Written answers
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
- Business, Innovation and Skills
- Advantage West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what steps he has taken to ensure that land formerly owned by Advantage West Midlands is being put to use to benefit local...
- Advantage West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) if he will publish the (a) date of sale, (b) purchaser and (c) value of assets sold by Advantage West Midlands since April...
- Advantage West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will list the assets held by Advantage West Midlands at the point that regional development agencies were authorised to...
- Arms Trade: Middle East
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the value was of the UK's arms trade with Israel in each of the last three financial years; whether defence contracts with...
- Business: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many small and medium-sized businesses received loans from banks in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c)...
- Employment Tribunals Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills (Jo Swinson) of 17...
- Foreign Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on due oversight and transparency of operation of...
- Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills which Minister in his Department is responsible for the UK retail motor industry; and which part of his Department is responsible...
- Natural Capital Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on how many occasions he has met Dieter Helm in his capacity as Chair of the Natural Capital Committee.
- Natural Resources
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether his Department has developed an inventory of natural capital assets for which it is responsible.
- Natural Resources
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what funding he has allocated to assessing the effect his Department has on the UK's natural capital assets.
- Natural Resources
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many members of staff in his Department work on assessing the natural capital assets for which his Department is responsible.
- Property: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what consideration he has given to implementing the recommendation contained in the 2001 Andrew Edwards report on the Review of...
- Property: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps are being taken to ensure that the true value of English property transactions are recorded at the Land Registry; and...
- Property: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he has taken to ensure that the accurate beneficial ownership of property in England and Wales is recorded at the Land...
- Property: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will take steps to ensure that all entries in the Land Registry contain true identities and that the use of nominee or fake...
- Cabinet Office
- Charitable Donations
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what work his Department is doing as part of the Red Tape Challenge on Civil Society to consider how complexity could be reduced for smaller charities...
- Emergency Planning College
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office when he last visited the Emergency Planning College at Hawkshills in Easingwold.
- Homelessness: Essex
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will make an estimate of the cost of the Essex social impact bond as compared to financing by gilts; and if he will publish that comparison.
- New Businesses: Devon
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number of business start-ups in (a) Devon and (b) Newton Abbot constituency in each of the last five years.
- Regional Development Agencies: Assets
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which Department is responsible for monitoring the disposal of assets of former regional development agencies and the value for money achieved in that...
- Training
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what training courses were run by Common Purpose for his Department; and what the cost of such courses was in each of the last five years.
- Church Commissioners
- Women Bishops
To ask the hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what the votes cast for and against the draft measure to approve the consecration of women bishops in the Church of...
- Communities and Local Government
- Business Rates Retention Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will encourage local authorities to consult local businesses on how revenue raised from the business rate retention scheme...
- Business Rates Retention Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance he plans to give to local authorities on how additional money raised as a result of the business rate retention...
- Housing: Fire Extinguishers
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) if he will make it his policy to designate domestic sprinklers as a factor in sustainable housing so that builders can...
- Regional Development Agencies: Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many assets previously held by regional development agencies' assets and transferred to the Homes and Communities Agency on...
- Social Rented Housing: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent estimate he has made of the effect of immigration on the number of new social housing lets in (a) Peterborough and...
- Culture Media and Sport
- Film: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps she is taking to increase the UK film industry's exports to (a) South America and (b) Asia and the Pacific.
- Defence
- Armed Forces: Deployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what UK (a) military and (b) other personnel (i) have been and (ii) are deployed under Common Foreign and Security Policy or Common Security and Defence...
- Armed Forces: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if the programme of analysis referred to by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland on 21 November 2012, Official Report, column 561 will...
- Armed Forces: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many allegations of rape made by members of the armed forces concluded with charges being (a) brought and (b) dropped in each year since 2000; and if...
- Armed Forces: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what instructions were issued to commanding officers on reporting incidents of (a) rape and (b) sexual assault to civilian police between 2000 and 2012;...
- Deputy Prime Minister
- Lord Lieutenants
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 25 October 2012, Official Report, column 1032W, on Lord Lieutenants, what considerations are taken into account when compiling a list of...
- Education
- Children: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent assessment he has made of the effect of increased homelessness on (a) school attendance and (b) access to school places.
- Children: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what guidance schools provide to children on how they can protect themselves online.
- Children: Performing Arts
To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he will publish the results of the consultation on children involved in performance; and if he will make a statement.
- Children: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to support the education of children who are living in hostels or bed and breakfast facilities.
- Domestic Violence: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what his policy is on mandatory teaching about domestic violence during relationship education in schools; (2) what guidance his Department...
- Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if he will include provisions in a children's Bill in the current session of Parliament to make it explicit that membership of a political party...
- Free Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to ensure that the teaching of evolution is taught in free schools.
- Free Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many additional school places have been created by the free schools that (a) have been provided to date, (b) are to be provided in 2012-13 and (c)...
- Jimmy Savile
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department has taken following revelations about Jimmy Savile.
- Schools: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of children were given a place at either their first or second choice for (a) primary school and (b) secondary school in (i) Woking...
- Schools: Playing Fields
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many applications to dispose of school playing fields have been referred to the School Playing Fields Advisory Panel in each year since 1999; and...
- Schools: Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Education which school games events of Level 2 or above he has attended in the last year.
- Schools: Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department has taken to monitor the provision of (a) curriculum physical education and (b) intra and inter-school competition in (i)...
- Schools: Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the amount of time pupils in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools spent on sport and physical education in (i) November...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education with reference to the draft Children and Families Bill, for what reason he proposes that an apprentice aged 16 to 25 years old would not have an...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education with reference to his draft Children and Families Bill, whether he proposes that a further education or sixth-form college will be able to request an...
- Teachers: Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pension schemes are comprised within the overall Teachers' Pension Scheme.
- Energy and Climate Change
- Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues in preparation for his participation in the Doha Round.
- Energy: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 22 November 2012, Official Report, column 553W, on grants, how many grants for (a) Renewable Heat Premium...
- Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what funds his Department allocated to energy efficiency measures specifically for people in fuel poverty in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
- Fuel Poverty: Chatham
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the number of people in Chatham and Aylesford constituency living in fuel poverty.
- Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) for what reason his Department decided to re-run the application process for the post of permanent secretary of his Department;...
- Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will place in the Library a copy of the job description, person specification and the criteria used by his Department to evaluate...
- Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many candidates for the post of permanent secretary of his Department (a) applied for the position, (b) were given interviews for...
- Wind Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2012, Official Report, column 315W, on wind power, how many wind turbines emitting 500kW or less...
- Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Animals: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many inspections were carried out by animal health officers on live animal exports (a) on farm, (b) in transit and (c) at...
- Ash Dieback Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the likely cost to the horticultural trade of the ash tree import ban.
- Ash Dieback Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what the cost was of his Department's survey of woodland carried out from 6 to 9 November 2012; (2) what recent...
- Ash Trees: High Peak
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of ash trees in (a) High Peak constituency and (b) the Peak District National Park.
- Cider
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if, in the light of the statement from Julian Temperley of the Somerset Cider Brandy Company that he had discussed the issue...
- Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to encourage more responsible dog ownership; and if he will make a statement.
- Employment Agencies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his policy is on the use of offshore employment companies in the supply of public sector workers in his Department and...
- Flood Control and Coastal Erosion
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the Government spent on managing the risk of flooding and coastal erosion in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
- Floods: Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether his talks on flood insurance have included any discussions on insurance provision for small businesses.
- Food: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on sales of labelling of British food.
- Food: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what benefits he expects labelling of British food to bring to the promotion of healthy eating.
- Guide Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what penalties are available to the (a) police and (b) courts to punish those found guilty of attacks on assistance dogs.
- Polar Bears
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the Government will advocate EU support for the proposal of the US to uplist polar bears to CITES Appendix I; and if...
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Balearic Islands
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will estimate the number of (a) annual UK citizen visitors to, (b) permanent expatriate UK citizens in and (c) other UK...
- Balearic Islands
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the reasons were for the downgrading of consular representation in the Balearic Islands; and if he will make a statement.
- Falkland Islands
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to support cruise ship companies that visit the Falkland Islands and are considering withdrawing the...
- Health
- Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions to hospital with an alcohol-related diagnosis via accident and emergency departments there were in (a) Suffolk, (b) Cambridgeshire and...
- Antibiotics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on the online prescription of antibiotics.
- Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the East Midlands, West Midlands and East of England are grouped for the purposes of the Cancer Drugs Fund.
- Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the underspend of the East Midlands allocation of the Cancer Drugs Fund.
- Care Homes: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the average fee paid per week by each local social services department to private care homes for clients in (a) nursing and (b) residential...
- Care Homes: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the proposals of the final report of the Commission on Funding Care and Support, published in July 2011, what the proportion of assets...
- Care Homes: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the proposals of the final report of the Commission on Funding Care and Support, published in July 2011, what assessment he has made of...
- Circumcision
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will estimate the cost to the NHS of dealing with problems arising from circumcisions performed at home in each of the last three years; (2)...
- NHS Property Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) primary care trusts and (b) strategic health authorities completed the information transfer of information relating to estates, suppliers,...
- Chronic Pain
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what criteria are being used by commissioners to assess the suitability of potential providers of pain- management services under Any Qualified Provider,...
- Chronic Pain
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on developing a quality standard on the management of pain.
- Self-mutilation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of children and young people of each (a) gender and (b) age in England who committed acts of self-harm...
- Sleep Apnoea
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans that the work of his Department's Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Working Group will continue in the reformed NHS.
- Streptococcus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on public opinion on routine screening for Group B streptococcus carriage in...
- Home Department
- Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers have participated in the detained fast-track process in each year since its inception, by country of origin.
- Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what safeguards she has put in place to prevent victims of torture and other vulnerable applicants from being assigned to the detained fast-...
- Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many (a) firearms and (b) shotgun certificates were issued in (i) Avon and Somerset Constabulary area and (ii) England in each year...
- Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the cost, including related expenses and overheads, to the public purse was of renewing a firearm or shotgun certificate for an...
- Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many appeals were lodged against refusal to grant or renew a firearms or shotgun certificate in each of the years from 2001 to 2012.
- Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she plans to answer the letter sent to her by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman) on 23 October 2012, with...
- Offences Against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what steps she has taken to establish mechanisms for monitoring the extent of (a) violence, (b) sexual abuse, (c) neglect, (d)...
- Offensive Weapons: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many licences for prohibited weapons were issued by permission of the Secretary of State to private individuals in each year since...
- Passports: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of residents of Scotland who (a) currently own a UK passport and (b) will own a UK passport in 2014.
- Police and Crime Commissioners
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who has responsibility for authorising expenses of police and crime commissioners.
- Prisoners: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) men and (b) women in prison in the UK had before conviction applied for asylum in the UK (i) successfully and (ii) unsuccessfully.
- Tobacco: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her Department spent on salaries for full-time equivalent staff allocated to the tackling tobacco smuggling strategy in (a) 2010-11 and...
- International Development
- Africa
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions she has had with the financial services sector in the UK on how its skills and expertise could be used in Africa.
- Developing Countries: Sanitation
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what plans she has to mark WaterAid's World Toilet Day campaign.
- Haiti
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which projects in Haiti have been supported by the Government since the earthquake in January 2010: what the cost was of those...
- Horn of Africa
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress her Department has made on implementing the recommendation of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact report on her...
- Iraq
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of current World Health Organisation research into the rates of congenital malformations across Iraq and...
- Overseas Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress the Government have made in implementing their pledge to double the provision of water, hygiene and sanitation by 2015 to...
- Justice
- Charitable Donations: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (a) how many prosecutions there have been and (b) what the average sentence was for crimes related to fraud and theft in respect of bogus charitable...
- Crimes of Violence: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people aged (a) 18 or younger and (b) over 18 (i) have been prosecuted for and (ii) have received a custodial sentence for an offence of (A)...
- Debt Collection
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the recent focus report by the Local Government Ombudsman entitled “Taking possession: Councils' use of bailiffs for...
- Driving Offences: A14
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many arrests for speeding offences on the A14 in Suffolk have resulted in a (a) successful conviction, (b) caution and (c) fixed penalty notice in...
- Immigration: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the potential effect of planned changes to legal aid from April 2013 on local authorities' ability to meet their statutory...
- Legal Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will estimate the number of men who claimed falsely that they were fathers of children using legal aid to do so in the last year for which figures...
- Magistrates Courts: Nottinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many proceedings for criminal offences there were in each magistrates court in Northamptonshire in each year since 1997.
- Young Offender Institutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the capacity was of (a) secure children's homes, (b) secure training centres and (c) young offender institutions in England and Wales in (i)...
- Young Offenders: Literacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many children in (a) secure children's homes, (b) secure training centres and (c) youth offending institutions were unable to read and write at the...
- Northern Ireland
- Economy
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions she has had with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive on rebalancing the Northern Ireland economy.
- Security Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent assessment she has made of the security situation in Northern Ireland.
- Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps she has taken to tackle fuel poverty in Northern Ireland in response to the findings of the recent Office of Fair Trading report on...
- Transport
- Bus Partnership Forum
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when (a) he or (b) his Ministers have met the Bus Partnership Forum in 2012.
- Crossrail Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether support for UK jobs will be a factor in the assessment of bids for the Crossrail rolling stock contract.
- Crossrail Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport who will be responsible for deciding the successful bidder for the Crossrail rolling stock contracts.
- Cycleways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on the provision of cycle lanes following the publication of guidelines on cycling...
- Cycleways: Leicester
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will provide funding to introduce more cycle lanes in Leicester.
- Go North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many route-change submissions Go North East has made to the Traffic Commissioner since 1 January 2012.
- High Speed 2 Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what due diligence has been exercised by his Department to ensure that High Speed Rail 2 complies with the requirements of Directive 92/43/EEC on the...
- High Speed 2 Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the processes being followed on High Speed Rail 2 comply with the EU Water Framework Directive and...
- High Speed 2 Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the likely level of additional funding for the proposed Western Connection to Heathrow; and what proportion of that...
- Northern Rail
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his timetable is for completion of investment in the Northern rail hub.
- Railways: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what comparative assessment he has made of the level of fare evasion on each of the train franchises.
- Thameslink Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport with reference to the Thameslink rolling stock contract, what the planned dates are for the cascade of the old Thameslink rolling stock from Thameslink...
- Thameslink Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if the cascade of the old Thameslink rolling stock to the Great Western and Northern Rail services is delayed what alternative provision he plans to...
- Tolls
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether his Department has plans to introduce tolling on enhanced roads; and if he will make a statement.
- Travel: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to respond to the recommendations of the British Youth Council Transport Select Committee report entitled ‘Transport and Young...
- World War II: Anniversaries
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State has had with (a) his ministerial colleagues in the Ministry of Defence and (b) the Mayor of...
- Treasury
- Air Passenger Duty
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 22 November 2012, Official Report, column 556W, on air passenger duty, whether he plans to submit HM Revenue and Custom's research...
- Child Benefit: Barnsley
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in Barnsley Central constituency will be affected by his proposed reform of child benefit.
- Olympic Games 2012: National Lottery
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent representations he has received on reimbursement to the Big Lottery Fund of sums contributed to the London 2012 Olympics.
- Paye
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many providers of payroll software have held meetings with officials in his Department in the last 12 months.
- Regional Planning and Development
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has any plans to further extend the powers conferred under the City Deal to smaller regional cities; and if he will make a statement.
- Revenue and Customs: Complaints
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to improve HM Revenue and Customs systems for handling complaints to prevent unacceptable delays in complaint resolution.
- Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with which offshore tax havens based in Crown dependencies and overseas territories the UK has an information-sharing agreement on owners of offshore trusts...
- Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent assessment HM Revenue and Customs has undertaken of the use by companies of nominee directors to evade payment of tax in the UK.
- Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the role of that country's Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in the development of...
- Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will take steps to end the practice whereby any British or foreign person can avoid up to 5% stamp duty being imposed on the next purchase by...
- Work and Pensions
- Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2012, Official Report, column 154W, on universal credit, whether the universal credit project has at the...
- Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to his answer of 20 November 2012, Official Report, columns 455-6W, on universal credit, how employees earning less than the lower...
- Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on what date he was informed that contractual minimum performance standards would not be met by any prime provider in the first 12 months of...
- Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether any satisfaction data are being collected from Work programme participants.
- Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions at what stage in the course of the Work programme he expects to take contractual action in cases where providers fail to meet minimum...
- House of Lords
- Banking
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the sufficiency of the core capital of United Kingdom banks to absorb expected losses and support economic recovery.
- Banks: Lending
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will hold talks with the commercial banks about demand for mortgage assistance by lower-paid workers with secure jobs who are unable to meet current...
- Charities (1 annotation)
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they pay to (1) British-based, and (2) foreign, charities.
- Claims Management Companies: Costs
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord McNally on 5 November (Official Report, col. 756), whether they will review the Financial Ombudsman Service's case fees in cases...
- Embryology
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Marland on 19 November (WA 311-12), in what ways lessons from pronuclear transfer (PNT) can inform somatic cell nuclear...
- Energy: Oil and Gas Prices
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the price of oil and gas in (1) 1980, (2) 1990, (3) 2000, and (4) 2010, compared with the official estimates made ten years earlier in each case.
- Energy: Oil and Gas Prices
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their forecast of the level of oil and gas prices in (1) 2020, (2) 2030, (3) 2040, and (4) 2050.
- EU: Trade Agreements
To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the current trade agreements between the European Union and non-European Union countries.
- Flooding: Insurance
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to enter into a new agreement with the insurance industry to maintain universal flood cover; and what is the cost of Government commitments to be...
- Government Departments: Coalition Agreement
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Ministry of Defence has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
- Health: In-vitro Diagnostic Tests
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the contribution of the in vitro diagnostics industry to the economy.
- Health: Mental Health
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Earl Howe on 21 November (Official Report, col. 1805), how much was spent on (1) therapies within the improving access to psychological...
- Health: Patient Satisfaction
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether general practitioner services will be subject to the friends and family test of patient satisfaction.
- Local Authorities: Public Health
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have plans to review the ring-fencing of public health budgets; and, if so, what are the criteria for the review and when its conclusions will be reported.
- Nobel Peace Prize
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Warsi on 13 November (WA 283), whether they have decided upon the arrangements for the representation of the United...
- Schools: Funding
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether departmental budgets have been cut, and by how much, in order to fund the £1 billion additional costs of the expanded academies programme, as...
- Shipping: Frigates
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Type 26 frigates they propose to build; of what type; and what will be their planned dates of (1) laying down, (2) launch, and (3) commissioning.
- Taxation
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the methods used by HM Revenue and Customs to ensure that foreign-owned multinational companies operating in the United Kingdom are not...
- Taxation: Non-domiciled Taxpayers
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sassoon on 19 November (WA 328), when they expect the numbers of non-domiciled individuals paying the annual remittance...
- Uganda
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will ensure that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual asylum seekers from Uganda are not returned to that country; and, if so, how.
- Universal Credit
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sassoon on 20 November (WA 367), what discussions they have had with the Confederation of British Industry, the Federation...
- Universal Credit
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sassoon on 20 November (WA 367-8), whether the electronic channel by which HM Revenue and Customs will provide information...
- Universal Credit
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many additional staff HM Revenue and Customs will require to process universal credit; and at what cost.
- Visas
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Taylor of Holbeach on 21 November (WA 402), what are the names of the two computer systems and the relevant fields that...
- Water Supply: Utility Companies
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have investigated the capital structures of Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Anglian Water; and, if so, whether the structures are suitable for...
