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142183

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Fracking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent representations he has received on the safety concerns relating to fracking; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	213684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department regularly receives representations regarding safety, or other concerns, relating to shale gas development and exploration and we have produced a range of guidance material which set out how these concerns are addressed. These can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-regulation-and-licensing-of-energy-industries-and-infrastructure/supporting-pages/developing-shale-gas-and-oil-in-the-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-regulation-and-licensing-of-energy-industries-and-infrastructure/supporting-pages/developing-shale-gas-and-oil-in-the-uk</a></p><p>We have a strong regulatory framework in place to ensure a comprehensive regime for exploratory activities, and the UK has over 50 years of experience in oil and gas drilling. All of the right regulations are in place to ensure on-site safety, prevent water contamination, air pollution and mitigate seismic activity.</p><p>In June 2012 the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering published an independent review of the scientific and engineering evidence on risks associated with UK shale gas development. Their report concluded that environmental (and health and safety) risks can be managed effectively in the UK, when operational best practices are implemented and enforced through regulation.</p><p>In June 2014, Public Health England published a report that evaluated available evidence on issues including air quality, radon gas, naturally occurring radioactive materials, water contamination and waste water. They concluded that “the risks to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction are low if operations are properly run and regulated.”</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2014 13:59:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

142311

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hon. Members have written to him to express concerns about the future funding of local welfare assistance schemes.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
uin	213705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available other than at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 10/11/2014 14:56:50 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

114581

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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	Manufacturing Industries: Bristol
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 discussions he has had with (a) Rolls Royce and (b) other aerospace and engineering employers in the Bristol region.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	213601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has regular discussions with aerospace and engineering companies who employ people in Bristol, such as Airbus and GKN. Most recently, he spoke with John Rishton, Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce on 3rd November. I also speak to aerospace employers regularly, including through the Aerospace Growth Partnership.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the past year, my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has visited Bristol on three separate occasions on 3 April, 7 July and 30 October. On 3 April he visited Redcliffe Precision, a small aerospace company, and he also met with West of England Local Enterprise Partnership which includes Bristol Airport and Airbus. On 7 July he visited Bristol Robotics Laboratory. On 30 October he spoke and participated at an event at the National Composites Centre involving around 350 representatives from a wide range of aerospace and engineering employers, including from Bristol.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2014 15:44:51 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

114598

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Skin Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died as a result of skin cancer since January 2011.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	213625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 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 question first answered 07/11/2014 11:50:45 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 213625 ONS 391.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Skin Cancer Death
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

114703

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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	Nuclear Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department’s Nuclear Emergency Planning and Response Programme made of the Ministry of Defence nuclear accident exercise Senator 2011; and what the recommendations and conclusions arising from that assessment are.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	213649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>National level lessons identified from Senator 2011 related specifically to the provision of scientific advice and the role of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).</p><p>The learning from Senator 2011 and other exercises has informed work, being undertaken as part of DECC’s National Nuclear Emergency Planning and Response Programme, to continuously strengthen the mechanisms to provide scientific advice in a nuclear emergency.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2014 14:01:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

114705

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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	Nuclear Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department has taken to respond to concerns raised by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the NGO stakeholder forum meetings on new build nuclear reactors and nuclear waste management in (a) February and (b) June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	213494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Officials from the Department meet regularly with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to discuss a range of issues on developing nuclear policy that the DECC nuclear NGO Forum decides are germane to its task.</p><p>A record of concerns raised, agreed actions and progress against actions for the DECC nuclear NGO Forum meetings are set out in the minutes of meetings which can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/non-governmental-organisation-forum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/non-governmental-organisation-forum</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2014 14:02:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

114724

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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	Visits Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which overseas trips by Scottish Government Ministers have been supported by his Department or British embassies and consulates in each year since 2010; what the purpose of these trips was; and what support was offered.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
uin	213577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>UK Embassies provide considerable support for Scottish Government Ministers when they are overseas. In 2013, UK Embassies supported more than 40 overseas visits by Scottish Government Ministers and in 2014 (up to October 2014), a further 14. The nature of the visits varies widely, as do the destinations, from supporting the First Minister of Scotland’s visit to Washington for Tartan Week, a full cultural programme in Berlin for the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, to the Minister for External Affairs and International Development’s trade engagements in the Gulf. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold central records from before this period.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 10/11/2014 14:42:39 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran

114780

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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	Diego Garcia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how the Government exercised its formal oversight of US use of Diego Garcia between 2001 and 2008.
tabling member constituency	Chichester
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Tyrie
uin	213471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>As my honourable friend is aware, use of the defence facility in Diego Garcia is governed by the Exchange of Notes between the UK and US, which places treaty obligations on both parties. These Notes provide that, as regards the use of the facility in normal circumstances, the US Commanding Officer and the Officer in Charge of the United Kingdom Service element shall inform each other of intended movements of ships and aircraft. In other circumstances, they provide that the use of the facility shall be a matter for the joint decision of the two Governments. Oversight of US activities between 2001 and 2008 was thus exercised: through the exchange both of routine information, via the Governments’ representatives in Diego Garcia; and, where non-routine matters were concerned, through regular dialogue between the two Governments, including by means of annual political-military discussions between senior officials.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 10/11/2014 14:57:38 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	112 label Biography information for Lord Tyrie

114792

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Heywood and Middleton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time to see a GP is in Heywood and Middleton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	213477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The requested data is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/11/2014 14:59:18 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

114826

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times he has exercised his powers under the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Constitution and Functions) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Functions) Regulations 2013 to refer an unlicensed indication of a drug for a NICE technology appraisal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	213574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Since the ‘National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Constitution and Functions) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Functions) Regulations 2013’ came into force on 1 April 2013, the Department has not asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to develop under Regulation 7 any technology appraisal guidance on the use of an unlicensed drug. The Department has, however, under Regulation 5, asked NICE to develop guidance and recommendations on the use of a combination therapy for use in the treatment of ovarian cancer outside the terms of its marketing authorisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 10/11/2014 12:01:27 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert