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166515

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	English Language: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions have been brought in relation to fraud in English language tests at universities revealed in the BBC's Panorama investigation broadcast in February 2014.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
uin	216296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Specialist Fraud Division of the Crown Prosecution Service is currently prosecuting four individuals in one case, arising out of the BBC’s Panorama investigation broadcast on 10 February 2014. That investigation highlighted alleged irregularities in the administration of English language examinations at two educational establishments (not universities) operating under the names Bright Consultant Services Ltd (London) and Universal Training Centre (Watford). The matter is sub judice to secure a fair trial.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 02/12/2014 12:28:12 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

166519

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many suicides there have been of (a) women and (b) men in each region and constituent part of the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	216333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 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 02/12/2014 14:18:25 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 216333 ONS 431.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Suicides
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

166525

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is Government policy to produce impact assessments in respect of legislation introduced in Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	216298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>Government policy in respect of legislation is set out in the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation published on GOV.UK. On page 110 this makes clear impact assessments are generally required where:</p><p>· legislation will impose or reduce costs on businesses or civil society organisations;</p><p>· impose or remove a new information obligation for the public sector;</p><p>· introduce any other administrative burdens or unfunded policy costs of £5 million or more (annual equivalent costs) on the public sector; or</p><p>· where there is an exchange or ‘transfer’ of costs or benefits from one group to another, even where it does not yield an overall net change in costs and benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Dorset answering member printed Mr Oliver Letwin question first answered 02/12/2014 14:12:49 answering member 247 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Letwin
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

166527

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he intends to answer Question 215333 tabled for answer on 24 November 2014; and what the reasons are for the time taken to answer.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	216322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>I have done so.</p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 02/12/2014 16:23:28 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

166530

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Landlords: Cornwall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has provided to Cornwall Council to help tackle rogue landlords since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
tabling member printed	Sarah Newton
uin	216275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department published guidance in 2012 for all local housing authorities on tackling rogue landlords in the private rented sector and this can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7575/2206919.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7575/2206919.pdf</a></p><p>Revised guidance will be published in due course. In addition to advice on dealing with the small minority of bad landlords in the sector, it will also include guidance on improving the sector more generally, including prosecuting landlords for breaches of housing and planning legislation, pressing for the maximum penalties where landlords are convicted of an offence and the responsibilities of letting agents.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 02/12/2014 16:08:02 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton

166532

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many responses his Department received in response to the consultation entitled, Local welfare provision in 2015 to 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	216330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government received more than 5,000 responses to the consultation which are being considered alongside the review by the Department for Work and Pensions into existing provision. The Government will make a decision based on this analysis in time for the provisional local government finance settlement in December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 216209 216294 216295 216331 question first answered 02/12/2014 16:34:02 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

166533

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many responses his Department received in response to the consultation entitled, Local welfare provision in 2015 to 2016 from (a) organisations, (b) individuals, (c) local councils and (d) hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	216331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government received more than 5,000 responses to the consultation which are being considered alongside the review by the Department for Work and Pensions into existing provision. The Government will make a decision based on this analysis in time for the provisional local government finance settlement in December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 216209 216294 216295 216330 question first answered 02/12/2014 16:34:02 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

166534

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the responses to his Department's consultation on Local Welfare Provision 2015-16 expressed a preference for each of the options 1, 2, 3 and 4.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	216294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government received more than 5,000 responses to the consultation which are being considered alongside the review by the Department for Work and Pensions into existing provision. The Government will make a decision based on this analysis in time for the provisional local government finance settlement in December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 216209 216295 216330 216331 question first answered 02/12/2014 16:34:02 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

166535

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the responses to his Department's consultation on Local Welfare Provision 2015-16 explicitly called for funding for local welfare assistance schemes to be reinstated.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	216295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government received more than 5,000 responses to the consultation which are being considered alongside the review by the Department for Work and Pensions into existing provision. The Government will make a decision based on this analysis in time for the provisional local government finance settlement in December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 216209 216294 216330 216331 question first answered 02/12/2014 16:34:02 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

166539

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to permit civil partnerships by opposite sex couples.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	216335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The report on the conclusions of the Civil Partnership Review (England and Wales) was published on 26 June 2014. Copies have been placed in the House Libraries.</p><p>A majority of respondents who expressed a view on them were opposed to each of the three main changes to civil partnership. There was therefore no united call for change from respondents to the consultation at this stage.</p><p>Of the over 10,000 online survey answers to each of the relevant questions:</p><p>• Less than a third of respondents supported abolition of civil partnership</p><p>• The majority were against closing civil partnership to new couples</p><p>• Over three-quarters were against opening up civil partnership to opposite sex couples.</p><p>Several important organisations thought it was too soon to consider making changes to civil partnership – this should wait until we know the impact of extending marriage to same sex couples. Other organisations, in contrast, put forward a case for opening up civil partnerships to opposite sex couples now, for example because civil partnership and marriage were different relationships and couples should have equal access to both.</p><p>Given the lack of consensus on the way forward, the Government will not be making any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 216336 question first answered 02/12/2014 17:02:20 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton