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417712

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	West Africa: Ebola
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the World Health Organisation (WHO) over the structural reforms required to the WHO following the lessons learned from the organisation's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	9563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is using its membership on the World Health Organisation’s Executive Board to push for a broad package of reforms to strengthen WHO’s future response to health emergencies and to improve wider organisational effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 14/09/2015 16:41:37 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

520642

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people in Stafford constituency participated in the National Citizen Service in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	37898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2016 answer text <p>I am pleased to report that over 1,200 young people in Staffordshire have participated in NCS over the past two years. The NCS Trust does not collect data at a constituency level. Therefore, the figures below are for the local authority area of Staffordshire:</p><p>2014 - 465 participants<br>2015 - 738 participants</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 27/05/2016 13:42:00 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

167690

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people in Stafford constituency participated in the National Citizen Service in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	216977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>National Citizen Service continues to grow and over 130,000 young people have taken part in the programme since 2011. Data on the programme is held at Local Authority level and in 2013 331 young people participated in Staffordshire, this increased to 470 in 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 10/12/2014 15:28:38 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

419141

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Business
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many entry visas for business purposes were granted to nationals of (a) China, (b) India, (c) Brazil, (d) Indonesia, (e) Malaysia, (f) Nigeria, (g) Tanzania and (h) Kenya in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	10472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The requested information is given in the table below, for skilled workers sponsored by business (Tier 2 of the Points Based System):</p><p>[Insert table]</p><p>The Home Office publishes statistics on entry clearance visa grants by work category in table vi_06_q_w (Entry clearance visas tables volume 2) within the ‘Immigration Statistics’ release.</p><p>A copy of the latest release, “Immigration Statistics April to June 2015”, is available from the Library of the House and the Home Office website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/10/2015 14:48:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ 10472 Table.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

437377

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many curtailment letters were issued by UK Visas and Immigration between 10 January 2015 and 11 December 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	19753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2015 answer text <p>There were 34,100 letters cancelling the visa of an individual who no longer meets their visa requirements served between 10 January and 30 September 2015.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 23/12/2015 13:31:48 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

442373

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2015 to Question 19753, on UK Visa and Immigration correspondence, how many people who received those letters have left the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	20786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2016 answer text <p>The information could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/01/2016 14:52:30 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

156070

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to (a) tackle traffic congestion and (b) improve public transport in Stafford.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	214628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Tackling congestion and improving public transport are key priorities for this Government and as such the Government has taken several steps which will benefit Stafford, including:</p><p> </p><p>· Providing £4.2m from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, between 2011 and 2015, to address peak hour congestion in Stafford, encouraging commuters to make more sustainable travel habits and reduce car use. Staffordshire County Council will also receive £985k in revenue grant in 2015/16 for a project that includes further bus interchange and rail network enhancements, and service information improvements.</p><p> </p><p>· Providing £1.7m from the Local Pinch Point Fund for the Beacon Business Park scheme, Stafford, which aimed to ease congestion at the A518 Weston Road/ Blackheath Lane junction.</p><p> </p><p>· Staffordshire County Council, as the relevant Transport and Highway Authority, has also received £76.906m for Highways Maintenance funding over the period 2011/12 -2014/15. This included funding through the Pothole Fund and weather recovery and £19.769m of Integrated Transport Block Funding.</p><p> </p><p>· Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership has also secured £82.3m from the Government’s Local Growth fund to support economic growth in the area – with £13.6m of funding confirmed for 2015-16. This includes £24.3m towards the Stafford Western Access Route which aims to reduce traffic congestion into and around Stafford town centre.</p><p> </p><p>· Announcing a direct award contract with West Coast Trains Limited (Virgin) in June 2014 that will run for 2 years 9 months up to April 2017. The new contract will bring £35 million worth of passenger benefits, including increased car parking at Stafford.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/11/2014 16:52:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

416513

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent representations he has received on the effect on campaigning before the 2015 General Election of the provisions of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	8576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 received Royal Assent on 30 January 2014. Section 39 of the Act provides for a post-election review of the operation of the regulatory regime governing third parties at the 2015 General Election.</p><p>Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE was appointed to lead the independent review on 28 January 2015. Work on the review is ongoing.</p><p> </p><p>The reviewer must make a written report on the review and provide this to the Minister who must lay a copy of the report before Parliament and publish the report in such a manner as they consider appropriate by November 2016.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 10/09/2015 15:08:58 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

447181

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department submitted a formal application to the European Commission for state aid clearance to enlarge the scheme for social interest tax relief; and when he expects to receive the outcome of that application.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	23877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government submitted its application for State aid clearance to enlarge the Social Interest Tax Relief scheme on 17 January 2015. Discussions with the Commission are ongoing. The Government cannot set out an expected timetable for clearance or enlargement of the scheme at this stage, as timing depends on how these discussions progress.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 02/02/2016 17:48:07 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

451594

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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	Sunday Trading: Public Consultation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many small business groups and coalitions responded to the Government's consultation, Devolving Sunday trading rules, published on 5 August 2015; and what (a) number and (b) proportion of those respondents answered (i) yes, (ii) no and (iii) otherwise to Question 1 in that consultation.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	26599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold full data from this consultation broken down by specific question as a large portion of respondents chose to respond in their own words rather than addressing the consultation questions directly, and/or did not indicate the type of organisation they represented.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 10:19:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy