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49175

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy that a war widow's pension is provided for life to those awarded such a pension between 31 March 1973 and 5 April 2005.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	197342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

49191

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
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 assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the profile of the electors who were not data matched on (a) national government data bases and (b) local government data bases for purposes of individual electoral registration.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	197407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that its report on the dry run of the confirmation process, through which electors will be matched against the Department for Work and Pensions database, provides a full analysis of the socio-demographic factors associated with low match rates. The report can be found here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/163144/Confirmation-Dry-run-2013-Results-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/163144/Confirmation-Dry-run-2013-Results-report.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission also informs me that it was not possible to conduct a similar analysis on the results of local data matching as not all local authorities reported on their activities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

49192

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
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 assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the merits of auto enrolment of young people at the time they are given their national insurance number.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	197425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission informs me that it will carefully consider with the Cabinet Office any proposals such as this for improving the efficiency of electoral registration processes as it monitors the implementation of individual electoral registration during 2014 and 2015. If such proposals appear to be viable, the Commission will recommend that the Government brings forward any necessary measures to allow them to take place once the transition to individual electoral registration is complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

49205

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were serving on detached duty in each month from January 2011 to January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	197293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since 21 October 2013. Information on the number of officers serving on detached duty before the introduction of the national scheme is not available. The full-time equivalent of officers provided on detached duty from the beginning of the nationally co-ordinated scheme until the 31 December 2013 is contained in the table below. Some allocations outside of the national scheme continued after October 2013 but is not included in the information provided. London region particularly allocated staff within their own region. Information collected on the staffing allocated. On occasions the resource is not actually deployed due to changes in local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. It allows staff to be allocated from prisons with the capacity to provide them, to those where additional staffing is required. On average over the three month period (October to December 2013), less than 1% of staff were provided on detached duty. A large proportion of the capacity was available from prisons that were in the process of closure or going through a re-role. This process temporarily releases a number of officers who are not supplied for specific occasions but are sent and received on a shift pattern throughout the week.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent of Officers Working on Detached Duty <sup>1</sup></strong></p><p><strong>- 21 October 2013 to 31 December 2013</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent Officers Provided on Detached Duty </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scheme started in October so no data available for earlier period</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013 (Data relates to part month from 21 October)</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>205</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Detached duty figures are not published but other staffing data is published up to 31 December 2013 and therefore information is only presented up until that date.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

49206

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent by his Department on travel and accommodation costs for prison officers serving on detached duty in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	197294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Identifying total travel and accommodation costs for prisons serving detached duty would require manual collation of data from online expenses systems and travel providers, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

49207

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff in each prison in England and Wales were serving on detached duty in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	197292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since 21 October 2013. Information on the number of officers serving on detached duty before the introduction of the national scheme is not available. The full-time equivalent of officers provided on detached duty from the beginning of the nationally co-ordinated scheme until the 31 December 2013 is contained in the table below. Some allocations outside of the national scheme continued after October 2013 but is not included in the information provided. London region particularly allocated staff within their own region. Information collected on the staffing allocated. On occasions the resource is not actually deployed due to changes in local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. It allows staff to be allocated from prisons with the capacity to provide them, to those where additional staffing is required. On average over the three month period (October to December 2013), less than 1% of staff were provided on detached duty. A large proportion of the capacity was available from prisons that were in the process of closure or going through a re-role. This process temporarily releases a number of officers who are not supplied for specific occasions but are sent and received on a shift pattern throughout the week.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent of Officers Working on Detached Duty <sup>1</sup></strong></p><p><strong>- 21 October 2013 to 31 December 2013</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent Officers Provided on Detached Duty </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scheme started in October so no data available for earlier period</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013 (Data relates to part month from 21 October)</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>205</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Detached duty figures are not published but other staffing data is published up to 31 December 2013 and therefore information is only presented up until that date.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

49227

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reason the empty home premium starts when a property first becomes empty rather than when a property is bought with the intention of renovating and occupying it.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	197269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The empty homes premium aims to reduce the total length of time for which properties are empty, not the length of time for which they are empty under a particular owner.</p><p>Since the power came into effect on 1 April 2013, 239 councils in England have introduced the empty homes premium. The number of long-term empty homes fell by 38,009 between October 2012 and October 2013.</p><p>Properties that are left empty due to the death of the occupier are exempt from council tax for up to six months after the granting of probate, or after letters of administration have been signed.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

49250

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many manufacturers of sub-15KW wind turbines are based in the UK; and what the value of exports from this sector was in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	197240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>The renewables industry, including the small and medium wind manufacturers, is an important source of jobs and investment in the UK. In 2013, Renewable UK, the trade association for the onshore wind sector, reported that the UK is home to over ten small and medium wind manufacturers and that nearly 3800 sub-15kw turbines were exported [1].</p><p> </p><p><em>[1]</em><em> R-UK Small and Medium Wind Market Report 2013 <a href="http://www.renewableuk.com/en/publications/index.cfm/Small-and-Medium-Wind-UK-Market-Report-2013" target="_blank">http://www.renewableuk.com/en/publications/index.cfm/Small-and-Medium-Wind-UK-Market-Report-2013</a></em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

49251

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the total cost was of support under the feed-in-tariff for (a) solar, (b) wind, (c) anaerobic digestion, (d) hydro and (e) the sub-15KW wind sector in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	197241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The total spending for the Feed-in-Tariffs (FITs) scheme is set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Year </em></p></td><td><p><em>Spending on FITs</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£14,435,324.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£150,756,063.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£506,328,139</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are nominal, and are published in Ofgem's annual report; 2013/14 figures will be published at the end of 2014:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/feed-tariff-fit-scheme/feed-tariff-reports/annual-reports</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We do not publish information on spending on individual technologies within the FITs scheme, nor on spending on individual bands for each technology. More information about deployment levels of the different technologies supported by FITs is available via the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monthly-small-scale-renewable-deployment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monthly-small-scale-renewable-deployment</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

49252

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to tariff levels and degression thresholds outlined in Phase 2B of the feed-in-tariff on manufacturing and employment in the sub-15KW wind sector.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	197242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>As the first degression for wind tariff bands was only introduced on 1 April 2014, it is too early to say what impact it has had on manufacturing and employment in the sub-15kW wind sector. Up to the end of 2013, over 5,150 wind installations had been accredited for FITs, and this pace of deployment has shown no signs of slowing since April 2013. The degression mechanism is very important for the cost control of the FITs scheme and for keeping the cost to the electricity consumer as low as possible.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Gregory Barker question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds