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100100

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	23/10/2014
	date	21/10/2014
	date tabled	21/10/2014
	ddp created	21/10/2014 21:00:39
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 02:59:20
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Innovation
	house id	1
	identifier	211393
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	30/10/2014 16:14:04
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the EU Precautionary Principle on the scale of scientific innovation in the UK.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211393
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211393
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Department has made no systematic assessment of the effect of the precautionary principle on scientific innovation in the UK.</p><p> </p> question first answered 30/10/2014 16:14:04
	creator	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

100107

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	23/10/2014
	date	21/10/2014
	date tabled	21/10/2014
	ddp created	21/10/2014 21:00:47
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:00:00
	answering body	HM Treasury
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
	house id	1
	identifier	211325
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 16:16:49
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to simplify the rates of employees' National Insurance contributions.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211325
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211325
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>This Government is committed to a competitive tax regime and has introduced a range of measures to reduce the burden of National Insurance Contributions (NICs), as part of our long term economic plan to back business and create jobs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Employment Allowance, introduced in April this year, means that around 450,000 employers– one third of all employers – are expected to be taken out of paying employer NICs altogether in 2014-15 and from April 2015, employer NICs for under 21 year olds will be abolished, helping to support jobs for almost 1.5 million young people currently in employment.</p><p> </p> question first answered 27/10/2014 16:16:49
	creator	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

100106

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	23/10/2014
	date	21/10/2014
	date tabled	21/10/2014
	ddp created	21/10/2014 21:00:46
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 02:59:53
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Procurement
	house id	1
	identifier	211274
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	28/10/2014 16:42:36
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which freedoms and flexibilities the bidders for Managed Service Providers in the Ministry of Defence DE and S have been granted.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
	tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211274
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211274
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>When Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) became a bespoke trading entity on 1 April 2014 it was given a broad range of freedoms, agreed by HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office, to allow it to manage its business, outputs and workforce within an operating cost envelope set to drive significant efficiencies. The bidders for the Managed Service Provider work packages are not granted freedoms and flexibilities; they are being procured via standard commercial practices to provide tailored external skills to support DE&amp;S as it uses its freedoms to transform and to deliver the equipment programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 28/10/2014 16:42:36
	creator	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

78775

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	21/07/2014
	date	17/07/2014
	date tabled	17/07/2014
	ddp created	17/07/2014 18:51:14
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 18:39:02
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Drake Hall Prison
	house id	1
	identifier	206549
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	18/11/2014 15:40:18
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many packages of books delivered to HM Prison Drake Hall were found to contain drugs in each of the last five years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 206549
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206549
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>The trafficking of drugs and other unauthorised items presents a serious threat to security in prisons and the National Offender Management Service employs a range of measures to deter and detect such activity.</p><p> </p><p>There have always been controls on the sending of parcels into prisons; the revised Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) national policy framework, which came into effect on 1 November 2013, has simply ensured greater consistency across the prison estate. We now have simple rules that allow prisoners a parcel of items when they first arrive in prison, and then only further items in exceptional circumstances. The restrictions were introduced to enhance existing security measures and to prevent the IEP policy framework from being undermined.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners continue to be able to order books from reputable suppliers, which they can receive via the prison shop and they can also borrow books from the prison library.</p><p> </p><p>Incidents of finds of illicit items prior to the introduction of the revised IEP arrangements are recorded on a central incident reporting system. A study of data reported by Drake Hall prison during the period in question indicates that there were no finds of illicit drugs in items sent in.</p> question first answered 18/11/2014 15:40:18
	creator	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

93131

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/10/2014
	date	14/10/2014
	date tabled	14/10/2014
	ddp created	14/10/2014 21:01:18
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 01:22:50
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Kurds
	house id	1
	identifier	210378
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/11/2014 16:49:40
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the military resources which have been provided to Kurdish forces by the UK in the last three years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 210378
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210378
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Since August 2014 the UK has gifted urgent lethal military support to the Peshmerga in the form of heavy machine guns and ammunition to Kurdish forces at the request of the Iraqi Government in Baghdad.</p><p>Non-lethal items such as Halal rations, sleeping bags, body armour and helmets have also been supplied. In addition, we have assisted with the delivery of munitions and equipment on behalf of other Coalition members.</p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 25/11/2014 16:49:40
	creator	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

