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38613

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	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 Defence, how many nuclear-qualified Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel have been required by his Department in each of the last three years; and how many such posts were vacant in each such year in each location.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	188387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The following tables summarise the number of civilian Nuclear Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (NSQEP) posts and the number of NSQEP vacancies by location:<br><br></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne attachment 1 file name 188387 Table and text part of answer.doc title 188387 Tables and text part of answer
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

38947

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	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 Defence, pursuant to Question 187339 of 11 February 2014, where each vacancy is located; and what the role of each position is.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
	uin	188564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Safety-Critical posts are fielded across the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) organisation in a number of areas. The role of these posts is defined in DE&amp;S policy as having specified safety-related, decision-making responsibilities and accountabilities, and must be filled by people competent to make such decisions. Should a post become vacant, priority is given to recruitment action. Until the vacancy is filled, the post responsibilities are either transferred to other competent people or, to ensure safety, related activities cease. <br><br>Safety-Critical post data is reviewed on a monthly basis and as at 1 April 2014 there were 97 vacant Safety-Critical posts in DE&amp;S out of a total of 1,321. The number of Safety-Critical posts and vacancies will change regularly to reflect project requirements and as the result of staff turnover. Current vacancies are located as follows:<br><br></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne attachment 1 file name 188564 Table accompanying answer.doc title Table - Part of the answer
	tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

42393

	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, what the (a) change and (b) percentage change was in the number of homelessness acceptances arising from the end of a private sector tenancy in each (i) London local authority and (ii) English region between March 2010 and December 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	191523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>To assist public scrutiny, I have placed in the Library of the House, a table showing homelessness acceptances due to loss of private sector tenancy, by local authority, in each year from 2003 to 2013.</p><p>Data is not collected by Parliamentary constituency. My Department does not publish statistics by the former government office regions.</p><p>The dataset shows that under the last Administration, the average numbers were higher than under this Administration, especially when taking account the changes in the overall size to the private rented sector.</p><p>I would note that the rental sector policies of HM Opposition would make the problem worse, by reducing the availability of private rented accommodation, forcing up rents and discouraging investment in the private rented sector. By contrast, this Government is increasing house building, delivering £19.5 billion of investment in affordable housing, supporting billions of private investment in new private rented accommodation, providing £470 million to prevent and tackle all forms of homelessness, and avoiding the excessive regulation which would harm the interests of tenants.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

42864

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2014
	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, what the actual and percentage change was in the number of homeless households in temporary accommodation in each London local authority between March 2010 and December 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	191728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><em>[Holding Reply: Monday 17 March 2014]</em></p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the Live Table 784 available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p><p>The dataset is already accessible for statistical analysis.</p><p>The numbers of households in temporary accommodation in London are still well belowthe level they were at their peak, under the previous Administration, when they hit more than 63,800. 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. Indeed the average stay in temporary accommodation in England has been reduced from 20 months at the beginning of 2010 to 14 months now.</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 we 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><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

42883

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2014
	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, what change there has been in the number and proportion of homeless households in nightly booked temporary accommodation in London since March 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	191723
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><em>[Holding Reply: Monday 17 March 2014]</em></p><p>The Department does not collect information specifically on numbers of homeless households in nightly-booked temporary accommodation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

46173

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	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
	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 collect data by constituency on apprenticeships in each industrial sector.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	194613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>We do not collect information centrally on Apprenticeships by industrial sector at the Parliamentary Constituency level. Table 1 shows information from the 2012[1] UKCES Employer Perspectives Survey on the proportion of employers that offer formal Apprenticeships by industrial sector in the UK.</p><p /> <p /> <p>Information on Apprenticeship starts by Sector Subject Area and geography is published in a Supplementary Table to a Statistical First Release (SFR):</p><p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p /> <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2</a></p><p /> <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/308418/apprenticeship-starts-by-region-and-sector-subject-area.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/308418/apprenticeship-starts-by-region-and-sector-subject-area.xls</a></p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Sector Subject Areas are not the same as industrial sectors. Within an industrial sector a learner may undertake a wide range of Apprenticeship frameworks, and individual frameworks are assigned under the Sector Subject Area classification.</p><p /> <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p> </p><br /><p>[1]<a href="http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/evidence-report-64-ukces-employer-perspectives-survey-2012-full-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/evidence-report-64-ukces-employer-perspectives-survey-2012-full-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name UIN 194613 - Apprenticeships by Sector table.doc title Table 1: Apprenticeships by Industrial Sector
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

49407

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he intends to reply to the letter to the Minister for Skills and Enterprise dated 27 February 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr John Mannion.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Sir Gerald Kaufman
	uin	197511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Although the Department has received and responded to earlier correspondence from the Rt. Hon. Member on behalf of this constituent, we have no record of having received the letter referred to. If he could send a copy of this latest correspondence we will deal with it as a matter of urgency.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	451 label Biography information for Sir Gerald Kaufman

49715

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	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 and what proportion of adults in (a) the UK and (b) the smallest geographical areas in the UK for which information is held are functionally illiterate.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	197792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The 2011 Skills for Life survey provides an estimate of adult literacy levels for people aged between 16 and 65 years-old in England, based on fieldwork conducted between May 2010 and February 2011. The headline findings of the survey were published in December 2011.[1] The survey results show that 14.9 per cent (5.1 million) of people had a literacy level below Level 1. Level 1 is viewed as the Level required to be ‘functionally literate', the level needed to get by in life and at work,[2] and so people below this level could be defined as having a low level of literacy. Level 1 is equivalent to GCSE grades D-G. Adults with skills below Level 1 can read or write, but their skills may be limited, for example, they may not be able to read bus or train timetables.</p><p> </p><p>The 2011 Skills for Life survey also provided Small Area modelled estimates[3] for sub-regional geographies. This analysis provides estimates of the proportions and numbers of people above and below the ‘functional literacy' threshold (i.e. National Qualification Framework Level 1) for sub-regional geographies in England. The smallest geographical area reported in this analysis are middle-layer super output areas – these are small areas of consistent size (of about 7,200 people) used for the collection and reporting of small area statistics by the Office of National Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills, published in 2013, based on fieldwork August 2011 and March 2012, included estimates of UK literacy levels, based on England and Northern Ireland (Scotland and Wales did not participate in the survey). National reports for England and Northern Ireland[4] based on the OECD survey note that 17 per cent of adults in England had low proficiency in literacy (i.e. at or below the OECD Level 1 in literacy, roughly equivalent to below NQF Level 1 literacy), compared to 18 per cent in Northern Ireland.</p><br /><p>[1] TNS-BMRB and AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd. (2011) <em>2011 Skills for Life survey: headline findings,</em> Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, BIS research paper 57. Available online at: <a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/further-education-skills/docs/0-9/11-1367-2011-skills-for-life-survey-findings.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/further-education-skills/docs/0-9/11-1367-2011-skills-for-life-survey-findings.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/2014.</p><p>[2] As defined in the Leitch review of skills. See Leitch, S. (2006) <em>Prosperity for All in the Global Economy – world class skills</em>, available online at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/4/leitch_finalreport051206.pdf" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/4/leitch_finalreport051206.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/2014: page 61-62.</p><p>[3] Available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/2011-skills-for-life-survey-small-area-estimation-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/2011-skills-for-life-survey-small-area-estimation-data</a>, accessed on 6/2/14.</p><p>[4] NFER (2013) The International Survey of Adult Skills: adult literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills in England, BIS research report 139. Available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246534/bis-13-1221-international-survey-of-adult-skills-2012.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246534/bis-13-1221-international-survey-of-adult-skills-2012.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/14.; NFER (2013) The International Survey of Adult Skills: adult literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills in Northern Ireland, Department for Employment and Learning. Available online at: <a href="http://www.delni.gov.uk/international-survey-adult-skills-2012.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.delni.gov.uk/international-survey-adult-skills-2012.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/14.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

50036

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department has on the number of apprentices under 18 years who live at home.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
	tabling member printed	Mike Crockart
	uin	197749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Information collected centrally does not distinguish between apprentices living at home with parents and those who have moved away for the purpose of study.</p><p> </p><p>We annually ask apprentices for their views and 88% say they are satisfied with their apprenticeship.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3967 label Biography information for Mike Crockart

49594

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of levels of imports of wood for biomass combustion within the UK in the last three years for which figures are available; and from what countries that wood was imported.
	tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
	tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
	uin	197674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Data on the value of imports of fuel wood are published by HMRC in Overseas Trade Statistics. Data for the years 2011 to 2013 are shown in the following table for Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) 245.01 - Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms (excluding wood waste).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>UK</strong><strong> imports of fuel wood (SITC 245.01) by partner country, £s</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>(sorted by total value of fuel wood imports over the three years, high to low)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total (all countries)</p></td><td><p>2,164,613</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,515,611</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,668,665</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>855,773</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>573,022</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,508,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Netherlands</p></td><td><p>592,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>892,166</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>576,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>208,031</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>200,393</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>771,578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ukraine</p></td><td><p>72,122</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>117,802</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Indonesia</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>118,859</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Irish Republic</p></td><td><p>18,387</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7,802</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>151,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ghana</p></td><td><p>52,855</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>49,662</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>47,408</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>140,172</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7,398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Africa</p></td><td><p>108,207</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9,337</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>112,771</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thailand</p></td><td><p>50,750</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>53,545</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United States</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>41,614</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>64,413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malaysia</p></td><td><p>18,455</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>42,920</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>40,101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sweden</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>62,245</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10,451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Australia</p></td><td><p>65,785</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Namibia</p></td><td><p>47,732</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6,528</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hong Kong</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>46,680</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belarus</p></td><td><p>27,958</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Egypt</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>8,807</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>15,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>1,369</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,144</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>20,669</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bosnia &amp; Herz.</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>20,053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vietnam</p></td><td><p>13,877</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,946</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Canada</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>16,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>14,536</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>China</p></td><td><p>6,165</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6,251</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>610</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Honduras</p></td><td><p>12,853</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pakistan</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4,409</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4,915</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jamaica</p></td><td><p>8,318</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guyana</p></td><td><p>3,524</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>India</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,822</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UAE</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>459</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer