Published: Thursday 17 October 2019

Questions tabled on Wednesday 16 October 2019

Includes questions tabled on earlier days which have been transferred. T Indicates a topical oral question. Members are selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question. † Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. N Indicates a question for written answer on a named day under S.O. No. 22(4). [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.

Questions for Answer on Thursday 17 October

Questions for Written Answer

1 (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 16 of the Government’s Civil Society Strategy, what steps the Inclusive Economy Unit has taken to follow up the recommendations from the Advisory Group on growing a culture of social impact investment in the UK. [Transferred] (678)

2 N Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Agricultural tenancy consultation and call for evidence on mortgage restrictions and repossession protections for agricultural land in , if the Government will widen the scope of the proposed changes to include all commercial property. [R] [Transferred] (297)

3 Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the Prime Minister's proposed EU exit deal, what assessment his Department has made of the economic effect on businesses in Northern Ireland of the imposition of checks on both the North-South and East- West border. [Transferred] (404)

4 Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of restoring Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile. [Transferred] (456) 2 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

5 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what policies are in place to ensure that staff of her Department based in Burma do not use Burmese military owned companies to provide goods and services. [Transferred] (707)

6 Mr Jonathan Lord (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support children in conflict zones throughout the world. [Transferred] (554)

7 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the BBC video report by journalist Frank Scott dated 13 October on three UK orphans in Syria, if she will take steps to return (a) those UK orphans and (b) other UK children in a similar position to the UK; and if she will make a statement. [Transferred] (585)

8 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the £77 million funding allocated to local authorities for the purpose of no deal preparations has been allocated to each local authority. [Transferred] (519)

9 N Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals against a refusal of an application for Section 4 support for refused asylum seekers were successful in the latest period for which figures are available. [Transferred] (79)

10 Faisal Rashid (Warrington South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to (a) prevent pension phone scams and (b) bring people who undertake pension phone scams to justice. [Transferred] (683)

11 Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government has taken to evaluate the potential effect of IR35 on the economic viability of businesses that rely on (a) seasonal and (b) demand-driven workforces. [Transferred] (450)

12 Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that SMEs are adequately prepared for IR35. [Transferred] (452)

Questions for Answer on Monday 21 October

Questions for Written Answer

1 Mr Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire): To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of requests to his Department in relation to a custodial sentence from people in Hampshire fall outside of the unduly lenient sentence scheme. (1073) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 3

2 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will amend the Crown Commercial Service energy frameworks for the supply of gas, electricity and liquid fuels to ensure energy is supplied from fully renewable sources whenever possible. (1011)

3 N Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library data on the number of homeless people (a) in receipt and (b) not in receipt of benefits that have died in each of the last five years. [Transferred] (426)

4 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 291409 on Census: Sikhs, what estimate he has made of the number of people among the 20 million who answered no religion or did not answer the optional religious question in the 2011 census who belong to the Sikh ethnic group. (1117)

5 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 8 October to Question 293725, until what date the objective of appointing a Chief Data Officer by 2020 applies. (1134)

6 Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to improve electoral accessibility for voters with blindness following the decision of the High Court on 3 May 2019. (1137)

7 Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings he has had with the RNIB since the 3 May 2019 decision of the High Court on electoral accessibility. (1138)

8 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 5 September 2019 to Question 284390, whether (a) his Department and (b) the GDS is monitoring the number and proportion of public sector computers transitioning from Windows 7 prior to the end of the support date. (1139)

9 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal wellbeing in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal wellbeing in the last 12 months. (904)

10 N Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has on the amount spent from the public purse on repairs and maintenance at No. 11 Downing Street in each of the last ten years. (1057) 4 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

11 N Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent from the public purse on repairs and maintenance at No. 10 Downing Street in each of the last ten years. (1058)

12 N Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the running costs of No.10 Downing Street have been in each of the last 10 years. (1059)

13 N Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of repairs to and maintenance of Admiralty House flats in each of the last 10 years. (1060)

14 N Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of running the Admiralty House flats in each of the last 10 years. (1061)

15 N (Ilford North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings each Cabinet committee has held since the Prime Minister took office. (1076)

16 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contingent workers have been hired through the Public Sector Resourcing framework since its creation. (888)

17 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had on the implementation of sustainable development goals in the last 12 months. (891)

18 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings officials in his Department have had on the implementation of sustainable development goals in the last 12 months. (892)

19 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 290776 on Rain Forests: Amazonia, what assessment her Department has made of recent trends in the level of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. (965)

20 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 2 October to Question 290776 on Rain Forests: Amazonia, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of the (a) degradation of carbon sinks and (b) deforestation in the Amazon rainforest on the timeframe for the UK's transition to a net-zero economy. (966)

21 N Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent representations her Department has received on the sale of fireworks to the general public. (1066) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 5

22 N Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential economic effect on the energy intensive industries to be included in its proposed UK emissions trading scheme. (1023)

23 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will make it her policy to introduce regulations comparable to EU right to repair regulations for appliances after the UK leaves the EU. (1012)

24 N Ms Lisa Forbes (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of the Thomas Cook employees who have been made redundant in each region of the UK. (1082)

25 N Ms Lisa Forbes (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will make new capital grant funding available to businesses in Peterborough to generate jobs after the collapse of Thomas Cook. (1083)

26 N Ms Lisa Forbes (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will take steps to help ensure that the site of the former Thomas Cook headquarters in Peterborough is used to generate future employment. (1084)

27 N Ms Lisa Forbes (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will provide former employees of Thomas Cook with (a) retraining opportunities and (b) loans to start new businesses. (1123)

28 N (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding her Department has allocated to the President of the 26th Conference of the Parties. (829)

29 N Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff her Department have recruited to prepare for the UK hosting of the 26th Conference of the Parties. (830)

30 N Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what objectives the Government has set for the UK Presidency of the 26th Conference of the Parties. (831)

31 N Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what her Department’s strategic priorities will be for the COP26 UN Climate Conference in 2020. (832)

32 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment has been made of the advantages and disadvantages of appointing the role of President of the COP26 UN Climate Conference external to the executive. (834) 6 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

33 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether she plans to establish an advisory board to support her Department’s preparations for hosting the 26th Conference of the Parties. (835)

34 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of hosting the 26th Conference of the Parties. (836)

35 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of accommodation in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of the Parties. (837)

36 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using cruise liners to provide accommodation for attendees at 26th Conference of the Parties in Glasgow. (838)

37 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether her Department plans to submit a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) which is separate from the EU's NDC to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as required by the Paris Agreement after the UK leaves the EU. (839)

38 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 3 October 2019 to Question 291066 on Collective Bargaining, whether she plans to encourage companies operating in the UK to ensure that workers in other countries in its supply chain are able to engage in collective bargaining. (1115)

39 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 3 October 2019 to Question 291050 on Living Wage, whether she plans to encourage companies operating in the UK to ensure that workers in other countries in its supply chain are paid a living wage. (1116)

40 Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring solar energy systems to be installed on all new dwellings. (1069)

41 N Sir David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when she plans to publish the eligibility criteria for companies seeking financial support as part of Operation Kingfisher; and if she will make a statement. (817) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 7

42 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the recent Cambridge University Bennett Institute for Public Policy report entitled Townscapes, The North East, if she will undertake an assessment of the ability of the two North East Local Enterprise Partnerships to tackle decline in North East towns. (987)

43 Faisal Rashid (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that restaurant staff receive 100 per cent of their tips. (1131)

44 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many mutual recognition agreements for professional qualifications (a) the UK has signed with EU member states and (b) plans to sign by 31 October 2019. [Transferred] (440)

45 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 14 September 2018 to Question 171303, what progress her Department has made in its Ageing Society Mission. (901)

46 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether her Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (905)

47 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps her Department is taking to help businesses make effective use of the Apprenticeship Levy funding. (1030)

48 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions officials of her Department has had with representatives of business organisations on funding for IT training to help meet the demand for skills in cyber security. (1031)

49 N Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many business transactions the Government has intervened in in the interests of national security since 2015. (823)

50 N Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which (a) goods and (b) services he Department has classified as vital for UK national security. (824)

51 N Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what screening of overseas companies her Department undertakes in relation to national security in advance of foreign direct investment by those companies. (825) 8 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

52 N Anna Turley (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on the local economy of his Department's decision to not support a finance package for Sirius Minerals' Woodsmith Mine project. [Transferred] (615)

53 N Anna Turley (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the cost to Sirius Minerals PLC of the decision by his Department not to support a finance package for that company's Woodsmith Mine project. [Transferred] (616)

54 N Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) sexism and (b) racism on Twitter. (937)

55 N Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Twitter's appeals process for people that have suffered abuse on Twitter. (938)

56 Eddie Hughes (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of remuneration for chief executives in the charity sector in the last five years. (1088)

57 N John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, where the Commonwealth Games 2022 preparatory camps for competitors will be located. (921)

58 Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce independent regulation of the media to protect individuals from invasive and unethical journalism. (934)

59 N Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential benefits to (a) partially sighted and (b) blind people of (i) e-readers and (ii) other digital reading materials; and what steps her Department is taking to increase access to those materials. (979)

60 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech at the UN on 24 September 2019, what (a) plans she has made and (b) public consultation she plans to conduct in relation to the Summit on Tech; and what steps she is taking to ensure that public opinion will be represented at that event. (1025)

61 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 292999 on Huawei: 5G, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to telecoms networks arising from the delay of a decision on Huawei's involvement in UK 5G. (1136) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 9

62 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies her department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (906)

63 N Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department will provide to the Information Commissioner’s Office to enforce the Age Appropriate Design Code once it takes effect. (931)

64 N Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she will take to encourage relevant online service providers to conform with Age Appropriate Design Code provisions. (932)

65 N Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will lay the Age Appropriate Design Code before Parliament before the end of 2019. (933)

66 N Tracy Brabin (Batley and Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Ofsted registered nurseries have been sold to new owners in each of the last 12 months. (1118)

67 N Tracy Brabin (Batley and Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Ofsted registered (a) nurseries and (b) childminders have closed for business in each of the last 12 months. (1120)

68 N Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to publish the names of the schools subject to the Asbestos Management Assurance Process. (1024)

69 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 290326 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if he will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason his Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1009)

70 N John Grogan (Keighley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the outcome of Ilkley Grammar School and the Moorland Trust's application to open a 1,000 place sixth form college under the Free School programme. (883)

71 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to expedite the development of a GCSE in British Sign Language. (872)

72 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will include data on children with disabilities in the school census. (873) 10 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

73 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department collects on the proportion of deaf young people who have completed A-levels. (874)

74 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce plans for the continued funding of the Adoption Support Fund; and if he will make a statement. (822)

75 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to remove all asbestos from schools. (985)

76 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will extend the pupil premium to post-16 education to support disadvantaged students in further education. (989)

77 Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will increase funding in further education colleges to the level of £5,000 per student. (990)

78 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 25 September 2019, Official Report, column 780, what the evidential basis is for the fiscal assessment that abolishing fee-paying schools would cost the public purse £7 billion. (1085)

79 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well- being in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the past 12 months. (907)

80 N Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of delaying the proposed introduction in 2020 of charges for Musical Instrument Certificates (MICs) where instruments contain Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)-listed materials. (924)

81 N Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to include transitional arrangements for CITES-listed materials in (a) any withdrawal agreement made with the EU and (b) in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (925)

82 Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the 12 week public consultation on trophy hunting imports will commence. (976)

83 Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the recommendations of the Bovine TB Strategy Review published in October 2018. (977) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 11

84 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to improve consumer education on using compostable packaging. (1000)

85 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will commit to the introduction and enforcement of European standards for compostable packaging in the UK. (1001)

86 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to reform the producer responsibility system for packaging to make composting recognised as a form of recycling. (1002)

87 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 290327 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if she will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason her Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1008)

88 N Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of cases heard by the Grocery Code Adjudicator (a) were successfully proven (b) were unsuccessfully proven and (c) dropped before a decision could be made in each years since the establishment of the Adjudicator. (860)

89 N Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to (a) remove biomass subsidies and (b) increase support more sustainable, environmentally-friendly alternatives. (929)

90 N Mr Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of trends in the annual value of pork exports to China since 2014. [Transferred] (754)

91 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to end the burning of (a) blanket bog and (b) the peat soils that blanket bog depends on. (1119)

92 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with the European Commission's infraction procedure relating to the EU Habitats Directive on the protection and management of blanket bogs in northern England Special Areas of Conservation. (1121)

93 N Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the risk of an outbreak of African swine fever in the UK; what steps the Government is taking to minimise that risk; and if he will make a statement. (918) 12 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

94 N Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he had with (a) the National Farmers' Union and (b) other relevant bodies before publishing the updated Code of Practice for the welfare of pigs; for what reason the Code applies to England only; and if he will make a statement. (919)

95 N Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that pork imports do not reach the UK from countries affected by African swine fever. (920)

96 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies her department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the past 12 months. (908)

97 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) advice and (b) guidance his Department has issued to agri-food (i) farmers and (b) producers in Northern Ireland on that industry. (1027)

98 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with representatives of field sports association on reducing the level of use of lead-shot through an increase in the use of steel-shot. (1032)

99 N Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will publish the names of the organisations that applied for a Brexit Readiness Grant; and how much was awarded to each successful applicant. (922)

100 N Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what advice he has given to UK-based musicians on transporting instruments into the EU in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (923)

101 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions he has had with Ministers in the Welsh Government on the potential effect of customs checks on trade across the Irish Sea. (1110)

102 (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions have taken place on the UK's continuing participation in Erasmus in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal. (1081)

103 N Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290329 and to the Answer on 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if he will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 13

switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason his Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1003)

104 N Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian effect of the escalation of military activity in Northern Syria; and what steps his Department is taking to help alleviate the humanitarian situation in that region. (853)

105 N Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access for humanitarian supplies in Northern Syria after the recent escalation of military activity in that region; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure humanitarian support is provided to people in that region. (854)

106 Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria; and what steps her Department is taking to support refugees within that camp. (855)

107 Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of reports by the (a) International Committee of the Red Cross and (b) Syrian Arab Red Crescent that Hassekeh city is at risk of running out of water as a result of damage to the main water station during the recent escalation in military conflict; and what steps will his Department take to ensure adequate water supplies to that region. (856)

108 N Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding he plans to allocate to the extension of the third rail electric train network. (947)

109 Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support visually impaired people through reducing street clutter. (974)

110 Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for the introduction of National Minimum Standards on disability awareness training for drivers of taxi and private hire vehicles. (978)

111 N Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 290331 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if he will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; for what reason his Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1007) 14 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

112 Paul Girvan (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason his Department has not encouraged the use of approved automated traffic cone machine, Conemaster, on the strategic road network. (1107)

113 Paul Girvan (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason Highways England has not responded to Jordan Products Ltd following the meeting of 21 June 2019 on Conemaster. (1108)

114 Mr Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 293525 on Bicycles: Electric Vehicles, what information his Department holds on the geographical distribution of the take up of those incentives; and which local authorities have made an application under that programme. (984)

115 N Mr Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what new steps he will take to support improving key roads that are not part of the Major Road Network, outside existing commitments. (1074)

116 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Highways England will bring forward further measures to tackle congestion on the A27 between Worthing and Shoreham; and if he will make a statement. (819)

117 N Rachel Maclean (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of delivering Midlands Connect. (1113)

118 N Rachel Maclean (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing free bus travel for people under 25. (1114)

119 N Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on the installation of audio visual equipment in buses. (861)

120 Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's policy paper, Rail network enhancements pipeline: autumn 2019 update, published on 16 October 2019, when he plans to publish the (a) timescales and (b) costs for the development of those schemes. (1053)

121 N Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the revenue received by train operating companies for all (a) cross-border rail travel between England and Wales in either direction and (b) cross-border rail travel between England and Scotland in either direction; and how many passenger rail journeys there were between (i) England and Wales in either direction and (ii) between England and Scotland in either direction in the last financial year. (1054) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 15

122 N Conor McGinn (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric car charging points there are in (a) St Helens, (b) the North West and (c) the UK. (1062)

123 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will abolish fees for the Blue Badge Scheme. (988)

124 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of vehicles that were assisted by Highways England after vehicular failure on a smart motorways in each of the last three years. (992)

125 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the average time taken for Highways England to provide assistance to motorists on smart motorways after vehicular failure. (993)

126 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents there have been on Smart motorways as a result of a change in the use of lanes in each of the last three years. (994)

127 Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding was provided by his Department through the Deeds of Amendment signed with London and South Eastern Railway Ltd in (a) December 2016 and (b) September 2017. (991)

128 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well- being in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the past 12 months. (909)

129 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on supporting manufacturers to increase the range of electric cars. (1035)

130 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to prevent the growth of knotweed along railway lines. (1040)

131 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the extension of eligibility criteria for the Blue Badge scheme on trends in the level of applications to that scheme. (1111)

132 Jack Brereton (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of reversing the roll-out of universal credit and returning to the previous system. (1124)

133 N Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 290333 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if she will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity 16 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason her Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1006)

134 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle high levels of unemployment among the deaf community. (880)

135 N Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a reduced rate bus pass for women born in the 1950s who have had their state pension age changed. (1112)

136 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of children who live in households in receipt of benefits who have one or more parent/guardian with a diagnosis of depression or anxiety. (902)

137 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 13 September 2018 to Question 171307, what steps her Department takes to monitor the personal wellbeing of claimants. (903)

138 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (910)

139 N Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in each of the last five years. (1046)

140 N Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting for a diagnostic test in NHS Trusts on 31 March in each year from 2011 to 2019. (1047)

141 N Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the national elective waiting list on 31 March in each year from 2011 to 2019. (1048)

142 N Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients waited more than six weeks for an endoscopy test in each year since 2010. (1049)

143 N Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients were seen within four hours in A&E in (a) 2018-19 and (b) each year since 2010. (1050)

144 N Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effect of anonymous (a) abuse and (b) threats made on Twitter on teenage mental health. (936) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 17

145 N Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase uptake of the flu vaccine by social care staff. (844)

146 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 7 March 2019 to Question 226643 on Women's Health Taskforce for England, on what dates the Women's Health Taskforce for England has met since February 2019; what the topics of discussion were at each meeting; whether the draft Terms of Reference for the Taskforce have been approved; and whether plans for information and involvement from (a) the Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy and (b) other campaign groups has been considered. (967)

147 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include outpatient hysteroscopy on the agenda of a future meeting of the Women's Health Taskforce for England. (968)

148 N Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on awarding social care contracts; and if he will make a statement. (881)

149 N Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on the level of fees charged by social care providers; and if he will make a statement. (882)

150 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to use technology to improve attendance at NHS cancer screenings. (868)

151 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make it easier for people who cannot take time off work to attend cancer screenings. (869)

152 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions officials in her Department have had with patient groups on the right of referral to research that NHS England committed to in The Implementation Framework: support offer published in June 2019. (1013)

153 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on compassionate use programmes that allow the use of an unauthorised medicine. (1014)

154 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 25 of the Government's strategy for tackling loneliness, published in October 2018, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of social prescribing since that strategy was published; and if he will make a statement. (1070) 18 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

155 Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) women and (b) men have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 within 24 hours of their release from prison in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. (1022)

156 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that every deaf child has access to an education, health and care plan. (875)

157 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the progress made in research and response to cystic fibrosis in the last five years. (876)

158 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that global pharmaceutical companies are required to prioritise patient access to drugs ahead of profit. (877)

159 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of reimbursement arrangements for Vertex Pharmaceuticals products for cystic fibrosis in (a) Australia, (b) Germany, and (c) Scotland. (878)

160 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of deaf children have access to radio aids to help them communicate in their early years. (879)

161 N Mr Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the research by the University of Bristol published on 16 September 2019 in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology; and whether he plans update his Department's guidance as a result of that research. (1075)

162 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reverse the fall in the number of health visitors. (820)

163 N Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the status is of the cross-Government working group on family support from conception to age two; and when the report of that working group will be published. (821)

164 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what cognisance NHS Improvement took of the oral contribution of the Minister for Health of 27 June 2018, Official Report, column 1002, on irregularities of process that had taken place including at NHS Improvement in respect of the appointment process for the Chair of the Blackpool Trust, Pearse Butler, when NHS Improvement provided advice to that Trust on the permanent Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 19

appointment of Kevin McGee as the Chief Executive of that Trust and to operate as Chief Executive of both the Blackpool Trust and the East Lancashire Hospitals Trust between June 2019 and September 2019. (893)

165 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Kevin McGee will receive fill-time salaries for his each of his positions as Chief Executive of Blackpool Trust and East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. (894)

166 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of women on low incomes born in the 1950s who have had their state pension age changed in (a) Blackpool, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West. (895)

167 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions Ministers in his Department have had with groups representing women born in the 1950s who have had their state pensions age changed as a result of the Pensions Act 2011 on options for those women to draw their pensions at a reduced rate at 64 years of age. (896)

168 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to help reduce the financial losses incurred by women on low incomes born in the 1950s who have had their state pension age changed. (897)

169 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 7 October to Question 293726, how many meetings Ministers or officials in his Department have held with Ministers or officials in the Cabinet Office on the National Data Strategy since that strategy was announced. (1132)

170 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 293726, how many meetings there have been between officials in his Department and officials in the Cabinet Office on the National Data Strategy over the last 12 months. (1133)

171 Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance on the duties of (a) statutory health providers and (b) local authorities in meeting the care needs of adults with autism. (1018)

172 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients referred to the Michael Rutter centre for obsessive–compulsive disorder at the Maudsley Hospital from each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each of the last 10 years. (898)

173 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) adults and (b) children who suffer with obsessive compulsive disorder in each (i) nation and (ii) region of the UK. (899) 20 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

174 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which clinical commissioning groups in England have implemented the NICE guidelines for obsessive compulsive disorder. (900)

175 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (911)

176 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to ensure the adequacy of the provision of essential medicines in the event that the UK leaves the EU on 31 October 20109. (1028)

177 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the new minimally invasive hip replacement operation will be available on the NHS. (1034)

178 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what programmes are in place to support people with addictions. (1036)

179 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he holds statistics on the number of people in the UK who suffer from chronic migraine which affects their quality of life. (1037)

180 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of stem cell therapy treatment to restore sight. (1038)

181 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle addiction to prescription drugs. (1039)

182 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of specialist prostate care (a) nurses and (b) doctors in the NHS. (1041)

183 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have psoriasis. (1042)

184 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the diagnostic rate has been of each type of leukaemia in each of the last five years. (1043)

185 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to make pyeloplasty for kidney blockages available through the NHS. (1045)

186 N Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make clinical commissioning groups in north-west London financially sustainable; and if he will make a statement. (857) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 21

187 N Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken since the July 2019 publication of the Clinical Advisory Panel's review of cancer services at Mount Vernon; and if he will make a statement. (858)

188 N (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England will take to record patient experience at trusts participating in the field test programme for the elective care standards proposed in the interim review of clinically-led access standards. (845)

189 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England will consult patients on changes to waiting time standards arising from the field test programme for the elective care standards proposed in the interim review of clinically-led access standards. (846)

190 Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to make representations to his Emirati counterpart on (a) recent reports that Ahmed Mansoor has been tortured in al-Sadr prison and (b) Ahmed Mansoor's right to access to healthcare during his hunger strike under UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. (859)

191 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question HL17757 on China: Prisoners, if he will publish the evidence relating to organ harvesting in the People’s Republic of China provided to his Department by (a) the World Health Organisation and (b) other international organisations. (962)

192 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question HL17757 on China: Prisoners, when his Department held its most recent consultation relating to organ harvesting in the People’s Republic of China with (a) the World Health Organisation and (b) other international organisations. (963)

193 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 3 September 2019 to Question 281598 on Organs, what steps the Government plans to take in response to reports of (a) the mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners and (b) abuses taking place within China’s transplant system. (964)

194 N Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter to the Prime Minister of 12 September 2019 from the hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield and other hon. Members and Peers on Prime Minister Netanyahu's announcement that he intends to annex the Jordan Valley to Israel. [Transferred] (420)

195 N Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 290335 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if he will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and 22 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason his Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1005)

196 N Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many full time equivalent staff worked on climate change and energy in (a) his Department's UK-based offices and (b) embassies, high commissions and other overseas posts in each year from and including 2010 to 2019. (833)

197 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what executive authority the President of the 26th Conference of the Parties, UN Climate Conference will have over staff within the his Department that are working on climate diplomacy. (840)

198 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment has been made of the energy and climate change policy staffing resources his Department requires to host the COP26 UN Climate Conference in 2020. (841)

199 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings officials in his Department have had with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat on the UK hosting the 26th Conference of the Parties. (842)

200 Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether an invitation has been extended to the UNFCCC Secretariat for them to visit the UK as part of a fact-finding mission prior to hosting the COP26 UN Climate Conference in 2020. (843)

201 Stephen Gethins (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has undertaken an assessment of the adequacy of the evidence available for the purpose of taking a case to the International Court of Justice on the ground that the situation in Burma represents a violation of the UN genocide convention. (1056)

202 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of British children trapped in north east Syria. (1109)

203 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Government has to evacuate British children and their mothers from north east Syria. (1141)

204 N Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to repatriate the mothers of British children trapped in north east Syria. (1142) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 23

205 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for International Development on the repatriation of British children from north east Syria. (1143)

206 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with Kurdish authorities on the evacuation of British children from north east Syria. (1144)

207 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he will discuss human rights concerns with his Bahraini counterpart during the joint Working Group between Bahrain and the UK on 17 October 2019. (1149)

208 Eddie Hughes (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 292977 on Persecution of Christians Across the Globe Independent Review; on what date he plans to hold the Cabinet discussion of Freedom of Religion or Belief. (1089)

209 Eddie Hughes (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 30 September 2019 to Question 291141 on Persecution of Christians Across the Globe Independent Review, what the timescale is for his Department to implement the recommendations of the Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians. (1091)

210 Dr (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the recognition of Kosovo as a sovereign state. (1078)

211 Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the recognition of Kosovo as a sovereign state in (a) the EU and (b) other major international bodies. (1079)

212 Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) diplomatic and (b) economic steps the Government plans to take to encourage the Turkish Government to stop its military incursion in territory in Syria controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces; and if the Government will suspend existing licences for arms exports to Turkey until that military incursion is ended. (1064)

213 Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Indian counterpart on the restoration of the autonomy of Kashmir and Jammu; and what pressure the Government will apply to encourage an end to the violation of human rights in that region. (1065) 24 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

214 Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Hong Kong counterparts on the use of excessive police force against protesters. (935)

215 N Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to evacuate all British children trapped in north east Syria. (980)

216 N Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions his officials have had with representatives of regional authorities in north east Syria on the (a) evacuation and (b) repatriation of British children. (981)

217 Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans his Department has to repatriate British children residing in north east Syria. (982)

218 Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions has he had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the repatriation of British children residing in north east Syria. (983)

219 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent from the Continuity of Education Allowance on placements at (a) Eton, (b) Charterhouse, (c) Harrow, (d) Rugby, (e) Shrewsbury, (f) Westminster, (g) Winchester, (h) St Paul's and (i) Merchant Taylors schools in the last financial year for which data is available. (1130)

220 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Uganda has abandoned plans to re-introduce an anti-homosexuality Bill imposing the death penalty on homosexuals. (1125)

221 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take in response to reports that the Ugandan Government plans to re-introduce a Bill imposing the death penalty on homosexuals. (1126)

222 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the UK has made to the Ugandan Government on reports that it will re-introduce a Bill imposing the death penalty on homosexuals. (1127)

223 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to safeguard British citizens who identify as LGBT+ who are working and travelling in Uganda following reports that that country's Government plans to re-introduce a Bill imposing the death penalty on homosexuals. (1128) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 25

224 N Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the provision of essential healthcare and mental healthcare for unaccompanied minors in Greece. [Transferred] (418)

225 N Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has had made to his Ugandan counterpart on the proposed legislation in that country to impose the death penalty as a punishment for gay sex. (851)

226 N Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps the Government is taking to improve human rights in Uganda. (852)

227 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment the Government has made as pen holder of UN Security Council Resolution 2487 of the implications for its policies of Colombia’s Interchurch Commission of Justice and Peace report that (a) non-state armed groups continue to operate freely in Colombia and (b) that operation is a breach of the 2016 peace agreement. (1101)

228 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Spanish counterpart on the (a) general and (b) police response to pro- independence demonstrations in Catalonia. (1135)

229 N Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Israeli Government on conducting a criminal investigation into the alleged shooting by the Israeli Defence Force of a 9 year old Palestinian boy, Abd a-Rahman a-Shteiwi on 12 July 2019. (1015)

230 Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect on international student numbers of the decision to restrict UK student visas for foreign graduates to four months after completion of their studies. (826)

231 Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision has been made for international students (a) studying and (b) recently graduated that are resident on their student visa since the previous restriction was made in 2012 who are not currently entitled to remain for two years after graduation to find a job. (827)

232 Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to enable (a) current students and (b) recently graduated students still resident on their student visa to remain for two years after graduation in order to find a job. (828) 26 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

233 Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 8 October 2019 to Question 284692 on Offences against Children, whether the national strategy on child sexual abuse will be published this year. (1051)

234 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to update the research on what steps firefighters should take when facing a fire since the Grenfell Tower fire. (870)

235 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Government's policies on homicide prevention. (995)

236 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential (a) merits and (b) feasibility of making video recording standard practice across all investigation stages of a crime. (997)

237 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to make it a requirement for police forces to adhere to a structured interview protocol. (998)

238 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the accuracy of different facial composite methods and the subsequent effect on conviction rates. (999)

239 N (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to keep the issue of anti-abortion clinic protests under review. (1140)

240 N Anneliese Dodds (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of anti- abortion clinic protests on healthcare professionals, and whether this assessment informed the anti-abortion clinic protest review. (1145)

241 N Anneliese Dodds (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effect of anti-abortion protest activity outside clinics on women’s human rights in light of the recent Court of Appeal ruling on the buffer zone around a Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing. (1146)

242 N Anneliese Dodds (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to continue monitoring anti-abortion clinic protests. (1147)

243 N Peter Grant (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for International Development of 2 October 2019, Official Report column 1205, when she plans to Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 27

(a) publish the timescale for informing local authority and civil society partners of and (b) begin supporting those organisations to prepare for that commitment to resettle 5,000 refugees every year post-2020. (1068)

244 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions (a) she and (b) officials in her Department have had with the Metropolitan Police on (i) the ban on Extinction Rebellion protests in London, (ii) Police identity checks on people walking across Lambeth Bridge and (iii) the stop and search of people wearing Extinction Rebellion stickers before the implementation of those powers; and if she will make a statement. (971)

245 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to return British nationals detained in Syria to the UK; and if she will make a statement. (972)

246 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of level of risk to UK nationals detained in Syria and sent for trial in Iraq of (a) torture and (b) the death penalty; if she will make it her policy to oppose the transfer of any UK detainees from Syria to Iraq for trial; and if she will make a statement. (973)

247 N Conor McGinn (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers from each police force are assigned to the policing operations for (a) Extinction Rebellion protests and (b) protests connected to the UK leaving the EU; and what estimate she has made of the cost of those operations. (1063)

248 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (913)

249 N Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will publish details on the application outcomes of the EU Settlement Scheme at a (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency level. (848)

250 N Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will provide data by age on the number of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme at a (a) regional, (b) local authority and (c) parliamentary constituency level. (849)

251 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with her Spanish counterpart on the potential mutual benefits of short term visa free travel for the purposes of tourism. (1029)

252 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to tackle anti-social behaviour. (1033) 28 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

253 N Ruth Smeeth (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the frequency of requirements for asylum claimants to attend a centre are not excessively (a) burdensome and (b) expensive for people more than five miles away from such a centre. (1077)

254 N Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK plans to undertake medical evacuations of critically ill children in Greece whose access to adequate and timely healthcare services in that country is obstructed by their migrant status. [Transferred] (417)

255 N Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Greek counterpart on that Governments policy to contain people on Greek islands in the Aegean sea following reports of (a) inhumane living conditions, (b) generalised insecurity and (c) inadequate provision of essential healthcare and mental healthcare services for children and unaccompanied minors on those islands. (850)

256 Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to support veterans through (a) housing and (b) mental health services. (975)

257 N Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to the new Office for Veterans Affairs. (930)

258 Gillian Keegan (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will (a) undertake a review of the building quality at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island and (b) outline plans to ensure accommodation for serving service personnel is well maintained. (1100)

259 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent from the Continuity of Education Allowance on placements at (a) Eton, (b) Charterhouse, (c) Harrow, (d) Rugby, (e) Shrewsbury, (f) Westminster, (g) Winchester, (h) St Paul's and (i) Merchant Taylors in the last financial year for which data is available. (1129)

260 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (914)

261 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many referrals there were for (a) rough sleepers and (b) people experiencing other forms of homelessness by (i) local authorities and (ii) local authority children’s services to the national referral mechanism in each of the last three years. (969) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 29

262 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the (a) adequacy and (b) consistency of (i) local authority and (ii) local authority children’s service referrals to the National Referral Mechanism in relation to the estimates of modern slavery prevalence among rough sleepers in the 15 October 2019 Hestia report Underground Lives: Homelessness and Modern Slavery in London. (970)

263 Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effectiveness of implementing the recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life report entitled Local Government Ethical Standards. (1052)

264 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the reliability of algorithms used by local authorities to help make welfare decisions. (867)

265 (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to extend automatic priority need for housing to survivors of domestic abuse. (1148)

266 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 291003 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if he will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason his Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1010)

267 N John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 9 September 2019 to Question 282187, if he will publish the resource DEL budgets of each work area under the Strategic Objective SO1, Programme Area Building Affordable Homes. (884)

268 N John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's document entitled, Main Estimate 2019-20: Estimates Memorandum, if he will publish the (a) component parts and (b) allocations for the £5,664 million allocated to ring-fenced Capital DEL. (885)

269 N John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in HM Treasury on the future of the Affordable Homes Programme, ahead of the Budget on 6 November 2019. (886) 30 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

270 N (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217590 on Buildings: Insulation, if he will publish the (a) results of the bespoke testing programme or (b) date when the results will be published. (1102)

271 N Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the expert advisory panel on building safety on revising Advice Note 14 following the increase in unsalable properties in tower blocks. (1103)

272 N Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to extend the ban on combustible materials on tower blocks to (a) hospitals, (b) care homes, (c) sheltered housing and (d) other high-risk buildings. (1104)

273 N Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many buildings have received funding from the Government’s £200 million private sector ACM cladding remediation fund. (1105)

274 N Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of remediation of social sector tower blocks with high-pressure laminate cladding and insulation combinations found to be unsafe by the independent expert advisory panel on building safety. (1106)

275 N Sir David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letters of the 11 June, 3 July and 20 August 2019 from the Rt hon. Member for Aylesbury on the Bucks Local Enterprise Partnership Review. (816)

276 Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what he took the decision to roll local welfare assistance funding into revenue support grant; and what assessment his Department has made of the level of funding required to provide financial assistance to people in financial crisis. (863)

277 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on the use of advertisements on their websites. (1026)

278 Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the private rented sector. (927)

279 Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the regulation of leasehold properties. (928) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 31

280 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal wellbeing in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (915)

281 N Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on pet owners of the implementation of the Tenant Fees Act 2019. (1016)

282 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Solicitors Regulation Authority has a code of conduct for its staff working in the (a) the Investigation and Supervision Unit, (b) Forensic Investigation Unit and (c) Legal and Enforcement Unit. (957)

283 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will ask the Legal Services Board to initiate a review of the consistency of Solicitors Regulation Authority decision-making in relation to (a) supervision, (b) investigations and (c) enforcement in connection with (i) sole practitioners and (ii) firms with no more than four partners, members or directors and which have an annual turnover of no more than £400,000. (958)

284 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. (959)

285 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what key performance indicators exist for staff within the (a) investigation and supervision, (b) forensic investigation and (c) legal and enforcement units of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. (960)

286 Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the data on supervision and enforcement outcomes on page 39 of the Solicitors Regulation Authority Annual Report 2017-19, published on 23 May 2019, if he will make an assessment of the value for money represented by the recent exercise of the investigation and enforcement functions of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. (961)

287 N Richard Burgon (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department’s press release, £100 million crackdown on crime in prison, published on 13 August 2019, what the previously announced £70 million to increase security and stability in prisons was spent on. (1071)

288 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the adequacy of witness testimony. (996)

289 N Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 291004 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if he will introduce the same policy as the 32 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason his Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources. (1004)

290 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) fathers and (b) mothers in prison who have children under the age of 18. (949)

291 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) men and (b) women were released on Childcare resettlement licence in the latest year for which information is available. (950)

292 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of pre-sentence reports have recommended immediate custody for (a) men and (b) women in Crown courts in each of the last three years. (951)

293 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time served in prison by (a) men and (b) women on mandatory life sentences was for those who were released from prison in each of the last five years. (952)

294 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time served in prison by (a) men and (b) women sentenced for murder was for those who were released from prison in each of the last five years. (953)

295 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of eligible (a) men and (b) women were released on home detention curfew in each of the last three years. (954)

296 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of all determinate custodial sentences handed down to (a) men and (b) women were served in prison. (955)

297 Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many overseas drivers have been prosecuted for committing the offence of speeding on UK roads between August 2018 and August 2019. (818)

298 Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many pregnant women have been transported in prisoner transport vehicles in each of the last three years. (1019)

299 Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions women and men have been transported together in prisoner transport vehicles in each of the last three years. (1020)

300 Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to delay the start of a custodial sentence for pregnant women and new mothers until a place in a mother and baby unit has been made available to them. (1021) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 33

301 Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders on licence after fixed-term recall (a) re-offended and (b) breached their licence conditions and were recalled for a fixed term again in each of the last five years. (939)

302 Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of recalls to prison resulted in (a) fixed-term recall and (b) standard recall in the latest period for which figures are available. (940)

303 Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of sentence served by people convicted of murder was in each of the last five years. (941)

304 N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving suspended sentences were made subject to an electronic monitoring condition, broken down by offence; and on how many occasions was that condition breached in each of the last five years. (942)

305 N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 20 June 2019 to Question 267275 on Offenders: Electronic Tagging, how many events were classed as formal breaches requiring further action. (943)

306 N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 03 October 2019 to Question 292174 on Re-offenders: Homicide, how many offenders under statutory supervision have been charged with serious further offences, broken down by offence, in each of the last five years. (944)

307 N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 3 October to Question 292174 on Re-offenders: Homicide and the Answer of 28 June 2019 to Question 267272 on Homicide, for what reason the figures on the number of offenders convicted of murder, who at the time they committed the offence were being supervised on a life licence between 2016 and 2018 are different from the figures for offenders released from a life sentence for murder who went on to commit another murder while on life licence in the same period. (945)

308 N Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 3 October 2019 to Question 292174 on Re-offenders: Homicide, how many lifers on licence have been subsequently returned to prison on (a) fixed term recall and (b) standard recall. (946)

309 Mr Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to make whole-life orders mandatory when sentencing people found guilty of the murder of a child; and how many child murderers were released into Hampshire in the last 10 years. (1072) 34 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

310 N Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 4 October 2019 to Question 290625 on Sentencing, what steps his Department plans to take to alleviate overcrowding in prisons whilst implementing recently announced sentencing reforms. (866)

311 Faisal Rashid (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of voter ID fraud in the last twelve months. (1086)

312 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department uses ONS estimates of personal wellbeing in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (916)

313 N Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 2 September 2019 to Question 284794 on Probate: Computer Software, what steps he is taking to ensure applicants can give feedback on their satisfaction with the probate application process after a grant has been issued. (1080)

314 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of illegally importing firearms into the UK in each of the last five years. (1044)

315 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated completion date is for the Criminal Justice System Common Platform programme. (889)

316 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated total cost is of the Criminal Justice System Common Platform programme. (890)

317 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statement by the Irish Taoiseach on 15 October 2019 that British citizenship laws are out of step with the Good Friday Agreement. (1087)

318 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the supply and confidence agreement arrangement between the Government and the Democratic Unionist Party on the Government's discussions with other political parties in Northern Ireland. (1090)

319 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the SDLP. (1092)

320 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of Sinn Fein. (1093)

321 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. (1094) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 35

322 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Green Party of Northern Ireland. (1095)

323 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met the leadership of the Ulster Unionist party. (1096)

324 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to (a) reform abortion laws and (b) extend same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland. (1097)

325 Ruth Jones (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has met with the (a) families of the victims of (i) the events in Ballymurphy in August 1971 and (ii) Bloody Sunday and (b) other victims’ families and groups, to discuss proposals for a statute of limitations. (1098)

326 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will (a) make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Cambridge University Bennett Institute for Public Policy report entitled Townscapes: The North East and (b) reintroduce the position of Minister for the North East to tackle the decline in North East towns referred to in that report. (986)

327 N Ben Bradley (Mansfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of making personal social care free at the point of use for all people aged over 65. (1099)

328 N Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to ensure (a) the continued validity of UK-issued A1 certificates or (b) that freelance workers are exempted from social security contributions for work undertaken in the EU27 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (926)

329 N Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that people are able to obtain their money from free-to-use ATMs throughout the country. (1067)

330 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposals of the trustees of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme to guarantee beneficiaries bonuses. (956)

331 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received on the loyalty penalty in the mortgage market; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (435)

332 Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Financial Conduct Authority's consultation entitled, CP19/22: Restricting the sale to retail clients of investment products that reference cryptoassets, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the majority of investors in Exchange Traded Notes which reference cryptoassets were likely to suffer a loss over the long-term. (948) 36 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

333 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the UK remains in alignment with the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive after the UK leaves the EU. (1055)

334 Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reduce pool betting duty from 15 per cent to 10 per cent. (871)

335 N John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will announce the funding for the next phase of the Affordable Homes Programme. (887)

336 John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the economy of reducing the working week to 32 hours. (1122)

337 N Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 292823, whether the budget for the Money and Pensions Service in 2019-20 is 125.6 million; and what comparative assessment he has made of that budget with the combined budget for the Money Advice Service, the Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise in each of the five years up to and including 2018-19. (862)

338 Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 293443, on Public Sector: Redundancy Pay, what recourse is available to public servants who have not had the waiver system applied to their exit payment and wish to challenge that decision. (864)

339 Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 293443 on Public Sector: Redundancy Pay, how that waiver system will operate; and if he will make a statement. (865)

340 N Stephen McPartland (Stevenage): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 30 September to Question 291404, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of local authorities using LLPs to avoid corporation tax on commercial activity. (1017)

341 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (912)

342 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether child benefit is paid for children who are UK citizens but whose parents have no recourse to public funds; and if he will make a statement. (847) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 37

343 Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether his Department uses ONS estimates of personal wellbeing in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months. (917)

Questions for Answer on Tuesday 22 October

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

1 Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): What guidance her Department has issued to businesses to help them make more effective use of the Apprenticeship Levy. (900035)

2 David Hanson (Delyn): What recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of executive pay. (900036)

3 Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): What steps her Department is taking to help businesses realise the potential benefits to their organisation of the Apprenticeship Levy. (900037)

4 Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the potential benefits of High Speed Two to businesses in the north. (900038)

5 Lee Rowley (North East Derbyshire): What steps her Department is taking to review the regulation of hydraulic fracturing. (900039)

6 Anne Milton (Guildford): What guidance her Department has issued to businesses to help them make more effective use of the Apprenticeship Levy. (900040)

7 Faisal Rashid (Warrington South): What recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of workplace access rights for trades unions. (900041)

8 Gareth Johnson (Dartford): What recent steps she has taken to support businesses in Dartford constituency. (900042)

9 Karen Lee (Lincoln): What assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of changes to VAT for solar on the uptake of photovoltaic and battery storage systems. (900043)

10 Giles Watling (Clacton): What steps she is taking to enable more women to establish businesses. (900044)

11 James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): What support her Department is providing to the offshore wind industry. (900045)

12 Mr William Wragg (Hazel Grove): What steps her Department is taking to support hydro-electric power generation. (900046) 38 Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019

13 Eddie Hughes (Walsall North): What steps she has taken to ensure that new mothers can participate in the workplace. (900047)

14 Mark Pawsey (Rugby): What support her Department is providing for the development of electric vehicle technology. (900048)

15 Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): What steps she plans to take to ensure that the majority of energy generated in the UK is from renewable sources. (900049)

16 Phil Wilson (Sedgefield): What recent assessment she has made of the effect on manufacturing industry of the UK leaving the EU. (900050)

17 Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole): What steps she is taking to support the development of new clean-energy technologies. (900051)

18 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): What steps her Department is taking to help tackle the climate emergency. (900052)

19 Paul Masterton (East Renfrewshire): What steps she is taking to help ensure the viability of the post office branch network in East Renfrewshire. (900053)

20 Frank Field (Birkenhead): What steps the Government is taking to maintain universal access to cash throughout the post office network. (900054)

21 Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West): What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Scotland on support for onshore wind. (900055)

22 Greg Hands (Chelsea and Fulham): What steps she is taking to support exports from the offshore wind sector. (900056)

23 Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What recent steps she has taken to support businesses in South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency. (900057)

24 Liz Twist (Blaydon): What steps she is taking to help ensure the sustainability of the post office network. (900058)

25 Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West): What support she is providing to businesses in Scotland to prepare for the UK leaving the EU. (900059)

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

T 1 Julian Sturdy (York Outer): If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities. (900060)

T 2 Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): (900061)

T 3 Liz Twist (Blaydon): (900062)

T 4 Karen Lee (Lincoln): (900063) Published: Thursday 17 October 2019 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Wednesday 16 October 2019 39

T 5 Christian Matheson (City of Chester): (900064)

T 6 Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): (900065)

T 7 Jessica Morden (Newport East): (900066)

T 8 (Kensington): (900067)

T 9 Vicky Ford (Chelmsford): (900068)

T 10 Douglas Ross (Moray): (900069)