93138

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/10/2014
	date	14/10/2014
	date tabled	14/10/2014
	ddp created	14/10/2014 21:01:20
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 01:23:02
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Iraq
	house id	1
	identifier	210383
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	20/11/2014 16:56:30
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the length of time that UK military forces will be engaged in Iraq.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 210383
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210383
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government has been clear that dealing with this threat will take time and patience. Our intention is to provide support to the Iraqi government while we believe it to be both needed and the Iraqi government still requests it. The UK airstrikes and other military support shows the UK will play its part in standing against ISIL.</p> question first answered 20/11/2014 16:56:30
	creator	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

93316

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/10/2014
	date	14/10/2014
	date tabled	14/10/2014
	ddp created	14/10/2014 21:02:33
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 01:42:47
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports: Fraud
	house id	1
	identifier	210300
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	04/11/2014 15:14:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many false passports have been confiscated from people (a) entering and (b) leaving the UK in each year since 2011.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 210300
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210300
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The number of false travel documents, passports and national identity cards, detected by Border Force officers that have been presented by passengers arriving at the UK border since 2011 are:<br><br>1,857 – 2011<br>1,652 – 2012<br>2,018 – 2013<br><br>Obtaining such statistics on passengers leaving the country would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 04/11/2014 15:14:01
	creator	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

93318

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/10/2014
	date	14/10/2014
	date tabled	14/10/2014
	ddp created	14/10/2014 21:02:34
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 01:42:59
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	identifier	210356
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 12:15:05
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK passports were revoked as a result of links to terrorist activity in each month since the beginning of 2014.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 210356
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210356
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>People may be refused a British passport or may have their existing passport withdrawn on a number of grounds, including that their grant or continued enjoyment of a passport is contrary to the public interest. Public interest grounds include seeking to harm the UK or her allies by travelling on a British passport to, for example, engage in terrorism-related activity.<br><br>From 1 January to 30 September 2014, the Royal Prerogative power to withdraw or refuse a British Passport has been exercised 21 times on public interest grounds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 27/10/2014 12:15:05
	creator	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

89501

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/09/2014
	date	29/08/2014
	date tabled	29/08/2014
	ddp created	29/08/2014 17:41:27
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 19:51:21
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Parish and Town Councils: Publications
	house id	1
	identifier	207161
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 14:54:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many complaints his Department has received in the last five years of town and parish councils breaching their statutory responsibility to publish minutes; and which such councils have been the subject of the most complaints.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 207161
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207161
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>My Department receives correspondence on a wide range of issues about Parish Councils. <br><br></p><p>Complaints or concerns regarding a parish council’s behaviour can be made in a number of ways; by utilising the parish council’s complaints procedure, raising the matter at a parish meeting, pointing out concerns during the public inspection period of accounts for the audit, or by joining with a group of local electors to call for a parish poll on the issue. It is for the parish council concerned to consider the evidence raised in any of the above public representation and to take action inline with statute and their standing orders/complaints procedures.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, parish councils, like all tiers of government, must act within the law at all times, if a decision is considered unlawful, it may be challenged by the courts. Ultimately, if a council fails to carry out its statutory duties it will be accountable for its actions and decisions through the ballot box.<br><br>Our proposed Transparency Code for parish councils and smaller authorities seeks to increase the openness and accessibility of council papers and minutes by making them accessible online.</p> question first answered 27/10/2014 14:54:01
	creator	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

99821

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/10/2014
	date	20/10/2014
	date tabled	20/10/2014
	ddp created	20/10/2014 23:10:59
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 02:42:30
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Water Industry Act 1991
	house id	1
	identifier	211016
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 17:12:32
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2014 to Question 209943, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that contraventions of the Water Industry Act 1991 are being detected.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211016
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211016
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Drinking Water Inspectorate, Environment Agency and Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority) are responsible for ensuring that contraventions of the Water Industry Act 1991 are detected. In discharging their functions they undertake inspections, check compliance, review plans and reports, investigate incidents and act upon their findings. Each organisation publishes details annually of the action they have taken.</p><p>Further to their powers within the Water Industry Act 1991 the Environment Agency and Ofwat are Prescribed Persons on The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014 (SI No. 2418) with regard to whistle blowing.</p> question first answered 27/10/2014 17:12:32
	creator	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson