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Questions Tabled on Mon 14 May 2018 Published: Tuesday 15 May 2018 Questions tabled on Monday 14 May 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 Tuesday 15 May Questions for Written Answer 1 N Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2018 to Question 139972 on Disabled Students' Allowances, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of funding the £200 contribution made by students in receipt of Disabled Students’ Allowance for the purchase of computer hardware in each year up to 2023. [Transferred] (142874) 2 N Tracy Brabin (Batley and Spen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he his taking to increase the number of mental health specialists working in early years settings. [Transferred] (142909) 3 N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the timescale is for the Belfast and Londonderry city deals to become fully operational. [Transferred] (142780) Questions for Answer on Wednesday 16 May Questions for Written Answer 1 Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has taken steps to prepare for holding the 2019 European Elections. (143730) 2 Published: Tuesday 15 May 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON MONDAY 14 MAY 2018 2 Sir David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department provides to micro businesses to manage their business rates. (143668) 3 Luke Graham (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his Department's policy is on the inclusion of support for the aerospace sector in the Tay Cities Deal. (143842) 4 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the number of people who had work that they consider defective completed by the Mark Group under the Green Deal. (143810) 5 Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people who had work that they consider defective undertaken in their homes by the Mark Group under the Green Deal are (a) compensated and (b) able to remedy the resulting problems. (143811) 6 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the HM Revenue and Customs press release of 9 May 2018, 200,000 receive back pay as HMRC enforces National Minimum Wage, how much of the £15.6 million of minimum wage arrears identified in 2017-18 was identified through self-correction by employers; and how many of those 200,000 people those arrears self-corrected by employers relate to. (143732) 7 Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the levels of crowd violence at horse racing meetings in 2018. (143737) 8 David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what his policy is on home nation sports events being televised on free-to-air television. (143725) 9 David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to encourage sports clubs to have disability teams. (143726) 10 Sir David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of local authority early years funding rates in advance of the start of the next school year. (143666) 11 Sir David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to provide business rates relief to childcare providers. (143667) Published: Tuesday 15 May 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON MONDAY 14 MAY 2018 3 12 Sir David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many meetings he has had with small business owners in the childcare sector in each of the last two years. (143669) 13 Sir David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have closed in each year for which data is available. (143670) 14 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the pupil to teacher ratio is in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (A) the West Midlands and (B) Coventry. (143658) 15 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many university places were awarded to people with refugee status in the UK in each year between 2008 and 2018. (143659) 16 Leo Docherty (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to encourage the establishment of Combined Cadet Force units in state schools; and if he will make a statement. (143824) 17 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the provision of statutory services for children by local authorities. (143746) 18 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness with which local authorities are discharging their statutory duties to children. (143747) 19 Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will assess the effectiveness of the way in which local authorities are funded to provide statutory services to children. (143748) 20 Emma Hardy (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason Hull College's fresh start formula funding included was a cap on its staffing costs; and if he will make a statement. (143865) 21 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of children in families with the legal right to remain in the UK with an attached no recourse to public funds condition on their leave to remain who are unable to access free school meals; and what plans the Government has to review the policy and practice in those circumstances. (143733) 22 Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to improve the support provided to children in need. (143759) 23 Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to improve the outcomes of children in need. (143760) 4 Published: Tuesday 15 May 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON MONDAY 14 MAY 2018 24 Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing transition support for children in need. (143761) 25 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department allocated to schools in Harborough constituency in each financial year since 2010-11; and what estimate he has made of the funding that will be allocated to schools in Harborough constituency under the National Funding Formula in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20. (143878) 26 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were being educated in the state sector in (a) Harborough constituency, (b) Leicestershire, (c) Leicester and (d) England in each financial year since 2010-11; and what estimate he has made of the number of pupils there will be in each of these areas in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20. (143879) 27 Lucy Powell (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on whether (a) people can be on the membership of more than one multi academy trust board and (b) the chair of a multi academy trust board should be allowed to chair more than one trust. (143780) 28 David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has any plans to increase the time pupils participate in physical education. (143721) 29 David Simpson (Upper Bann): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to prevent cheating in examinations. (143722) 30 Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional school places have been created in (a) North Swindon constituency and (b) Swindon Borough Council in each year since 2010. (143762) 31 Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) legislation and (b) regulations govern the UK government’s ability to provide match funding for European Maritime and Fisheries Fund projects; and whether those rules apply to his Department's executive agencies in the same way as his Department. (143756) 32 Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the rules governing match funding contributions by the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations to European Maritime and Fisheries Fund projects are required to be applied in the same way in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.
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