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349434

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date	09/06/2015
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
hansard heading	Nuclear Power Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that future nuclear power stations have aesthetic appeal.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	1615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>Section 4.5 of the Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy and section 2.8 of the Nuclear National Policy Statement set out the Government’s views on consideration of good design in making proposals for major energy infrastructure, including new nuclear power stations. In doing so, the Overarching Energy NPS states that “high quality and inclusive design goes far beyond aesthetic considerations”. The Planning Inspectorate will take the NPSs into account in considering applications for development.</p><p>The Energy NPSs are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-policy-statements-for-energy-infrastructure" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-policy-statements-for-energy-infrastructure</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/06/2015 10:46:29 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

348899

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Sovereignty: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the benefits of enabling 16 and 17 year olds to vote in the Scottish Referendum in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	1399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>On 18 September last year, the people of Scotland, including tens of thousands of 16 and 17 year olds, made the historic decision to remain a part of the United Kingdom. Evidence suggests that 84.6% of the electorate voted in the referendum, compared to 75% of registered 16 and 17 year olds.</p><p>Following that vote, and in line with the agreement from the all-party Smith Commission, the previous Government devolved to the Scottish Parliament the power to legislate to reduce the minimum voting age to 16 at Scottish Parliament and Scottish local government elections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 11/06/2015 12:21:03 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

348916

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what assessment he has made of the effect on productivity of delivering efficiency savings from his Department's budget.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	1375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will deliver £450 million of the Chancellor’s announced £4.5 billion savings announced on the 4th June. The majority of this will be delivered through known underspends and releasing unallocated funding.</p><p> </p><p>Officials in the department are working with the appropriate funding bodies to determine how savings can best be achieved in line with Ministerial priorities.</p><p> </p><p>Priority areas for growth and productivity, including funding for apprenticeships and science, will not be affected – raising the skill level of the workforce and developing new ideas are fundamental drivers of long-run productivity growth.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/06/2015 11:45:56 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

348941

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Human Rights Act 1998: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 3 June 2015 to Question 368, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of the Government's plans to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 on the existing devolution settlement in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	1447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>We remain committed to upholding our obligations as set out in Part 6 of the Belfast Agreement.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 11/06/2015 12:16:33 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

348953

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Neonicotinoids
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to license derivatives of the pesticide known as neonicotinoid for use in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	1355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>Neonicotinoids are a group of chemicals used as active substances in pesticides. Decisions on the approval of pesticide active substances are made at EU level. Five neonicotinoids are currently approved but, since December 2013, three are not permitted for use on a wide range of crops considered “attractive to bees”. A number of other uses remain permitted under the EU approval. The UK has implemented the restrictions in full. These restrictions remain in place until and unless the European Commission decides to change them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>EU legislation also sets out the rules under which Member States consider applications for the authorisation of products. This includes rules for authorisation in emergency situations in crop protection. The Government has received applications for emergency authorisation of neonicotinoid seed treatments for use on oilseed rape and these applications are currently being assessed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 1356 question first answered 11/06/2015 11:49:16 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

348955

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Neonicotinoids
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to license the pesticide known as neonicotinoid for use in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	1356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>Neonicotinoids are a group of chemicals used as active substances in pesticides. Decisions on the approval of pesticide active substances are made at EU level. Five neonicotinoids are currently approved but, since December 2013, three are not permitted for use on a wide range of crops considered “attractive to bees”. A number of other uses remain permitted under the EU approval. The UK has implemented the restrictions in full. These restrictions remain in place until and unless the European Commission decides to change them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>EU legislation also sets out the rules under which Member States consider applications for the authorisation of products. This includes rules for authorisation in emergency situations in crop protection. The Government has received applications for emergency authorisation of neonicotinoid seed treatments for use on oilseed rape and these applications are currently being assessed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 1355 question first answered 11/06/2015 11:49:16 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

348975

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Quality Commission: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what resources have been allocated to the Care Quality Commission to fulfil its new powers of investigation under Sections 53-56 of the Care Act 2014.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	1385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) took on responsibility for the market oversight scheme set out in Sections 53 to 56 of the Care Act 2014, on 6 April 2015. CQC published guidance for providers on the scheme in March 2015. Forty three corporate providers of adult social care services were informed in April 2015 that they would be subject to the scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CQC is funded from two sources: fee income, levied on the health and social care providers that it regulates; and grant in aid (GIA) funding from the Department. The grant in aid allocated to the CQC for 2015/16 is £120 million. The provision of GIA, which is described as unspecific support, is intended to finance CQC’s spending including resources such as those associated with market oversight.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/06/2015 11:22:40 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

349000

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	King George Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether a deadline has been given for the planned closure of accident and emergency at King George Hospital in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	1339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>This Government has always been clear that the reconfiguration of health services is a matter for the local National Health Service. All service change should be in the best interests of patients and should be led by clinicians, not driven from the top down.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The local NHS has always been clear that changes to the accident and emergency service at King George Hospital will not be made until it is safe to do so. Plans have been put on hold and cannot take place whilst Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust remains in special measures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/06/2015 11:18:19 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Baroness Hodge of Barking

349005

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the amount the NHS spent on recruitment of non-EU adult nurses in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	1357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information on the costs incurred by the National Health Service when recruiting staff. The configuration of services and the recruitment of staff required to deliver these services, is the responsibility of local NHS organisations when planning a workforce that is appropriate to deliver the health needs of their local population and which is based on clinical need and sound evidence.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/06/2015 11:20:43 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

349008

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses have been recruited to work in the NHS under Tier 2 visas in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	1361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not collect this data, the Home Office holds responsibility for the administration of applications under Tier 2 visas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 1362 1363 question first answered 11/06/2015 11:30:41 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden