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425700

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date	03/11/2015
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	Pakistan: Politics and Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the progress of Pakistan in securing justice for people killed in the 2007 Mumbai attacks.
tabling member constituency	North Dorset
tabling member printed	Simon Hoare
uin	14509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The 2008 Mumbai attacks were a deplorable act of terrorism in which a British national was amongst the 166 innocent people killed. Many hundreds of others were seriously wounded. Given the gravity of those horrific events, the UK Government is deeply concerned by the release on bail of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, one of the alleged planners, in April. Pakistan has committed to bring to justice the perpetrators and sponsors, and we continue to urge Pakistan at the highest levels to follow through on that commitment.</p><p>The UK Government recognises that Pakistan is on the frontline of terrorism, and continues to make considerable sacrifices on a daily basis. We remain fully committed to working in partnership with Pakistan to tackle the scourge of violent extremism which threatens both our interests. It is essential for stability in the South Asia region and for the safety of UK nationals that Pakistan delivers on its commitment to tackle all terrorist groups.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 05/11/2015 11:33:51 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare

425798

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
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	Jobcentre Plus: Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job advisers he plans to locate in food banks.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	14525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answers I gave on 3 November 2015 to Question 14114 and 14139</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/11/2015 15:57:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

425301

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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	Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consideration his Department has given to suspending the UK's arms export licences to Saudi Arabia in the light of the conflict in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	14382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>All export licence applications are carefully assessed on a case by case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, taking account of all relevant factors at the time of the application. A licence will not be issued for any country if to do so would be inconsistent with any provision of the Criteria.</p><br /><p>We keep all licences under review in the light of changing circumstances in countries of destination for UK arms exports, including Saudi Arabia.</p><br /><p>A political solution is the best way to bring long term stability to Yemen and to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. The UK is fully and actively supporting the UN’s efforts to achieve this.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 05/11/2015 13:59:25 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

425303

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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	Insolvency
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 assessment he has made of the effect on (a) businesses affected by pre-pack insolvencies and (b) employees of such businesses of such insolvencies.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	14312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>The University of Wolverhampton undertook research as part of Teresa Graham’s June 2014 review into pre-pack administrations. This found that returns to creditors from a pre-pack were slightly lower than from non pre-packed administrations.</p><br /><p>The report also found that in about 60% of pre-pack deals all jobs were saved, and in a further 10% some jobs were saved. No data is available on the impact of the insolvency on employment at creditors of the company.</p><br /><p>A voluntary package of reforms to pre-packs, as recommended by the Graham review, was launched on 2 November with support from the insolvency industry and creditor groups. The reforms are intended to bring greater transparency and improved creditor confidence in pre-packs, and especially those in which sales are to connected parties.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 05/11/2015 13:58:16 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

425314

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what fiscal steps he is taking to support the Government's aim of halving the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	14320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to giving disabled people the opportunity to fulfil their potential and achieve their ambitions. Work is an important part of this. That is why we have committed to halving the disability employment gap, requiring us to transform policy, practice and public attitudes.</p><p>We must build on recent progress. We have already:</p><p>- extended Access to Work to provide support to more disabled people in pre-employment, such as work experience and also to undertake employment-based training, such as supported internships, traineeships and self-arranged work experience.</p><p>- launched Specialist Employability Support, an innovative new programme which provides intensive, specialist support to the disabled people who need the most help.</p><p>- continued to work with employers through our Disability Confident campaign to ensure that they understand the benefits of recruiting and retaining disabled people in work.</p><p>- announced new funding in the Budget of up to £100m per year for additional practical support to provide the right incentives and support to enable those who have limited capability, but who have some potential to prepare, for work to move closer to the labour market, and when they are ready, back into work.</p><p>- committed to spending £43m over the next 3 years to develop the evidence base on what works for those with common mental health conditions retain and return to employment. This will be done through a range of voluntary mental health and employment pilots that will go live next year</p><p><br>We set up the Work and Health unit in the summer to bring together the Work and Health agendas, to help disabled people and people with health conditions get into work, stay in work, and return to work with the right support and we are developing our plans in this area.</p><p>The Government will set out it its spending plans for this Parliament in the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2015 14:36:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

425325

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's press release, Infrastructure at heart of Spending Review as Chancellor launches National Infrastructure Commission, published on 30 October 2015, what transport projects are included in the £100 billion infrastructure spending; and what the projected spend on those projects is in each year to 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	14448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The £100 billion of infrastructure spending includes publically-funded infrastructure projects and programmes in the National Infrastructure Pipeline. The Pipeline is a strategic view of economic infrastructure investment.</p><p>Transport projects and programmes include:</p><ul><li>Network Rail’s Control Period 5 (2014-2019), currently being re-planned by the Chairman, Sir Peter Hendy</li><li>Highway England’s Road Investment Strategy (2015-2020)</li><li>High Speed 2</li><li>Transport for London’s centrally-funded investment programme</li><li>Centrally-funded Local Authority transport projects <br> <p>Details of the projected annual spend to 2020-21 can be found in the most recent refresh of the Pipeline, published in July 2015.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/11/2015 16:26:38 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

425326

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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	Hostels: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to introduce a separate planning category for hostels.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	14415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Hostels are considered to be a class of their own. It is for the local planning authority to consider the use of a particular property based on the specific details of the individual case.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 16:51:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

425327

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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	Hostels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to introduce statutory guidance on the definition of a hostel.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	14416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>We currently have no plans to introduce statutory guidance on the definition of a hostel.</p><p>We have supported local areas to improve the quality of hostels through the Homelessness Change Programme, which provided £42.5 million of capital funding in 2012 – 2015 for new and refurbished bed spaces, as well as other facilities to support a return to independent living.</p><br /> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 17:01:17 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

425328

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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 Associations: Public Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on house building of the Office of National Statistics reclassifying housing associations as public sector bodies.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	14417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Office of National Statistics has concluded that housing associations should have been classified as public rather than private since 2008, due to several of the regulatory requirements imposed by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 introduced by the last Labour Government. This decision is purely a statistical change. Reclassification makes no material changes to the operation of housing associations. The Government is committed to developing deregulatory measures to help housing associations build more homes and help more people into home ownership.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 16:50:32 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

425330

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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: Greater London
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, how many (a) EU and (b) Commonwealth citizens from which countries were registered in each London borough to vote by October 2015.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	14317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission holds data on the the number of European Union (EU) citizens (including attainers) on the electoral registers in December 2014. These figures are collected annually by the Office of National Statistics for England and Wales. Data is not available on the number of registered Commonwealth citizens as the registers do not distinguish Commonwealth citizens as they are entitled to vote in all elections.</p><p><strong></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>London borough</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of registered EU citizens</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham</p></td><td><p>11,552</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnet</p></td><td><p>23,174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley</p></td><td><p>5,148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p>30,107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td><td><p>8,742</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden</p></td><td><p>17,654</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>748</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croydon</p></td><td><p>15,731</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing</p></td><td><p>31,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enfield</p></td><td><p>16,803</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich</p></td><td><p>15,217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney</p></td><td><p>18,145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith and Fulham</p></td><td><p>18,965</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p>21,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow</p></td><td><p>14,641</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havering</p></td><td><p>5,282</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td><td><p>12,935</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hounslow</p></td><td><p>21,089</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington</p></td><td><p>16,334</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td><td><p>20,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p>8,971</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>28,035</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham</p></td><td><p>16,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merton</p></td><td><p>16,725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham</p></td><td><p>25,562</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge</p></td><td><p>13,999</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td><td><p>9,580</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p>20,368</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton</p></td><td><p>7,848</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets</p></td><td><p>19,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waltham Forest</p></td><td><p>22,269</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth</p></td><td><p>24,764</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster</p></td><td><p>19,565</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 05/11/2015 12:46:04 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan