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62634

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date	18/06/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Floods: Christchurch
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects work to all properties identified by the Environment Agency in Christchurch constituency as being suitable for Property Level Protection against flooding to be completed.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	201380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>As part of schemes funded through Local Levy and Flood Defence Grant-in-Aid, work to protect ten properties in the Mudeford and Stanpit area is planned for 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Property-level protection measures were installed at twelve properties in Stony Lane, Christchurch earlier this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 23/06/2014 11:07:45 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

62635

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Forests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on placing the public forest estate on a sustainable footing; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	201377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy), on 17 June 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, column 516W.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 23/06/2014 11:23:07 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

62636

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Floods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether garages, boiler rooms and other non-habitable areas affected by flooding are eligible for the Repair and Renew Grant.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	201376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The “Repair and Renew” grant is available to establish resilience and resistance measures in properties to minimise the risk of damage caused by flooding. As it stands, the grant only applies to homes and businesses affected by flooding and excludes non-habitable areas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 23/06/2014 13:59:20 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

62733

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what recent estimate the Electoral Commission has made of the number of British citizens registered as overseas voters and the number of such citizens eligible for registration.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	201379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Every British citizen who has been registered to vote in the UK within the last 15 years is eligible to vote in UK Parliamentary (general) elections and European Parliamentary elections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the most recent figure showed that there were 15,848 registered overseas voters on the UK electoral registers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The most recent estimates of the total number of UK citizens living abroad are of 5.5 million (The Institute for Public Policy Research in 2006) and 4.7 million (The World Bank in 2010). However, it is not possible from this data to establish how many citizens living abroad were registered to vote in the UK within the last 15 years and are therefore eligible to vote from abroad. Even in the absence of a reliable estimate, it is nonetheless clear that the number of UK citizens living abroad who are eligible to register to vote is considerably more than those currently registered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission runs public awareness campaigns to encourage British expatriates to register to vote; the most recent took place ahead of the European elections this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 24/06/2014 14:29:44 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

62783

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensions are paid to British citizens resident overseas.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	201378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Figures for the pension caseload are published on the DWP Tabulation tool here:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/ccgor/ccsex/a_carate_r_ccgor_c_ccsex_nov13.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/ccgor/ccsex/a_carate_r_ccgor_c_ccsex_nov13.html</a></p><p> </p><p>No information is available on the nationality or citizenship of State Pensions recipients. However, in November 2013 there were approximately 1.21 million State Pensions paid outside of Great Britain. Not all of these will necessarily be to British citizens but may be to anyone who has built up an entitlement to a State Pension, regardless of nationality.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/06/2014 14:47:02 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope