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170968

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Temporary Accommodation: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to uprate the Housing Benefit Subsidy regime for temporary accommodation to address any difficulties experienced by London boroughs in procuring accommodation for statutorily homeless households at or below 90 per cent of the 2011 rate of Local Housing Allowance.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>There are no current plans to uprate the Local Housing Allowance rate applicable to Temporary Accommodation in Housing Benefit.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/12/2014 16:10:53 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170969

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many and what proportion of those affected by the benefit cap since its introduction are in receipt of (1) Employment Support Allowance, (2) Income Support, and (3) Carer’s Allowance.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The latest official statistics on the benefit cap can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-august-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-august-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics do not contain benefit type information. A suite of evaluation was published on 15 December 2014. This evaluation made estimates of the proportion of capped households in scope for the cap who were in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support (IS), Employment Support Allowance (ESA) or other benefit types over time. The evaluation uses a different methodology to the Official Statistics and does not provide a cumulative count of numbers which is in line with Official Statistics. In July 2014 (the most recent data used in the evaluation), estimates found 23 per cent of capped claimants were in receipt of ESA; 45 per cent of capped claimants were in receipt of IS; and 9 per cent were in receipt of another benefit type, of which modelling suggests around 1,400 households had at least one Carer’s Allowance claimant.</p><p>Further information can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-review-of-the-first-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-review-of-the-first-year</a></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 22/12/2014 14:50:46 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170612

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Social Workers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the overall budget for the Care First programme was in each year of that programme.
tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
tabling member printed	George Hollingbery
uin	218921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p><strong>Care First was funded as part of the Young Person’s Guarantee. The final budget allocation for Care First was £75m across 2009/10 and 2010/11. The Young Person’s Guarantee was replaced by the Youth Contract.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 22/12/2014 09:34:07 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery

170652

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Solar Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to enable schools to run on solar power; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	218874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>This Government is committed to helping schools become greener and more energy efficient. That is why we have supported the launch of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) solar photovoltaic strategy for schools and will continue to work with DECC to promote further their strategy across the schools sector.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 22/12/2014 14:26:48 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

170660

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many chemistry teachers in each parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester have a chemistry degree.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	218918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not available by parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>Unlike the Department for Education’s response to written parliamentary question 218919, any count would have to rely on linking two samples of teachers for qualifications held and curriculum taught. Any estimate based on the small numbers of chemistry teachers employed in each parliamentary constituency would be unreliable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 22/12/2014 14:33:44 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

170661

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school teachers in each parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester have a science degree.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	218919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in Greater Manchester with a degree in a science subject in November 2013. This is the latest information available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Name of Constituency</p></td><td><p>Number of teachers</p><p>with science degree[2]</p></td><td><p>Number of teachers with a qualification recorded[3]</p></td><td><p>Percentage with a science</p><p>qualification</p><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Confidence interval[4]</p></td><td><p>Percentage of teachers with qualification</p><p>recorded</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Altrincham and Sale West</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>382</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>88.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashton-under-Lyne</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>415</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>95.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackley and Broughton</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>573</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>96.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton North East</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>416</p></td><td><p>8.7</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>98.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton South East</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>516</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>98.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton West</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>99.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury North</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>355</p></td><td><p>8.5</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>88.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury South</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>368</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>84.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheadle</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>437</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>98.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denton and Reddish</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>368</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>94.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hazel Grove</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>98.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heywood and Middleton</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>485</p></td><td><p>9.9</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>98.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leigh</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>340</p></td><td><p>12.1</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>96.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Makerfield</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>95.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester Central</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>610</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td><td><p>96.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester, Gorton</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>494</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>98.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester, Withington</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>388</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>97.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham East and Saddleworth</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>473</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td><td><p>89.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham West and Royton</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>7.1</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>87.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>498</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>95.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford and Eccles</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>379</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>94.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stalybridge and Hyde</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>432</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>97.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>378</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>97.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stretford and Urmston</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>385</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>80.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>89.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worsley and Eccles South</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>89.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wythenshawe and Sale East</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>441</p></td><td><p>6.8</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>92.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>889</p></td><td><p>11,416</p></td><td><p>7.8</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>93.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total England</p></td><td><p>18,795</p></td><td><p>227,513</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>+/-</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: Figures are as reported in School Workforce Census, they have not been scaled up.</p><p> </p><p>Source: School Workforce Census</p><p> </p><p>[1] Includes qualified and unqualified teachers.</p><p>[2] Includes teachers with a first or higher science degree but excluding those with a science PGCE where no record of a science degree exists and those with a BEd in sciences.</p><p>[3] Those recorded with a qualification in any subject (the total in the sample from which the rate is calculated).</p><p>[4] The range within which we can be 95% confident that the true value exists.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 22/12/2014 14:33:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

170692

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
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
hansard heading	Kenya
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Kenyan government about the massacre of bus passengers on 22 November 2014.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	218886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>We have an ongoing dialogue with the Kenyan Government on security and counter-terrorism. The Foreign Secretary most recently discussed security with the Kenyan Foreign Minister in Copenhagen on 19 November. We will continue to support Kenya’s efforts to bring to justice those responsible for the appalling recent attacks in accordance with international law.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 22/12/2014 14:03:14 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

170759

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Christmas Cards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) individuals, (b) companies and (c) other organisations receive Christmas cards from her Department.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	218998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Secretary and other Home Office Ministers send electronic Christmas cards to a range of individuals and organisations involved in cutting crime, reducing immigration and preventing terrorism. <br><br>I wish the Hon. Member a Merry Christmas too.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/12/2014 15:35:58 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

170787

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the document entitled, Caste Legislation introduction programme and timetable, published in July 2013, for what reasons the draft order has not yet been published for consultation.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	218972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government timetable published in July 2013 made it clear that the draft order would be preceded by a public consultation on the prospective caste legislation. We are currently considering the form and timing of the public consultation in the light of ongoing caste discrimination legislation in the Employment Appeal Tribunal. We will await the outcome of the judgment before deciding in what form to issue the public consultation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 18/12/2014 09:25:17 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

170798

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
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	Christmas Cards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which (a) individuals, (b) companies and (c) other organisations receive Christmas cards from his Department.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	219004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 12:29:14 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth