Daily Report Wednesday, 2 March 2016 CONTENTS
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Daily Report Wednesday, 2 March 2016 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 2 March 2016 and the information is correct at the time of publication (07:05 P.M., 02 March 2016). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 6 Students: EU Nationals 13 ATTORNEY GENERAL 6 Trade Promotion: South West 14 Harassment: Prosecutions 6 Transatlantic Trade and BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND Investment Partnership 14 SKILLS 6 UK Membership of EU: ACAS: Telephone Services 6 Referendums 16 Apprentices 7 CABINET OFFICE 16 Apprentices: Finance 7 Cabinet Office: Senior Civil Servants 16 Apprentices: Publicity 8 Cabinet Office: UK Membership Apprentices: Taxation 8 of EU 17 Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia 9 Department for Transport: Business: Advisory Services 10 Senior Civil Servants 17 Department for Business, Electoral Fraud Review 17 Innovation and Skills: Ministerial Employment 18 Policy Advisers 10 Lobbying 18 Employment: Telephone Services 10 Ministerial Policy Advisers: Part- time Employment 18 Heating 11 Ministers' Private Offices: Institute of Apprenticeships: Temporary Employment 19 Costs 11 Prime Minister: Pay 19 Iron and Steel 11 TREASURY 19 Manufacturing Industries 12 Airbnb: Payments 19 Manufacturing Industries: Apprentices 12 Gin 20 Minimum Wage: Enforcement 13 Infrastructure: Capital Investment 20 Overseas Aid 13 Pensions: Lump Sum Payments 20 2 Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Daily Report Regional Planning and DEFENCE 32 Development: North of England 21 Arms Trade 32 Transport: North of England 21 Clyde Naval Base 33 Treasury: Health 21 Clyde Naval Base: Infrastructure 33 COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL Military Aircraft 33 GOVERNMENT 22 Military Attachés 34 Communities and Local Government: Health 22 Ministry of Defence: Documents 34 Communities and Local Ministry of Defence: Email 35 Government: Ministerial Policy Ministry of Defence: UK Advisers 22 Membership of EU 35 Communities and Local Nuclear Power: Accidents 35 Government: Publications 22 Reserve Forces: Finance 36 Community Land Trusts 23 Trident Submarines 36 Homelessness 23 Type 45 Destroyers 36 Housing: Disability 24 EDUCATION 37 Lobbying 26 Academies: Redundancy Pay 37 Planning Permission 26 Department for Education: Planning Permission: Appeals 27 Health 37 Property Development: Floods 28 Department for Education: Refugees: Syria 29 Ministerial Policy Advisers 38 Sunday Trading 29 Department for Education: UK Membership of EU 38 Tenancy Deposit Schemes 29 Education: Standards 38 Tenants' Associations 30 Extracurricular Activities 39 CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT 30 Schools: Musical Instruments 39 British Film Institute 30 ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE 40 Broadband 30 Fuel Poverty: Children 40 Broadcasting Programmes: Disability 31 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS 40 Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Employment Animal Welfare: Trapping 40 Tribunals Service 31 Clean Air Zones: Finance 41 Gambling 31 Department for Environment, Public Holidays 32 Food and Rural Affairs: Consultants 41 World War I: Anniversaries 32 Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Daily Report 3 Department for Environment, HEALTH 50 Food and Rural Affairs: Ambulance Services: Migrant Ministerial Policy Advisers 41 Workers 50 Department for Environment, Cancer: Clinical Trials 50 Food and Rural Affairs: Overseas Aid 41 Care Homes: Fees and Charges 50 Department for Environment, Colorectal Cancer: Drugs 51 Food and Rural Affairs: Department of Health: Cleaning Overtime 42 Services 51 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH Department of Health: OFFICE 43 Publications 51 Al-Qaeda 43 Doctors: Working Hours 51 China: Foreign Relations 43 East Midlands Ambulance China: Overseas Trade 43 Service NHS Trust: Resignations 52 European Council 44 Health Services: Foreign Nationals 52 Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Health 44 Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment 52 Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Ministerial Policy Junior Doctors: Pay 53 Advisers 45 Junior Doctors: Working Hours 53 Foreign and Commonwealth Lyme Disease 55 Office: Visits Abroad 45 Meningitis: Vaccination 55 Hungary: Immigration 45 Mental Health Services 56 Israel: Christianity 45 Mental Health Services: Israel: Palestinians 46 Children and Young People 57 Middle East: Refugees 46 Mental Health Task Force 58 Occupied Territories 47 Mental Hospitals: Baby Care Overseas Aid 47 Units 59 Papua: Non-governmental Neurology 59 Organisations 48 Pharmacy 59 Papua: Press Freedom 48 Social Services: Living Wage 60 Romania: Mass Media 48 Streptococcus 61 Saudi Arabia: Arms Trade 49 Suicide 61 Syria 49 HOME OFFICE 62 Turkey: Kurds 49 Animal Experiments: Inspections 62 Animal Experiments: Licensing 62 4 Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Daily Report Asylum: Housing 63 LEADER OF THE HOUSE 70 Home Office: Consultants 63 Leader of the House of Home Office: Ministerial Policy Commons: Ministerial Policy Advisors 64 Advisers 70 Home Office: Overtime 64 NORTHERN IRELAND 71 Human Trafficking 64 Northern Ireland Office: Cleaning Services 71 National Wildlife Crime Unit 65 Northern Ireland Office: Nature Conservation: Crime 65 Ministerial Policy Advisors 71 Vetting: Greater London 65 Organised Crime: Northern INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 66 Ireland 71 Afghanistan: Economic Terrorism: Northern Ireland 71 Situation 66 Trade: Ireland 72 Department for International TRANSPORT 72 Development: Cleaning Services 66 A282 72 Department for International Development: Consultants 66 Air Traffic Control 72 Department for International China: Transport 73 Development: Employment Department for Transport: Tribunals Service 67 Health 73 Department for International Department for Transport: Development: UK Membership Ministerial Policy Advisers 73 of EU 67 Department for Transport: Jordan: Overseas Aid 67 Ministerial Policy Advisors 73 Overseas Aid 67 Department for Transport: JUSTICE 68 Overseas Aid 74 Custodial Treatment: Drugs 68 Highways Agency and Network Rail: Taxis 74 Ministry of Justice: Employment Tribunals Service 68 London City Airport 74 Ministry of Justice: Health 68 London Underground: Safety 75 Missing Persons: Guardianship 69 M6 76 Pathology: Staff 69 Military Aircraft: Air Misses 76 Prisoners' Release 69 Network Rail: Infrastructure 77 Prisoners: Compensation 69 Network Rail: Land 77 Prisons: Overcrowding 70 Railways: Fares 78 Surrogate Motherhood 70 Railways: Franchises 78 Railways: Safety 78 Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Daily Report 5 Railways: South of England 79 National Insurance Railways: Staff 79 Contributions 84 Railways: WiFi 79 New Enterprise Allowance 84 Regional Airports: Finance 79 Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations 84 River Thames: Bridges 80 Social Security Benefits: Mental Roads: Litter 81 Health 85 Rolling Stock 81 State Retirement Pensions: Taxis: Greater London 81 British Nationals Abroad 85 Transport: Mental Health 82 State Retirement Pensions: Transport: Trade Unions 82 Females 86 WOMEN AND EQUALITIES 82 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 87 Education: Equality 82 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS 87 WORK AND PENSIONS 83 Correction to Oral Department for Work and Parliamentary Question 87 Pensions: Health 83 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH Employment and Support OFFICE 87 Allowance 83 European Union 87 Notes: Questions marked thus [R] indicate that a relevant interest has been declared. Questions with identification numbers of 900000 or greater indicate that the question was originally tabled as an oral question and has since been unstarred. 6 Daily Report Wednesday, 2 March 2016 ANSWERS ANSWERS ATTORNEY GENERAL Harassment: Prosecutions Luciana Berger: [28427] To ask the Attorney General, what account the CPS takes of mental health conditions when deciding whether to prosecute people under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. Robert Buckland: The Crown Prosecution Service is committed to taking into account the mental health condition of an offender when considering bringing a prosecution. Each case is considered on its merits, taking into account all available information about any mental health issues, and their relevance to the offence, in accordance with the principles set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors (the Code). The Code explains that there is a balance to be struck between the public interest in diverting a defendant with significant mental illness from the criminal justice system and other public interest factors in favour of prosecution, including the need to safeguard the public. BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS ACAS: Telephone Services Paul Blomfield: [28163] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2016 to Question 25610, how many national minimum wage enquiries were made to (a) the Pay and Work Rights Helpline and (b) Acas between 2009-10 and 2014-15 by (i) domiciliary and (ii) residential care workers. Paul Blomfield: [28164] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2016 to Question 25610, how many national minimum wage enquiries relating to non-payment or deductions were made to (a) the Pay and Work Rights Helpline and (b) Acas by people working in (i) domiciliary and (ii) residential care between 2009-10 and 2014- 15. Nick Boles: Information on the number of enquiries to the Pay and Work Rights Helpline or Acas by workers from the ‘domiciliary care’ and ‘residential care’ sector is not available. The answer of 11 February 2016 to Question 25610 represents the most detailed breakdown of trade sector information