Chris Stephens MP

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consultation took place between his Department and HM Treasury before the Summer Budget 2015 on the introduction of an apprenticeship levy.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with other Government departments on the potential effect on social services of proposed reductions in the level of asylum seeker support.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost to the public purse is of deporting a failed asylum seeker on a non-civilian chartered flight.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been deported on non-civilian aircraft in 2015.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Government has provided aid to the government of Colombia.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with health staff trades unions in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings his Department has had with trades unions in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what meetings her Department has had with trades unions in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent meetings he has had with the Trades Union Congress on trade union reform.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on deporting failed asylum applicants in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings his Department has had with (a) the Scottish Trades Union Congress and (b) individual affiliated trades unions in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications her Department has rejected since 8 May 2015.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on the economy of a ban on international students working whilst they study in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the contribution of the 24 June 2015, Official Report, columns 885-86, when his Department will publish statistics on the deaths of people declared fit for work since May 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to ensure the protection of the rights and safety of Majid Ali upon his deportation to that country.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assurances her Department received from the government of Pakistan on the protection of the basic rights, wellbeing and safety of Majid Ali upon his deportation to that country.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports she has received on the status of Majid Ali since his deportation to Pakistan.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she takes to ensure compliance with the UK's international legal obligations on non-refoulement when deporting people to conflict affected countries.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are repaying overpayments of carer's allowance; and what the total value being repaid is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to maximise take-up of Severe Disability Premium among eligible recipients of (a) Pension Credit and (b) employment and support allowance.