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225671

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date	06/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) individual drivers and (b) the road haulage sector of complying with EU Directive 2003/59/EC.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	226625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The previous Administration consulted about the implementation of EU Directive 2003/59/EC, which, by introducing a qualification and continued periodic training, aimed to improve the professionalism of lorry and bus drivers. The Directive was implemented by the previous Administration based on an initial qualification by theoretical and practical driving tests which assessed competence. Annual costs to the haulage industry, associated with drivers undertaking initial qualification, were estimated to be around £21 million.</p><p> </p><p>To maintain the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence, drivers are required to undertake 35 hours periodic training every five years. Annual costs to the haulage industry were estimated to be around £109 million.</p><p> </p><p>We expect those costs to be off-set by social, environmental and cost benefits for road safety, improved fuel consumption, reduced wear and tear on vehicles, and improved journey times as a consequence of adoption of the Directive. Fuel savings of around £385 million were estimated for the haulage industry.</p><p> </p><p>In 2013, Ministers sought to identify and remove unnecessary burdens for those who drove lorries or buses as an incidental part of their employment. The measures introduced, which removed the requirement for these drivers to obtain an initial qualification or undertake periodic training to maintain the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence, were estimated to have an annual net benefit to UK businesses of around £23 million.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/03/2015 15:09:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

225679

registered interest
date	06/03/2015
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to reply to the letter to him of 22 January 2015, from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regards to Mr S Law.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Sir Gerald Kaufman
uin	226583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions replied to the Rt. Hon. Member on 2 February 2015.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 10/03/2015 12:27:56 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	451 label Biography information for Sir Gerald Kaufman

225436

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Locality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding his Department has allocated to the Locality for the Community Organising programme.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	226524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 6 November 2014 to UIN: 213130</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 10/03/2015 16:52:14 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

225438

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Beer: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue to the public purse from sales of beer since April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	226465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>Receipts from duties on beer that is released for consumption in the UK are published in Table 5 of our monthly alcohol bulletin:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/TaxAndDutybulletins.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/TaxAndDutybulletins.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on VAT paid by consumers on beer is not available. HM Revenue &amp; Customs do not collect data on VAT receipts by individual goods or services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/03/2015 17:06:19 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

225440

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Islamic State
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to prevent British financial institutions facilitating the sale of (a) oil and (b) historic artefacts by ISIL.
tabling member constituency	Holborn and St Pancras
tabling member printed	Frank Dobson
uin	226502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>ISIL is designated under the UN Al Qaida sanctions regime (given effect by UN Security Council Resolution 1267) which is implemented in the EU by Council Regulation 881/2002, with the criminal penalties imposed in the UK by the Al Qaida (Asset Freezing) Regulations 2011. The Al Qaida financial sanctions is implemented in the UK by HM Treasury.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is therefore a criminal offence for any legal or natural person, including financial institutions, to deal with funds belonging to ISIL or to make funds or economic resources available to ISIL. It is a criminal offence for individuals or organisations knowingly to provide support for ISIL, including by the facilitation of oil, oil products, or commodities including historic artefacts. This was most recently underlined in UN Security Council Resolution 2199, which the UK Government co-sponsored.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 10/03/2015 17:58:24 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	180 label Biography information for Frank Dobson

225442

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Economic Growth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what forecasts he has made of economic growth in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	226490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Treasury no longer provides forecasts after the Office for Budget Responsibility was created by this government in 2010 to provide independent and authoritative analysis of the UK’s public finances. Their next set of forecasts will be released on 18th March; the Chancellor will make a statement on them in his budget speech.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK economy grew by 2.6 per cent in 2014, the fastest of any major advanced nation in 2014, and forecasts are for robust growth to continue in 2015: the IMF, Bank of England, the OECD and the CBI all forecast the UK economy will grow by between 2.6 per cent and 2.9 per cent in 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/03/2015 17:29:34 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

225445

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
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	Green Belt: Hertfordshire
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 protect green belt and green open spaces in North Hertfordshire local authority area.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	226474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>As pledged in the Collation Agreement, this Government has safeguarded national Green Belt protection and increased protection of important green spaces.</p><p>We have abolished the Labour Government’s top-down Regional Strategies which sought to delete the Green Belt in and around 30 towns and cities. This has included revoking the East of England Regional Spatial Strategy (May 2008) which advocated reviewing and potential removal of Green Belt boundaries in North Hertfordshire.</p><p>We have also:</p><p> </p><p>• Introduced a new Local Green Space planning designation, which allows councils and neighbourhood plans to give added protection to valuable local green spaces;</p><p> </p><p>• Published the National Planning Policy Framework which re-affirms Green Belt protection;</p><p> </p><p>• Given councils stronger powers to tackle ‘garden grabbing’, and stopped gardens being classified as brownfield land;</p><p> </p><p>• Issued new waste planning policy which increases protection of the Green Belt;</p><p> </p><p>• Published planning guidance which re-affirms the importance of the Green Belt during Local Plan preparation; and</p><p> </p><p>• Consulted on proposed changes to planning policy on traveller sites to further increase Green Belt safeguards.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/03/2015 18:48:15 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 49067 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

225446

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
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	Housing: Hertfordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much (a) North Hertfordshire District Council and (b) East Hertfordshire District Council received in New Homes Bonus in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	226473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>New Homes Bonus has been allocated to East Hertfordshire and North Hertfordshire councils in the year 2014/15 as follows:<br><br>East Hertfordshire £2,190,429<br>North Hertfordshire £1,982,455<br><br></p><p>The total New Homes Bonus allocated since April 2011 is as follows:</p><p>East Hertfordshire £7,628,975<br>North Hertfordshire £7,503,553</p><p> </p><p>The Bonus ensures that local authorities who promote and welcome growth can share in its economic benefits, and build the communities in which people want to live and work. Councils are free to spend the Bonus as they choose, including on front-line services and keeping council tax low.</p><p>Fundamentally, the New Homes Bonus reverses the perverse situation under the last Labour Government, where councils were effectively penalised for building new homes; councils with a larger council tax base from house building found that the amount of formula grant they received from central Government was reduced during the equalisation process.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/03/2015 17:52:25 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 49066 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

225448

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Schools: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will work with the Department for Education to take further steps to open schools sports facilities to the wider community.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	226518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>We are very keen that we get the most out of Government investment in school sports facilities and will continue to seek to increase opportunities. Sport England works with schools, local authorities and the Education Funding Agency to improve community access to such facilities. It has made available £400,000 per year to provide focused support for a number of schools in strategically important areas. It is investing £1 million in the Priority School Building Programme in 2015 to safeguard school sports facilities at schools that have been identified as being in urgent need of repair. Sport England will also shortly be launching an online resource to help more schools open up their facilities for community use.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 10/03/2015 16:27:23 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

225449

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether social media news feeds are considered by Ofcom in their assessment of media plurality.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	226522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has commissioned Ofcom to produce a measurement framework for media plurality. Ofcom work independently of Government and it is for Ofcom to develop the measurement framework, in consultation with industry. However I understand Ofcom will be publishing a consultation on the measurement framework shortly.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 10/03/2015 09:26:34 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah