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  • Alun Cairns – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    Alun Cairns – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alun Cairns on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect on industry of delays in the implementation of the Government’s proposals to streamline regulatory and competition appeals.

    Mr Edward Vaizey

    No such assessment has been made. Ministers are currently considering the responses received to the consultation. They will then decide the scope and extent of proposals to be implemented.

  • Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graeme Morrice on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has any plans to end the employee trade union membership dues check-off system.

    Elizabeth Truss

    I refer the hon. Member to the response published 1 April 2014, Official Report, Column 632W.

  • Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 787-88W, on pupil exclusions: autism, whether his Department plans to employ further exclusion advisors.

    Mr Edward Timpson

    The Department for Education does not employ any exclusion advisors.

    The exclusion adviser referred to in the answer of 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 787-88W, on pupil exclusions: autism is employed by the National Autistic Society using a grant provided by the Department under the National Prospectus Grants Programme 2013-15.

  • Kerry McCarthy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Kerry McCarthy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 112W, on alcoholic drinks: counterfeit manufacturing, if he will carry out an assessment of the (a) scale of and (b) effect on public health of counterfeit alcohol in the UK.

    Jane Ellison

    I have been asked to reply.

    There are slightly different issues concerning illicit, i.e. untaxed, smuggled and diverted alcohol, or counterfeit alcohol, i.e. attempting to copy existing well-known brands.

    The Food Standards Agency (FSA) works in partnership with all United Kingdom local authorities to tackle the production, distribution and sale of illicit alcohol. HM Revenue and Customs also works collaboratively with other UK enforcement agencies to tackle this threat. The Department of Health is concerned with any implications of these issues for alcohol policy.

    The feasibility and costs of making any reliable estimates of the illicit and counterfeit alcohol markets would need to be considered. Government has no plans to make such estimates, other than the estimates published by HM Revenue and Customs for the illicit spirits market at:

    www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-tax-gaps

    We will jointly keep these issues under review.

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  • Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Wales Office

    Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Wales Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-06.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the net benefits to people in Wales of the UK’s membership of the EU.

    Mr David Jones

    I refer the hon Gentleman to the answer I gave to the members for Delyn, Cardiff West and Ogmore earlier today.

  • Julie Elliott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    Julie Elliott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Elliott on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the amount of private-sector investment committed to large-scale solar PV farm projects in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of an early reduction in Renewables Obligation support on those levels of investment.

    Gregory Barker

    We do not hold data on the amount of private investment committed to large scale solar PV projects.

  • Graham Stringer – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Graham Stringer – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Stringer on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the social costs caused by (a) large particulates (PM10), (b) small particulates (PM2.5) and (c) nitrogen dioxide emitted to air in the UK by (i) domestic biomass generation of heat and (ii) biomass for power generation in the latest year for which figures are available.

    Dan Rogerson

    Defra has not made any direct assessment of such social costs.

  • Nicholas Brown – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Nicholas Brown – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Brown on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Regional Growth Fund bids were submitted by each local enterprise partnership area in the most recent bidding round; and how many of these were successful.

    Michael Fallon

    133 bids were submitted to Round 5 of the Regional Growth Fund. Three of these bids withdrew and one was for less than the £1 million bidding threshold.

    129 bids were therefore appraised, of which 98 were projects and 31 were programmes. Of these, 13 programmes and 37 projects were selected. Programmes may cover a number of Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas and some are national in scope so are not represented in the following table.

    The following table shows the number of Round 5 project bids by LEP area with the number of bids that were selected for funding. Project bids originating from an area covered by more than one LEP are shown at the bottom of the table.

    LEP Round 5 Projects

    Applications

    Selected

    Black Country

    1

    0

    Cheshire and Warrington

    5

    1

    Coast to Capital

    2

    1

    Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

    5

    0

    Coventry and Warwickshire

    2

    2

    Cumbria

    1

    0

    Enterprise M3

    1

    1

    Gloucestershire

    1

    1

    Greater Birmingham and Solihull

    6

    3

    Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough

    1

    0

    Greater Lincolnshire

    1

    0

    Greater Manchester

    5

    2

    Heart of the South West

    13

    3

    Hertfordshire

    1

    0

    Humber

    2

    1

    Lancashire

    4

    1

    Leeds City Region

    3

    2

    Leicester and Leicestershire

    2

    0

    Liverpool City Region

    5

    3

    London

    3

    0

    New Anglia

    1

    0

    North Eastern

    7

    5

    Sheffield City Region

    2

    0

    South East

    1

    0

    South East Midlands

    2

    2

    Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire

    1

    0

    Swindon and Wiltshire

    2

    1

    Tees Valley

    8

    6

    Thames Valley Berkshire

    1

    0

    West of England

    2

    0

    York and North Yorkshire

    1

    0

    Project bids from an area covered by more than one LEP:

    Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, & Sheffield City Region

    1

    0

    Greater Birmingham and Solihull & Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire

    1

    1

    Greater Birmingham and Solihull & Worcestershire

    1

    0

    Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough & New Anglia

    1

    0

    Northamptonshire & South East Midlands

    2

    1

    Grand Total

    98

    37
  • David T. C. Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    David T. C. Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to ensure that places where repeater transmitters are situated receive a full Freeview service.

    Mr Edward Vaizey

    Ofcom estimates that 98.5% of UK households have access to 17 channels including those from the public service broadcasters (PSBs) on the digital terrestrial TV (DTT, or Freeview) platform, and that approximately 90% of UK households are also able to receive additional commercial DTT channels. Around 1.5% of UK households cannot easily receive DTT services with less than 0.5% not able to receive DTT services at all. However, DTT, cable and satellite digital television services together cover practically 100% of UK households, so that in all but the most exceptional of cases, everyone should be able to get digital television by one means or another. As well as subscription services, digital satellite TV offers non-subscription reception options for a one-off equipment and installation cost, but with no on-going monthly payments.

    We have had no discussions with Freeview or Digital UK, who manage the DTT platform, about extending services and there are no plans to require broadcasters to improve the DTT coverage levels agreed for digital television switchover in 2006.

    Purely commercial DTT services are not subject to the ‘near-universal’ coverage requirements which apply to PSB DTT services, and while the operators of the commercial DTT services were given the opportunity to extend their networks at the time of digital switchover, the operators determined that it was not commercially viable for them to build-out their services to additional transmitter sites.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the maximum is a prisoner can earn per (a) week, (b) month and (c) year from working while serving a custodial sentence.

    Jeremy Wright

    Maximum rates of pay for prisoners are not set centrally. Governors have responsibility for setting rates of pay in each establishment, which should reflect regime priorities. NOMS Prisoners’ Pay policy is set out in Prison Service Order 4460, a copy of which is held in the House of Commons library.