Captain Richard Holloway, Royal Engineers, 24 Commando Engineer Regiment was repatriated on 31 December 2013. The repatriation was carried out in private at the request of his family.

The number of injury incidents involving trainee soldiers in Phase 1 and 2 training in 2012 and 2013 is shown in the following table:

The figures for Initial Training Group show Phase 1 recruits only. The totals include any reported injury, irrespective of level of seriousness.

No Phase 1 or Infantry Phase 2 recruits are on the ‘Pay As You Dine’ system. All Phase 1 and 2 recruits are provided with three nutritionally-balanced meals per day. Phase 1 recruits may receive a ‘fourth meal’ supplement during training to provide the additional calorific intake they require during that period.

The Ministry of Defence has no evidence to support the claim that soldiers are undernourished as a result of the Pay As You Dine system. Nutrition is fundamental to military personnel's physical capability. We strive to ensure that our catering, including that provided through Pay As You Dine, delivers the required quality of service, and that healthy food choices are offered to provide the required calorific and nutritional intake for our soldiers. Soldiers undergoing Phase 1 training and those in Infantry Phase 2 training are not on the Pay As You Dine system.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established in 1917 and is funded to provide a permanent official commemoration for those who died in the two world wars and associated conflicts (4 August 1914 to 31 August 1921 and 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947). This includes graves of British personnel who gave their lives during the British campaign in the Baltic during 1918-19.

Before the first world war and during the inter world war years, the burying of the deceased was traditionally a function of the Ship, Regiment or Unit to which they belonged or of the individual's family. No formal assistance was offered by the then Admiralty, War Office or Air Ministry and over the succeeding years, only a limited number of such graves have been maintained by the Ministry of Defence. These are usually in a military cemetery funded by the Ministry of Defence where failure to maintain all of the graves to the same standard would detract from the overall appearance of the cemetery.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established in 1917 and is funded to provide a permanent official commemoration for those who died in the two world wars and associated conflicts (4 August 1914 to 31 August 1921 and 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947). This includes graves of British personnel who gave their lives during the British campaign in the Baltic during 1918-19.

Before the first world war and during the inter world war years, the burying of the deceased was traditionally a function of the Ship, Regiment or Unit to which they belonged or of the individual's family. No formal assistance was offered by the then Admiralty, War Office or Air Ministry and over the succeeding years, only a limited number of such graves have been maintained by the Ministry of Defence. These are usually in a military cemetery funded by the Ministry of Defence where failure to maintain all of the graves to the same standard would detract from the overall appearance of the cemetery.

The Defence Attaché and British embassy in Kyiv are continuing to work with the Ukrainian Government, and the Crimean War Memorial Appeal, to erect a new memorial near the village of Dergachi.

This privately funded memorial is intended to become the main focus of commemoration for British visitors, with the current memorial site at Cathcart Hill being simplified to become a place for quiet contemplation.

It has been a long standing policy of successive Governments that the cost of erecting memorials and associated projects is not usually met from public funds, but from private donations or public subscription. Responsibility for the design, location, maintenance, protection and any decision about what a memorial commemorates rests with the owner, or the organisation in which ownership is vested.

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Institutions involved in the National Scholarship Programme (NSP) use a variety of different approaches to deciding who should receive an award. Independent evaluation of the NSP found that most institutions who responded to an online survey required some or all of their potential recipients to go through an application process. The Department has no information on the number of students who applied to their university or college for an NSP award. In 2012/13, around 35,000 students received an NSP award from their university or college.

I am replying as this area of the law (The Children and Young Persons Act 1933) is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.

I have asked my officials to report to me before the end of the year and will then consider next steps.

For the 2013/14 academic year, eligible English domiciled full-time higher education students are able to apply for tuition loans of up to £9,000 (or up to £6,000 at privately-funded universities). Part-time students are able to apply for tuition loans of up to £6,750 (or up to £4,500 at privately-funded universities).

A comprehensive package of living costs support is also available to full-time students, including means-tested non-repayable maintenance grants of up to £3,354, and partly means-tested maintenance loans of up to £5,500 (up to £7,675 for students living away from home and studying in London; and up to £4,375 for students living at home).

Extra financial support is available to full-time students with children or other dependants—through childcare grants, parents' learning allowances and adult dependants' grants. These grants are income assessed and do not have to be repaid.

Disabled students allowances are also available to help full-time and part-time students with the extra costs they may incur on their course because of a disability, health condition or specific learning difficulty. These are not income assessed and do not have to be repaid.

Data published by UCAS show the proportion of 18-year-olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds applying to university for entry in the 2013/14 academic year has increased to the highest level ever recorded.

The UK signed the Council of Europe's Convention on the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse in May 2008. An initial examination suggests that the UK is compliant with the vast majority of the Convention's articles, but there are a small number of articles which require further assessment before the UK is in a position to ratify the Convention. In addition to work on the Convention, the Government has set out a comprehensive programme to tackle sexual violence in the action plan of the Sexual Violence Against Children and Vulnerable People National Group.

The Department for Education published progress reports in July 2012 and in November 2012, setting out the progress made by all agencies, including the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. The Home Office assumed responsibility for leading the response to child sexual exploitation in April 2013. The National Policing lead has developed a further plan of action for the police to tackle child sexual exploitation which sets out measures all forces need to take to effectively tackle this issue. This plan has been published on the Association of Chief Police Officers website. The College of Policing and the Director of Private Prosecutions launched a public consultation on revised guidance for sexual violence victims on 11 June which ran until September. The new guidance is designed to ensure that victims are listened to, and that consideration by the police and others should focus on the credibility of the allegation, rather than the credibility of the victim.

We have improved the experience of victims in the criminal justice system by launching a new criminal justice strategy and action plan including significant measures to improve the court process for victims of sexual abuse and exploitation. This follows the announcement on 11 June to pilot measures for recorded pre-trial cross-examination of vulnerable and intimidated witnesses.

The Government is committed to upholding its international obligations towards those who need our protection. This includes respecting the principle of non-refoulement by not removing a person to a place where they would face a real risk of persecution, or torture or inhuman or degrading treatment.

We continue to engage constructively with our European counterparts on all aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights to ensure that the right balance is struck between upholding the rights of individuals and ensuring the security of the public.

The Department has commissioned the Royal College of General Practitioners (GPs) to develop a Dementia Roadmap Toolkit which will provide a 'one stop' navigational aid for GPs which describes what GPs should do at different points during a person's journey through dementia and provides a single point of information which sets out what wider support, services are available for people with dementia, their families and carers.

The Dementia Toolkit is expected to be published in May 2014.

The Government has decided to wait before making a decision on standardised packaging. This policy remains under active consideration.

The National Planning Policy Framework expects local councils to design their policies to ensure that adverse impacts from renewable energy developments are addressed satisfactorily and makes clear that a planning application for renewable energy should be approved only if the impact is, or can be made, acceptable. The National Planning Policy Framework also makes clear that great weight should be given to conserving landscape and scenic beauty in national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty.

To help implement the framework, we published new planning practice guidance for renewable and low carbon energy. The guidance is clear that the need for renewable energy does not automatically override environmental protections and the planning concerns of local people. It also underlines that in shaping local criteria for inclusion in local plans, and considering applications in the meantime, proposals for wind turbines in areas close to national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty will need careful consideration where there could be an adverse impact on the protected area.

The guidance explains that local planning authorities should not rule out otherwise acceptable renewable energy developments through inflexible rules on buffer zones or separation distances. This is because other than when dealing with set back distances for safety, distance of itself does not necessarily determine whether the impact of a proposal is unacceptable. Distance plays a part, but so does the local context including factors such as topography, the local environment and

nearby land uses. This is why it is important to think about in what circumstances proposals are likely to be acceptable and plan on this basis.

The National Planning Policy Framework expects local councils to design their policies to ensure that adverse impacts from renewable energy developments are addressed satisfactorily and makes clear that a planning application for renewable energy should be approved only if the impact is, or can be made, acceptable. The National Planning Policy Framework also makes clear that great weight should be given to conserving landscape and scenic beauty in national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty.

To help implement the framework, we published new planning practice guidance for renewable and low carbon energy. The guidance is clear that the need for renewable energy does not automatically override environmental protections and the planning concerns of local people. It also underlines that in shaping local criteria for inclusion in local plans, and considering applications in the meantime, proposals for wind turbines in areas close to national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty will need careful consideration where there could be an adverse impact on the protected area.

The guidance explains that local planning authorities should not rule out otherwise acceptable renewable energy developments through inflexible rules on buffer zones or separation distances. This is because other than when dealing with set back distances for safety, distance of itself does not necessarily determine whether the impact of a proposal is unacceptable. Distance plays a part, but so does the local context including factors such as topography, the local environment and

nearby land uses. This is why it is important to think about in what circumstances proposals are likely to be acceptable and plan on this basis.

From 13 October 2013, certain property rights will need to be protected by entries being made in Land Registry registers to make sure that they are not lost when the land concerned is next sold. The most important of these rights are manorial rights and chancel repair liability. This change in the law, and the date it is to take place, were set out in legislation which came into

force 10 years ago. Many of these property rights have already been registered. They can continue to be registered after 12 October 2013 up until the land is sold.

Land Registry does not generally give advance notice of a register entry being made in response to an application from the person claiming one of these property rights. But it does let the landowner know of the entry after it has been made.

If the landowner disputes that the property right affects their land and the dispute cannot be resolved, Land Registry will refer the matter for judicial determination. Land Registry will continue to act in the same way, and disputes will continue to be referred for judicial determination, after 12 October 2013.

Her Majesty's Passport Office monitor the claims made by private companies which charge for services that cannot guarantee the issuing of a passport and can result in the customer paying additional and unnecessary fees. Where a company may be in breach of the law, the case would be referred as appropriate to the Advertising Standards Authority or Phonepayplus or to the relevant trading standards authority.

We have asked the Advertising Standards Authority to request websites that are operating within the law to make clearer and more prominent that they are not acting on behalf of HM Passport Office; that the issue of a passport cannot be guaranteed; and that the passport fee is payable only when submitting an application to HM Passport Office.

Phonepayplus has also been informed of our concern about websites that may result in the person paying unnecessary and costly fees.

The website www.gov.uk is the only provider of the British passport and passport applicants should use the official government website.

I have received a number of recent representations on this issue from farming groups and other interested parties. Because of the concerns that people have about the possible impacts of sky lanterns, DEFRA and the Welsh Government commissioned an independent report to improve the evidence-base. Published in May 2013, the report brings together and evaluates the available evidence, including submissions from the farming sector and the results of a survey of stakeholders. While farmers have lost livestock due to ingested wire from sky lanterns, this research suggests that the risk of injury and death to cattle and impact on the environment is low.

The Presentation of New Colours to the Mercian Regiment was funded in part through charitable sources.

The cost to the Department of the presentation ceremony was in the order of £38,000 which largely related to transporting personnel from the four battalions and moving two Warrior vehicles to support recruiting activity around the presentation event. This figure does not include the cost of the Colours themselves.

The role of the Colours has great historical significance in their use as a rallying point. British military history is full of instances of gallantry including the Colours and their defence. Today, Colours are the ceremonial evidence of a regiment and its spirit, a moral rallying point recording their often illustrious history.