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	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the First Minister on promoting exports by Welsh businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	907777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>Welsh exports have increased by almost a third since the beginning of 2010, a clear demonstration of the success of this Government’s long-term economic plan to rebalance the Welsh economy.</p><p>I welcome the Welsh Government’s move to work more collaboratively with the UK Government on exports, and the First Minister’s recognition of the vital and important role the UKTI plays.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Preseli Pembrokeshire answering member printed Stephen Crabb question first answered 04/03/2015 15:11:56 answering member 1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

92015

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the UK's compliance with its international obligations on stateless individuals.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	905414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The UK is a signatory to the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1930 Special Protocol concerning Statelessness. The 1961 Convention clearly sets out the circumstances in which it is permissible to remove citizenship and leave a person stateless and when it is not. <br>Recent amendments to the power contained in the UK’s domestic legislation regarding removal of British citizenship were made in accordance with these obligations. Also, following the statement by the Prime Minister to the House on 1 September, the Government is working on proposals for action against British nationals fighting abroad, and is ensuring that these too will be compliant with the UK’s international obligations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/10/2014 10:42:31 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

93443

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2014
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Constitutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent assessment he has made of Scotland's constitutional future.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	905370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon Gentleman to the answer I gave to the hon Members for Stroud, Linlithgow and East Falkirk, Livingston, and Congleton earlier today.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orkney and Shetland answering member printed Mr Alistair Carmichael question first answered 15/10/2014 14:21:13 answering member 1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

89890

	registered interest
	date	26/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the operation of the under-occupancy penalty so that it applies only when suitable alternative accommodation is readily available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	905118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The removal of the spare room subsidy remains government policy. There are no plans to amend this.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/09/2014 16:35:20 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

65360

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of levels of occupancy in prisons in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	904678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>Individual prison population and capacity information for every prison in England and Wales is published monthly on the Ministry of Justice website at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Prisons are not expected to operate above their operational capacity and ensuring that this capacity is set to reflect the provision of safe and decent accommodation and the operation of suitable regimes ensures that levels of crowding in prisons are carefully managed.</p><p> </p><p>Sensible measures have been taken to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to deal with any temporary increases in population. These include creating additional places in prisons in a safe and decent way and ensuring that prisons reflect the needs of the current population.</p><p> </p><p>We will end this Parliament with more adult male prison places than we inherited, more hours of work in prisons than we inherited, more education for young detainees than we inherited and a more modern, cost effective prison estate than we inherited.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 09/07/2014 16:55:49 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

42679

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on the proper use of national statistics.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	902991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2014 answer text <p>Responsibility for monitoring the quality of official statistics lies with the independent UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>Cabinet Office Ministers have Parliamentary responsibility for the Authority and have met with the Chair and the National Statistician to discuss statistical matters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 12/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

178116

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222135, for what reason her Department did not publish successful free school applications from waves 4-7 at the same time as successful applications from waves 1-3.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>In the interests of transparency, we decided to release the earlier free school applications as soon as they had been redacted rather than wait until June when the later applications will be ready for publication.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 12/02/2015 17:32:16 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177473

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Kings Science Academy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222135 whether her Department consulted the police on the decision not to publish the successful application by Kings Science Academy Bradford.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education did not consult with West Yorkshire Police on the publication of the application by Kings Science Academy. However, as we have said on previous occasions, West Yorkshire Police must be allowed to complete their investigation into matters at Kings Science Academy and make their judgments about referrals to the Crown Prosecution Service without information that might be relevant to their case being put into the public domain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/02/2015 15:32:39 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177475

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2015 to Question 220222, and with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2011, Official Report, column 289, on grammar schools: disadvantaged, for what reason the information requested would incur disproportionate cost for the years 2010 to 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The answer to Question 220222 provided the requested data for 2014. That answer required new analysis of data from the school census and the national pupil database on cohort level characteristics at all selective schools and across all state-funded mainstream schools.</p><p> </p><p>The disproportionate cost threshold for Parliamentary Questions is set at £850 per question. When estimating the cost of answering a question, the Department for Education considers the grade of each official involved and the time they will spend on it. Using the time taken to calculate the statistics provided for 2014 as a basis, officials estimated that to also provide the statistics for the earlier years requested would result in the threshold being exceeded.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 17:28:41 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177479

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children (a) in receipt of free school meals, (b) with a statement of special educational needs, (c) from a BME community and (d) looked after by a local authority received a place in a grammar school in January 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on pupils who received a place at a state-funded selective school but does hold information on the number of pupils enrolled in year 7 in state-funded selective schools in January each year. The figures for January 2011 are given in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Year 7 pupils in state-funded mainstream schools in England, January 2011</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Number of pupils</p></td><td><p>Of which, percentage enrolled at <br>state-funded selective schools</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All pupils</p></td><td><p>549,350</p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>96,810</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Pupils with statements of special educational needs</p></td><td><p>11,445</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Pupils from a black or minority ethnic group</p></td><td><p>125,955</p></td><td><p>5.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Pupils who were looked after for at least 12 months in the year ending 31 March 2011</p></td><td><p>2,055</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Matched school census/national pupil database</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Includes pupils who are sole or dual main registrations.</li><li>Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5.</li><li>A small number of looked after children records collected from local authorities could not be matched to pupil records in the school census.</li><li>These figures exclude:</li></ol><p> </p><ul><li>pupils who received an offer of a place which was not taken up;</li><li>pupils who enrolled in state-funded selective schools, but left the school roll before the school census day in January; and</li><li>selective schools which do not have pupils in year 7.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 17:25:34 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan