Lord Brady of Altrincham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria he plans that local authorities will be expected to meet in order to justify bus franchising in their areas; and whether he plans that assessment will be subject to independent assessment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to ensure that bus service levels are maintained during the transition period before the introduction of a bus franchise.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which EU countries the purchasing power of sterling is currently less than in the UK; and whether the Government has made an assessment of the likelihood that, under proposals for reform of the UK's relationship w...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children obtained five or more good GCSEs including English and Mathematics in (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in 2015; and what that propor...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on average, how many patients were admitted to A&E on a (a) Monday, (b) Tuesday, (c) Wednesday, (d) Thursday, (e) Friday, (f) Saturday and (g) Sunday in the last 12 months for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on average how many patients died in A&E on a (a) Monday, (b) Tuesday, (c) Wednesday, (d) Thursday, (e) Friday, (f) Saturday and (g) Sunday in the last 12 months for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) target, (b) average and (c) longest time taken to approve individual funding requests are for diseases in the last 12 months for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the efficacy of anakinra for patients diagnosed with idiopathic recurrent pericarditis; and what the (a) target, (b) average and (c) longest time taken to approve that drug...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what amount of pupil premium paid was not spent in the year it was paid in each of the last four years; what proportion of the total spending on pupil premium that amounted to in each of those years; and what e...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effects on the worst funded schools of adjusting the percentage applied in the calculation of the Minimum Funding Guarantee.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date the tender which led to the Money Advice Service finding 100 new debt advisers posts at Stepchange was published; how many and who the shortlisted bidders were for that tender; on what date the decision ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the hospital mortality rate was for each of the Greater Manchester acute hospital trusts in the most recent year for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account was taken of the financial costs and workforce implications of maintaining high-risk general surgery at University Hospital South Manchester to support the provision of tertiary services for the purpo...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons Quality and Safety was not included as a factor for deciding the fourth specialist hospital site proposed by Healthier Together.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision his Department plans to make under the Healthier Together reforms for patients in the North West of England with severe and complex cardiac disease who need tertiary cardiorespiratory services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what analysis his Department and NHS England have carried out to determine what standard of high-risk general surgery a site should be providing in order to be an appropriate site for carrying out (a) complex card...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the research report Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England, published by the ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in which areas of health and social care provision and expenditure he plans for decision-making in Greater Manchester to be (a) devolved and (b) not devolved.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his plans to devolve health and social care provision and expenditure in Greater Manchester, what mechanisms will be put in place to allow his Department to intervene in the event of failure of t...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his plans to devolve health and social care provision and expenditure in Greater Manchester, if he will take steps to ensure that future changes to NHS provision in that area, once that devolutio...