1 House of Commons Questions for Oral or Written Answer beginning on Tuesday 5 September 2017 (the ‘Questions Book’) Questions in this paper are arranged in the following way: date for answer; Oral before Written under each date; date of tabling under each answering date; unstarred and transferred questions followed by answering departments in alphabetical order. TUESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER Questions for Written Answer Notices given on Tuesday 11 July 1 Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Minister for Women and N Equalities, what funding the Government Equalities Office plans to make available to tackle period poverty; and whether she plans to meet her equivalent in the Scottish Parliament to discuss its initiative to provide sanitary products to women and girls on low incomes. (4361) Notices given on Thursday 13 July 1 Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how N much was spent on incontinence products by (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, (b) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, (c) Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, (d) Bolton NHS, (e) East Lancashire Hospitals, (f) Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals, (g) Warrington and Halton Hospitals and (h) St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals in each quarter from 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2017. (4867) 2 Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home N Department, how many police officers at (a) Lancashire, (b) Greater Manchester, (c) Cumbria, (d) Merseyside and (e) Cheshire Constabulary identify as either (i) male, (ii) female, (iii) gay, (iv) lesbian, (v) bisexual, (vi) transgender, (vii) gender fluid, (viii) bi-gender, (ix) non-binary, (x) gender queer, (xi) gender non-conforming, (xii) tri-gender, (xiii) all genders, (xiv) intersex or (xv) another gender identity. (4819) ★ Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. † 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, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. 2 Questions Book Notices given on Tuesday 18 July 1 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for N Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to publish the (a) Pye Tait research and (b) consultation documents on the practice of cash retentions. (5691) 2 Gill Furniss (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary N of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish a response to the Post Office consultation that closed in December 2016. (5796) 3 Gill Furniss (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary N of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether there will be further closures of Crown post offices in addition to those announced in January 2017. (5889) 4 Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, N Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the potential contribution of small modular nuclear reactors to UK energy supply. (5791) 5 Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for N Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Government plans to publish its response to the Corporate Governance Reform consultation. (5678) 6 Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for N Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the distribution of research and development establishments on regional inequality. (5679) 7 Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for N Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will review ways of allocating Government investment in research and development to ensure regional equality. (5680) 8 Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for N Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of a sectoral approach to industrial strategy on regional inequality. (5681) 9 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State N for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent investment the Government has made to support the supply chain for the automotive sector. (5836) Questions Book 3 10 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State N for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what his policy is on feed-in tariffs for solar energy. (5840) 11 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet N Office, how many people aged between 18 and 25 in Coventry South constituency were on the electoral register for the 2017 General Election. (5792) 12 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet N Office, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of constituents in Coventry South constituency worked in the public sector in each year for which data is available. (5797) 13 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet N Office, how many people aged between 18 and 25 in Coventry South constituency were recorded in the latest census estimate. (5932) 14 Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Minister for N the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2017 to Question 1153 on social services, what steps he is taking to ensure that the consultation into social care will receive the views of those with dementia and carers of people with dementia. (5725) 15 Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet N Office, which of his Department's functions are carried out in (a) England and (b) London; and what the administrative costs were of those functions in each of those areas in the last year for which figures are available. (5879) 16 Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet N Office, what estimate he has made of the level of carbon emissions from his Department's buildings in each year since 2015. (5880) 17 Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet N Office, how much (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible spent on external consultants and advisers in each year since 2015. (5881) 18 Tommy Sheppard (Edinburgh East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet N Office, how much was spent on advertising by (a) his Department and (b) each of its (i) non-departmental public bodies and (ii) executive agencies in each year since 2015. (5882) 19 Colleen Fletcher (Coventry North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the N Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the public sector pay cap on living standards for public sector workers. (5884) 4 Questions Book 20 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask Mr Chancellor of the N Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 July 2017 to Question 3508, on the minimum wage, what proportion of the identified arrears have been recovered. (5675) 21 Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for N Communities and Local Government, how many prosecutions there have been in England for the illegal sub-letting of local authority or housing association property in the last year for which information is available; and what the largest penalty imposed for such an offence was. (5843) 22 Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for N Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of local authority and housing association properties in England which are currently being sub-let illegally; and what steps the Government is taking to counter such illegal subletting. (5844) 23 Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, N pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2017 to Question 435, what assessment he has made of the effect on the shipping industry of the time taken to publish the National Shipbuilding Strategy. (5790) 24 Peter Kyle (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media N and Sport, when her Department plans to issue guidance to clarify the extent to which the Crown guarantee covers (a) existing pension payments of BT employees and (b) future pension payments of BT employees. (5938) 25 Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, N what the proposed timetable is for the engagement process on the scope and content of (a) relationship education for primary school children and (b) relationship and sex education for secondary school children. (5677) 26 Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, N when she plans to introduce the regulations under the Children and Social Work Act 2017, relating to the publication of guidance on high quality relationships and sex education teaching in secondary schools and relationships education teaching in primary schools. (5724) 27 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary N of State for Education, pursuant to her Statement of 17 July 2017, Official Report, column 565, if she will provide a breakdown of the proposed £420 million in spending efficiencies and savings that her Department plans to make from the main capital budget. (5793) Questions Book 5 28 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary N of State for Education, pursuant to her Statement of 17 July 2017, Official Report, column 565, how her Department plans to make a further £95 million in efficiencies and savings to the main capital budget. (5794) 29 Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary N of State for Education, pursuant to her Statement of 17 July 2017, Official Report, column 565, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of changes to the main capital budget on fire safety in schools.