Written answers
Thursday, 26 April 2012
- Home Department
- Arrest Warrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions the Serious Organised Crime Agency has refused to certify a request under the European Arrest Warrant in each of the...
- Arrests: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children (a) in total, (b) under the age of 14 years and (c) who are girls were arrested in each division in the South Wales police...
- Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what assessment she has made of the adequacy of police officer numbers trained to deal with public order offences during the public...
- Computers: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she plans to bring forward proposals to amend the provisions in Part III of the Police Act 1997 that allow the police to remotely...
- Crime: Haringey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports of (a) robberies, (b) burglaries, (c) serious violence and (d) gang-related crime there were in the London borough of...
- Crimes of Violence: Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) killed and (b) seriously injured in one punch attacks in (i) Nottinghamshire, (ii) the East Midlands and (iii)...
- Databases: Telecommunications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the technical viability of the Communications Capabilities Development Programme.
- Databases: Telecommunications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what formal advice she has received from the Information Commissioner on the Communications Capabilities Development Programme since October 2010.
- Databases: Telecommunications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which (a) Government departments, (b) external experts and (c) private companies have been consulted on the Communications Capabilities...
- Drugs: Alcoholic Drinks
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the monetary value of illegal (a) drugs, (b) alcohol and (c) tobacco sales in the UK in each of the last five years.
- Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what deadline her Department has set for completing the process of transferring to Sheffield all Tier 4 applications remaining in Croydon.
- Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time was for processing an application to extend a Tier 4 visa in the latest period for which figures are available; and if...
- Forensic Science: Manpower
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many full-time equivalent staff worked for the (a) NPIA, (b) Forensic Transition Board and (c) Forensic Regulator in (i) 2010-11 and (ii)...
- National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans she has to establish ministerial accountability for the direction and control of officers of the National Crime Agency in Northern...
- Police and Crime Commissioners
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to give police and crime commissioners the powers they need to reduce crime.
- Police and Crime Commissioners
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency will apply to police and crime commissioners as it...
- Police Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many custody suites, with how many cells, there are in use in police stations in each English region; and if she will make a...
- Police Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many police holding cells have been mothballed in the Metropolitan police area since April 2011; (2) how many holding cells were...
- Police: Consultants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many former police officers have been hired by their former force as a consultant (a) in an individual capacity and (b) through a private...
- Police: Football
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by police forces on policing football matches in the most recent year for which figures are available.
- Police: Football
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how much funding the Merseyside Police force received in respect of policing of football matches from (a) Everton Football Club and (b)...
- Police: Nottinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Nottinghamshire police have been retired under the provisions of Regulation A19 since May 2010.
- Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which of her Department's consultations have been externally verified since 2007; for what reason and by whom such verification was carried...
- Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether her Department accepts anonymous contributions to its consultations.
- Public Order Offences: Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding her Department provided for level (a) one and (b) two training of police officers to deal with public order offences in each...
- Serious Organised Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her policy is on ministerial accountability for the direction and control of officers of the Serious Organised Crime Agency in Northern...
- Serious Organised Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who is responsible for the direction and control of officers dealing with organised crime carried out by paramilitary groups in Northern...
- Theft: Metals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans she has to provide information to local authorities on changes to the law on scrap and itinerant metal dealers.
- Theft: Metals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent steps she has taken to prevent metal theft.
- UK Border Force
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget is for the UK Border Force in 2012-13.
- Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many job vacancies there were for (a) staff posts and (b) senior Civil Service posts in her Department on 31 March (i) 2010, (ii) 2011...
- Scotland
- Aviation: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what meetings he has had with (a) Ministerial colleagues and (b) Scottish Ministers on steps to ensure continuity of air services to and from Scotland.
- Prime Minister
- Nuclear Power Stations
To ask the Prime Minister whether he has made an assessment of the letter and briefing on the financing of new nuclear power plants sent to him by four former directors of Friends of the Earth on...
- Culture Media and Sport
- Charitable Donations
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (1) if he will place in the Library all representations he has received on the proposed cap on tax relief for philanthropic...
- Listed Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport how many listed buildings are in community ownership.
- St George's Day (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport if he will make St George's Day a public holiday.
- Television
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what recent assessment he has made of (a) the system for rating television and films in respect of violent content and (b)...
- Television
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what government-funded studies have been carried out into the impact of television and screen violence on actual violence,...
- Television
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the effect of excessive watching of television on (a) aggressive behaviour, (b) childhood...
- Writers: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of female television and film scriptwriters employed in the UK.
- Church Commissioners
- VAT: Listed Buildings
To ask the hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what estimate the Church Commissioners have made of the potential cost to the Church of England of the Government's...
- Churches: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment he has made of the financial effect of the removal of VAT relief on maintenance and restoration of...
- Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Air Quality: London
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to improve air quality in London.
- Food Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department is taking to support the food industry and promote food exports.
- Agriculture
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department is taking to recruit the 60,000 new entrants it estimates are needed in the agricultural sector...
- Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to improve air quality.
- Animals
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent steps her Department has taken on animal health legislation within Europe to improve disease prevention.
- Crops
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the impact of (a) yellow and (b) brown rust on susceptible crops across the UK.
- Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she expects to make a statement relating to the introduction of enhanced dog control measures.
- Droughts
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions she has had on the extent of drought; and if she will make a statement.
- Horses
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether her Department plans to take steps to promote the safety of horses in future Grand Nationals.
- Inland Waterways
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps she is taking to secure the long-term future of rivers and waterways.
- Rural Areas: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many applications she expects to be made for the Rural Economy Grant.
- Veterinary Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will publish any impact assessment her Department has carried out on the closure of animal health and veterinary...
- Veterinary Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of whether farms will have access to post-mortem facilities within one hour following the...
- Energy and Climate Change
- Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps he is taking to encourage local energy generation for local communities.
- Energy: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will have discussions with the US Department of Energy on the potential effects on the energy saving market of its Apps for...
- Energy: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to reduce leakage points and permeability in homes in order to increase energy efficiency.
- Green Deal Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will take steps to ensure customers are not charged more for home improvements under the Green Deal than they save in cheaper...
- Green Deal Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 19 April 2012, Official Report, columns 487-8W, on the Green Deal scheme, how long he expects training...
- Green Deal Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 19 April 2012, Official Report, column 488W, on the Green Deal scheme, what estimate he has made of the...
- Green Deal Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the costs and benefits of window film as a potential green deal measure for non-domestic properties.
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had any meetings with (i) Simon Hoare, (ii) CGMS, (iii) Freshwater UK,...
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had any discussions on (i) the Helioslough Radlett rail freight exchange...
- Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department accepts anonymous contributions to its consultations.
- Renewable Energy: Heating
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the potential effects of the time taken for the introduction of the renewable heat incentive on...
- Renewable Energy: Heating
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what discussions he has had on including recycled oils in the second phase of the Renewable Heat Premium Payment.
- Renewable Energy: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which 10 renewable energy technologies have received the most investment for research and development purposes in each year since 2005;...
- Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what discussions he has had on including recycled oils in the Renewable Heat Incentive.
- International Development
- Sri Lanka
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to the International Crisis Group report on Sri Lanka: Women's Insecurity in the North and East, if he will provide aid...
- Defence
- Addison Lee
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what meetings (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had with John Griffin of Addison Lee since 12 May 2010.
- Armed Forces: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he has taken to ensure that military personnel are registered and encouraged to vote in elections.
- Armed Forces: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to review the Tri-Service Regulations for pay and charges. [R]
- Armed Forces: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many redundancies have been announced as part of Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 for each (a) Army regiment, (b) naval unit and (c) Royal Air Force group.
- Egypt
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department is taking to support (a) security sector reform in Egypt and (b) Egyptian civil society to hold security and justice providers...
- Harrier Aircraft
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many Harrier pilots have been made redundant since May 2010; (2) how many Harrier pilots have been redeployed to other duties since May 2010.
- Mass Media
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2012, Official Report, column 465W, on Departmental contracts, how much his Department has spent on (a) contracts with...
- Military Bases: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many (a) civilian and (b) service staff were employed at 2nd Division headquarters at Craigiehall in each year since 2009; (2) how many (a)...
- Navy: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many members of the Royal Navy are exempt from single living accommodation charges; [R] (2) how many members of the Royal Navy are homeowners...
- Submarines
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Royal Navy has the capacity to man more than a seven-boat attack submarine fleet.
- War Widows
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many post-2005 widows are in receipt of survivors' guaranteed income payments.
- Communities and Local Government
- Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the number of new units of affordable housing built was expressed as a proportion of the number of people on the...
- Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many community mobilisers are operating nationally.
- Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment his Department has made of the effect of community mobilisers on local communities.
- Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans he has to continue to provide support for work of community mobilisers.
- Fires: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many domestic fires in England were caused by electrical faults in each of the last five years; and what estimate has been...
- Risk Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2012, Official Report, column 204W, on risk assessment, if he will list the risk registers...
- Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many journeys (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department made by (i) train, (ii) coach and (iii) Government car in...
- Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many job vacancies there were for (a) staff posts and (b) senior civil service posts in his Department on 31 March (i) 2010,...
- Written Questions: Government Responses
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when he plans to answer question 104641 on zero-carbon homes.
- Written Questions: Government Responses
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when he plans to answer Question 104642 on public sector land.
- Written Questions: Government Responses
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) when he plans to answer question 104120 on affordable housing; (2) when he plans to answer question 104121 on affordable...
- Transport
- Dual Carriageways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of single carriageway A-roads were dualled between May (a) 1997 and (b) 2010.
- E-mail
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what her policy is on the period for which emails sent and received by (a) Ministers, (b) officials, and (c) special advisers in her Department are...
- Liverpool Cruise Terminal
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment she has made of the potential economic and employment effects on other ports and communities of permitting turnaround operations at the...
- Liverpool Cruise Terminal
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 26 January 2012, Official Report, column 26WS, on the City of Liverpool Cruise Terminal, whether the...
- Official Secrets
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether any person employed by (a) her Department, (b) the agencies and non-departmental public bodies for which her Department is responsible and (c)...
- Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which of her Department's consultations have been externally verified since 2007; for what reason and by whom such verification was carried out; and...
- Railways: Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what her policy is on whether a franchised service operator continues to be charged marginal track access costs when they buy out or take over an open...
- Railways: Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the differential in charges is for track access costs between open access operators and those rail companies who are franchised service operators.
- Railways: Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many open access operator routes there are in operation in England.
- Railways: Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport with reference to paragraph 4.42 of her Department's publication, Reforming our Railways: Putting the Customer First, whether open access bids that are...
- Road Signs and Markings
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of brown tourist signs on the Highways Agency managed road network are paid for (a) from the public purse and (b) by the tourist sites...
- Work and Pensions
- Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department takes to inform a parent with care when the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission takes a decision not to...
- Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the results were of the unadjusted survey data from the customer insight analysis undertaken by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement...
- Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assumptions the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission made in interpreting the raw survey data from its customer insight analysis...
- Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) parents with care and (b) non- resident parents were consulted as part of the customer insight analysis undertaken by the Child...
- Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to page 11 of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission's delivery plan for 2011-12, what interventions were tested by...
- Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what information the Child Support Agency holds on the proportion of parents with care each year that transfer from a maintenance direct...
- Disability Living Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of people were in receipt of the (a) care and (b) mobility component of disability living allowance in (i) Wrexham...
- Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of 16 and 17-year-olds who are not in education, employment, or training he expects to meet his eligibility criteria of holding...
- Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for what reason a single national fund has been established for wage subsidies payable under the Youth Contract rather than the subsidies being...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment entitled Under-occupation of social housing, whether the application of private rented...
- Housing Benefit: Glasgow
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many in-work households were in receipt of housing benefit in (a) the City of Glasgow and (b) Glasgow North constituency in (i) 2009, (ii)...
- National Insurance Credits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) whether parents who receive national insurance credits linked to child benefit will no longer receive those credits if their child...
- New Enterprise Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the cost of extending the New Enterprise Allowance to participants in the work programme; and if he will make a statement.
- Pensioners: Council Tax Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people in receipt of a state pension who became ineligible for council tax benefit as a result of...
- Pensioners: Postage Stamps
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions he has had with Royal Mail on its concessionary scheme for pensioners to purchase stamps at Christmas.
- Remploy
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make it his policy that the Government will meet any liabilities in the Remploy Pension Fund.
- Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in light of proposed changes to welfare benefits funding, what assessment he has made of the possibility of disabled people being unable to...
- State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of (a) men and (b) women over retirement age (i) did not qualify for a national insurance retirement pension and (ii) drew a...
- Unemployment: Speech Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of qualified speech therapists who are unemployed.
- Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent estimate he has made of the cost of transitional protection under universal credit in each year up to 2015.
- Business, Innovation and Skills
- Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to his answer of 23 March 2011, Official Report, columns 115-16W, on departmental assets, what receipts from the sale of...
- Bankruptcy: North Lanarkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many bankruptcies have occurred in Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill constituency since May 2010.
- Biofuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether he has any plans for UK Trade and Investment missions focusing on sustainable biofuels.
- Business: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2011, Official Report, columns 385-6W, on business: Government assistance, what the value...
- Business: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether he plans to revise the system of regulation of businesses employing fewer than five people.
- Business: United Arab Emirates
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to encourage collaboration and networking of UK businesses with international partners in the...
- Consultants
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to the Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on efficiency and reform in Government corporate functions...
- Economic Growth
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 4 May 2011, Official Report, column 768W, on economic growth, whether successful outcome targets have...
- Economic Growth: EU Law
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 4 May 2011, Official Report, column 769W, on economic growth: EU law, whether he has yet published the...
- EU Action
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what meetings (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have attended at an institution of the EU...
- Exports: Angola
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 21 March 2012, Official Report, column 750W, if he will provide a breakdown of the type of goods...
- Government Departments: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 16 April 2012, Official Report, column 280W, on Government departments: private sector, if he will...
- Higher Education: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to consult students' unions on institutional access agreements.
- Higher Education: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions his Department has had with the Office for Fair Access on fee waivers and institutional access agreements for...
- Higher Education: Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what the (a) gender, (b) age and (c) ethnic composition was of students admitted to youth and community work degree courses...
- Higher Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether he issues guidance to providers wishing to have higher education courses designated on due diligence; and if he will...
- Higher Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what differences exist between Quality Assurance Agency audits of higher education institutions and his recently introduced due...
- Higher Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will consider using Quality Assurance Agency checks in place of his recently introduced due diligence checks on designated...
- Land: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 25 January 2012, Official Report, columns 309-10W, on land registration, which five UK regions have the...
- Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the findings of the report entitled Public perceptions of manufacturing and efforts to rebalance...
- Overseas Trade: Caribbean
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the statement of 25 January 2012, Official Report, column 17WS, on Brazil and the Caribbean (Foreign Secretary...
- Overseas Trade: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will respond to the findings of the British Chambers of Commerce's survey Exporting is Good For Britain but Exporters Need...
- Postgraduate Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the potential effect of changes to postgraduate fees on levels of participation in higher education.
- Postgraduate Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department has undertaken to evaluate the anticipated effect on postgraduate numbers, undertaking both...
- Postgraduate Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has for funding of postgraduate education.
- Postgraduate Education: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many (a) EU national and (b) international postgraduate students there have been on (i) taught and (ii) research degrees in...
- Procurement: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent discussions representatives of his Department have had with the devolved assemblies on human rights and procurement.
- Regional Growth Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what methodology the Independent Advisory Panel on the Regional Growth Fund uses to assess how bidders to the Fund meet the six...
- Regional Growth Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the total cost of the due diligence process on successful bidders from the first two rounds of the...
- Students: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the take-up of career development loans has been by postgraduate students undertaking postgraduate taught and research...
- Students: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills when he plans to bring forward regulations on the cancellation period for student debt.
- Students: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what his policy is on the use of fee waivers in place of increased student bursaries as a support mechanism for students.
- Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent representations he has received on levels of customer satisfaction with the Student Loans Company.
- Trading Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the responsibilities of the new National Trading Standards Board will be; how many staff it will have; what its budget will...
- UK Trade & Industry Defence and Security Organisation: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what human rights training UK Trade and Industry officials receive prior to posting.
- Young People: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many businesses in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London borough of Bexley have expressed an interest...
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of women imprisoned for alleged crimes of zina in Afghanistan in each year from 2005 to...
- Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the oral answer from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of 17 April...
- Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 17 April 2012, Official Report, column 155, on Afghanistan, with which women's organisations in...
- Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment his Department has made of the security situation in Bahrain.
- Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment his Department has made of the treatment of political prisoners by the Bahraini authorities.
- Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions his Department has had with the government of Bahrain on reports of human rights abuses against...
- Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of unrest between Sunni and Shi'ite populations in Bahrain.
- Bahrain
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will have discussions with the Bahraini authorities on the recent civil disturbances and their reaction to them.
- Bangladesh
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with authorities in Bangladesh on the disappearance of Mr Md Ilias Ali.
- Bangladesh
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the government of Bangladesh on the ending of the caretaker government system before...
- Egypt
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Egyptian authorities on freedom of the press.
- Israel: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the number of Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons.
- Israel: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions officials in his Department have had with the Israeli government on the imprisonment of Palestinian members of...
- Israel: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on current discussions between Israeli and Palestinian representatives.
- Libya
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the Libyan government's relations with (a) the EU and (b) NATO.
- Libya
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had on increasing oil production in Libya in the last three months.
- Malawi
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his policy is on the appointment of a new high commissioner to Malawi.
- Middle East
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to condemn all instances of religious persecution in the Middle East and to emphasise the importance of...
- Middle East
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that minority religious groups such as Coptic Christians receive protection in Arab spring...
- Middle East and Africa
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in which countries in the Middle East and Africa no UK Government officials are based.
- Pakistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has raised with his Pakistani counterpart the death of Abdul Qudoos Ahmad; what steps he is taking to promote human...
- Retirement
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) civil servants and (b) senior civil servants have retired from his Department since May 2010; and if he will make a...
- Russia
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to his Russian counterpart on (a) the Abuyeva judgment and (b) other outstanding European Court...
- Sudan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether his Department has had any recent discussions with representatives of the Chinese government on arms sales to Sudan.
- Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions his Department has had with its international counterparts on potential measures in respect of Syria in the...
- Western Sahara
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of recent developments in Western Sahara.
- Western Sahara
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his Department's policy is on renewal of the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.
- Education
- Children Act 1989
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish data setting out the nationality and immigration status of all (a) children and (b) family members receiving public assistance under...
- Dyslexia
To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what proportion of (a) children and (b) adults are diagnosed with dyslexia; (2) if he will estimate the proportion of children in each (a)...
- Education Welfare Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many education welfare officers and exclusion officers were employed by local authorities in the latest period for which figures are available; and...
- Free Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent discussions he has had with private sector providers on the establishment of for-profit free schools.
- Human Rights: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what training departmental staff receive on the rights of children and child protection.
- Numeracy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to improve numeracy in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
- Private Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many recipients of the education maintenance allowance were enrolled at independent schools in academic year 2010-11.
- Schools: Hygiene
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will undertake an assessment of the effect of streamlining the School Premises Regulations on the standard of school toilets and washing...
- Schools: Hygiene
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will take steps to ensure the new School Premises Regulations contain standards for toilets and washing facilities equivalent to those in the...
- Schools: Vocational Guidance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the likely cost to schools of providing impartial face-to-face sessions of information, advice and guidance in (a) 2012-13...
- Teachers: First Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of teachers in Salford and Eccles constituency have received first aid training.
- Teachers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will estimate the mean pay of (a) school teachers and (b) sixth form college teachers in each age group in (A) Portsmouth, (B) Hampshire and (C)...
- Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many journeys (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department made by (i) train, (ii) coach and (iii) Government car in an official capacity in...
- Health
- Accident and Emergency Departments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was in the accident and emergency ward at Kings Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire in each of the last three years.
- Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) genuine and (b) malicious emergency calls were received by Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service in each of the last three years.
- Anti-depressants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has made an assessment of the effect of long-term use of anti-depressants on the libido of patients.
- Care Quality Commission
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for reform of the Care Quality Commission.
- Care Quality Commission
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) Performance and Capability Review will assess the merits of (a) creating different inspection regimes to...
- Care Quality Commission
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many inspections of (a) acute and (b) secure mental health facilities were undertaken by the Care Quality Commission in each of the last three years...
- Care Quality Commission
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many specialist mental health inspectors were employed by the Care Quality Commission in each of the last three years for which figures are...
- Care Quality Commission
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment the Care Quality Commission has made of its ability to inspect accurately (a) acute and (b) secure mental health services.
- Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what requirement Birmingham and Solihull primary care trusts have to provide an out-of-hours dental service; and whether the National Commissioning Board...
- Food: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he plans to take in respect of food outlets which do not sign up to his Responsibility Deal agreements on calorie labelling; (2) how...
- Food: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Education and (b) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on public education in...
- General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the ratio is of male to female GPs.
- Industrial Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many working days were lost in the NHS due to industrial action in each of the last five years.
- Liver Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to publish the Government's liver strategy.
- NHS: Foreign Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors from each overseas country are working in England.
- NHS: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the NHS budget has been spent in the private sector, including contracts awarded to the private sector, since May 2010.
- NHS: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer to Lord Walton of Detchant of 26 March 2012, Official Report, House of Lords, column 208WA, on in-vitro diagnostic tests,...
- Nurses: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has of the numbers (a) employed and (b) in training as (i) health visitors, (ii) school nurses, (iii) district nurses and (iv) community...
- Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when Ministers in his Department next plan to travel to Jersey to discuss the implementation of the Food Supplements Directive and the Nutrition and...
- Organs: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to support organ donation.
- Primary Care Trusts: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what information his Department holds on the number of primary care trusts in England that have failed to recover money owed by foreign nationals...
- Sleep Apnoea
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS services for people with sleep apnoea; and if he will make a statement.
- Speech Therapy: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the Bercow Review on speech therapy for children; and if he will make a statement.
- Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was for an operation at Kings Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire in each of the last three years.
- Tobacco: Packaging
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the evidential basis is for his policy that the introduction of plain packaging for all cigarette brands will reduce the number of smokers; (2)...
- Cabinet Office
- Addison Lee
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what meetings (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had with John Griffin of Addison Lee since 12 May 2010.
- Civil Servants: Codes of Practice
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many investigations into breaches by civil servants of the Civil Service Code of Conduct occurred in his Department in each month from May 2010 to...
- Contracts for Services
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether any requests by a Government department to implement outsourcing deals have been (a) amended and (b) rejected by his Department since May 2010.
- Employment: Private Sector
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the net change in the number of private sector jobs was in (a) Barnsley East constituency and (b) Barnsley metropolitan borough in the latest...
- Foreign Nationals
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many nationals of each other European Economic Area member state are legally resident in the UK; (2) how many nationals of each other...
- Foreign Nationals
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many nationals of non-European Economic Area countries are legally resident in the UK other than by virtue of EU law.
- G20
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the Government's priorities are for the G20 leaders summit in Los Cabos in June 2012.
- Government Departments: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which (a) Government Departments, (b) agencies and (c) public bodies (i) were and (ii) were not required to submit details of individuals earning over...
- Government: Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) whether (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had any meetings with Sarah Southern since May 2010; (2)...
- Manpower
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many full-time equivalent staff worked for (a) the Office of Civil Society, (b) Directgov and (c) the Office for Government Commerce in (i) 2010-11...
- National Lottery
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 19 April 2012, Official Report, column 557W, on the National Lottery, how much funding the Big Lottery Fund has allocated for...
- Official Secrets
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether any person employed by (a) his Department, (b) the agencies and non-departmental public bodies for which his Department is responsible and (c)...
- Peel Group
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the total amount of public funding (a) paid to and (b) offered to companies owned by the Peel Group by the Government in...
- Public Expenditure
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much his Department allocated to fund (a) the Office for Civil Society, (b) Directgov and (c) the Office for Government Commerce in (i) 2010-11 and...
- Telephone Services
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the Government's policy is on whether call centres contracted to Government Departments and agencies should be located in the UK; and if he will...
- Treasury
- Bank Services
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of banks which offer basic bank accounts; and if he will make a statement.
- Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to employers of adjusting PAYE systems to reclaim child benefit from people earning between £50,000 and £60,000.
- Devolution: Scotland
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the Barnett consequentials for Scotland for financial years (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 arising from the decision to devolve...
- Excise Duties: Alcoholic Drinks
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give consideration to (a) reducing the rate at which excise duty is applied to beer and (b) increasing the rate at which excise duty is applied...
- Flowers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent on (a) cut flowers and (b) pot plants between May 2010 and February 2012.
- Income Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the revenue to the Exchequer (a) gained and (b) foregone as a result of the recent changes in the top rate of income tax for...
- Income Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will place in the Library a copy of the report prepared for him by HM Revenue and Customs on the proportion of income paid in tax by a selected...
- Income Tax: Colchester
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of people in Colchester constituency who pay the additional rate of income tax.
- Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were liable for the 50 pence income tax rate in each (a) region, (b) parliamentary constituency and (c) local authority at the latest date...
- Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of people who will move from paying the basic rate of income tax into the higher tax band from April 2013 in (a) the...
- Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost was to the public purse of producing the document entitled The Exchequer effect of the 50 per cent additional rate in income tax, published by...
- Meetings
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had any discussions on (i) the Helioslough Radlett rail freight exchange proposal and...
- Paye
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the interim solution adopted for real time information for PAYE will allow for reconciliation of information provided by employers with actual sums...
- Pensioners
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many employee personal pension arrangements were (a) DSS rebated only, (b) DSS and employee contribution based, (c) DSS employee and employer...
- Personal Income: Wales
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (1) higher rate taxpayers there were in (a) Newport East constituency and (b) Wales in the last year for which figures are available; (2) how...
- Personal Income: Wales
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many households in (a) Ogmore constituency and (b) Wales earn more than (i) £50,000 and (ii) £60,000 per annum.
- Public Sector: Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) men and (b) women in employment were members of public sector pension schemes in each of the last 30 years.
- Tax Allowances: Charitable Donations
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of the financial effect on charities of his proposal to introduce a cap on tax relief for charitable donations.
- Tax Allowances: Pensioners
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) with reference to the Budget Statement, what the cost to the Exchequer is of the changes to the personal age-related allowances for pensioners in...
- Taxation: Bingo
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the rate of gross profits tax levied on (a) bingo clubs and (b) bookmakers; and for what reasons there is a difference...
- Taxation: Bingo
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received from the bingo industry on the relationship between bingo gross profits tax and total tax revenue from the gaming sector.
- Taxation: Bingo
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport on bingo taxation.
- Taxation: Bingo
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the rate of machine games duty on the bingo industry.
- Taxation: Bingo
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what assessment he has made of the likely effect on the overall taxation burden on the bingo industry of the planned introduction of machine games...
- Taxation: Multinational Companies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will discuss with his EU counterparts introducing a policy requiring that taxes be paid by companies in countries where their products are made or...
- Taxation: Multinational Companies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy that profits made by (a) Amazon and (b) other retailers from book sales in the UK are taxed in the UK and not in another country.
- Taxation: Self-assessment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will require HM Revenue and Customs to allow members of the public to use the free online system to submit form SA101.
- Taxation: Self-assessment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with HM Revenue and Customs about allowing public enquiries to the self-assessment helpline and tax enquiries line to be dealt...
- Taxation: Self-assessment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the HM Revenue and Customs target time is to answer telephone calls on the (a) self-assessment helpline and (b) tax enquiries line.
- Tobacco: Smuggling
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate he has made of the proportion of the market for cigarettes accounted for by illegal cigarettes in (a) the UK and (b) Northern Ireland in...
- Vat
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of listed properties owned by (a) the Government, (b) Historic Royal Palaces, (c) the Church Commissioners and (d)...
- Vat
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he made of the effect on listed churches of the imposition of VAT on alterations to listed buildings; what proportion of the extra cost to...
- Justice
- Crime: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what information his Department holds on the number of victims of crime in Wales in 2011 who had learning difficulties.
- Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) if he will estimate the effect on rates of failure to comply or other breaches of increasing the electronic tag sentence maximum from eight to 16...
- Prisons: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many new prison places have been created; and how many such places are shared by (a) two and (b) three prisoners in each year since 1997.
- Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what have been the savings from the merger of Surrey and Sussex probation trusts in 2011-12.
- Women and Equalities
- Sexual Harassment
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what assessment she has made of the effect of sexual harassment of women in male-dominated professions on their professional advancement.
- House of Lords
- Firearms: Licensing
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the South Wales Police Authority or any officers of the South Wales Police have in any cases requested that applicants for the renewal of firearm, shotgun,...
