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228503

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraphs 1.103, 1.122 and 2.231 of Budget 2015, on the availability of ultrafast broadband, what the Government's definition is of "available to".
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	228477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>In the specified Budget 2015 paragraph references, “available to” means that consumers should be able to access ultrafast broadband through a retail service, should they choose to take one up.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 23/03/2015 16:04:51 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

228506

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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	Recycling: Lancashire
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 waste was recycled in (a) Pendle constituency and (b) Lancashire in 2009-10 and each subsequent year.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	228349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The levels of household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting in a) Pendle Borough Council and b) Lancashire County Council in those years is set out in the table below:<br><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td>2009/10</td><td>2010/11</td><td>2011/12</td><td>2012/13</td><td>2013/14</td></tr><tr><td>Pendle</td><td>35.6%</td><td>38.0%</td><td>37.6%</td><td>35.9%</td><td>36.7%</td></tr><tr><td>Lancashire</td><td>44.9%</td><td>46.0%</td><td>46.8%</td><td>47.6%</td><td>47.4%</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 23/03/2015 14:38:49 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

228675

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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	Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when was the last time a Minister in his Department visited Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	228385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The last time a DWP Minister visited Scotland was in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/03/2015 15:07:34 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

228686

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Geothermal Power: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 18 March (HL5377), what action they are taking to progress discussions with the government of Germany following their letter to that government last year; and how many meetings between United Kingdom and German officials have taken place on this subject since then.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL5868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>DECC officials, working closely with Cornwall County Council, continue to engage with their German counterparts to explore research options for the potential testing of geothermal resources. The main exchanges have been through email correspondence and by telephone.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 23/03/2015 17:02:55 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

228701

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Unidentified Flying Objects: Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Provost and Security Services conducted an investigation into sightings of unidentified flying objects in West Wales during 1977.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL5883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Any files relating to the West Wales sighting in 1977 will be held by the National Archives. Consequently, the Ministry of Defence holds no information on this incident.</p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 23/03/2015 17:24:58 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

228704

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Channel Tunnel: Fires
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Kramer on 16 March (HL5636) whether the likely cause of the fire in the Channel Tunnel in January was an aerial on a lorry coming into contact with the overhead electric power equipment; and whether they consider that the fire could have been avoided if the lorry had been conveyed in a closed wagon.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL5886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>It would be premature to make any judgements around the causes of the fire until the independent statutory investigations by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and its French counterpart, BEA-TT have been completed.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 23/03/2015 13:55:51 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

228065

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps he has taken to encourage asset owners to do more to engage with investee companies as part of their stewardship duties.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	228100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has taken a variety of significant steps to promote stewardship and engagement on the part of institutional investors. A key focus has been to work closely with the investment industry on initiatives involving both institutional investors and asset managers, acknowledging that while some institutional investors engage directly with companies, many others delegate to asset managers to engage on their behalf.</p><p>Specific achievements include:</p><ul><li>a strengthening of the Stewardship Code to emphasise engagement on companies’ long-term strategy;</li><li>the creation of an Investor Forum to improve the amount and effectiveness of collective engagement by key institutional investors;</li><li>the development, by the National Association of Pension Funds, of a new Stewardship Disclosure Framework to encourage asset managers to report on their activities and to enable investors to hold them to account.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Government has comprehensively reformed the legislative framework for corporate reporting to boost transparency on company directors’ remuneration and ensure annual reports are more focused on long-term company strategy. In this way we are encouraging companies to report the information which is relevant to long-term stewardship investors.</p><p>The Law Commission’s report on the fiduciary duties of investment intermediaries, commissioned by the Government, concluded that fiduciary investors such as pension scheme trustees should consider whether and how to engage with companies to promote their long-term success, either directly or through their investment managers. The Government is now taking forward the Law Commission’s recommendations in a number of areas, including by consulting currently on whether the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2005 should be amended to require trustees to state their policy on stewardship with reference to the Stewardship Code.</p><p>This work has been part of a broader commitment – in response to the Kay Review of equity markets - to address the longstanding concern that short-termism has impeded the creation of sustainable value by British companies. The Government published a comprehensive progress report on the implementation of the Review in October 2014. This is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/367070/bis-14-1157-implementation-of-the-kay-review-progress-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/367070/bis-14-1157-implementation-of-the-kay-review-progress-report.pdf</a></p><p>The Government is now undertaking further work in a number of areas, including:</p><ul><li>supporting the work of the Financial Reporting Council to monitor how signatories to the Stewardship Code are delivering against their commitment;</li><li>supporting the work of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) to develop “Red Line Voting” – an initiative which will enable pension schemes and other investors to adopt common voting positions on a range of governance issues; and research to examine how shares are held by institutional and individual investors – to provide an insight into how the Government can encourage greater investment engagement.</li></ul> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 23/03/2015 14:41:50 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

228070

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Adult Education: Leeds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what non-apprenticeship adult skills budget was allocated for Leeds City College in 2014-15; and what such allocation he plans to make in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	228113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The non-apprenticeship adult skills budget allocated for Leeds City College in 2014-15 is attached.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 23/03/2015 17:14:11 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles attachment 1 file name Leeds-City-College-non-apprenticeships-budget.docx title Leeds City College non-apprenticeships budget
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

228072

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Ouija Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward legislative proposals for regulating the sale of ouija boards.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	228164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to regulate the sale of Ouija boards.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 23/03/2015 14:43:25 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

228073

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	New Businesses: Pendle
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many new business start-ups by women there were in Pendle constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	228174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 228217 question first answered 23/03/2015 16:23:28 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 228217 228174 ONS 109 110.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - New Business Start-Ups
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson