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62827

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the penalties will be for companies which fail to properly declare their beneficial ownership on the public register.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	201577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will make provision for the implementation of a central registry of company beneficial ownership information. The legislation will set out the penalties that apply to companies who fail to provide information, or provide false information, to Companies House. These will be based on, or extend, existing company law criminal offences.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 24/06/2014 13:50:33 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

62833

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, columns 432-3W, on death, what plans he has to address the principal causes of preventable premature mortality.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	201581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p><em>Living Well for Longer: National Support for Local Action to Reduce Premature Avoidable Mortali</em>ty (April 2014) sets out what the health and care system will do to achieve the Government's ambition for England to be amongst the best in Europe at reducing levels of premature mortality.</p><p> </p><p>A copy of <em>Living Well for Longer</em> has been placed in the Library and is also available at:</p><p> </p><p>www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307703/LW4L.pdf.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ201581 - Lib Doc - Report.pdf title Living Well for Longer 2 file name PQ201581 - Hansard Extract.docx title Hansard Extract question first answered 24/06/2014 13:54:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

62834

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Fraud, Error and Debt Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the minutes of the Fraud, Error and Debt Taskforce are no longer on its website.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	201580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Taskforce has recently been reconstituted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 24/06/2014 16:18:09 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

62835

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprentices have been hired under his Department's new contract for procurement.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	201527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 24/06/2014 13:27:25 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

62836

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Maternity Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women received maternity allowance in the last year for which figures are available; what the average length of time they received it for was; and what the total cost to the public purse was.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	201534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information we have for the number receiving Maternity Allowance and the average duration is published each quarter and is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The cost to the public purse for Great Britain in 2012/13 was £395 million in nominal terms consistent with expenditure tables published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/06/2014 13:04:47 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

62839

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government's proposed fiscal framework for onshore oil and gas exploration, as established within the Finance Bill 2014, has been notified to the European Commission under State Aid procedures.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	201592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The changes in tax treatment for onshore oil and gas do not constitute state aid and notification is therefore not required.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 24/06/2014 15:42:38 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

62846

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes have been made to the Preserved Right to Buy since May 2010; and what consultation processes have accompanied such changes.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	201445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Helping people to achieve their home ownership aspirations is a central part of the Government's housing strategy. This is why the Government reinvigorated the Right to Buy and, by extension, the Preserved Right to Buy, increasing the maximum cash caps to £75,000 in April 2012. At the same time, the Government committed to keeping the discounts under review to ensure they remain effective.</p><p> </p><p>To reflect the unique nature of the housing market in London, the maximum cash cap for London was increased to £100,000 in March 2013. As part of keeping the discounts under review, the Government is currently legislating to increase annually the maximum cash cap by the Consumer Price Index, and to bring the maximum percentage discount available for houses up, from 60 per cent to 70 per cent, to the same level as that available for flats. We are also legislating, via the Deregulation Bill, to decrease the qualifying eligibility period from five years to three years, bringing it in line with the policy's original intentions.</p><p>My Department consulted widely on changes to the Right to Buy prior to the reinvigoration of the scheme in April 2012. We have held roundtable meetings with key partners, such as the National Housing Federation, the Local Government Association and individual local authorities, on the further changes outlined above.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/06/2014 11:32:08 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

62847

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Fire Services: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he next plans to meet the Fire Brigades Union to discuss the pensions dispute.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	201446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I have regular meetings with the Fire Brigades Union. The most recent request for a meeting has come from Matt Wrack, the General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, and is dated 20 June. I am content to agree to this request as long as the Union is not in a period of strike action.</p><p>Earlier this year I agreed that the Government Actuary's Department could cost alternative pension scheme designs that the Union had proposed. After constructive discussions, I wrote to the General Secretary on 23 April 2014 stating that their proposals were under consideration. The following day, the Union prematurely called a halt to those discussions by announcing strike action. I have since published draft regulations for consultation to implement the Proposed Final Agreement which was published in May 2012. I would encourage the Union to engage in that formal statutory consultation process which can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 201496 question first answered 24/06/2014 11:40:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

62849

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
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 homes have been sold to date through the Preserved Right to Buy; what steps his Department takes to ensure such homes can be replaced; and how many homes sold under Preserved Right to Buy have been replaced to date.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	201436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This Government wants to ensure that as many social tenants as possible are helped to achieve their home ownership aspirations. The Preserved Right to Buy ensures that social tenants who were living in their homes at the time of a stock transfer maintain their important right to home ownership. Figures for Preserved Right to Buy sales are collected by the Department on an annual basis. In the first year of the reinvigorated scheme (2012-13), there were 2,458 Preserved Right to Buy sales. Sales data for previous years (table 648) can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p>As housing associations are independent organisations, and stock transfer agreements are private commercial contracts, we do not mandate what they do with receipts they receive from Preserved Right to Buy sales. It is the Department's expectation that these receipts should be used to help fund new homes for affordable rent, and we would encourage housing associations to work in partnership with local authorities, and use other sources of cross-subsidy, to help achieve this.</p><p>For future stock transfers, my Department has recently published a Stock Transfer Manual which sets out our intention to require that, for transfers completing after 30 September 2014, net proceeds from Preserved Right to Buy sales are, within three years, used to fund new affordable housing at no greater subsidy cost than under the main affordable homes programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 201438 question first answered 24/06/2014 11:34:10 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

62850

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effect of the Preserved Right to Buy on the number of affordable homes.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	201438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This Government wants to ensure that as many social tenants as possible are helped to achieve their home ownership aspirations. The Preserved Right to Buy ensures that social tenants who were living in their homes at the time of a stock transfer maintain their important right to home ownership. Figures for Preserved Right to Buy sales are collected by the Department on an annual basis. In the first year of the reinvigorated scheme (2012-13), there were 2,458 Preserved Right to Buy sales. Sales data for previous years (table 648) can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p>As housing associations are independent organisations, and stock transfer agreements are private commercial contracts, we do not mandate what they do with receipts they receive from Preserved Right to Buy sales. It is the Department's expectation that these receipts should be used to help fund new homes for affordable rent, and we would encourage housing associations to work in partnership with local authorities, and use other sources of cross-subsidy, to help achieve this.</p><p>For future stock transfers, my Department has recently published a Stock Transfer Manual which sets out our intention to require that, for transfers completing after 30 September 2014, net proceeds from Preserved Right to Buy sales are, within three years, used to fund new affordable housing at no greater subsidy cost than under the main affordable homes programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 201436 question first answered 24/06/2014 11:34:10 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones