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518076

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed Two
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria are used by HS2 Ltd to challenge the locus standi of petitioners to the Lords Select Committee.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL8237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The rules relating to locus standi are set out in the Lords Standing Orders for Private Business 114-118 and the basis for our decisions was included in a note that accompanied the challenge notices sent to petitioners last week. The note explained that individuals or businesses whose property or interests are directly and specially affected by the scheme have locus. Therefore, petitioners who are listed in the Book of Reference, and whose property and interests may well be affected, have not been challenged. Local authorities on the route, who may have locus at the discretion of the Select Committee, have not been challenged, as they will represent issues pertaining to the inhabitants of their area. Individual petitioners have been challenged when their property or interests are not affected by the scheme or where this affect is not sufficiently different from that of the general public.</p><p> </p><p>Standing Orders also allow discretionary locus for groups representing amenity or recreational interests. Groups have only been challenged on the basis that they do not sufficiently represent amenity or recreational interests or other petitioners have a much stronger claim to represent such interests.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also chosen not to challenge members of this House, where they are not directly and specially affected, in keeping with the approach taken in the Other Place.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 11/05/2016 12:08:13 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

518108

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
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	Retail Trade: Voucher Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will investigate the case for sales of gift vouchers by retailers to be backed by cash collateral held in independent escrow.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL8268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has asked the Law Commission to consider the treatment of gift vouchers and pre-payments in the event of retailer insolvency. The Government will consider carefully any recommendations that may emerge on this question once the Law Commission’s report is published in the summer of 2016.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/05/2016 11:39:32 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

518114

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Elections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many independent candidates were successfully elected to the role of Police and Crime Commissioner in 2016, and how that figure compares to the number of independent candidates elected in 2012.
tabling member printed	Lord Condon
uin	HL8274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>All information pertaining to the candidates who stood in the 2016 Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections, including details of those elected, is available on the Government website: <a href="http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.choosemypcc.org.uk</a>.</p><p>In the 2016 PCC elections, 3 independent candidates were elected to the role. In the 2012 PCC elections, 12 independent candidates were elected to the role.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 11/05/2016 13:11:19 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon

518176

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
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	EU Grants and 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 estimate his Department has made of the amount of (a) regional development funds and (b) structural funds that the UK is due to receive in each year to 2020 under the current EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework.
tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
uin	36753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The amounts allocated by year for each operational programme for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and European Social Fund (ESF) in the UK for the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework is set out in table 1.6 of the United Kingdom’s Partnership Agreement with the European Commission which can be found on GOV.UK at ‘European Structural and Investment Funds: UK Partnership Agreement’. The table is attached. Each annual allocation needs to be spent within three years.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/05/2016 09:24:45 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name Information from table 1 6_PA - final.doc title ERDF and ESF funding
tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

518217

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hotels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of hotel bookings her Department made for its (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	36795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Core Defra uses a single provider for all travel and hotel bookings. Provision of this service began in May 2012. Information relating to hotel bookings made prior to that date, through a different provider, is not available.</p><p> </p><p>This table sets out spend on hotels in financial years 2012-13 (from May 2012 onwards) to 2015-16:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong> <strong>(£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong> <strong>(£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong> <strong>(£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong> <strong>(£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Ministers </strong></p></td><td><p>1,530</p></td><td><p>2,461</p></td><td><p>3,157</p></td><td><p>1,139</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Special Advisers</strong></p></td><td><p>2,952</p></td><td><p>1,598</p></td><td><p>2,066</p></td><td><p>563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Officials</strong></p></td><td><p>425,676</p></td><td><p>665,583</p></td><td><p>743,896</p></td><td><p>472,544</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/05/2016 12:56:36 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

518237

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on whether there is a link between the number of years of e-cigarette use and those people smoking tobacco in the future.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	36749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on this.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/05/2016 13:08:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

518247

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Vitamin D
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many tests for Vitamin D were carried out by pathology laboratories in England in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2013-14; and what the cost to the NHS was of providing such tests in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	36746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning laboratory testing locally.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/05/2016 13:01:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

518307

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Homicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects the Parole Board to complete its review of the rules on releasing convicted murderers from prison if they refuse to reveal the locations of their victims' bodies.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	36743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>When assessing an offender’s continuing risk for the purposes of deciding whether he or she is eligible for possible release, the independent Parole Board already takes into account any wilful failure on the part of the offender to disclose the whereabouts of their victim’s body. The Parole Board has at my request, agreed to review its guidance on this particular issue as part of a review of all its guidance in 2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 11/05/2016 13:46:01 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

518311

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Eddisbury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35399, what amount has been allocated within the overall cost envelope to deal with salt and subsidence issues related to the proposed High Speed 2(b) route; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that that funding is sufficient in the absence of the information that would have been provided by intrusive geological surveys.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	36874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>No specific amount has been allocated to dealing with salt and subsidence issues beyond the funding envelope announced for the project in November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 11/05/2016 09:07:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

518318

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Sustainable Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how he will ensure the Government's £80 million five-year Access Fund will be spent on sustainable transport projects.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	36766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport allocated £20 million of the £80 million Access Fund to a transition year between 2016 and 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The primary objectives of the Sustainable Travel Transition Year remain as per the Local Sustainable Transport Fund to support the local economy; reduce carbon emissions; improve access to jobs, training and education; and increase levels of people cycling and walking. The competition for this was held on 15th February and closed on the 29th March 2016. The competition has now been assessed and the winning bids will be announced shortly.</p><p> </p><p>This transition year has been set up to support local councils in the switch from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund to the Access Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The launch of the £60 million Access Fund will take place later this summer 2016, to provide further support for sustainable and accessible travel projects. Improving access to employment, education and services and improving walking and cycling uptake will be the core objectives.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 11/05/2016 10:30:43 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner