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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many of the Crown post offices which were franchised by the Post Office in 2014 and 2015 are in (a) urban areas of deprivation, (b) urban areas and (c) rural areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much public funding the Post Office has received since January 2011 through government grants for investment in the network; and how much of that funding has been spent on pos...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how government grants for the Post Office since January 2011, other than Network Subsidy Payments, have been spent; and what conditions were placed on the use of such grants by th...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for the publication of the Post Office Network Report for 2016 pursuant to section 11 of the Postal Services Act 2011.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many responses the Post Office has received to its consultation on proposals to franchise Crown post office branches since January 2014; and how many of those responses were o...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Crown post offices which the Post Office is proposing to franchise in 2016 are in (a) urban deprived, (b) urban and (c) rural areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much has been spent since January 2010 from the public purse on each of the branches which the Post Office has announced will be franchised in 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much has been spent since January 2010 from the public purse on refurbishment of Crown post offices which are proposed to be franchised in July 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances documents associated with (a) asylum applications and (b) other forms of visa application are retained by her Department after verification.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to promote use of the Employer Checking Service.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for confirmation of the right to work in the UK were received by the Employer Checking Service in the last 12 months; and how many such requests were confirmed.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the number of job offers made to people with 3C Leave and subsequently withdrawn by employers (a) unwilling to use and (b) unaware of the Employer Checking S...

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to keep records of the (a) number of people who have their tax credits erroneously suspended by Concentrix, (b) number of people who subsequently have t...

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will amend his Department's official guidance to allow court-granted child arrangement orders to be used by HM Revenue and Customs as evidence of children's living arrangements when assessing applications for t...

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the source of the information was regarding fraudulent tax credit claims passed from HM Revenue and Customs to Concentrix.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will review the UK's support for the Saudi-led coalition forces operating in Yemen.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to encourage a de-escalation of violence in Kashmir in response to the recent unrest in that region.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to launch his Department's public consultation on new Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Practice Guidance.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to limit the level of overdraft charges for people in financial difficulties.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce mortality rates for people diagnosed with lung diseases.