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166537

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Local Government: Archaeology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to publish the Howell-Redesdale report on the future of local government archaeology services.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	216315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The report will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 03/12/2014 16:15:36 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

166538

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Broadband: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the speed of the delivery of superfast broadband to urban areas and progress in resolving black spots of coverage.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	216314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Superfast Broadband Programme focuses on providing coverage to ‘white areas’ as defined by State aid, where there is currently no superfast availability. ‘Grey areas’ have coverage of one provider and ‘black areas’ have coverage of more than one provider.</p><p> </p><p>Superfast coverage in urban areas continues to improve with investment predominantly made by the commercial sector. In Ofcom’s report in June 2014 the proportion of UK urban premises able to receive NGA broadband services was 85%.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom’s report on Fixed-line broadband is available at: <a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/telecoms-research/broadband-speeds/broadband-speeds-may2014/" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/telecoms-research/broadband-speeds/broadband-speeds-may2014/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 03/12/2014 16:16:15 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

166540

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Single Source Regulations Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made in establishing the Single Source Regulations Office; what budget has been set for the first year of operation of that office; and what estimate he has made of the number of contracts it will consider in financial year 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Luff
uin	216326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Considerable progress has been made in establishing the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) as the regulator for the new single source procurement framework. The Chair of the new body was formally appointed in May 2014 and non-executive directors were appointed in October. The SSRO held its first Board meeting on 13 October. The new body is in the process of recruiting staff, establishing its new offices in Finlaison House, and setting up its processes and IT systems. It has also been consulting closely with key stakeholders in industry and in Government over its role as the independent regulator. The SSRO issued its first newsletter in mid-November highlighting progress already made and its plans over the next few months. This is available on the gov.uk website.</p><p>The budget for the SSRO in the financial year 2014-2015 has been set at £2.9 million.</p><p>Secondary legislation to enable the new single source procurement framework is currently being considered by Parliament, having been laid at the end of October. In order to facilitate the implementation of the new framework, when it comes into force, it will initially only cover new qualifying defence contracts with a value of £500 million or more with this threshold falling to new qualifying defence contracts with a value of £5 million or more as from the end of March 2015 onwards. We therefore estimate that this higher initial threshold will only affect a handful of new contracts (and related subcontracts) signed before the end of March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/12/2014 16:45:35 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	268 label Biography information for Sir Peter Luff

166554

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Timber: Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the amount of wood waste in the UK which is suitable for incineration in biomass power stations.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	216276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the amount of wood waste in the UK which is suitable for incineration in biomass stations. However, a market situation report published by Waste &amp; Resources Action Programme UK in 2011 stated that “almost 2.3 million tonnes of wood waste was recycled or used in energy recovery in the UK in 2010, over 50% of estimated UK wood waste arisings”. Of this, the end market for 0.55 million tonnes is listed as biomass/energy.</p><p><a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Wood%20Market%20Situation%20Report_0.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Wood%20Market%20Situation%20Report_0.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 03/12/2014 16:02:52 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd attachment 1 file name Wood Market Situation Report.pdf title WRAP: Market Situation Report Recovered Wood 2011 previous answer version 31362 answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

166556

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Palestinians
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 reports his Department has received on the efforts of the Palestinian Authority to access water from the Eastern Mountain Aquifer.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	216257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not received any reports on the efforts of the Palestinian Authority to access water from the Eastern Mountain Aquifer. However, the UK regularly raises issues of water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories with the Israeli authorities, including stressing the urgent need for Israel to take immediate and practical measures to improve the current unacceptable situation and ensure fair distribution of water in the West Bank and Gaza.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 03/12/2014 12:48:25 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

166558

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Burma
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 an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Legal Memorandum: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Eastern Myanmar published by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School in November 2014.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	216319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The findings of the Harvard Law School report are of serious concern. A judgement on whether war crimes or crimes against humanity have been committed is a matter for the courts, but we remain committed to the principle of accountability for all crimes through an independent and transparent judicial process. <br><br>Our wider priority is for a permanent solution to the conflicts in Burma. We are encouraging this by funding experts with experience of the peace process in Northern Ireland to support the peacemaking dialogue in Burma.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 03/12/2014 13:04:24 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

166586

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with its international partners and the Palestinian Authority on the proposed construction of a water desalination plant in the Gaza Strip.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	216256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The UK has regular discussions with the UN, the Office of the Quartet Representative (OQR) and other partners who are working on this issue. A desalination plant can only be built, however, with increased imports of construction materials, and would only be effective with a reliable and sufficient power supply in Gaza. The UK has provided £500,000 for the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism with the objective of enabling reconstruction to take place at the scale required. In addition, and in close co-ordination with our EU partners and the OQR, we continue to press the Israeli Government at ministerial and official level to ease the restrictions on Gaza, and to take actions which will improve the chronic energy and water shortages there.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 03/12/2014 17:44:31 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

166587

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Death Certificates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on enabling public registrars to print the full postal address including postcodes on death certificates.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	216255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The information contained in a death certificate is set in statute. The usual addresses of the deceased and the informant are collected primarily for identification purposes and may include postcodes where this is provided by the informant.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/12/2014 15:18:53 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

166588

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring legislative proposals to Parliament to allow the legal recognition of humanist marriages.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	216259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has consulted on whether the law should be changed to allow legally valid humanist and potentially other non-religious belief marriages. We are considering the responses we received and the implications for marriage law and practice if a change were to be made. We plan to publish the Government’s response to the review before 1 January 2015.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 03/12/2014 11:48:27 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

166598

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Beckenham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to provide for easier access to London by train from stations in Beckenham.
tabling member constituency	Beckenham
tabling member printed	Bob Stewart
uin	216300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Beckenham Junction and Beckenham Hill stations already have step free access to each platform, as do nearby West Wickham and Hayes. No other nearby stations have been nominated for our Access for All programme by the industry.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/12/2014 12:16:58 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3919 label Biography information for Bob Stewart