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433903

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to assist poorer students with the repayment of their student loans.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	18602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>Student loan repayments are income contingent and deductions are taken at 9% of income over the applicable repayment threshold.</p><p>The repayment threshold affords protection to lower earning borrowers. Borrowers make no repayment if their income remains or falls below the threshold.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/12/2015 15:19:44 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

433913

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Maternity Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employers applied to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to have their employees' statutory maternity pay paid in advance in each of the last five financial years; what proportion of those applications were (a) accepted and (b) rejected; and what average time was taken by HMRC to make decisions on those applications.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	18657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP data on the amount of National Insurance Contributions claimed by employers to pay for Statutory Maternity Pay comes from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).</p><br /><p>The information is not available as requested. HMRC do not keep records of the number of claims to advanced funding which are rejected and therefore it is not possible to provide proportions of those (a) accepted and (b) rejected.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 11:44:11 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

433915

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Maternity Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what amount of National Insurance contributions (a) FTSE100 companies, (b) businesses qualifying for Small Employer's Relief and (c) other companies claimed from HM Revenue and Customs to pay for statutory maternity pay for their employers for the (i) first six weeks of their employees' leave and (ii) subsequent 33 such weeks.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	18659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP data on the amount of National Insurance Contributions claimed by employers to pay for Statutory Maternity Pay comes from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).</p><br /><p>The information is not available in the exact breakdowns requested as:</p><ul><li>HMRC do not hold information on the amount of National Insurance contributions claimed for SMP from (a) FTSE100 companies; and</li><li>DWP are unable to provide an estimate of SMP recoveries by employer size <em>and</em> duration of employees’ leave. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</li></ul> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 11:39:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

433937

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Horse Racing: Betting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what timetable he has set for the implementation of the Horserace Betting Right; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	18655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Work is continuing on the detailed policy design of the replacement for the existing levy. We will make a further announcement in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 08/12/2015 09:41:44 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

433939

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Government plans to publish its final findings from the eight market test pilots under the Exploring superfast coverage beyond 95 per cent programme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	18666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Broadband Delivery UK’s Market Test Pilot scheme has been exploring alternative technologies, including wireless, with the aim of better informing how to provide superfast broadband to the hardest to reach premises. The results of these pilots will be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 08/12/2015 10:54:41 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

433941

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of households have access to broadband of at least 24Mbps; how many households are unable to receive a service of at least 2Mbps; and how many households use satellite broadband.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	18642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Ofcom’s Connected Nations Infrastructure Report 2015 states that in May 2015, more than four out of five households had access to broadband of at least 24Mbps; and 98% of premises could access speeds of 2Mbps or more (<a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf</a>).</p><p>Throughout this month, the Government - working with local authorities and the devolved administrations - is rolling out a scheme to provide access to subsidised satellite broadband to all premises with speeds below 2Mbps. This scheme offers immediate assistance to those homes and businesses in the most remote areas with the slowest speeds and is part of our transformation of the UK's digital landscape. In addition, the Prime Minister recently announced the ambition to give people the legal right to request a connection to broadband with speeds of 10 Mbps, no matter where in the country they live.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 08/12/2015 10:58:27 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

434023

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the (a) average cost of building new prisons planned by the Government and (b) length of time it will take from conception to completion to build such a prison.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	18626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>£1.3bn will be invested to reform and modernise the prison estate to make it more efficient, safer and focused on supporting prisoner rehabilitation. The government will build nine new, modern prisons, five of which will open in this Parliament and the rest shortly after.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 08/12/2015 10:42:52 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

434028

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Deployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, if the Government will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure any future decisions to deploy the armed forces requires a full debate and vote within the House.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	18649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire (Mr Gray) on 26 November 2015, <em>Official Report</em>, column 1509.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Mr David Cameron question first answered 07/12/2015 17:57:03 answering member 1467 label Biography information for Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

434048

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been unable to provide MyCSP with accurate pension data for its staff on which pension benefit statements can be based; and by what date he expects that matter to be resolved.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	18628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is not able to provide myCSP with accurate pensions data on its staff because of an ongoing technical issue with the interface between its shared service supplier and myCSP.</p><br /><p>All parties are working on a permanent solution and the MCA understands that this issue will be fixed early in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 08/12/2015 11:43:57 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

434069

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Atos assessments are carried out effectively for personal independence payment applications.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	18714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department has a number of mechanisms available to monitor and challenge Atos performance in carrying out assessments for Personal Independence Payment. These include a range of Management Information to inform performance against contractual Service Level Agreements relating to, for example, time taken to process claims and the quality of the assessment reports produced.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/12/2015 10:45:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker