Published: Tuesday 12 February 2019

Questions for Answer on Tuesday 12 February

Questions for Written Answer

1 Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Government plans to respond to the recommendations on tackling discrimination against guide dog owners using taxis in the September 2018 report of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and PHV Licensing. [Transferred] (218777)

2 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the Government plans to report on imports of conventional arms under the Arms Trade Treaty. [Transferred] (216407)

3 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts from signatories of the Arms Trade Treaty on improving mechanisms for gathering data on arms imports; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (216408)

4 Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government remains committed to annual reporting obligations for imports of conventional arms under the Arms Trade Treaty. [Transferred] (216409)

5 N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the change was in the level of rent arrears among public sector housing tenants between 2016 and 2018. [Transferred] (217492)

Questions tabled on Monday 11 February 2019

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.

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6 N Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what advice the Cabinet Office provides the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government on payment to local authorities of funds through the Bellwin Scheme. [Transferred] (218229)

Questions for Answer on Wednesday 13 February

Questions for Written Answer

1 N Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central): To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of Crown Court trials did not complete due to a prosecution failure to disclose evidence to the defence in each year since 2010. [Transferred] (218823)

2 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Attorney General, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219252)

3 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the Government's Project After plans to improve the economy in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219381)

4 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) civil servants and (b) Government ministers are employed on plans to support economic growth in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219383)

5 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) civil servants and (b) Ministers that are working on plans strengthen the Welsh economy in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219384)

6 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Departments are drawing up plans to strengthen the UK economy in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219387)

7 Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on countering non-kinetic threats. (219494)

8 Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Glasgow South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to support public sector agencies in dealing with hybrid and non-kinetic threats. (219495)

9 Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress is being made on preparations for public involvement in the Voluntary National Review of the Sustainable Development Goals. (219403)

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10 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide the gender pay gap data for 2018 by (a) disability, (b) ethnicity and (c) age. (219471)

11 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219263)

12 Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses his Department has investigated for underpaying staff in the last year. (219501)

13 Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses have been fined for underpaying staff in the last 12 months for which figures are available. (219502)

14 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217094, what estimate he has made of the cost to the UK Steel industry of preparing for the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219405)

15 Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK moving from 4th to 9th in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index on the viability of small businesses. (219558)

16 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is drawing up plans for specific sectors to boost the UK economy in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219385)

17 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is drawing up plans for specific nations and regions of the UK to boost the economy in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219386)

18 Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) Electricity, Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 and (b) Distribution Connection and Use of Service Agreement whereby only Distribution Network Operators, Energy Suppliers and meter operators can remove cut-out fuses in domestic properties. (219265)

19 Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to introduce changes to the regulations under the Electricity, Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations (ESQCR) and the Distribution Connection and Use of Service Agreement (DCUSA) to enable registered electricians to remove cut out fuses. (219266)

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20 Stephen Gethins (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to promote Scotland's tidal energy potential in 2019. (219489)

21 Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): “To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government’s commitment to increase public investment in research and development by £7 billion by 2021-22 is dependent on the outcome of the forthcoming Spending Review. (219416)

22 Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether UK Research and Innovation has plans to make an assessment of the effect of its review into Open Access policy on (a) UK researchers and (b) overseas researchers seeking to work in the UK. (219422)

23 Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department what assessment he has made of the potential risk to the UK of progressing Open Access in advance of other international research in (a) the US and (b) China. (219423)

24 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment has he made of the effect on businesses using the (a) Port of Dover and (b) Channel Tunnel of the reintroduction of customs procedures between the EU and the UK; and if he will make a statement. (219342)

25 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what gender awareness training staff at the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate have undertaken in relation to their inspections of employment agencies’ practices; and whether the inspectorate has a gender awareness strategy in place for those inspections. (219467)

26 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what gender awareness training staff at HMRC have undertaken in relation to their role in enforcing payment of national minimum wage rates; and whether HMRC has a gender awareness strategy in place for implementing that role. (219468)

27 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Government plans to publish its response to the ethnicity pay gap consultation; and if he will make a statement. (219472)

28 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to consult on lowering the threshold for gender pay gap reporting in future reporting years. (219473)

29 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219251)

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30 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219288)

31 N Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on what date he plans to take steps to introduce legal responsibilities for social media companies in relation to harmful content in the event that those companies do not take voluntary action. [Transferred] (218806)

32 Ben Bradley (Mansfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to English waterways for canoeists. (219578)

33 Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage children to participate in a range of sports outside of the school day. (219323)

34 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with Ofcom on opening up access to undeployed 5G 3.6GHz radio spectrum for use by independent and community networks. (219543)

35 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential coverage benefits to rural communities of adopting a dynamic spectrum access model for the allocation of 5G radio spectrum. (219544)

36 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219255)

37 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219294)

38 Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2019 to Question 204600 on Teachers: Pay, what representations his Department received on the decision to award the teachers’ pay grant to maintained schools and academies but not sixth form colleges. (219402)

39 Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information the Government holds on schools’ ability to recruit and retain permanent teaching staff. (219547)

40 Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total number of (a) full-time teachers required for schools in England to all be fully staffed; and (b) full-time equivalent permanent teachers currently teaching in schools in England. (219548)

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41 Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of agency supply teachers used by schools in England for each of the last five years. (219549)

42 Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the amount spent by schools in England on agency supply teachers for each of the last five years. (219550)

43 Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of staff teaching in schools in England who are (a) permanent and (b) supply teachers for each of the last five years. (219551)

44 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he made of the effect on people's access to religiously neutral schools of his policy of funding a new round of religiously selective and voluntary aided schools; and whether prior to forming that policy he estimated the number of (a) people living in areas where the only reasonably accessible state school is faith-based and (b) children who put a faith school as their first choice who are prohibited entry to that school on the basis of faith. (219380)

45 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate the shortage of qualified HGV drivers in the road haulage sector; and if he will make a statement. (219347)

46 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many road haulage apprenticeships at each level were started in each of the last three years for which data is available; how many have been apprenticeships were completed; and if he will make a statement. (219348)

47 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219256)

48 Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has undertaken any recent research into the number of pupils eligible but not registered for free school meals. (219512)

49 Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has undertaken any recent research into the effect of eligible pupils not registering for free school meals on pupil premium funding for schools. (219513)

50 Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has undertaken any recent research into the number of pupils eligible but not registered for free school meals in Poole. (219514)

51 Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Department has undertaken any recent research into the number of pupils eligible but not registered for free school meals in Dorset. (219515)

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52 Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has recently undertaken any research into the effect of eligible pupils not registering for free school meals on pupil premium funding for schools in Poole. (219516)

53 Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has undertaken recent research into the effect of eligible pupils not registering for free school meals on pupil premium funding for schools for Dorset. (219517)

54 Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer on 15 January 2019 to Question 207205 on Dredging of the Port of Ramsgate, whether the Marine Management Organisation have granted a license to the Port of Ramsgate for the dredging of the port as part contingency planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219370)

55 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with Ofcom on encouraging flexible licensing practices for 5G radio spectrum to support the adoption of automation and technology in the agriculture sector; and if he will make a statement. (219545)

56 Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a list of the submissions and locations of the rural projects his Department is considering supporting; and when he plans to announce the successful applicants of those projects. (219329)

57 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to control stoat numbers. (219436)

58 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cases of chronic wasting disease in deer there were in each of the last five years; and what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the EU on tackling that disease. (219437)

59 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce water pollution from industry. (219438)

60 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to increase stocks of (a) wild and (b) farmed salmon in the UK. (219439)

61 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prevent birds of prey being stolen to order. (219440)

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62 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has allocated to grey partridge recovery projects. (219441)

63 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the numbers of geese that migrated to the UK in 2018. (219442)

64 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage young people into farming. (219443)

65 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether is Department has allocated funding to charities to help tackle depression in the farming community. (219444)

66 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote the skills of hedge-planting in rural areas. (219445)

67 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to prevent lung worm in dogs. (219446)

68 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taking to improve animal conditions on farms. (219447)

69 Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Natural England plans to consult on the implementation of the Invasive Alien Species Order 2019 to create species action plans that allow a flexible and risk-based management approach to licensing the release of (a) grey squirrels, (b) muntjac deer and (c) other widespread species where their release poses no threat to native wildlife. (219390)

70 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219289)

71 Stephen Kerr (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what plans the Government has for continued participation in the Erasmus scheme in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219524)

72 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219257)

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73 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219293)

74 Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support internally displaced people in (a) Syria and (b) Iraq. (219319)

75 John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what programmes her Department (a) promotes and (b) funds to rehabilitate and reintegrate former child soldiers into their communities. (219527)

76 John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the recruitment of children by (a) armed forces and (b) groups in the Central African Republic. (219528)

77 John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to programmes to prevent the recruitment of children by armed forces and groups. (219529)

78 John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made on the effectiveness of steps by the international community to reintegrate and rehabilitate children previously recruited by armed forces and groups. (219530)

79 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which EU agencies her Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if she will make a statement. (219259)

80 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the value of contracts held by her Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219295)

81 N Gill Furniss (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the European Commission Safeguard Measures on imports in relation to section 232 tariffs introduced by the US administration will be in force in UK law on the day that the UK leaves the EU. [Transferred] (218836)

82 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to increase bilateral trade with South Africa. (219434)

83 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to increase bilateral trade with (a) South and (b) North Korea. (219435)

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84 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219260)

85 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219290)

86 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of freight vehicles that have approached the Port of Dover via the A2 in each year since 2010 per (a) day on average and (b) year. (219391)

87 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of freight vehicles that have approached the Port of Dover via the A20 in each year since 2010 per (a) day on average and (b) year. (219392)

88 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of tourist vehicles that have approached the Port of Dover via the A2 in each year since 2010 per (a) day on average and (b) year. (219393)

89 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of tourist vehicles that have approached the Port of Dover via the A20 in each year since 2010 per (a) day on average and (b) year. (219394)

90 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of road accidents on the A2 between the Lydden traffic lights and the Port of Dover in each year since 2010. (219395)

91 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of vehicles that have travelled on the A2 between the Lydden traffic lights and the Whitfield roundabout in each year since 2010 per (a) day on average and (b) year. (219396)

92 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of dualling the A2 between the Lydden traffic lights and the Port of Dover. (219397)

93 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of whether a ferry route could be re-established between Dover and Zeebrugge; and if he will make a statement. (219398)

94 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many meetings his officials had with executives of Seaborne Freight; and what the (a) length and (b) cost of those meetings was. (219310)

95 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any expenses were claimed by civil servants undertaking their duties to establish contractual arrangements with Seaborne Freight. (219311)

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96 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) FTE civil servants and (b) lawyers worked on the Seaborne Freight contract during the (i) due diligence, (ii) contract management and (iii) contract cancellation processes. (219312)

97 David Hanson (Delyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what was the cost of legal advice during the (a) due diligence, (b) contract management and (c) contract cancellation process for the Seaborne Freight contract. (219313)

98 John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) geographic and (b) track miles of train tracks have been electrified in each year since 1997. (219526)

99 Julia Lopez (Hornchurch and Upminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a definition of cross border hiring, as recommended by the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and PHV Licensing, to (a) stop drivers operating in an area where they have not been licensed and (b) protect passengers; and if he will make a statement. (219562)

100 Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of funding provided by the train operating companies' contribution to the British Transport Police in the last 12 months. (219303)

101 Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of support for passengers provided by the British Transport Police (a) at train stations and (b) on trains in the last 12 months. (219304)

102 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he is taking to support the Road Haulage Association's Road to Logistics initiative that to provide (a) training and (b) employment within the road haulage sector; and if he will make a statement. (219340)

103 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the shortage of qualified HGV drivers in the road haulage industry; what steps he is taking to tackle that shortage; and if he will make a statement. (219343)

104 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he make an assessment of the effect on the UK road haulage industry in the event that fuel duty was reduced to the (a) level in France, (b) level in Germany and (c) EU27 average; and if he will make a statement. (219344)

105 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of road freight in the UK is carried by (a) UK-based and (b) non-UK based hauliers; and if he will make a statement. (219345)

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106 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Home Secretary, if he will include HGV Drivers and Qualified Warehouse Personnel in the UK Shortage Occupation List; and will he make a statement. (219346)

107 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average battery life is for electric cars; and whether that corresponds to warranties on offer for those cars; and if he will make a statement. (219353)

108 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect on the battery life of electric cars of (a) charging at too frequent intervals, (b) not charging frequently enough and (c) not using the correct chargers; and will he make a statement. (219354)

109 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect on the Government's strategy to achieve zero emission cars and vans of carbon emissions in the manufacture of batteries for cars with an annual mileage of less than 10,000 miles. (219355)

110 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps are being taken to reduce carbon emissions as a result of the manufacture of electric car batteries; and if he will make a statement. (219356)

111 Faisal Rashid (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason representatives of horse riders and carriage drivers were omitted from the review of the highway code. (219580)

112 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219286)

113 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) award and (b) cancellation of the contract between his Department and Seaborne Freight. (219299)

114 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to directly award the contract formerly held by Seaborne Freight to a new firm. (219300)

115 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the contract signed between his Department and Seaborne Freight for the provision of ferry services in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal included provision for compensation for that company in the event that a deal for the UK to leave the EU is agreed. (219301)

116 Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to take implement the proposals from its Automatic enrolment review 2017, published on 18 December 2017, to remove the lower limit of qualifying earnings for workplace pension auto-enrolment. (219503)

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117 Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support low paid women in part time jobs to save for retirement. (219504)

118 Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people who do not meet the automatic enrolment earnings threshold to save for retirement. (219505)

119 Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to assist universal credit claimants who are unable to attend Jobcentre appointments on weekdays before 5pm because of work commitments. (219429)

120 Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to compensate universal credit claimants who must take unpaid time off work to attend Jobcentre appointments. (219430)

121 Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of co-ordinating re-assessments for disabled claimants in receipt of employment support allowance and personal independence payments to avoid people having to undergoing multiple re-assessments. (219485)

122 Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when employment support allowance claimants in receipt of the severe disability premium residing in Glasgow North constituency will be migrated to universal credit. (219486)

123 Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's target time-frame is for its decision letters to reach claimants from the date on such correspondence. (219487)

124 Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the time-frame for mandatory reconsideration and appeal submissions to run from the expected date of receipt of the decision letter by the claimant. (219488)

125 Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what updated guidance his Department has issued to personal independence payment (PIP) assessment providers to ensure that those assessors understand the impact and effect of contaminated blood on claimants, and what monitoring his Department has undertaken of the outcomes of PIP assessments since the review of haemarthropathy cases to ensure the effectiveness of that guidance. (219379)

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126 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what gender awareness training staff at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have undertaken in relation to their inspections of workplaces; and whether the HSE has a gender awareness strategy in place for those inspections. (219470)

127 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of contracts held by her Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219283)

128 Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that surgery after-care equipment is (a) collected from patients when it is no longer needed and (b) reused when in pristine condition in order to reduce costs. (219411)

129 Bambos Charalambous (Enfield, Southgate): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ensure that every person who has finished hospital-based treatment has access to specific and tailored follow-up support. (219531)

130 Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 215178, if he will list the (a) 17 cancers where no staging data is available and (b) 67 cancers where some of the specific tumour morphologies are unstageable. (219404)

131 Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to tackle public health misinformation on social media platforms. (219328)

132 Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 213200 on Air Pollution and with reference to p165 of the World Health Organisation report, Review of evidence on health aspects of air pollution – REVIHAAP Project, if his Department will conduct research into PM1 and PM0.1. (219268)

133 Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 213200 and with reference to page six of the January 2013 report of the Health Effects Institute entitled Understanding the Health Effects of Ambient Ultrafine Particles, if he will implement the recommendations of that report on PM0.1 and PM1. (219269)

134 Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance response time to emergency calls is from (a) Dover and (b) Deal. (219399)

135 Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the levels of physical activity among primary school children in (a) Bexley Borough, (b) London and (c) England in each of the last five years. (219320)

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136 Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the levels of physical activity among secondary school children in (a) Bexley Borough, (b) London and (c) England in each of the last five years. (219321)

137 Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the levels of physical activity among adults in (a) Bexley Borough, (b) London and (c) England in each of the last five years. (219322)

138 Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to facilitate diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. (219507)

139 Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to people adopting children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. (219508)

140 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 213889 on Clinical Commissioning Groups: Harrow, whether he plans to publish the recovery plan for Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group. (219245)

141 Craig Tracey (North Warwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the forthcoming NHS workforce implementation plan will ensure that staffing numbers are at the level needed to achieve the Government’s target to diagnose 75 per cent of cancers at an early stage by 2028. (219518)

142 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219291)

143 Helen Whately (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the recommendations made by the Committee on cost effectiveness methodology for immunisation programmes and procurement, published in February 2018. (219520)

144 Helen Whately (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to publish a response to the consultation the Cost effectiveness methodology for vaccination programmes, published on 26 February 2018. (219521)

145 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Egyptian counterpart on increasing the number of UK tourists to that country. (219431)

146 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Nigerian on reduce the incidences of HIV in that country. (219432)

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147 Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Ethiopian counterpart on strengthening democracy in that country. (219433)

148 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219258)

149 Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) budget of Press TV and (b) level of investment it receives from the Iranian State; and what assessment he has made of Press TV's level of editorial independence. (219522)

150 Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in how many media markets do (a) Russia Today, (b) Press TV and (c) BBC World broadcast for 24 hours. (219523)

151 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219292)

152 Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the UK will ratify the Republic of North Macedonia's accession to NATO; and if he will make a statement. (219389)

153 Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration detainees currently in detention have been detained for more than 28 days. (219500)

154 Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-Semitic attacks there have been in part of the UK since 2012. (219327)

155 Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on complaints against Serco as a provider of asylum accommodation. (219484)

156 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to respond to recommendations made in the Lift the Ban report entitled Why people seeking asylum should have the right to work; and will he make a statement. (219339)

157 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of whether the UK’s obligations under Articles 12 and 13 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking and Article 11 of Directive 2011/36/EU can be met for potential victims of trafficking who are detained in immigration detention centres. (219465)

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158 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people who have been identified as potential victims of human trafficking or modern slavery during immigration detention and who have then received reasonable conclusive grounds under the National Referral Mechanism are released on receipt of that grounds decision. (219466)

159 Jess Phillips (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what gender awareness training staff at the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) have undertaken in relation to their inspections of workplaces; and whether the GLAA has a gender awareness strategy in place for those inspections. (219469)

160 Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what oversight his Department has on the content included in Life in the United Kingdom: A guide for new residents. (219337)

161 Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the people listed in the next edition of Life in the United Kingdom: A guide for new residents reflect the diversity of the UK. (219338)

162 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219254)

163 Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress his Department is making on drafting regulations on mandatory electrical safety checks in the private rented sector; and what consultations his Department is undertaking to inform the drafting of those regulations. (219264)

164 Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough and Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance is provided to local authorities on dealing with the estates of people for whom they assume responsibility for a public health funeral. (219367)

165 Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214560 on Buildings: Insulation, if the bespoke test methodology developed by the Building Research Establishment will examine dangerous gases produced by the burning of building materials during a fire. (219454)

166 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219253)

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167 Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 211736 on Prison Service: Pay, what estimate he has made of the number of Operational Managers that have incorrectly claimed to be up to date with their Control and Restraint training in each of the last three years. (219424)

168 Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 211736 on Prison Service: Pay, how many Operational Managers were not up to date with their Control and Restraint training in each of the last three years. (219425)

169 Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 211736 on Prison Service: Pay, whether Operational Managers that are not up to date with their Control and Restraint training are entitled to the claim the required hours addition allowance. (219426)

170 Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough and Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many estates of people that die without (a) known entitled relatives and (b) leaving a will were referred to the Bona Vacantia Division of the Government Legal Department in each year since 2012. (219364)

171 Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough and Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many estates of people that die without (a) known entitled relatives and (b) leaving a will in the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall were referred to the law firm Farrer and Co. Solicitors in each year since 2012. (219365)

172 Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough and Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on the procedure to follow for dealing with the estates of people for whom they assume responsibility for a public health funeral. (219366)

173 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much HM Prison and Probation Service spent on hotel accommodation for the prison governor and senior leadership team (a) of each prison and (b) in each region in each of the last five years. (219583)

174 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the amount spent by HM Prison and Probation Service on travel costs for prison governors and their senior leadership team by region and prison for each of the last five years. (219584)

175 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the amount of available space for (a) work, (b) education and (c) training in each prison in England and Wales. (219585)

176 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the median wage of people on Release On Temporary License by each Category D prison in England and Wales. (219586)

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177 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the average length of tenure for prison governors in England and Wales. (219587)

178 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many training places are available at each prison in England and Wales. (219588)

179 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) community sentence and (b) custodial sentence disposals there were in each year since 1993. (219589)

180 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) community and (b) immediate custodial sentences were issued for convictions of violent offences in each year since 1993. (219590)

181 Neil O'Brien (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who previously had (a) no, (b) between one and four, (c) between five and nine, (d) between 10 and 15, (e) between 16 and 25, (f) between 26 and 50, (g) between 51 and 75, (h) between 76 and 100 and (i) 101 or more convictions, were convicted in each of the last three years and received an immediate custodial sentence. (219591)

182 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219261)

183 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219287)

184 Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what formal engagements she has had with (a) private, (b) public and (c) voluntary sector employers since 1 November 2018. (219324)

185 Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will publish her formal engagements with representatives of trade and industry bodies in Northern Ireland since 1 November 2018. (219325)

186 Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland; and how much funding she has allocated to those plans. (219326)

187 David Linden (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in March 2019. (219559)

188 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what preparation his Department has done to support the economic growth of Wales in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219382)

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189 Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to ensure that inflation does not rise in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219388)

190 Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the total commercial value of licensed but undeployed radio spectrum designated for 4G services in (a) Wales and (b) the UK. (219546)

191 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of implementing Operation Brock on the (a) UK economy, (b) economy in Kent and (c) the financial viability of the road haulage industry; and if he will make a statement. (219341)

192 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the effect on inflation of a reduction in fuel duty to the (a) level in France, (b) level in Germany and (c) EU27 average; and if he will make a statement. (219349)

193 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the effect of trends in the level of UK fuel duty on competition between UK based hauliers and hauliers based in the European Union. (219350)

194 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he had with representatives of the road freight industry on the introduction of an essential user rebate on fuel duty for that industry. (219351)

195 Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead): Defence To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Departments has allocated funding to promote the road haulage and logistics sector to veterans; and if he will make a statement. (219352)

196 Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219262)

197 Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value is of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May, and (c) Mott MacDonald in the last two years. (219296)

Questions for Answer on Thursday 14 February

Questions for Written Answer

1 N Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what official Government posts Baroness Brady holds. (219308)

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2 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government holds information on the number of times that competent authorities have issued (a) warnings, (b) information notices, (c) inspections, (d) enforcement notices and (e) penalties under the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018. (219582)

3 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 215097, what the top five consultancy firms were by spend for each of the financial years and figures provided in his answer. (219297)

4 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether officials in his Department were present at the financial rescue talks between Interserve and its lenders. (219298)

5 N Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to encouraging businesses to reduce unnecessary energy consumption. (219579)

6 N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much grant funding has been awarded to the Met Office for volcanic ash weather monitoring in each of the last three years. (219330)

7 N Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the economic benefits of the UK's wave and tidal stream energy sectors. (219536)

8 N Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of the potential export market for the UK's wave and tidal stream energy technologies. (219537)

9 N Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support the UK's wave and tidal stream energy sector. (219538)

10 N Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for the publication of the Government's response to the consultation on the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill. (219477)

11 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to make an economic assessment of the policy options considered by UK Research and Innovation’s review of Open Access policy. (219418)

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12 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, what role his Department will play in the review being conducted by UK Research and Innovation on Open Access policy; and whether his Department will be represented on the Open Access Review Steering Group. (219419)

13 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of expanding Open Access research. (219420)

14 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences publishing. (219421)

15 N Sir Vince Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received from the racing industry on potential disruption to race meetings as a result of an incompatibility of quarantine rules between the UK, Ireland and France in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219267)

16 N Judith Cummins (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Bradford South of 30 November 2018 requesting a meeting in relation to Channel 4 and Bradford. (219474)

17 N Jo Platt (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 214617 on Cybercrime, for what reason that Answer does not contain information on ministerial discussions with EU counterparts on the UK's continued relationship with the EU on cyber-related matters in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219581)

18 N Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 37 of the Government's Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, what work his Department has carried out with Nesta, Osca and the Big Lottery Fund on the Good Help programme. (219449)

19 N Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 37 of the Government's Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, what plans his Department has to support and encourage the sustainability and spread of community organising in the longer term will; and if he will publish those plans. (219450)

20 N Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 41 of the Government's Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, what progress has been made by his Department on designing the £90 million dormant accounts funding to help young people facing barriers to work to reach their full potential. (219451)

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21 N Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 78 of the Government's Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, what work his Department has undertaken with the Charity Commission to explore options for placing that organisation on a secure and sustainable financial footing and ensuring it is adequately resourced to meet future challenges. (219452)

22 N Mr Steve Reed (Croydon North): To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 15 of the Government's Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, what progress his Department has made on working with the Big Lottery Fund to use £55 million from dormant accounts to fund a new, independent organisation which will work with partners across the private and social sectors to tackle financial exclusion. (219453)

23 N Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have graduated with a degree related to computer games design and programming in each year since 2010. (219318)

24 N Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans for all secondary school students to receive compulsory first aid training, resulting in a formal qualification. (219333)

25 N Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2019 to Question 216290 on Frontline, how much money has been repaid by participants to (a) Frontline and (b) his Department. (219458)

26 N Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 217025 on Specialist Schools: Complaints, how many parents were dissatisfied with their school’s complaints procedure and subsequently made complaints to him on the use of restrictive practices in specialist schools in each of the last five years. (219459)

27 N Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many higher education providers have not completed the process of re-registration with the Office for Students. (219460)

28 N Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many higher education institutions have not published a student protection plan. (219461)

29 N Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is consulting on providing additional funding to higher education providers to cover the increased costs of employer contributions to the Teachers' Pension Scheme. (219462)

30 N Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of students not currently covered by a student protection plan. (219463)

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31 N Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which higher education institutions have yet to publish an agreed student protection plan. (219464)

32 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219282)

33 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer on 15 January 2019 to Question 207205 on Ramsgate Port: Dredging, whether the Marine Management Organisation has granted a license to Seaborne Freight for operation in Ramsgate. (219368)

34 N Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer on 15 January 2019 to Question 207205 on dredging of the Port of Ramsgate, whether Natural England were informed of the Environmental Impact Assessment conducted by the Port of Ramsgate prior to the dredging of the port as part of contingency planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (219369)

35 N Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to publish information on action taken against people in breach of regulations in horse racing with regard to the use of the whip. (219332)

36 N Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect children from the effect of air pollution in (a) the London Borough of Southwark, (b) London and (c) England. (219243)

37 N Sue Hayman (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications were received from travelling circuses to use wild animals in (a) 2018 and (b) 2019; and (i) how many animals and (ii) of which species were listed in each application. (219475)

38 N Sue Hayman (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will bring forward legislative proposals to end the use of wild animals in circuses in England; and what form that legislation will take. (219476)

39 N Christine Jardine (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of committing to legally binding air pollution targets that are in line with World Health Organisation air pollutant limit values and (b) what other initiatives his Department has planned to ensure that the number of children living in areas of air pollution are halved by 2025. (219552)

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40 N Alex Sobel (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to introduce an equivalent to the Faraday challenge for the promotion and further development of hydrogen fuel cell technology for electric vehicles. (219572)

41 N Alex Sobel (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the recyclability of (a) batteries in electric vehicles and (b) fuel cells in hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. (219573)

42 N Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219249)

43 N Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the status of EU Member State driving licences will be in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) without a deal and (b) with the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration as currently drafted. (219534)

44 N Layla Moran (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) permanent and (b) contracted staff in his Department in each of the last 12 months. (219567)

45 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, under which section of the Civil Service Code is civil service support to the Alternative Arrangements Working Group permissible. [Transferred] (217471)

46 N Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which (a) for-profit private companies and (b) private contractors received Official Development Assistance for the (i) delivery of education and (ii) facilitation of education programmes in (A) Ethiopia, (B) Tanzania, (C) Afghanistan, (D) Ghana and (E) Uganda in each year from 2015 to 2018. (219563)

47 N Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to oral evidence by the Minister of State at the Department for International Development to the International Development Committee on DFID's work on education: Leaving no one behind, HC 367, on 18 October 2017, what methodology was used to establish that 95 per cent of his Department's education funding goes to public state school services. (219564)

48 N Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to oral evidence by the Minister of State for International Development to the International Development Committee on DFID's work on education: Leaving no one behind, HC 367, on 18 October 2017, what time period the Minister is referring to in his statement that 95 per cent of DFID’s education funding goes to public state school services. (219565)

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49 N Dan Carden (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of education funding it allocated to public state school services in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017. (219566)

50 N Stephen Morgan (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether he is taking steps to support a global initiative of Governments and businesses to ensure that workers in (a) cocoa and (b) other supply chains receive a living income; and if he will make a statement. [Transferred] (217632)

51 N Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the provision of (a) reproductive health and (b) gender-based violence prevention services in Yemen. (219374)

52 N Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department has taking to help prevent violence against women and girls in Yemen. (219375)

53 N Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department’s spending is currently focused on gender-based violence prevention. (219376)

54 N Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will take steps to ensure her Department's implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 5 and Goal 8 includes (a) targets and (b) indicators that can be adapted in the event of crises. (219377)

55 N Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 216933, Trade Agreements: Israel, on which borders are the (a) pre-existing agreements and (b) Continuity Agreement agreed in principle between the UK and Israel based. (219275)

56 N Mr Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which Departments are responsible for each of the EU free trade agreements that the UK is seeking to roll-over. (219302)

57 N Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) due diligence checks and (b) other work carried out by or on behalf of his Department in relation to the Seaborne Freight contract. (219276)

58 N Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that all active travel initiatives that specify walking and cycling also include horse riding. (219273)

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59 N Dame Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money (a) has been paid and (b) is waiting to be paid to legal firms or lawyers by (i) Hs2 ltd and (ii) his Department in respect of any aspect of High Speed 2 in each of the last five years. (219242)

60 N Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many flights flew over the London Borough of Southwark in each of the last three years. (219244)

61 N Layla Moran (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) expenditure on the procurement process for and (b) legal advice around cancelling the Seaborne freight deal; and what the estimated cost of replacing that contract with another firm is. (219568)

62 N Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what decisions his Department has taken on the next Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise; and if he will make a statement. (219532)

63 N Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2019 to Question 205963, for what reason was the contract with Seaborne Freight withdrawn. (219478)

64 N Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants worked on the (a) contract, (b) due diligence and (c) award of the ferry route to Seaborne Freight. (219479)

65 N Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect withdrawing from the Seaborne Freight contract will have on preparations for leaving the EU without a deal. (219480)

66 N Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219250)

67 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase awareness of the option to request more frequent universal credit payments. (219554)

68 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, entitled UK poverty 2018, that in-work poverty is increasing faster than unemployment. (219555)

69 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of denying social security support to people affected by the Windrush scandal on their (a) rent arrears, (b) homelessness, and (c) personal debt. (219556)

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70 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of pensioners living in poverty. (219557)

71 N Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the (a) Birkenhead constituency and (b) Wirral local authority area have been affected by the household benefit cap in each year since 2013. (219309)

72 N Ruth George (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2019 to Question 206457 Universal Credit, when she plans to provide a substantive Answer to that Question. (219574)

73 N Ruth George (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214626, Universal Credit, what proportion of started universal credit claims were never finished due to (a) failure to attend an initial interview, (b) claimant commitment not accepted, (c) the claim was withdrawn, (d) failure to attend a subsequent interview and (e) non-entitlement. (219577)

74 N Darren Jones (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether in assessing universal credit payments the Department deducts payments in lieu of holiday as part of temporary work. (219535)

75 N Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for personal independence payment appeal tribunal dates in Middlesbrough constituency; and what steps he is taking to reduce the waiting time. (219455)

76 N Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2018 to Question 144209 on Personal Independence Payment: Appeals, what solutions her Department is exploring to increase the capacity of the Tribunals Service in relation to personal independence payment; and what the digital reform initiatives referred to in that Answer are. (219456)

77 N Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the allocation of funding for universal credit for the 2019-2020 financial year will reflect the fact that it will be a fifty-three week year. (219417)

78 N Ellie Reeves (Lewisham West and Penge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of universal credit on the financial circumstances of long-term resident EEA Nationals who no longer have worker status. (219533)

79 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library a copy of the safeguarding policy used by her Department's contractors in relation to work capability assessments. (219317)

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80 N Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which EU agencies her Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if she will make a statement. (219246)

81 N John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people applied for compensation under the pleural plaques compensation scheme in each parliamentary constituency; and what proportion of those people settled (a) in part and (b) in full. (219378)

82 N Sir Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of nationally commissioning more public health services through community pharmacy. (219278)

83 N Sir Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list each pharmacy in receipt of funding from the Pharmacy Access Scheme in each year since the establishment of that scheme. (219279)

84 N Sir Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and proportion of pharmacy funding has been spent on (a) dispensing and (b) enhanced services in each year since 2015-16. (219280)

85 N Sir Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to (a) increase medicines adherence for repeat prescriptions and (b) reduce medicines wastage from repeat prescriptions. (219281)

86 N Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the proposed amendments to the Human Medicines Regulation 2012, what treatment areas will be excluded from the serious shortage protocol for reasons of patient safety; and if he will publish a list of medicines and formulations that will be excluded as a result. (219427)

87 N Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulation 2019, what the system will be by which clinicians will be able to indicate whether or not an alternative (a) quantity, (b) strength, and (c) pharmaceutical form of medicine can be dispensed in line with the protocol; and how this system will be applied to regular repeat prescriptions. (219428)

88 N Ruth George (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of risk-stratified screening for breast cancer. (219575)

89 N Ruth George (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming NHS workforce implementation plan will include a plan to increase the numbers of NHS diagnostic radiographers. (219576)

90 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with (a) autism and (b) learning disabilities are being held in secure hospital units in England. (219481)

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91 N Sir Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of National Energy Action's report entitled, Cold homes claiming needless lives and costing every local Health and Wellbeing Board in England over £27,000 each day, published in February 2016. (219307)

92 N Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government expects to publish the prevention green paper. (219457)

93 N Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when each of the NICE methodology reviews for STA and HST are planned (a) to begin, (b) to be consulted upon and (c) to have the findings reported. (219448)

94 N Grahame Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the findings of the National Aids Trust report, Drug-Related Deaths in England, published by the National Aids Trust, published on 5 February 2019; and if he will make a statement. (219400)

95 N Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to develop a communication strategy to help publicise the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former British child migrants. (219412)

96 N Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the methodology that was used to calculate the £20,000 figure payable to those eligible for redress under the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for child migrants. (219413)

97 N Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what budget his Department has allocated to the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former British child migrants. (219414)

98 N Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons claimants who were accompanied by an adult family member on their journey to receiving countries are ineligible for payment under the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former British Child Migrants. (219415)

99 N Alex Norris (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many clinical endoscopists have been recruited to date as part of Health Education England’s target to recruit and train an additional 400 clinical endoscopists. (219561)

100 N Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) representations his Department has received on the work of the UK Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Diagnostics Collaborative and (b)

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discussions have taken place between his Department and members of that group; what the timetable is for the publication of the AMR Diagnostics Collaborative's report; and (c) if he will make a statement. (219373)

101 N Chris Stephens (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the supply of medications for rheumatoid arthritis in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219496)

102 N Chris Stephens (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) protect patients and (b) ensure pharmaceutical companies have a minimum of six weeks’ additional supply of vital medications over and above existing business-as-usual buffer stocks in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219497)

103 N Chris Stephens (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the compliance of the Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2019 with the NHS England Commissioning Framework for Biological Medicines in relation to switching medicines without consulting patients. (219498)

104 N Chris Stephens (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to support pharmaceutical staff in (a) making a decision to ration medicines to avoid extreme shortages and (b) changing prescriptions as a result of shortages without consulting a GP in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219499)

105 N Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219248)

106 N Anna Turley (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the accessibility of services for treating lymphoedema in (a) the North East and (b) England. (219492)

107 N Anna Turley (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve early diagnosis of lymphoedema. (219493)

108 N Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the interim data for the PrEP impact trial will be placed in the public domain. (219519)

109 N Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of files held by his Department in relation to Sri Lanka dating from the 1970s and 1980s that (a) have been and (b) are planned to be destroyed. (219553)

110 N Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect religious minorities and religious expression around the world. (219490)

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111 N Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect the religious expression of Christians around the world. (219491)

112 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Turkish counterparts on the detention and imprisonment of Kurdish politicians. (219361)

113 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Turkish counterpart on Kurdish people on hunger strike throughout the world in protest to the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan in that country. (219362)

114 N Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Turkish counterpart on the prison conditions and isolation of Abdullah Ocalan in Turkey. (219363)

115 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether EEA nationals and their family members who are granted pre-settled status will have restricted access to healthcare and public funds as defined under paragraph six of the Immigration Rules (a) before and (b) after 31 December 2020 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219406)

116 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether EEA nationals and their family members who are granted settled status will have restricted access to healthcare and public funds as defined under paragraph six of the Immigration Rules (a) before and (b) after 31 December 2020 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219407)

117 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether EEA nationals and their family members who are granted (a) settled status and (b) pre-settled status will have restricted access to public funds (i) before and (ii) after 31 December 2020 in the event that the UK leaves the EU under the terms of the EU Withdrawal Agreement. (219408)

118 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether EEA nationals and their family members who arrive in the UK after 29 March 2019 will have access to healthcare and public funds as defined under paragraph six of the Immigration Rules in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal. (219409)

119 N Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the political situation in Zimbabwe in relation to the deportation of Zimbabwean nationals. (219410)

120 N Anneliese Dodds (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217156, whether the National County Lines Coordination Centre will be reporting on its activities. (219569)

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121 N Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for Leave to Remain from citizens of Iran were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful; and how many of those unsuccessful applications were as a result of not being able to prove Christian faith for each year since 2012. (219274)

122 N Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department's service providers display stickers to welcome assistance dogs. (219334)

123 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much notice an asylum accommodation provider is required to provide to a resident in advance of attending at that resident's address. (219482)

124 N Patrick Grady (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures or safeguards are in place in relation to the attendance by an asylum accommodation provider at the property of one of its residents. (219483)

125 N Sir Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the reasons behind the high level of Excess Winter Deaths (EWDs) in 2017-2018; what plans he put in place to reduce the number of EWDs in 2018-2019 and what plans he will put in place for 2019-2020. (219306)

126 N Alex Norris (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the November 2018 High Court judgement and reinstatement of subsistence rates of £65 a week for possible victims of trafficking in the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), what the current subsistence rates are for people in the NRM who are (a) in outreach support, (b) in safe house accommodation (not catered), (c) in safe house accommodation (catered) and (d) in National Asylum Support Service accommodation. (219560)

127 N Alex Sobel (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department sets targets for the number of final immigration court appeals brought against rulings allowing (A) asylum seekers and (b) other migrants to stay in the UK. (219570)

128 N Alex Sobel (Leeds North West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the costs to the public purse of each appeal by his Department to the Upper Tribunal against rulings allowing asylum seekers and other migrants to remain in the UK in each of the last three years. (219571)

129 N John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list his engagements for Monday 4 February 2019. (219277)

130 N Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the next edition of the publication entitled Life In The United Kingdom: A Guide For New Residents is due to be published. (219336)

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131 N Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU agencies his Department plans to seek continued membership of after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement. (219247)

132 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219284)

133 N Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals who have the right to work in the UK have no recourse to public funds. (219401)

134 N Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Queen Elizabeth will embark on her first deployment; what the total number of personnel in the basic and wider crew expected to be on board is; and what further capabilities will accompany her. (219357)

135 N Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel will be provided for Exercise Joint Warrior. (219358)

136 N Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the Bomber Command clasp criteria to include aircrew based outside of the UK. (219359)

137 N Nia Griffith (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's recent announcement, what the estimated cost is of its acquisition of two Littoral Strike Ships. (219360)

138 N Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish his Department's valuation of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme. (219525)

139 N Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value of contracts held by his Department with (a) Deloitte, (b) Slaughter and May and (c) Mott MacDonald is in the last two years. (219285)

140 N Sir Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households have been classified as being in fuel poverty; and how many of those households include (a) children and (b) people aged over 60 in each of the last three years. (219305)

141 N Richard Burgon (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Annex A of the written evidence of the Chief Executive of the HM Prison and Probation Service of 21 December 2018 to the Justice Committee inquiry on HMP Birmingham, what the ratio of operational capacity to full-time equivalent band three prison officers at HMP Birmingham was in (a) December 2016, (b) August 2018 and (c) November 2018. (219509)

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142 N Richard Burgon (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Annex A of the written evidence of the Chief Executive of the HM Prison and Probation Service of 21 December 2018 to the Justice Committee inquiry on HMP Birmingham, what the ratio of operational capacity to full-time equivalent band three prison officers at (a) HMP Birmingham and (b) all listed comparator prisons was in November 2016. (219510)

143 N Richard Burgon (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Annex A of the written evidence of the Chief Executive of the HM Prison and Probation Service of 21 December 2018 to the Justice Committee inquiry on HMP Birmingham, what the ratio of operational capacity to full-time equivalent band three prison officers at HMP Peterborough was in (a) November 2016, (b) December 2016, (c) August 2018 and (d) November 2018. (219511)

144 N Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures he has put in place to ensure independent monitoring of the court system. (219270)

145 N Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what procedures he has put in place to monitor whether individual courts are operating efficiently and within agreed timescales. (219271)

146 N Dr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what sanctions he has put in place for courts that fail to operate within agreed time limits for the commencement of trials. (219272)

147 N Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for personal independence payment appeals to be heard in court. (219335)

148 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the factors contributing to the average length custodial sentences in Wales relative to England. (219314)

149 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of young adults sentenced to less than 12 months custody in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last seven years. (219315)

150 N Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders have been given immediate custodial sentences at magistrates courts in Wales in each of the last seven years. (219316)

151 N Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Republic of Ireland is on schedule to repay its loan from the UK by March 2021. (219331)

152 N Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library the letter from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to the Chair of the Police Remuneration Review Body on the public sector pay round 2019-20. (219506)

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153 N Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to review the eligibility criteria for rural fuel duty rebate scheme. (219541)

154 N Ben Lake (Ceredigion): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the locations are of the refineries used to determine the eligibility for support under the rural fuel duty rebate scheme of (a) Ceredigion and (b) Wales. (219542)

155 N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the Government has not put back the Loan Charge settlement date while its review of that policy is ongoing. (219371)

156 N Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish the outcome of his Loan Charge review. (219372)

157 N Martin Whitfield (East Lothian): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to state, what the proportion of (a) incentive and (b) bonus components was of remuneration for Asset Protection Scheme personnel and senior executives, evaluated against their performance targets between 2009 and 2012; and which Minister authorised those payments. (219539)

158 N Martin Whitfield (East Lothian): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) list the people who composed the Senior Oversight Committee for the Asset Protection Agency between 2009-2012 and (b) set out (i) the process by which and (ii) by whom those people were appointed. (219540)

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

1 Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden): What plans he has to encourage more people to travel by bus. (909214)

2 Fiona Bruce (Congleton): What progress he has made on the (a) removal of old and (b) delivery and deployment of new rolling stock. (909215)

3 Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): What plans he has to repair the A35 at Redbridge. (909216)

4 Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What recent steps his Department has taken to improve road safety. (909217)

5 James Cleverly (Braintree): What funds he has made available for the repair of local roads. (909218)

6 Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North): What steps he is taking to reduce potential disruption to travel in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (909219)

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7 Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East): What steps he is taking to reduce potential disruption to travel in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (909220)

8 Jessica Morden (Newport East): What recent discussions he has had with port operators on preparations for the UK leaving the EU. (909221)

9 Joan Ryan (Enfield North): What progress has been made on four-tracking of the West Anglia Main Line. (909222)

10 Maria Caulfield (Lewes): What steps he is taking to reduce HGV traffic on rural roads. (909223)

11 Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on the haulage sector of the UK leaving the EU. (909224)

12 Simon Hoare (North Dorset): What assessment he has made of the safety needs of horse-riders on the public highway. (909225)

13 Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth): What level of (a) direct and (b) indirect public funding will be required to support new regional connections with Heathrow Airport. (909226)

14 Philip Davies (Shipley): What recent discussions he has had with Bradford Council on a Shipley eastern bypass. (909227)

15 Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): What recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of journeys taken by bus in England. (909228)

16 Henry Smith (Crawley): What plans his Department has to expand smart ticketing for rail passengers. (909229)

17 Mr Ranil Jayawardena (North East Hampshire): What progress his Department is making on the introduction of an automated delay repay compensation scheme that is interoperable across train operating companies. (909230)

18 Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling): What progress he has made on the (a) removal of old and (b) delivery and deployment of new rolling stock. (909231)

19 Jo Platt (Leigh): What recent assessment he has made of the importance of transport connectivity to social mobility. (909232)

20 John McNally (Falkirk): What steps he is taking to reduce potential disruption to travel in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (909233)

21 Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw): What steps he is taking to reduce potential disruption to travel in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (909234)

22 Derek Thomas (St Ives): What plans he has to dual the A30 through to Penzance. (909235)

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23 Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West): What steps he is taking to reduce potential disruption to travel in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. (909236)

24 Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale): What steps he is taking to increase accessibility and capacity at local railway stations. (909237)

25 Dr Paul Williams (Stockton South): What steps he is taking to improve bus services in Teesside. (909238)

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

T 1 Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. (909239)

T 2 Dr Philippa Whitford (Central Ayrshire): (909240)

T 3 Scott Mann (North Cornwall): (909241)

T 4 Sarah Jones (Croydon Central): (909242)

T 5 Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): (909243)

T 6 Mary Robinson (Cheadle): (909244)

T 7 Robert Halfon (Harlow): (909245)

T 8 Maria Caulfield (Lewes): (909246)

T 9 Dame Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): (909247)

T 10 Craig Tracey (North Warwickshire): (909248)