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Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from
Thursday 19 March 2015

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer

beginning on Wednesday 18 March 2015

(the ‘Questions Book’)

Part 2: Oral or Written Questions from

Thursday 19 March 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.

Thursday 19 March  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
 
★ 2
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): What steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
    (908193)
★ 3
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): What recent assessment he has made of trends in levels of investment in low-carbon energy sources.
    (908194)
★ 4
Adam Afriyie (Windsor): What recent steps he has taken to increase competition in the energy supply market.
    (908195)
★ 5
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): What recent assessment he has made of trends in levels of investment in low-carbon energy sources.
    (908196)
★ 6
Wayne David (Caerphilly): What steps he is taking to help households with their energy bills.
    (908197)
★ 7
Mr David Hanson (Delyn): What recent assessment he has made of trends in levels of investment in low-carbon energy sources.
    (908198)
★ 8
Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): What assessment he has made of the effect of recent trends in wholesale energy prices on household energy bills.
    (908199)
★ 9
Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): What assessment he has made of the effect on (a) generating capacity and (b) the transmission network of an increased reliance on intermittent energy supplied by renewable sources.
    (908200)
★ 10
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): What recent representations he has received on the application of regulations on onshore unconventional oil and gas exploration; and if he will make a statement.
    (908201)
★ 12
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): What steps he is taking to help households with their energy bills.
    (908203)
★ 13
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck): What steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
    (908204)
★ 14
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What assessment he has made of the effect of recent trends in wholesale energy prices on household energy bills.
    (908205)
★ 15
Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): What recent assessment he has made of trends in levels of investment in low-carbon energy sources.
    (908206)
★ 16
Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): What assessment he has made of the contribution of demand-side measures to meeting electricity generation capacity shortages.
    (908207)
★ 17
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield): What recent assessment he has made of trends in levels of investment in low-carbon energy sources.
    (908208)
★ 18
Chris Evans (Islwyn): What steps he is taking to help households with their energy bills.
    (908209)
★ 19
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): What assessment he has made of the potential merits of devolving energy policy to a regional level.
    (908210)
★ 20
Paul Flynn (Newport West): What support his Department plans to provide to the development of the proposed tidal lagoon project near Newport.
    (908211)
★ 21
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire): What steps he is taking to encourage businesses to install solar energy panels.
    (908212)
★ 22
Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East): What the Government's objectives are for the December 2015 UN Climate Change Conference.
    (908213)
★ 23
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What recent assessment he has made of the merits of proposals for the generation of electricity from tidal lagoons.
    (908214)
At 10.15am
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
    (908182)
★ 2
Chris Evans (Islwyn):  
    (908183)
★ 3
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):  
    (908184)
★ 4
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon):  
    (908185)
★ 5
Adam Afriyie (Windsor):  
    (908186)
★ 6
Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden):  
    (908187)
★ 7
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck):  
    (908188)
★ 8
John Robertson (Glasgow North West):  
    (908189)
★ 9
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering):  
    (908190)
★ 10
Graeme Morrice (Livingston):  
    (908191)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 10 March

1
N
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the recommendations of the Epidemiology Report on bovine TB on the Cheshire Edge by Sue Ridout; and if she will make a statement.
    (227073)
2
N
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will reallocate surplus funds from the current round of bids on the Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme to additional projects designed to close physical gaps in coverage along the Cheshire Edge Zone in East Cheshire and Stockport.
    (227074)
3
N
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the contribution of the work of Official Prison Visitors; and if he will make a statement.
    (226922)
4
N
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the respective responsibilities are of (a) prison governors and (b) prison chaplains in developing effective counselling and support for vulnerable prisoners; and if he will make a statement.
    (226923)
5
N
Sir Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the recruitment, training, management and deployment of Official Prison Visitors; and if he will make a statement.
    (226924)

Notices given on Thursday 12 March

1
N
Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue a direction to the Chief Executive of NHS Care Services to reply to the letter of 13 February 2015 sent by the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling to his company's Head of Communications, Dr Belinda Webb-Blofeld, for urgent response.
    (227434)
2
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2014 to Question 215438, and with reference to the speech of 4 February 2015 to CPRE and the Campaign for Better Transport by the Minister of State in his Department, what steps the Government is taking to work with local authorities and the private sector to improve service stations.
    (227417)
3
N
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2014 to Question 216696, what assessment he has made of the success of the European debt recovery agency in recovering outstanding charges.
    (227418)

Notices given on Monday 16 March

1
N
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226592, what forecast he has made of expenditure on advertising and communications for March 2015.
    (227699)
2
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the budget for the funding of adult skills in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Birmingham, Northfield constituency is in 2015-16; and what the percentage change is from the 2014-15 adult skills budget.
    (227650)
3
N
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the budget for funding of adult skills in (a) the North East and (b) Stockton North constituency is for 2015-16; and what the percentage change is from that budget in 2014-15.
    (227639)
4
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding has been allocated for adult skills in (a) Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) each parliamentary constituency in Yorkshire and the Humber in 2015-16; and what the percentage change is between that funding and the funding allocated in 2014-15.
    (227607)
5
N
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Start Up loans have been awarded since the introduction of that scheme in each parliamentary constituency; and what the total value of those loans is in each parliamentary constituency.
    (227651)
6
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of staff (a) of his Department and (b) working for companies contracted by his Department in Scotland are paid less than the living wage.
    (227663)
7
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2015 to Question 226811, on High Speed 2 railway line, for what reasons the page at that link is unobtainable.
    (227616)
8
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of staff (a) of his Department and (b) working for companies contracted by his Department in Scotland are paid less than the living wage.
    (227667)
9
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2014 to Question 218376, if he will include digital leadership in the Major Projects Academy Leadership course.
    (227617)
10
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to promote the National Citizen Service scheme in schools.
    (227671)
11
N
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many schools have engaged with the National Citizen Service scheme in each of the last five years.
    (227672)
12
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reasons are for the time taken to open the safe corridor pilot for UK-Somalia remittances.
    (227619)
13
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the safe corridor pilot for remittances to Somalia to open.
    (227620)
14
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the recent work undertaken by the Action Group on Cross Border Remittances.
    (227636)
15
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date it is planned that the Action Group on Cross Border Remittances will next meet.
    (227637)
16
N
Mr Peter Hain (Neath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the letter of 29 September 2014 sent to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills by the hon. Member for Neath, relating to the regulation of the alternative investment market, if he will make an assessment of the merits of the arguments made in that letter on reforms to that market.
    (227638)
17
N
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the right hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what criteria the Commissioners will use in their decision on releasing additional funds to support Church mission and ministry; and if he will make a statement.
    (227726)
18
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have carried out an assessment of the mental health needs of their child and adolescent populations.
    (227731)
19
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including urban planning in the Public Health Responsibility Deal.
    (227724)
20
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether there are official email addresses in his Department which do not accept emails from members of the public.
    (227677)
21
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have died on active service in each year since 2010.
    (227714)
22
N
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he has taken to ensure that the number of people on the electoral register in Liverpool does not fall as a result of the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration.
    (227680)
23
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many in-work families with children aged three or four receive 15 hours a week of free childcare.
    (227681)
24
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many in-work families with children aged three or four received 15 hours a week of free childcare in Coventry in each of the last five years.
    (227682)
25
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of how many children aged three and four will receive 15 hours a week of free childcare in each of the next three years.
    (227683)
26
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost per child of administering 15 hours a week of free childcare for children aged three and four in each of the last five years.
    (227684)
27
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost per child of administering 15 hours a week of free childcare for children aged three and four in each of the next three years.
    (227685)
28
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many and what proportion of staff (a) of his Department and (b) working for companies contracted by his Department in Scotland are paid less than the living wage.
    (227666)
29
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of progress towards meeting the Kyoto agreement targets on carbon dioxide emissions.
    (227633)
30
N
Hywel Williams (Arfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of how much cavity wall insulation has contributed to reduction of carbon dioxide emissions according to the Kyoto agreement protocols in each year since 2010.
    (227634)
31
N
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what factors her Department uses to determine the relative level of central Government funding given to each National Park authority; and what weight is given in that process to the minimum funding required to operate planning functions in the least well-funded National Parks.
    (227721)
32
N
Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the sub-group on Freedom of Expression of the Human Rights Advisory Group last met; and when the next meeting of that sub-group is planned.
    (227635)
33
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Burma on the detention of students and other activists protesting against the education reform law in that country.
    (227630)
34
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff (a) of his Department and (b) working for companies contracted by his Department in Scotland are paid less than the living wage.
    (227664)
35
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on plans by Monitor to appoint trust special administrators to take control of a NHS Foundation Trust.
    (227643)
36
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many proposals to merge NHS Trusts have been subject to inquiries by the Competition and Markets Authority; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such merger.
    (227644)
37
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost to the public purse was of the Trust Special Administration process at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
    (227645)
38
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on agency and locum staff in the NHS in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2014-15 to date.
    (227668)
39
N
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the Primary Ophthalmic Services Regulations 2008 in order to ensure that entitlement for additional services includes requests made by eligible persons attending special schools.
    (227618)
40
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many tier 4 CAMHS beds there were in England in (a) April 2010, (b) April 2011, (c) April 2012 and (d) February 2015.
    (227727)
41
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 4.7 of his Department's publication, A mandate for the Government to Health Education England, published in May 2014, what progress Health Education England has made on the development of a bespoke mental health postgraduate nursing programme; and whether that programme will be in operation by September 2015.
    (227728)
42
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2014 to Question 218413, for what reason the amounts in that Answer were supplied in cash terms and not real terms.
    (227729)
43
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) adult secure, (b) adult acute inpatient, (c) secure children's and (d) children's acute inpatient mental health beds were (i) opened and (ii) closed in each year since 2009-10.
    (227730)
44
N
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects his Department to reach a decision on the daily placement fee for social work students on placement as part of its reform to the education support grant.
    (227608)
45
N
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes there were with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of HIV infection in (i) England and (ii) each region in each year since 1989.
    (227661)
46
N
Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to develop the understanding, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV among NHS clinicians who do not specialise in HIV; what assessment he has made of the adequacy and extent of training on HIV for such clinicians; and if he will make a statement.
    (227662)
47
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ensure that there is adequate future funding of drugs for people with rare and less common cancers.
    (227609)
48
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of rickets among children and young people there were in each of the last 10 years.
    (227611)
49
N
Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the level of waste of unused drugs in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
    (227711)
50
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) funding and (b) other support NHS England provides to clinical commissioning groups to help improve the quality of care services available to patients in areas with poor diabetes care and outcomes.
    (227701)
51
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups use the NHS England diabetes service specifications.
    (227702)
52
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS England's annual budget is spent on resources to help local clinical commissioning groups improve variations in the quality of diabetes care.
    (227703)
53
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the running costs of NHS Diabetes were in each of the last three years before its dissolution.
    (227704)
54
N
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time staff were employed by NHS Diabetes in each of the last three years before its dissolution.
    (227705)
55
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account NHS England took of the performance of Circle in its contract to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital when reaching its decision to award a new contract for imaging services to that company; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that future services provided by Circle are of a high quality.
    (227631)
56
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason Vanguard was given a new NHS contract; what steps he plans to take to ensure that the problems which arose on Vanguard's previous contract with the NHS do not recur and that patient safety is not put at risk; and what assessment he has made of the company's financial liability for its under-performance in respect of that previous contract.
    (227632)
57
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many services formerly provided in hospitals will be provided in mobile units under the contract recently signed by NHS Supply Chain with various private firms to provide operations and diagnostic tests.
    (227646)
58
N
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226553, what arrangements for primary care services will apply.
    (227679)
59
N
Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of staff who were dismissed for smoking in each NHS trust in Lancashire in 2014.
    (227615)
60
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the role of (a) NHS England and (b) clinical commissioning groups is for commissioning (i) neurological services and (ii) specialised epilepsy services.
    (227713)
61
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to raise awareness of epilepsy in public services and equip staff with appropriate first aid training.
    (227715)
62
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to (a) improve epilepsy patients' access to neuropsychological assessment and care and (b) increase the number of clinical specialists in neuropsychological treatment.
    (227716)
63
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department's agreement with McDonald's as a Public Health Partner in its Responsibility Plan included any commitments with regard to (a) the location of McDonald's sites and (b) other local authority planning issues.
    (227610)
64
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including urban planning in the Public Health Responsibility Deal.
    (227723)
65
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-UK qualified nurses from countries (a) in and (b) not in the EU have worked in the NHS in each year since 2009-10.
    (227706)
66
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) individual applicants and (b) applications in total were received for pre-registration (i) nursing and (ii) midwifery training commissions in each year since 2009-10.
    (227707)
67
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average cost to the NHS of employing one (a) nurse, (b) midwife, (c) doctor and (d) GP.
    (227708)
68
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many computerised tomography simulators were operational in the NHS in each of the last 10 years; and how many operational computerised tomography simulators in the NHS are more than 10 years old.
    (227709)
69
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason the question in the NHS Staff Survey relating to the availability of hand washing materials was removed (a) as a key indicator for the 2014 NHS Staff Survey and (b) as a question from the survey altogether.
    (227710)
70
N
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken has been by the Home Office Landlords Helpline between receipt of a call to the conclusion of the enquiries from each local authority area in each month since its inception.
    (227717)
71
N
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inquiries the Home Office Landlords Helpline has received from outside the West Midlands since its inception.
    (227718)
72
N
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many calls the Home Office Landlords Helpline has (a) logged and (b) responded to from each local authority area in each month since its inception.
    (227719)
73
N
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many enquiries from landlords to the Home Office Landlords Helpline (a) have been concluded and (b) are outstanding.
    (227720)
74
N
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department has allocated to the National Centre for the 3Rs in the present financial year.
    (227613)
75
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have died while on duty in each year since 2010.
    (227712)
76
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent trends in the rate of acceptances of visa applications for Syrians visiting the UK; and if she will make a statement.
    (227606)
77
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of support provided under sections 4 and 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
    (227673)
78
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules tabled on 16 March 2015, HC1116, on the number of applications made by Syrian nationals for asylum in the UK.
    (227676)
79
N
Sarah Teather (Brent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme were principal applicants.
    (227678)
80
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the effect of the provision of free iPads to hon. Members on the availability of parliamentary digital services on other devices.
    (227722)
81
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners there were in (a) HMP Belmarsh, (b) HMP Feltham, (c) HMP Isis, (d) HMP Pentonville, (e) HMP Thameside, (f) HMP Wandsworth and (g) HMP Wormwood Scrubs on 1 March (i) 2010 and (ii) 2015; and how many such prisoners were (A) Muslim and (B) foreign nationals.
    (227647)
82
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in (a) HMP Belmarsh, (b) HMP Feltham, (c) HMP Isis, (d) HMP Pentonville, (e) HMP Thameside, (f) HMP Wandsworth and (g) HMP Wormwood Scrubs on 1 March 2015 had previously (i) never been in prison, (ii) been in prison once before, (iii) been in prison between 2 and 5 times, (iv) been in prison between 6 and 10 times and (v) been in prison more than 10 times before.
    (227648)
83
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mobile telephones and sim cards were found in (a) HMP Belmarsh, (b) HMP Feltham, (c) HMP Isis, (d) HMP Pentonville, (e) HMP Thameside, (f) HMP Wandsworth and (g) HMP Wormwood Scrubs in each year between 2010 and 2014.
    (227649)
84
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serious assaults on staff there were in HM Prison (a) Belmarsh, (b) Feltham, (c) Isis, (d) Pentonville, (e) Thameside, (f) Wandsworth and (g) Wormwood Scrubs in each year since 2010.
    (227674)
85
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoner on staff assaults there were in HM Prison (a) Belmarsh, (b) Feltham, (c) Isis, (d) Pentonville, (e) Thameside, (f) Wandsworth and (g) Wormwood Scrubs in each year since 2010.
    (227675)
86
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of staff (a) of his Department and (b) working for companies contracted by his Department in Scotland are paid less than the living wage.
    (227665)
87
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number and (b) pay of construction workers that will be employed to build High Speed 2 for each month taken for that construction.
    (227652)
88
N
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of whistleblowing procedures at the Highways Agency.
    (227614)
89
N
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the statistics collected by the Campaign to End Child Poverty on child poverty rates in Liverpool.
    (227653)
90
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it mandatory for each Jobcentre Plus to put in place a Foodbank Signposting Service agreement.
    (227612)
91
N
Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2015 to the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston to Question 223024, on what date his Department plans to publish statistics on personal independence payment clearance and waiting times.
    (227654)

Notices given on Tuesday 17 March

1
N
Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress he has made on meeting the target of installing energy efficiency measures in one million homes by March 2015.
[Question Unstarred]   (908202)
2
N
Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to ensure that household energy bills reflect recent changes in wholesale energy costs.
[Question Unstarred]   (908215)
3
N
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, What steps he is taking to ensure the long-term supply of affordable energy.
[Question Unstarred]   (908192)
4
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Attorney General, which news applications staff in the Law Officers Departments are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227817)
5
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of employees in the Law Officers' Departments identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227952)
6
 
Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his Department's announcement of 27 November 2013 on Post Office branch modernisation, how many Post Offices have benefited to date for the dedicated fund to support smaller community branches.
    (227769)
7
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227816)
8
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227951)
9
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227818)
10
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department and the Office of the Prime Minister identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227953)
11
 
Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he has taken to support tourism in the South West region.
    (227780)
12
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227834)
13
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227968)
14
 
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will propose at an EU level (a) a review of the EU's classification of women's sanitary products as luxury items and (b) an end to the 5 per cent tax rate on such items.
    (227738)
15
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons Pensioner Bonds are not included in the Tax Deduction Scheme for Interest.
    (227947)
16
 
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the European Commission and his counterparts from other EU member states on the taxation of e-cigarettes.
    (227745)
17
 
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on proposals for EU-level harmonised taxation on e-cigarettes; and if he will make a statement.
    (227748)
18
 
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were employed in the public sector in (a) May 2010 and (b) December 2014.
    (227734)
19
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the right hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, who has been invited to represent the Church of England at the service at Leicester Cathedral for the reburial of King Richard III.
    (227784)
20
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average housing rent was for (a) one, (b) two, (c) three and larger bedroom homes and (d) all homes in the (i) private and (ii) social sector in (A) York unitary authority, (B) elsewhere in the York broad rental market and (C) North Yorkshire in 2010 and each year since.
    (227995)
21
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227819)
22
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227954)
23
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to assist local residents to produce a local plan in areas where no such plan has been produced by the local authority.
    (227786)
24
 
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide for local authorities who do not produce a local plan to be placed in special measures.
    (227787)
25
 
Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to address poor mobile network coverage in rural communities in Torridge and West Devon.
    (227770)
26
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227820)
27
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227955)
28
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the total financial cost of ensuring that every local authority library in England and Wales can install wifi and provide computer facilities.
    (227802)
29
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people received the maximum amount under the Public Lending Right scheme in the last year.
    (227807)
30
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been distributed through the Public Lending Right scheme in the last year.
    (227808)
31
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have been awarded funds through the Public Lending Right scheme in the last year.
    (227809)
32
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the changes to (a) EU and (b) UK copyright law that would be necessary to enable the Public Lending Right to include remote e-loans.
    (227940)
33
 
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the conclusion entitled What are words worth now? A survey of authors' earnings that there has been a 28 per cent reduction in the last decade in the number of professional authors who earned income from writing.
    (227973)
34
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227821)
35
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227956)
36
 
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) value for money assessment and (b) technical appraisal he has made of (i) the Pegasus project for uranium enrichment and (ii) the Mensa Project on assembling and disassembling nuclear warheads at AWE Aldermaston; and if he will publish those assessments.
    (227766)
37
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps have been taken to eliminate uncommanded wing drop when manoeuvring the F-35B.
    (227873)
38
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effects of buffeting and transonic roll-off on the ability of (a) the helmet-mounted display systems to display symbology and (b) gyroscopes in the inertial platforms to operate correctly on the Joint Strike Fighter F-35B.
    (227874)
39
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many production Joint Strike Fighter F-35B aircraft have been received by the UK armed forces; and how many of those aircraft have achieved supersonic speeds.
    (227875)
40
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the level of susceptibility of the Joint Strike Fighter F-35B to catching fire or exploding due to a lighting strike (a) while flying and (b) on the ground.
    (227936)
41
 
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what aircraft in use by UK armed forces operate a 270-volt electrical system.
    (227937)
42
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which news applications staff in his Office are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227822)
43
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227823)
44
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227957)
45
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will amend the School Admissions Code to allow schools to take into account the length of time a child has been on a waiting list in instances when that length of time has been longer than one year and that child matches that school's admissions criteria.
    (227943)
46
 
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students studied A-level Polish between 2003 and 2013.
    (227771)
47
 
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils studied GCSE Polish in 2013-14.
    (227772)
48
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227824)
49
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227958)
50
 
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the current average industrial gas price is in the (a) UK and (b) US.
    (227735)
51
 
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average output was of wind energy in the UK, expressed as a proportion of installed capacity, in the last three months.
    (227736)
52
 
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average cost is before subsidy or tax of producing UK electricity from (a) gas and (b) wind.
    (227737)
53
 
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average industrial electricity price is in the (a) UK and (b) US.
    (227743)
54
 
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much new gas-based electricity production capacity has been authorised; and how much such capacity is in build.
    (227810)
55
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies on new fishing quotas agreed under the Common Fisheries policy.
    (227739)
56
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227825)
57
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227959)
58
 
Mr Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effects on school milk provision in the UK of the announcement by the EU Commission in December 2014 that the EU School Milk Scheme will be evaluated as part of CAP simplification.
    (227778)
59
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227826)
60
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227960)
61
 
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on the cost of the European Parliament having a base in both Strasbourg and Brussels.
    (227950)
62
 
Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Cypriot counterpart on military co-operation between Cyprus and Russia; and if he will make a statement.
    (227782)
63
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions NHS England has had with manufacturers on alternative commissioning arrangements for treatments that have been removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund list.
    (227776)
64
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of variation across clinical commissioning groups in visual acuity restrictions for patients requiring cataract surgery.
    (227882)
65
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a National Clinical Director for Eye Health.
    (227883)
66
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many self-funded non-insurance cataract operations were conducted in NHS hospitals in 2013-14.
    (227884)
67
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to decrease waiting times for people requiring cataract surgery.
    (227885)
68
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, to what extent clinical commissioning groups must comply with (a) the specialised service specifications and (b) the clinical commissioning policies produced by NHS England's clinical reference groups.
    (227801)
69
 
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that the forthcoming cancer strategy will include specific actions to improve early diagnosis in those with rare and less common cancers.
    (227805)
70
 
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to undertake an equality impact assessment of the HPV vaccination programme before making a decision on vaccinating adolescent boys.
    (227806)
71
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of automated defibrillators there were in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York Council area in 2010 and each subsequent year.
    (227785)
72
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient discharges from beds in York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust were delayed because of the unavailability of step-down care beds or community care services in 2009-10 and each subsequent year; how many days on average were those patients' discharges delayed; and what the cost was to the Trust of delayed discharges in each of those years.
    (227811)
73
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for treatment in the A&E department at York Hospital was in 2009-10 and each subsequent year.
    (227812)
74
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people presenting at the A&E department at York Hospital waited more than four hours from arrival to discharge, admission or transfer in 2009-10 and each subsequent year.
    (227813)
75
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average waiting time to see a GP in (a) York Central constituency, (b) City of York Council area and (c) England in 2010 and each subsequent year.
    (227814)
76
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much per resident on average was spent by NHS England on centrally procured NHS services in each clinical commissioning group (CCG) area in England in each year since CCGs were created.
    (227815)
77
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what allocation per capita was made by his Department in respect of clinical commissioning group (CCG) services in (a) each CCG in York and North Yorkshire, (b) each region of England and (c) England in each year since the creation of CCGs (i) in cash terms and (ii) at constant prices.
    (227870)
78
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) beds and (b) full-time equivalent staff there were for mental health services provided within the City of York council area in 2010 and each subsequent year.
    (227871)
79
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much in total has been spent on NHS services for people living within the Vale of York clinical commissioning group (CCG) area in each year since the creation of that CCG.
    (227872)
80
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227827)
81
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227961)
82
 
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the extent to which SUDEP and epilepsy training is provided within medical school programmes.
    (227941)
83
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of cases of (a) pneumonia and (b) invasive pneumococcal disease there have been in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those he estimates resulted in death.
    (227931)
84
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce deaths from (a) pneumonia and (b) pneumococcal disease; and if he will make a statement.
    (227932)
85
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) A&E attendances and (b) hospital admissions were related to (i) pneumonia and (ii) pneumococcal disease in the last 12 months.
    (227933)
86
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average (a) length and (b) cost was of hospital admission owing to a case of pneumococcal disease in the last 12 months.
    (227934)
87
 
Mr George Howarth (Knowsley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted to intensive care units with a diagnosis of (a) pneumonia or (b) pneumococcal disease in the last 12 months.
    (227935)
88
 
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2015 to Question 226346, when he expects negotiations with GlaxoSmithKline on the meningitis B vaccine to be concluded.
    (227877)
89
 
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking with officials of his Department to expedite negotiations with GlaxoSmithKline on the meningitis B vaccine.
    (227878)
90
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on prostate cancer patients of the delisting of the drug cabazitaxel to prostate cancer patients until it has been subject to the review by NICE; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Individual Funding Request process for cancer drugs.
    (227938)
91
 
Mrs Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) patients of the delisting of the drug regorafenib by the Cancer Drugs Fund; and what steps he is taking to ensure that GIST patients have access to appropriate drugs and treatment.
    (227939)
92
 
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men, (b) women and (c) children were admitted to hospital for drug poisoning, showing ICD10 codes T36-T50 separately, at a four character level in 2014.
    (227803)
93
 
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the General Practice Research Database includes data on the prescribing of tranquillisers; and if he will use this database to calculate the number of patients with a long-term dependency on tranquillisers.
    (227804)
94
 
John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the relationship between diabetes complications and unplanned hospital emergency admissions; and if he will make a statement.
    (227970)
95
 
Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy to support nationally set standards, policies and specifications for specialised services.
    (227942)
96
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227828)
97
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227962)
98
 
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Inter-Ministerial Group on Violence Against Women and Girls has made on implementing recommendation 11 of the HMIC report Everyone's business: Improving the police response to domestic abuse into policing on domestic violence; and when she expects the further multi-agency inspection referred to in that report to take place.
    (227744)
99
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to end the immigration detention of pregnant women.
    (227944)
100
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to end the immigration detention of people over the age of 65.
    (227945)
101
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum legacy cases are outstanding in the MK40, MK41 and MK42 postcode areas.
    (227949)
102
 
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce, refine and replace the use of animals in research.
    (227767)
103
 
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to improve the efficiency of the asylum system.
    (227768)
104
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 16 have been stopped and searched by the police in each year since 2010 in each police force.
    (227779)
105
 
Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Statement of 12 March 2015 HCWS385, on testing of household products on animals, what proportion of tests on animals for ingredients predominantly used in household products are not carried out for regulatory purposes; and what estimate she has made of the annual number of animals who will not now be used to test household product ingredients as a result of measures in that announcement.
    (227880)
106
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the reduction in the number of English Language Test Centres for international students studying at UK universities.
    (227974)
107
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the reduction in the number of English Language Test Centres for international students on university finances.
    (227975)
108
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential economic effect of reducing or increasing the number of international students studying at UK universities.
    (227976)
109
 
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received from universities on the reduction in the number of English language test centres for international students.
    (227977)
110
 
Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the debate on Police Widow Pensions of 25 February, Official Report, columns 126-133WH, what steps she is taking to ensure all police widowers receive life-long pensions.
    (227749)
111
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227829)
112
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227963)
113
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how frequently prison recall data for the licence period and the new supervision period will be published; and whether such data will be recorded and published separately for Essex.
    (227881)
114
 
Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the Government decided to award no salary increase to the majority of prison officers in the 2015-16 pay award.
    (227747)
115
 
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on the Macur Review.
    (227740)
116
 
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent updates he has received from Lady Justice Macur about the progress of the Macur Review.
    (227741)
117
 
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he now expects the Macur Review to report.
    (227742)
118
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227830)
119
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227964)
120
 
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to appoint a National Crematorium Inspector after the amendment of cremation regulations and death certification reforms.
    (227773)
121
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227831)
122
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227965)
123
 
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Prime Minister, who will represent the Government at the service at Leicester Cathedral for the reburial of King Richard III.
    (227783)
124
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227832)
125
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227966)
126
 
Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received on shared space schemes and the difficulties they cause to blind and partially-sighted people.
    (227775)
127
 
Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department is providing for the maintenance of rural roads in Torridge and West Devon.
    (227777)
128
 
Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to assist local authorities with the maintenance of rural roads.
    (227781)
129
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227833)
130
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227967)
131
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to reduce the length of time a person who has had a seizure while asleep must surrender their driving licence from one year to three months without further seizures.
    (227948)
132
 
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will consider providing national funding for the North West Relief Road scheme in Shrewsbury.
    (227774)
133
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
    (227835)
134
 
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
    (227969)
135
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which approved new applications staff the Government Equalities Office are authorised to download and use on their phones and tablets.
    (227972)
136
 
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people receiving employment and support allowance in the support group are aged (a) 50 and over and (b) 55 and over.
    (227879)
137
 
Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending compensation to the children who have been exposed to asbestos as a result of contact with parents who have mesothelioma.
    (227876)
138
 
Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which approved new applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their phones and tablets.
    (227971)
139
 
Richard Fuller (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people who have committed benefit fraud where cases were not prosecuted in court (a) have repaid, (b) are repaying, (c) are in arrears with repayments of and (d) have been subsequently prosecuted for breaching their agreement to repay those benefits and any financial penalties in each of the last three years.
    (227946)
140
 
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of his Department's performance in meeting its targets on the length of time for decisions to be made on the payment of the under-occupancy by (a) vulnerable and disabled and (b) other people.
    (227746)
Friday 20 March  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 16 March

1
N
Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many private and public sector housing completions there were in England in each year from 1985 up to the latest year for which figures are available.
    (227732)

Notices given on Tuesday 17 March

1
N
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (a) how many people and (b) what proportion of the workforce were employed on zero hours contracts in (i) York Central constituency, (ii) City of York local authority area, (iii) England and (iv) the UK in 2010 and each subsequent year; and what the average number of hours worked each week by such people was in each such year.
    (227990)
2
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the merits of siting the new Energy Systems Catapult project in Devon, Cornwall or Somerset.
    (227988)
3
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the level of funding his Department will provide to further education colleges for the provision of adult education in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
    (227789)
4
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the median weekly rent in the private rented sector in Blackpool South constituency was in (a) May 2010 and (b) in February 2015.
    (227927)
5
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many households in the Blackpool South constituency were on local authority housing waiting lists in (a) May 2010 and (b) February 2015.
    (227928)
6
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what change there has been in net annual income for a person earning £24,000 gross per annum as a result of changes to personal allowances and national insurance contributions.
    (227866)
7
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the economic effect of the tax incentives introduced since 2010; and what criteria the Government uses to assess the real economic value of tax incentives.
    (227751)
8
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Government intends to promote take-up of the tax-free childcare scheme; and what budget he is allocating for this purpose.
    (227984)
9
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects registration for the tax-free childcare scheme to open; and when the first payments under that scheme will be delivered.
    (227985)
10
N
Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what performance indicators he has agreed with NS&I for the delivery of tax-free childcare; how often NS&I will be benchmarked against those indicators; and what penalties he has agreed for poor performance against those indicators.
    (227986)
11
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there is a lower corporation tax limit for clubs, voluntary organisations and charities below which such organisations are not required to submit corporation tax returns.
    (227983)
12
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes were built (a) for rent and (b) for purchase in the Blackpool South constituency in each year from 2010 to 2015.
    (227929)
13
N
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families were recorded as living in overcrowded conditions in the Blackpool South constituency in (a) 2010 and (b) the most recent date for which data is available.
    (227930)
14
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make representations to FIFA on reducing deaths among workers constructing stadia and infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
    (227864)
15
N
Dan Byles (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any recent study has been made of the value for money and operation of the Reserve Forces and Cadets' Associations.
    (227987)
16
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress is being made by the RAF on recruitment to the Northern Ireland University Air Squadron.
    (227862)
17
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's policy is on RAF participation in and support for the Northern Ireland Airshow at Portrush in September 2015.
    (227863)
18
N
Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226869, for what reasons the Answer stated that approval for the Maritime Heritage Foundation to manage the site of HMS Victory 1744 has not been removed, when in his letter of 27 February 2015 to Lord Lingfield he stated that he had decided to withdraw that approval.
    (227989)
19
N
Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 3 of Annex F of MAA RA 1210, how and when he expects the validity of Tornado GR4 ALARP statement to be decided by the appropriate court.
    (227978)
20
N
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost per hour of childcare was (a) in a nursery and (b) with a child minder in (i) York Central constituency, (ii) City of York local authority area and (iii) England in 2010 and each subsequent year.
    (227993)
21
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to update the data contained in its publications of Capital funding for open free schools and Revenue expenditure for free schools before the dissolution of Parliament.
    (227867)
22
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many specialist teachers of (a) art, (b) history, (c) English, (d) physical education and (e) drama taught mathematics in state secondary schools in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13 and (v) 2013-14.
    (227868)
23
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many planning areas in England are in need of additional primary school places by September 2015; from how many of those planning areas there has never been an application to open a primary or all-through mainstream free school; and how many of these planning areas have no open primary or all-through mainstream free schools.
    (227869)
24
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will update her guidance to schools on the release of reports and other information on the educational progress of pupils to non-resident parents; and if she will make a statement.
    (227792)
25
N
Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the change in levels of fuel usage in the last 10 years due to greater household energy efficiency.
    (227865)
26
N
Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will make a comparative assessment of the total systems cost of meeting the 2020 target for emissions reduction from electricity generation using (a) conventional fuels and (b) non-conventional fuels.
    (227752)
27
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from farmers required to submit single farm payment applications online on concerns related to poor broadband speeds and access in rural areas.
    (227790)
28
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons farmers are currently unable to register online for the new single farm payment application.
    (227791)
29
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings Ministers of his Department have held with external organisations to discuss the efficacy of homeopathy in healthcare since 2010.
    (227793)
30
N
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received since 2010 on the efficacy of astrology in healthcare.
    (227794)
31
N
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for cancer test results (a) at York Hospital and (b) in England in 2009-10 and each subsequent year.
    (227991)
32
N
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for elective inpatient or day-case treatment at York Hospital (a) overall and (b) in each speciality in 2009-10 and each subsequent year.
    (227992)
33
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the final report by PWC on the financial challenge facing the NHS in Devon, which was completed in August 2014.
    (227753)
34
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions Ministers in his Department have had with NHS England on the increasing financial deficit in NHS organisations in Devon.
    (227754)
35
N
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with NHS England on potential intervention measures to address financial problems in the NHS in Devon; what criteria will be used to decide on the timing of the application of such measures; and whether he expects the application of such measures to be affected by the timing of the general election.
    (227795)
36
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place to monitor side-effects resulting from women's use of emergency hormonal contraception.
    (227923)
37
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has considered on the long-term effects of repeat use of emergency hormonal contraception on women's health.
    (227924)
38
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the long-term effects on women's health of emergency hormonal contraception given without (a) prescription and (b) monitoring multiple use.
    (227925)
39
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has conducted or commissioned research into whether there is a link between the promotion of hormonal contraceptives in teenage pregnancy reduction schemes and levels of sexually transmitted infections in young people.
    (227926)
40
N
Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the assertion that some evidence that [emergency hormonal contraception] schemes are associated with higher teenage conception rates in the article, The impact of emergency birth control on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, research by Professor David Paton of the Nottingham University Business School, published in the Journal of Health Economics in March 2011.
    (227979)
41
N
Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people under 18 years of age have been treated in NHS-funded mental health units for cannabis-induced psychosis in each of the last five years.
    (227980)
42
N
Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost is to the NHS of caring for people suffering from (a) addiction to skunk cannabis and (b) mental or physical ill-health as a result of the misuse of skunk cannabis in each of the last five years.
    (227981)
43
N
Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people under 18 years of age have been referred to addiction treatment services in each of the last five years.
    (227982)
44
N
Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the contribution by the Minister of State for Crime Prevention of 23 February 2015 in the Third Delegated Legislation Committee, Official Report, column 6, what estimate her Department has made in conjunction with the Minister of Justice, of the costs of implementation and additional costs arising from commencement of injunctions to prevent nuisance or annoyance; and if she will make a statement.
    (227922)
45
N
Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funds his Department allocated to contractors to manage each privately-run prison in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.
    (227750)
46
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what forecast his Department has made of the number of passengers from each London zone who will board or leave High Speed 2 (HS2) trains in London in each phase of HS2; and what forecast he has made of the number and proportion of such passengers who will so board or leave at Euston.
    (228005)
47
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) surveys, (b) modelling or (c) other methods his Department used to calculate the distribution across London transport zones of High Speed 2; and whether figures used for such calculations were of mainline or other passengers.
    (228006)
48
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a map showing the assumed origin and destination overground, underground or mainline station in London used to predict the passenger use of Euston and Old Oak Common.
    (228007)
49
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what formula his Department used to calculate the likely distribution of use between Euston and Old Oak Common of passengers from each London transport zone; and how his Department determined the inputs for that formula.
    (228008)
50
N
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what forecast his Department has made of the number of passengers who will use High Speed 2 in (a) the year after the opening of Phase 1, (b) the year after the opening of Phase 2 and (c) the last year of the planning period; and how many passengers in each such period his Department forecasts will use (i) Euston and (ii) Old Oak Common station to board or leave the train.
    (228009)
51
N
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the level of punctuality was for Southern and Thameslink passenger rail services running into London in the last 12 months.
    (227788)
52
N
Sir Hugh Bayley (York Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area had their housing allowance abated because of the under-occupancy penalty in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15.
    (227994)
Monday 23 March  

Questions for Oral Answer

 
Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
 
★ 1
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): What her policy is on the net migration target; and if she will make a statement.
    (908227)
★ 2
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire): What guidance her Department provides to police forces on the effective use of ICT.
    (908228)
★ 3
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): What assessment she has made of the risks to the UK from gaps in communications data capability.
    (908229)
★ 4
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): If she will conduct a review of the effectiveness of anti-radicalisation programmes.
    (908230)
★ 5
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the police response to domestic abuse.
    (908231)
★ 6
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): What steps her Department is taking to tackle extremism.
    (908232)
★ 7
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): What steps her Department is taking to tackle extremism.
    (908233)
★ 8
Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury): What steps her Department is taking to tackle organised crime.
    (908234)
★ 9
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): What steps she is taking to reduce crime rates.
    (908235)
★ 10
Mr John Spellar (Warley): What her policy is on the net migration target; and if she will make a statement.
    (908236)
★ 11
Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): What steps she is taking to encourage police and crime commissioners to support early intervention programmes.
    (908237)
★ 12
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What recent discussions she has had with police unions and associations on the effect of changes to police budgets on frontline staff.
    (908238)
★ 13
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): What her policy is on the minimum income threshold requirement for people wishing to sponsor their partner's visa to settle in the UK.
    (908239)
★ 14
Mike Crockart (Edinburgh West): What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Scotland on the potential introduction of a scheme to allow international students graduating from Scottish further and higher education institutions to remain in Scotland to work for a defined period of time.
    (908240)
★ 15
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): What assessment she has made of the financial condition of police forces in England and Wales.
    (908241)
★ 16
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): What assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of police officers in Lancashire.
    (908242)
★ 17
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): What recent steps she has taken to tackle sham marriages.
    (908243)
★ 18
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): What the level of crime was in Northamptonshire in (a) May 2010 and (b) March 2015.
    (908244)
★ 19
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): What assessment she has made of the efficiency of the Passport Office and the effectiveness of that body's relations with other Departments in dealing with cases of suspected identity fraud in passport applications.
    (908245)
★ 20
Sir Bob Russell (Colchester): What recent progress she has made on bringing forward legislative proposals to allow the mothers of brides and grooms to be recorded on marriage certificates.
    (908246)
★ 21
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): If she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the introduction of a 28-day time limit on immigration detention.
    (908247)
★ 22
Karen Lumley (Redditch): What steps she has taken to protect the welfare of vulnerable people in custody.
    (908248)
★ 23
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): What discussions her Department has had with hon. Members representing North Wales constituencies on the relocation of the police helicopter in North Wales.
    (908249)
★ 24
Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): What steps her Department is taking to identify and address the drivers of crime.
    (908250)
★ 25
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): What assessment she has made of the performance of Serco in providing accommodation and transport services for asylum seekers under the Compass contract.
    (908251)
At 3.15pm
Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.
★ 1
Maria Miller (Basingstoke): If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
    (908217)
★ 2
Nick de Bois (Enfield North):  
    (908218)
★ 3
Robert Halfon (Harlow):  
    (908219)
★ 4
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough):  
    (908220)
★ 5
Sarah Teather (Brent Central):  
    (908221)
★ 6
Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough):  
    (908222)
★ 7
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley):  
    (908223)
★ 8
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East):  
    (908224)
★ 9
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton):  
    (908225)
★ 10
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South):  
    (908226)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 16 March

1
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Israeli government to stop the demolition of Umm al-Hiran.
    (227621)
2
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on plans to demolish Umm al-Hiran in the Negev.
    (227622)
3
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department provides support to the civil rights organisation Adalah in Israel.
    (227623)
4
N
Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to encourage the Israeli government to provide essential services to unrecognised villages in the Negev.
    (227624)
5
N
Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure that a full and substantive reply is given to the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed to his letter of 6 January 2015 regarding the Shared Services Directorate and his constituent M.W.
    (227733)

Notices given on Tuesday 17 March

1
N
Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Skills Funding Letter 2015 to 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential effects of the change in adult skills funding between 2014-15 and 2015-16 on (a) students and (b) colleges in Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency.
    (227859)
2
N
Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of changes in adult skills funding since 2010 on (a) students and (b) colleges in Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency.
    (227860)
3
N
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many VAT-registered property rental companies there were in each year since May 2010.
    (227906)
4
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether (a) the Centre for Life in Newcastle and (b) other service centres are eligible for funding from his Department's Inspiring Science Capital Fund.
    (227755)
5
N
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations his Department has received from internet service providers on safe harbour provisions.
    (227843)
6
N
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on protecting safe harbour provisions and online service providers.
    (227844)
7
N
Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on requiring internet search engines to incorporate trust marks and warnings to signify legal content in their algorithms and the search results presented to the consumers.
    (227845)
8
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2014 to Question 218376, if he will include digital or other technical skills in the Major Projects Academy Leadership course.
    (227997)
9
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 227063, whether the Government Digital Service plans for the sixteen exemplars currently in beta show going live by the end of March 2015.
    (227998)
10
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have registered their interest in the marriage allowance to date; and what proportion of those people (a) are over 65, (b) are men, (c) are women and (d) have children under 18.
    (227758)
11
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff HM Revenue and Customs expects to dedicate to administering the transferable marriage tax allowance (a) in its first year of operation and (b) each year thereafter; and what estimate he has made of the cost to HM Revenue and Customs of administering the transferable marriage tax allowance in (i) its first year of operation and (ii) each year thereafter.
    (227759)
12
N
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) mean and (b) median transfer between married and civil partners under the marriage allowance in 2015-16.
    (227760)
13
N
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much unpaid inheritance tax was outstanding from estates notified for probate valued up to £1 million in each year since May 2010.
    (227907)
14
N
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many estates notified for probate and valued up to £1 million paid no inheritance tax in each year since May 2010.
    (227908)
15
N
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many recipients there were of mortgage interest relief in each year since May 2010; and how much such relief was awarded in each year.
    (227909)
16
N
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many recipients there were of higher-rate pension tax relief in each year since May 2010; and how much such relief was awarded in each such year.
    (227910)
17
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether staff recruited to provide (a) face-to-face and (b) telephone guidance through the Government's Pension Wise scheme will have any specific training on scams and mis-selling.
    (227762)
18
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many trained staff delivering (a) face-to-face and (b) telephone guidance through the Government's Pension Wise scheme will be based in (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) Scotland.
    (227763)
19
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of spending on adult social care in (a) Dorset, (b) Poole, (c) Bournemouth, (d) Hampshire, (e) Isle of Wight, (f) West Sussex, (g) Bracknell Forest, (h) Reading, (i) Slough, (j) West Berkshire, (k) Windsor and Maidenhead, (l) Wokingham, (m) Oxfordshire, (n) Wiltshire and (o) Swindon local authority areas in each year since 2010.
    (227764)
20
N
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015, Official Report, column 7, on translation costs, what progress he has made in looking into the matter of British sign language translation services.
    (227920)
21
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met representatives of the gambling industries to discuss the practice of offering free bets to young adults and the inclusion of messages regretting that they had not gambled in a while.
    (227836)
22
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met representatives of the gambling industries to discuss the offering of free bets to 18 year olds on their birthdays.
    (227837)
23
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met representatives of Gamblers Anonymous to discuss the industry practice of offering free bets to young adults and the inclusion of messages regretting that they had not gambled in a while.
    (227838)
24
N
Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he last met representatives of Gamblers Anonymous to discuss the industry practice of offering free bets to 18 year olds on their birthdays.
    (227839)
25
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of Gurkha soldiers who fought in the First and Second World Wars are commemorated on war memorials.
    (227893)
26
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the original budget was for the Property Data Survey in July 2011; and what the final budget was for that survey after 8,000 additional surveys were included in it.
    (227897)
27
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, at how many schools on the Priority School Building Programme has construction work (a) started and (b) been completed.
    (227898)
28
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what changes have been made to the funding of school sixth forms since 2010; and if she will make a statement.
    (227913)
29
N
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many adults were enrolled on (a) Level 4, (b) Level 5 and (c) Level 6 courses in England in each of the last five years.
    (227916)
30
N
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what amount the National Grid is expected to spend on (a) preparatory, (b) consultancy, (c) construction and (d) all other costs for connecting wind farms in mid-Wales with the grid in North Shropshire.
    (227796)
31
N
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will estimate the proportion of local authority inspectors appointed under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 who deal with animal welfare issues on a daily basis.
    (227894)
32
N
Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pieces of legislation affect the control and welfare of dogs; and for how many of those laws her Department produces formal guidance.
    (227919)
33
N
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many seizures of reptiles there were by Border Force under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014; how many individual animals were so seized in each such year; and if she will make a statement.
    (227914)
34
N
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, according to TRACES, how many and what species of reptiles were imported into the UK from (a) within and (b) outside the EU in (i) 2013 and (ii) 2014; and if she will make a statement.
    (227915)
35
N
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, according to Eurostat, what information her Department holds on the number of reptiles that were imported into the EU in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014; and if she will make a statement.
    (227917)
36
N
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy objectives were in introducing the Dangerous Dogs Exemption Schemes (England and Wales) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 138); and if she will make a statement.
    (227918)
37
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Pakistan on the latest executions in that country; and if he will raise this issue at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council.
    (227840)
38
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Pakistan against death sentences for crimes committed by juveniles in that country; and what response has he received.
    (227896)
39
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what review of his Department's co-operation with Burma's Home Affairs Ministry has been conducted.
    (227854)
40
N
Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of whether elections due in Burma will be credible, free and fair.
    (227855)
41
N
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent analysis his Department has made of the specific needs of people with rare and less common cancers.
    (227853)
42
N
Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of research into rare and less common cancers.
    (227905)
43
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children were admitted to adult inpatient mental health wards in each year since 2009-10.
    (227900)
44
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what mechanisms does his Department hold to account local agencies which have signed up to the Crisis Care Concordat for fulfilling its provisions; and what steps he plans to take in response to such local agencies which do not implement the provisions of that concordat.
    (227901)
45
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of local spending plans by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on mental health; how many CCGs are fulfilling the requirement set out in the NHS England Mandate to give the same support to mental health as they do to physical health; and what steps he is taking to respond to those CCGs which are not fulfilling that requirement.
    (227902)
46
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Never events were investigated by NHS England in each year since 2012; how many and what proportion of those events related to mental health patients; what criteria NHS England uses to investigate incidents reported to the Strategic Executive Information System; and what mechanisms exist to ensure that actions and recommendations relating to the investigation of such incidents are implemented locally.
    (227903)
47
N
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many categories of a Never ever event there are which must be reported to the Strategic Executive Information System; and how many and what proportion of those categories are relevant to mental health.
    (227904)
48
N
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of loneliness on the overall wellbeing of disabled people of working age.
    (227849)
49
N
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of loneliness on the overall wellbeing of disabled young people.
    (227850)
50
N
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2014 to Question 217890, whether the Action Plan on Hearing Loss will be published before the end of the present Parliament.
    (227765)
51
N
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health trusts have signed up to pursuing a zero suicide ambition for mental health services.
    (227841)
52
N
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices there were in (a) July 2009, (b) May 2010 and (c) the latest month for which figures are available.
    (227842)
53
N
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many community treatment orders were (a) made and (b) revoked in each year since 2009-10; and how many people were discharged from such orders in that time.
    (227846)
54
N
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding was allocated to (a) early intervention services for psychosis and (b) crisis care in each year since 2009-10.
    (227847)
55
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with asthma have a written asthma action plan; and if he will make a statement.
    (227756)
56
N
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of how healthcare data and digital information could be used to help reduce variations in asthma care across the UK.
    (227757)
57
N
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the new arrangements for collaboratively commissioning specialised services will be co-designed with patient organisations with an interest in specialised commissioning.
    (227798)
58
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2015 to the Answer of 13 March 2015 to Question 226844, whether Dr Adrian Crellin, Chair of the Radiotherapy Clinical Reference Group, (a) is an employee of NHS England and (b) receives reimbursement from NHS England for any services he provides to it.
    (227799)
59
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on which private health companies Dr Adrian Crellin, Chair of the Radiotherapy Clinical Reference Group, practices with.
    (227861)
60
N
Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what declarations of interest in relation to Varian Medical Systems have been made by Radiotherapy Clinical Reference Group member, Carol Scott.
    (227895)
61
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase the number of midwives working in the NHS over the next five years.
    (227921)
62
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many legal actions there have been between different NHS organisations in each year since 2009/10; and what the total cost to the public purse has been of each such action.
    (227999)
63
N
Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the recommendations of the Boorman Review of NHS health and well-being services have been implemented; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the recommendations on the provision of such services by the NHS.
    (228000)
64
N
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce in March 2015 legislative proposals to ban the sale of legal highs.
    (227899)
65
N
Dame Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, when the Commission plans to introduce recycling for DVDs and CDs.
    (227858)
66
N
Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department allocated to the South Sandwich Islands in (a) 2014-15 and (b) each of the previous four financial years.
    (227800)
67
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were tagged using GPS tagging technology on 1 March 2015.
    (227911)
68
N
Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents there were of drugs being found in HM Prison (a) Belmarsh, (b) Feltham, (c) Isis, (d) Pentonville, (e) Thameside, (f) Wandsworth and (g) Wormwood Scrubs in each year from 2010 to 2014.
    (227912)
69
N
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 227352, if he will publish the data collected on protected characteristics for people making Employment Tribunal Service claims for each quarter from October 2012.
    (227761)
70
N
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which contracts have been entered into by his Department or HS2 Ltd in relation to High Speed 2; what the timescales of those contracts are; and what penalties there are for early termination of each contract.
    (227996)
71
N
Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the Office of Rail Regulation to report its review of the circumstances that led to safety concerns for passengers using London Bridge station and serious delays on the service from that station.
    (227797)
72
N
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, on which dates in the last 12 months the Minister for Welfare Reform met officials of the Health and Safety Executive; and what issues were discussed at each meeting.
    (227851)
73
N
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, on which dates in the last 12 months the Minister for Disabled People met officials of the Health and Safety Executive; and what issues were discussed at each meeting.
    (227852)
74
N
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have been recruited to provide (a) face-to-face and (b) telephone guidance through the Government's Pension Wise scheme.
    (227848)
Tuesday 24 March  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 17 March

1
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring into force the provision contained in the Easter Act 1928 to fix the date of Easter; and if he will make a statement.
    (227857)
2
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to enable teachers of STEM subjects in secondary schools to participate in continuing professional development to maintain their awareness of the career opportunities relevant to their subjects.
    (227888)
3
N
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to enable teachers in primary schools to participate in subject-specific continuing professional development to maintain their understanding of basic mathematical and specific concepts.
    (227889)
4
N
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken in response to the Burmese government's refusal to investigate possible violations of international law in relation to the Rohingya in Burma.
    (227886)
5
N
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when NHS England plans to publish its audit of unplanned emergency admissions of patients with neuromuscular conditions in the north east of England.
    (227890)
6
N
Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to provide specialist clinical psychology support to patients with neuromuscular conditions attending neuromuscular specialist centres in the north east.
    (227891)
7
N
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that the meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero, is included in the 2015 childhood immunisation programme; and if he will make a statement.
    (227892)
8
N
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many ethnic Rohingya in camps in Rakhine State, Burma, have died in the last year; and what the main causes of deaths in those camps are.
    (227887)
Wednesday 25 March  

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 17 March

1
N
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of NHS dental services in Clacton constituency.
    (228001)
2
N
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the response time performance was of the East of England Ambulance Service in the last six months.
    (228004)
3
N
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will direct Network Rail to limit the amount of weekend track improvement work on the London Liverpool Street to Clacton line.
    (228002)
4
N
Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether central government funding has been made available to Clacton constituency for the repair of potholes.
    (228003)
5
N
Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for how long is half of the road carriageway area of the Humber Bridge to be cordoned off; and for what reason that cordoning has taken place.
    (227856)

Prepared 18th March 2015