PP 2017/0078

TYNWALD Tinvaal

QUESTION PAPER Pabyr Feyshtyn

DOUGLAS Tuesday 25th April 2017 at 10.30 am

For Oral Answer

1. The Hon. Member for Ramsey (Dr Allinson) to ask the Treasury Minister –

Whether his Department has a clear and comprehensive definition of what constitutes self-employment for the purpose of income tax; what that definition is; and what arrangements are in place to ensure that it is correctly applied?

2. The Hon. Member for and Michael (Mr Baker) to ask the Minister for Health and Social Care –

If she will make a statement on the feedback received since the change in service provider for the patient transfer service?

3. The Hon. Member for Douglas North (Mr Ashford) to ask the Minister for Home Affairs –

What checks are undertaken to ensure when a gun licence expires or is not renewed, that the licenceholder is no longer keeping weapons that require a licence and that those weapons have been properly disposed of?

4. The Hon. Member for Douglas North (Mr Ashford) to ask the Minister for Home Affairs –

What plans he has to promote the non-emergency phone numbers for the emergency services?

5. The Hon. Member for Ramsey (Mr Hooper) to ask the Minister for Home Affairs –

When he will make a decision regarding the proposed sale of Ramsey Courthouse?

6. The Hon. Member for Douglas North (Mr Ashford) to ask the Minister for Infrastructure –

What plans his Department has to ensure air fares are not excessive?

7. The Hon. Member for Douglas North (Mr Ashford) to ask the Minister for Infrastructure –

How the bottom ash produced by the Energy from Waste Plant is currently recycled or disposed of?

8. The Hon. Member for Arbory, Castletown and Malew (Mr Moorhouse) to ask the Minister for Policy and Reform –

What arrangements are in place to verify census data collected from residents; and to what extent data collected as part of the 2016 Census process was cross- checked against other sources of information available to the Government before it was published?

9. The Hon. Member for Ramsey (Mr Hooper) to ask the Minister for Policy and Reform –

Following the publication of the 2016 Earnings Survey what action he will take to address gender pay inequality in both the public and private sectors?

10. The Hon. Member for Ramsey (Dr Allinson) to ask the Minister for Economic Development –

What legislative and regulatory framework applies to (a) the Isle of Man Post Office; and (b) other parcel delivery companies operating in the Island; and what assessment he has made of the extent of unregulated activity in this sector?

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11. The Hon. Member for Douglas North (Mr Ashford) to ask the Minister for Economic Development –

On the basis of what evidence he decided to prescribe a minimum wage lower than £7.50 for people under 25?

12. The Hon. Member for (Mr Shimmins) to ask the Minister for Economic Development –

When he will take action to relax work permits?

13. The Hon. Member for Ramsey (Dr Allinson) to ask the Minister for Education and Children –

What the current provision is for relationships education in primary schools; and for relationships and sex education in secondary schools?

14. The Hon. Member for Douglas North (Mr Ashford) to ask the Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading –

What powers the Office of Fair Trading has in relation to the regulation of air fares?

For Written Answer

15. The Hon. Member for (Mr Speaker) to ask the Chief Minister –

Which Government Departments and local authorities benefit from the mobile and family libraries, and what contribution is made by each of them?

16. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Treasury Minister –

Whether he will review the Personal Allowance Credit (PAC) or long term Disability Living Allowance system to reinstate entitlement to the PAC for single person households and others of working age who cannot work owing to disability?

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17. The Hon. Member for Ramsey (Mr Hooper) to ask the Treasury Minister –

In respect of the Financial Services Authority:

(a) what is the remit of its Board; (b) are decisions made by the Board required to be unanimous; and (c) in circumstances where HM Attorney General is unable to act due to a conflict of interest who would provide legal advice to the Board?

18. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Policy and Reform –

Whether he will review the citizenship test to require more knowledge of the Isle of Man as opposed to the UK?

19. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask HM Attorney General –

Whether any of the land in Port St Mary which was conveyed around 1890 from the Crown to the Isle of Man Harbour Commissioners has since been sold; if so, what land was sold and when; whether such sale was legal under the Harbours Acts; and whether the land conveyed includes the beach and the road known as Shore Road Underway from the harbour to Willow Terrace?

20. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Health and Social Care –

How many people are on the waiting list at Southlands for: (a) Residential care; and (b) EMI care?

21. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Health and Social Care –

Whether the Hospital to Home scheme at Southlands has been stopped; if so why; and how community needs are being met?

22. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Health and Social Care –

How much furniture at Noble’s hospital was replaced last summer, why, and at what cost?

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23. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Health and Social Care –

What plans she has to change the regime for prescription charging (including the exemptions regime)?

24. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Home Affairs –

When the Department’s Road Safety Strategy will be published?

25. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Home Affairs –

When he plans to introduce automatic number plate recognition to reduce tax and insurance evasion?

26. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Infrastructure –

What plans he has to increase the uptake of recycling?

27. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Infrastructure –

What his assessment is of the condition of the Island’s roads; and what plans he has to dedicate further resources to road maintenance?

28. The Hon. Member for Rushen (Mr Speaker) to ask the Minister for Infrastructure –

How many square metres were involved in the resurfacing of Douglas Promenade which he announced by press release on 20th February 2017; how much the resurfacing cost; what the breakdown of the cost was between labour and materials; and how he explains any difference between the actual cost and the estimate of £75,000 given in the press release?

29. The Hon. Member for Douglas North (Mr Ashford) to ask the Minister for Infrastructure –

In relation to the 2433 fixed penalty notices for vehicle offences cancelled following appeal from 2014 to 2016 inclusive, by category, for what offences they were issued and for what reasons they were cancelled?

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