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100847

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date	24/10/2014
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	Technology: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress his Department has made with the Smart Cities programme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government encourages UK cities to take up innovative initiatives and adopt modern technology to respond to developing urban needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has set up the Smart Cities Forum to bring together cities, industry and experts to identify and explore emerging policy issues. In order to benefit from the experiences of other Governments and European cities, the Government is a partner in a commitment within the European Innovation Partnership to share best practice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Future Cities Catapult has been established as a Centre of Excellence and works to develop and support urban innovation. Projects in Glasgow, London, Bristol and Peterborough have been funded by Innovate UK to demonstrate and display smart applications to improve city services and quality of life.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To ensure readiness to future developments, the Government Office for Science is undertaking the Foresight Future of Cities project, which explores opportunities and challenges facing UK cities over the next 50 years.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 04/11/2014 16:38:44 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 25067 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

100848

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has received representations on a public sector provider of identity assurance during the Gov.uk Verify programme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Information on Verify is published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk-verify" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk-verify</a><br> <br>GOV.UK Verify provides the first opportunity for people to verify their identity entirely digitally. <br> The service has not yet been launched and is still in public beta. Performance data will be published in due course.</p><p>Government Digital Service has not received representations from public sector providers of identity assurance</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 211873 211881 question first answered 29/10/2014 17:49:36 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

100849

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Lord Wei
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Lord Wei was an adviser to his Department; and whether he held a pass that allowed him to access the Cabinet Office.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	211880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Lord Wei was appointed to advise the Government on aspects of the Big Society. He held a Cabinet Office pass and had three officials assigned to work with him.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 211877 question first answered 29/10/2014 16:59:22 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

100850

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made in introducing the Government identity assurance programme, Gov.uk Verify; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Information on Verify is published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk-verify" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk-verify</a><br> <br>GOV.UK Verify provides the first opportunity for people to verify their identity entirely digitally. <br> The service has not yet been launched and is still in public beta. Performance data will be published in due course.</p><p>Government Digital Service has not received representations from public sector providers of identity assurance</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 211873 211904 question first answered 29/10/2014 17:49:36 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

100851

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Lord Wei
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in his Department were assigned to work with Lord Wei when he was a government adviser.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	211877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Lord Wei was appointed to advise the Government on aspects of the Big Society. He held a Cabinet Office pass and had three officials assigned to work with him.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 211880 question first answered 29/10/2014 16:59:22 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

100852

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful registrations of identity there have been through the Gov.uk Verify programme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Information on Verify is published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk-verify" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-govuk-verify</a><br> <br>GOV.UK Verify provides the first opportunity for people to verify their identity entirely digitally. <br> The service has not yet been launched and is still in public beta. Performance data will be published in due course.</p><p>Government Digital Service has not received representations from public sector providers of identity assurance</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 211881 211904 question first answered 29/10/2014 17:49:36 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

100865

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Boarding Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state boarding schools in England are (a) co-educational, (b) all boys and (c) all girls.
tabling member constituency	Stourbridge
tabling member printed	Margot James
uin	211886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>There are 146 co-educational state boarding schools in England. There are 39 all-boys schools, and two all-girls schools, giving a total of 187 state boarding schools currently open.</p><p>This data has been taken from the October 2014 ‘Schools in England’<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/211886-%20Margot%20James/Draft/211886%20qa%2027.10.14.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a> publication.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-in-england" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-in-england</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/10/2014 15:41:03 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4115 label Biography information for Margot James

100869

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
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	Badgers
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 account her Department's calculations of badgers per sett as a means of estimating badger populations took of (a) the movement by badgers between setts and (b) the effect of peturbation.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	211906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The Paragraph 19d of the document <em>“Setting the minimum and maximum numbers for year 2 of the badger culls”</em> explains our assumption about numbers of badgers per sett. This approach was approved by the Department’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/10/2014 19:59:37 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 24994 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

100870

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's publication Setting the minimum and maximum numbers for year 2 of the badger culls, published in August 2014, for what reason different methods of estimating badger population were used in Gloucestershire and Somerset for determining the numbers of badgers to be removed in year 2 of the pilot culls in those areas.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	211907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>As the licensing authority, it is for Natural England to set minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be removed in each area. Defra’s advice on this particular issue is set out in paragraphs 19 to 29 of the document “<em>Setting the minimum and maximum numbers for Year 2 of the badger culls</em>”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/10/2014 20:04:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 24631 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

100871

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
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	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's publication Setting the minimum and maximum numbers for year 2 of the badger culls, published in August 2014, for what reason the methodology used to calculate the number of badgers to be culled changed from year 1 to year 2.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	211908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The approach used to calculate the number of badgers to be culled was approved by the Department’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 29/10/2014 20:05:24 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice previous answer version 25168 answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle