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47244

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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
	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 discussions his Department has had with the Syrian National Coalition.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	195641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>We have daily discussions with the Syrian National Coalition, most notably with its leadership through the UK Special Representative to Syria, Jon Wilks, but also at Ministerial level. We are in regular touch with the National Coalition representative in London. We have supported the National Coalition since its foundation in 2012 and have consistently encouraged it to reach out to all Syrians as a democratic, inclusive and unified organisation. This has included practical support to the National Coalition, including on strategic communications and design of internal structures and organisation. The UK is a leading member of the “London 11”, the core group of the Friends of Syria, who are the National Coalition's strongest supporters. Most recently we hosted a meeting of senior officials from the London 11 in London on 7 March.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Hugh Robertson question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

47246

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of how representative the Syrian National Council is of all Syrian opposition groups.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	195644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Syrian National Council is one part of the National Coalition. I have called for women, in particular, to be represented more in the National Coalition. I am pleased that the National Coalition has made strenuous efforts to broaden its membership to attract all sections of Syrian society, including ethnic and religious minorities and women, stating that it is a Coalition for all Syrians. The most recent organisation to join its ranks is the Kurdish National Council. We continue to work with the National Coalition in their efforts to deliver more services on the ground through the Interim Government.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Hugh Robertson question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

47248

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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
	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 gender balance is of his Department's management board and its sub-committees.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	195624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Management Board consists of 8 executive (5 male and 3 female) and 2 non-executive members (1 male and 1 female).</p><p> </p><p>The Management Board is supported by the four Sub-Committees which are each chaired by a member of the Board; they are Audit &amp; Risk Committee, Human Resources (HR) Committee, Operations Committee and Health and Safety Committee.</p><p> </p><p>The gender breakdown of the committees is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Audit &amp; Risk Committee (ARC): 2 male, 1 female;</p><p> </p><p>HR Committee: 9 male, 10 female; and the 20th position is currently filled by two people (1 male, 1 female) in a job-share;</p><p> </p><p>Operations Committee: 9 male and 8 female; and</p><p> </p><p>FCO Health and Safety Committee: 18 male and 8 female members.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Hugh Robertson question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

47249

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what specific steps the UK has taken to encourage more opposition groups to join the Syrian National Coalition.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	195625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>We have publicly and repeatedly urged moderate Syrian opposition groups, inside and outside Syria, to join the National Coalition, underlining the importance of a unified, and effective organisation pressing for a democratic and pluralist Syria. We have consistently encouraged the National Coalition to broaden their membership, and they have made strenuous efforts to attract all sections of Syrian society, including ethnic and religious minorities, and women. They have made clear that they stand for all Syrians. We have worked through the London 11 group in support of the National Coalition, as well as providing practical support to develop its capacity.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Hugh Robertson question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

47255

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) male and (b) female (i) HM Ambassadors and (ii) High Commissioners there are from each region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	195617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>We are unable to breakdown the region that each and every one of our Ambassadors and High Commissioners was born in without incurring disproportionate costs. We are able to breakdown by the constituent country within the UK as follows:</p><p>Male Female<br>England 80 22<br>Scotland 5 1<br>Wales 3 0<br>Northern Ireland 1 0<br>Born outside the UK or not recorded on file 29 7</p><p>There is also one post where the Ambassador's role is shared by one male and one female, both from England.</p><p>The key principle of all FCO appointments is selection by merit through fair and open competition. Place of birth has no effect on our appointments system. All UK based members of staff have to be British citizens.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Hugh Robertson question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

42384

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of London households in temporary accommodation were in (a) private sector leased properties, (b) hotels, (c) bed and breakfast, (d) local authority registered social landlord property and (e) other accommodation (i) at the most recent date for which figures are available and (ii) at 31 March 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	191531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><em>[Holding Reply: Monday 17 March 2014]</em></p><p>To assist public scrutiny, I have placed in the Library of the House, a table which provides quarterly figures for the last ten years.</p><p>Over that period, the numbers of households in temporary accommodation in London in this Government is far lower than averaged under the last Administration. The peak of 63,800 households in December 2005 compares to 42,430 in December 2013.</p><p>Councils have a responsibility to move homeless households into settled accommodation as quickly as possible and we made common sense changes to the law to enable them to use suitable private rented homes. The average stay in temporary accommodation in England has been reduced from 20 months at the beginning of 2010 to 14 months now, which means that people on average are spending far less time in such temporary accommodation.</p><p>We have also seen a 42% reduction in the numbers of families with children in Bed and Breakfast for more than six weeks on this time last year across the country. The seven local authorities that my Department has funded to tackle families in Bed and Breakfast have made significant progress, achieving an overall reduction of 96% since the funding began.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

47144

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each local authority in England reported as its (a) budgeted and (b) outturn expenditure on all youth work and provision of activities for young people in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	195481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is collected by Department for Education and published on gov.uk. I have asked that this information for each year since 2010 is placed in the Library of the House as soon as is practicable.</p><p>Figures for actual spend by local authority in 2013-14 will be available in December 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 195480 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

47145

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will rank each English local authority by the (a) percentage and (b) actual change in (i) total and (ii) per capita expenditure on all provisions for young people since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	195480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is collected by Department for Education and published on gov.uk. I have asked that this information for each year since 2010 is placed in the Library of the House as soon as is practicable.</p><p>Figures for actual spend by local authority in 2013-14 will be available in December 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 195481 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

47222

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will rank each English local authority by the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary free schools to have received approval; and what this represents as a proportion of the estimated school-age population.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	195442
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The published list of successful applications to open a free school and of free schools already opened or in the pre-opening stage, which includes which local authority they are in, is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-successful-applications-and-open-schools-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-successful-applications-and-open-schools-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>The total number of places in these schools when at full capacity will be around 2% of the total number of children currently educated in state-funded schools in England.</p><p> </p><p>The number of places in approved free schools is published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/successful-free-school-proposals-announced" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/successful-free-school-proposals-announced</a></p><p> </p><p>The total school population is published in the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics' statistical first release and is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2013</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

46868

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in how many cases an Article 4 direction has resulted in the rejection of a planning application which has not subsequently been overturned by the Planning Inspectorate; and what assessment he has made of the typical circumstances of such cases.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	195255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown