Written answers
Thursday, 6 December 2012
- Electoral Commission Committee
- Police and Crime Commissioners
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what lessons the Electoral Commission has learned from the recent police and crime...
- Scotland
- Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the Scottish Employability Forum will next meet.
- Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland pursuant to the answer of 28 November 2012, Official Report, column 356W, on the Work Programme, whether the Scottish Government has agreed to (a) meet...
- House of Commons Commission
- Pate de Foie Gras
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will phase out the sale of (a) foie gras and (b) foie gras...
- Attorney-General
- CPS Direct
To ask the Attorney-General what CPS Direct's target for answering telephone calls made to it is; what the average response time was for telephone calls made to CPS Direct in each of the last...
- CPS Direct
To ask the Attorney-General what the annual running costs of CPS Direct are; how many staff, including duty prosecutors, CPS Direct currently employs; and what the annual expenditure by CPS...
- Pay
To ask the Attorney-General how many employees in the Law Officers' Departments were paid (a) between £80,000 and £100,000 per year and (b) in excess of £100,000 per year in each...
- Work and Pensions
- Abu Qatada
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost to the public purse has been of housing benefit claimed by Abu Qatada.
- Abu Qatada
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total cost has been of the provision of housing benefit to Abu Qatada to date.
- Council Tax Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many persons aged under 65 are in receipt of the second adult rebate in each local authority area; (2) what the weekly second adult...
- Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 28 November 2012, Official Report, column 341W, on grants, how much was paid in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK through...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of housing benefit live in accommodation with (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five, (f) six, (g) seven, (h)...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (a) how many people claiming housing benefit live in and (b) what the total cost to the public purse is of housing benefit paid to households...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of housing benefit there were in each income decile before housing costs; and what the cost to the public purse was of...
- Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of rent arrears has been identified among social tenants participating in the housing benefit demonstration project pilots; and...
- Jobseeker's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many benefit sanctions were imposed on jobseeker's allowance claimants in July to September in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.
- Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of households who will be affected by the household benefit cap in April 2013; and how many are in (a)...
- Social Security Benefits: Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of support provided to carers in applying for benefits.
- Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases of benefit fraud his Department has investigated in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (c) England and Wales in...
- Unemployment Benefits: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire and (c) Scotland have been in receipt of out-of-work...
- Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Warrington North of 17 September 2012, Official Report, columns 537-38W, on universal credit:...
- Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to page 18 of the Government's response to Professor Malcolm Harrington's Third Independent Review of the Work Capability...
- Work Capability Assessment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost to his Department has been as a result of appeals against a work capability assessment decision in the financial year 2012-13 to...
- Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions who is responsible for imposing sanctions when a work placement provider has made a referral in a Work programme.
- Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2012, Official Report, column 492W, on the Work programme, whether publication by Work programme...
- Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2012, Official Report, column 492W, on the Work programme, whether prime providers and sub-contractors in...
- Work Programme: Crawley
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have come off benefits after joining the Work programme in Crawley constituency to date.
- Women and Equalities
- Grants
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities what grant-giving programmes are operated by the Government Equalities Office; and which such programmes award grants in Scotland.
- Home Department
- Abu Qatada
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the total cost to her Department has been of the detainment and surveillance of Abu Qatada since 2001; (2) what the total costs...
- Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people (a) applied for asylum, (b) were granted asylum, (c) appealed against a refusal of refugee status and (d) were successful in...
- Confiscation Orders: Human Trafficking
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has received from the confiscation of assets of convicted human traffickers in each of the last two years.
- Driving Under Influence: Arrests
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people arrested for drink driving in each of the last five years were not UK or EU nationals; (2) how many people arrested...
- Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will seek a variation of the EU Free Movement Directive 2004 to restrict entry to the UK from Bulgaria and Romania after 2014.
- Immigration (2 annotations)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government is taking to monitor the effect of new family migration rules affecting sponsorship of non-EEA spouses, partners,...
- National Crime Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget of the National Crime Agency is for 2012-13; how much was spent on the establishment of the National Crime Agency by 5...
- National Wildlife Crime Unit
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what interaction she expects Police and Crime Commissioners to have with the National Wildlife Crime Unit; and if she will make a statement.
- Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what additional resources she plans to allocate to police for the investigation into child abuse allegations.
- Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers will be available to (a) Keith Bristow and (b) the National Crime Agency in the inquiry into historic allegations of child abuse.
- Offences against Children: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many British citizens have been (a) investigated and (b) charged with sexual offences against children abroad since extra-territorial...
- Cabinet Office
- Alcoholic Drinks: Females
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the average number of alcohol units consumed by women in each (a) socio-economic group, (b) ethnic group and (c) age group...
- Charitable Donations
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate the Office for Civil Society has made of what the likely cost to (a) charities which hold them of the removal of national exemption orders...
- Charities
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what guidance his Department has given to Ministers on their involvement in the award of public funding to charities; (2) what mechanism his...
- Emigration
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the sample size of the International Passenger Survey on people emigrating from the UK was for each (a) ethnic grouping and (b) country of birth in...
- Natural Resources
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) on how many occasions the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has discussed (a) the work of the Natural Capital Committee and (b) the state of...
- Natural Resources
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what progress has been made by the Office for National Statistics towards inclusion of the value of natural capital into the UK environmental accounts...
- Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many employees in his Department were paid (a) between £80,000 and £100,000 per year and (b) in excess of £100,000 per year in each...
- Public Sector: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office in what circumstances the publication of performance data by individual public service providers is regarded as inappropriate because it pre-empts the...
- Public Sector: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to his Department's Open Public Services White Paper, whether the commitment that providers of public services from all sectors will need...
- Public Sector: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to his Department's Open Public Services White Paper, for which public services the commitment that providers of public services from all...
- Deputy Prime Minister
- Lord Lieutenants
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether potential candidates for lord lieutenant posts are judged against the Nolan principles on standards in public life.
- Business, Innovation and Skills
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps the Government is taking to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as a membership country.
- Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many employees in his Department were paid (a) between £80,000 and £100,000 per year and (b) in excess of...
- Regional Growth Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of successful bids in each round of the Regional Growth Fund in (a) the East Midlands and (b) England have...
- Health
- Abu Qatada
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the NHS has been of services provided to Abu Qatada since 2001.
- Advertising
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his Department plans to spend on (a) television, (b) radio, (c) print and (d) online advertising in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13.
- Alcoholic Drinks: East Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many alcohol-related hospital admissions there were in (a) High Peak constituency, (b) Derbyshire and (c) the East Midlands in each of the last five...
- Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the current average waiting time is for cancer treatments in (a) Suffolk Primary Care Trust and (b) England and Wales.
- Cancer: Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Health where the nearest cancer centre is at which cancer patients in Easington constituency can receive stereotactic ablative radiotherapy treatment for tumours...
- Care Homes: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 22 November 2012, Official Report, column 575W, on care homes: fees and charges, if he will estimate the cost to the public...
- Diabetes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to increase the number of patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes who receive diabetes testing.
- Family Nurse Partnership Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many families have received assistance from family nurse partnerships in each year since the inception of the scheme.
- Health Services: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many health tourists have been treated (a) by NHS South Birmingham and (b) in Birmingham in each of the last three years; (2) what the cost to...
- Hospitals: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidelines his Department issues to hospitals for the use of glucose-fructose syrup in meals served to patients; (2) whether his Department...
- Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients contracted (a) MRSA and (b) other hospital-acquired infections in NHS hospitals in each NHS hospital trust in England and Wales in each...
- Hospitals: Private Finance Initiative
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) annual cost, (b) the total cost and (c) length of contract is for the private finance initiative contracts with (i) Queen Elizabeth Hospital,...
- Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing...
- Muscular Dystrophy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many unplanned emergency admissions of people with (a) muscular dystrophy and (b) other neuromuscular diseases there were to hospitals in (i) Greater...
- Nurses: North-East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the (a) current and (b) future supply of and demand for urgent care trained nurses within Teesside, East Cleveland and...
- Patients: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the most recent standardised mortality ratio for each NHS hospital trust.
- Primary Care Trusts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2012, Official Report, column 504W, on health services, what the 18 unallocated functions are.
- Social Services: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has spent on social care costs in Birmingham in each of the last five years; and what it plans to spend in each of the next three...
- Social Services: Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the adequacy of supply of care staff in Cambridgeshire.
- Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the Dilnot Commission; and if he will make a statement.
- South London Healthcare NHS Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the (a) methodology and (b) evidential basis on which the Special Administrator for South London Healthcare NHS Trust has concluded...
- Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the results of his Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out that survey; and what...
- Taxis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on taxi fares in each of the last two years.
- International Development
- Developing Countries: Agriculture
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps she is taking to ensure that development aid supports smallholder farmers in developing countries.
- Rwanda
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which projects funded by her Department in Rwanda are to be cut in 2013.
- Sudan and South Sudan
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions she has had on the situation in Sudan and South Sudan; and if she will make a statement.
- Education
- Academies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will place in the Library the value of Local Authority Central Services Equivalent Grant being paid to all converter academies that had converted...
- Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many young people who entered care at each age and who left care at 16 or older and who did not return to their birth parents had been taken...
- Child: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education with reference to his Department's evaluation report, The impact of more flexible assessment practices in response to the Munro Review of Child...
- Families
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of family breakdown.
- Pupils: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the use of the pupil premium in Mid Derbyshire.
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the findings of the recent Pathfinder Interim Evaluation Report that no pathfinder local authority had developed their...
- Written Questions: Government Responses
To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he plans to answer the question tabled by the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby, on 12 October 2012, on the Local Authority Central Services...
- Written Questions: Government Responses
To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) when he plans to provide a substantive reply to question 125281; (2) when he plans to provide a substantive reply to question 125280; (3) when...
- Youth Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education which youth projects (a) he and (b) each Minister in his Department has visited since May 2010.
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to seek the prosecution of Israeli political and military leaders at the International Criminal...
- Sri Lanka
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on the security of the Catholic Church in the north of Sri Lanka.
- Sudan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions (a) he and (b) his ministerial colleagues have had with other European countries about allegations of the abuse...
- Sudan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Sudanese government on allegations of the use of torture on returning asylum seekers...
- Energy and Climate Change
- Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 19 November 2012, Official Report, column 260W, on energy, if he will make it his policy to require Ofgem to...
- Energy: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of how much energy companies invested in infrastructure in Scotland in each year since 2007.
- Renewables Obligation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for what reason his Department's impact assessment on the Renewables Obligation Transition published on 29 November 2012 contained no...
- Culture Media and Sport
- Artworks: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make it her policy to increase the eligibility of participants in the Own Art scheme to include independent artists who...
- BBC Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what discussions she has had with the BBC Trust on severance packages given to (a) departing directors and (b) George Entwistle.
- Broadband
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when her Department submitted the correct paperwork to the European Commission in relation to state aid for superfast broadband.
- Broadband Delivery UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the administration budget of Broadband Delivery UK was in each year since May 2010.
- Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will assess the impartiality of Sir David Bell in respect of his role in the Leveson Inquiry.
- Football: Racial Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent discussions she has had with representatives of football on the use of racist chanting and abuse in that sport.
- Football: Sportsgrounds
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will bring forward proposals to amend the Football Spectators Act 1989 to introduce on a trial basis, limited standing areas at...
- Olympic Games 2012: G4S
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when she plans to meet the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to discuss the performance of G4S in...
- Telephone Services: Unsolicited Goods and Services (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps her Department is taking to stop cold telephone calls from overseas.
- William Shakespeare
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether she has any plans to mark the occasion of the 400 year anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare in 2016.
- Transport
- Hartlepool-Newcastle Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what information his Department holds on the punctuality rate for the Northern Rail service from (a) Hartlepool to Newcastle and (b) Newcastle to...
- M1: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make an assessment of the time taken to resolve the closure of the M1 between junctions 5 and 4 southbound on 3 December 2012; and if he...
- Motorcycles: Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people have taken the Direct Access motorbike test in each of the last five years.
- Northern Rail
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) whether class (a) 317 and (b) 319 units will be introduced on the Northern Rail franchise; and if so, by what date; (2) what classes of rolling...
- Official Cars
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 22 November 2012, Official Report, columns 538-40W, on official cars, whether Ministers are allocated specific cars from the...
- Roads: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many accidents have involved both a vehicle and wildlife in each of the last five years.
- Roads: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many motor accidents there have been involving (a) coaches, (b) rickshaws and (c) quad bikes in each of the last five years.
- Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he can take under franchising agreements to ensure that train companies provide modern rolling stock for their services.
- Thameslink Railway Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the (a) numbers of carriages and (b) category of rolling stock are that will cascade to other franchises following completion of the Thameslink...
- Justice
- Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will bring forward proposals to enable the courts to seize the assets of offenders who are given community orders.
- Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of individual community order requirements in reducing re-offending.
- Court Orders: Alcoholic Drinks
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what penalties he proposes for offenders who breach compulsory sobriety orders.
- Court Orders: Alcoholic Drinks
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether he plans to bring forward proposals to introduce compulsory sobriety orders for convicted offenders in cases where criminality is linked to...
- Knives: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many and what proportion of people convicted of encouraging violent behaviour involving the use of a knife under the Knives Act 1997 received a...
- Lincoln Prison
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the average number of staff was at HM Prison Lincoln in each of the last five years; (2) what the average number of prisoners was at HM...
- Mediation (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will consider the introduction of a mandatory mediation for both parents to undertake in child contact disputes which do not involve an allegation...
- Repossession Orders: Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many court orders have been issued for the repossession of homes in Suffolk Coastal constituency in each of the last five years.
- Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many community sentence orders have been handed down by (a) magistrates and (b) Crown courts in each of the last four years; and how many...
- Victims Commissioner
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether he proposes that the responsibilities of the new Victims Commissioner will be identical to those of his predecessor; and whether the new...
- Work Capability Assessment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost to his Department has been of appeals to the work capability assessment in 2012-13 to date.
- Northern Ireland
- Olympic Games 2012
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if she will persuade HM Treasury to use unspent contingency funding for the London 2012 Olympic Games to refund the Big Lottery Fund for its...
- Treasury
- Banks
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent steps he has taken to reform banking and to redirect banking fines to the public purse.
- Child Care Tax Credits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many families in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK claimed child care tax credits for children aged five and over in the latest period for which figures...
- Development Aid
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of whether the UK will meet the Government's target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income being spent on overseas development...
- Members: Correspondence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will investigate the reasons for the delay by the Criminal Investigation Complaints, Freedom of Information and Data Protection Act Team at HM Revenue...
- Revenue and Customs: Correspondence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) target time is for opening postal mail received by HMRC; what proportion of such post has been opened within that target...
- Taxation: Self-assessment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many personal tax returns for 2010-11 submitted to HM Revenue and Customs have not yet been processed.
- Temporary Employment: Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will take further steps to ensure that temporary and agency workers are not exploited by temporary labour providers operating travel and...
- Tobacco: Smuggling
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what his Department spent on salaries for full-time equivalent staff allocated to tackling tobacco smuggling (a) in total, (b) engaged in detection,...
- Welfare Tax Credits: Suffolk
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in Suffolk Coastal constituency were in receipt of (a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit in each of the last five years; and what...
- Communities and Local Government
- Advantage West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether land previously owned by Advantage West Midlands at Birmingham Eastside was (a) transferred to the Homes and Communities...
- Anti-Semitism
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the trends in the reporting of incidents of anti-Semitism in November 2012.
- Bellwin Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding has been (a) claimed by and (b) paid out to local authorities under the Bellwin scheme as a result of flooding...
- Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many employees in his Department were paid (a) between £80,000 and £100,000 per year and (b) in excess of...
- Regeneration: Morecambe
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when (a) he and (b) the Housing and Communities Agency (HCA) were made aware of the wish of Lancaster City Council to drop the...
- Regional Development Agencies: Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what assets previously held by (a) Advantage West Midlands, (b) the East of England Development Agency, (c) the East...
- Regional Development Agencies: Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much from the sale of former regional development agency assets by the Homes and Communities Agency will be spent within the...
- Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Common Agricultural Policy
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent progress he has made on reforming the common agricultural policy.
- Live Animal Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his policy is on live animal exports from the UK; and if he will make a statement.
- Sky Lanterns
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has to investigate the effect of sky lanterns on livestock and crops.
- Rural-proofing Government Policy
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on rural-proofing Government policy.
- Water Bills: South-west
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to lower water bills in the south-west.
- Food Production: Slave and Trafficked Labour
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to remove slave and trafficked labour from the supply chains of food-producing companies.
- Agriculture: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress his Department has made in promoting British exports from the agricultural sector.
- Livestock: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to prevent further animal deaths as the result of the live animal export trade.
- Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he intends to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 3 October 2012 concerning a constituent.
- Defence
- Armed Forces: Cadets
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the Cadet Force establishment is in (a) West Sussex and (b) East Sussex in (i) schools and (ii) detachments.
- Armed Forces: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what alleged offences against a senior rank made by a junior rank can be reported outside the chain of command; to whom the allegation can be reported;...
- Armed Forces: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department has taken to implement the recommendations of its 2006 report on Quantitative and Qualitative Research into Sexual Harassment...
- Danny Nightingale
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether there will be any impediment to Sergeant Danny Nightingale resuming his military career on release from detention.
- Defence Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 21 May 2012, Official Report, column 438W, on defence procurement, how many of the urgent operational requirements...
- Devonport Dockyard
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what investment in infrastructure and machinery was made by his Department in HMNB Devonport dockyard in each year from 2008 to 2010.
- Devonport Dockyard
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent work has taken place under the Nuclear Facilities Estate Investment at HM Naval Base Devonport.
- HMS Clyde
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of leasing HMS Clyde in each year to 2018.
- Meetings
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what meetings (a) the right hon. Member for North East Hampshire and (b) the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex have had with (i) Ministers, (ii)...
- Military Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence to which foreign staff colleges the UK attaches instructors.
- Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what consideration has been given to the flexible tasking proposals prepared by the Ministry of Defence Police in determining future security provisions...
- Nuclear Submarines
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many active Z-Berths are in UK waters and where such berths are located; how many times such berths have been used in each of the last five...
- Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what consultations are being conducted by his Department.
- Unmanned Air Vehicles (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what rules of engagement govern the use of UK armed drones.
- Unmanned Air Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of whether the geographic and psychological distance between the operator of an armed UK drone and its target makes attacks...
- Unmanned Air Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of whether belief in the accuracy of drone sensors and cameras may lead commanders to order strikes with a higher risk of...
- Unmanned Air Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of whether the unmanned nature of armed UK drones makes it more likely that attacks will be launched.
- House of Lords
- Agriculture: Pesticides
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to prevent the contamination of surface water by water-soluble neonicotinoid pesticides.
- Agriculture: Pesticides
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides on bee colonies; and what action they are taking to eliminate the risk of bee colony...
- Apprenticeships
To ask Her Majesty's Government, for the latest year for which figures are available, how many people in England started an apprenticeship (1) before the age of 18, (2) between the ages of 18 and...
- Atos Healthcare
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the light of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance that "people with severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and myalgic...
- Banking
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the concentration of the banking sector in London; and whether they will take steps to encourage the development of regional banks.
- BBC: World Service
To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to releasing and reallocating Department for International Development funds to prevent the closure or reduction of BBC World...
- Bees
To ask Her Majesty's Government what research they are funding into the decline in bee numbers.
- Bees
To ask Her Majesty's Government what effect they forecast the decline in bee numbers will have on the price of food.
- Burma
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the Government of Burma's policies towards provision of humanitarian assistance and healthcare to minority ethnic nationalities in the...
- Cyprus
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Warsi on 7 November (WA 227) and 13 November (WA 274), when they last engaged in a review of the effectiveness and...
- Democratic Republic of Congo
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the security and humanitarian needs of the citizens living in Goma.
- Energy: Smart Meters
To ask Her Majesty's Government when a smart metering programme will be established.
- Equality Act 2010
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 22 November (WA 406-7), what are their reasonseb;normal;j for concluding that the repeal of...
- Equality Act 2010
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 22 November (WA 406-7), whether they will publish the responses to their consultations on (1) the...
- Equality Act 2010
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the Equality Act 2010 in eliminating sex discrimination in golf clubs.
- Food: Aspartame
To ask Her Majesty's Government when the University of Hull's study of aspartame was originally scheduled to finish; when it will be completed; why it has been delayed; how much funding was...
- Government Departments: Staff
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many staff currently employed in the legal department of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are (1) barristers, and (2) solicitors; and how...
- Government of Wales Act 2006
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost of challenging the competence of the National Assembly for Wales to enact the Local Government Byelaws (Wales) Bill; and whether, following the...
- Health: Controlled Trials
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the fact that selected results of the Pacing, graded Activity and Cognitive behaviour therapy: a randomised Evaluation trial were published in...
- Health: Mental Health
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was spent on psychological therapies in the National Health Service broken down by (1) modality or type of psychological therapy, and (2) region or...
- Health: Mental Health
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much has been spent on psychological therapies outside the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, broken down by (1) modality or type of...
- Internet: 4G Spectrum
To ask Her Majesty's Government why the 4G auction process has been delayed.
- Israel and Palestine: West Bank
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make representations to the Government of Israel for all existing residents of Area C of the West Bank to have adequate access to water supplies,...
- Legal Aid
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to tighten the rules to prevent known criminals from using legal aid in cases directly related to their crimes.
- Libraries: Volunteer-run Libraries
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment have they made of volunteer-run libraries. To ask Her Majesty's Government whether volunteer-run libraries are subject to the statutory public...
- Local Authorities: Art and Sculpture
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to safeguard art owned by local authorities, in the light of the decision by Tower Hamlets Council to sell the Henry Moore sculpture Draped...
- NHS: Clinical Commissioning Groups
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they plan to monitor performance against the duty on clinical commissioning groups to seek out and adopt best practice and to promote innovation.
- NHS: Procurement
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish the findings of the recent consultation on the NHS Procurement Strategy.
- Overseas Aid
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the effectiveness of the UK Aid programme supporting schools in Nigeria.
- Overseas Stability
To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Building Stability Overseas Strategy will be mainstreamed across Government.
- Overseas Stability
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have for further consultation on the Building Stability Overseas Strategy, including opportunities for debate and scrutiny of conflict prevention...
- Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the Libraries Act 1964.
- Railways: Fares
To ask Her Majesty's Government who is responsible for checking that railway fares conform with limits announced by the Government, in the light of the potential for manipulation within the fares...
- Railways: High Speed 2
To ask Her Majesty's Government when an announcement will be made on the preferred route of a high-speed rail link from Birmingham to Manchester.
- Railways: Intercity Express Trains
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Attlee on 29 November (WA 81), whether, when specifying the interior design of the proposed Intercity Express trains, they...
- Rights of Way
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the recent Ramblers report on the reduction of funding for rights of way in England, what discussions they intend to have with local authorities...
- Roads: Maintenance
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there is a regulation in place which specifies the standard of repairs to the highway which should be carried out after work by utilities is concluded; who...
- Schools: Funding
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to monitor and scrutinise the use of direct funding by individual academies to ensure value for money, high standards of financial management,...
- Schools: Sport
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Department of Health intends to introduce a wider healthy schools agenda as part of a sports legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- South Sudan
To ask Her Majesty's Government what provision has been made by the United Kingdom and the international community to support (1) community health workers in primary health care, and (2) primary...
- Sudan
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Multi-Donor Trust Fund in South Sudan has been withdrawn; and, if so, what alternative support will be provided to central government and local...
- Taxation: Corporation Tax
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Newby on 15 October (Official Report, col. 1251), whether they have now reached a decision on the devolution of responsibility for...
- Young Offenders: Mental Health
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to reduce the number of children and young people with mental health issues who are temporarily detained in police cells as a result of...
