Published: Friday 14 September 2018 Questions tabled on Thursday 13 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 Tuesday 9 October Questions for Written Answer 1 Heidi Allen (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2018 to Question 129098, how many reports of hare coursing were received in each year since 2014; and how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been relating to hare coursing in 2018 to date. (174788) 2 N Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of applications that the Centre for Public Appointments has received for the post of Social Mobility Commissioner were (a) solicited and (b) unsolicited by the Government. (174655) 3 N Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Odgers Berndtson and (b) any other human resources firm has received funding for services for appointments to the Social Mobility Commission in the last 12 months. (174656) 4 Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2017 to Question 106493 on Cybercrime: USA, whether the National Cyber Security Centre plans to publish the outcome of its pilot; and if he will make a statement. (174710) 5 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average tenure is of a cyber specialist working at (a) GCHQ and (b) the National Cyber Security Centre. (174841) 2 Published: Friday 14 September 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2018 6 N Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the number of people turned away from polling booths during the Voter ID pilot at the Local Elections was in comparison to the number of people charged with voter ID fraud over the last five years. (174750) 7 N Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse was of the Boundary Commission Review. (174751) 8 N Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the 2018-19 Main Estimates, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK to leave the EU. (174775) 9 Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to respond to the July 2018 report of the National Infrastructure Commission’s entitled National Infrastructure Assessment. (174781) 10 Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support micro-enterprises in Wallasey constituency. (174639) 11 Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support small business growth in (a) Merseyside and (b) Wirral. (174640) 12 N Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) businesses have used the Small Business Commissioner's website to resolve late payment disputes, (b) late payment cases have been resolved and (c) large companies have changed their payment practices as a result of the intervention of the Commissioner. (174700) 13 N Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made on strengthening the Prompt Payment Code; and whether he plans to include in the Code a (a) formal accreditation and (b) revalidation process. (174701) 14 N Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many complaints his Department has received from suppliers dissatisfied with the late payment practices of companies that have signed up to the Prompt Payment Code. (174702) 15 Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to encourage businesses to become signatories to the Prompt Payment Code. (174703) 16 N Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that all Government suppliers are signatories of the Prompt Payment Code. (174704) Published: Friday 14 September 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2018 3 17 N Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working in (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department are paid less than the (A) national and (B) London living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation. (174680) 18 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer of 18 July 2018 to Question 163133 on Work Experience: Pay, what the timetable is for the public guidance to be updated. (174739) 19 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his answer of 18 July 2018 to Question 163805 on Industrial Disputes: Ballots, when that meeting is planned to take place; and who the invitees will be. (174740) 20 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of people employed by umbrella companies. (174743) 21 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of self-employment among workers aged 65 and above. (174744) 22 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number of self-employed people (a) with and (b) without employees. (174745) 23 Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential value to the UK economy of achieving a better gender balance on company boards. (174746) 24 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the (a) cost to and (b) liabilities on the public purse of developing a UK alternative to the Galileo satellite navigation system. (174709) 25 N Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the 2018-19 Main Estimates, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK to leave the EU. (174774) 26 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement, Government invests £5m to increase places for disadvantaged children in youth organisations, published on 10 September 2018, to which areas he plans to distribute that funding; and whether he has plans to allocate funding from that fund to Wakefield. (174651) 4 Published: Friday 14 September 2018 QUESTIONS TABLED ON THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2018 27 Tom Pursglove (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what negotiations have taken place for the selection of training facilities for urban sports ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (174728) 28 Tom Pursglove (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the timetable is for the announcement of the preferred training facilities for Team GB ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (174729) 29 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on releasing the £150 million allocated to improve rural broadband in Northern Ireland. (174721) 30 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on lowering of stakes on FOBTs in Northern Ireland. (174722) 31 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to provide funding for regional youth programmes on historical and cultural topics relevant to Ulster Scots. (174723) 32 Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Teacher appraisal and capability: A model policy, published on 22 May 2012, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that teacher's appraisals are carried out in accordance with the criteria set down in that guidance. (174707) 33 N Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the 2018-19 Main Estimates, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK to leave the EU. (174773) 34 N Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the numbers of pupils completing the English Baccalaureate in (a) Coventry South constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.