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61199

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications his Department has received from academies seeking to change their admissions policies; and how many such applications his Department accepted.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	199854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>Academies can only change their admission arrangements following the procedures set out in the School Admissions Code.</p><p> </p><p>During the 2013/14 academic year the Education Funding Agency has received requests to change admissions arrangements for 8 academies. Of these, 7 were approved and 1 was withdrawn by the academy trust.</p><p> </p><p>These figures do not include applications to change admissions arrangements that form part of a request for a wider change to an academy's funding agreement, for example extending the age range, as this data is not recorded centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 18/06/2014 15:20:17 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

61200

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Education Authorities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local education authorities currently operate a three-tier system; how many such authorities have sought to change to a two-tier system since 2010; and how many such authorities have changed to a two-tier system.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	199852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold records about the number of local authorities that operate three-tier systems.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 18/06/2014 13:37:07 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

61201

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many middle schools there are in England; and how many of those schools are academies.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	199853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>There are 190 schools in England that are recorded on Edubase, the Department's database of education providers, as being middle schools. Of these, 59 are converter academies and three are sponsored academies.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 18/06/2014 13:35:58 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

61202

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept id	58
answering dept short name	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Deputy Prime Minister
hansard heading	Members: Conduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether recall powers for local elected representatives will be included in the Government's Bill to enable recall of hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	199851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government has no plans at this time to extend the power of recall beyond Members of Parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sheffield, Hallam answering member printed Mr Nick Clegg question first answered 18/06/2014 15:45:00 answering member 1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

61203

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 8 May 2014, Official Report, column 276W, on motor vehicles: exhaust emissions, if he will place the data from his Department's 2006 study of liquefied petroleum and petrol vehicles in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	200008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The report produced for the Department at the end of the study (Ref: M. Clark, P. Sayer, <em>Euro 3 LPG Retrofit Emissions Factor Testing</em>, Tickford Powertrain Test Ltd., ER07/015, June 2007) contains the data captured by the testing. Copies of the report will be placed in the in the Libraries of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/06/2014 12:44:45 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

49352

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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, what plans he has to encourage car manufacturers to manufacture cars powered by road fuel gases for the UK market.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	197296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p>We want the UK to be at the forefront of the design, development, manufacture and use of low emission vehicles, delivering economic growth opportunities and contributing to the decarbonisation of road transport.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As part of the Automotive Industrial Strategy, Government and industry will invest around £1 billion over the next 10 years in an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to research, develop and commercialise the next generation of low carbon technologies. The APC is technology neutral, so can support new road fuel gas technologies if they offer significant low carbon advantages. This investment will secure up to 30,000 jobs. The Government will allocate £100 million for ULEV-specific research and development for the period 2015-2020 as part of the £500m OLEV package. This represents an increase of over 20% in support from the previous package (which was £82m over the period 2010 – 2015).</p><p> </p><p>We have also allocated £4m to ensure the UK has the gas refuelling facilities HGVs need to support our freight and logistics operators in their efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their business.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

49353

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information later than 2003 his Department has on the relative emissions from motor vehicles powered by road fuel gases.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	197297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department commissioned testing of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in 2006 which concluded that the air pollutant emissions performance of LPG vehicles is similar to that of petrol vehicles. The Department is also aware of other studies which showed similar results that engines running on road fuel gases broadly emit less oxides of nitrogen (NO<sub>x</sub>) and particulate matter (PM) than a comparable diesel engine, whilst producing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions between those of equivalent diesel and petrol engines.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley