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156590

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date	19/11/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what registration rate was achieved by use of (a) Department for Work and Pensions and (b) local authority data matching in the confirmation dry run; and what rate was achieved by using all levels of data matching in the confirmation live run.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	215316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The confirmation dry run match rate with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data for Great Britain is included in the Electoral Commission’s report on the dry run, which is available on its website. Across Great Britain 78% of electors could be matched with DWP. Subsequent analysis, from the trial of local data matching by 139 electoral registration officers, suggested that local data matching added an average of 6% to the overall match rate.</p><p>The results of the confirmation live run for Great Britain were included in the Commission’s recently published report on the live run in Scotland, which is also available on its website. The data for Great Britain was only available at this point as the transition to IER in Scotland began after the referendum on independence. The final match rate, after matching with DWP and local data, across Great Britain was 87%. These figures mean that overall approximately 40.5 million electors were matched.</p><p>Electoral Registration Officers are now working to target those existing electors who could not be matched, as well as those not currently on the registers at all.</p><p>The Commission will next report on the transition to Individual Electoral Registration in England and Wales in February 2015 following the publication of the registers by 1 December 2014. This report will be based on the results of our ongoing monitoring of performance as well as detailed, local authority-level data collected from EROs. A separate assessment for Scotland will be published in April 2015 following the publication of the revised registers there by 2 March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 01/12/2014 15:25:19 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

156591

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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	Egypt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps are being taken to ensure that UK visitors to Egypt are aware of the dangers of H5N1 bird flu virus.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	215219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text We advise British Nationals to consult the Foreign and Commonwealth (FCO) Travel Advice before travelling to Egypt, which provides the latest information on the bird flu virus in Egypt. It currently states that cases of bird flu in Egypt are mostly in rural areas, that the risk to humans from Avian Influenza is believed to be very low, that live animal markets, poultry farms and other close contact with domestic, caged or wild birds should be avoided, and that poultry and egg dishes should be thoroughly cooked. We keep our Travel Advice under continuous review based on robust and up-to-date information and analysis from our experts in-country and we will make further updates to our Travel Advice as necessary. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/11/2014 14:45:52 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

156592

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies he has commissioned on the potential benefits of using dogs to establish early signs of cancer in humans.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	215220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>A study of key considerations for the experimental training and evaluation of cancer odour detection dogs has recently been published in the journal <em>BMC Urology</em>. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service for the East Midlands participated in this study.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 26/11/2014 17:20:50 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

156593

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with hon. Members from Sinn Fein and the SDLP on the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	215221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government continues to fully support the Northern Ireland Justice Minister, who is leading discussions with the parties, to try to secure full operating powers for the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland. Home Office Ministers have regular discussions with Ministerial colleagues and others. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings. <br><br>The Director General of the National Crime Agency has also given his full support to these negotiations and has met with some of the political partiesand appeared before the Northern Ireland Policing Board. <br><br>We are committed to resolving this so that the people and communities of Northern Ireland can benefit from the full range of the National Crime Agency’s capabilities, like the rest of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/11/2014 15:36:25 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

156594

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent conversation he has had with Ofcom on the introduction of a gaining provider-led switching system in the mobile sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>DCMS officials have frequent contact with Ofcom to take forward this work. I want the switching process to be as easy and straightforward as possible for consumers and I recognise that switching processes work better for consumers when only one call needs to be made for the switch to happen, to the gaining provider. Working with Ofcom, we will do everything we can to move towards a system of gaining-provider led switching across the board.</p><p>In July, Ofcom published a call for inputs (which closed in September) on switching providers of broadband, pay-TV, mobile voice and data services and bundled services, in order to gauge the impact of these processes on consumers’ experience and on competition. Ofcom is conducting further research and holding discussions with industry and consumer organisations. It will publish a document setting out its findings in the first half of 2015.</p><p>We set out our thinking on GPL switching in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers [CCC} Strategy Paper, published in July 2013. In December 2013 Ofcom announced that GPL switching would be mandated for broadband and fixed telephony over the Openreach network. Full implementation of this will be completed by June 2015. Since then, Ofcom has been assessing the consumer experience of switching mobile services, pay-TV and bundles of electronic communications services and will report in the first half of 2015, as I describe above.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 215198 215247 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:54:31 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156595

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on consumers of the implementation of a gaining provider-led switching system in the mobile sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>DCMS officials have frequent contact with Ofcom to take forward this work. I want the switching process to be as easy and straightforward as possible for consumers and I recognise that switching processes work better for consumers when only one call needs to be made for the switch to happen, to the gaining provider. Working with Ofcom, we will do everything we can to move towards a system of gaining-provider led switching across the board.</p><p>In July, Ofcom published a call for inputs (which closed in September) on switching providers of broadband, pay-TV, mobile voice and data services and bundled services, in order to gauge the impact of these processes on consumers’ experience and on competition. Ofcom is conducting further research and holding discussions with industry and consumer organisations. It will publish a document setting out its findings in the first half of 2015.</p><p>We set out our thinking on GPL switching in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers [CCC} Strategy Paper, published in July 2013. In December 2013 Ofcom announced that GPL switching would be mandated for broadband and fixed telephony over the Openreach network. Full implementation of this will be completed by June 2015. Since then, Ofcom has been assessing the consumer experience of switching mobile services, pay-TV and bundles of electronic communications services and will report in the first half of 2015, as I describe above.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 215197 215247 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:54:32 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156596

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to support the introduction of gaining provider-led switching systems since the publication of his Department's report, Connectivity, Content and Consumers in July 2013.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>DCMS officials have frequent contact with Ofcom to take forward this work. I want the switching process to be as easy and straightforward as possible for consumers and I recognise that switching processes work better for consumers when only one call needs to be made for the switch to happen, to the gaining provider. Working with Ofcom, we will do everything we can to move towards a system of gaining-provider led switching across the board.</p><p>In July, Ofcom published a call for inputs (which closed in September) on switching providers of broadband, pay-TV, mobile voice and data services and bundled services, in order to gauge the impact of these processes on consumers’ experience and on competition. Ofcom is conducting further research and holding discussions with industry and consumer organisations. It will publish a document setting out its findings in the first half of 2015.</p><p>We set out our thinking on GPL switching in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers [CCC} Strategy Paper, published in July 2013. In December 2013 Ofcom announced that GPL switching would be mandated for broadband and fixed telephony over the Openreach network. Full implementation of this will be completed by June 2015. Since then, Ofcom has been assessing the consumer experience of switching mobile services, pay-TV and bundles of electronic communications services and will report in the first half of 2015, as I describe above.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 215197 215198 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:54:32 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156597

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2014 to Question 211635, what progress he has made on reviewing the cost-benefit analysis of the recruitment and training of minors; and when he plans to publish that report.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The figures used in my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary's letter of 1 August 2014 to the Defence Committee were taken from the final version of the cost-benefit analysis.</p><p>The report has been finalised and a copy is attached<ins class="ministerial">.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name AFC CO's Supervisory Care Directive dated Sep 14.doc title Army Foundation College Supervisory Care Directive 2 file name 20140514-Junior Entry_CostBenefitAnalysis_CITGvs 8_OS (3)[2].doc title Army Junior Entry Training Cost Benefit Alalysis previous answer version 30263 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry 30492 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name 20140514-Junior Entry_CostBenefitAnalysis_CITGvs 8_OS (3).doc title Army Junior Entry Training Cost Benefit Alaysis 2 file name AFC CO's Supervisory Care Directive dated Sep 14.doc title Army Foundation College Supervisory Care Directive answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry question first answered 27/11/2014 16:12:57 question first ministerially corrected 22/01/2015 10:42:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156598

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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 the (a) target and (b) actual average waiting time for asylum seekers to receive an appointment for an initial screening interview is.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office has an internal target of 10 days from the initial point of contact to the point the applicant attends the unit. This was introduced at the start of the current financial year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/11/2014 16:16:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156599

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	HM Coastguard
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the minimum manning levels are for each Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
uin	215225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The minimum risk assessed watch levels for each Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCCs) not currently within the new National Network are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>MRCC</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Summer<sup>#</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Winter<sup>#</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Day</p></td><td><p>Night</p></td><td><p>Day</p></td><td><p>Night</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shetland</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London CG</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swansea</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Milford Haven</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holyhead</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belfast<sup>* </sup></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stornoway</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>#</sup> Summer is in line with British Summer Time and Winter is in line with Greenwich Mean Time.</p><p><sup>*</sup> Belfast MRCC Watch Risk Assessed levels increase by one Watchkeeper at weekends</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/11/2014 09:19:56 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard