Published: Friday 9 March 2018

Questions tabled on Thursday 8 March 2018

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 Monday 12 March

Questions for Written Answer

1 Graham P Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions there have been for the offence of handling stolen goods as a result of the theft or resale of local authority library books in each of the last five years. [Transferred] (131454)

2 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Attorney General, what steps the CPS is taking to strengthen (a) cross-agency and (b) international joint working in child abuse cases. (131664)

3 Alex Chalk (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to encourage high street retailers to reduce their carbon footprint. (131739)

4 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of the removal of feed-in tariffs for solar energy on the viability of the solar energy industry. (131625)

5 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of removing feed-in tariffs for solar energy on the ability of local authorities to invest in solar energy. (131626)

6 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government has plans to support community-based energy projects which advise residents on fuel poverty. (131627) 2 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

7 N Ged Killen (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the Government's policy is on employers requesting workers to travel into work during a red weather warning. [Transferred] (131492)

8 N Ged Killen (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on employers required staff to travel into work during a red weather warning; and if she will make a statement. [Transferred] (131493)

9 N Ged Killen (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he make an assessment of the potential merits of extending employment rights to allow employees take leave during a red weather alert. [Transferred] (131494)

10 Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress her Department has made with Social Media platforms on a voluntary code of practice for online (a) abuse and (b) hate crime. (131636)

11 Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether Social Media platforms are required to (a) report to the police, (b) cooperate with a police investigation and (c) remove content from their sites that is classified as online (i) abuse and (ii) hate crime. (131637)

12 Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many responses his Department received to its consultation, Internet safety strategy green paper. (131638)

13 Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many responses to his Department's consultation, Internet Safety ssrategy green paper supported a voluntary code of practice for Social Media Platforms to tackle online (a) abuse and (b) hate crime content. (131639)

14 Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of cases that will be submitted to the National Online and Hate Crime Hub in the first year of its operation. (131640)

15 Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding his Department will allocate to the Police National Online and Hate Crime Hub. (131641)

16 Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the financial effect of the new national funding formula on the salaries of teachers in schools in England. (131622)

17 Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to secure compensation for students affected by strike action by university lecturers; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (131557) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 3

18 Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vehicles (a) his Department and (b) Defra Group (i) own and (ii) lease. (131713)

19 David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing mandatory calorie labelling, with additional contextual information, on the menus of food purchased in restaurants, cafes and takeaway outlets. (131752)

20 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hours Dame Glenys Stacey will be working on the review of the rules associated with the current subsidy payments system. (131629)

21 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what arrangements his Department has made with the Ministry of Justice to ensure that Dame Glenys Stacey will be able to continue her work as HM Chief Inspector of Probation whilst undertaking the review into the rules associated with the current subsidy payments system. (131630)

22 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial remuneration Dame Glenys Stacey will receive from his Department for undertaking the review of the rules associated with the current subsidy payments system; and how many staff will be assisting her in that review. (131631)

23 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2018 to Question 126415, and with reference to the conclusion published on 28 February 2018 from the European Food Safety Authority on the risk to wild bees and honeybees from the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, if he will set out the Government's policy on the banning of neonicotinoids; by what date the Government is asking for negotiations to restart on the matter of neonicotinoids; if he will take steps to ban neonicotinoids in the UK in the event of undue time being taken at EU level on that matter; and if he will make a statement. (131610)

24 N Gavin Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made the effect of the UK leaving the REACH chemical framework on UK businesses and the supply chain after the UK has left the EU. [Transferred] (131472)

25 David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the Government's policy is on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland when the UK leaves the EU. (131621)

26 Alex Chalk (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support the Government is offering to UK pilot licence holders in the five year transfer period for registering for an EASA licence. (131740) 4 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

27 Alex Chalk (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that rail companies provide passengers with the best possible ticket price for train journeys in order to eliminate the practice of split ticketing. (131766)

28 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's most recent estimate of the total cost of High Speed Rail 2 is; and how much of that estimate has been spent. (131760)

29 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money his Department has spent on each (a) consultant and (b) consultancy firm since 2010-11. (131761)

30 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish how many people were registered for the Blue Badge scheme in each of the last five years. (131762)

31 Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households are in receipt of (a) child tax credit, (b) working tax credit and (c) both those tax credits by income decile. [Transferred] (131421)

32 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to stop intermediaries using freephone numbers offered by her Department to generate income from claimants. (131624)

33 Emma Little Pengelly (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the transfer of people from disability living allowance to personal independence payment is made effectively; and what representations she has received on claimants whose payments have changed significantly despite there being no change in their circumstances. (131734)

34 Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the recruitment targets set out in her Department's paper Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability, what progress she has made on recruiting (a) Community Partners and (b) Disability Employment Advisers. (131726)

35 N Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to regulate trampoline parks. [Transferred] (131536)

36 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the effect of an expansion in youth full-time social action on the number of young people not in education, employment or training. (131755) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 5

37 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many private sector final salary schemes have been declared failed in every year for which data is available. [Transferred] (131483)

38 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the meetings he has attended with former members of the Department’s Ethnic Minority Engagement Stakeholder Group since its closure. (131616)

39 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page two of Walking on Thin Ice: the cost of financial insecurity, published by Citizens Advice on 22 February 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of that report's findings on the proportion of adults (a) who had at least one monthly drop in their income and (b) with unpredictable incomes who have gone without food or other essentials. (131759)

40 Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) restaurants, (b) takeaways and (c) cafes that provide calorie labelling (i) on their menus and (ii) at the point of purchase. (131730)

41 Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) retailers and (b) manufacturers that have adopted the front-of-pack traffic-light labelling system. (131731)

42 Sir David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of front-of- pack traffic-light labelling on people's choice of food. (131732)

43 Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.4 of Oversight of NHS-controlled providers: consultation response, published in February 2018, which providers that hold a licence and meet the accepted definition for NHS control under the new guidance issued by NHS Improvement which goes live from April 2018 have been or will be approached with a request to revoke their current licence and to apply for the new NHS-controlled provider licence. (131665)

44 Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that no entity will be granted a licence under NHS Improvement's new guidance on the oversight of NHS-controlled providers until after the conclusion of the national consultation on accountable care organisations. (131666)

45 Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to ensure that maintenance of the rights of members of the public to (a) inspect and (b) obtain copies of the (i) annual reports, (ii) accounts and (iii) forward planning documents under section 39 of the NHS Act 2006.for entities holding new NHS-controlled provider licences. (131667) 6 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

46 Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the EU counterparts relating to the Food Standards Agency's document, Regulating Our Future regarding the implications for food exports and food companies' access to the single market after the UK leaves the EU. (131763)

47 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospitals in England (a) publish and (b) publicise financial information on car parking at their hospitals. (131741)

48 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospitals in England (a) publish and (b) publicise summarised (i) complaint information on car parking and (ii) actions taken. (131742)

49 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospitals in England publicise details of (a) charges, (b) concessions and (c) additional charges on their website. (131743)

50 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospitals in England publicise details of (a) charges, (b) concessions and (c) additional charges on patient (i) letters and (ii) forms. (131744)

51 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospitals in England with contracted-out parking have imposed a requirement the contractors be members of (a) the British Parking Association and (b) Independent Parking Committee. (131745)

52 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS Trusts in England provide transport between their hospital sites, for members of staff whose duties require regular travel between hospitals. (131746)

53 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospitals in England waive parking charges when an overstay is beyond the control of the driver. (131747)

54 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment is Department has made of the effect of NHS hospitals in England charging staff to park on the area surrounding the hospital on people who live in that area. (131748)

55 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution of 1 February 2018, Official Report, what steps he is taking to revisit his Department's guidance, NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles. (131749)

56 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money was spent by NHS staff on parking charges at their place of work each year since 2010. (131750) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 7

57 N Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women prisoners had terminations in 2017; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (131532)

58 N Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women prisoners had miscarriages in 2017; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (131533)

59 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 by each ethnic grouping in each of the last 10 years. [Transferred] (131482)

60 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure early diagnosis of blood cancer. (131770)

61 Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the medical records held by GPs on the number of patients GPs have seen who have been diagnosed with ME/CFS. (131695)

62 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money NHS trusts have spent on agency and contract staff in (a) each year since 2010-11 and (b) 2017-18 to date; and how much each NHS trusts plans to so spend in 2018-19. (131757)

63 Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter of the hon. Member for Glasgow North of 16 November 2017 on the Consular Assistance received by a constituent following that constituent’s detention in Morocco. (131721)

64 Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to the Government of Oman to encourage them to broker a peace deal in Yemen; and if he will make a statement. (131711)

65 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the arrest of 15-year-old Muhammad Tamimi in a night raid on Monday 26 February in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, if he will make urgent and direct representations to his Israeli counterpart to raise this case and (a) seek a formal response explaining the Israeli Government’s reasoning and actions and (b) call on the Israeli Government to uphold its obligations to implement the (i) protections and (ii) due process that children are entitled to under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement. (131691)

66 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas have been refused under section 322 (5) of her Departments Immigration Rules for minor tax errors. (131623) 8 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

67 Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many vehicles his Department (a) owns and (b) leases. (131714)

68 Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Government received in income for services provided by his Department to foreign governments in each year since 2010; and for what services was such income received. (131677)

69 Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current liability is of 661 Squadron Army Air Corps. (131633)

70 Liz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127842 on Army: Recruitment, if he will publish (a) the most recent Cabinet Office Government Whitelist of the approved websites for advertising and (b) a list of the websites which featured Army recruitment advertisements in each of the last three years. (131635)

71 Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future purpose of Caledonia base in Rosyth. (131725)

72 Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of euthanized military working dogs. (131727)

73 Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to extend the armed forces mental health helpline service to veterans. (131728)

74 Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many accommodation properties owned by his Department were rented to non-military personnel between January 2016 and January 2017. (131729)

75 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to improve the recording of hate crimes against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. [Transferred] (131450)

76 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report of the Ministerial working group on tackling inequalities experienced by Gypsies and Travellers, published in April 2012, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on progress in promoting improved health outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Travelling communities through the planning system; and if he will make a statement. (131613) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 9

77 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report of the Ministerial working group on tackling inequalities experienced by Gypsies and Travellers, published in April 2012, what recent steps his Department has taken to support Gypsy and Traveller representative groups showcase small private sites that are well presented and maintained. (131614)

78 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who had a prison officer grade were (a) dismissed and (b) resigned in each year since 2010. (131628)

79 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many FTE National Careers Service staff were working in prisons at (a) 1 March 2016, (b) 1 March 2017 and (c) 1 March 2018. (131647)

80 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the time-scale is for prison governors to be able to commission careers services. (131648)

81 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prison governors are able to employ National Careers Service staff. (131649)

82 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when prison governors were informed of the decision to end National Careers Service provision in prisons. (131650)

83 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what provision his Department is making to enable continued support for prisoners in applying for funds for distance learning and to support them with their courses as a result of the ending National Careers Service provision in prisons. (131651)

84 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment the Government made of the potential merits of extending National Careers Service provision in those prisons where that service was effective. (131652)

85 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): o ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the timetable for arrangements to replace National Careers Service provision in prisons. (131653)

86 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department carried out an impact assessment on the decision to end National Careers Service provision in prisons. (131654)

87 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on the decision to end National Careers Service provision in prisons. (131655)

88 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the consistency of National Careers Service provision across the prison estate. (131656) 10 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

89 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what provisions are planned to be in place from 1 April 2018 to provide prisoners with independent careers advice at the start of their sentence. (131657)

90 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that careers advice services in prisons after 1 April 2018 maintain relationships with employers and educational institutions established under the National Careers Service. (131658)

91 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to how many employers National Careers Service providers have referred prisoners during 2017. (131659)

92 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to how many colleges and universities National Careers Service providers have referred prisoners during 2017. (131660)

93 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which services provided by the National Careers Service he plans to replace after the ending of that service's provision in prisons by 1 April 2018. (131661)

94 Imran Hussain (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to ensure that careers advice provision contracts from the period beginning 1 April 2018 are not awarded to companies at risk of failure. (131662)

95 Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to appoint an independent person to chair the next round of talks between the DUP and Sinn Fein and other political parties in order to restore a functioning Northern Ireland Assembly; and if she will make a statement. (131703)

96 Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will meet the Chairman of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland to discuss the implementation of his report; and if she will make a statement. (131709)

97 Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Prime Minister, if she will publish the advice she received from the DUP in relation to her visit to Belfast on 12 February 2018 during the negotiations between the DUP and Sinn Fein; and if she will make a statement. (131700)

98 Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an exemption from the aggregates levy for building (dimension) stone in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18. (131683)

99 Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an exemption from the aggregates levy for material arising from utility works in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18. (131684) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 11

100 Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received relief for aggregate exported from the UK in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18. (131685)

101 Emma Little Pengelly (Belfast South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the progress made by the banking sector on meeting the needs of vulnerable consumers. (131733)

102 N Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) male and (b) female apprentices were paid less than the minimum wage in (i) the North East and (ii) the UK in the last 12 months. [Transferred] (131487)

103 N Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies in (a) the North East and (b) the UK are paying less than the minimum wage for apprenticeship programmes. [Transferred] (131489)

104 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to encourage the banking sector to improve financial inclusion for Gypsies and Travellers. (131615)

105 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the total cost cap on payday lending to high-cost credit products. (131758)

Questions for Answer on Tuesday 13 March

Questions for Written Answer

1 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cars in central Government departmental fleets are electric. (131717)

2 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the projected life expectancy rates for (a) males and (b) females in each 10 year cohort from birth. (131671)

3 N Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2018 to Question 131059 on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Scotland, what the roles of those staff members are. (131768)

4 N Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2018 to Question 131059 on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Scotland, what location those members of staff work in. (131769) 12 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

5 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure the validity of UK statutory audits across the EU after the UK leaves the EU. (131693)

6 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure recognition of UK accountancy qualifications across the EU after the UK leaves the EU. (131694)

7 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) male and (b) female apprentices who were paid less than the minimum wage in (i) the West Midlands and (ii) the UK in the last 12 months. (131642)

8 N Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals in (a) Nottinghamshire and b) England attend a school rated as (i) good or (ii) outstanding by Ofsted. (131608)

9 N Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on the purchase and development of land and buildings for academies and free schools to date. (131678)

10 N Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on grants and loans to academies and free schools since 2015. (131679)

11 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it remains his policy for the Office for Students to be the validator of last resort for Higher Education Institutions. (131673)

12 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and (b) the Home Department on the changes to funding of Jisc for cyber security at Further Education Colleges. (131676)

13 N Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the annual budget for additional support in areas of disadvantage for apprenticeships was up to 1 May 2017, what proportion of that budget was spent; and what proportion of the budget since 1 May 2017 has been spent. (131754)

14 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Early Years Workforce Strategy published in March 2017, whether he has made an assessment of the feasibility of a programme to grow the graduate early years workforce in disadvantaged areas; and if he will make a statement. (131756)

15 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles his Department (a) owns and (b) leases. (131715) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 13

16 N Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on legal costs seeking to prevent the publication of the Universal Credit Project Assessment Reviews conducted between March 2012 and October 2015. (131697)

17 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vehicles her Department (a) owns and (b) leases. (131716)

18 N Margaret Greenwood (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the ability of Support for Mortgage Interest claimants to afford financial advice on whether to take out the loan that they will be offered to replace the benefit that they are currently receiving. (131698)

19 N Margaret Greenwood (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations Serco signposts Support for Mortgage Interest claimants to for advice on deciding whether to take out a loan from her Department to replace the benefit they are currently receiving; and whether such organisations are able to offer financial advice on taking out a loan. (131705)

20 N Margaret Greenwood (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127702, if her Department will put transitional protections in place for the continued payment of support for mortgage interest for claimants of that benefit who have not been contacted by Serco by the end of February 2018. (131707)

21 N Margaret Greenwood (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many face-to-face interviews have been conducted with Support for Mortgage Interest claimants to explain the replacement of that benefit with the new loan. (131708)

22 N Peter Kyle (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who are in receipt of support for mortgage interest have applied for the replacement loan. (131689)

23 N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2018 to Question 130479, on state retirement: pensions, how many complaints the Independent Case Examiners Office has received in total by constituency. (131612)

24 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether UK citizens resident in an EU country after the UK leaves the EU will be required to apply for a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) to the UK or to their state of residence. (131663) 14 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

25 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of young people who have not received access to child and adolescent mental health services after a referral in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in the most recent 12 months for which figures are available. (131634)

26 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of prostate cancer screening in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry. (131643)

27 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of bowel cancer screening in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry. (131644)

28 N Sir Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of mental health training for Registered General Nurses working on (a) medical and (b) surgical wards with patients with with mental health needs. (131617)

29 N Sir Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many independent serious incident reviews were (a) commissioned and (b) completed (c) not completed by NHS England in each month between May 2015 and June 2017; and what the reasons were for the reviews not being completed by 28 February 2018. (131618)

30 N Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Health Education England plans to produce an End of Life Care Core Skills Education and Training Framework to support health professionals in their care for babies, children and young people with life- limiting conditions. (131701)

31 N Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Health Education England is undertaking an assessment of the (a) availability of health care professionals for children’s hospices and (b) the effect of that availability on the effectiveness of those hospices. (131702)

32 N Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of health and care professionals employed by the NHS and other agencies on the ability of the Government meeting its end of life care choice commitment to babies, children and young people by 2020. (131704)

33 N Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support health and care professionals employed by the NHS and other agencies to meet the government’s end of life care choice commitment to babies, children and young people by 2020. (131706) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 15

34 N Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has assessed the potential merits of mandating the implementation of the Government’s end of life care choice commitment for babies, children and young people on (a) NHS England and (b) Public Health England. (131710)

35 N Layla Moran (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the APPG on Breast Cancer, A Mixed Picture: An Inquiry into Geographical Inequalities and Breast Cancer, what steps he is taking to reduce inequalities in breast cancer outcomes across the UK; and if he will make a statement. (131735)

36 N Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects information on the number of men who (a) were diagnosed late for and (b) died from prostate cancer by GP surgery in Halton constituency. (131611)

37 N Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to expand access to PACE treatment for people who have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. (131736)

38 N Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has held discussions with his Russian counterpart on that country’s development of new nuclear weapons; and if he will make a statement. (131668)

39 N Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has held discussions with his US and South Korean counterparts on the Chinese-Russian proposal for the suspension of joint military exercises by those countries in exchange for North Korea halting its nuclear and missile test programmes. (131669)

40 N Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps the Government has taken to encourage non-signatories to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. (131670)

41 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many vehicles her Department (a) owns and (b) leases. (131718)

42 N Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the timetable is for implementing the Government's new anti-money laundering and sanctions regime. (131609)

43 N Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of blasphemy laws on religious minorities in Pakistan. (131738) 16 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

44 N Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the National Counter-Terror Policing network on the tackling extreme right-wing threats. (131672)

45 N Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any of the member of the National Counter Terror Network has requested additional resources to tackle threats from extreme right-wing groups. (131674)

46 N David Linden (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the Scotland and Northern Ireland Account Management Team at UK Visas and Immigration have dealt with enquiries from the offices of hon. Members who represent constituencies in England or Wales. (131712)

47 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) she or (b) Ministers or Officials of her Department have discussed the shooting of 8 March 2018 in Wood Green with (i) the local authority, (ii) the Metropolitan Police or (c) Mayor of London. (131764)

48 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of gun crime have been reported in (a) Hornsey and Wood Green and (b) London in each of the last five years. (131765)

49 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deaths there have been involving the use of a firearm in each of the last seven years. (131767)

50 N Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that equipment purchased via the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation or single source procurement provides value for money. (131607)

51 N Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many expressions of interest his Department has received on the supply of the future Mechanised Infantry Vehicle. (131619)

52 N Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made on establishing the Strike Experimentation Group. (131620)

53 N Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many accommodation properties owned by his Department were empty between January 2016 and January 2017. (131719)

54 N Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many properties rented by his Department for accommodation were empty between January 2016 and January 2017. (131720) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 17

55 N Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many non-accommodation properties owned by his Department were empty between January 2016 and January 2017. (131722)

56 N Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many non-accommodation properties rented by his Department were empty between January 2016 and January 2017. (131723)

57 N Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, now many non-accommodation properties owned by his Department were rented to non-military personnel between January 2016 and January 2017. (131724)

58 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2018 to Question 128636, who the new Director of Economic Security and Prosperity is. (131699)

59 N John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire (a) require rehousing; and of how many of those people are in (a) emergency, (b) temporary and (c) permanent accommodation. (131688)

60 N John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households that were rehoused following the Grenfell Tower fire are located (a) inside and (b) outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in (i) emergency, (ii) temporary and (iii) permanent accommodation. (131690)

61 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will meet with Ministers in the devolved administrations to discuss (a) geographical and (b) gender disparity in life expectancy local authority areas of the UK. (131675)

62 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of the offence of illegal working since the introduction of that offence. (131686)

63 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justcie, how much money has been obtained in fines from people found guilty of an offence of illegal working since the introduction of that offence. (131687)

64 N Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what scoping of the state of the prison estate was conducted prior to the formulation of (a) lot 1, (b) lot 2, (c) lot 3 and (d) lot 4 and before the declaration of preferred bidders for the prison facilities management contracts awarded by the Government in 2014; and if he will make a statement. (131645) 18 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

65 N Ms Marie Rimmer (St Helens South and Whiston): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) names of providers and (b) value of each of the bids was of tenders submitted for (a) lot 1, (b) lot 2, (c) lot 3 and (d) lot 4 for the prison facilities management contracts awarded in 2014. (131646)

66 N Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) resignations and (b) dismissals there have been from the Chaplaincy Service at HMP Brixton in each of the last six months. (131692)

67 N Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason classes in Christian dogmatics were discontinued at HMP Brixton. (131696)

68 N Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is after the issue date of the judgment for prisoners who have been granted release to directed premises by Parole Boards (a) being found suitable premises and (b) being released from prison in the most recent period for which figures are available. (131737)

69 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households are in receipt of (a) child tax credit, (b) working tax credit and (c) both child and working tax credit by income decile in (i) Coventry and (ii) the West Midlands. (131632)

70 N Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an exemption from the carbon price floor for fuels used in small combined heart and power stations in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18. (131680)

71 N Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an exemption for oil used to generate electricity where that electricity is not subject to the Climate Change Levy in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18. (131681)

72 N Peter Dowd (Bootle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an exemption from the aggregates levy for china clay waste and ball clay waste in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18. (131682)

Questions for Answer on Wednesday 14 March

Oral Questions to the Prime Minister

1 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904359)

2 Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904360) Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018 19

3 Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904361)

4 Alex Burghart (Brentwood and Ongar): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904362)

5 Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904363)

6 Ian Austin (Dudley North): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904364)

7 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904365)

8 Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904366)

9 Richard Graham (Gloucester): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904367)

10 Jeremy Quin (Horsham): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904368)

11 Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904369)

12 Vernon Coaker (Gedling): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904370)

13 Leo Docherty (Aldershot): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904371)

14 Jo Platt (Leigh): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904372)

15 Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton): If she will list her official engagements for Wednesday 14 March. (904373)

Questions for Answer on Thursday 15 March

Questions for Written Answer

1 N Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to bring into force sections 38 and 39 of the Digital Economy Act 2017. (131751) 20 Published: Friday 9 March 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON Thursday 8 March 2018

2 N Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to update guidance on renewable residence permits for victims of trafficking whose residence is necessary for the UK to meet its objective under the Trafficking Convention to make clear that there is no additional requirement to show compelling circumstances. [R] (131753)