The House Service has no access to information on which it could base a realistic estimate.

We deploy a comprehensive monitoring regime to check that sanctions are applied appropriately across our network. Where any site is making significantly more or fewer referrals, an independent team reviews their activity to ensure sanctions are being applied appropriately.

Information on the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) sanctions, by various geographies, is available and published at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm

Claimant count JSA figures are published at:

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk

These figures will enable the information requested to be estimated.

There are currently no plans to introduce dedicated recycling facilities for DVDs and CDs. However, we continue to review Parliament’s waste recycling and recovery arrangements as part of our objective to move waste streams up the waste hierarchy.

The UK was represented at the Vienna conference by our Permanent Representative to the International Organisations in Vienna, Susan le Jeune. As the Vienna Conference was a discussion platform there were no formal follow up outcomes agreed. However as stated at the Conference, the UK will continue to follow the step-by-step approach to disarmament through the existing UN disarmament machinery and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The UK will host the sixth Conference of P5 Nuclear Weapon States in London on 4-5 February; I will update the House after the meeting.

The UK attended the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons and made a statement afterwards. Not all the P5 Nuclear Weapons States attended; there are therefore no plans for a joint P5 statement on the Vienna Conference.

This Government is committed to supporting people’s aspirations to own their own home.

By 30 November 2014, 83 families had bought a home with the assistance of the three Help to Buy schemes in the constituency of Lewisham, Deptford. This includes 59 families using the support of Help the Buy: Equity Loan and 24 families using the support of Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee scheme.

By 30 November 2014, 180 families in the London Borough of Lewisham had bought a home with the assistance of the three Help to Buy schemes. This includes 66 families using the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme and 85 families using the Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee scheme.

Statistics on the average purchase price of a property bought under the schemes are all produced and published at the national level, but not at the level of constituency or local authority.

The Department’s official statistics on sales for the respective Help to Buy schemes are available at:

Help to Buy: Equity Loan (broken down by constituency, local authority and postcode):

www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics

Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee (broken down by constituency, local authority and postcode):

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-september-2014

Help to Buy: New Buy (broken down by local authority):

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-and-help-to-buy-newbuy-statistics-april-2013-to-september-2014. Figures are not available by constituency.

Work on what can be done to improve the system of support for those affected by HIV or hepatitis C through historic treatment with NHS supplied blood or blood products is ongoing. We also wish to consider the final report of Lord Penrose’s Public Inquiry in Scotland before making a statement on the way forward.

The UK was represented at the conference by Mrs Susan le Jeune, our Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. At the Conference, officials listened carefully to the participants, who expressed a very wide range of views.

Some argued that the way to achieve the goal of a world without nuclear weapons was to ban weapons now or to fix a timetable for their elimination. This approach fails to take account of the stability and security which nuclear weapons can help to secure. None of us would gain from a loss of that stability. The UK believes that the UN Disarmament Machinery, and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, provide the right forum for working towards a world without nuclear weapons.

Our Ambassador to Austria restated our concern at the humanitarian consequences which could result from the use of nuclear weapons. We are committed to working towards a world without nuclear weapons. In our Strategic Defence and Security Review in 2010, the Government undertook to reduce the number of warheads we have by the mid-2020s. However, we shall retain a credible, continuous and effective submarine based deterrent, for as long as the global security situation makes it necessary.

A copy of the UK intervention at the Conference has been placed in the Library of the House.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that there should not be a general ban on international travel or trade to the countries affected by ebola. This is consistent with the position of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, whose advice for British nationals is that travel for essential reasons should continue. Nationals from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose flights have been cancelled but whose visas are expiring or expired are therefore expected to re-arrange their flights and leave the UK at the earliest opportunity.

However, the Government is monitoring the situation closely.

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table:

Source: Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence Dataset (ISB 1610)

The information is not available centrally. While information is collected and published every month on waiting times and activity for 15 key diagnostic tests, the data does not identify whether the tests were for suspected cancers or other conditions.

Based on current forecasts it is anticipated that the Thames Barrier will continue to provide protection against flood events in London and the Thames Estuary until 2070.

The Environment Agency constantly assesses and appraises the condition of the Thames Barrier and its operating mechanisms, and upgrades and replaces these when required.

In 2013-14 the Environment Agency invested £8.72 million to ensure the Thames Barrier continued to reduce the risk of flooding to 362,000 properties as well as critical infrastructure.

Work to determine the most suitable approach to managing flood defence beyond 2070 is set to begin in 2050, at which point all possible improvements will be considered, including upgrading the existing Thames Barrier or replacing it completely.

The estimated cost to the Department of bringing the appeal against the High Court judgment of 31 July 2013 is approximately £92,000.

Once the Court of Appeal Judgment has been handed down, the court will be required to deal with consequential matters including both respondents' costs of the appeal, the level of which are not known at this time.

We understand that the proportion of revenue costs relating to the dissolution of South London Healthcare NHS Trust that is to be met by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGS) will be apportioned among the following groups:

Bexley CCG;

Bromley CCG;

Greenwich CCG;

Lambeth CCG;

Lewisham CCG; and

Southwark CCG.

Information on the respective amounts to be met by each CCG is not centrally held.

However, we are informed that the local CCGs have agreed to support the cost of the transactions from funds set aside each year for spending flexibly on non-recurrent priorities. This means that planned health care services in south London will not be adversely affected.

The costs related to the dissolution of South London Healthcare NHS Trust and its acquisition by other national health service organisations is £466 million. The Trust Special Administrator's estimate of these costs set out in his final report of 7 January 2013 was £267 million, with the difference being £199 million.

The revenue costs will be funded from NHS England and clinical commissioning groups. The cash and capital costs will be funded by the Department.

Commissioning and reconfiguration of services in the south-east London health economy under the Trust Special Administrator's recommendation 5, relating to University Hospital Lewisham, is on hold due to the ongoing legal process. Until a final decision is reached, assumed resources and efficiencies remain consistent with the Trust Special Administrator's report.