Daily Report Monday, 24 April 2017 CONTENTS
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Daily Report Monday, 24 April 2017 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 24 April 2017 and the information is correct at the time of publication (07:24 P.M., 24 April 2017). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 11 Energy: Meters 18 ATTORNEY GENERAL 11 European Centre for Medium Attorney General: Security 11 Range Weather Forecasts: Location 18 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 12 Galileo System 19 Carbon Capture and Storage 12 Global Navigation Satellite Systems 19 Cement: Coal 13 Hydroelectric Power: Feed-in Coal Fired Power Stations: Tariffs 20 Carbon Emissions 13 Local Growth Deals 20 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Manufacturing Industries: Data Protection 13 Calderdale 20 Department for Business, Minimum Wage: Enforcement 21 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Natural Gas 21 Freedom of Information 14 Nuclear Decommissioning Department for Business, Authority: Contracts 21 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Nuclear Decommissioning Procurement 14 Authority: Redundancy Pay 24 Department for Business, Parental Leave 24 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Secondment 14 Plastics: Coal 24 Direct Selling 16 Product Recalls and Safety Working Group 24 Directors: Conduct 16 Renewable Heat Incentive Employment Agency Scheme 25 Standards Inspectorate 17 Research: Israel 26 Energy Intensive Industries: Carbon Capture and Storage 17 Research: South East 26 Energy: Competition 18 Retail Trade: Crime 27 Sellafield 27 European Banking Authority Tidal Power: Swansea Bay 27 and European Medicines Agency: Taxation 37 Wind Power: Powys 28 European Banking Authority: CABINET OFFICE 28 Location 37 Aortic Dissection 28 European Investment Bank 38 Brexit 28 Fuels: Tax Evasion 38 Cabinet Office: Freedom of Government Departments: Information 28 Credit Cards 38 Cabinet Office: Surveys 29 Individual Savings Accounts 39 Civil Servants: Training 29 Lloyds of London: Belgium 39 Discrimination 29 Members: Correspondence 39 Older Workers 29 PAYE 40 Pay 30 Property: Money Laundering 40 Polling Stations: Staff 30 Public Sector Debt 41 Public Appointments Rent a Room Scheme 41 Commissioner 30 Rented Housing: Scotland 41 UK Membership of EU: Referendums 31 Revenue and Customs: Location 42 TREASURY 32 Revenue and Customs: Staff 42 ACAS 32 Royal Bank of Scotland 42 Advance Pricing Agreements 32 State Retirement Pensions: Aerospace Industry 32 Females 42 Aviation: Training 33 Tax Avoidance 43 Bank Cards: Fees and Taxation: Landlords 43 Charges 33 Treasury: Freedom of Cash Dispensing: Non- Information 43 domestic Rates 34 Treasury: Living Wage 43 Child Tax Credit: Liverpool City Region 34 Treasury: Procurement 44 Children: Poverty 36 Welfare Tax Credits: Liverpool City Region 44 Debts: Cars 36 Whisky: Excise Duties 44 Employee Benefit Trusts: Roadchef 36 CHURCH COMMISSIONERS 45 European Bank for Homelessness 45 Reconstruction and Development 37 COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL BBC Monitoring 54 GOVERNMENT 45 Business: Cybercrime 54 Affordable Housing: Department for Culture, Media Construction 45 and Sport: Cybercrime 54 Airports: Planning Permission 45 Electronic Commerce 55 Airports: Vacant Land 46 Young People 55 Building Regulations 46 DEFENCE 55 Communities and Local Aircraft Carriers 55 Government: North Herefordshire 47 Aircraft Carriers: Helicopters 56 Communities and Local Armed Forces' Pay Review Government: Security 47 Body: Public Appointments 56 Communities and Local Armed Forces: Government: Staff 47 Communication 57 Council Housing: Sales 48 Armed Forces: Deployment 57 Council Housing: West Armed Forces: Housing 58 Bromwich East 48 Army: Discharges 58 Disabled Facilities Grants 48 Army: Training 59 Dunsfold Aerodrome 48 Bomb Disposal: Northern Equity Release: Older People 49 Ireland 60 Households 49 European Fighter Aircraft 60 Housing: Construction 49 HMS Queen Elizabeth 60 Housing: Land 50 Iraq: Detainees 60 National Holocaust Memorial Joint Intelligence Analysis Centre and Learning Service 50 Centre 61 Private Rented Housing: West Marines: Staff 61 Bromwich East 51 Military Bases: York 61 Refuges: Minority Groups 51 Ministry of Defence: Severe Disability Premium 52 Conditions of Employment 62 Small Businesses: Non- Ministry of Defence: domestic Rates 52 Departmental Records 63 Social Services: Finance 53 Ministry of Defence: Freedom of Information 63 Starter Home Initiative 53 Ministry of Defence: Land 64 CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT 53 Ministry of Defence: 5G 53 Management Consultants 64 Artificial Intelligence 54 Ministry of Defence: North Food Technology: Secondary Herefordshire 64 Education 78 Ministry of Defence: Private Free School Meals: West Education 65 Bromwich East 78 Ministry of Defence: Further Education: Coventry Procurement 65 South 78 Ministry of Defence: Social GCE A-level 79 Media 66 GCSE 79 MOD Lyneham 66 Priority School Building NATO: Military Exercises 66 Programme 80 RAF St Athan 66 Pupils: Grammar Schools 80 Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Staff 67 Pupils: Hartlepool 80 Syria: Military Intervention 68 Schools: Admissions 81 Warships and Submarines: Schools: Finance 82 Decommissioning 68 Schools: Shropshire 82 Weapons 69 Secondary Education: World War I: Departmental Expenditure 83 Records 69 Secondary Education: Mental EDUCATION 69 Health Services 83 Asylum: Children 69 Sex and Relationship Children: Disadvantaged 70 Education 84 Children: Poverty 70 Social Mobility Commission 84 Children: Sexting 71 Teachers: Older People 85 Children: Social Services 72 Teachers: Pensions 85 Children's Centres 73 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS 86 Children's Centres: Closures 74 Agriculture: Greenhouse Gas Citizenship 74 Emissions 86 Creationism 74 Agriculture: Public Department for Education: Consultation 87 North Herefordshire 75 Animal Welfare: Sentencing 88 Department for Education: Dairy Farming 88 Security 76 Deer: Exmoor National Park 88 English Baccalaureate: GCSE 76 Dogs: Animal Breeding 89 English Language: Pupils 76 Elephants: Conservation 89 English Language: Southampton 77 Environment Agency: Public Golan Heights: Security 98 Appointments 90 Jordan: Peace Negotiations 98 Exclusive Economic Zone 90 Nabeel Rajab 98 Ivory: China 90 North Korea: Visas 99 Livestock: Hormone Raymond Koh 99 Treatments 90 USA: Palestinians 99 Neonicotinoids: EU Law 91 Yemen: Ports 100 Partridges: Conservation 92 HEALTH 100 Ravens 92 Accident and Emergency Tidal Power: Swansea Bay 92 Departments: Standards 100 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Air Ambulance Services 101 UNION 93 Aortic Dissection 101 Brexit 93 Bladder Cancer 101 Department for Exiting the European Union: Data Blood: Donors 103 Protection 93 Bury Clinical Commissioning Department for Exiting the Group: Finance 103 European Union: Security 94 Cancer 104 Department for Exiting the Cancer: Health Professions 105 European Union: Staff 94 Coeliac Disease: Prescriptions 105 EU law 94 Community Health Services: Health: EU Law 95 Liverpool 105 Joint Ministerial Committee 95 Dental Services 106 President of the European Dental Services: Birmingham 107 Council: Correspondence 95 Dental Services: Children 107 FOREIGN AND Dental Services: Registration 109 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 96 Department of Health: Data Afghanistan: LGBT People 96 Protection 110 British Nationals Abroad: Department of Health: North Carbon Monoxide 96 Herefordshire 110 Chechnya: Homosexuality 97 Department of Health: Crimes Outside National Secondment 110 Territories: British Nationals Department of Health: Security 111 Abroad 97 Department of Health: Staff 111 Egypt: Copts 97 Drugs: Licensing 112 Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Security 98 Drugs: Research 112 European Medicines Agency 113 HOME OFFICE 125 Food: Safety 113 Asylum 125 General Practitioners: Asylum: Children 127 Standards 114 Asylum: Housing 130 Healthy Start Scheme 114 Aviation: Natural Disasters 131 Hepatitis: Vaccination 115 Aviation: USA 131 Hospitals: Bristol 115 Bashar al-Assad 131 Hospitals: Parking 116 Breathalysers 131 Incinerators: Health Hazards 116 British Nationality 133 Liverpool Clinical Children: Abduction 133 Commissioning Group: Audit 116 Community Security Trust 134 Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group: Crime 134 Secondment 117 Crimes of Violence: Females 135 Medical Treatments: Finance 117 Crossbows: Sales 136 NHS England 118 Cryptography: Banks 136 NHS Shared Business Cybercrime 136 Services 118 Distributive Trade: NHS Trusts: Apprentices 119 Employment Agencies 136 NHS: Drugs 120 Drugs 137 NHS: Expenditure 120 Drugs: Misuse 137 NHS: Finance 120 Europol 137 NHS: Pay 121 Fire Service College 138 NHS: Standards 122 Firearms: Children 138 Nurses: Training 122 Hate Crime: Convictions 139 Pharmacy 122 Home Office: Conditions of Prostate Cancer 123 Employment 139 Social Services: Finance 123 Home Office: Finance 140 Strokes 123 Home Office: Land 140 Surgery: Greater London 124 Home Office: Management Consultants 141 Veterans: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder 125 Home Office: Secondment 141 Wakefield Clinical Home Office: Staff 141 Commissioning Group: Hotels: Offences against Hospital Beds 125 Children 141 Members: Correspondence 142 Department for International Offences against Children 142 Development: Land 155 Overseas Students: Department for International Undocumented Migrants 144 Development: Management Consultants 155 Overseas Visitors: Zimbabwe 145 Department for International Police Advisory Board 145 Development: Private Police Custody: Closures 145 Education 155 Police: Finance