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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Wednesday 11 February 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.
[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.
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Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Tuesday 10 February 2015

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Wednesday 11 February 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.

Wednesday 11 February  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
 
★ 2
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): What recent representations he has received on religious organisations and charitable status.
    (907553)
★ 3
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): What progress he has made on implementing his Department's transparency agenda.
    (907554)
★ 4
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): What his policy is on promoting the formation of public sector mutuals.
    (907555)
★ 6
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Government Digital Service.
    (907557)
★ 7
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): What change there has been in the proportion of government procurement made through small businesses and the voluntary sector since May 2010.
    (907558)
★ 8
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): What system is used for identifying potential candidates for public appointments.
    (907559)
★ 9
Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex): What plans he has to improve the effectiveness of his Department in co-ordinating planning and implementation across government departments.
    (907560)
★ 10
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): When he last met the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to discuss the extent of her powers and responsibilities.
    (907561)
★ 12
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): What recent discussions he has had with his minsiterial colleagues in other Departments on disposal of redundant government buildings; and if he will make a statement.
    (907563)
★ 13
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What progress has been made on ensuring that the Government disposes of properties which it no longer needs.
    (907564)
★ 14
Nia Griffith (Llanelli): What his policy is on the deduction of trade union subscriptions from payroll in the Civil Service.
    (907565)
★ 15
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): When he last met the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority.
    (907566)
At 11.53am
Topical Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (907582)
★ 2
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):  
    (907583)
★ 3
Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon):  
    (907584)
★ 4
John Mann (Bassetlaw):  
    (907585)
★ 5
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):  
    (907586)
★ 6
Peter Aldous (Waveney):  
    (907587)
★ 7
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North):  
    (907588)
★ 8
Neil Carmichael (Stroud):  
    (907589)
★ 9
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck):  
    (907590)
★ 10
Charlie Elphicke (Dover):  
    (907591)
At 12 noon
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister
Unless otherwise indicated the Members listed below will ask a question without notice
★ 1
Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 11 February.
    (907567)
★ 2
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun):  
    (907568)
★ 3
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central):  
    (907569)
★ 4
Maria Miller (Basingstoke):  
    (907570)
★ 5
Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden):  
    (907571)
★ 6
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire):  
    (907572)
★ 7
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough):  
    (907573)
★ 8
Richard Drax (South Dorset):  
    (907574)
★ 9
Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West):  
    (907575)
★ 10
Karen Lumley (Redditch):  
    (907576)
★ 11
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington):  
    (907577)
★ 12
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):  
    (907578)
★ 13
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley):  
    (907579)
★ 14
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield):  
    (907580)
★ 15
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): If he will commission a new Magna Carta to renew democracy in the UK as part of the celebrations of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta; and if he will make a statement.
    (907581)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 5 February

1
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of the title of each file that has been destroyed by his Department in the last 12 months.
    (223625)
2
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's record and retention policy; when that policy was last reviewed; and if he will make a statement.
    (223626)
3
N
Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 on charities.
    (907552)
4
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 on campaigning by charities.
    (907556)
5
N
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 on charities.
    (907562)

Notices given on Friday 6 February

1
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students have gone to university from Bradford in each year between 2001 and 2014.
    (223725)
2
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222628, when he expects to be able to release data on unemployment figures for December 2014.
    (223698)
3
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Artsmark programme in measuring (a) arts provision and (b) participation in the arts.
    (223701)
4
N
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing participation in (a) music, (b) drama, (c) dance and (d) art at secondary school level.
    (223727)
5
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of A-level students at schools and colleges in Dudley North constituency that were in the top 20 per cent of attainers nationally in 2014.
    (223712)
6
N
Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many entrants there were into initial teacher education in England in the academic years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and what the level of recruitment of such entrants for the forthcoming academic year was at 1 February 2015.
    (223692)
7
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school places have been created in Bradford since 2010.
    (223723)
8
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free school places have been created in Bradford since 2010.
    (223724)
9
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total schools budget in Bradford was in each year between 2005 and 2010.
    (223726)
10
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school places have been created in Bradford since 2010.
    (223743)
11
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to ensure that families with children are treated as a vulnerable group by energy companies.
    (223710)
12
N
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of homes under multiple occupancy that are covered by the regulations fobidding landlords to let properties that are below Energy Performance Certificate E after 2018.
    (223722)
13
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the money that will be raised as a result of the steps his Department is taking to ensure greater recovery of the costs of NHS care provided to visitors and migrants from (a) EEA countries and (b) non-EEA countries in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) each of the next three financial years.
    (223699)
14
N
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on which occasions the Ethiopian government requested the return of Mr Andargachew Tsige to its jurisdiction since 2004; and what response was given to those requests.
    (223711)
15
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of the police grant provided by her Department to Surrey Police was in each year from 2009-10 to 2015-16.
    (223700)
16
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the final decision on whether to appoint a candidate to the role of Chief Inspector of (a) Probation and (b) Prisons rests with the Secretary of State alone.
    (223728)
17
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Mr Paul McDowell will receive in the financial package agreed as part of his resignation as Chief Inspector of Probation.
    (223729)
18
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to what conditions and restrictions imposed by his Department Mr Paul McDowell will be subject in seeking future employment.
    (223730)
19
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he was first informed that Mr Paul McDowell had tendered his resignation as Chief Inspector of Probation; and when he accepted that resignation.
    (223731)
20
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times and on what dates he met Mr Paul McDowell during the period in which he held the post of Chief Inspector of Probation.
    (223732)
21
N
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the provisions in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 on pavement parking.
    (223702)

Notices given on Monday 9 February

1
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the level of reported crime was for each type of offence, in the Surrey police force area in each year since 2009.
[Transferred]   (223713)
2
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222508, what steps her Department is taking to improve its tracking and monitoring at (a) local authority and (b) national level of young people at risk of (i) having an unknown educational status and (ii) not being in employment, education or training.
[Transferred]   (223697)
3
 
Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to (a) encourage firms to pay a fair wage to workers in their overseas supply chains and (b) stop other forms of exploitation of those workers.
    (223816)
4
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to support exports of UK textile manufacturing.
    (223754)
5
 
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of population growth on local government finance needs.
    (223874)
6
 
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to link local government finance settlements to ONS population growth figures.
    (223875)
7
 
Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to compensate (a) Newham, (b) other councils in East London and (c) other areas in the UK where population growth is above average for the increased demand for council services resulting from population growth.
    (223876)
8
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222916, what the total cost to Birmingham City Council will be of funding the Independent Improvement Panel.
    (223766)
9
 
John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the level of Sefton Council's (a) allocated and (b) unallocated reserves.
  [R] (223746)
10
 
John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have bid for each round of the Coastal Communities Fund but have so far received no funding.
    (223747)
11
 
John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which coastal resorts have received support in more than (a) one round and (b) two rounds of coastal communities funding awards.
    (223748)
12
 
Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to (a) tackle the gender pay gap in the video games industry and (b) increase the number of women.
    (223749)
13
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are in receipt of a war disablement pension in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
    (223834)
14
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the phrase Armed Forces Covenant since January 2012.
    (223837)
15
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the advertising budget was for the Forces Help to Buy campaign in the last 24 months; and how much of that budget has been spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the phrase Forces Help to Buy in that period.
    (223903)
16
 
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the phrase Armed Forces Reserves in the last 24 months.
    (223904)
17
 
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of the fence in Barne Barton proposed in Plymouth City Council planning application 14/02413/FUL.
    (223839)
18
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential cost of the Government's plans to abolish the AS level qualification.
    (223756)
19
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many medium wind turbines deemed excessively de-rated have been granted pre-accreditation or have been commissioned in (a) 1 April 2010 to 30 November 2012 at £22.16 per kWh, (b) 1 December 2012 to 31 March 2014 at £18.83 per kWh, (c) 1 April 2014 to 30 September 2014 at £15.06 per kWh, (d) 1 October 2014 to 31 March 2015 at £13.55 per kWh and (e) 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 at £12.05 per kWh.
    (223773)
20
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when his Department first became aware of wind turbines being excessively de-rated in order for generators to benefit from higher than intended feed-in tariffs; and if he will make a statement.
    (223774)
21
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress he has made on addressing manufacturers selling wind turbines which have been de-rated to allow them to benefit from higher tariffs within the feed-in tariff; and if he will make a statement.
    (223775)
22
 
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many wind turbines have been deployed in each county within the ›100-500kW feed-in tariff to date.
    (223776)
23
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to enforce humane standards in slaughterhouses; and if she will make a statement.
    (223769)
24
 
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the labelling requirements are for the sale of halal meat.
    (223906)
25
 
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK-based private security companies operating in (a) Israel and (b) the Occupied Palestinian Territories adhere to the International Code of Conduct for private security service providers; and if he will make a statement.
    (223825)
26
 
Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2015 to Question 222138, which organisations are involved in the process of clearing home-owners' applications to the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism; how many applicants have been rejected during that process; and what the involvement of the Israeli Government in assessing the security risks associated with each application.
    (223830)
27
 
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo on (a) the adoption of a new global army plan and defence strategy, (b) other reforms in the security sector and (c) legislation creating specialised mixed chambers.
    (223753)
28
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many breast reconstruction operations were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (223744)
29
 
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of IVF cycle procedures that were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (223745)
30
 
Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many days of staff sickness absence there were in (a) Derriford Hospital and (b) Mount Gould Hospital in 2014.
    (223907)
31
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of alcohol-related harm in each of the last 10 years.
    (223833)
32
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in receipt of war disablement pensions access local authority support for non-residential care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
    (223835)
33
 
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in receipt of a War Disablement Pension access local authority support for residential social care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
    (223836)
34
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 29 January 2015 to Question 222677, what assessment he has made of whether the way in which patients are able to access, or are notified of, services such as bowel screening or e-referrals will change when patient data begins being extracted under the care.data programme.
    (223762)
35
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 29 January 2015 to Question 222677, what assessment he has made of whether the change in data paths under the care.data programme will affect the indirect care that can be provided to people who opt-out of that programme.
    (223763)
36
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the health data of people who have opted out of the care.data programme has been shared with non-NHS organisations.
    (223764)
37
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effects of the work strategic clinical networks has had on (a) cancer outcomes and (b) quality of cancer services since April 2013.
    (223751)
38
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West had to wait on trolleys for more than 12 hours to be admitted to a hospital ward or treated and sent home in the last 12 months.
    (223758)
39
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of ambulance A&E responses for red 1 patients in Preston have exceeded the mandatory response time of eight minutes in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
    (223759)
40
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of ambulance A&E responses for red 2 patients in Preston have exceeded the mandatory response time of between eight and 19 minutes in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
    (223760)
41
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many instances of ambulances queuing were reported at Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
    (223761)
42
 
Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for mental health talking therapies in (a) England, (b) the North West, (c) East Lancashire and (d) Hyndburn constituency.
    (223817)
43
 
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the number of patients involved in stroke research trials.
    (223832)
44
 
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Patient Safety Alert: Improving medication error incident reporting and learning, published by NHS England on 20 March 2014, which NHS trusts have (a) indentified a board level director with responsibility to oversee medication error incident reporting and learning; (b) e-mailed the contact details of a Medication Safety Officer to the Central Alerting System; and (c) identified a multi-professional group to regularly review medication error incident reports.
    (223770)
45
 
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Patient Safety Alert: Improving medication error incident reporting and learning, published by NHS England on 20 March 2014, what progress he has made in developing the National Medication Safety Network; and what channels are available for patient groups to make representations to the National Medication Safety Network.
    (223771)
46
 
Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Clinical Priorities Action Group has made in the review of the treatment duodopa for living with Parkinson's disease; and how the views of those affected by Parkinson's disease are being taken into account in that review.
    (223838)
47
 
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Care Quality Commission inspection reports have been published within the 50-day target period in the last 12 months.
    (223752)
48
 
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of delays in the delivery of continence and ostomy devices to patients resulting from a lack of access to Dispensing Appliance Contractor licences for small and medium-sized suppliers of continence devices.
    (223772)
49
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the capacity of NHS trusts to provide breast radiology services.
    (223767)
50
 
Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to publish the results of the consultation for the NHS England Research and Development Strategy.
    (223768)
51
 
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons guidance on charging for social care for injured veterans differs depending on whether the injury was sustained before or after 5 April 2005.
    (223818)
52
 
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review rules on social care charging for veterans in receipt of the War Disablement Pension.
    (223819)
53
 
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce funding allocations for schools, colleges and universities through the Prevent strategy in 2015-16.
    (223826)
54
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) passport renewal and (b) a first passport were classified as in progress in each month since June 2014.
    (223877)
55
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of General Aviation private flights were (a) classified as high risk and (b) met by Border Force officials on arrival in the last 12 months.
    (223878)
56
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many general aviation pre-flight passenger notifications were (a) submitted and (b) not submitted to Border Force officials in each year since 2010.
    (223894)
57
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passengers entering the UK had data on their journey collected under the E-borders programme in each year since 2009.
    (223896)
58
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who overstayed a visa in each year since 2010.
    (223897)
59
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights on the Civil Aviation Tracking System were found not to have submitted general aviation reports after Border Force cross-checking in each year since 2010.
    (223898)
60
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many general aviation flights were met by border officers in each year since 2010; and how many such flights were classified as high risk.
    (223899)
61
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who required a visa to be present in the UK have been found to be without the necessary visa in each year since 2010.
    (223900)
62
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passengers have travelled to the UK on routes connected to the Semaphore system since 2009.
    (223901)
63
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seizures of controlled drugs of what value have been undertaken by Border Force officials in each year since 2010.
    (223902)
64
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were in front-line service with the Lancashire Constabulary (a) in 2010 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available.
    (223755)
65
 
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disability hate crimes were reported in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013 and (v) 2014.
    (223757)
66
 
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to her Department's commitment to support a reduction in the average time taken for goods to cross international borders in the locations in which the Africa Free Trade Initiative operates, what assessment she has made of her Department's performance in meeting that commitment; and what change there has been in that average time since the commencement of her Department's involvement.
    (223750)
67
 
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to develop its framework on health systems strengthening.
    (223905)
68
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 214939, for each of the 13 offenders who had escaped or absconded from prison more than once (a) which offences led to the offender receiving the original prison sentence, (b) what length of sentence each was serving at the time of the escape or abscond, (c) what the offender's previous criminal history was, (d) what offences were committed by the offender following the escape or abscond from prison before their return to custody and (e) what additional prison sentence was given for each escape or abscond.
    (223893)
69
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders released from custody after serving a sentence handed down following the riots in London in 2011 have subsequently been convicted of a further offence and received a non-custodial sentence for that offence.
    (223895)
70
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each year since 2009 have received prison sentences for employing illegal immigrants.
    (223879)
71
 
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value is of fines (a) levied against and (b) collected from business prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants in each year since 2009.
    (223880)
72
 
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she last met representatives of the Police Federation of Northern Ireland.
    (223827)
73
 
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions she has had with the Minister for Justice in the Northern Ireland Executive on changes to police pensions.
    (223828)
74
 
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she last met representatives of the Northern Ireland Prison Service.
    (223829)
75
 
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions she has had with retired or retiring members of the Police Federation on the new public service pension regulations for police officers.
    (223881)
76
 
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds about costs incurred by people using the Disability Living Allowance Helpline; and if he will make a statement.
    (223824)
77
 
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts his Department has awarded to private sector organisations in each of the last five years; and what the value of those contracts was.
    (223765)
Thursday 12 February  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
 
★ 1
Mr Andrew Robathan (South Leicestershire): What assistance his Department provides to small farm companies in supply chains.
    (907592)
★ 2
Jim McGovern (Dundee West): What discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues in the Department for Education and Department for Culture, Media and Sport and with the devolved administrations on ensuring that their policies meet the skills needs of the technology and video games sectors.
    (907593)
★ 3
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What steps he is taking to increase the number of engineers.
    (907594)
★ 4
Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): How many new apprenticeship schemes have been created in Halifax constituency since 2010.
    (907595)
★ 5
Robert Halfon (Harlow): What steps the Government has taken to promote small businesses.
    (907596)
★ 6
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): What steps he plans to take to safeguard the universal service obligation for the delivery of mail.
    (907597)
★ 7
Pat Glass (North West Durham): If he will take steps to increase apprenticeship places and support small businesses through greater use of government procurement.
    (907598)
★ 8
Karl McCartney (Lincoln): What recent support he has provided to small businesses.
    (907599)
★ 9
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): If he will take steps to increase apprenticeship places and support small businesses through greater use of government procurement.
    (907600)
★ 10
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): What assessment he has made of the sustainability of the student loan system.
    (907601)
★ 11
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): If he will review the use by banks of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme.
    (907602)
★ 12
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): If he will take steps to ensure that employees working on zero-hours contracts, who are in practice working regular hours over an extended period, have the right to a fixed-term contract.
    (907603)
★ 13
Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): What steps he is taking to support small and medium-sized businesses who wish to export.
    (907604)
★ 14
Mark Menzies (Fylde): What steps he is taking to support the manufacturing sector.
    (907605)
★ 15
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): What steps he is taking to promote investment in innovation in the manufacturing sector.
    (907606)
★ 16
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): What recent assessment he has made of the availability of finance for small firms and the level of lending by banks to small businesses.
    (907607)
★ 17
Duncan Hames (Chippenham): What steps he is taking to remove financial barriers to postgraduate education.
    (907608)
★ 18
Karen Lumley (Redditch): What steps his Department is taking to increase the number of apprenticeships.
    (907609)
★ 19
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): What recent assessment he has made of the contribution of the UK's EU membership to businesses and the UK economy.
    (907610)
★ 20
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): If his Department will make an assessment of the main causes of insecurity in the workplace.
    (907611)
★ 21
Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute): What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the location of the UK's first spaceport.
    (907612)
★ 22
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): What steps his Department is taking to increase the number of apprenticeships.
    (907613)
★ 23
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): What steps he is taking to widen access to higher education.
    (907614)
★ 24
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): What recent representations he has received from businesses on the effect of infrastructure on business growth.
    (907615)
★ 25
Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon): What the Government's policy is on the creation of the Digital Single Market; and if he will make a statement.
    (907616)
At 10.15am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (907617)
★ 2
Jim McGovern (Dundee West):  
    (907618)
★ 3
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck):  
    (907619)
★ 4
Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon):  
    (907620)
★ 5
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West):  
    (907621)
★ 6
Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West):  
    (907622)
★ 7
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham):  
    (907623)
★ 8
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):  
    (907624)
★ 9
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East):  
    (907625)
★ 10
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South):  
    (907626)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 9 February

1
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to change Ordnance Survey into a Government-owned company.
    (223843)
2
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to protect organisations and businesses in the UK from cybercrime and large-scale cyber-attack.
    (223889)
3
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the nature and the extent of voluntary work undertaken as part of the National Citizen Service in England.
    (223910)
4
N
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 2.2 of the report The Performance of the Cabinet Office 2013-14, published by the National Audit Office in November 2014, when he expects the reports commissioned by his Department on examining the barriers faced by people (a) who declare disabilities, (b) from minority ethnic backgrounds and (c) who are LGBT in the civil service to be published.
    (223890)
5
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which department has lead responsibility for international counter-narcotics policy.
    (223814)
6
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of allowing savings bonds for older people to be used as part of an ISA.
    (223777)
7
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the number of people currently paying income tax who would not pay that tax if the threshold at which it begins to be payable were to be raised to £15,000 per annum.
    (223778)
8
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many basic rate taxpayers there are in each Parliamentary constituency in the UK.
    (223886)
9
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222161, what estimate he has made of the extent of the increase in UK GDP provided by falling oil prices.
    (223913)
10
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February to Question 222929, if he will make an assessment of the effect on the market for Cloud services of refunding VAT for contracted-out-services but not for Cloud services.
    (223871)
11
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many first time buyers have been assisted by the Help to Buy scheme in (a) Lancashire and (b) the UK.
    (223864)
12
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 218966, whether he plans to publish financial data on national non-domestic rates before 12 February 2015.
    (223911)
13
N
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what projects in the City of Bristol have been supported by the Near Neighbours fund in each year since that fund was established; and how much that fund has awarded in total.
    (223888)
14
N
Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance he has issued to local authorities about the use of (a) Twitter and (b) other social media to communicate with the public.
    (223808)
15
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to inform older people about the implications of digital radio switchover.
    (223779)
16
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to roll out superfast broadband in rural areas.
    (223865)
17
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2014 to Question 222384, what the digital and video on demand outlets were and how much was spent with Facebook.
    (223868)
18
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2014 to Question 222384, whether regional data is available on any of the campaign spend.
    (223869)
19
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the advertising budget is for the Troops for Teachers campaign; and how much his Department has spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the phrase Troops for Teachers since January 2012.
    (223855)
20
N
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the advertising budget is for the Defence Discount Service campaign; and how much his Department has spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the phrase Defence Discount Service since January 2012.
    (223856)
21
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people serving in the Army Reserve left in each year since 2010.
    (223862)
22
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216388, if he will provide funding for Normandy Veterans to return to sites of Remembrance they choose rather than to sites chosen by the Royal British Legion as part of the D-Day Return scheme.
    (223850)
23
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216388, if he will permit Normandy Veterans to apply for funding for independent travel to Normandy as part of the D-Day Return scheme.
    (223851)
24
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recipients of war disablement pensions there are in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
    (223822)
25
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason officials in her Department told the hon. Member for Walsall North that she would not be accompanied by a prospective parliamentary candidate on her visit to an academy in that constituency on 9 February 2015; and if she will make a statement.
    (223845)
26
N
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she told the academy in the Walsall North constituency that she was going to visit on 9 February 2015.
    (223846)
27
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the finding of the Evaluation of the Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme Phase Two, published by his Department on 28 January 2015, that 78 per cent of renewable heating installations in private homes were likely or very likely to have gone ahead in the absence of subsidy, what assessment he has made of the scope to revise that scheme to ensure better value for money.
    (223800)
28
N
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2015 to Question 221753, whether his Department's three fossil fuel price projections used in policy-making include a projection in which the recent change in fossil fuel prices resembling the recent worldwide fall in such prices.
    (223842)
29
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which chemicals authorised for use in pest control are detrimental to human health.
    (223870)
30
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department takes to monitor compliance with the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
    (223782)
31
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what training his Department has provided to service and other personnel on the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
    (223783)
32
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
    (223784)
33
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of British citizens who have travelled to Syria and Iraq to support forces opposed to Islamic State.
    (223854)
34
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Pakistan in support of resuming the moratorium on the death penalty in that country; and what assessment he has made of the prospects for a lasting moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan.
    (223786)
35
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the role of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.
    (223787)
36
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation of the Saharawi population in Western Sahara; and what discussions he has had with the government of Morocco on this issue.
    (223788)
37
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of Morocco's compliance with the (a) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, (b) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and (c) Convention on the Rights of the Child.
    (223789)
38
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals are under sentence of death in Pakistan; and what assistance his Department is providing to each of them.
    (223790)
39
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2015 to Question 219495, how much the NHS plans to spend on commissioning independent providers (a) in total and (b) excluding not-for-profit providers in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
    (223802)
40
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2015 to Question 219495, how much the NHS spent on commissioning for-profit providers in (a) each of the last five full financial years and (b) 2014-15 to date.
    (223803)
41
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places for (a) midwives, (b) adult nurses, (c) children's nurses, (d) learning disabilities nurses and (e) mental health nurses were (i) commissioned and (ii) filed in each year since 2010-11.
    (223887)
42
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason war disablement pensions are not fully exempted from local authority means tests for social care while Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Guaranteed Income Payments are so exempted.
    (223791)
43
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of cataract surgery procedures that were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (223792)
44
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many knee replacement operations were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (223793)
45
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many hip replacement operations were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (223794)
46
N
Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many varicose vein surgery procedures were carried out by the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the most recent year for which figures are available.
    (223795)
47
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 222671, what recommended alternatives to (a) eribulin, (b) lapatinib and (c) everolimus are available to treat breast cancer; and what clinical benefits each alternative offers in terms of (i) progression free survival, (ii) overall survival, (iii) quality of life and (iv) toxicity.
    (223908)
48
N
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 222670, on what grounds the removal of cancer drugs from the national Cancer Drugs Fund list can be appealed; and by when such appeals must be made.
    (223909)
49
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many speech and language therapists were employed in England and Wales by (a) the NHS and (b) all providers in each year since 2005.
    (223882)
50
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research evidence the NHS uses to indicate how to select the most appropriate treatment approach for an individual parent or child in stammer cases.
    (223883)
51
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data his Department holds on long term outcomes for children who stammer.
    (223884)
52
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies of long term outcomes for children who stammer his Department has conducted or commissioned through a long term national cohort study of children from early years to adulthood.
    (223885)
53
N
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans NHS England has to support patients with cirrhosis to access treatment for hepatitis C after the waiver for the implementation period of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance for the medicine sofosbuvir.
    (223796)
54
N
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with NHS England on the fast track interim policy agreed by NHS England during the appraisal of sofosbuvir by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence.
    (223797)
55
N
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) treatments for mitochondrial disease involving mitochondrial donation and (b) treatments for mitochondrial disease that do not involve mitochondrial donation in each of the next five financial years.
    (223866)
56
N
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to monitor the long-term health and wellbeing of (a) people born following mitochondrial donation who have passed the age of 18 and choose not to remain part of a clinical trial and (b) the descendants of people born following mitochondrial donation.
    (223867)
57
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will increase spending on stroke research to the same level as the spending on cancer and coronary heart disease research.
    (223831)
58
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report Research spend in the UK, published by the Stroke Association on 3 December 2014, what assessment he has made of the findings of that report; and if he will make a statement.
    (223841)
59
N
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve stroke research capacity in the UK.
    (223849)
60
N
John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for the Peaks Unit at Rampton Hospital.
    (223815)
61
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many type one A&E departments there were in (a) May 2010 and (b) the latest month for which figures are available.
    (223798)
62
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS walk-in centres there were in (a) May 2010 and (b) the latest month for which figures are available.
    (223799)
63
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs (a) excluding retainers and registrars and (b) including retainers but excluding registrars per one million population there were in (i) England and (ii) each Health Education England region in each year since 2009-10.
    (223809)
64
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses, excluding midwives and health visitors per one million population there were in (a) England and (b) each Health Education England region in each year since 2009-10.
    (223810)
65
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for research into mesothelioma.
    (223915)
66
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recipients of war disablement pensions access local authority support for non-residential care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
    (223820)
67
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recipients of war disablement pensions access local authority support for residential care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
    (223821)
68
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of fully exempting war disablement pensions from means tests for social care in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in 2014-15.
    (223823)
69
N
Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses in North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have had their pay downgraded as a consequence of national consultations; and if he will make a statement.
    (223812)
70
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people applied for British passports through the Passport section of the British Embassy in Dublin between 2011 and 2014.
    (223780)
71
N
Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour injunctions have been issued in each quarter of the last two years for which figures are available.
    (223781)
72
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which licensing authorities have introduced a late night levy in each of the last four years; and how much she estimates the levy has raised in each such authority in each of those years.
    (223914)
73
N
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met representatives of the Police Federation of Northern Ireland.
    (223848)
74
N
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to discuss the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
    (223844)
75
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that police forces (a) have a strategy and (b) are properly trained to respond to cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
    (223891)
76
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into online child abuse have been delayed for 12 months or longer after being reported to the National Crime Agency; and how long the average delay is in investigating such cases.
    (223892)
77
N
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, how much is being spent on works between Canon Row and Norman Shaw North; and what benefits to the functioning of the House will result from those works.
    (223840)
78
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's budget was allocated to least developed countries in 2014-15.
    (223847)
79
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2015 to Question 220355, what steps she is taking to monitor the commitments made at the Girl Summit.
    (223912)
80
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to the protection of children in emergencies in each of the last 10 years.
    (223852)
81
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her strategy is for the protection of children in countries receiving UK aid.
    (223853)
82
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in severance and redundancy packages to prison officers in each month since May 2014.
    (223857)
83
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the eligibility criteria for legal aid are for those seeking Female Genital Mutilation protection orders.
    (223858)
84
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for legal aid in domestic violence cases were (a) granted and (b) refused in (i) the last full financial year before the provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into force and (ii) in each financial year since those provisions came into force.
    (223859)
85
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has saved as a result of the implementation of each of the legal aid provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
    (223860)
86
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have taken severance and redundancy packages in each month since May 2014.
    (223861)
87
N
Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will give a direction under section 59A of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 that the Intelligence Services Commissioner review the Consolidated Guidance to Intelligence Officers and Service Personnel applicable to the passing of intelligence relating to individuals who are at risk of targeted lethal strikes.
    (223785)
88
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road deaths there have been in (a) Lancashire and (b) the UK in each year since 2010.
    (223863)
89
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the minutes of his Department's Executive Committee meetings since November 2012.
    (223801)
90
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 35099 of his Department's hardship payment guidance, if he will review that guidance.
    (223872)
91
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) small, (b) micro and (c) large employers are signed up to the real-time information system for the purposes of universal credit; and how many claims for universal credit have been made through the real-time information system by December 2014.
    (223813)
92
N
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects that the new Data Warehouse intended to facilitate strategic management information reporting on the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme (CMS) will come fully into operation; and for what reason the planned implementation date of 2014 anticipated in his Department's strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 CMS was not added to.
    (223811)
93
N
Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many persons in the Support Group for Employment and Support Allowance have been called in each month since January 2013, for further work-focused interviews after already assessed as not fit for this kind of activity in each month since January 2013; and what steps he is taking to reduce the number of such interviews.
    (223873)
94
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent from the Flexible Support Fund on supporting jobseekers to travel to job interviews in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014.
    (223804)
95
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the Flexible Support Fund will operate under universal credit.
    (223805)
96
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent by the Flexible Support Fund on training for jobseekers in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014.
    (223806)
97
N
Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was allocated by Jobcentre Plus district managers to local partnerships through the Flexible Support Fund in each year since 2011.
    (223807)
Monday 23 February  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 3 February

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many racehorses were killed outright or destroyed during or shortly after a race meeting on each British racecourse in (a) flat racing, (b) all-weather racing and (c) National Hunt racing in 2014.
    (223275)

Notices given on Thursday 5 February

1
N
Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many firefighting jobs are not front line in each fire authority.
    (223671)
Tuesday 24 February  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 6 February

1
N
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much each unitary and county local authority in the North West spent on school crossing patrols in the 2013-14 financial year; and how many school crossing patrol officers there are in each local authority area in that region.
    (223703)

Prepared 10th February 2015