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730968

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Absent Voting: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many proxy vote applications there were in each Northern Ireland constituency for the general elections in (1) 2010, (2) 2015, and (3) 2017; and whether they intend to investigate possible electoral fraud in relation to proxy voting in Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL3
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The administration of proxy voting is an operational matter for the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland. All evidence received by the Chief Electoral Officer regarding possible electoral fraud is passed to the PSNI for investigation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The following table has been provided by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland and contains the number of proxy vote applications in each constituency in Northern Ireland for the Parliamentary general elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Constituency </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belfast East</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belfast North</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>177</p></td><td><p>739</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belfast South</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>318</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belfast West</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>1026</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Antrim</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>353</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Londonderry</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>143</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fermanagh &amp; South Tyrone</p></td><td><p>470</p></td><td><p>1454</p></td><td><p>1707</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foyle</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>339</p></td><td><p>1282</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lagan Valley</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mid Ulster</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>1127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newry &amp; Armagh</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>870</p></td><td><p>1304</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Antrim</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Down</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Antrim</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>285</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Down</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>564</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Strangford</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>197</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Upper Bann</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>322</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Tyrone</p></td><td><p>289</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>914</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2109</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5432</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11707</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 03/07/2017 11:44:28 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

724088

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
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	Non-domestic Rates: Private Education
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 has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of business rate relief for fee-paying schools in England for each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	71929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/04/2017 08:51:02 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

724089

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
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	Non-domestic Rates: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount of business rates paid by state schools in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	71930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/04/2017 08:51:42 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

724113

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Gamecock Barracks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many additional military units are planned to be located at Gamecock Barracks as a result of the proposals in his Department's Better Defence Estate report, published in November 2016; and if he will name those units.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 27/04/2017 08:25:42 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

724118

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Gamecock Barracks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many additional (a) family houses and (b) single living accommodation will be required for (i) officers and (ii) non-commissioned staff at Gamecock Barracks, Nuneaton as a result of the proposals in his Department's Better Defence Estate report, published in November 2016.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	71961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 27/04/2017 08:24:00 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

724122

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what groups or working parties which her Department hosts or provides secretarial support to are routinely attended by representatives of education trade unions.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	71890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/04/2017 10:58:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

724133

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Ada, National College for Digital Skills
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government has spent on the National College of Digital Skills, Ada; and how much it plans to spend on Ada in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	71834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Government is providing £13.4m of capital grant funding to the National College for Digital Skills (Ada). Details of spend and forecast spend is set out in the table below. The Greater London Authority are also providing £18.2m of funding for the capital project and the college will receive contributions from employers in the sector.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Grant allocation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15/16 (spend)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16/17 (spend)*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>17/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>19/20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13,404,828</p></td><td><p>285,643</p></td><td><p>5,256,856</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6,937,600</p></td><td><p>297,973</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*to February 2017</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 27/04/2017 10:31:20 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

724137

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Merchant Shipping: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government plans to review the Certificates of Equivalent Competency system.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Alex Salmond
uin	71902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has a specialist team that checks that any seafarer, who applies for a Certificate of Equivalent Competency to allow them to work on a UK-flagged ship, meets the necessary standards.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is satisfied that the process is working and has no plans to change the current arrangements.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 27/04/2017 09:17:41 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	577 label Biography information for Alex Salmond

724141

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to prevent female genital mutilation.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Alex Salmond
uin	71889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a crime and is child abuse that requires domestic and international action. Recent work to prevent it includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Changes to the law via the Serious Crime Act 2015, including extended extra-territorial jurisdiction over FGM offences committed overseas, a new failure to protect offence, and the creation of a mandatory reporting duty for known cases in under 18s;</li><li>the introduction of FGM Protection Orders in July 2015 – the most recent figures show 94 orders have been made;</li><li>the launch of the Home Office’s FGM Unit which carries out awareness raising and outreach work with professionals and communities; and</li><li>the Department for International Development’s £35m programme to support the Africa-led movement to end FGM overseas.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/04/2017 09:43:50 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	577 label Biography information for Alex Salmond

724148

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
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	Republic of Ireland: Territorial Waters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the jurisdiction of any seas in the northern and southern maritime borders of the UK and the Republic of Ireland have been exchanged in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	71857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ireland establishing a Single Maritime Boundary between the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the Two Countries and parts of their Continental Shelves was presented to Parliament in June 2013 (Cm 8666) and subsequently came into force on 31 March 2014 (Treaty Series No. 21 (2014)).</p><p>The Explanatory Memorandum presented to Parliament alongside Cm 8666 stated that the Agreement firstly amended the existing delimited continental shelf boundary between the UK and Ireland as defined in a 1988 Agreement, a supplementary Protocol of 1992 and an Exchange of Notes of 2001. The effect of the amendment was to transfer part of what was previously Irish Continental Shelf to the UK, in exchange for an area of the UK's Continental Shelf. In amending the existing Continental Shelf boundary the 2014 Agreement superseded both the 1988 Agreement and the 2001 Exchange of Notes, which were terminated.</p><p>The Agreement then provides for the coordinates of the amended Continental Shelf boundary, up to 200 nautical miles, to delimit also the EEZ boundary between the two states.</p><p>In negotiating to align a new EEZ boundary with the existing Continental Shelf boundary it was discovered that there were two small areas on the Irish side of the boundary that were more than 200 nautical miles from Irish baselines on their coast. As these could not be incorporated into an Irish EEZ, it was agreed to swap these two areas of Irish Continental Shelf for areas of the UK's Continental Shelf, the areas being of equal size and potential exploitability e.g. for the purposes of hydrocarbons and fisheries.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 27/04/2017 09:39:26 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil