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451452

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date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Coal: Mining
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2016 to Question 25444, whether she has made an estimate of the proportion of coal that may have been mined by children.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	26431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The majority of power station operators in the UK are members of BetterCoal, an industry-led initiative which is taking action to promote responsible coal mining and has established a set of ethical, social, and environmental principles with which companies in the supply chain are expected to align. This includes conformity with a number of International Labour Organization conventions and recommendations which aim to eradicate child labour.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 24/02/2016 13:47:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

451465

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Radio Frequencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has decided on a date for the conclusion of the public sector spectrum release.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	26461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>Budget 2016 announces a new government commitment that 750MHz of valuable public sector spectrum in bands under 10GHz will be made available by 2022, of which 500MHz will be made available by 2020. All revenue from spectrum auctions is paid into the Consolidated Fund operated by HM Treasury.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 26460 question first answered 20/04/2016 12:47:56 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

451466

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Radio Frequencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much revenue received from previous spectrum sales has been reinvested into digital infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	26460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>Budget 2016 announces a new government commitment that 750MHz of valuable public sector spectrum in bands under 10GHz will be made available by 2022, of which 500MHz will be made available by 2020. All revenue from spectrum auctions is paid into the Consolidated Fund operated by HM Treasury.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 26461 question first answered 20/04/2016 12:47:56 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

451474

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was of paying child benefit to EU nationals in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	26484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/02/2016 16:44:34 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

451475

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the annual cost of paying child benefit to EU nationals under the terms of the renegotiation proposed by the EU Council President.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	26485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/02/2016 16:47:23 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

451506

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25404, which of the (a) academies, (b) academies which were previously maintained schools and (c) free schools have been subject to complaints about admissions decisions.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	26683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Academies are responsible for setting and applying their own admission arrangements. This includes responsibility for making arrangements for appeals against the refusal of a school place. The information requested can be sought directly from the relevant academies.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/02/2016 12:02:55 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

451512

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Employment: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many calls the Pay and Work Rights helpline received in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16; and how much funding that helpline received in each year between 2010-11 and 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	26567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Table 1: Total enquiries to the Pay and Work Rights Helpline, 2009/10 to 2014/15.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>66,300</p></td><td><p>50,500</p></td><td><p>47,500</p></td><td><p>41,300</p></td><td><p>42,900</p></td><td><p>41,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Pay and Workers Rights Helpline</p><p>Notes: 1. Reporting years are based on April to March, with the exception of 2009/10 as the Helpline opened in May 2009.</p><p>Since 1 April 2015, the Acas Helpline has, in addition to its usual services, been answering queries previously handled by the Pay and Work Rights Helpline (PWRH). Between April 2015 and January 2016, the latest period for which data is available, Acas have handled 768,849 calls on workplace relations and employment law. This figure is not directly comparable to the number of calls received by the PWRH in previous years as Acas handle a much wider range of enquiries on employment matters. It is not possible to specifically identify the number of calls received by Acas that would previously have been handled by the PWRH.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The allocated funding for the PWRH was as follows:</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£588,185</p></td><td><p>£588,185</p></td><td><p>£655,760</p></td><td><p>£802,500.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes: 2. Reporting years are based on April to March with the exception of 2010/11 and 2011/12 which are based on 11 May to 10 May.</p><p> </p><p>All figures are ex-VAT.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 26/02/2016 14:43:27 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

451518

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BT Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what obligations Openreach and BT have under contracts with the Government to provide prior warning to residents of planned maintenance or improvement work to junction boxes and other infrastructure that involves the temporary disconnection of services.
tabling member constituency	Rutland and Melton
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Duncan
uin	26494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The same regulatory and communication code conditions apply to Openreach in BDUK contracted areas as would apply to their commercial deployment areas.</p><p><br>The contracts between BT and government relating to broadband are for the provision of the design and build of infrastructure. Once this infrastructure is in place, it forms part of BT’s network and maintenance and improvement works will be carried out by Openreach in the same way as on the rest of the network. Although there is no obligation to inform residents of any planned upgrades or essential maintenance, these activities are scheduled to be carried out when usage is at its lowest, in order to minimise disruption.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/02/2016 16:23:47 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan

451519

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	India: Sikhs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he received a document on UK Sikhs from the Indian delegation during the Indian Prime Minister's recent visit to the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	26562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>I did not receive a document on UK Sikhs from the Indian delegation during Prime Minister Modi’s visit.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 22/02/2016 15:12:34 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

451525

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Fraud Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects to receive the report and recommendations of the investigation headed by Sir Eric Pickles on electoral fraud.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Mr Alan Campbell
uin	26483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Sir Eric Pickles will make his recommendations as soon as he is able. 66 written submissions are under consideration, as well as evidence provided in meetings with specific people and at a seminar of academics, stakeholder organisations and political parties.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 02/03/2016 14:28:17 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell