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.