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100594

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 23:14:08
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:16:48
	answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	200
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliament: Veterans
	house id	2
	identifier	HL2331
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	04/11/2014 12:36:33
	question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees whether he has any plans, in conjunction with the House of Commons Commission, to identify those posts in the Palace of Westminster which could be filled by recently disabled servicemen and servicewomen and to keep those posts open, in the first instance, only for such individuals.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL2331
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2331
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>There are no current plans to reserve posts in the Palace of Westminster in the first instance for recently disabled servicemen and servicewomen.</p><p>Employment practice in both Houses is to recruit through fair and open competition and to welcome job applications from people with disabilities, making any reasonable adjustments to enable disabled applicants to compete equally for employment and promotion.</p><p>The bi-cameral workplace equality network ParliABLE promotes awareness and positive approaches to disability through publicity and events which continue to be well supported by Members of both Houses.</p> question first answered 04/11/2014 12:36:33 answering member 2124
	creator	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

101765

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	30/10/2014
	date tabled	30/10/2014
	ddp created	30/10/2014 22:00:43
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:19:26
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Timber: Imports
	house id	1
	identifier	212602
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	11/11/2014 15:20:39
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what tonnage of imports of wood pellets there has been into the UK in the last three years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
	tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212602
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212602
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on the net mass of imports of wood pellets are published by HMRC in Overseas Trade Statistics. Data for the years 2011 to 2013 are shown in the following tables. Due to routine updating of the commodity codes by Eurostat, wood pellets were coded as ‘44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets’ in 2011 but then classified to the new code ‘44013100 – wood pellets’ in 2012 and 2013. For this analysis we have combined these two headings to provide a consistent series. The values below are provided in metric tonnes, each equivalent to 1,000 kg.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Net mass of wood pellet imports to the UK (metric tonnes)</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,015,102</p></td><td><p>1,486,899</p></td><td><p>3,432,187</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Note: wood pellets were classified as 'HS 44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets' in 2011 and as 'HS 44013100 - Wood pellets' in 2012 and 2013</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 11/11/2014 15:20:39 answering member 4070
	creator	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

101766

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	30/10/2014
	date tabled	30/10/2014
	ddp created	30/10/2014 22:00:43
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:19:32
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	identifier	212604
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/11/2014 15:55:17
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland were paid the apprentice rate of the national minimum wage in the last year for which figures are available.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212604
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212604
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on apprenticeship pay in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is published in research findings from the Apprenticeship Pay Survey. The most recent survey covers apprentices working in 2012:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012</a></p><p> </p><p>In England, 71 per cent of apprentices received on or above the minimum amount they should get based on their year and/or age. In Wales the figure was 82 per cent</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 Apprenticeship Pay Survey will be published in December 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The report does not show how many apprentices under 19 earned less than £90 per week, as it does not link hours worked to pay rates. However, the mean average hourly rate for apprentices under 19 was £3.77 in England and Wales and £3.34 in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> question first answered 05/11/2014 15:55:17 answering member 3995
	creator	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

101767

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	30/10/2014
	date tabled	30/10/2014
	ddp created	30/10/2014 22:00:44
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:19:38
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	identifier	212605
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/11/2014 15:55:17
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects to publish the 2014 Apprenticeship Pay Survey.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212605
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212605
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on apprenticeship pay in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is published in research findings from the Apprenticeship Pay Survey. The most recent survey covers apprentices working in 2012:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012</a></p><p> </p><p>In England, 71 per cent of apprentices received on or above the minimum amount they should get based on their year and/or age. In Wales the figure was 82 per cent</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 Apprenticeship Pay Survey will be published in December 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The report does not show how many apprentices under 19 earned less than £90 per week, as it does not link hours worked to pay rates. However, the mean average hourly rate for apprentices under 19 was £3.77 in England and Wales and £3.34 in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> question first answered 05/11/2014 15:55:17 answering member 3995
	creator	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

101778

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	30/10/2014
	date tabled	30/10/2014
	ddp created	30/10/2014 22:00:47
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:20:49
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	identifier	212725
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/11/2014 15:55:17
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices under 19 were paid less than £90 per week in the last year for which data are available.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212725
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212725
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on apprenticeship pay in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is published in research findings from the Apprenticeship Pay Survey. The most recent survey covers apprentices working in 2012:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012</a></p><p> </p><p>In England, 71 per cent of apprentices received on or above the minimum amount they should get based on their year and/or age. In Wales the figure was 82 per cent</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 Apprenticeship Pay Survey will be published in December 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The report does not show how many apprentices under 19 earned less than £90 per week, as it does not link hours worked to pay rates. However, the mean average hourly rate for apprentices under 19 was £3.77 in England and Wales and £3.34 in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> question first answered 05/11/2014 15:55:17 answering member 3995
	creator	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

102016

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	31/10/2014
	date tabled	31/10/2014
	ddp created	31/10/2014 17:40:18
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:46:32
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Society Network Foundation
	house id	1
	identifier	212831
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/11/2014 15:47:25
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department awarded in (a) grants and (b) contracts to the Society Network Foundation between 2010 and 2014.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212831
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212831
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Core Department’s financial records confirm that the Society Network Foundation has not been paid any grants nor awarded any contracts during the requested period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 05/11/2014 15:47:25 answering member 1513
	creator	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

102017

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	31/10/2014
	date tabled	31/10/2014
	ddp created	31/10/2014 17:40:18
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 05:46:39
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Big Society Network
	house id	1
	identifier	212832
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/11/2014 15:45:10
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department awarded in (a) grants and (b) contracts to the Big Society Network between 2010 and 2014.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 212832
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212832
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Core Department’s financial records confirm that the Big Society Network has not been paid any grants nor awarded any contracts during the requested period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 05/11/2014 15:45:10 answering member 1513
	creator	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

100564

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 23:13:59
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:15:44
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Tax Benefits
	house id	2
	identifier	HL2301
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	06/11/2014 17:48:45
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will publish the detailed terms of reference for the review of the impact of abolishing Council Tax Benefit.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL2301
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2301
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department is currently working with the Council Tax Partnership Forum and local authorities to identify appropriate and proportionate data for the independent three-year review of the local council tax support policy.</p><p> </p><p>The timetable, coverage, process for data collection and detailed terms of reference for the review will be agreed and published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Spending on council tax benefit doubled under the last Government, costing taxpayers £4 billion a year—equivalent to almost £180 a year per household. Welfare reform is vital to tackle the budget deficit by the last Administration.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms to localise council tax support now give councils stronger incentives to support local firms, cut fraud, promote local enterprise and get people to into work. We are ending the last Administration's 'something for nothing' culture and making work pay.</p> question first answered 06/11/2014 17:48:45 answering member 4210
	creator	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

100565

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 23:14:00
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:15:51
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing Revenue Accounts: Tower Hamlets
	house id	2
	identifier	HL2302
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	19/11/2014 14:48:36
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 14 October (HL1902), whether they will place in the Library of the House copies of the correspondence encouraging the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to revise its bid for funding from the Local Growth Fund Housing Revenue Account Borrowing Programme 2015–17.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL2302
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2302
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>I have today placed copies of the relevant letters - a letter from the Minister for Housing to all stock holding local authorities dated 7 July 2014; a letter from officials to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets also dated 7 July 2014; and a second letter to the authority dated 5 August 2014 - in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p><p>The Greater London Authority, which has an operational involvement in the programme in London, also had discussions with the Council, but such correspondence/information is not held by my Department.</p><p> </p> question first answered 19/11/2014 14:48:36 answering member 4210
	creator	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

100566

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/11/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 23:14:00
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:15:53
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Welfare Assistance Schemes
	house id	2
	identifier	HL2303
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	05/11/2014 14:01:03
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 15 October (HL1906), whether they will place in the Library of the House the findings of their review into the impact of the abolition of the Discretionary Social Fund.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL2303
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2303
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions are undertaking a review into how local welfare provision has been used in 2013/14 and its anticipated use in 2014/15. The Department are making plans to publish the review shortly. A copy will be placed in the Library of House.</p> question first answered 05/11/2014 14:01:03 answering member 4210
	creator	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow