the EU with his EU counterparts; and if he will make a statement.
    (906369)
★ 3
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): What assessment he has made of the effects of incitement to hatred in the Palestinian media on prospects for a peace settlement in that region.
    (906370)
★ 4
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the vote by the House on 13 October 2014 on recognising Palestine as a state alongside Israel.
    (906371)
★ 5
Gareth Johnson (Dartford): What steps the Government is taking to support Falkland Islanders experiencing harassment by the Argentinian government.
    (906372)
★ 6
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): What further support the Government plans to provide to the coalition effort to defeat ISIL.
    (906373)
★ 7
Jim McGovern (Dundee West): What steps his Department is taking to help bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to peace talks.
    (906374)
★ 8
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): What recent assessment he has made of the effects of Russia's ban on EU food imports.
    (906375)
★ 9
David Mowat (Warrington South): What recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of a two-state solution emerging in the Middle East.
    (906376)
★ 10
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): When he next plans to visit Malaysia.
    (906377)
★ 11
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): What estimate he has made of the number of rockets in Hezbollah's arsenal in southern Lebanon which could be deployed against Israel; and what diplomatic efforts his Department is making to seek a reduction in that number.
    (906378)
★ 12
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): What assessment he has made of the scope for reform of the EU under the new European Commission.
    (906379)
★ 13
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What recent progress the Government has made on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
    (906380)
★ 14
Naomi Long (Belfast East): What assessment he has made of the role played by women in peace-building in (a) Afghanistan and (b) other countries entering a post-conflict period.
    (906381)
★ 15
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): What recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on freedom of movement within the EU.
    (906382)
★ 16
Henry Smith (Crawley): What recent steps the Government has taken to promote trade within the Commonwealth.
    (906383)
★ 17
Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): What steps his Department is taking to help bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to peace talks.
    (906384)
★ 18
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): What recent assessment he has made of (a) the security situation in Iraq and (b) the effects of air strikes on ISIL.
    (906385)
★ 19
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): What recent discussions he has had with the government of Pakistan on protection of Christians in that country.
    (906386)
★ 20
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of international support for the Nigerian authorities in tackling Boko Haram.
    (906387)
★ 21
Barry Gardiner (Brent North): If he will press for the establishment of a migration adjustment fund from the EU budget to help areas where public services are under strain because of freedom of movement.
    (906388)
★ 22
John Howell (Henley): What recent assessment he has made of the prospects of achieving a comprehensive deal with Iran on nuclear issues.
    (906389)
★ 23
Norman Baker (Lewes): What recent assessment he has made of the human rights position in Tibet.
    (906390)
★ 24
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): What recent assessment he has made of the prospects of achieving a comprehensive deal with Iran on nuclear issues.
    (906391)
★ 25
Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): What steps his Department is taking to help bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to peace talks.
    (906392)
At 12.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (906393)
★ 2
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire):  
    (906394)
★ 3
Alok Sharma (Reading West):  
    (906395)
★ 4
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South):  
    (906396)
★ 5
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North):  
    (906397)
★ 6
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport):  
    (906398)
★ 7
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness):  
    (906399)
★ 8
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton):  
    (906400)
★ 9
Kevin Barron (Rother Valley):  
    (906401)
★ 10
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham):  
    (906402)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 26 November

1
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions the Grocery Code Adjudicator has (a) launched an investigation, (b) recommended enforcement measures and (c) made a recommendation to the Office of Fair Trading that the Code should be changed since publication of the Adjudicator's 2013-14 annual report.
    (216177)
2
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information he holds on the average time taken by the office of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to deal with correspondence received from stakeholders.
    (216178)
3
N
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff are employed by the Grocery Code Adjudicator.
    (216179)

Notices given on Thursday 27 November

1
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions have been brought in relation to fraud in English language tests at universities revealed in the BBC's Panorama investigation broadcast in February 2014.
    (216296)
2
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many suicides there have been of (a) women and (b) men in each region and constituent part of the UK in each year since 2010.
    (216333)
3
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is Government policy to produce impact assessments in respect of legislation introduced in Parliament.
    (216298)
4
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a full list of attendees from charities invited to No. 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister in May 2010.
    (216289)
5
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Government Policy and the Big Society Network in September 2010.
    (216290)
6
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Civil Society and the Big Society Network in March 2012.
    (216291)
7
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Civil Society and the Big Society Network in May 2012.
    (216292)
8
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Civil Society and the Big Society Network in February 2012.
    (216293)
9
N
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he intends to answer Question 215333 tabled for answer on 24 November 2014; and what the reasons are for the time taken to answer.
    (216322)
10
N
Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the progress made by local government in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England to sign up to the principles of the Crisis Care Concordat.
    (216261)
11
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the responses to his Department's consultation on Local Welfare Provision 2015-16 expressed a preference for each of the options 1, 2, 3 and 4.
    (216294)
12
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the responses to his Department's consultation on Local Welfare Provision 2015-16 explicitly called for funding for local welfare assistance schemes to be reinstated.
    (216295)
13
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many responses his Department received in response to the consultation entitled, Local welfare provision in 2015 to 2016.
    (216330)
14
N
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many responses his Department received in response to the consultation entitled, Local welfare provision in 2015 to 2016 from (a) organisations, (b) individuals, (c) local councils and (d) hon. Members.
    (216331)
15
N
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has provided to Cornwall Council to help tackle rogue landlords since 2010.
    (216275)
16
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to permit civil partnerships by opposite sex couples.
    (216335)
17
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2014 to Question 209332, by what mechanisms his Department assesses the effectiveness of its communications to industry of its future requirements.
    (216299)
18
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made in respect of Operation Blue, the Royal Military Police inquiry into the disappearance of Katrice Lee in 1981.
    (216297)
19
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will authorise the release of case files relating to the investigation of the disappearance of Katrice Lee to her family; and if he will make a statement.
    (216329)
20
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what modelling her Department has undertaken of the impact of recent changes in (a) pay levels, (b) pension contributions and (c) national insurance contributions on the supply of teachers.
    (216272)
21
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many special guardianship orders have been granted in each year since their inception.
  [R] (216338)
22
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what research she has commissioned into the efficacy of special guardianship orders; what findings she has made about who are using these orders; and if she will make a statement.
  [R] (216339)
23
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new foster carers have been recruited in each local authority area in each of the last five years; and what measures her Department takes to monitor recruitment patterns.
  [R] (216340)
24
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the amount of wood waste in the UK which is suitable for incineration in biomass power stations.
    (216276)
25
N
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the total value was of bids received during the first established technologies Contracts for Difference auction for (a) landfill gas, (b) onshore wind, (c) solar photovoltaic, (d) hydro, (e) energy from waste and (f) sewage gas.
    (216323)
26
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Bahraini counterpart on the recent arrest, detention and alleged torture of a group of women accused of organising a public referendum.
    (216324)
27
N
Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the progress made by health agencies in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England to sign up to the principles of the Crisis Care Concordat.
    (216262)
28
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times the Ministerial Advisory Group on Mental Health has met to date.
    (216332)
29
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential cost to the NHS of devolving the commissioning of dialysis from a single nationally-prescribed service to clinical commissioning groups; and what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that devolution of commissioning is achieved safely by April 2015.
    (216321)
30
N
Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reason was for the time taken for the Quality Care Commission to publish the report of its August inspection of Medway Hospital's accident and emergency unit.
    (216304)
31
N
Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve care for lung cancer patients diagnosed through emergency routes.
    (216325)
32
N
Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the progress made by crime agencies in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England to sign up to the principles of the Crisis Care Concordat.
    (216263)
33
N
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North of 20 October 2014 to Question 210663, whether any of the budget for raising awareness of modern slavery has been spent on online or print articles in publications other than The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
    (216343)
34
N
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North of 20 October 2014 to Question 210663, how the budget for raising awareness of modern slavery has been spent.
    (216344)
35
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Passport Office staff who were previously made redundant are permitted to apply for existing or forthcoming vacancies.
    (216273)
36
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what methodology her Department decides staffing levels at the Passport Office.
    (216274)
37
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals her Department's counter-terrorism referral units have received from internet companies in each of the last five years.
    (216264)
38
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 13 December 2013, Official Report, column 384W, on counter-terrorism and pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2014 to Question 210417, under what categories the additional £2.7 million spent by local authorities in 2013-14 was counted.
    (216265)
39
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215331, what her Department's total headcount has been in each of the last five years; and which executive agencies were included in the figure given for frontline staff in that Answer.
    (216266)
40
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215386, how many of the suspicious activity reports were followed up in each year; and how many (a) investigations, (b) enforcement actions, (c) referrals to other agencies and (d) prosecutions there were as a result in each year.
    (216267)
41
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215386, how many of the suspicious activity reports submitted to the National Crime Agency or the Serious Organised Crime Agency in the last five years were connected to (a) alleged terrorism and (b) each other category of offence.
    (216268)
42
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the statement of 13 October 2014, Official Report, columns 13-14WS on 'our commitment to victims', what the reasons are for guaranteeing victims' rights in law; and for what reasons his policy on this matter has changed since his Answer of 1 July 2014, Official Report, column 728, which was against such an approach.
    (216271)
43
N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of self-harm have been undertaken by children in the segregation unit at HMYOI Feltham in each of the last 12 months.
    (216277)
44
N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons children were segregated at HMYOI Feltham in each of the last 12 months.
    (216278)
45
N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children were (a) placed on basic regime and (b) confined to their cells for 23 hours a day or more at HMYOI Feltham in each of the last 12 months.
    (216279)
46
N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average and (b) longest stay was for children held on the segregation unit at HMYOI Feltham in the last 12 months.
    (216280)
47
N
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have been held in the segregation unit at HMYOI Feltham in each of the last 12 months.
    (216281)
48
N
Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to require train companies operating services from Reigate to Redhill stations to compensate passengers in instances of a reduced service over an extended period of time.
    (216269)
49
N
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency on the medical rules on driving with diabetes treated with sulphonylureas and glinides.
    (216320)
50
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what steps she has taken following the consultation on extending civil partnerships to opposite sex couples; and what the findings of the consultation were.
    (216336)
51
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of pauper's funerals in each of the last three years; and what steps his Department is taking to support families on low incomes with the costs of funerals.
    (216270)
52
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 13 of the summary of the National Audit Office report, Universal credit: progress update, published on 26 November 2014, what contingency plans are in place to cover the £2.8 billion additional staff cost necessary to roll-out the current service for universal credit if the digital service is delayed.
    (216334)
53
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 2.12 of the National Audit Office report, Universal credit: progress update, published on 26 November 2014, by what date his Department plans to develop the contingency plans for the possibility that the digital service for universal credit is delayed or fails.
    (216337)
54
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 1.12 of the National Audit Office report, Universal credit: progress update, published on 26 November 2014, in which month he plans to produce the more detailed outline business case required by HM Treasury.
    (216341)
55
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will set out his plans for the transfer onto universal credit of those people not expected to be on universal credit by 2019.
    (216342)
Wednesday 3 December  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
 
★ 1
Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central): What recent discussions he has had with Ministers in the Welsh Government on the provision of free childcare places for three and four year olds in Wales.
    (906353)
★ 2
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): What discussions he is having with the Welsh Government on waiting times for cross-border health treatment in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire.
    (906354)
★ 3
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): What assessment he has made of the level of infrastructure investment in Wales since 2010.
    (906355)
★ 4
Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): What recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on investment in transport infrastructure in Wales.
    (906356)
★ 5
Neil Carmichael (Stroud): What steps he is taking to improve transport infrastructure links between Wales and England.
    (906357)
★ 6
Jessica Morden (Newport East): What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on cross-border rail services.
    (906358)
★ 7
Chris Evans (Islwyn): What assessment he has made of the reasons for changes in average weekly earnings in Wales in the last 12 months.
    (906359)
★ 8
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on when the electrification of the Valleys' railway line will be completed.
    (906360)
★ 9
John Howell (Henley): What discussions he had with business leaders at the recent Newport Investment Summit.
    (906361)
★ 10
Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): What assessment he has made of the reasons for changes in average weekly earnings in Wales in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
    (906362)
★ 11
Hywel Williams (Arfon): What recent discussions he has had on delivery of the online Universal Credit application process in the Welsh language.
    (906363)
★ 12
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): What assessment he has made of the level of infrastructure investment in Wales since 2010.
    (906364)
★ 13
Paul Flynn (Newport West): What steps he is taking to improve motorway links to South Wales.
    (906365)
★ 14
Guy Opperman (Hexham): What discussions he has with business leaders at the recent Newport Investment Summit.
    (906366)
★ 15
Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): What assessment he has made of the take-up of the Employment Allowance in Wales.
    (906367)
At 12 noon
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister
Unless otherwise indicated the Members listed below will ask a question without notice
★ 1
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 3 December.
    (906403)
★ 2
Julian Sturdy (York Outer):  
    (906404)
★ 3
John Glen (Salisbury):  
    (906405)
★ 4
Graham Jones (Hyndburn):  
    (906406)
★ 5
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow):  
    (906407)
★ 6
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside):  
    (906408)
★ 7
Stephen Timms (East Ham):  
    (906409)
★ 8
Charlie Elphicke (Dover):  
    (906410)
★ 9
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):  
    (906411)
★ 10
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston):  
    (906412)
★ 11
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe):  
    (906413)
★ 12
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire):  
    (906414)
★ 13
Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire):  
    (906415)
★ 14
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West):  
    (906416)
★ 15
Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead):  
    (906417)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 25 November

1
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the specifications for the maximum (a) amount of land to be used and (b) quantity of munitions permitted to be stored in future at the Sea Mounting Centre at Marchwood, have been reduced during the course of negotiations with commercial bidders for the lease of land on the Ministry of Defence site; and if he will make a statement.
    (215951)

Notices given on Wednesday 26 November

1
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all teachers receive training in how to recognise and deal with bullying in schools; and if she will make a statement.
    (216017)
Thursday 4 December  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 27 November

1
N
Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the regional economic effect of (a) Birmingham Airport, (b) Manchester Airport, (c) Glasgow Airport, (d) Edinburgh Airport, (e) Newcastle Airport and (f) Bristol Airport.
    (216284)
2
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to promote holidays in the UK to British residents; and if he will make a statement.
    (216286)
3
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to tackle misleading labelling of food.
    (216285)
4
N
Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of changes in the level of competition between airports on the UK aviation sector in the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
    (216282)
5
N
Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of extending the runway at Birmingham Airport on regional connectivity to emerging markets.
    (216283)

Prepared 28th November 2014