Written Questions to Ministers

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to ensure that development policy takes full account of the interests of girls and women. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on the health of Andrei Sannikov; and what representations he has made to the government of Belarus on this issue. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse arising from his Department's Global Response Centre to date. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his UN counterparts on the decision to lift the embargo on the sale of diamonds originating from Zimbabwe; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the decision on the sanctions regime that has been placed on Zimbabwe. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what progress has been made on consideration of the future of the Fire Service College in Moreton-in-Marsh. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many referrals through the National Benefit Fraud Hotline were made by hon. Members in each of the last five years; and how many investigations were launched as a result of such referrals. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will amend the rules governing the deployment of brown signs on major trunk roads in rural areas in order to assist small businesses. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the reasons are for his decision to reduce the level of feed-in tariffs for aggregators on 31 March 2012. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what consideration he gave to the potential effects on (a) confidence in the solar industry and (b) investment in major future energy initiatives of his decision to reduce the feed-in tariff for solar photovoltaics from 12 December 2011. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will consider having discussions with the government of the Dominican Republic on the financial assistance needed to deal with refugees from Haiti. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many payments had been made under the Equitable Life Payment Scheme by 31 October 2011. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of payments that will be made in each of the first three years of the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what legal advice he sought prior to his decision to reduce the feed-in tariff for solar photovoltaics. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether future revisions to the Code for Sustainable Homes will specify the types of central heating systems that are acceptable; and what consideration he has given to the potential effects of any such revisions on (a) fuel costs and (b) carbon dioxide emissions. [R] read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will take steps to advertise his policy on out-of-hours consular assistance more widely on his Department's website. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his policy is on out-of-hours consular assistance by UK consulates; and whether it has changed in the last 18 months. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the merits of instructing HM Revenue and Customs to carry out co-ordinated checks on scrap metal merchants to check (a) any irregularities in cash payments, (b) value added tax registrations and (c) the reconciliation of the quantity of metal reprocessed by a merchant with the sum remitted in value added tax. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will make it his policy that giving of cash purchases of metal by scrap metal merchants should not be allowed and that scrap metal merchants should document all purchases of metal, identifying from whom such metal was bought. read more »

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what consideration he has given to creating a statutory register of scrap metal merchants. read more »