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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Friday 9 January 2015

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.
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Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Thursday 8 January 2015

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Friday 9 January 2015

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.

Friday 9 January  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 6 January

1
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to support the establishment of a music licensing and collections agency.
    (219827)
2
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings officials or Ministers of his Department have had with representatives of City Link in the last 12 months.
    (219929)
3
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support the Government plans to provide to the City Link employees made redundant on 31 December 2014.
    (219930)
4
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students started a higher level apprenticeship at levels 4, 5 and 6 in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 in each further education and higher education institution in England.
    (219937)
5
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students started a higher level apprenticeship at levels 4, 5 and 6 in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 by each type of provider.
    (219938)
6
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students started a higher level apprenticeship at levels 4, 5 and 6 in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 in each parliamentary constituency.
    (219939)
7
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what future plans he has for the National Citizen Service in the North East Hertfordshire constituency.
    (219896)
8
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the National Debt has been between May 2010 and January 2015.
    (219948)
9
N
Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost has been to the UK of the EU's Solvency II Initiative to date; and what recent estimate he has made of the cost of full implementation of that initiative.
    (219825)
10
N
Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on their responsibility to inform other local authorities when rehousing their residents to those authorities; and what steps his Department takes to ensure that such guidance is followed.
    (219933)
11
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department makes it a requirement of supporting the Film Fund that companies in receipt of Film Fund funding provide only paid (a) internships and (b) apprenticeships.
    (219810)
12
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how his Department plans to ensure that Hull will learn lessons from Londonderry as the UK City of Culture in 2013.
    (219826)
13
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria his Department used in awarding the contract for the next generation of tanks.
    (219935)
14
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military aircraft there were in service in (a) May 2010 and (b) the latest date for which figures are available.
    (219946)
15
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to ensure a continued British military presence on the Falkland Islands.
    (219814)
16
N
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role his Department is playing in preventing illegal incursion into Gibraltarian waters by Spanish vessels.
    (219945)
17
N
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the (a) Army, (b) Royal Air Force and (c) Royal Navy spend on helicopter maintenance annually.
    (219941)
18
N
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the existing MoD or private sites with helicopter simulation facilities are; which services use such sites; and what the annual operating cost of each such site is.
    (219942)
19
N
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which sites are used by his Department for helicopter maintenance.
    (219943)
20
N
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many helicopter crew sets there are in each of the armed services.
    (219944)
21
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils on free school meals gained five good GCSEs in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in 2014.
    (219815)
22
N
Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of children walking to school.
    (219892)
23
N
Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff are employed in each regional school commissioner's office; and what the annual budget is of each such office.
    (219893)
24
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the average distance from home of young people accommodated in secure children's homes in each year since May 2010.
    (219899)
25
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the commercial collection of ragworm in Sites of Special Scientific Interest; and if she will make a statement.
    (219951)
26
N
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential benefits of amending England's dog breeding legislation in a manner similar to that contained in the Animal Welfare (Breeding of Dogs) (Wales) Regulation 2014; and if she will make a statement.
    (219934)
27
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects the Lead Ammunition Group to report.
    (219950)
28
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consular support is being offered to Craig Lindley in Thailand.
    (219806)
29
N
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Israel over its decision to freeze the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority.
    (219903)
30
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the government of Pakistan about the case of Aasia Bibi; and if he will make a statement.
    (219807)
32
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to Question 219055, which areas are piloting enhanced access to mental health practitioners.
    (219813)
33
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to introduce three parent IVF treatment.
    (219816)
34
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of quarantine arrangements for people arriving in the UK from Sierra Leone; and if he will make a statement.
    (219940)
35
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will meet (a) the hon. Member for Hartlepool and (b) representatives from Hartlepool Borough Council to discuss the issue of transferring hospital services back to the University Hospital of Hartlepool; and if he will make a statement.
    (219894)
36
N
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2014 to Question 217748, what assessment she has made of the implications for UK policy of the comments by William Brownfield on UN drug control conventions; and whether the Government plans to support the policy position expressed in those comments at international forums and the UN General Assembly.
    (219817)
37
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which datasets her Department draws upon in checking if asylum seekers have criminal records; what improvements she is requiring in those datasets; and if she will make a statement.
    (219902)
38
N
Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seasonal staff on zero hour contracts that were extended in October 2014 until March 2015 this week were given four weeks' notice on 12 November 2014 that their contract would be terminated.
    (219932)
39
N
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the success rate in supplying interpreters was under the Capita TI interpreting contract in each month from January 2012 to March 2014.
    (219783)
40
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 218894, what the specific distance from home was for each of the (a) seven young people placed closer to home and (b) nine young people placed further from home.
    (219897)
41
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average distance from home of young people accommodated in secure training centres in each year since May 2010.
    (219898)
42
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average distance from home of young people accommodated in secure young offender institutions in each year since May 2010.
    (219900)
43
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Prime Minister, when he last received an update on how effectively steps recommended by the Extremism Taskforce have been implemented.
    (219818)
44
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Prime Minister, what recent assessment he has made of progress in implementing each of the steps recommended by the Extremism Taskforce.
    (219819)
45
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Prime Minister, who is responsible (a) in each department and (b) across government for overseeing implementation of the steps recommended by the Extremism Taskforce.
    (219820)
46
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Prime Minister, what processes and organisational structures are in place to ensure that a cross-government approach is taken to tackling extremism.
    (219821)
47
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the name of the duty Minister in his Department for each day during the most recent parliamentary recess.
    (219808)
48
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Department's publication Department for Transport Ninth Statement of New Regulation, updated on 30 December 2014, whether he plans to bring forward secondary legislation to ensure that children aged three to 14 wear seat belts while travelling on coaches.
    (219901)
49
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what rate of interest is charged on late payments of rent on properties let out by HS2 Ltd under the sale and rent back scheme.
    (219805)
50
N
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will direct Arriva Trains and Network Rail to work on important maintenance issues at Shrewsbury Station.
    (219824)
51
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what public consultation has been undertaken in Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England on the decision to display the Union flag on driving licences in Wales, Scotland and England.
    (219887)
52
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of implementation of the decision to display the Union flag on driving licences in Wales, Scotland and England.
    (219888)
53
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration his Department gave to using the Welsh and Scottish flags for licences issued to drivers in Wales and Scotland respectively.
    (219889)
54
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Transport prior to the decision to display the Union flag on driving licences in Wales, Scotland and England.
    (219890)
55
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will take steps to ensure that the Welsh flag can be displayed on driving licences in Wales.
    (219891)
56
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) begun and (b) stopped paying the under-occupancy penalty in 2014-15 to date.
    (219829)
57
N
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Liverpool and (b) England were subject to sanctions in the week commencing 22 December 2014; and how many of those people had benefits withheld for that period.
    (219936)
58
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he last met representatives of the Trussell Trust.
    (219782)
59
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Work Programme sub-contractors have received no referrals since the inception of that programme.
    (219811)
60
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received in the last two years about the adequacy of his Department's hardship payments scheme.
    (219812)

Notices given on Wednesday 7 January

1
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans there are to ensure a higher turnout at the General Election among people aged 18 to 25.
[Transferred]   (219947)
2
N
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of cross-government spending on tackling extremism since 2010.
[Transferred]   (219822)
3
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the change was in the average length of time spent by defendants on bail before charging between 2004 and 2014.
[Transferred]   (219949)
4
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what loans were made by UK Export Finance for fossil fuel energy exploration or fossil fuel power generation projects in 2014; what assessment was made of the carbon footprint of each such project prior to the loan being agreed; and whether sustainability or environmental impact assessments were made of those projects before the loans were granted.
    (220122)
5
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many new charities were established (a) nationally and (b) in Swindon in each of the last five years.
    (219998)
6
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties in (a) Swindon, (b) Wiltshire and (c) England were in each council tax band in the latest period for which figures are available.
    (219995)
7
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount of New Homes Bonus funding allocated to (a) Swindon, (b) Wiltshire and (c) England in each of the last five years.
    (219996)
8
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which arts (a) organisations and (b) events in Greater Manchester he has visited in an official capacity since his appointment.
    (220073)
9
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has made to Facebook about online abuse of people with autism.
    (219975)
10
 
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to promote roaming and mast sharing in areas without comprehensive mobile telephone coverage on all networks.
    (220123)
11
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support was provided for travel and overnight accommodation for stakeholders invited to the two national workshops held in January 2015 in Birmingham and Glasgow as part of the public consultation on an interim submarine nuclear reactor pressure vessel storage site; what the total cost to the public purse was of those workshops; and what fee was paid to the consultancy Instinctif for organising those workshops.
    (220094)
12
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Northern Futures project.
    (220072)
13
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what aspects of the nineteenth century and twentieth century (a) British history and (b) world history are mandatory in the history curriculum in each key stage.
    (219977)
14
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy that the (a) First World War and (b) Second World War is made mandatory in the history curriculum.
    (219978)
15
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research she has commissioned on the effect of windfarm construction in water catchment areas.
    (219972)
16
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of links between windfarm construction on peat bog soils and pollution of water supplies.
    (219973)
17
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures are in place to protect local authorities from incurring costs relating to waste fires at sites which they do not control.
    (219999)
18
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Sudan on the legal status and detention of Dr. Amin Mekki Medani, Farouk Abu Eissa and Farah Ibrahim Mohamed Algar.
    (220052)
19
 
Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has received any reports from the government of Sudan regarding the legal status and detention of Dr Amin Mekki Medani, Farouk Abu Eissa and Farah Ibrahim Mohamed Alagar.
    (220125)
20
 
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to prevent persecution of Christians and other religious minorities overseas.
    (220124)
21
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent meetings he has had with representatives of the Cuban government.
    (219969)
22
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Mexican government about human rights in that country.
    (219970)
23
 
Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his counterpart in the US for Shaker Aamer to be among the prisoners expected to be released from Guantanamo Bay within the next two weeks.
    (220001)
24
 
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the reasons were for the UK's abstention on a Resolution before the United Nations to require Israel to withdraw from the territory it has occupied since 1967.
    (220006)
25
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the persecution of Christians in North Korea.
    (220024)
26
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take in response to the shooting of the Northern Irish missionary, Ms Maud Kells OBE, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
    (220093)
27
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to support the families of people who died in the recent AirAsia plane crash.
    (220117)
28
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will provide support to civilians in the Kashmir region affected by the recent violence between Pakistani and Indian troops.
    (220118)
29
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take in response to the recent shooting of Northern Irish missionary, Ms Maud Kells OBE, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
    (220119)
30
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in Denton and Reddish constituency are registered organ donors; and what plans he has to increase the number of organ donors.
    (220079)
31
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Denton and Reddish constituency have waited more than (a) 28 days, (b) three months and (c) six months for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services in each of the last five years.
    (220080)
32
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding he has made available for the treatment of neurofibromatosis type 1 in the last five years.
    (219964)
33
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding he has made available for research into neurofibromatosis type 1 in the last five years.
    (219965)
34
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of the effect of neurofibromatosis type 1.
    (219966)
35
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential link between water pollution and cancers of the colon and brain.
    (219971)
36
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what financial incentives are available for primary and secondary public health providers for screening programmes to improve diagnosis rates of hepatitis C in (a) localities considered by Public Health England to have a high prevalence of hepatitis C and (b) Cheshire.
    (220018)
37
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support is in place to help with the provision of public health initiatives in localities considered by Public Health England to have a high prevalence of hepatitis C.
    (220019)
38
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that all monies received from the industry rebate payments under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme are utilised for the prescribing of medicines by NHS England.
    (220020)
39
 
Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the industry rebate payments under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) on improving patients' access to innovative medicines; and what estimate he has made of the additional number of innovative medicines prescribed as a result of the industry rebate payments under the PPRS.
    (220021)
40
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on satisfaction levels for (a) GP surgeries and (b) hospitals in each of the last five years.
    (220022)
41
 
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the uptake of mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of repeat-episode depression.
    (220023)
42
 
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the extent of addiction to skunk cannabis in each of the last five years.
    (220002)
43
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will discuss the recent increase in the number of people living in Northern Ireland with cancer.
    (220120)
44
 
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the annual value of the market in the UK of the illicit sale of pharmaceuticals; and what steps he is taking to restrict that market.
    (220047)
45
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates.
    (219997)
46
 
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's news story of 6 January 2015 on deport first, appeal later measures, how many of the nearly 800 foreign criminals that have been removed had been (a) convicted, (b) subject to a custodial sentence and (c) subject to a suspended or other non-custodial sentence.
    (220049)
47
 
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using psychologists in the Government's anti-radicalisation programmes.
    (220090)
48
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who first entered the UK through France claimed asylum in the UK in each year since 2010.
    (220000)
49
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers claimed asylum in the UK in each year since 2010 by the countries through which they first entered the EU.
    (220050)
50
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on co-ordination of inquiries into historic child sexual abuse.
    (219967)
51
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unresolved immigration cases there are relating to individuals currently residing in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.
    (219968)
52
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the current level of threat posed by Islamic terror groups in the UK.
    (220025)
53
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to comments made by the director of Parents Against Sexual Exploitation on BBC Radio 4 on 31 December 2014, what assessment she has made of (a) the geographical extent of incidences of young people being groomed for sexual abuse and (b) the adequacy of skills in police forces to deal with such abuse.
    (220088)
54
 
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 45 of the Report of the Al Sweady Inquiry, HC 819, what plans the Government has to investigate the nine Iraqi detainee witnesses in relation to offences they may have committed (a) in relation to their evidence to the Inquiry and (b) against British troops in serving in Iraq.
    (220126)
55
 
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to Police Forces in England and Wales of looking after dogs owned by people in prison or other custody in each of the last three years.
    (220046)
56
 
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to ratify the International Labour Organisation Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention.
    (220089)
57
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) arrested and (b) charged for driving under the influence of alcohol in December 2014.
    (220061)
58
 
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what (a) security and (b) immigration checks are made on casual staff working in Parliament.
    (220048)
59
 
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what income her Department has received from financial investments in developing countries in each of the last five years.
    (220121)
60
 
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's expenditure was (a) fiscal and (b) non-fiscal spending in each of the last five years.
    (220132)
61
 
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the total value is of her Department's funding for the Green Climate Fund; and what proportion of that funding is non-fiscal.
    (220133)
62
 
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the relief effort in Syria.
    (220092)
63
 
Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effects of super trawlers on the sustainability of coastal fishing communities in developing countries.
    (220045)
64
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
    (219994)
65
 
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what security measures have been implemented on platforms at underground and mainline rail stations to protect the public from acts of violence or terrorism.
    (220091)
66
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2014 to Question 208033, what plans he has to improve connectivity to Reddish South and Denton arising from the better use of existing infrastructure through those stations.
    (220060)
67
 
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has provided for projects in Swindon since 2010.
    (220034)
68
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department calculates the timescale for decision in a case of mandatory reconsideration of a refusal of benefit from the date on which the claimant contacts his Department to dispute the decision by telephone, on which a mandatory reconsideration request is made in writing, or on which a request is registered and received by the DWP processing centre.
    (219976)
69
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants who have been sanctioned and applied for mandatory reconsideration of the decision have waited (a) one to seven, (b) eight to 14, (c) 15 to 30, (d) 31 to 45, (e) 46 to 60, (f) 61 to 75, (g) 76 to 90 and (h) over 90 calendar days for that mandatory reconsideration to be adjudicated since October 2013.
    (219979)
70
 
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants who have been sanctioned and applied for mandatory reconsideration of the decision have waited (a) 31 to 45, (b) 46 to 60, (c) 61 to 75, (d) 76 to 90 and (e) over 90 calendar days for the mandatory reconsideration to be adjudicated since October 2013.
    (220005)
71
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review the current regulations relating to carer's allowance as they apply to people who temporarily withdraw from full-time education as a result of caring responsibilities.
    (219974)
72
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent representations he has received from claimants about lack of access to telephone lines within jobcentres for claims to be made and queries to be answered.
    (220003)
73
 
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for personal independence payments by residents of Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency have not been resolved within a six month period.
    (220004)
74
 
David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had on a possible expansion of the men-only relationship classes pilot scheme to other constituent parts of the UK.
    (220026)
Monday 12 January  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
 
★ 1
Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): What steps he is taking to increase the number of cadet units in schools.
    (906893)
★ 2
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): How many UK military personnel are currently serving in Afghanistan.
    (906894)
★ 4
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): What assessment he has made of recent trends in recruitment to the Army Reserve; and if he will make a statement.
    (906896)
★ 5
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): If he will publish research held by the Government on the global atmospheric consequences of nuclear war.
    (906897)
★ 6
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): What plans he has to consider delivery of UK defence capability through conventional rather than nuclear weapons as part of the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
    (906898)
★ 7
Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): What progress his Department has made on delivering the Defence equipment plan.
    (906899)
★ 8
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): What his policy is on the creation of a National Defence Medal.
    (906900)
★ 9
Guy Opperman (Hexham): What plans he has to visit Albermarle Barracks to review handover arrangements.
    (906901)
★ 10
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): What assessment he has made of the level of the cyber security threat to the UK.
    (906902)
★ 11
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): What steps he is taking to assist Iraqi forces in countering ISIL.
    (906903)
★ 13
Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): What the strategic rationale is for the opening of a UK military base in Bahrain.
    (906905)
★ 14
Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): What steps he is taking to assist Iraqi forces in countering ISIL.
    (906906)
★ 15
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): What recent investment he has made in (a) cyber security and (b) unmanned aerial vehicles for the armed forces.
    (906907)
★ 16
Richard Graham (Gloucester): What steps he is taking to assist Iraqi forces in countering ISIL.
    (906908)
★ 17
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): What steps he is taking to increase the number of cadet units in schools.
    (906909)
★ 18
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): What steps he has taken to invest in next generation equipment for the armed forces.
    (906910)
★ 19
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What recent investment he has made in equipment for the armed forces.
    (906911)
★ 20
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): What recent progress he has made on strengthening the Armed Forces Covenant.
    (906912)
★ 21
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): What steps he is taking to increase the number of cadet units in schools.
    (906913)
★ 22
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): What steps he is taking to support air training corps and university air squadrons; and if he will make a statement.
    (906914)
★ 23
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): What military contribution the UK is making to operations in Iraq.
    (906915)
★ 24
Chloe Smith (Norwich North): What steps he is taking to promote service in the Reserves.
    (906916)
★ 25
Richard Fuller (Bedford): What steps his Department is taking to strengthen military co-operation with Nigeria.
    (906917)
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
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (906933)
★ 2
Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):  
    (906934)
★ 3
Mr Charles Kennedy (Ross, Skye and Lochaber):  
    (906935)
★ 4
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey):  
    (906936)
★ 5
Guy Opperman (Hexham):  
    (906937)
★ 6
Richard Fuller (Bedford):  
    (906938)
★ 7
Mark Menzies (Fylde):  
    (906939)
★ 8
Steve Baker (Wycombe):  
    (906940)
★ 9
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge):  
    (906941)
★ 10
Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood):  
    (906942)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 17 December

1
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to review the effectiveness of the Telephone Preference Service.
    (219202)
2
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the amount of water in the UK that is lost through leakage between source and consumer; and if she will take steps to end the current position where the consumer pays for such losses through price.
    (219198)
3
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Pet Travel scheme in allowing owners to take dogs and cats abroad; and if she will make a statement.
    (219199)
4
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many new reservoirs have been (a) built and (b) are in the planning or construction phase since 2005.
    (219200)
5
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the extent of worn and faint road markings on (a) zebra crossings and (b) elsewhere; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such markings on road safety.
    (219201)

Notices given on Friday 2 January

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timescale is for the procurement of electric rolling stock for the Midland Main Line; and whether the electrified Midland Main Line will have new electric rolling stock from the day of its opening.
    (219649)

Notices given on Monday 5 January

1
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of links between air temperatures and the level of payments under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive in each month since the start of that scheme.
    (219696)
2
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of (a) the total carbon savings and (b) the resulting value for money of the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive subsidy scheme since it began operation.
    (219697)
3
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average heat output was for (a) all and (b) biomass systems operating under the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme in each month since the start of that scheme.
    (219698)
4
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average subsidy payment per site of (a) all installed non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and (b) biomass systems operating under the non-domestic RHI scheme was in each month since the start of that scheme.
    (219699)
5
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses have been recruited by the NHS in England from (a) the UK, (b) other EU member states and (c) outside the EU in each of the last five years.
    (219713)
6
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses are being trained by the NHS.
    (219748)

Notices given on Tuesday 6 January

1
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Pakistan to encourage it to extend its recent military action against militants to include Lashkar-e-Janghevi.
    (219957)
2
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to multilateral institutions to encourage the government of Pakistan to extend its recent military action against militants to include Lashkar-e-Janghevi.
    (219958)
3
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Pakistan on that country's strategy to prevent further attacks by Lashkar-e-Janghevi.
    (219959)
4
N
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons the Secret Intelligence Service did not seek assurances on Michael Adebolajo's treatment while in detention from the Kenyan authorities on the day it was notified of his arrest.
    (219952)
5
N
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how his Department monitors the compliance of the intelligence and security agencies with the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel.
    (219953)
6
N
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the intelligence and security agencies have taken to improve their record keeping since the publication of the Intelligence and Security Committee Report on the intelligence relating to the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
    (219954)
7
N
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, by what process improvements in the intelligence and security agencies' record keeping is monitored and evaluated by the Intelligence and Security Committee.
    (219955)
8
N
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what training his Department has provided to members of the intelligence and security agencies on the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel; and if he will make the contents of that training publicly available insofar as is consistent with national security.
    (219956)
9
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of UK aid in countering terrorism in Pakistan and strengthening the Pakistani judiciary.
    (219960)

Notices given on Wednesday 7 January

1
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what forecast he has made of whether his Department's spending in 2015-16 will meet the NATO target of two per cent of GDP.
[Question Unstarred]   (906895)
2
N
Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many start-up loans have been granted to businesses in the Shepway local authority area since that initiative began.
    (219992)
3
N
Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people were registered on an apprenticeship training scheme in Folkestone and Hythe constituency in each year from 2010.
    (220030)
4
N
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the average full course cost to the public purse was of apprenticeships at each level in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.
    (220063)
5
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of steps he has taken to facilitate for small and medium-sized enterprises winning government contracts; and if he will make a statement.
    (220098)
6
N
Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Ministry of Justice Shared Services staff in Newport who have recently been transferred to Shared Services Connected Ltd are eligible for Stage 2 surplus status for redeployment within the Civil Service.
    (220031)
7
N
Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when eligibility for Stage 2 surplus status for redeployment within the Civil Service ends for staff employed at the Ministry of Justice Shared Services centre in Newport.
    (220032)
8
N
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 7 January 2015 to the hon. Member for Southport, by what proportion the Government has reduced the size of the Civil Service before adjusting for machinery of government changes.
    (220057)
9
N
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what criteria the locations for the Community Organiser programme were chosen.
    (220099)
10
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce a commemorative coin for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015.
    (220059)
11
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time between a national minimum wage infringement first being reported and the issue of the resulting Notice of Underpayment was in the last year for which figures are available.
    (219984)
12
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HM Revenue and Customs staff worked on national minimum wage enforcement in each of the last five years.
    (219989)
13
N
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that mobile coverage up to 4G levels is provided in rural areas to ensure communication resilience for lightning events.
    (220134)
14
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many counsellors were employed in the armed forces in each year since 2010.
    (220076)
15
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many psychologists were employed in the armed forces in each year since 2010.
    (220077)
16
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be created in the UK as a result of the Scout specialist vehicle programme.
    (220065)
17
N
Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made in the Scout specialist vehicle programme; and if he will make a statement.
    (220066)
18
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel were recruited to the regular Army between April 2013 and April 2014; and what his Department's recruitment target was for that period.
    (220095)
19
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what functions are undertaken by each of his Department's ICT systems and databases; and what the cost was of each such system in 2013-14.
    (220110)
20
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department's target date of April 2019 for achieving an Army Reserve force of 30,000 remains in force; and what plans his Department has to review that date.
    (220116)
21
N
Sir Hugh Robertson (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what rules govern the wearing of a NATO medal for service in former Yugoslavia by UK service personnel who served in Bosnia during the UN mandate but while NATO was providing air cover.
    (219980)
22
N
Sir Hugh Robertson (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the procedure is for UK servicemen and women to apply for the UN Special Service Medal for the Sarajevo Airlift; and how many service personnel have been awarded that medal.
    (219981)
23
N
Sir Hugh Robertson (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Sir John Holmes' Military Medals Review, published in July 2012, what progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations in paragraphs 50, 51 and 52 of that review.
    (219982)
24
N
Sir Hugh Robertson (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had on allowing the UK service personnel who served in Iraq or Afghanistan to wear the respective NATO medals; and if he will make a statement.
    (219983)
25
N
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy that a credit union be established for members of HM Armed Forces and their families.
    (220062)
26
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any personnel from the UK Reaper Squadron 39 will be deployed in Afghanistan in 2015.
  [R] (220012)
27
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Joint Prioritised Effects List includes targets in Pakistan.
  [R] (220013)
28
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216827, whether it is planned that options for asset-sharing between members of the NATO MQ-9 Users Group will be discussed at the Paris meeting scheduled to take place in January 2015.
  [R] (220027)
29
N
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average response rate of Initial Teacher Training students trained in universities was to the (a) National College for Teaching and Leadership survey and (b) National Student Survey.
    (220100)
30
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to encourage energy suppliers to pass on savings made from falling oil prices to consumers.
    (220075)
31
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will estimate how many properties which are at risk of flooding have mineral fibre or polystyrene bead cavity wall insulation.
    (220097)
32
N
Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the value of the investment by the Environment Agency in flood defences in Folkestone and Hythe constituency has been from May 2010 to date; and how much has been budgeted for further future works by that agency in that constituency.
    (220015)
33
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage civil rights and democracy in Bahrain.
    (220067)
34
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of political prisoners in Bahrain; and what steps his Department has taken to encourage the release of those prisoners.
    (220068)
35
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Bahrain regarding the case of Dr Abduljalil Alsingace who is currently imprisoned in that country.
    (220069)
36
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Pakistan on its response to the murder of school children in Peshawar.
    (220051)
37
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 218909, whether he plans to negotiate restrictions to prevent uncontrolled immigration to the UK from Turkey in the event of that country's accession to the EU; and if he will make a statement.
    (220078)
38
N
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what protocol the intelligence and security agencies follow to investigate allegations of mistreatment of detainees held abroad in foreign custody.
    (220127)
39
N
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has provided training to members of the intelligence and security agencies on investigating allegations of mistreatment of detainees.
    (220128)
40
N
Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to curb excessive disparities in the cost of dispensing (a) dermatology and (b) non-dermatology preferred unlicensed dermatological preparations; and what steps he is taking to ensure that all pharmacies in England obtain a whole-of-market quote from manufacturers of such preparations, as is the case in Scotland.
    (220033)
41
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median time to (i) assessment, (ii) treatment and (iii) departure was in (A) type 1 and (B) all A&E departments in each quarter since April 2011.
    (220064)
42
N
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Statement of 5 January 2015, Official Report, columns 38-40, on UK Ebola preparedness, whether the eligibility for full access to NHS care will be retained by UK citizens working with aid agencies and international relief organisations outside the UK.
    (219990)
43
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Statement WS132 of 17 December 2014 on mitochondrial donation, for what reasons serial nuclear transfer is precluded by the proposed regulations 3(c) and 6(c) which prevent any further alterations in the nuclear or mitochondrial DNA.
    (220104)
44
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Statement WS132 of 17 December 2014, on mitochondrial donation, what concerns were raised by the expert panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority regarding the possibility of carryover of a small percentage of abnormal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the affected oocyte or zygote due to close associations between mtDNA and the karyoplast.
    (220108)
45
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Written Statement WS132 of 17 December 2014 on mitochondrial donation, whether the expert panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority regarding mitochondrial transfer found that no females born following spindle-chromosomal complex transfer or pronuclear transfer would ever transmit the disease to subsequent generations.
    (220129)
46
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the letter from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health to Lord Alton of Liverpool of 30 October 2014, if he will place in the Library a full copy of the correspondence between members of the expert panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Zhang research group referred to in that letter.
    (220130)
47
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average incidence of stillbirths and linked infant deaths in England and Wales in which all of the twins or triplets from the same pregnancy that remained after foetal reduction in either the first trimester or early in the second trimester subsequently died in infancy or were stillborn was in each of the last 10 years.
    (220131)
48
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will allocate additional resources to help alleviate the demand for accident and emergency and NHS walk-in centres services in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands.
    (220053)
49
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he or his Department has received concerning an increase in waiting times at the University Hospital in Coventry in the last two months.
    (220054)
50
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will investigate the adequacy of the major incident plans at NHS hospitals in England and Wales and the ability of these plans to cope with the increased demand of accident and emergency services in England over the last two months.
    (220055)
51
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of callers to (a) NHS Direct and (b) NHS 111 were (i) referred to hospital accident and emergency departments and (ii) sent to such departments by ambulance in each year from 2005-06.
    (220028)
52
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert review panel in the publication, Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, April 2011, and in the Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception: update, published in March 2013, on epigenetic modifications and gene expression with a range of makers for blastocyst cell types or embryos derived from the maternal spindle transfer or pronuclear transfer technique therapies have been concluded; and in which peer-reviewed journal his Department plans to publish the findings of those experiments.
    (220096)
53
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert review panel in the publication, Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, published April 2011, on the use of maternal spindle transfer therapy on unfertilised human oocytes that have abnormal mitochondrial DNA has been concluded; and in which peer-reviewed journal his Department plans to make findings of that experiment available.
    (220101)
54
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert review panel in the publication, Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, published April 2011, on the removal of the spindle or pronuclei and placing in back into the oocyte to show the effect of the maternal spindle transfer and pronuclear manipulation techniques has been concluded; and in which peer-reviewed journal his Department plans to publish the findings of that experiment.
    (220102)
55
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert review panel in the publications, Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, April 2011, and in the Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception: update, published in March 2013, on karyotype analysis and comparative genomic hybridisation and copy number variation arrays of embryos derived from the maternal spindle transfer and pronuclear transfer technique therapies have been concluded; and in which peer-reviewed journal his Department plans to publish the findings of those experiments.
    (220103)
56
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the outcome of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's (HFEAs) comparisons between the development of embryos generated by pronuclear transfer using normally-fertilised human oocytes and that of normal ICSI-fertilised human oocytes was; when and for what reasons those experiments were originally deemed by the HFEA's expert panel in the Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, published in April 2011, to be critical before the technique could be assessed as safe to use clinically; and in which open access journal the relevant findings of that research were available immediately on publication following peer-review.
    (220135)
57
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2014 to Question 218687, when his Department expects NICE to report on the feedback it receives from its associates network about progress made in and challenges of implementing the 2013 guidance on prevention of familial breast cancer; and whether that feedback will be published.
    (220083)
58
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures his Department has in place to monitor the health of women who have undergone termination of pregnancy.
    (220087)
59
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library the journal articles reporting the results of all the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for testing the safety of the maternal spindle transfer technique and the pronuclear transfer technique in the publications Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, published in April 2011 and Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception: update, published in March 2013.
    (220114)
60
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the experiments to test for heteroplasmy on primordial germ cells created from human embryonic stem cells derived from blastocysts created through maternal spindle transfer and pronuclear transfer where the oocytes had a variant or abnormal mitochondrial DNA recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert panel in its publication Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception: update, published March 2013, have been concluded; and in which peer reviewed journal he plans to publish the findings of that review.
    (220138)
61
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding his Department has provided for NHS services in Swindon in each year since 2010.
    (220037)
62
N
Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of threat to journalists in the UK from radical Islamic extremists; and if she will make a statement.
    (220137)
63
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2014 to Question 216266, what the total cost of employing non-frontline staff in her Department has been in each of the past four years.
    (220058)
64
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many gang injunctions have been granted in each of the last three years.
    (220074)
65
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces have a strategy in place to tackle cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
    (220035)
66
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last discussed with the Mayor of London in his capacity as Police and Crime Commissioner for London the change in the level of crime recorded as violence against the person by the Metropolitan Police in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
    (220036)
67
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to increase the number of police trained to deal with cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
    (220043)
68
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken in response to the recent increase in crime in London recorded as violence against the person; and if she will make a statement.
    (220044)
69
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were employed as crime prevention officers in each police force in England and Wales in (a) 2010 and (b) 2014.
    (220070)
70
N
Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests have taken place outside abortion clinics for harassment in the last 12 months.
    (220086)
71
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on making domestic violence a specific criminal offence.
    (220007)
72
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has transferred to the Ministry of Defence for (a) the deployment of the RFA Argus in Sierra Leone and (b) anti-Ebola measures and deployments in Sierra Leone.
    (219985)
73
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on consultants in each of the last five years; and which contracts with consultants have been worth more than £5 million.
    (219988)
74
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 219268, if she will list expenditure on each project of more than £5 million from her Department's Economic Development Strategy.
    (220016)
75
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's expenditure was (a) capital and (b) non-capital spending in each of the last five years.
    (220113)
76
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK's funding for the Green Climate Fund is drawn from the UK's International Climate Fund.
    (220115)
77
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy in funding overseas aid to consider its effect on reducing immigration to the UK.
    (220111)
78
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent (a) financial and (b) other assistance her Department has given for children in Palestine.
    (220071)
79
N
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2014 to Question 198148, how much of the £2,809,462 provided to the Pitcairn Islands was allocated to each of the categories listed in that Answer.
    (220056)
80
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215243, how many times all members of the Advisory Committee to the Phillips Review met to discuss the report (a) before and (b) after it was submitted to the Secretary of State.
    (220085)
81
N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what amount his Department has spent on legal fees in judicial review cases in which it was found to have acted unlawfully since 2010.
    (220082)
82
N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) gross and (b) net amount likely to be collected through the criminal courts charge in each of the next five financial years.
    (220084)
83
N
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for each quarter since the introduction of employment tribunal fees, what the target for collection of employment tribunal fees was in each quarter since the introduction of such fees; what sum was collected in such fees; what the costs of such collection were; what value in such fees was waived under remission; what the cost of setting up the remission scheme was; and what overall net sum was received.
    (220109)
84
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many shifts were staffed below risk-assessed levels at (a) Liverpool and (b) Holyhead Maritime Rescue Co-ordination centres in (i) June 2013, (ii) December 2013, (iii) June 2014 and (iv) December 2014.
    (220038)
85
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many hours of shift time were staffed below risk-assessed levels at (a) Liverpool and (b) Holyhead Maritime Rescue Co-ordination centres in (i) June 2013, (ii) December 2013, (iii) June 2014 and (iv) December 2014.
    (220039)
86
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff were employed at (a) Liverpool and (b) Holyhead Maritime Rescue Co-ordination centres in (i) June 2013, (ii) December 2013, (iii) June 2014 and (iv) December 2014.
    (220040)
87
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff transferred from Liverpool Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre to Holyhead Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre between January 2012 and January 2015.
    (220041)
88
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many hours of training Holyhead staff have received from staff at the Liverpool Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre on knowledge of the coastline currently covered by Liverpool Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre.
    (220042)
89
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what notification he received from Network Rail or Southern Rail of potential problems with the re-opening of London Bridge station after Christmas 2014.
    (220081)
90
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many drivers under the age of 24 were injured in a road accident in each of the last five years.
    (220008)
91
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many drivers under the age of 24 were killed in a road accident in each of the last five years.
    (220009)
92
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's guidance is on recommended response times to correspondence to Ministers from hon. Members.
    (220010)
93
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average response time has been for each Minister in his Department to correspondence from hon. Members in each month of the last two years.
    (220011)
94
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the Minister for Disabled People's replies to correspondence from hon. Members have taken longer than (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 15 and (d) 20 working days in each month of the last two years.
    (220014)
95
N
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff worked on his Department's ministerial correspondence in each year since 2010.
    (220136)
96
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability organisations which responded to his Department's consultation on the closure of the Independent Living Fund (a) supported and (b) opposed non-ring-fenced funding.
    (220029)
97
N
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability organisations stated in their responses to the consultation on the future of the Independent Living Fund in 2012 that they were (a) supportive of and (b) opposed to the closure of the fund.
    (220112)
98
N
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the inclusion of French Overseas Departments in the calculation of average temperature for France for the purposes of determining eligibility for winter fuel payments to UK citizens.
    (220107)
99
N
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Logistics Strategy Forum of the Health and Safety Executive has discussed driver fatigue.
    (220106)
100
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are working for the universal credit digital service; whether the number of those workers is below the planned number; and if he will make a statement.
    (219986)
101
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Labour Market Statistics, December 2014, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the rise in the number of claimants of employment and support allowance and other incapacity benefits.
    (219987)
102
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the staff in his Department responsible for the Work Programme are divided between those dealing with contracting and those dealing with performance; and what assessment he has made of the effect of that division on his Department's efficiency.
    (219991)
Tuesday 13 January  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
 
★ 1
Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): What steps he is taking to improve mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in (a) Peterborough and (b) England; and if he will make a statement.
    (906953)
★ 2
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): What steps he is taking to improve ambulance response times.
    (906954)
★ 3
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): What the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in the most recent period for which figures are available.
    (906955)
★ 4
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A&E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
    (906956)
★ 5
Robert Halfon (Harlow): What steps have been taken to help the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow deal with extra pressure over the winter.
    (906957)
★ 6
Charlie Elphicke (Dover): What assessment he has made of the level of improvement made by East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust since it was put into special measures.
    (906958)
★ 7
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): With reference to his Department's publication, Transforming care: a national response to Winterbourne View Hospital, published in December 2012, if he will take steps to ensure that the statutory guidance implementing the adult autism strategy uses clear language and is mandatory.
    (906959)
★ 8
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): What the clinical reasons are for plans to close Calderdale Royal Hospital A&E department.
    (906960)
★ 9
Chloe Smith (Norwich North): What steps have been taken to support NHS hospitals in meeting increased demand in winter 2014-15.
    (906961)
★ 10
Mark Pawsey (Rugby): What steps his Department is taking to ensure support for smaller district hospitals.
    (906962)
★ 11
Robert Jenrick (Newark): What proportion of 111 calls resulted in an ambulance being called in the most recent period for which figures are available.
    (906963)
★ 12
Derek Twigg (Halton): What recent assessment he has made of the reasons for increased attendances at A&E departments in 2014.
    (906964)
★ 13
Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood): What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A&E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
    (906965)
★ 14
Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury): How many nurses worked in the NHS (a) in 2010 and (b) on the most recent date for which figures are available.
    (906966)
★ 15
Julian Sturdy (York Outer): What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A&E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
    (906967)
★ 16
Henry Smith (Crawley): What progress his Department has made on its long-term plans for easing pressures on A&E departments and preparing the NHS for the future.
    (906968)
★ 17
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): What progress has been made on conducting tests identified by the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority as critical before the implementation of mitochondrial transfer regulations.
    (906969)
★ 18
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What assessment he has made of the effect of social care budget changes on A&E attendances.
    (906970)
★ 19
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): What assessment he has made of the (a) Government's genomics programme and (b) work of the Department of Translational Medicine at Birmingham University to offer new treatments for cancer.
    (906971)
★ 20
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): How many patients waited longer than four hours in A&E departments in 2014.
    (906972)
★ 21
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): How many patients attended A&E departments in (a) 2010 and (b) 2014.
    (906973)
★ 22
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): How many patients waited longer than four hours in A&E departments in 2014.
    (906974)
★ 23
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): What steps he is taking to resolve the pay dispute iin the NHS.
    (906975)
★ 24
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): If he will commission research on the reasons for people going to a GP surgery.
    (906976)
★ 25
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): What recent representations he has received on hospital services in the North East of England.
    (906977)
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
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (906943)
★ 2
Dame Angela Watkinson (Hornchurch and Upminster):  
    (906944)
★ 3
Duncan Hames (Chippenham):  
    (906945)
★ 4
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak):  
    (906946)
★ 5
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford):  
    (906947)
★ 6
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester):  
    (906948)
★ 7
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):  
    (906949)
★ 8
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge):  
    (906950)
★ 9
Kevin Barron (Rother Valley):  
    (906951)
★ 10
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East):  
    (906952)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 6 January

1
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what recent discussions the Commission has had with the appropriate trades unions regarding the position of employees of the House of Commons whose duties are such that they cannot be carried out during the period of Dissolution of Parliament; and if he will make a statement.
    (219961)

Notices given on Wednesday 7 January

1
N
Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Supreme Court decision on the Abortion Act 1967 in relation to staff of NHS Greater Glasgow and North Clyde in December 2014, if he will take steps to protect individual rights of conscience for administrative personnel in the NHS and ensure that the decisions of those who do not wish to be involved in any aspect of abortion procedures are respected; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to clarify the legal rights of healthcare workers across the UK in relation to this issue.
[Transferred]   (219895)
2
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) UK and (ii) other EU students started undergraduate higher education courses in England in (A) 2013-14 and (B) 2014-15.
    (220139)
3
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the number of additional students that will enter higher education in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18 as a result of the removal of the cap on student numbers.
    (220140)
4
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the additional costs of (a) the face value of student loans, (b) the resource costs of student loans, (c) teaching grant through the Higher Education Funding Council for England, (d) maintenance grant that will arise from the removal of the cap on student numbers.
    (220141)
5
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many additional students entered higher education in 2014-15 as a result of the increase in the cap on student numbers announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement.
    (220142)
Wednesday 14 January  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
 
★ 1
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East): If he will make it his policy that responsibility for licensing shale gas extraction should be devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
    (906918)
★ 2
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): What change there has been in the level of child poverty in Scotland since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
    (906919)
★ 3
Dame Angela Watkinson (Hornchurch and Upminster): What assessment he has made of the potential effect on businesses in Scotland of the removal of the requirement for employers to pay National Insurance Contributions in respect of employees under the age of 21 and apprentices under the age of 25.
    (906920)
★ 4
Mr Mike Weir (Angus): What steps the Government is taking to maintain existing Scottish rail services on and connected to the East Coast Mainline.
    (906921)
★ 5
Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute): What assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of broadband and mobile phone coverage in rural Scotland.
    (906922)
★ 6
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): What discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on job losses in Scotland resulting from City Link entering administration.
    (906923)
★ 7
Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble): What the next steps are for implementation of the Smith Commission proposals.
    (906924)
★ 8
Mike Crockart (Edinburgh West): What discussions he has had with the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries on how effectively the Government is protecting vulnerable consumers in Scotland from nuisance calls.
    (906925)
★ 9
John Mann (Bassetlaw): What assessment he has made of the level of anti-Semitism in Scotland.
    (906926)
★ 10
John Robertson (Glasgow North West): What estimate he has made of the effect on tax revenue from Scotland of the recent fall in the price of oil.
    (906927)
★ 11
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): What discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on support for the oil and gas sector in Scotland.
    (906928)
★ 12
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): What plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to devolve responsibility for the franchise in Scottish Parliament elections to the Scottish Parliament.
    (906929)
★ 13
Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw): What assessment he has made of the potential effect on jobs in Scotland of the fall in the price of oil.
    (906930)
★ 14
John Stevenson (Carlisle): What assessment he has made of recent trends in the number of visitors to Scotland and their contribution to the economy in Scotland.
    (906931)
★ 15
Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North): What discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues and Ministers of the Scottish Government on the relationship between oil prices and travel costs for cross-border commuters.
    (906932)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 2 January

1
N
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that biometric material is taken from and retained in respect of suspected criminals in England and Wales who have been convicted of serious offences previously in (a) Scotland, (b) Northern Ireland and (c) other EU countries; and if she will make a statement.
    (219655)
Thursday 15 January  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 7 January

1
N
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that UN Security Council Resolutions 2098 and 2147 are implemented in full and that effective steps are taken to demobilise and disband the FDLR from North and South Kivu; and if he will make a statement.
    (220017)
Friday 16 January  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 6 January

1
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which people, excluding Ministers and Diplomats, have represented the Government at inaugurations abroad since May 2010; and what the cost was of that representation in each such case.
    (219962)
Tuesday 20 January  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 7 January

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to reduce the number of fatal shootings of cats; and if she will make a statement.
    (219993)

Prepared 8th January 2015