Fiona O'Donnell

The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.

The ward results for the East Lothian constituency were as follows:

Results for all wards are available on the Commission's website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls

Officials in the Department liaise regularly with the Scottish Government on a range of fuel poverty related issues.

The UK's maternity leave provision is one of the most generous in the world; all employed women have a “day one” entitlement to 52 weeks of maternity leave. Mothers with 26 weeks qualifying service and meeting the earnings requirement are entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP). Those mothers who do not qualify for SMP may be entitled to Maternity Allowance. This means that expectant mothers and mothers can take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and bond with their babies, and to deal with unexpected eventualities including ill health, premature births and any complications associated with sick babies.

Through the Children and Families Act 2014, the Government is introducing a new system of shared parental leave which will give parents much more flexibility in how to use their leave entitlement. This flexibility will be particularly valuable to parents who have to deal with difficult or unexpected circumstances and it will allow parents, for the first time, to take leave together in a way that suits them. The system will be available for working parents whose baby is due on or after 5 April 2015 (irrespective of when the baby is born), and will be introduced later this year so that it catches babies who are born early.

The Government has committed to explicitly considering the issues facing families with babies admitted to neonatal care within the context of the review that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has announced it will undertake on the review of changes to employment law enacted by the Children and Families Act after 2018.

The UK Government is supporting the delivery of superfast broadband by the Scottish Government through the superfast broadband programme. It is providing over £121 million in funding, which should make superfast broadband available to over 720,000 additional premises in Scotland.

Broadband Delivery UK has regular meetings with the Scottish Government and provides extensive commercial and project support to assist delivery of the Government's broadband objectives through the projects in Scotland.

DFID and HM Treasury Ministers and officials meet regularly to discuss issues of common interest, including tax transparency.

DFID does not have a policy either directly or indirectly of advising countries on the use of private finance initiative-type financing models.

DFID has not made plans to fund the Backpack Health Worker Team through our bilateral programme in Burma after our current funding commitments with them conclude. DFID continues to support the 3MDG Trust Fund in Burma which supports many local NGOs across Burma in health activities.

Last November I convened a Call to Action in relation to keeping women and girls safe in humanitarian emergencies. The event brought together both UN agencies and donors, and has already resulted in improved approaches in the Philippines and Syria. I pledged £21.6 million further funding to ensure this work delivered tangible outcomes for women and girls including £4 million to ensure survivors of sexual violence receive comprehensive support services. The US will host a follow-up event in September and this summer the Foreign Secretary will host a summit on his Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, which aims to tackle the culture of impunity for sexual violence committed in conflict.

DFID is committed to tackling sexual violence against women and girls, with relevant programming in over 20 countries. For example, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) we have invested £60m to build security forces capable of better protecting women and girls from sexual violence and DFID has provided £21.6 million to protect women and children from sexual violence in humanitarian emergencies in a range of countries.

The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims in payment, registrations, clearances and awards for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) are published on Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics. In particular, breakdowns of reassessed claims in payment by type and rate of awards can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

The Department intends to provide more detailed breakdowns of DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes in due course. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.

The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The information is in the table below.

Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract.

Notes:

1. Housing Benefit data by Parliamentary Constituency is not available prior to 2011.

2. Annual figures are derived using monthly statistics on the caseload and average weekly award. They represent the average amount that would be received by someone claiming for the full year.

3. Figures in 2014/15 prices are deflated using the GDP deflator series published following the 2014 Autumn Statement at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/383988/GDP_Deflators_Autumn_Statement_December_2014_update.xls

4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10.

I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave her on 16/10/14. PQ 210281 refers.

I can confirm that there are 2,856,386 Post Office card account customers in total and the information with regard to constituency is not available in the format requested.

There were 129,916,212 payments paid into Post Office card accounts from April 2013 to March 2014.

The information regarding volumes of payments paid into Post Office card accounts by constituent part of the UK and constituency is not available in the format requested.

An EU arms embargo is already in place in South Sudan. This is supported by a targeted EU sanctions regime of restrictive measures against specific individuals, adopted in July 2014 with strong UK support. We also believe that discussions on the content of a potential UN Security Council sanctions resolution should begin in New York soon and we are engaging closely with key partners to that end.

We have not deployed a Team of Experts (ToE) to Burma to date, but are currently considering ways in which a ToE or other international or local actors might best assist in the delivery of PSVI objectives in Burma. We continue to lobby the Burmese Government on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, and to support projects in Burma to that end. Most recently in June, I discussed this issue with Deputy Foreign Minister U Thant Kyaw at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict.

We have not deployed a Team of Experts (ToE) to Burma to date, but are currently considering ways in which a ToE or other international or local actors might best assist in the delivery of PSVI objectives in Burma. We continue to lobby the Burmese Government on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, and to support projects in Burma to that end. Most recently in June, I discussed this issue with Deputy Foreign Minister U Thant Kyaw at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict.

The British Government has not made any representations to the Israeli authorities on this issue.

I refer the Member to the answer I provided on the 19 December 2014 to Question 218750:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&max=20&questiontype=AllQuestions&house=commons%2clords&member=3909&keywords=overpayments

HM Treasury and the Department for International Development meet regularly to discuss issues of common interest, including tax transparency.

The UK funds the Global Forum Secretariat and the World Bank Group to provide support to developing countries that wish to implement international standards of tax transparency and join the Global Forum. We have also worked closely in the G20 to produce a roadmap to assist developing countries in implementing the new standard of automatic exchange of information (AEOI) and stand ready to help those that wish to participate in AEOI.

Treasury ministers meet with a range of stakeholders on an ongoing basis, including energy intensive industries. For instance the Chancellor recently visited Tata Steel's Port Talbot plant. The Chancellor has written to representatives of energy-intensive industries about the Environmental and Energy State Aid Guidelines and instructed officials to meet with them to discuss this issue.

The following figures refer to England only, any further figures would be a matter for the relevant devolved administration.

The number of firefighter deaths on duty are shown in the table.

Source: Annual returns for fire and rescue authorities in England

The Department does not collect data on specific accidents leading to medical retirement. It does collect the number of medical discharges each year. To assist the hon. Member these have been provided in the table.

Source: Annual returns for fire and rescue authorities in England

The following figures refer to England only, any further figures would be a matter for the relevant devolved administration.

The total numbers of firefighters leaving fire and rescue authorities in England over the last five years are shown in the table.

Source: Annual returns for fire and rescue authorities in England