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105962

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	IVF
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce variation in the price of IVF cycles between clinical commissioning groups.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	212894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>For National Health Service funded in-vitro fertilisation treatment, it is for clinical commissioning groups to decide with which fertility clinics to contract and agree the price payable with the service provider.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/11/2014 17:39:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

106111

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Cycling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of passenger journeys in the UK were made by bicycle in each of the last five years; and what share of his Department's spending related to cycling in that time period.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	213147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The table below shows the percentage of all trips made by bicycle between 2009 and 2013:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6">Average number of trips (trip rates) by main mode: England, to 2013</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><strong>2009 </strong></td><td><strong>2010 </strong></td><td><strong>2011 </strong></td><td><strong>2012 </strong></td><td><strong>2013 </strong></td></tr><tr><td>Bicycle</td><td>16</td><td>15</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td>All modes</td><td>974</td><td>961</td><td>950</td><td>950</td><td>923</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Cycling mode share % </strong></td><td><strong>1.7 </strong></td><td><strong>1.6 </strong></td><td><strong>1.7 </strong></td><td><strong>1.8 </strong></td><td><strong>1.9 </strong></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Soure: NTS, Last updated: 29 July 2014</em></p><p>During the five financial years 2010/11 to 2014/15, departmental spending on cycling is detailed in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Financial years 2010/11 - 2014/15 </strong></td><td> </td><td rowspan="11">Direct funding £224 million</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><strong>£million</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Cycling Englad</td><td>63.0</td></tr><tr><td>Cycling Cities &amp; National Parks Fund</td><td>94.0</td></tr><tr><td>Links to Schools &amp; Linking Communities</td><td>28.5</td></tr><tr><td>Cycle Safety Fund</td><td>35.0</td></tr><tr><td>Cycle Rail</td><td>14.5</td></tr><tr><td>Highways Agency</td><td>4.8</td></tr><tr><td>Local Sustainable Transport Fund - Bikeability</td><td>46.8</td></tr><tr><td>Local Sustainable Transport Fund - other cycling</td><td>151.0</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total</strong></td><td><strong>437.6</strong></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The £438 million on cycling spend represents 0.71% of the total departmental spend for those years.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 06/11/2014 13:18:21 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

106429

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	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	Housing: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	905920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has a range of initiatives to help consumers take control of their energy bills by making energy efficiency improvements. These include the Green Deal, the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, Green Deal Communities and the Energy Company Obligation. <br> <br> These initiatives supported the improvement of over 790,000 homes between January 2013 and August 2014, and we are on track to meet our target of improving the energy efficiency of 1 million homes by March 2015.</p><p>Vouchers issued through the popular first phase of GDHIF have resulted in an on-going pipeline of work that is improving homes and we expect around 20,000 households will benefit.</p><p>An additional £100 million for UK household energy efficiency announced last month will be used to launch a new phase of GDHIF later this month. This is in addition to providing longer term certainty for the market through the extension of ECO until 2017.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 06/11/2014 16:19:23 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

105829

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Community Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent analysis of the performance of the Community Organisers Programme has been conducted.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	213129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has appointed Ipsos MORI and NEF Consulting to carry out an evaluation of the Community Organisers programme.</p><p>A recent interim report will be placed in the House of Commons Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 06/11/2014 16:36:49 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

105830

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Community Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much of the funding of the Community Organisers Programme was allocated from the Office of Civil Society's budget.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	213130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>Over the lifetime of this parliament, a total of £25.5m has been allocated to the Community Organisers programme from the budget of the Office for Civil Society.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 06/11/2014 16:26:07 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

105812

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	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	Business: North West
	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 employers in (a) the North West and (b) Warrington have been (i) named and (ii) prosecuted since 1 October 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	212902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has named 30 employers under the revised Naming and Shaming Scheme. Between them they owed workers a total of over £50,000 in arrears and have been charged financial penalties totalling over £24,000. Details of these employers can be found on the original press notices (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-gets-tough-with-employers-failing-to-pay-minimum-wage" target="_blank">28 February 2014</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-employers-who-fail-to-pay-minimum-wage" target="_blank">8 June 2014</a>), including the town in which the employer is based. However, these organisations may employ staff or have offices or other operations in other geographical locations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No employers have been prosecuted under the National Minimum Wage Act since October 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 06/11/2014 16:01:40 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

105898

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Warrington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the requirement for primary school places in Warrington in the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	212903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education collects information from local authorities on the number of school places in state-funded primary and secondary schools and local authorities’ own pupil forecasts as part of the annual School Capacity Collection. The most recent data available relates to the position at May 2013, with primary forecasts through to 2017/18, and is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013</a></p><p>The Department has estimated that Warrington local authority needs 270 additional primary places to meet demand in 2015/16. Warrington local authority has reported that there are 980 new places planned for delivery between 2013/14 and 2015/16. This information, along with technical notes, is published in the Local Authority Basic Need Scorecards which is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards</a></p><p>The Department provides capital funding to local authorities in line with the estimated level of need in each local authority. Warrington has been allocated a total of £6 million for the period 2011-2015 and a further £8.6 million for 2015-2017 to help create the additional school places that will be needed by September 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/11/2014 16:21:01 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

106078

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Cleaning Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy that cleaners of all Government offices are paid the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
	uin	213135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government awards contracts on the basis of the best overall value for money for the taxpayer. We encourage contractors to commit to paying a living wage. Previous governments did not create a blanket requirement for contractors to pay a living wage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 06/11/2014 17:58:15 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick

105848

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	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	Technology: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of jobs which will be displaced by technological change in the next (a) five and (b) 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
	tabling member printed	Kate Hoey
	uin	213000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The changing technological landscape is not expected to have a negative net impact on employment growth in the wider economy over the next five to 10 years. It is difficult to reliably estimate the number of jobs which could be displaced by technological change. New technology opens up new job opportunities, the Warwick University Working Futures projections, based on past trends, indicate 1.9 million additional jobs growth for the whole economy and a greater than 20% increase in jobs in Information Technology sectors between 2012 and 2022<sup> [1]</sup>. Through initiatives like the Your Life campaign, we are ensuring the supply of future talent.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298510/working-futures-2012-2022-main-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298510/working-futures-2012-2022-main-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2014 14:06:56 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

106093

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent research the Electoral Commission has conducted into the reasons why individuals who are (a) entitled to vote do not register and (b) on the electoral register do not vote.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	212987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Commission informs me that its reports on the accuracy and completeness of the electoral registers set out possible reasons why people may fail to register to vote. These reports are available on the Commission’s website.</p><p> </p><p>The Commission also conducts public opinion research after each set of elections that asks non-voters why they did not vote at the recent election. The results from these polls are also available on the Commission’s website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 06/11/2014 14:47:36 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane