Published: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Questions tabled on Tuesday 4 September 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 Wednesday 5 September Questions for Written Answer 1 Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160802 on Females: Equality, what performance criteria has been introduced in Departments' Single Departmental Plans to monitor progress on Sustainable Development Goal 5. [Transferred] (169662) 2 Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the data on age-sex standardised mortality rates, published by the Office of National Statistics in July 2018, by how many (a) weeks and (b) months the overall life expectancy of the population of England has fallen between quarter one 2016 and quarter one 2018. [Transferred] (169541) 3 Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions officials in his Department's Europe Unit had with representatives of EU member states and EU institutions prior to 12 July 2018 on the content of the White Paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU. [Transferred] (169344) 4 Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the effect on the rate of unemployment of the removal of the gig economy. [Transferred] (169078) 5 Hugh Gaffney (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of the national living wage. [Transferred] (169705) 2 Published: Wednesday 5 September 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 6 Paul Girvan (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the number of people forced to retire since the abolition of the compulsory retirement age. [Transferred] (169764) 7 Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made on the recommendation of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, published in July 2017, to extend the remit of the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate to include responsibility for umbrella companies. [Transferred] (169149) 8 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to undertake an assessment of the effectiveness of the Prompt Payment Code. [Transferred] (169001) 9 Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the economic effect of broadband blackspots in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Lewisham Deptford constituency. [Transferred] (169573) 10 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress the Government has made on plans to create 3 million apprenticeships by 2020; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (169531) 11 Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK not enforcing the EU's REACH regulations after 29 March 2019 on enabling chemical substance importers to explore alternative regulations. [Transferred] (169651) 12 Matthew Pennycook (Greenwich and Woolwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which body is planned to enforce regulations governing the release of F-gases after the UK has left the EU; and whether the Government plans for there to be any role for the proposed new environmental watchdog in such enforcement. [Transferred] (169607) 13 Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps the Government is taking to encourage foreign direct investment in the manufacturing industries. [Transferred] (169076) 14 Matthew Pennycook (Greenwich and Woolwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which body is planned to enforce carbon dioxide standards for cars and other product standards that reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the UK’s exit from the EU; and whether the Government plans for there to be any role for the proposed new environmental watchdog in such enforcement. [Transferred] (169606) Published: Wednesday 5 September 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 3 15 Douglas Ross (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with the Scottish Government in relation to the effect of the proposed merger of the Scottish Division of British Transport Police (BTP) into Police Scotland on Scottish BTP officers’ pensions. [Transferred] (169736) 16 Douglas Ross (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department plans to have with the Scottish Government in relation to its plan to transfer retired officers of the Scottish Division of British Transport Police into a new pension scheme after the proposed merger of that division into Police Scotland. [Transferred] (169737) 17 Douglas Ross (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations his Department has made to the Department for Transport on the effect of the proposed merger of the Scottish Division of British Transport Police (BTP) into Police Scotland on the pensions of Scottish BTP officers. [Transferred] (169738) 18 Douglas Ross (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to meet with (a) the National Association for Retired British Transport Police Officers and (b) other stakeholders in relation to the effect of the Scottish Government’s proposed merger of the Scottish Division of British Transport Police (BTP) into Police Scotland on Scottish BTP officers’ pensions. [Transferred] (169739) 19 Laura Smith (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many claims have been made against local authorities for pothole damage; and what the cost to the public purse was of successful claims in each of the last three years. [Transferred] (169790) 20 Royston Smith (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of Gas to Liquid fuels on levels of NOX emissions. [Transferred] (169553) 21 Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent meetings (a) she, (b) Ministers in her Department and (c) officials in her Department have held with organisations that deliver disability employment projects funded by the European Social Fund. [Transferred] (169393) 22 Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how her Department plans to ensure that new supported housing accesses funding and exemptions from universal credit for new occupants. [Transferred] (169397) 23 Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people working in the gig economy who are in receipt of (a) social security benefits and (b) tax credits. [Transferred] (169908) 4 Published: Wednesday 5 September 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 24 Hugh Gaffney (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of reassessing the eligibility of people applying for personal independence payments in Scotland. [Transferred] (169698) 25 Sir Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing reductions in the level of housing benefit to meet the Government's homelessness reduction target by 2027. [Transferred] (169032) 26 Karen Lee (Lincoln): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria are used by NHS Trust employees to request proof of an individual’s eligibility to receive free hospital healthcare. [Transferred] (169847) 27 Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated to harm reduction strategies in relation to (a) GHB and (b) GHL. [Transferred] (169719) 28 Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if will he will make an assessment of the potential merits of testing for the use of (a) GHB and (b) GHL in standard toxicology reports where the cause of death is unclear. [Transferred] (169720) 29 Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress his Department has made on a National Alcohol Strategy; and how many specialist health (a) charities and (b) academics are involved in the development of that strategy. [Transferred] (169472) 30 Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has plans to replicate the level of funding to support disabled people into work provided by the European Social Fund in the UK Shared Prosperity Fund after the UK leaves the EU. [Transferred] (169389) 31 Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund budget that will be allocated to projects supporting disabled people into work.