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90196

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister intends to reply to the letter sent to him of 25 July 2014 from the hon. Member for Wigan.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	207663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.</p><p>The Cabinet Secretary responded to the hon. Member today.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 207664 question first answered 09/09/2014 15:11:34 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

89476

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of how much of the government receipt from business rates forecast for 2014-15 will be contributed by businesses with a rateable value lower than £18,000.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	207517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have introduced a £1 billion business rate support package for 2014-15 including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><ul><li>a 2 per cent cap in the Retail Price Index increase;</li><li>a discount of £1,000 for around 300,000 shops, pubs and restaurants with</li><li>rateable values below £50,000,</li><li>doubling small business rate relief extended for another year benefitting over half a million businesses;</li><li>a 50 per cent discount for new occupants of long-term vacant shops, and</li><li>allowing ratepayers to pay bills over 12 instalments.</li></ul></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This package will benefit all businesses but particularly those with a lower rateable</p><p> </p><p>value. Local authority forecasts of business rates are not available split by rateable</p><p> </p><p>value threshold or business sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at 31 March 2013, 89% of hereditaments had a rateable value of £50,000 or</p><p> </p><p>lower. As at 31 March 2013, large properties (those with a rateable value equal to</p><p> </p><p>or greater than £50,000) account for 72% of rateable value. These data are taken</p><p> </p><p>from the Valuation Office Agency’s disclosure log, available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/About/Policy/disclosureLogResponses2013.html" target="_blank">http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/About/Policy/disclosureLogResponses2013.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 207516 207518 207519 question first answered 03/09/2014 14:26:18 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk

89478

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of how much of the government receipt from business rates forecast for 2014-15 will be contributed by food and drink business with a rateable value lower than £50,000.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	207518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have introduced a £1 billion business rate support package for 2014-15 including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><ul><li>a 2 per cent cap in the Retail Price Index increase;</li><li>a discount of £1,000 for around 300,000 shops, pubs and restaurants with</li><li>rateable values below £50,000,</li><li>doubling small business rate relief extended for another year benefitting over half a million businesses;</li><li>a 50 per cent discount for new occupants of long-term vacant shops, and</li><li>allowing ratepayers to pay bills over 12 instalments.</li></ul></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This package will benefit all businesses but particularly those with a lower rateable</p><p> </p><p>value. Local authority forecasts of business rates are not available split by rateable</p><p> </p><p>value threshold or business sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at 31 March 2013, 89% of hereditaments had a rateable value of £50,000 or</p><p> </p><p>lower. As at 31 March 2013, large properties (those with a rateable value equal to</p><p> </p><p>or greater than £50,000) account for 72% of rateable value. These data are taken</p><p> </p><p>from the Valuation Office Agency’s disclosure log, available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/About/Policy/disclosureLogResponses2013.html" target="_blank">http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/About/Policy/disclosureLogResponses2013.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 207516 207517 207519 question first answered 03/09/2014 14:26:18 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk

89479

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of how much of the government receipt from business rates forecast for 2014-15 will be contributed by businesses with a rateable value lower than £50,000.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	207519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have introduced a £1 billion business rate support package for 2014-15 including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><ul><li>a 2 per cent cap in the Retail Price Index increase;</li><li>a discount of £1,000 for around 300,000 shops, pubs and restaurants with</li><li>rateable values below £50,000,</li><li>doubling small business rate relief extended for another year benefitting over half a million businesses;</li><li>a 50 per cent discount for new occupants of long-term vacant shops, and</li><li>allowing ratepayers to pay bills over 12 instalments.</li></ul></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This package will benefit all businesses but particularly those with a lower rateable</p><p> </p><p>value. Local authority forecasts of business rates are not available split by rateable</p><p> </p><p>value threshold or business sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at 31 March 2013, 89% of hereditaments had a rateable value of £50,000 or</p><p> </p><p>lower. As at 31 March 2013, large properties (those with a rateable value equal to</p><p> </p><p>or greater than £50,000) account for 72% of rateable value. These data are taken</p><p> </p><p>from the Valuation Office Agency’s disclosure log, available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/About/Policy/disclosureLogResponses2013.html" target="_blank">http://www.voa.gov.uk/corporate/About/Policy/disclosureLogResponses2013.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 207516 207517 207518 question first answered 03/09/2014 14:26:18 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk

79670

registered interest
date	28/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that all local authorities share live birth data with children’s centres in their area.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Listowel
uin	HL1562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to review the statutory guidance on the sharing of live birth data.</p><p>The Department for Education’s statutory guidance for children’s centres is clear that health services and local authorities should share information, such as live birth data, with children’s centres on a regular basis. It is important that professionals work together to identify families who are in need of support and offer them that support.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash grouped question UIN HL1561 question first answered 30/07/2014 11:37:53 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2054 label Biography information for The Earl of Listowel

79152

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	Marriage: Religion
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will ensure that registered civil partners wishing to undergo a marriage ceremony with religious elements receive equal treatment as same sex couples who are not registered civil partners and wish to marry in the same way.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL1313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that couples wishing to convert their civil partnership in to a marriage can do so from 10 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The draft Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014, which were laid in the House on 3<sup>rd</sup> July 2014, provide for a simple conversion process, which is not, and was never envisaged to be, a marriage ceremony. The draft regulations were prepared in accordance with the provision made by Section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, in particular subsections (4) and (5), which was debated at length in both Houses of Parliament during the passage of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>The process was conceived in line with responses from those in civil partnerships to the public consultation in 2012, which called for a simple, straightforward and low cost way for couples to convert their civil partnership into a marriage. Stakeholders expressed a desire for a conversion process which would not undermine the significance of the original civil partnership and which would avoid creating undue new burdens or costs for couples. Accordingly the conversion process was not envisaged to be a process which would replicate a marriage ceremony, whether religious or secular, but was rather intended to be an easy administrative process by which couples converted their civil partnerships and had these recognised as marriages from the date the civil partnership was formed. Couples who did want to celebrate the conversion with family and friends could choose to hold some form of non-statutory celebratory ceremony following the conversion itself, if they so wished.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We continue to listen to the views expressed by stakeholders during the implementation of the Act. We have heard views articulated by stakeholders in recent weeks raising concerns with the conversion process as set out in the draft regulations as laid and in particular regarding the possibility of incorporating religious elements within conversions. We will consider these views and whether suitable options exist for addressing them within the legal framework established by the Act over the summer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire grouped question UIN HL1314 question first answered 11/08/2014 12:49:34 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

79153

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	Marriage: Religion
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014 bans the use of religious services at conversion.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL1314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that couples wishing to convert their civil partnership in to a marriage can do so from 10 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The draft Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014, which were laid in the House on 3<sup>rd</sup> July 2014, provide for a simple conversion process, which is not, and was never envisaged to be, a marriage ceremony. The draft regulations were prepared in accordance with the provision made by Section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, in particular subsections (4) and (5), which was debated at length in both Houses of Parliament during the passage of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>The process was conceived in line with responses from those in civil partnerships to the public consultation in 2012, which called for a simple, straightforward and low cost way for couples to convert their civil partnership into a marriage. Stakeholders expressed a desire for a conversion process which would not undermine the significance of the original civil partnership and which would avoid creating undue new burdens or costs for couples. Accordingly the conversion process was not envisaged to be a process which would replicate a marriage ceremony, whether religious or secular, but was rather intended to be an easy administrative process by which couples converted their civil partnerships and had these recognised as marriages from the date the civil partnership was formed. Couples who did want to celebrate the conversion with family and friends could choose to hold some form of non-statutory celebratory ceremony following the conversion itself, if they so wished.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We continue to listen to the views expressed by stakeholders during the implementation of the Act. We have heard views articulated by stakeholders in recent weeks raising concerns with the conversion process as set out in the draft regulations as laid and in particular regarding the possibility of incorporating religious elements within conversions. We will consider these views and whether suitable options exist for addressing them within the legal framework established by the Act over the summer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire grouped question UIN HL1313 question first answered 11/08/2014 12:49:34 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

78968

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Devolution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Randerson on 16 July (HL Deb, col 588), under what circumstances the Sewel Convention would be set aside in order for the national interest to prevail.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawhinney
uin	HL1285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text Under the Sewel Convention, Parliament would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters except with the agreement of the devolved legislature. This is an important element of the understandings by which devolution operates across the UK, and we would be reluctant to depart from it in anything other than exceptional circumstances. answering member printed Baroness Randerson question first answered 29/07/2014 13:17:23 answering member 4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson
tabling member	121 label Biography information for Lord Mawhinney

78636

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Administrative Scheme for the "On the Runs" Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to paragraph 10.52 of the Report of the Hallett Review, if she will publish the names of the 13 on-the-runs who have benefited from the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	206530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Lady Justice Hallett concluded that she should not publish the names of OTRs (with the exception of John Downey) because she had been provided with this information on a confidential basis.</p><p>I do not propose to release the names of those whose cases were considered under the OTR administrative scheme. This is partly because of legal issues around data protection, etc, but also because publication of names might have a prejudicial effect on possible future criminal trials.</p><p>The assessment of my Department is that to release the names of individuals granted the RPM years ago would not be appropriate, given the time that has passed since the RPM was last used and the potential legal issues this would raise. There are of course means by which names of RPM recipients become public, including in the course of legal proceedings, which is a matter for the courts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 22/07/2014 16:46:14 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

78637

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Administrative Scheme for the "On the Runs" Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, following the publication of the Hallett Report, if she will now publish the names of the 228 on-the-runs who received comfort letters.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	206531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Lady Justice Hallett did not publish the names of OTRs in her report, with the exception of John Downey. She was clear that her decision not to do so was not “a result of any ‘whitewash’” but rather, “as a matter of law” she “was not entitled to do so”. Indeed, she has been “scrupulously careful not to reveal details of offences in which any OTR was a suspect… so as not to prejudice any future criminal trials”.</p><p>In the same way, and as I made clear in answering questions following my statement on 17 July about the report, I will not release the personal information of those involved in the scheme nor any other information which might prejudice any future trials. As Lady Justice Hallett has said, people “would not thank me if I inadvertently contributed to another successful abuse of process investigation”.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers grouped question UIN 206248 question first answered 22/07/2014 16:53:12 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon