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• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diplomatic Service: Manpower
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what criteria his Department applied in deciding whether to (a) retain, (b) upgrade, (c) localise and (d) abolish UK-based band A and B grade posts at UK embassies and high commissions.

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diplomatic Service: Manpower
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department plans to take to ensure the safety of locally- engaged staff in a UK embassy or high commission in the event of UK staff being evacuated.

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diplomatic Service: Manpower
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff working in UK (a) embassies, (b) high commissions and (c) consulates are (i) female, (ii) black and ethnic minority and (iii) disabled.

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Diplomatic Service: Manpower
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff currently based in the UK are (a) SMS, (b) A band, (c) B band, (d) C band and (e) D band; and how many staff in each such grade are (i) female, (ii) black and ethnic minority and (iii) disabled.

• Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Fire Services: Standards
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of fire service response times from time of call to time of first attendance for each fire and rescue service were of a duration of (a) up to five minutes, (b) six to 10 minutes, (c) 11 to 15 minutes and (d) over 15 minutes in each of the last five years. [R]

• Written Answers — Transport: Railways
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the minimum number of station calls is at each station each (a) week and (b) day on the Intercity West Coast franchise route (i) to and from London Euston and (ii) between Birmingham New Street and Edinburgh Waverley. [R]

• Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Court Orders
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many production orders have been issued by each police force in each of the last five years; what the details were of each such order; and whether each such order was granted by the courts.

• Written Answers — Justice: Prostitution
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Justice

  (1) how many people have been charged with (a) control for gain of prostitution and (b) other offences related to trafficking in the London area since Specialist Crime Division 9 in the Metropolitan Police was created;

  (2) how many prosecutions there have been for trafficking-related offences in the London area since Specialist Crime Division 9 in the Metropolitan Police was created.

• Written Answers — Justice: Stalking
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) perpetrators and (b) victims he estimates will be referred to the National Stalking Clinic in 2012.

• Written Answers — Education: Departmental Recruitment
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many new staff at each grade were employed by his Department in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; and how many of those new employees, in each such year, came from jobs outside the civil service and non-departmental public bodies.

• Written Answers — Education: Departmental Temporary Employment
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many temporary staff have been employed by his Department in each month since May 2010; and what the (a) period of employment and (b) total cost to the public purse was in each case.

• Written Answers — Education: Departmental Vacancies
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many job vacancies at each grade there were in his Department in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

• Written Answers — Justice: Community Orders: Per Capita Costs
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate is of the average annual cost to the probation service of supervising an individual on a community order.

• Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Fire Services: Standards
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average response time was for a fire appliance to attend (a) a dwelling fire with persons involved, (b) a dwelling fire with no persons involved, (c) a fire in a non-dwelling building, (d) a road vehicle fire and (e) an outdoor fire in each (i) region, (ii) fire service family group and (iii) local authority in each of the last three years. [R]

• Written Answers — Education: Departmental Pay
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education what the total value was of performance-related pay received by staff in his Department at each grade in each of the last five years.

• Written Answers — Transport: Railways: Conflict of Interests
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 5 December 2011, Official Report, column 88W, on railways: franchises, which consultants have declared potential conflicts of interest in advising her Department on rail (a) franchises and (b) procurement contracts in the last 18 months. [R]

• Written Answers — Justice: Prison Officers Association: Trade Unions
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Justice

  (1) whether he has made an assessment of the feasibility of the restoration of full trade union rights to the Prison Officers' Association;

  (2) what recent representations he has received on the restoration of full trade union rights to the Prison Officers' Association.

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: India: EU External Trade
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the EU-India Free Trade Agreement, with (a) article 25 of the General Declaration of Human Rights 1948, (b) article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the UN, (c) article 21 of the EU treaty and (d) article 207 of the treaty on the functioning of the EU.

• Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: EU External Trade: India
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the effect on the livelihoods of the rural poor in India of the EU-India Free Trade Agreement; and what representations he has received from non-governmental organisations on the agreement.

• Written Answers — Home Department: Human Trafficking: Sexual Offences
  

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reports she has received of (a) attempts by individuals to obtain protection money from women sex workers and (b) women sex workers being threatened with (i) eviction from their premises and (ii) arrest on the grounds that they were working from a brothel.