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Ref No Member Question Tabled Date for Answer
AQW 23445/11-15

Mr J Allister

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister which organisations had four or more staff posts funded under the Strategic Support Fund in (i) 2010/11; (ii) 2011/12; (iii) 2012/13; and (iv) 2013/14.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23446/11-15

Mr J Allister

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the underspend in the Strategic Support Fund in (i) 2010/11; (ii) 2011/12; and (iii) 2012/13.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23495/11-15

Mr C Lyttle

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister how much of the £0.5 billion that has been spent on community relations has been contributed by their Department.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23498/11-15

Mr S Agnew

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when the consultation on age discrimination in the delivery of goods, facilities and services will be launched.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23500/11-15

Mr S Agnew

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on the Child Poverty Reduction Pilot Study.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23501/11-15

Mr S Agnew

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when they will appoint representatives to the UK Commission on Child Poverty and Social Mobility.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23502/11-15

Mr S Agnew

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when further action plans, emanating from the 10 year Strategy for Children and Young People, will be developed; and when work will begin on developing a further Children and Young People Strategy.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23499/11-15

Mr S Agnew

To ask the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to detail (i) the capital investment her Department has undertaken in East Belfast since 27 June 2012 to ensure that the flooding, which occurred last summer, is not repeated this summer; (ii) the investment in capital projects to improve the infrastructure that has been allocated by her Department to prevent flooding in East Belfast; and (iii) the investment in capital projects to improve the infrastructure that is being considered by her Department to prevent flooding in East Belfast.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 31 May 2013

AQW 23497/11-15

Mr M Copeland

To ask the Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure to outline the positive points which came from ‘A Report on the Socio-Economic Impact of the Traditional Protestant Parading Sector in Northern Ireland’, funded by the Department for Social Development; and how her Department will use the findings in this report.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 31 May 2013

AQW 23469/11-15

Mr P Ramsey

To ask the Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure to detail the funds that are administered by the Culture Company on behalf of her Department, that will continue beyond 2013.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23448/11-15

Mr J Allister

To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 22049/11-15, whether he plans to abandon participation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the related advice, reports and policy based on PISA data and international comparisons, with a view to avoiding unnecessary expenditure.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23450/11-15

Mr C Hazzard

To ask the Minister of Education whether any local schools run inter-generational programmes aimed at creating better relationships between young pupils and older people.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23455/11-15

Mr P Weir

To ask the Minister of Education what discussions are planned on the future shape of A-level exams with (i) the UK Government; and (ii) other devolved institutions.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23456/11-15

Mr P Weir

To ask the Minister of Education what assessment he has made of his discussions with the UK Government on the future of A-level exams.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23457/11-15

Mr P Weir

To ask the Minister of Education how many meetings he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the future of A-level exams.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23482/11-15

Mr C Lyttle

To ask the Minister of Education how many teachers are being trained and prepared to deliver the new A-level in Software and Systems Development, which will start in September 2013.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23483/11-15

Mr T Clarke

To ask the Minister of Education what are the age limits for pupils to receive free school meals when in full-time education.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23484/11-15

Mr T Clarke

To ask the Minister of Education how many (i) nursery; (ii) primary; and (iii) post-primary pupils for the 2013/14 intake in South Antrim did not receive a place in their first choice school or nursery unit.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23458/11-15

Mr J Allister

To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning, pursuant to AQW 22502/11-15, to outline the investigations that are being conducted by his Department and Queen's University, Belfast, to establish the existence of the book referenced in The Effects of the Selective System of Secondary Education in Northern Ireland.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23467/11-15

Mr P Ramsey

To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning why the Creative Industries Apprenticeship pilot did not operate in Derry, given that it is the City of Culture 2013.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23471/11-15

Mr P Weir

To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning how the drop-out rates at Further Education Colleges compare with the rest of the UK.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23473/11-15

Mr P Weir

To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning how the drop-out rates at Higher Education Institutes compare with the rest of the UK.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23494/11-15

Mr P Flanagan

To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning for a breakdown of the top twenty five organisations in terms of (i) the number of people each organisation has employed; (ii) the number of people employed as part of a government funded scheme; and (iii) how much funding each has received in through the various schemes.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23444/11-15

Mr B McCrea

To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment whether there is infrastructure in place to ensure security of energy supply.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23447/11-15

Mr J Allister

To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, pursuant to AQW 21648/11-15, to detail (i) the breakdown and source of the calculation of 13.7 percent of electricity generation coming from renewable sources; and (ii) whether the percentage is generated within Northern Ireland without reliance on interconnector imports.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23490/11-15

Mr P Flanagan

To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to detail the number and proportion of the top one hundred companies, active locally, which have headquarters in Great Britain, for the most recent five years for which data is available.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23452/11-15

Lord Morrow

To ask the Minister of the Environment, pursuant to AQW 22435/11-15 and given that Ballymena Borough Council has confirmed that it does employ and provide placements within these criteria, why it cannot provide a figure of their current employees and placements.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23453/11-15

Lord Morrow

To ask the Minister of the Environment to detail the number of staff which each council employs, or has on placement, who have a physical disability.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23485/11-15

Mr S Rogers

To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel when his Department will give its assessment of the business case for the Narrow Water Bridge.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Tuesday 28 May 2013

AQW 23449/11-15

Mr P Ramsey

To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel to detail the number private properties, in each constituency, that have been unoccupied since October 2011.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23476/11-15

Mr M McLaughlin

To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel to outline the compensation paid to public sector employees in each year since 2007, broken down by (i) sector; and (ii) grade.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23479/11-15

Mr M McLaughlin

To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel to outline the amount of resource Departmental Expenditure Limit that was allocated to (i) direct salary costs; and (ii) indirectly fund employee costs, in each year since 2007.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23480/11-15

Mr C Lyttle

To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel how many young people are not in education, employment or training.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23454/11-15

Ms M McLaughlin

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (i) how much was spent by the Patient Care Service on the provision of the Non-Emergency Ambulance Service in the last financial year; (ii) how much of this was spent transporting people to hospital appointments; and (iii) how many clients were transported during this period.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23461/11-15

Ms S Ramsey

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety for an update on the new women's and children's hospital at the Royal Hospitals site, Belfast; and what services will be available in the hospital.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23468/11-15

Ms S Ramsey

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to outline (i) his Department's; (ii) the Health and Social Care Trust's; and (iii) the Public Health Agency's policy on endometriosis.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23470/11-15

Ms S Ramsey

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety what services are available in each Health and Social Care Trust for people diagnosed with endometriosis.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23472/11-15

Ms S Ramsey

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety how many women are diagnosed with endometriosis.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23474/11-15

Mr R Swann

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (i) to outline the current status of the negotiations on the salary banding of Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics in the Northern Ireland Ambulance Trust; (ii) how long these negotiations have been ongoing; (iii) to outline the reasons for any delay; and (iv) when the new salary bands will be applied to staff grades.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23481/11-15

Ms M McLaughlin

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety whether self-referrals to physiotherapy will be implemented as part of Transforming Your Care; and to outline the projected savings achieved by a self-referral process.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23491/11-15

Mr J Spratt

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, in relation to the Waiting List Initiative, on surgery or medical interventions which were carried out outside Northern Ireland, excluding cardiac surgery or other procedures that cannot be performed here because of a lack of expertise or available specialist facility, to detail the total spend on (i) patient travel costs; and (ii) hotel accommodation and subsistence, including those for the person that accompanied the patient when they travelled, for each of the last three years.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23492/11-15

Mr J Spratt

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, in relation to the Waiting List Initiative on surgery or medical interventions which were performed outside Northern Ireland, whether it is departmental policy to award tenders on the basis of excluding travel and subsistence costs from the assessment process or is the entire cost to the tax payer is included.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23493/11-15

Mr J Spratt

To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, in relation to the Waiting List Initiative on surgery or medical interventions which were performed outside Northern Ireland, what weight is placed on the inconvenience and risk to the patient in the award of tenders.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23464/11-15

Lord Morrow

To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the circumstances in relation to the release of Joseph McManus who absconded after being granted Compassionate Temporary Release to attend a funeral; (ii) the cost to Northern Ireland Prison Service in relation to the Judicial Review challenging the original decision to refuse Compassionate Temporary Release; and (iii) whether he will order an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23465/11-15

Lord Morrow

To ask the Minister of Justice, in relation to Joseph McManus who absconded whilst on Compassionate Temporary Release, to detail how much was paid in Legal Aid for the Judicial Review of the decision issued by the Northern Ireland Prison Service initially refusing Compassionate Temporary Release.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23466/11-15

Lord Morrow

To ask the Minister of Justice, in relation to Joseph McManus who absconded whilst on Compassionate Temporary Release from jail, to detail whether a risk assessment had been completed; and if he had been granted similar release before, had the terms been breached.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23475/11-15

Mr A Easton

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline the role of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23477/11-15

Mr A Easton

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline what the Probation Board for Northern Ireland takes into consideration when placing restrictions on people when bring released from prison.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23478/11-15

Mr A Easton

To ask the Minister of Justice whether the Probation Board for Northern consults with churches and community groups on restrictions when a prisoner is being released.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23488/11-15

Mr T Clarke

To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) how many hours of community service have been carried out in South Antrim in each of the last five years; and (ii) how is it monitored.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23489/11-15

Mr P Girvan

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline the procedures used by the PSNI to clean equipment and personal kit used in Lough Erne and other waters where zebra mussels are present.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23463/11-15

Mr D McAleer

To ask the Minister for Regional Development whether he will put measures in place that will guarantee the incomes of the estimated one thousand employees who will be affected by the moratorium that will be put in place on road works in the eleven days leading up to the G8 Summit 2013.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Tuesday 28 May 2013

AQW 23459/11-15

Mr P Girvan

To ask the Minister for Regional Development how many Penalty Charge Notices were issued in (i) Antrim; (ii) Ballyclare; (iii) Toome; (iv) Crumlin; (v) Templepatrick; (vi) Randalstown; and (vii) Doagh during financial year 2012/13.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23460/11-15

Mr P Girvan

To ask the Minister for Regional Development to detail the location of salt bins in (i) Antrim Borough Council; and (ii) Newtownabbey Borough Council.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23462/11-15

Mr P Girvan

To ask the Minister for Regional Development to detail the roads in (i) Antrim Borough Council; and (ii) Newtownabbey Borough Council which are served by asbestos water pipes.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23486/11-15

Mr T Clarke

To ask the Minister for Regional Development how much has been spent to provide and maintain street lighting, in each of the last five years.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23487/11-15

Mr T Clarke

To ask the Minister for Regional Development how much has been spent on electricity for street lighting, in each of the last five years.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23451/11-15

Mr P Girvan

To ask the Minister for Social Development how many new build (i) one; and (ii) two bedroom social housing units will be provided in the South Antrim constituency, in each of the next three years.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

AQW 23496/11-15

Mr M Copeland

To ask the Minister for Social Development to outline the positive points which came from the departmental funded ‘A Report on the Socio-Economic Impact of the Traditional Protestant Parading Sector in Northern Ireland’; and how his Department will use the findings in this report.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Friday 7 June 2013

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