Written answers
Friday, 14 September 2012
- Business, Innovation and Skills
- London Metropolitan University
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2012, Official Report, column 496W, on London Metropolitan University, if he will publish...
- London Metropolitan University
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2012, Official Report, column 496W, on London Metropolitan University, if he will publish...
- Space Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what UK space projects his Department is (a) fully and (b) partially funding; what plans he has to fund such projects in...
- Space Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether he plans to provide funding for space projects related to a future moon landing; what discussions the UK Space Agency has...
- Space Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what support he plans to provide to space exploration in each of the next five years; what recent reports he has received of...
- Space Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent assessment he has made of (a) the state of the space sector and (b) the development of the International Space...
- Cabinet Office
- Charitable Donations
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what recent assessment he has made of the merits of introducing a licensing regime that treats commercial collectors equally with charities in...
- Government Departments: Public Consultation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether he has considered providing a regularly updated online list of all ongoing Government consultations with links to the details of such consultations.
- Internet
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of (a) individuals and (b) households that do not use the internet in each (i) region, (ii) local...
- Ministers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many hon. Members and peers were appointed to Government posts (a) excluding and (b) including Parliamentary Private Secretaries on (i) 10...
- Church Commissioners
- Leasehold
To ask the hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church Commissioners have taken to ensure that the leasehold contracts they offer comply with property...
- Leasehold
To ask the hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what the Church Commissioners' policy is on right of arbitration for its leaseholders; and if he will make a statement.
- Communities and Local Government
- Community Infrastructure Levy
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the range is of community infrastructure levies being enforced in the UK.
- Community Infrastructure Levy
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the highest fee is that a new self-builder will be required to pay through the community infrastructure levy and the...
- Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many new homes were being built in developments of less than five new housing units in the latest period for which figures...
- Housing: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on his decision to target a reduction in the levels of severe overcrowding.
- Local Government: Trade Union Officials
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps he is taking to discourage the employment of full-time trade union officials in local government.
- Travellers
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps he is taking to ensure local authorities co-operate in the production of cross-authority plans on provision for the...
- Migration: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance has been given to local authorities to safeguard children identified as in need or at risk as a result of...
- Culture Media and Sport
- Media Ownership
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what plans she has for the future regulation of media ownership.
- Sport England
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport whether she has any plans to increase the statutory powers of Sport England.
- Defence
- Air Force
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to celebrate the centenary of the creation of the Royal Air Force.
- 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 cases of (a) rape and (b) sexual...
- Defence Business Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will estimate the number of people who will be employed by his Department's Defence Business Services in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Northern...
- Departmental Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the likely (a) highest, (b) median, (c) median full-time equivalent and (d) lowest full-time equivalent salary to be paid by...
- Territorial Army
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications to join the Territorial Army (TA) have been made since May 2010; and whether his Department...
- UK National Codification Bureau
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the UK's NATO commitments of planned reductions in spending on the UK National Codification...
- Education
- One North West
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what funding (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have given to One North West.
- 16-19 Bursary Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much education maintenance allowance was paid to residents of each local authority in 2010-11; and what the value was of discretionary 16-19...
- Financial Services: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what comparative assessment he has made of the level of financial education in schools in England and other nations; and if he will make a statement.
- Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department is taking to ensure full take-up of free school meals by eligible children.
- Migration: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what steps he has taken to identify families with children identified as in need or at risk or who have special educational needs who may have to...
- Pupils: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils have attracted payment of the pupil premium in (a) the Brigg and Goole constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber in the latest...
- Schools: Dudley
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many students (a) entering secondary schools in Dudley and (b) from each local authority area are taking part in the summer school programme in 2012.
- Schools: Playing Fields
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what his policy is on the sale of school playing fields; and if he will make a statement.
- Secondary Education: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many vacant secondary school places there were in (a) Birmingham, Hall Green constituency and (b) Birmingham City Council area in each of the last...
- Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether he has considered licensing teachers in the same way that members of the medical profession are licensed to practice.
- Teachers: Criminal Proceedings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many teachers were suspended from teaching while facing criminal charges in the last five years; and how many such teachers were reinstated;...
- Vocational Education: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent guidance his Department has given to Ofsted inspectors following the BTECs review.
- Energy and Climate Change
- Electricity: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will estimate the average costs for domestic electricity customers living in (a) Merseyside, (b) Oxfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire...
- Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many staff in his Department are employed to work exclusively on co-operative or mutual energy policy.
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- South Sudan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the ongoing negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan and related events in summer 2012; and...
- Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what non-lethal assistance is being provided to anti-Government fighters in Syria.
- Health
- Alcoholic Drinks: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on a minimum price for alcohol.
- Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many ambulance trusts did not achieve the category A8 standard in each of the last five years.
- Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress the Health and Social Care Information Centre has made on the development of one and five- year cancer survival rate indicators for...
- Dentistry
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many graduates from UK dental schools have not been allocated a place on the Dental Foundation Training Programme for 2012-13. [R]
- Dentistry
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the relative skills, competencies and experience of (a) UK and (b) overseas dental graduates upon their...
- Dentistry
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the public purse is of training each graduate of a UK dental school. [R]
- Dentistry
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what number and proportion of places on the Dental Foundation Training Programme for 2012-13 have been allocated to dental graduates from overseas; and...
- Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will consider introducing a public health campaign to encourage people to walk, cycle or use other modes of transport involving physical activity;...
- Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to encourage NHS employees to walk, cycle or use other modes of transport involving physical activity when travelling to and from...
- Fractures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Age UK and the National Osteoporosis Society's report “Breaking Through: Building Better Falls and Fracture Services in...
- General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of assessment centres overseen by the NHS Leadership Academy has been for staff being considered for accountable officer roles in the new...
- General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether commissioning bodies funding specialist services are obliged to consider patient choice when considering funding applications.
- General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether commissioning bodies funding specialist services are required to accept the medical recommendations of clinicians applying for funding for...
- General Practitioners: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many GP surgeries in (a) England, (b) the west midlands and (c) Coventry use telephone numbers that charge patients more than the equivalent cost of...
- Health Services: Hartlepool
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on (a) hospital and (b) health service reconfigurations in respect of (i) the University Hospital of Hartlepool and (ii) health...
- Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the infection rate was in NHS hospitals in (a) Coventry, (b) the west midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.
- Hospitals: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were cancelled in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.
- Hyperactivity: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on drug treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder since May 2010.
- Home Department
- Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people under the age of 18 have shotgun and other firearms certificates in the (a) UK and (b) North East.
- House of Commons Commission
- Written Questions
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the answer of 4 September 2012, Official Report, column 320W, on...
- International Development
- Democratic Republic of Congo
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the PROMINES minerals sector reform programme.
- Developing Countries: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how her Department assesses poverty and vulnerability in urban areas.
- Developing Countries: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of her Department's expertise in urbanisation and urban development.
- Developing Countries: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the vulnerabilities of refugees in urban areas.
- Developing Countries: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps her Department is taking to address the needs of refugees and internally displaced persons in urban settings through its (a)...
- Developing Countries: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions she has had with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and UN-Habitat on steps to address the growing number of...
- India
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will publish a summary of each project her Department has supported as part of its bilateral aid programme in India in the last...
- India
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much her Department has spent (a) in bilateral aid for each project and (b) through each multilateral organisation in India in the...
- West Africa
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps her Department is taking to help avert a food crisis in West Africa.
- Northern Ireland
- Tribunals: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on how many occasions she has defended appeals against certificates to the tribunal established under section 91 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
- Transport
- A31: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the A31 Canford Bottom Junction Improvement Scheme on improving general road safety and reducing...
- A31: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the effect of the A31 Canford Bottom Junction Improvement scheme on local businesses.
- A31: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the final cost was of the A31 Canford Bottom Junction Improvement scheme; and what assessment he has made of the factors causing a change in costs...
- Airports: Sikhs
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress has been made on discussions on the screening of Sikh turbans at European airports.
- High Speed 2 Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what arrangements are in place to ensure that no fraudulent claims are made in respect of the High Speed 2 extreme hardship fund.
- High Speed 2 Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how much his Department agreed to pay out from the High Speed 2 extreme hardship fund to date; (2) how much had been paid out from the High...
- High Speed 2 Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what major risks to the HS2 project were identified in the Major Projects Authority's report on HS2; and if he will make a statement.
- High Speed 2 Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what meetings his Department has had with HS2 to discuss the red-amber warning in the Major Projects Authority's report on HS2; and if he will make a...
- Road Signs and Markings
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department has spent on road signs since May 2005.
- Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his policy is on ratification of the International Maritime Organisation MARPOL Annex VI legislation to reduce harmful emissions from ships.
- Third Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps his Department has taken to implement the recommendations of the National Audit Office report, “Central Government's implementation of...
- Travel: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he is taking to prioritise health in transport planning and policy in order to encourage people to use active travel rather than travelling...
- Treasury
- Child Benefit: Northern Ireland
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland (a) Finance and (b) Social Development Minister regarding retaining child benefit as a stand-alone...
- Official Engagements
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 3 September 2012, Official Report, column 81W, on official engagements, if he will list what official engagements he attended on 9...
- Wales
- Organs: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what discussions (a) he has had and (b) plans to have with the Welsh Government on the introduction of presumed consent for organ donation in Wales.
- Work and Pensions
- Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) jobs, (b) apprenticeships and (c) work experience placements have been created in (i) the UK, (ii) the west midlands and (iii)...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many non-dependants are exempt from requiring a non-dependant deduction for housing benefit purposes due to being under 25 years old...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of extended payments of housing benefit in assisting members of long-term workless...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 4 September 2012, Official Report, column 403W, on housing benefit, what estimate he has made of the number of (a)...
- Occupational Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the potential effects of his plans for the transfer of small pension pots on (a) women, (b) self-employed people...
- Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under what circumstances he would determine that the cost of accommodation in the social rented sector is greater than it is reasonable to meet...
- Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how support for the cost of temporary accommodation will be provided under universal credit.
- Winter Fuel Payments: Liverpool
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners received the winter fuel allowance in Liverpool, Walton constituency in each of the last three years.
