Written answers
Tuesday, 17 July 2012

  • Energy and Climate Change
    • Carbon Sequestration
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to his Department's Carbon Capture and Storage Roadmap, what the timetable is for the development of a strategy for...
    • Carbon Sequestration
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the role of clusters of power stations when considering the location of carbon capture and storage projects.
    • Energy: Infrastructure
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the cost of energy infrastructure needed if generation capacity has (a) at least to double and (b)...
    • Energy: Prices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the proportion of households likely to be net (a) gainers and (b) losers under current energy policies in 2020.
    • Energy: Prices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the cost of domestic fuel bills at constant prices in (a) 2012, (b) 2013, (c) 2014, (d) 2015 and (e) 2016.
    • Energy: Prices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the number of small businesses which have been subject to back-billing for energy supplies of (a) one to...
    • Energy: Prices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what plans he has to reform the differential cost of electricity rates between English regions; and if he will make a statement.
    • Energy: Prices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the number of small business customers who have been subject to automatic rollover of their electricity...
    • Energy: Prices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of bringing small business contracts into alignment with the code of practice for accurate bills which...
    • Environment Protection: Employment
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the likely change in the number of jobs in the UK renewable energy sector up to 2015.
    • Fuel Poverty
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress his Department has made towards its statutory obligation to eliminate fuel poverty by 2016.
    • Fuel Poverty
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of the installation of smart meters on people in fuel poverty.
    • Fuel Poverty
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will estimate the number of households that have entered fuel poverty in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern...
    • Fuel Poverty
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the proportion of people (a) under and (b) over 65 years who are currently living in fuel poverty.
    • Natural Gas: Exploration
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will take into account in the formulation of his gas strategy the findings of (a) the review by the Royal Society and the Royal...
    • Nuclear Power
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what advice his Department has commissioned from UK-based financial firms on the strike price for nuclear power; and what the total...
    • Departmental Pay
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many staff of his Department received bonuses in (a) 2010 and (b) 2011.
    • Publications
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answers of 11 June 2012, Official Report, column 75W and 28 June 2012, Official Report, column 343W, on publications,...
    • Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to undertake a revised impact assessment for the operation of a multi-party counterparty for Contracts for Difference.
    • Windows: Energy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the proportion of windows in the UK that are rated C or below for energy efficiency.
    • Windows: Energy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the number of replacement windows that could be eligible for funding under the energy company obligation.
  • Culture Media and Sport
    • Football
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what recent meetings he has had with David Bernstein on the Culture, Media and Sport select committee's report on football...
    • Mobile Phones: Radio Frequencies
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport when he expects a decision to be made on the spectrum liberalisation request by Everything Everywhere.
    • Mobile Phones: Radio Frequencies
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what steps his Department is taking to ensure that deployment of 4G/LTE mobile services takes place as soon as possible.
    • Mobile Phones: Radio Frequencies
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport when Ofcom plans to respond to the proposal for liberalisation of the 1800 band to enable 4G services; and what assessment he...
    • Mobile Phones: Radio Frequencies
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the contribution to the economy of having 4G services widely available before the end of 2012.
    • Odyssey Marine Exploration
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport how many times he has met representatives of Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc.
    • Olympic Games 2012
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the economic effect of the London 2012 Olympics on towns and cities outside London which are...
    • Olympic Games 2012: Tickets
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (1) how many tickets for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics have been allocated to (a) Coca Cola, (b) Acer, (c) Atos,...
    • Olympic Games 2012: Tickets
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (1) how many tickets for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics are available; for what sports; what recent discussions he...
    • Royal Archives
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport when he last visited the Royal Archives in an official capacity; and if he will make a statement.
    • Telephone Services: Unsolicited Goods and Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what (a) investigations his Department has undertaken into and (b) discussions he has had on cold-calling and unwanted sales...
    • Telephone Services: Unsolicited Goods and Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport whether he has any plans to introduce further protection for the public from unwanted telephone marketing calls.
  • Attorney-General
    • Steroid Drugs: Prosecutions
      To ask the Attorney-General how many prosecutions there have been under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations for supplying anabolic steroids in each of the last 10 years.
  • Prime Minister
    • G8
      To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 11 July 2012, Official Report, column 274W, on G8, if he will ensure that the agenda for the UK presidency of the G8 Summit in 2013 will...
    • United Nations: European Union
      To ask the Prime Minister which representatives of the business sector he has met to discuss the UN's relationship with the EU.
  • Leader of the House
    • Libor
      To ask the Leader of the House if he will make it his policy that the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards should examine the effect of LIBOR manipulation on the sale of interest rate...
  • Northern Ireland
    • Assisted Areas
      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what discussions he has had with (a) the Minister for Finance in the Northern Ireland Executive, (b) the Minister for Enterprise, Trade...
    • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the effects on Northern Ireland of the proposal to centralise the...
    • Parades Commission
      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has made to the Parades Commission on July 2012 parades and protests against them.
    • Publications
      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 3 July 2012, Official Report, column 539W, on publications, how much his Department has spent on (a) circulars, (b)...
    • Ulster Bank
      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the outcome was of his discussions with Sir Philip Hampton on 9 July 2012 on resolving the problems at Ulster Bank; and if he will make a...
  • Environment Food and Rural Affairs
    • A3
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she expects to (a) complete and (b) publish results from the 2012 round of noise mapping for the A3 in East Hampshire.
    • Animal Welfare: Circuses
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a) names and (b) qualifications are of the inspectors involved in her Department's research on the use of wild...
    • Cattle: Mastitis
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what assessment her Department has made of the effect of mastitis in cow herds; (2) what advice her Department is...
    • Farmers: Graduates
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what advice her Department provides to graduates on employment in the farming sector.
    • Food: Labelling
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to change the rules on (a) use by, (b) best before and (c) sell by dates on packaged food.
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the impact of each of the four options proposed in her Department's consultation on...
    • Waste
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps she is taking to reduce waste within her Department.
    • Waste: Exports
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what (a) volume and (b) proportion of waste that would be otherwise have gone to landfill was exported in each of the last...
    • Animal Welfare: Circuses
      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether her Department differentiates between performing and non-performing wild animals travelling with circuses in its...
  • Wales
    • Lost Working Days
      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the average number of working days lost per person was in her Department in each of the last three years.
    • Personal Income
      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales pursuant to the answer of 4 July 2012, Official Report, columns 650-1W, on taxation, what assessment she has made of the net effect of changes to taxation...
    • Police
      To ask the Secretary of State for Wales pursuant to the answer of 3 July 2012, Official Report, columns 531-2W, on police, and with reference to the report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary,...
  • Scotland
    • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what progress has been made on identifying a long-term solution for provision of Maritime and Coastguard Agency duties around the Western Isles and West...
    • Work Experience
      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many interns work in his Department's press office.
  • House of Commons Commission
    • Members: ICT
      To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether a business impact level assessment was conducted before iPads were provided...
    • Switchboard Staff: Relocation
      To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, (1) what estimate the Commission has made of the risks involved in the move of...
  • Women and Equalities
    • Females: Victim Support Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what discussions she has had with the (a) Ministers in the Home Department, (b) the Secretary of State for Justice and (c) the Secretary of State for...
  • Transport
    • Airports: Transport
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate she has made of the number of passengers from overseas transiting via (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick and (c) Stansted whose destination is...
    • Aviation
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what steps she is taking to develop cross-departmental consensus on the development of the aviation industry; (2) what discussions her...
    • Aviation
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 12 July 2012, on Aviation Policy Framework, which projects are in receipt of the £1.4 billion...
    • Aviation
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport for what reasons proposals to liberalise the UK aviation market to encourage foreign airlines to develop new routes by permitting foreign airlines to...
    • Aviation
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the smaller planes are in respect of which her forthcoming proposals will seek to restrict access at the busiest airports; and from which airports...
    • bmibaby: Redundancy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she has had discussions with her Ministerial colleagues on the position of pilots who will be made redundant by the closure of the airline bmibaby.
    • Driving: Licensing
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people in the UK held a full driving licence at the age of 17 years in the period (a) 1980-89, (b) 1990-99, (c) 2000-09 and (d) 2010 to date.
    • Ex Gratia Payments
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate her Department has made of the monetary value of ex-gratia payments made through schemes administered by her Department in the last two years.
    • High Speed 2 Railway Line
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many applications to the Exceptional Hardship Scheme have been (a) accepted by the Exceptional Hardship Scheme Panel but upon review rejected by...
    • High Speed 2 Railway Line
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what additional expenditure has been allocated to enable her Department to purchase property along the High Speed Rail 2 preferred line route; and if...
    • HS2 Ltd
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff have been employed at HS2 Ltd in each month since its creation. [Official Report, 24 October 2012, Vol. 551, c. 5MC.]
    • HS2 Ltd
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff at HS2 Ltd are employed to work on the (a) Project Board, (b) Officers Working Group, (c) Consultation/Working Group, (d) Environmental...
    • HS2 Ltd
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many additional staff HS2 Ltd is projected to hire in each year until 2015; (2) how many staff at HS2 Ltd have salaries of (a) £20,000...
    • Network Rail
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) with reference to her Department's White Paper, Reforming our Railways: Putting the Customer First, whether she has agreed with Network Rail that...
    • Railways: Freight
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions she has had with the Office of Rail Regulation on proposed changes to the level of charges to freight companies for transporting coal...
    • Railways: Freight
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what charges were levied on the rail transportation of coal used for electricity generation in each year since 1997.
    • Railways: Freight
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she has made an assessment of the effect of an increase in the charges levied on freight transported by rail on (a) road congestion, (b) safety...
    • Railways: Freight
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport with reference to the Office of Rail Regulation's 13th Periodic Review, what environmental impact assessments she has made of proposals to increase...
    • Railways: Freight
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport with reference to the Office of Rail Regulation’s 13th Periodic Review, what assessment she has made of the effect on the competitiveness of UK...
    • Railways: Scotland
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress has been made on improving train journey times from (a) London to Edinburgh and Glasgow and (b) Edinburgh and Glasgow to Inverness.
    • Road Traffic Control
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport by what method traffic density was recorded; and what the average traffic density was in the period (a) 1980-89, (b) 1990-99, (c) 2000-09 and (d) 2010...
    • Roads: Accidents
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she has made an assessment of any correlation between levels of maintenance on road infrastructure and road casualties.
    • Rail Freight
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport with reference to the answer of 26 March 2012, Official Report, column 947W, on rail freight, whether the Minister of State has had any other private...
    • South East Airports Taskforce
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what assessment she has made of the costs to date of servicing the South East Airports Taskforce; (2) how the South East Airports Taskforce was...
    • Southeastern Railways
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what the amount of (a) subsidy paid to and (b) franchise premium sought from the holders of the new Southeastern franchise planned to commence on...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff of her Department were in the civil service redeployment pool on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many of these...
    • Thameslink Railway Line: Rolling Stock
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) whether she plans to announce the decision on financial close for the Thameslink rolling stock contract in a ministerial statement to Parliament;...
    • Thameslink Railway Line: Rolling Stock
      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport for what reasons the signing of the Thameslink rolling stock contract has been delayed.
  • Justice
    • Cemeteries
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how his Department assesses demand for burial space in burial grounds.
    • Community Orders
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were given a community sentence with a condition of being electronically tagged in Wales and England in 2011.
    • Coroners (1 annotation)
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps his Department has taken to ensure that, in inquest procedures, the wishes of families of deceased who would, on religious grounds, choose (a)...
    • Data Protection: EU Action
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice in each year since EU Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA came into force, how many data subjects in the UK have (a) requested the rectification,...
    • Employment Tribunals Service
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to the answer of 29 February 2012, Official Report, columns 369-70W, on the Employment Tribunals Service, how many (a) single claims, (b)...
    • Fines: Surcharges
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the likelihood of recovering the proposed new victims surcharge penalty from offenders who are sentenced to immediate...
    • Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) nationality and (b) gender was of each suspected victim of trafficking referred to the Trafficking Victim Support Scheme operated by the...
    • Immigration Advisory Service
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he plans to take to ensure that files formerly held by the Immigration Advisory Service are retained for use by their clients.
    • Legal Aid Scheme
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how much was paid in legal aid to defendants with assets held under restraint in each of the last three financial years; (2) what the names are of...
    • Life Imprisonment
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many life-sentence prisoners in Wales and England have been continuously in custody since 1977; and how many of those are on a full-life tariff.
    • Prisoners’ Release
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 19 June 2012, Official Report, column 918W, on prisoners’ release, what estimate he has made of the proportion of...
    • Prisoners: Females
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many female inmates were reprimanded in respect of offences involving the use of drugs in prison in (a) 2010 and (b) 2011; and if he will make a...
    • Prostitution: Greater London
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many cautions were issued to sex workers in each London borough during the last 12 months.
    • Sentencing: Females
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many women were sentenced to imprisonment for making false allegations about rape or sexual assault in each of the last three years.
    • Unpaid Fines
      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2012, Official Report, column 88W, on unpaid fines, what the total balance is of outstanding financial penalties which...
  • Communities and Local Government
    • Council Housing: Construction
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many council houses were built in each local authority in each year since 1997.
    • Families: Disadvantaged
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what evidence informed the connection in the Government's Troubled Families programme between crime and anti-social behaviour...
    • Families: Disadvantaged
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what research informed the Government’s estimate that there are 120,000 troubled families; what sample size the figure was...
    • Free Schools: Planning Permission
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will take steps to prevent local authorities requiring payments under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act...
    • Homelessness
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on the provision of services to households which are designated...
    • Homelessness
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he has made a recent assessment of the number of (a) homeless people and (b) rough sleepers in (i) Coventry, (ii) the...
    • Housing: Bedfordshire
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will estimate the number of homes that have obtained planning permission but have not yet been built in Mid Bedfordshire...
    • Parks: Standards
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for what reason the advert for the licence to deliver the Green Flag Award Scheme has yet to be published; if he will extend the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many staff working for his Department, its executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies are employed through...
    • Planning Permission
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will consider introducing a special planning licence for bookmakers and other betting establishments to give local...
    • Social Rented Housing (1 annotation)
      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assistance his Department is providing to those unable to meet their financial commitments as a result of rising rent and...
  • Home Department
    • 101 Calls
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the 101 non-emergency number in each of the last three years; how much income has been drawn from calls to the number in...
    • Absenteeism
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the absenteeism rate was in her Department in each of the last three years.
    • Association of Chief Police Officers
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what total amount of funding was provided by her Department to the Association of Chief Police Officers in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c)...
    • Asylum
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases are being dealt with by the Case Assurances and Audit Unit.
    • Asylum
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the longest period of time an application for asylum which is currently outstanding has taken to process.
    • Asylum
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average period of time taken to process applications made for asylum was in the last two years.
    • Asylum
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many outstanding applications for asylum are being processed by her Department.
    • Civil Disorder
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she has taken in respect of the law on face coverings since the public disorder of August 2011. [R]
    • Closed Curcuit Television
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will assess the efficacy of Facewatch ID technology for circulating CCTV stills to the public to enable them to assist the police in...
    • Convictions: Nottinghamshire
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of the crimes (a) reported to the police and (b) identified by the British crime survey in (i) Ashfield...
    • Detention Centres
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals have been arrested and held in immigration detention when or immediately after reporting at local police stations or...
    • Detention Centres
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals have been arrested and held in immigration detention after being stopped and searched in (a) Oxford East constituency,...
    • Draft Communications Data Bill
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans she has to publish draft orders under Clause 1 of the draft Communications Data Bill for use by the Committee on the draft Bill.
    • Draft Communications Data Bill
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions (a) she, (b) Ministers in her Department, (c) the Director-General, Security and Counter-Terrorism and (d) other...
    • Drugs: Misuse (3 annotations)
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her most recent estimate is of the size of the illicit drug market in the UK.
    • Drugs: Misuse
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has considered Professor Jake Chapman's conclusions from his recent systems approach to drugs policy in Being Real on Drugs; and...
    • Entry Clearances: Carers
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her policy is on the issuing of visas to non-UK citizens who are paid overseas as permanent carers for UK citizens based overseas and...
    • Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many students were granted Tier 4 entry clearance for each level of course studied in the latest period for which figures are available.
    • Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer from the Minister of State for Universities and Science of 19 March 2012, Official Report, columns 519-20W, on...
    • Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration she has given to introducing a new category of study visa.
    • Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many student visas issued in 2011 were for study at (a) higher education institutions, (b) private further education colleges, (c) public...
    • First Offenders
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many first-time offenders were arrested and charged in (a) 1997, (b) 2001, (c) 2005, (d) 2010 and (e) the latest year for which data are...
    • Immigration
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were granted temporary leave to remain upon arrival in the UK (a) between February 2011 and July 2011 and (b) since February 2012.
    • Immigration
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many active immigration case files there were in each of the last 10 years.
    • Immigration Controls
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people had their applications for further leave to remain refused in 2011; and how many of them e-borders recorded as subsequently...
    • Immigration Controls
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people arrived on visitor visas in 2011; and how many of them e-borders recorded as subsequently leaving the UK. [R]
    • Immigration Controls
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of people granted settlement outside of the immigration rules. [R]
    • Immigration Controls
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the longest period of time an application for a Highly Trusted Sponsor Certificate has taken to determine for applications which were...
    • Immigration Controls
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of time was for the Border Agency to determine an application for a Highly Trusted Sponsor Certificate in the latest...
    • Immigration Controls
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for Highly Trusted Sponsor Certificates remain to be determined by the UK Border Agency.
    • Immigration Controls: St Pancras Station
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether all Eurostar passengers arriving from (a) Brussels, (b) Lille and (c) Paris are checked by UK Border Force staff on arrival at St...
    • Independent Police Complaints Commission
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many complaints lodged with the Independent Police Complaints Commission are outstanding (a) three to six months, (b) six months to...
    • Manchester Airport: Security
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the security arrangements at Manchester Airport; and what steps she plans to take to prevent future...
    • Members: Correspondence
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 19 April 2012 in respect of a constituent, ref:...
    • Members: Correspondence
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason her Department has not been able to provide a response to the right hon. Member for Yeovil's letter dated 11 May 2012, on...
    • Metal Theft
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps police forces are taking to charge those who either buy or pass on metal acquired by theft with the offence of handling stolen...
    • Metal Theft
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of scrap metal dealers who bought metal acquired by theft who are charged with handling stolen goods...
    • Migration
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration she has given to adopting the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's definition of migration.
    • e-mail: Policy Advisers
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether special advisers in her Department are permitted to use non-departmental e-mail addresses for departmental business.
    • Passports: Lost Property
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints have been received on the system for reporting lost or stolen passports in the last 12 months.
    • Passports: Lost Property
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average cost per customer was of a call to report a lost or stolen passport over the last 12 months.
    • Police
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if her Department will take steps to use police training to build awareness of suicidal behaviour so that officers are better equipped to...
    • Police
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to publish her proposals for a Professional Policing Body.
    • Police and Crime Commissioners
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has requested additional resources from HM Treasury to promote the elections for police commissioners.
    • Police: Bureaucracy
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 18 July 2011, Official Report, column 663W, on police: bureaucracy, how many national police forms have been...
    • Police: Bureaucracy
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to her answer of 23 April 2012, Official Report, columns 626-27W, on bureaucracy: police, when she expects to publish the outcome of...
    • Police: Conditions of Employment
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether she specified on appointing Tom Winsor to review police officer and staff pay and conditions that the legal firm for which he...
    • Police: Court Orders
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make an estimate of the costs involved in establishing a central register of applications for production orders.
    • Police: Pay
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the potential effect on police staff retention of implementation of the Winsor proposals on pay.
    • Police: Scotland
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many police officers from a police force in England and Wales have been engaged in police activity in Scotland in each month since...
    • Ports
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what dates and at what time (a) she and (b) the Minister of State for Immigration visited UK ports in the last 12 months.
    • Prisons: Mental Health Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what standard operational procedures are in place to deal with (a) an escape and (b) a patient absconding while on escort from the secure or...
    • Prostitution: Greater London
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of violence against sex workers were recorded by the police in the Greater London area during 2011.
    • Public Expenditure
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she expects her Department to underspend its budget for 2012-13; and what estimate she has made of any such underspend.
    • Road Traffic Offences: Fixed Penalties
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fixed penalty notices were issued to motorists in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) the east midlands and (c) Nottinghamshire in each...
    • Schengen Agreement: ICT
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to EU Council Decision 2008/334/JHA, whether the UK has fully adopted the SIRENE manual and other implementing measures for...
    • Schengen Agreement: Switzerland
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to EU Council Decision 2008/149/JHA, what assessment her Department has made of the effects of the involvement of the Swiss...
    • Shipping: Work Permits
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the review of the relevant operational instruction relating to the administration of the controls applied to seamen covered by Council...
    • Staff: Surveys
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what means staff are surveyed in (a) the UK Border Agency and (b) her Department; and on what dates the results of the next such survey...
    • Steroid Drugs
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions she has had on the classification of anabolic steroids.
    • UK Border Agency
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will place in the Library copies of all internal audit recommendations made in relation to the UK Border Agency in the last five years.
    • UK Border Agency
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many workplace raids the UK Border Agency has conducted in (a) Oxford East constituency, (b) Oxfordshire, (c) the South East and (d) the...
    • UK Border Agency
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many raids of home addresses the UK Border Agency has conducted in (a) Oxford East constituency, (b) Oxfordshire, (c) the South East and...
    • UK Border Agency: Scotland
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UK Border Agency staff of each rank were employed at Stranraer and Cairnryan ports in each of the last three years.
    • Vetting
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what plans she has to bring forward proposals to reform (a) regular Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks and (b) the discretionary...
    • Victim Support Schemes
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what guidance she will issue to police and crime commissioners on the commissioning of services for victims; and when she expects to...
    • Victim Support Schemes
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) independent domestic violence advisers and (b) independent sexual violence advisers there were in the last five years for which...
    • Work Permits
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 22 May 2012, Official Report, column 602W, on work permits, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of...
    • Work Permits
      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 22 May 2012, Official Report, column 602W, on work permits, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of...
  • Treasury
    • Aggregates Levy: Northern Ireland
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent discussions he has had with (a) representatives of the aggregates industry in Northern Ireland and (b) the European Commission on the credit...
    • Air Passenger Duty
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his Department has commissioned research into the effect that the level of air passenger duty has on (a) the number of flights booked by UK...
    • Banks: Regulation
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will introduce reforms to banking before 2019.
    • Banks: Unfair Practices
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to encourage discussions between HM Revenue and Customs and the Financial Services Authority on the implications of mis-selling of...
    • Business: Barnsley
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to make financial support available to small businesses in Barnsley Central constituency which wish to take out a swap loan agreement.
    • Business: Government Assistance
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much of the Business Finance Partnership funds are unallocated.
    • Charities: Occupied Territories
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is his policy that tax relief is not given to charities that donate to Israeli settlement development in the occupied Palestinian territories.
    • Child Care Tax Credit
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many households claimed child care tax credits in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
    • Commodity Markets
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he plans to improve regulation of the commodity markets.
    • Company Accounts: Disclosure of Information
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy to require multinational corporations based in the UK to publish a profit and loss account and limited balance sheet and cash...
    • Credit
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress his Department has made on research on introducing a variable cap on the total cost of credit that can be charged in the high cost credit market.
    • e-mail
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many e-mails he received to his official government e-mail address in each month since May 2010.
    • Finance Act 2008
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many taxpayers are affected by the provisions of section 58 of the Finance Act 2008.
    • Financial Services: Advisory Services
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information his Department holds on the number of independent financial advisers who have entered into administration as a result of rising indemnity...
    • Financial Services: Advisory Services
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether (a) he and (b) his Department have had discussions with the Financial Ombudsman Service on the case fees independent financial advisers are charged...
    • Freezing Orders: Egypt
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any Egyptian governmental assets are still frozen in the UK; and what their total estimated value is.
    • Government Departments: Conditions of Employment
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how often and in what circumstances Government departments will exercise their right to seek assurance that off-payroll engagees are meeting their...
    • Income Tax: Kilmarnock
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent estimate he has made of the number of taxpayers in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency who earn more than (a) £60,000 and (b) £150,000...
    • Individual Savings Accounts
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for the City of Chester of 8 March 2012, Official Report, columns 892-93W, (1) what research his...
    • Landfill Communities Fund
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (b) voluntary sector organisations and (c)...
    • Libor
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer by what date he expects the Financial Services Authority to publish final notices relating to its investigation into LIBOR in respect of other UK banks...
    • Loans: Republic of Ireland
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the effect on the Exchequer in cash terms of the decision to change the interest rate payable on the bilateral loan to the...
    • Pensions
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for what reason a drawdown pension scheme that puts money into a building society account which has no management charges or opening charges for a savings...
    • Prudential Regulatory Authority
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the terms of the lease are entered into by the new Prudential Regulation Authority for its Moorgate offices; and if he will place in the Library a copy...
    • Public Sector Debt
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total current indebtedness of the public sector is in respect of unfunded public-sector pension liabilities; and if he will state the Government's...
    • Public Sector Debt
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total current indebtedness of public sector bodies is in respect of debts incurred under the private finance initiative; and if he will state the...
    • HM Revenue and Customs
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 17 May 2012, Official Report, column 301W, on revenue and customs, (1) what estimate he has made of the proportion of callers...
    • HM Revenue and Customs
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many investigators HM Revenue and Customs employed in each month of the last five years.
    • HM Revenue and Customs
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much HM Revenue and Customs paid in compensation to (a) individuals and (b) organisations following errors it has made in each of the last five years.
    • HM Revenue and Customs
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects the Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs to respond to the letters of (a) 21 February 2012, (b) 20 March 2012 and (c) 9 May 2012 from...
    • HM Revenue and Customs
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library copies of all internal audit recommendations made in relation to HM Revenue and Customs in the last five years.
    • HM Revenue and Customs
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer by what means staff are surveyed in (a) HM Revenue and Customs and (b) his Department; and on what dates the results of the next such survey will be made public.
    • Taxation: Offshore Industry
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of providing decommissioning relief deeds to the oil industry.
    • Taxation: Olympic Games 2012
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will encourage all companies operating as part of the London 2012 Olympics to voluntarily pay tax to the UK on profits arising from the Olympics; what...
    • Tobacco: Packaging
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment his Department has made of the financial effects on the Exchequer of any change in the level of illicit or counterfeit tobacco products...
    • Trade Union Officials
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many days were used by trade union representatives in HM Revenue and Customs for facility time in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12; and what estimate he has...
    • Vat
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many applications for VAT registration submitted in the last 12 months took over (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five, (f) six, (g) seven,...
    • VAT: Further and Higher Education
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the Exchequer of exempting all commercial providers of further education from VAT; (2) what estimate...
    • Welfare Tax Credits
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of (a) child tax credits and (b) working tax credits were paid in error to claimants in (i) Coventry, (ii) the west midlands and (iii)...
    • Welfare Tax Credits: Fraud
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the commencement date was for use of Experian data to detect fraud in tax credits in (a) the UK and (b) Wales.
    • Written Questions: Government Responses
      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans to answer questions (a) 115719, (b) 115718, (c) 115717 and (d) 115715, tabled on 3 July 2012 for answer on 6 July 2012.
  • Cabinet Office
    • Breast Cancer
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will publish (a) one and (b) five year survival rates for breast cancer patients aged (i) 49 years and under, (ii) 50 to 59, (iii) 60 to 69, (iv)...
    • Breast Cancer
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many women aged (a) 49 years and under, (b) 50 to 59, (c) 60 to 69, (d) 70 to 79, (e) 80 to 89 and (f) over 90 years were diagnosed with breast...
    • Charity Commission
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) if he will give powers to the Charity Commission to allow it to intervene more easily where an allegation of wrongdoing within a charity is made;...
    • Civil Servants: Training
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what plans he has to encourage the development of finance skills in the civil service.
    • Electronic Government
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) government.uk and (b) directgov website in the latest period for which figures are available.
    • Ex Gratia Payments
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate his Department has made of the monetary value of ex gratia payments made through schemes administered by his Department over the last two...
    • Ict
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many iPads are owned by his Department; and whether these devices are accredited to Business Level Impact Level 3.
    • Internet: Regulation
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent discussions he has had with international partners on promoting consensus on what constitutes acceptable behaviour in cyberspace; and if he...
    • NDPBs: Public Appointments
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what representations his Department has received from the chairs and officers of non-departmental public bodies on the time taken for appointments and...
    • Orders and Regulations
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many statutory instruments were (a) made, (b) repealed and (c) amended in each of the last five years.
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many staff working for his Department, its Executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies are employed through off-payroll engagements...
    • Permanent Secretaries
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the question following the statement made on 19 June 2012, Official Report, columns 743-6 on civil service reform, by what date the...
    • Press Officers
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much was claimed in reimbursable expenses by press officers in his Department, its agencies and arm's-length bodies since May 2010.
    • Public Sector: Mobile Phones
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether he has made any contingency plans for the event that a supplier of mobile devices to the public sector is acquired by a company which is not...
    • Public Sector: Procurement
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what mechanisms exist to prevent contractors for public sector projects from revising their initially proposed payment figures to subcontractors...
    • Secondment
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer of 15 March 2012, Official Report, column 382W, on Government Departments: secondment, whether any staff are supplied to...
    • Senior Civil Servants: Pay
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office when he plans to publish the list of senior civil servants earning more than £150,000.
    • Staff
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which individuals the Minister without Portfolio recommended to provide assistance organising outreach events during her visit to Pakistan in July 2010.
    • Staff
      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many staff of his Department were in the civil service redeployment pool on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many of these...
  • International Development
    • Commonwealth Development Corporation
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what guidance his Department has issued to CDC on the reporting of corruption allegations.
    • Developing Countries: Education
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's expenditure on developing countries on the number of children attending...
    • Developing Countries: Education
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to work with the private sector to deliver education for poor people in...
    • Developing Countries: Poliomyelitis
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to the 65th World Health Assembly, what plans he has to meet non-governmental organisations and charities to discuss the...
    • Food: Prices
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment his Department has made of the effects on health and well-being of (a) young children and (b) others of temporary food...
    • Kenya
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to his Operational Plan for Kenya 2011-15, what evidence he used to reach his conclusion that private schools are the...
    • Overseas Aid
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department takes to monitor the effectiveness of poverty reduction programmes delivered by private sector development...
    • Overseas Aid
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what criteria will be used to evaluate the performance of each of his Department's proposed cash-on-delivery aid programmes; and who...
    • Overseas Aid
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate he has made of the likely cost of each of his Department's proposed cash-on-delivery aid programmes.
    • South Sudan
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance the Government are giving to the Government of South Sudan on (a) malnutrition and (b) hygiene.
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his policy is on support or funding for low-cost private schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.
    • UN Women
      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what discussions he has had with his overseas counterparts on encouraging the international community to meet the resource and...
  • Health
    • NHS: Financial Stability
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to ensure the financial sustainability of NHS organisations.
    • Reconfiguration: South-east London
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost was to South London Healthcare NHS Trust of the delay in implementing the proposals contained in the “A Picture of Health”...
    • NHS Walk-in Centres
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS walk-in centres have (a) closed and (b) reduced their opening hours since May 2010.
    • PFI Contracts
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the proportion of the PFI negotiations agreed prior to 2010 that have led to unsustainable contractual obligations being placed on NHS...
    • Patient Outcomes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress the NHS is making in improving outcomes for patients; and if he will make a statement.
    • Absenteeism
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the absenteeism rate was in his Department in each of the last three years.
    • Cancer
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment his Department has made of the effects of removing its support services from cancer networks on the delivery of their functions; (2)...
    • Cancer
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will ensure that data collected by the forthcoming National Cancer Patient Experience Survey is published by equality group within tumor...
    • Cancer: Drugs
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many patients in each parliamentary constituency have received access to drugs through the Cancer Drugs Fund since its creation; (2) how many...
    • Cancer: Older People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what progress has been made on the work led by his Department, the National Cancer Equality Initiative and Macmillan Cancer Support to test new...
    • Care Homes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he plans to take to ensure uniform standards are achieved in the delivery of social care nationwide; (2) what plans he has to improve...
    • Care Homes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to ensure that changes in local council social care budgets do not affect the supply of residential care homes.
    • Care Homes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will extend the protection offered to local authority arranged care recipients under the Human Rights Act 1998 to care recipients who are self-funded.
    • Care Homes: Fees and Charges
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what information his Department holds on whether private care homes in receipt of registered nursing care contributions payments reflect such...
    • Care Homes: Vetting
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to create an offence of not undertaking full Criminal Records Bureau checks on staff working with vulnerable people in care homes.
    • Carers
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to place requirements on the NHS Commissioning Board to improve patient support for carers whose health is affected by their caring duties.
    • Clinical Trials: Older People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to address inequalities in access to clinical trials amongst those aged 65 and over; and if he will make a statement.
    • Community Health Services: Suffolk
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment he has made of the decision to award Suffolk community health services to Serco; and whether experience of operating county-wide...
    • Consultants
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost was of external consultancy for each public body for which his Department is responsible in the latest period for which figures are...
    • Dialysis Machines
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to improve services for dialysis patients.
    • Workplace Flour
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the extent, causes, treatment and prevention of health conditions arising from exposure to flour in the workplace.
    • Fractures: Older People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will include the prevention of fragility fractures in older people in his mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board. [R]
    • General Practitioners: Telephone Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he has taken since January 2012 to ensure that GP surgeries adhere to his Department's direction prohibiting the use of telephone numbers that...
    • Health Services: Equality
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health if his Department will issue guidance to ensure that all professional regulatory organisations review and, if necessary, revise their standards, codes of...
    • Health Services: Older People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effect of GP commissioning on the provision of hospital services for older people.
    • Health Services: Older People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he expects the NHS Commissioning Board to take to ensure continuous and open communication between consultants and other medical staff and an...
    • Health Services: Older People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures he plans to propose to foster the development of positive perceptions of older people in his White Paper on social care.
    • Health Services: Social Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he expects the NHS Commissioning Board to take to ensure joined-up service provision between providers of social care and the NHS.
    • Hospitals: Waiting Lists
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS patients in (a) Coventry, (b) the west midlands and (c) England waited longer than 18 weeks for treatment in each of the last five years.
    • Learning Disability: Sussex
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults are registered as having a severe learning disability in (a) Mid Sussex constituency and (b) West Sussex.
    • NHS Commissioning Board
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he had with the Cabinet Secretary before appointing Mr Naguib Kheraj to the NHS Commissioning Board.
    • NHS Commissioning Board
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on incorporating the recommendations of the national neuromuscular work plan into the NHS Commissioning Board set-up; and if he...
    • NHS: Fees and Charges
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether NHS hospitals are offering self-funding services whereby patients are charged for NHS care that could not otherwise be received; and how many...
    • NHS: Finance
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many reviews into the financial position of NHS trusts his Department commissioned in each financial year since 1997; what the cost was of each such...
    • NHS: Innovation
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when he plans to develop and publish an innovation scorecard to track compliance with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence...
    • NHS: Property
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what discussions he has had with PropCo on future rent levels for NHS properties; (2) what safeguards he plans to put in place to protect hospitals...
    • NHS: Standards
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the NHS Commissioning Board's objectives will include the specification of dignified care as a key objective.
    • NHS: Standards
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to ensure the achievement of dignity in care is reflected in funding for hospitals.
    • NHS: Standards
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the potential effect on quality of service provision of his decision to make Monitor the economic regulator of the health...
    • Nutrition
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) research and (b) trials his Department has (i) commissioned and (ii) evaluated on the potential effects of diet on the incidence of anti-social...
    • Palliative Care
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the monetary value to the NHS of the contribution of informal carers for people at the end of life; and what...
    • Pharmacy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) pursuant to the answer of 21 June 2012, Official Report, column 1106W, on Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust: pharmacy, whether funding NHS...
    • School Milk
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many settings in each local authority area claiming for the cost of free milk through the nursery milk scheme claimed more than 90p per pint in the...
    • Steroid Drugs
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent steps his Department has taken to inform the public of the health risks of anabolic steroids; how much has been spent to that end in the...
    • Thalidomide
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 19 October 2011, Official Report, column 1042W, on thalidomide, how many prescriptions were issued for each product in...
    • Thalidomide
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) with reference to the answer of 19 October 2011, Official Report, column 1042W, on thalidomide, how the off-label prescription of thalidomide is...
    • Thalidomide
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps his Department is taking to ensure that its cost data capture the costs of thalidomide needs nationwide; (2) what steps his Department...
    • Trade Unions
      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many trade union representatives worked at each public body for which his Department is responsible on a full-time basis in each financial year since...
  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
    • Absenteeism
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the absenteeism rate was in his Department in each of the last three years.
    • Bahrain
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for what reasons he did not support the joint statement on Bahrain proposed at the recent UN Human Rights Council; and if he...
    • Burma
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will press the Government of Burma to establish an independent inquiry, with international assistance, into the violence...
    • Burma
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will urge the Government of Burma to stop the violence and persecution of Rohingyas in Arakan state in that country.
    • Burma
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had on the situation in Arakan state, Burma with his counterparts in other EU member states and in the US.
    • Burma
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had on the situation in Arakan state, Burma with his counterparts in Bangladesh and India and in members...
    • Diplomatic Service
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many UK (a) ambassadors and (b) high commissioners are female.
    • Ethiopia (1 annotation)
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the freedom of the press in Ethiopia.
    • Iran
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on Iranian activity at the Parchin facility.
    • Iran
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of the access of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to the Parchin facility in Iran.
    • Iraq
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment his Department has made of reports that the Iraqi Government has been refusing to allow Iraqis who left as...
    • Kashmir
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the allegations of human rights abuses made in the Channel 4 documentary, Kashmir's Torture...
    • Mexico
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions his Department has had with authorities in Mexico on the recent presidential election and public demonstrations...
    • Middle East
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of recent reports of rocket fire from the Sinai peninsula into Israel.
    • Occupied Territories
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Government of Israel on ending Israeli settlements in area C of the west bank.
    • Palestinians
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of healthcare and education available to the people of Gaza.
    • Property
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many properties his Department (a) owns and (b) rents (i) in the UK and (ii) overseas.
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of senior management jobs in his Department are held by women.
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff employed by his Department (a) in the UK and (b) overseas are (i) female and (ii) male.
    • Sudan: South Sudan
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance the Government is giving to facilitate improved relations between Sudan and South Sudan.
    • Syria
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessments have been made regarding the impact of additional Russian military assets being moved to Syria.
    • Turkey
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the freedom of the press in Turkey.
    • UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 22 May 2012, Official Report, column 571W, on UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, whether...
    • Western Sahara
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will instruct HM Ambassador to Morocco to raise with the Moroccan authorities the assault on the children of the Saharawi...
    • Wines
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects his Department's wine cellar will be self-financing.
    • Wines
      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the written ministerial statement of 13 May 2011, Official Report, column 49WS, on the Government wine cellar...
  • Education
    • Academies: Middlesbrough
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent discussions his Department has had with Middlesbrough borough council on schools in Middlesbrough becoming academies.
    • Academies: Worcestershire
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many academies there are in (a) Worcestershire and (b) Redditch.
    • Adoption
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what the average length of time was to successfully complete the adoption process in the last (a) five and (b) 10 years.
    • Adoption
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many couples in (a) Dartford constituency, (b) Kent and (c) England (i) successfully adopted a child and (ii) were rejected for adoption of a child...
    • Children in Care
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department is taking to ensure that young people leaving care have access to adequate financial support and employment advice.
    • Children: Day Care
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many (a) after-school and (b) before-school places are available for children over the age of five.
    • Children: Day Care
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what information his Department holds on the average staff: child ratios for child care services for children in each age group.
    • Children: Day Care
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many child care places are funded by his Department by type of provider; (2) how many childcare places (a) in total and (b) for children of...
    • Children’s Rights
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) on how many occasions his Department has made representations to other Government Departments on the compatibility of proposals, policies or...
    • Disclosure of Information
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on the updating of published data in line with the Government's transparency agenda in each month since September 2011.
    • Education: Assessments
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many and what proportion of 16-year-olds took qualifications in 2011 which will no longer count in performance tables following his reforms...
    • Education: Qualifications
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils took qualifications which he plans to remove from performance tables in each year since 2004.
    • e-mail: Policy Advisers
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent guidance he has issued to (a) Ministers, (b) officials and (c) special advisers in his Department on the use of private email accounts to...
    • Freedom of Information
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much money his Department spent on legal advice on its compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in each month since September 2011.
    • GCSE: York
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of students at state schools in York achieved five or more GCSEs at grades (a) A* to C and (b) A* to E in each year from 1997-98.
    • Internet
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether his Department plans to create a myth buster section on its website similar to that of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
    • Newham Free Academy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils have applied to join the Newham Free Academy in September 2012.
    • Pre-school Education
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has for the early years curriculum; and if he will make a statement.
    • Runaway Children: Missing Persons
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of incidents in which a failure to track runaway and missing children results in them becoming...
    • Schools: Peterborough
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding was provided (i) in cash terms and (ii) at 2012 prices to state (A) primary and (B) secondary schools in...
    • Schools: Yorkshire and Humberside
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many full-time equivalent (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) other staff have been employed at (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children were (a) statemented for special educational needs, (b) in the School Action category and (c) in the School Action Plus category in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education with reference to the answer of 19 December 2011, Official Report, column 944W, on special educational needs: children, and to his Department's...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Secretary of State for Education with reference to page 12 of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' publication, “National Careers Service: The Right Advice at the...
  • Defence
    • Afghanistan and Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many infantry soldiers have been deployed to (a) Afghanistan and to (b) Iraq; and how many deployed to each country have been treated for (i)...
    • Amanatullah Ali
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information his Department holds on the arrest, treatment and rendition of Amanatullah Ali by US forces; and if he will make a statement.
    • Armed Forces: Homelessness
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what estimate he has made of the number of service personnel or their families in each branch of the armed services who sought assistance from the...
    • Armed Forces: Mass Media
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reason the commitment introduced in the 2005 edition of his Department's Green Book that British forces would never deliberately target...
    • Armed Forces: Postal Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether changes have been made to postal services from the UK to personnel serving in Afghanistan since May 2010.
    • Armed Forces: Sexual Offences
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many allegations of sexual assault made by members of the armed forces concluded with charges being (a) brought and (b) dropped in the latest period...
    • Armed Forces: Sexual Offences
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 26 June 2012, Official Report, column 195W, on armed forces: sexual offences, how many rape allegations were made by (a) female...
    • Armoured Fighting Vehicles
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the export potential of the Light Protected Patrol Vehicle Foxhound; and if he will make a statement.
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish military advice he received on (a) the amalgamation of the Queen's Royal Lancers with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers and (b) a merger...
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which (a) Army brigades, (b) Army Air Corps, (c) Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps, (d) Royal Regiment Artillery, (e) Corps of Royal Engineers,...
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when members of the Yorkshire Regiment 3rd Battalion were informed of the content of his Army 2020 statement.
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the timetable is for the reduction in Army numbers to 82,000; (2) what the size of the Army will be in each year up to 2020.
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many personnel in each of the 17 major units proposed to be lost under the Army 2020 review will be deployed to other units.
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the oral statement of 5 July 2012, Official Report, column 1086, on Army 2020, how many of the 17 major units affected were within (a) 5 and...
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people were recruited into the 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) from (a) Middlesbrough, (b) Redcar and Cleveland, (c)...
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what discussions he has had with the Green Howards Association on the proposed abolition of the 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Green...
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) officers and (b) other ranks there are in the 2nd Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards).
    • Army
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will estimate the proportion of soldiers in The 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh who will be absorbed into other battalions as part of his planned...
    • Army: Germany
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the strategic defence and security review, on what timescale troops will be withdrawn from Germany.
    • Army: Germany
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what funding has been allocated for converting RAF bases to Army bases to achieve the planned withdrawal of UK troops from Germany in each financial year...
    • Consultants
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on external consultants for services delivered in 2011-12.
    • Defence Equipment
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) missile tube training facilities and (b) nuclear transport vehicles of each equipment type are permanently based in each location in Scotland.
    • Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) at which universities the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme operates; (2) whether his Department has any plans to extend the Defence...
    • European Defence Agency
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much funding his Department has provided to the European Defence Agency in each year since 2010; and what funding has been allocated in each of the...
    • Ex Gratia Payments
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate his Department has made of the monetary value of ex gratia payments made through schemes administered by his Department in the last two years.
    • Gibraltar
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) which Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels visited Gibraltar in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012 prior to 31 May; (2) which Royal Navy and...
    • Hercules Aircraft
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many C-130J and K models are in temporary hangars at Marshalls of Cambridge; what the likely cost is of using the hangars; and what the associated...
    • HMS Victory
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether his Department has reached any agreement with (a) Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc and (b) the Maritime Heritage Foundation on the treatment...
    • HMS Victory
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many parties interested in the management of the wreck site of HMS Victory 1744 he met prior to taking a decision to gift the site to the...
    • Horses
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much was spent on maintaining horses used by the (a) Household Cavalry and (b) armed forces in each of the last five years.
    • Horses
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many horses were maintained by the armed forces in each of the last five years.
    • Lost Property (1 annotation)
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) USB sticks and (b) laptop computers issued by his Department were reported lost by employees in each of the last five years for which...
    • Military Bases
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the annual cost is of the British military bases in (a) Canada, (b) Cyprus, (c) the Falkland Islands, (d) Germany, (e) Gibraltar and (f) Ascension...
    • Olympic Games 2012
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many members of the Army are due to be on leave in July and August 2012; (2) what changes have been made to the timeframe in which members of...
    • Olympic Games 2012
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence during the period of the London 2012 Olympics, what remaining capacity the armed forces have to meet further requests from other Government Departments...
    • Olympic Games 2012
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether any of the armed forces units called on to provide extra security for the London 2012 Olympics are proposed to be abolished under his...
    • Piracy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the extension of Operation Atalanta as a means of tackling piracy; and if he will make a statement.
    • Radio Frequencies
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made on his Department's consultation on the release of the 870-872 and 915-917 MHz bandwidths; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what targets he has set for the recruitment of reserves; and by what date he expects to have established a contingent of 30,000 reserves.
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much training (a) before and (b) after deployment his Department requires from reservists with six months deployed service.
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the contingency budget is for the initiation of his reforms to the reserve forces.
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what legislative proposals he plans to bring forward to encourage employers to release employees to serve in the Territorial Army.
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the membership is of the independent scrutiny team considering the process of reshaping of the reserves.
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what additional post-deployment rest and recuperation will be made available for reservists.
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the oral statement of 5 July 2012, Official Report, column 1094, on Army 2020, what new training kit, uniforms and equipment have been...
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the oral statement of 5 July 2012, Official Report, column 1094, on Army 2020, how many formed sub-units and formed units of reservists will...
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what (a) assessment he has made of the prospects for and (b) targets have been set in respect of recruitment to the new 502 (Ulster) Reserve...
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what funding he has made available to reserve forces in Northern Ireland to fulfil the recruitment requirement in Future Reserves 2020.
    • Reserve Forces
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make an assessment of the effect of his proposals to increase the period of time during which reservists will train and deploy on their mental...
    • Royal Regiment of Scotland
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) recruitment target and (b) level of recruitment was for each battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland in each year since the Regiment was...
    • Royal Regiment of Scotland
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence from where he expects recruits to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to be drawn under his Department's proposals for restructuring the Army.
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many full-time equivalent officials in his Department are working on the delivery of urgent operational requirements.
    • Trident Submarines
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received from the First Minister of Wales and Welsh Assembly Government on the relocation of the Trident nuclear weapons...
    • Veterans: Radiation Exposure
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish the terms of his Department's settlement proposal for British nuclear test programme veterans, including the total sums discussed by...
    • Veterans: Teachers
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service personnel have participated in the Troops to Teachers programme since its inception.
    • Wimbledon Tennis Championships
      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the criteria were for selection for armed forces personnel deployed at the Wimbledon tennis championships this month; (2) how many armed...
  • Work and Pensions
    • Atos Healthcare (1 annotation)
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the answer of 27 February 2012, Official Report, columns 24-5W, on Atos Healthcare: manpower, when he plans to take a...
    • bmibaby: Redundancy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what support he plans to provide to pilots who may be made redundant as a result of the closure of the airline bmibaby to find new jobs which...
    • Child Maintenance
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many families in Newport East constituency are using the Child Support Agency for maintenance payments; (2) what the total...
    • Employers' Liability
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the answer of 30 April 2012, Official Report, column 1319W, on employers' liability, when he expects to provide an update on...
    • Employment and Support Allowance
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of claimants found not fit for work were placed in (a) the support group and (b) on a work related activity group in the latest...
    • Employment Schemes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people joined the Work programme in 2011-12 in (a) Worcestershire and (b) Redditch.
    • Employment Schemes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people identified as having (a) drug and (b) alcohol problems have been referred to the Work programme so far.
    • Employment Schemes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2012, Official Report, column 6, on jobseeker training, what standards companies are required to meet before...
    • Employment Schemes
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions his Department has had with Close Protection UK on the Work Programme.
    • Employment Schemes: Bexley
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London borough of Bexley have been required to take part in the Work...
    • Employment Schemes: Birmingham
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people from Birmingham, Ladywood constituency have (a) volunteered and (b) been required to take part in the Work Programme in the...
    • Employment Schemes: Scotland
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people from (a) Scotland, (b) each local authority in Scotland and (c) each parliamentary constituency in Scotland have (i)...
    • Employment Schemes: Scotland
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Scotland and (b) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency have (i) volunteered and (ii) been required to take part in the...
    • Employment Schemes: Young People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many 18 to 24-year-olds resident in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency have taken up one of the (a) additional work experience places and...
    • Housing Benefit: Young People
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people under the age of 25 and in receipt of housing benefit were (a) in employment and (b) not in employment in each (i)...
    • Incapacity Benefit
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were in receipt of incapacity benefit in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each...
    • Income Support
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people in the UK in receipt of income support who have parental responsibility for a child under the...
    • Jobcentre Plus
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library a copy of each document relating to his Department's pilot of customer segmentation at Jobcentre Plus.
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone parents are in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance in Barnsley metropolitan borough.
    • Part-time Employment
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the total number of households containing a couple working 16 to 18 hours a week on the minimum wage living in...
    • Departmental Pay
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the lowest hourly rate paid to staff by his Department is; how many members of staff based outside London are paid less than £7.20...
    • Pension, Disability and Carers Service
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) in what circumstances the Chief Operating Officer, in the Pensions, Disability and Carers Service of his Department signs replies to hon....
    • Post Office Card Account
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in each region use the Post Office card account for receipt of (a) state pension, (b) pension credit and (c) other benefits.
    • Public Expenditure
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he expects his Department to underspend its budget for 2012-13; and what estimate he has made of any such underspend.
    • Social Security Benefits
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many families in receipt of carers' allowance will be affected by the household benefit cap in each Jobcentre Plus district.
    • Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of lone parents with children under five years to whom the household benefit cap will apply; and how...
    • Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of lone parents subject to the benefit cap who have children aged (a) under six months, (b) six months...
    • Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the total number of children of lone parents in receipt of income support who will be affected by the household...
    • Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children aged (a) up to one year and (b) between one and five years there are in lone-parent households who will be subject to the...
    • Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone-parent households will be affected by the household benefit cap in each Jobcentre Plus district in London where the household is...
    • Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will ensure that each Atos assessment centre has a recording device available so that medical assessments can be recorded at the request...
    • Statistics
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the letter of 28 June 2012 from the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority to the right hon. Member for East Ham, if he will...
    • Work Capability Assessment
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people identified as having (a) drug and (b) alcohol problems were referred for a work capability assessment in each year since the...
    • Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what recent representations he has received on current assessments made by Atos Healthcare of people with mental health conditions; and...
  • Business, Innovation and Skills
    • 3D Copying
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what (a) meetings he has had with and (b) representations he has received from designers in the film and theatre industries on...
    • Absenteeism
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the absenteeism rate was in his Department in each of the last three years.
    • Aerospace Industry
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the value of the aerospace sector is to the economy in (a) the UK, (b) the East Midlands, (c) Nottinghamshire and (d)...
    • Apprentices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many apprenticeships have been taken up since May 2010; and how many of those apprenticeships have ended before their...
    • Apprentices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many apprenticeships in sales and telesales were started by people aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) 19 to 24 and (c) over 25...
    • Apprentices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much the Government spent on (a) apprenticeships and (b) apprenticeships in sales and telesales in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12.
    • Apprentices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many apprenticeships starts there were by people aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) 19 to 24 and (c) 25 and over in (i) the North East,...
    • Apprentices
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what skills units subjects are eligible for his policy to allow micro companies to add up to two broader business skills units to...
    • Business: Regulation
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what consideration he has given to extending the moratorium on new regulation for micro-businesses beyond 2014.
    • Business: Regulation
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what consideration he is giving to implementing a one-in, one-out process for aspects of legislation affecting businesses other...
    • Business: Rural Areas
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has to reduce the burden of administration on rural businesses.
    • Conditions of Employment
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on what date he plans to publish the Government's response to his Department's consultation on no-fault dismissal for micro...
    • Construction: Nottinghamshire
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the value of the construction sector is to the economy in (a) Nottinghamshire and (b) Ashfield constituency.
    • Debts: Advisory Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to improve standards and the quality of provision across the debt management sector; and if...
    • Debts: Advisory Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what measures are in place to promote high standards amongst debt solution providers in both the not-for-profit and commercial...
    • Energy
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the value of the energy sector is to the economy in (a) the UK, (b) the east midlands, (c) Nottinghamshire and (d) Ashfield...
    • Environment Protection: Sevenoaks
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to encourage green investment in Sevenoaks.
    • EU Internal Trade
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to work with the European Commission to improve the functioning of the Single Market.
    • Ex Gratia Payments
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate his Department has made of the monetary value of ex gratia payments made through schemes administered by his...
    • Foreign Investment in UK
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what meetings he has had with non-UK Government stakeholders since 11 January 2011 to encourage regional foreign direct...
    • Green Investment Bank
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to ensure the Green Investment Bank delivers the level of investment needed to green the economy.
    • Green Investment Bank
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether the Green Investment Bank will be able to raise funds through the capital markets when it is established; and if he will...
    • Higher Education: Admissions
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students were offered a place at their first choice university in the (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13 academic years.
    • Housing: Construction
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what meetings have been held at his Department to discuss construction and housing finance in the last three months; and if he...
    • Insolvency Service: Medway
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what cost-benefit assessment has been conducted in respect of the proposed closure of the Medway Insolvency Service Office.
    • Insolvency Service: Medway
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the local community of the closure of the Medway Insolvency Service Office.
    • Insolvency Service: Medway
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the financial savings which would accrue from closure of the Insolvency Office, Medway.
    • Local Enterprise Partnerships
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the administrative cost of each of the local enterprise partnerships has been since their introduction.
    • Local Enterprise Partnerships
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has to review the progress of local enterprise partnerships.
    • Manufacturing Industries
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the likely effect of a change in the UK's relationship with the EU on the manufacturing industry.
    • Ministerial Meetings: EU
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what meetings he has had to discuss the letter sent jointly by the Prime Minister and other EU leaders to President Van Rompuy...
    • Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will consider the recommendations of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Motor Group on Delivering opportunities:...
    • Origin Marking: Israel
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what his policy is on mandatory labelling of goods from illegal settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
    • Overseas Students: Japan
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the contribution to (a) the UK language school industry and (b) the UK economy of revenue arising...
    • Postal Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent progress his Department has made on making the Post Office the front office for government.
    • Postal Services
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what Government services have been administered by the Post Office since May 2010.
    • Regional Growth Fund
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many projects successful in rounds one and two of the Regional Growth Fund programme have received the funding awarded to...
    • Regional Growth Fund: Birmingham
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many applications his Department has received for support from the Regional Growth Fund from businesses in Birmingham,...
    • Technology and Innovation Centres
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the status is of each catapult centre announced to date; how much funding each centre has received from (a) the public purse...
    • Training: Shipping
      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to encourage skills and training in the marine industry.
  • Deputy Prime Minister
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many staff working for his Office are employed through off-payroll engagements costing less than £58,200 per annum; and if he will make a statement.
  • House of Lords
    • Afghanistan
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will use the international aid conference for Afghanistan on 8 July to recommend the reservation of specific sums of international aid for (1)...
    • Africa: Conservation
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what are their priorities in supporting conservation protection programmes in Africa; whether they will maintain their support for these programmes; and to what...
    • Bahrain
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Howell of Guildford on 1 May (WA 438), what evidence they currently have of Dr Al Singace's medical treatment.
    • Banking
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will ask Sir John Vickers and the Independent Commission on Banking to produce a supplementary review of HM Treasury's proposals to ring-fence retail...
    • Banking: Chief Executives
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the appointment of someone to the position of chief executive officer of a bank requires the approval of the Financial Services Authority; and, if so, when...
    • Banking: LIBOR
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to investigate whether taxpayers have been disadvantaged by the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate for sterling, particularly as...
    • Benefits
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the introduction of employment and support allowance (ESA) time-limiting, what progress they have made with the commitment to introduce a...
    • Benefits
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any assessment of how many cancer patients have lost benefits, because of time-limiting of employment and support allowance.
    • Burma
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Government of Burma is allowing full and free access to local and international aid agencies to assist internally displaced people in (1) Arakan State,...
    • Burma
      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much aid funding they provided to internally displaced people in Burma in 2011-12; and how much they intend to provide in 2012-13.
    • Burma
      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they have given to Myanmar Egress in Burma in (1) 2010, and (2) 2011.
    • Burma
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have discussed with other European Union member states the reduction of funding for refugees living on the Thai-Burmese border.
    • Commonwealth
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Northover on 5 July (WA 186), which organisations offer comparative advantage to the specific work of the Commonwealth...
    • Courts: Fines
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of proposed charges to recover the costs of collecting fines from offenders on the number of appeals to magistrates'...
    • Courts: Fines
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what information the Ministry of Justice holds on the primary reasons for offenders failing to meet payment plans for fines imposed in (1) 2008-09, (2) 2009-10,...
    • Crime: Fraud (1 annotation)
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have plans to amend current legislation to allow them more easily to prosecute those alleged to have committed fraud and conspired to commit fraud.
    • Dogs: Puppy Farming
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the current controls on puppy farming; and what course of action is available to a member of the public who encounters a third party selling puppies that...
    • Elderly People: Accommodation
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide more independent accommodation for vulnerable elderly people.
    • Elections: Voting System
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the final cost to public funds of the referendum on the alternative vote, including central government costs, local authority costs met by the consolidated...
    • Enterprise Act 2002
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what expertise the Office of Fair Trading has to make judgments about what is in the best interests of NHS patients under the Enterprise Act 2002.
    • Enterprise Zones
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what time elapsed between the establishment of enterprise zones in Liverpool, Sheffield, Tees Valley, Humber, Black Country and North East England and Deeside in...
    • Fluoridation
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Earl Howe on 27 February (WA 253), 1 May (WA 448-9) and 25 June (WA 16-7), whether they will specify the statistically...
    • Forced Marriage
      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases dealt with by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Forced Marriage Unit arose from the Bangladeshi community in the United Kingdom in (1) 2009, (2)...
    • Government Departments: 08 Telephone Numbers
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have plans to cease using telephone numbers with the 08 code within government departments and associated agencies.
    • Government Departments: Service Users
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the policy advocated by the Prime Minister in his speech on 25 June that recipients of welfare benefits should be described as claimants and not customers...
    • Government: Air Travel
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Strathclyde on 5 July (WA 192), what are the names of all those who travelled on the chartered aircraft with the Prime...
    • Health and Social Care Act 2012
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, under the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, how the board of a clinical commissioning group will receive local secondary care expertise to inform...
    • Health: Defibrillators
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will take action to ensure that defibrillators are installed in all schools, sports centres and other public buildings.
    • Health: Healthcare Workers
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest estimate of the total number of people working in the healthcare system in England, broken down by professional groups for whom registration...
    • Health: Mental Health
      To ask Her Majesty's Government how they involve Black Mental Health UK in seeking to understand and tackle disproportionality as it affects black patients and mental health providers.
    • Health: Mitochondrial Disease
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 25 June (WA 22-3), what assessment they have made of the findings recently published in the International Journal of...
    • Health: Primary Care Practices
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have for the continued use of the General Practice Outcome Standards Commissioning Tool.
    • Horses
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures are in place to monitor the performance of horse passport issuers.
    • Horses
      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many horse passport issuers are required to carry out DNA testing prior to the issuing of a horse passport.
    • Horses
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether DNA testing by horse passport issuers is required by legislation, guidance or on an individual basis.
    • Horses
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they recognise the Gypsy Cob pony as a breed.
    • Horses
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they recognise the Gypsy Cob Society as holder of the Gypsy Cob stud book.
    • Horses
      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many organisations have had their horse passport issuing status removed since horse passports were introduced.
    • Housing
      To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding from the 2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme has been made available to (1) Circle Anglia, (2) East Thames Housing Group, (3) Genesis Housing...
    • Housing
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what formula was used to determine the £14 million reduction in the level of historic debt to be redeemed prior to the introduction of housing revenue account...
    • Housing
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what level of right-to-buy sales were assumed in the calculation of the level of debt allocated to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets under housing revenue...
    • Housing
      To ask Her Majesty's Government why they are limiting the level of right-to-buy capital receipts used in the development of new council housing to 30% of development costs; and whether they will...
    • Imports
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the aggregated value of imports of cars in 2011, as defined in HM Revenue and Customs' Heading 8703, from outside the European Union; and what was the...
    • Local Authorities: Joint Services
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they monitor arrangements which local authorities make between themselves to deliver joint services. To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they support...
    • Local Authorities: Joint Services
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have had any discussions with the Local Government Boundary Commission for England regarding joint working arrangement between local authorities.
    • Local Government
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made an assessment of the disadvantages or advantages of two-tier local government in parts of England, compared to the unitary local government...
    • London Festival 2012
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Garden of Frognal on 3 July (WA 153-4), how much National Lottery or government funding is expected to be spent (1) in...
    • London Underground: Line Extensions
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions have they had with the Mayor of London and Transport for London about proposals to extend the Northern Line from Kennington to Battersea.
    • NHS Commissioning Board
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the National Health Service Commissioning Board Authority is ready to go live in April 2013 with a system in place for monitoring general quality and...
    • Overseas Aid
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to continue their International Partnership Agreement Programmes with leading non-governmental aid organisations; for what lengths of terms;...
    • Paraguay
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the United Kingdom's relations with Paraguay have been affected by the change of president; and whether they will seek international consensus on forest...
    • Prisoners: Women
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the time spent by female prisoners in the open air at HMP Eastwood Park, following the recommendation of the July report by HM...
    • Prisons: Use of Force
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in reviewing the monitoring and governance of the use of force and the use of special accommodation at HMP Woodhill to achieve a...
    • Railways: Freight Charges
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Office of Rail Regulation about increasing the freight rates on haulage of coal.
    • Royal Household: Travel
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, pursuant to The Grant-in-aid for Royal Travel by Air and Rail Annual Report 2011-12, (1) whether members of the Royal Family other than the Queen and Duke of...
    • South Sudan
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of refugees who have fled from Blue Nile State into South Sudan; whether they have sent officials to assess the...
    • St Helena: Airport
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made on the construction of the airport for St Helena.
    • Sudan
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the numbers of refugees fleeing Blue Nile and South Kordofan have now reached the official United Nations High...
    • Transport: Light Rail
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the progress of phase two of the Nottingham Express Transit.
    • Transport: Light Rail
      To ask Her Majesty's Government what work they are undertaking to develop new or expand existing light rail or trams systems in England and Wales.
    • UK Honours
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 16 May (WA 9), why they consider it appropriate for honours to continue to refer to the British Empire.
    • Universal Credit
      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether decisions have been made on how claimants for universal credit will have their official documentation verified as part of the claims process.
    • Waste Management: Incinerators
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of Norfolk County Council's decision to withdraw its participation in the Borough Council of West Norfolk's poll on the installation of a new...
    • Waste Management: Incinerators
      To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of Norfolk County Council's decision to withdraw its participation in the Borough Council of West Norfolk's poll on the installation of a new...

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