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172473

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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	Higher Education: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the number of additional students that will enter higher education in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18 as a result of the removal of the cap on student numbers.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	220140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172474

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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	Higher Education: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the additional costs of (a) the face value of student loans, (b) the resource costs of student loans, (c) teaching grant through the Higher Education Funding Council for England, (d) maintenance grant that will arise from the removal of the cap on student numbers.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	220141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172520

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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	Bahrain
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of political prisoners in Bahrain; and what steps his Department has taken to encourage the release of those prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	220068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text The British Government does not hold details on the cases and charges against prisoners in Bahrain. If we have specific concerns around convictions or sentencing we raise these with the Government of Bahrain as part of our wider dialogue on human rights and reform. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 12/01/2015 16:04:01 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

172509

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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	Shaker Aamer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his counterpart in the US for Shaker Aamer to be among the prisoners expected to be released from Guantánamo Bay within the next two weeks.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	220001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text Shaker Aamer’s case remains a high priority for the UK Government, and Ministers and officials continue to make clear to the US that we want him released and returned to the UK as a matter of urgency. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 12/01/2015 16:41:43 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

172519

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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	Bahrain
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage civil rights and democracy in Bahrain.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	220067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text I co-chaired the UK-Bahrain Joint Working Group meeting on 4 December 2014 with the Undersecretary of the Bahraini Ministry of the Interior, H.E Abdullah Abdulatif Abdulla. We discussed progress on the implementation of the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry Report and UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review, and agreed that the UK would continue to provide assistance to Bahrain’s reform programme, with a continuing focus on strengthening human rights and the rule of law, in 2015. The British Government will continue to encourage the Government of Bahrain to build on the success of the recent elections and move forward with further reform to advance the democratisation and human rights agenda. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 12/01/2015 16:06:00 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

172515

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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	Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the reasons were for the UK's abstention on a Resolution before the UN to require Israel to withdraw from the territory it has occupied since 1967.
	tabling member constituency	Colchester
	tabling member printed	Sir Bob Russell
	uin	220006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>We have long believed that direct negotiations towards a two state-solution need to be on the basis of clear, internationally agreed, parameters. We therefore welcomed the idea of an United Nations Security Council Resolution on the Middle East Peace Process which sets these out. We supported much of the content of the resolution. However, there were important issues which required proper negotiation, including the inclusion of arbitrary deadlines. Regretfully, this did not happen, so we abstained.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 12/01/2015 16:44:26 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	35 label Biography information for Sir Bob Russell

172540

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2014 to Question 218687, when his Department expects NICE to report on the feedback it receives from its associates network about progress made in and challenges of implementing the 2013 guidance on prevention of familial breast cancer; and whether that feedback will be published.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	220083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>We expect the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to report on the feedback it has received from its associates network at the roundtable event involving key stakeholders we are planning.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 12/01/2015 15:24:46 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

172565

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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, whether the experiments to test for heteroplasmy on primordial germ cells created from human embryonic stem cells derived from blastocysts created through maternal spindle transfer and pronuclear transfer where the oocytes had a variant or abnormal mitochondrial DNA recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert panel in its publication Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception: update, published in March 2013, have been concluded; and in which peer reviewed journal he plans to publish the findings of that review.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	220138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>We are advised that good progress is being made with the experiments recommended by the Expert Panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and that the scientists involved hope to be able to provide an update shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The specific experiments to test for heteroplasmy on primordial cells are not part of the additional tests recommended by the Expert Panel convened by the HFEA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not routinely publish scientific research conducted independently by others.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/01/2015 17:46:15 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

172535

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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, whether the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert review panel in the publications, Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, published in April 2011, and Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception: update, published in March 2013, on karyotype analysis and comparative genomic hybridisation and copy number variation arrays of embryos derived from the maternal spindle transfer and pronuclear transfer technique therapies have been concluded; and in which peer-reviewed journal his Department plans to publish the findings of those experiments.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
	tabling member printed	Robert Flello
	uin	220103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>We are advised that good progress is being made with the experiments recommended by the Expert Panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and that the scientists involved hope to be able to provide an update shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The HFEA has advised that the following research has been completed for the Maternal Spindle Transfer technique:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- karyotype analysis and comparative genomic hybridisation/copy number variation arrays of embryos derived from maternal spindle transfer; and</p><p> </p><p>- detailed analysis of epigenetic modifications and gene expression, with a range of markers for blastocyst cell types or embryos derived from maternal spindle transfer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The results were published in Nature in 2013 and further details were provided, in supplementary information from Mitalipov et al, to the Expert Panel convened by the Authority.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At the time of writing the 2014 report, to the Panel’s knowledge the relevant results relating to Pronuclear Transfer technique had not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 220096 question first answered 12/01/2015 17:46:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

172544

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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, whether the experiments recommended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's expert review panel in the publications, Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception, published in April 2011, and Scientific review of the safety and efficacy of methods to avoid mitochondrial disease through assisted conception: update, published in March 2013, on epigenetic modifications and gene expression with a range of makers for blastocyst cell types or embryos derived from the maternal spindle transfer or pronuclear transfer technique therapies have been concluded; and in which peer-reviewed journal his Department plans to publish the findings of those experiments.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
	tabling member printed	Robert Flello
	uin	220096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>We are advised that good progress is being made with the experiments recommended by the Expert Panel convened by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and that the scientists involved hope to be able to provide an update shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The HFEA has advised that the following research has been completed for the Maternal Spindle Transfer technique:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- karyotype analysis and comparative genomic hybridisation/copy number variation arrays of embryos derived from maternal spindle transfer; and</p><p> </p><p>- detailed analysis of epigenetic modifications and gene expression, with a range of markers for blastocyst cell types or embryos derived from maternal spindle transfer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The results were published in Nature in 2013 and further details were provided, in supplementary information from Mitalipov et al, to the Expert Panel convened by the Authority.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At the time of writing the 2014 report, to the Panel’s knowledge the relevant results relating to Pronuclear Transfer technique had not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 220103 question first answered 12/01/2015 17:46:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello