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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 12 January 1998
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 12 January of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 12 January, of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order of Business. For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Tuesday 13 January, see Part 2 of this Paper. |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| 1 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the impact of the proposals in the white paper on Freedom of Information on the modus operandi of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes. |
| (22631) | |
| 2 N | Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is his timetable in respect of implementing regulations for the sale of vitamin B6; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22432) | |
| 3 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22676) | |
| 4 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what measures he has taken in the last three months to assist the trade in tallow; and if he will make a statement. |
| (21956) | |
| 5 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he is taking to encourage the use of (a) information technology and (b) electronic ear tags for cattle in the Cattle Traceability Scheme; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22078) | |
| 6 | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 18th November, if he will implement Recommendation 2 of the Banner Committee. |
| (22757) | |
| 7 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many meetings with farmers' organisations that Ministers had agreed to address they have subsequently declined to attend since 1st May. |
| (22665) | |
| 8 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the per capita consumption of beef and beef products in (a) 1972 and (b) 1997. |
| (22488) | |
| 9 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the average liveweight price of steers in (a) 1972 and (b) 1997. |
| (22490) | |
| 10 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many farmers' meetings Ministers have attended since 1st May. |
| (22646) | |
| 11 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what proportion of the total United Kingdom consumption of beef and beef products was derived from home production in (a) 1972 and (b) 1997. |
| (22489) | |
| 12 | Mrs Teresa Gorman (Billericay): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what proportion of SEAC funding was devoted to (a) the BSE/CJD link, (b) the BSE/organo-phosphate link and (c) evidence relating to the incidence of spongiform diseases in humans before the BSE outbreak in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (22726) | |
| 13 | Mrs Teresa Gorman (Billericay): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what investigations his Department has undertaken into spongiform type symptoms in dogs held in (a) kennels and (b) quarantine. |
| (22727) | |
| 14 | Mr Douglas Hogg (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will place in the Library the advice that he received from Sir Kenneth Calman regarding the health risks posed by beef on the bone. |
| (22494) | |
| 15 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will place in the Library details of the representations he has received from (a) representative bodies and (b) others on his proposals to ban beef on the bone. |
| (22286) | |
| 16 N | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, at how many mink farms the killing of mink was witnessed by his officials over the last three months; and what methods were used in the killing. |
| (22520) | |
| 17 N | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many representations he has received over (a) escaped mink and (b) animal welfare in relation to the mink farm licensed in Hampshire. |
| (22521) | |
| 18 N | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what action he is taking with regard to the evidence presented to his Department on 3rd November regarding the conditions of animals at a mink farm in Hampshire. |
| (22519) | |
| 19 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to ensure that beef labelled as produced in Britain is not merely processed in the United Kingdom. |
| (22441) | |
| 20 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on his policy relating to Milk Marque. |
| (22448) | |
| 21 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the Government's policy towards the rescheduled cattle scheme. |
| (22445) | |
| 22 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to instigate a public inquiry into the BSE crisis; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22443) | |
| 23 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to include farmers in consultations regarding the new Food Agency. |
| (22446) | |
| 24 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to harmonise the situation between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, relating to the costs incurred by farmers disposing of SRM; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22442) | |
| 25 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what stage the applications for EU compensation for (a) beef farmers, (b) dairy farmers and (c) sheep farmers affected by the BSE crisis have reached. |
| (22444) | |
| 26 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will commission research into the operation of vertically integrated co-operatives for the dairy industry. |
| (22447) | |
| 27 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answers of 18th November, Official Report, column 117 and 4th December, Official Report, column 355, if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of pigs exported for breeding to each country concerned from January to October. |
| (22613) | |
| 28 | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how much (a) fresh and (b) UHT milk was imported into the United Kingdom in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (22529) | |
| 29 | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how much milk was (a) produced and (b) consumed in the United Kingdom in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (22528) | |
| 30 | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will instruct the expert group recently constituted to assess the safety limits of vitamins and minerals to make examination of vitamin B6 a priority. |
| (22571) | |
| 31 | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the (a) date of appointment, (b) terms of reference and (c) membership of the focus groups established by his Department to discuss genetically-modified food. |
| (22604) | |
| 32 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what statutory basis he has ordered the diversion of money from the National Lottery to causes other than those originally approved by Parliament. |
| (22574) | |
| 33 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22679) | |
| 34 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the date, value and recipient of each award of Lottery funding to good causes in Scotland. |
| (22416) | |
| 35 N | Mr Rhodri Morgan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proposals he has to set up a distributing body in Wales for the New Opportunities Fund; and what proposals he has to ensure that childcare proposals from Wales are adjudged for funding by criteria appropriate to Welsh circumstances. |
| (22409) | |
| 36 | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many official engagements the Sports Minister has undertaken since his appointment (a) in London and (b) outside London. |
| (22669) | |
| 37 | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who was responsible for selecting the new Chairman-designate of the Football Trust; how many candidates were considered; what was the process of interviewing and consultation prior to the announcement; and what will be the remuneration of the Chairman-designate. |
| (22668) | |
| 38 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list those occasions since 1st May on which military personnel and equipment was hired out to private individuals or companies. |
| (22618) | |
| 39 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22678) | |
| 40 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the procedures which have been carried out on monkeys and great apes, and the number involved in these procedures which have died as a result, at (i) Porton Down and (ii) other establishments for which he is responsible, in each of the last 10 years. |
| (22573) | |
| 41 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to upgrade Hawk trainers with digital cockpits. |
| (22692) | |
| 42 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the need for a midlife upgrade for the Eurofighter; and in which areas of capability. |
| (22694) | |
| 43 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the PR9 Canberra reconnaissance aircraft each came into service; what was their design life; and what is the date on which they are expected to leave service. |
| (22696) | |
| 44 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the anticipated annual costs of ownership of Eurofighter over the operational life of the aeroplanes ordered. |
| (22693) | |
| 45 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to sign a memorandum of understanding with the USA to combine the TRACER and Future Scout and Cavalry system requirements. |
| (22695) | |
| 46 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what work is being carried out by his Department to support the negotiations to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. |
| (22517) | |
| 47 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the annual budget for his Department's Proliferation Arms Control Unit in the last two years. |
| (22512) | |
| 48 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff are currently employed at the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down; and what plans he has for staffing levels over the next five years. |
| (22514) | |
| 49 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what work is currently being carried out by the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment Porton Down to (a) support and implement the Chemical Weapons Convention and (b) support the negotiations to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention. |
| (22548) | |
| 50 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what work his Department is currently carrying out to support and implement arms control treaties in the fields of (a) chemical weapons and (b) nuclear weapons; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22516) | |
| 51 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the Chemical Defence Establishment's evaluation of the effects of short-term exposure to lewisite. |
| (22515) | |
| 52 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what work is currently being carried out by the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston to support and implement international arms control agreements and treaties. |
| (22549) | |
| 53 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, since when service personnel taking part in the service volunteers programme at the Chemical Defence Establishment Porton Down have been allowed to take away from the establishment copies of the written consent forms which they have signed. |
| (22513) | |
| 54 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what delays there have been in issuing those qualifying ex-members of the Ulster Defence Regiment with their Accumulated Service Medal; how many qualify for this medal; how many have been issued to date; and what has been the situation in respect of other UDR members who transferred to the Royal Irish Regiment. |
| (22799) | |
| 55 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle of 17th December, Official Report, column 214, on intelligence gathered by trawlers, if he will name the trawlers; if he will indicate whether the 'Gaul' was used for intelligence purposes and whether it was being so used at the time of its sinking; and if arrangements for using trawlers for intelligence work and collecting intelligence from crews of other trawlers operated at Grimsby. |
| (22637) | |
| 56 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people in the armed forces earn less than £4 an hour. |
| (22640) | |
| 57 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many disabled people work (a) in the Ministry of Defence and (b) for the armed forces; and how many work at hourly rates below £4 an hour. |
| (22643) | |
| 58 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to seek exemptions for any of its (a) civilian and (b) military employees from the minimum wage. |
| (22639) | |
| 59 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is his Department's estimate of the value of free board and lodging to an employee expressed as an hourly pay rate. |
| (22642) | |
| 60 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the value to Britain of arms sales (a) to Indonesia and (b) to Turkey in each year since 1990. |
| (22810) | |
| 61 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the value of arms sales by each member of the European Union in each year since 1990. |
| (22809) | |
| 62 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many United Kingdom service personnel attended courses at the United Nations Training School in Ireland in each of the last three years. |
| (22536) | |
| 63 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many goodwill calls were made by (a) Irish naval vessels to the UK and (b) the Royal Navy to the Republic of Ireland in each of the last three years. |
| (22537) | |
| 64 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel from the Republic of Ireland's defence forces received training at military establishments in the United Kingdom in each of the last three years. |
| (22535) | |
| 65 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many of those appointed to health or other public bodies since 1st May were Labour party agents in 1997 parliamentary elections, listing the constituencies. |
| (22572) | |
| 66 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22684) | |
| 67 | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if a complete bibliographic record of official publications can be accessed via the internet. |
| (22626) | |
| 68 N | John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what proposals he has for the inspection of independent schools; what will be the role of OFSTED in such inspection; what representations he has received about the inspection of independent schools; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22532) | |
| 69 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the universities in the United Kingdom which now provide tuition in remedial English for students unable to write to an appropriate standard. |
| (22614) | |
| 70 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the (a) dates and (b) numbers of pages of letters, information and booklets sent in his name to schools and chairmen of schools since 2nd May; if he will place copies in the Library; and if he will estimate the costs of sending the materials to schools by (i) first and (ii) second class post. |
| (22575) | |
| 71 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22674) | |
| 72 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on his policy towards after school clubs for under eights. |
| (22593) | |
| 73 | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what studies he has commissioned on the relative costs of providing further education in urban and rural areas. |
| (22667) | |
| 74 | Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Canning Town): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what further plans he has to ensure that priority is given to the basics of literacy and numeracy within the primary curriculum. |
| (22798) | |
| 75 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what criteria the Government uses to establish where out of school clubs are most needed. |
| (22766) | |
| 76 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the schools in Chorley which currently have out of school clubs. |
| (22764) | |
| 77 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the schools in Chorley in which he plans to introduce out of school clubs; and how much money will be invested in those schools. |
| (22765) | |
| 78 | Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list by name, nationality and club (a) rugby league and (b) rugby union players who are not British citizens and have permission to work in the United Kingdom. |
| (22730) | |
| 79 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the measures in the Green Paper, Excellence for All Children, which strengthen the present legal framework of protection of the rights of children with special needs; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22699) | |
| 80 | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the impact on rural employment levels of the current crisis in the beef industry. |
| (22596) | |
| 81 | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what budget he has agreed for the estates element of the South Devon District New Deal Delivery plan. |
| (22541) | |
| 82 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what measures he intends to take to encourage participation by English and Welsh schools in the European Studies Project. |
| (22502) | |
| 83 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many students from the Republic of Ireland are studying at British universities; and how many are in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland. |
| (22503) | |
| 84 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many students from the Republic of Ireland are participating in further education in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland. |
| (22504) | |
| 85 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what response he plans to make to the proposal from the Irish government for a joint forum to facilitate discussion and co-operation in educational matters. |
| (22501) | |
| 86 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many meetings of the Anglo-Irish Inter-Governmental Council Working Group on Education and Culture have taken place in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22565) | |
| 87 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what response he plans to make to Irish government proposals for a Programme and Joint Management Structure for youth exchanges between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. |
| (22506) | |
| 88 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many projects his Department funds under the LEONARDO vocational training programme which involve Irish organisations. |
| (22505) | |
| 89 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many meetings his Department has had with the Irish Department of Education in relation to the National Grid for Learning and the University for Industry. |
| (22500) | |
| 90 | Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 24th November, Official Report, Column 372, what percentage of European Funds under objective 5B was spent in the less favoured areas of the North of England in (a) 1993, (b) 1994, (c) 1995 and (d) 1996; and what is the date when this funding will finish. |
| (22605) | |
| 91 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the proposals in the white paper on Freedom of Information on the modus operandi of the Advisory Committee on Releases into the Environment. |
| (22632) | |
| 92 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many primates were imported from Indonesia in (a) 1996 and (b) 1997 to date. |
| (22396) | |
| 93 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, which United Kingdom ports on the East Coast have been excluded from the list for the TransEuropean Transport Network proposed by the EU Commission; and if he will obtain from the Commission its reasons for excluding any of the United Kingdom ports on the East Coast. |
| (22733) | |
| 94 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many representations he has received (a) in favour of and (b) against his decision to reject the independent inspector's conclusion concerning the limits to housing development in West Sussex. |
| (22579) | |
| 95 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in how many cases of inspectors reporting on the limits to housing development he has (a) upheld the conclusion, (b) reduced the limits and (c) increased the limits. |
| (22578) | |
| 96 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will meet local authority and parliamentary representatives of West Sussex to discuss his declaration that the method or conclusion of the independent inspector into the limits to housing developments in the county was flawed. |
| (22576) | |
| 97 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how much time he spent considering the inspector's report into the limits to housing development in West Sussex. |
| (22577) | |
| 98 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what percentage of the site which will be used for the Millennium Experience has been decontaminated; what contaminants were found on the site; and what checks have been carried out on (a) the decontaminated areas and (b) the areas which were not decontaminated since decontamination was completed. |
| (22723) | |
| 99 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when his Department expects to formulate a definition of contaminated land. |
| (22754) | |
| 100 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when his Department's review of the operation of the Environment Act 1995 wll be completed. |
| (22752) | |
| 101 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the total area which will be used for the Millennium Experience. |
| (22722) | |
| 102 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, which EU standards on contaminated land have not been implemented by the United Kingdom Government. |
| (22755) | |
| 103 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to create zones with 10 mph speed limits in residential areas. |
| (22721) | |
| 104 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when his Department expects to complete a register of contaminated land. |
| (22753) | |
| 105 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the United Kingdom Government's involvement in the establishment of a single European Air Safety Authority. |
| (22670) | |
| 106 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22685) | |
| 107 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list those local authorities with responsibility for education where the increase in revenue support grant adjusted for changes in nursery vouchers funding and increased NNDR is less than the amount that has been passported through the capping regime to raise standards in schools. |
| (22284) | |
| 108 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, which companies have (a) been registered and (b) been refused registration as accredited reprocessors for the purpose of issuing packaging waste recovery notes under the Producer Responsibility (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997. |
| (22281) | |
| 109 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 9th December, Official Report, column 493, if he will place in the Library copies of the contingency plans to respond to accidents during the air and sea carriage of MOX nuclear fuel. |
| (22299) | |
| 110 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what mechanisms exist for appealing against refusal by the Environment Agency to register companies as accredited reprocessors for the purpose of issuing packaging waste recovery notes under the Producer Responsibility (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997. |
| (22282) | |
| 111 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 9th December, Official Report, column 492, if he will place in the Library the Fourth Report of the Standing Working Group on the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material of DGXVII, once it becomes available to his Department. |
| (22289) | |
| 112 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the outcome of the meeting held on Monday 22nd December to review the decision to reduce the funding of the Energy Saving Trust from £19 million to £14 million next year. |
| (22594) | |
| 113 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will set up an inquiry into the cost of providing the same standard of services in rural and in urban authorities for the services covered by the Other County Services element of SSAs. |
| (21941) | |
| 114 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will commission research into the factors which influence the need for and the cost of social services for the 16 to 64 years age group and incorporate the results of this research into the way SSAs are calculated. |
| (21942) | |
| 115 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will commission research into factors which determine a child's special educational needs and incorporate the results of such research into the construction of SSAs. |
| (21943) | |
| 116 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list in rank order the SSA provision for 1997-98 and 1998-99 per head of population for each county council in England and Wales and give the average county figure for each year. |
| (21944) | |
| 117 | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if all trunk road crossings required by the National Cycle Network will be completed by 2000. |
| (22671) | |
| 118 | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment of the difficulties faced by persons living more than one hour's drive away from a motorway the Driving Standards Agency has made in its consideration of the inclusion of motorway driving in the driving test. |
| (22666) | |
| 119 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will place in the Library the research undertaken to demonstrate that the sparsity adjustment used in the calculation of SSAs adequately reflects the additional cost of providing education in rural areas. |
| (21945) | |
| 120 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will re-examine the way in which SSAs are calculated for county councils with regard to (a) education, (b) personal social services and (c) other county services. |
| (21946) | |
| 121 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will re-examine the case for incorporating a sparsity factor into the calculation of the SSA provisions for (a) the under-fives and (b) other education. |
| (21947) | |
| 122 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will include social class as an indicator of educational attainment rates in the construction of the additional educational needs provision of SSAs. |
| (21948) | |
| 123 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will ensure that the additional educational needs component of SSAs reflects the number of children with statements in each local authority. |
| (21949) | |
| 124 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to introduce a new formula for the children's personal social services SSA; and if it will take into account the effects of population sparsity on the cost of providing social services for children in rural areas. |
| (21950) | |
| 125 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if his Department will adjust the unit cost factor used in the SSA calculations to take account of the higher cost of providing domiciliary home care for elderly people in sparsely populated areas. |
| (21951) | |
| 126 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Standard Spending Assessment Sub Group will report on the use of the Social Index in the calculation of the other personal social services element of SSAs. |
| (21952) | |
| 127 | Mr Eric Clarke (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Health and Safety Laboratory intends to publish its Annual Report and Accounts for 1996-97. |
| (22568) | |
| 128 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the current status of his review of the proposed A590 bypass at High and Low Newton; and if he will make a statement. |
| (21959) | |
| 129 | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Department's letter (reference EE/PSO/17203/97), what analytical results he has received from the Environment Agency about the use of earthworms on contaminated sites; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22732) | |
| 130 N | Sir Norman Fowler (Sutton Coldfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will place in the Library a table showing the band D council tax increase for each notifiable authority in England (a) in cash terms and (b) in percentage terms based on the assumption that all councils spend at the provisional capping limit. |
| (22277) | |
| 131 | Mr John Grogan (Selby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many representations have been made to his Department regarding the Selby by-pass in response to the roads review consultation exercise. |
| (22698) | |
| 132 N | Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many cards conveying opposition to Hertfordshire County Council's plans to build 10,000 houses in the Green Belt he has received. |
| (22589) | |
| 133 | Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the (a) time of arrival, (b) aircraft type and (c) owning company of airplanes that landed at Heathrow Airport before 7 a.m. on (i) 25th December 1997 and (ii) 1st January 1998. |
| (22729) | |
| 134 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in respect of how many fatal vehicular accidents in England and Wales during each of the past 10 years there was evidence that the major contributory factor lay with drivers who were insulin-dependent diabetes sufferers. |
| (22802) | |
| 135 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd December, Official Report, column 435, when he expects the Health and Safety Executive to complete their investigation of the rail crash at Wrexham General Station. |
| (22746) | |
| 136 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what are the average national performance indicator values for local authority planning services; and how these relate to the indicators for Peterborough District Council in each of the last three years. |
| (22211) | |
| 137 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement regarding his Department's plans for a speed limit on Windermere. |
| (22524) | |
| 138 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he has received a copy of Gloucestershire County Council's revised structure plan; if he will be accepting the reduced number of new houses proposed for the period covered; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22525) | |
| 139 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he intends to publish a quality status report for the Celtic Seas area including the Irish Sea. |
| (22534) | |
| 140 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the road schemes, by local authority, for which the Government has suspended funding during 1998-99, indicating for each if this was on the grounds of (a) changes in policy and (b) increases in financial costs. |
| (22450) | |
| 141 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the Government's policy in respect of reviewing local authority road schemes previously funded through the TPP system against the criteria of (a) integration, (b) accessibility, (c) safety, (d) economy and (e) environmental impact. |
| (22452) | |
| 142 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 6th November, Official Report, column 277, how many new rural packages were awarded funding in the local transport settlement for 1998-99. |
| (22454) | |
| 143 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the number of major new road schemes for which each local authority bid for funding under the TPP system for 1998-99. |
| (22451) | |
| 144 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the road schemes by local authority which make up the existing commitments in the local transport settlement 1998-99, indicating for each (a) the money awarded in the 1998-99 local transport settlement and (b) the total costs. |
| (22449) | |
| 145 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what was the total number of new packages submitted by local authorities in their TPP bids for 1998-99. |
| (22453) | |
| 146 | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the (a) date of appointment, (b) terms of reference and (c) membership of the focus groups established by his Department to discuss genetically-modified organisms. |
| (22606) | |
| 147 | Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many inland waterway freight grants have been issued since 1981; and if he will list them by location and value. |
| (22760) | |
| 148 | Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many water companies have proscribed the use of ribbed thin wall plastic piping in sewerage installations. |
| (22758) | |
| 149 | Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what progress has been made towards the adoption of a European standard for the manufacture and installation of plastic sewerage pipes. |
| (22763) | |
| 150 | Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what standards for the unblocking of sewage pipes by high pressure water jet are presently in force. |
| (22762) | |
| 151 | Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what video material relating to damage to plastic roadside drainage pipes has been collated by the Department of Transport; and if it is available for public examination. |
| (22759) | |
| 152 N | Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reasons the Union Flag that appeared on the original published design of the new plastic United Kingdom driving licence does not appear on the final design. |
| (22460) | |
| 153 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the collecting of the full surcharge from Lady Porter following the recent court decision; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22495) | |
| 154 N | Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the latest estimates by the Register General of Populations of those aged 17 years and over, plus 63 per cent. of those aged 16 years, for each district council area and parliamentary constituency in England and Wales, together with the equivalent electoral registration figures also expressed as a percentage of these population figures and in ascending order. |
| (22292) | |
| 155 N | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason an interim VAT band was established for the United Kingdom art market; what effect the VAT raise has had on turnover; and what representations he is making to the Commission on the subject. |
| (22616) | |
| 156 N | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what finance the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe receives from the European Community. |
| (22617) | |
| 157 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22688) | |
| 158 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates he has for the anticipated revenue from (a) insurance premium tax and (b) higher rate insurance premium tax for the year 1997-98. |
| (22620) | |
| 159 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs lost in (a) travel agency sector and (b) retail sector since the introduction of higher rate insurance premium tax; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22623) | |
| 160 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) discussions he has had with and (b) what representations he has received from the European Commission regarding the impact on the travel insurance market of the introduction of higher rate insurance premium tax; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22625) | |
| 161 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the total revenue raised for each year since its introduction of (a) insurance premium tax and (b) higher rate insurance premium tax. |
| (22619) | |
| 162 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received regarding the number of jobs lost in the (a) travel agency sector and (b) retail sector since the introduction of higher rate insurance premium tax. |
| (22622) | |
| 163 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the (a) benefits and (b) disadvantages of reintroducing a single rate of insurance premium tax to remedy distortions in the insurance market. |
| (22624) | |
| 164 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates he has for the proportion of higher rate insurance premium tax revenue raised from travel insurance. |
| (22621) | |
| 165 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the Chief Executive of the Valuation Office Agency resigned in December 1997 and on what terms; whether she was on fully-paid sick leave between January and September 1997; and at what cost. |
| (22812) | |
| 166 | Mr Christopher Fraser (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what will be the estimated saving to public funds in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 1998-99 of the abolition of tax relief on private health insurance. |
| (22463) | |
| 167 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the questions upon which the Paymaster General sought advice from Sir Terrence Burns about his personal financial affairs. |
| (22345) | |
| 168 | Mr Robert Jackson (Wantage): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what has been the control total for cash planning for the year ahead in each year since 1987; and by what amount the outturn figure has differed from the figure previously announced. |
| (22539) | |
| 169 | Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much tax the Treasury expects to forego annually with the introduction of ISAs and what tax has been foregone on an annual basis since the introduction of PEPs and TESSAs. |
| (22570) | |
| 170 N | Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information the Inland Revenue receives from the Guernsey authorities about (a) the deeds, (b) trustees and (c) letters of wishes of trusts established in Guernsey with discretionary beneficiaries in the United Kingdom. |
| (22588) | |
| 171 N | Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which EU meetings in Brussels the Paymaster General (a) has represented and (b) plans to represent the UK. |
| (22278) | |
| 172 N | Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what arrangements exist for the exchange of information on tax avoidance between the Belgian tax authorities and the Inland Revenue. |
| (22280) | |
| 173 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultation he had with charitable organisations prior to phasing out charities' tax credit compensation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22461) | |
| 174 | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue lost to the Treasury as a result of the recent decline in sales and employment in the beef sector. |
| (22595) | |
| 175 | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received about the filing deadline for submission of self assessment tax returns. |
| (22499) | |
| 176 | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to extend the filing deadline for submission of self assessment tax returns. |
| (22498) | |
| 177 | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the filing deadline for self assessment tax returns. |
| (22540) | |
| 178 | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many self assessment tax returns have been rejected by Inland Revenue staff since self assessment was introduced. |
| (22518) | |
| 179 | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates he has made of the number of self assessment tax returns (a) likely to be received before the deadline date and (b) expected not to meet the deadline. |
| (22550) | |
| 180 | Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review arrangements relating to the rebonding of oil terminals in order to encourage seaborne transport of domestic oil supplies. |
| (22761) | |
| 181 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the average purchasing power of the pound in (a) 1967, (b) 1977 and (c) 1987 relative to its current purchasing power. |
| (22567) | |
| 182 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Chinese authorities in respect of the conditions within Chinese orphanages. |
| (22627) | |
| 183 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if paragraph 3 of the Subsidiary Protocol of the Treaty of Amsterdam permits the repatriation of acquis communautaire. |
| (22615) | |
| 184 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Tooting of 9th December, Official Report, column 498, what percentage of total staff working at A grade the figure for British nationals represents for each directorate of the European Commission. |
| (22658) | |
| 185 N | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what powers of electronic intercept Europol will possess under the Treaty of Amsterdam; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22672) | |
| 186 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22687) | |
| 187 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will bring forward legislation to incorporate the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their destruction into domestic law. |
| (22492) | |
| 188 | Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of United Kingdom citizens who travelled abroad without travel insurance in (i) 1995, (ii) 1996 and (iii) 1997; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22598) | |
| 189 | Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many visitor visas for entry into the United Kingdom from Cuban nationals have been turned down in each of the last two years. |
| (22497) | |
| 190 | Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many applications in each of the last two years for visitor visas have been from Cuban nationals. |
| (22496) | |
| 191 | Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Cuban nationals granted entry visas in the past two years have exceeded the period of time in the United Kingdom specified in their visa. |
| (22566) | |
| 192 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what was the annual budget for his Department's Arms Control Disarmament Research Unit in the last two years. |
| (22507) | |
| 193 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what work his Department is currently carrying out to support and implement arms control treaties in the fields of (a) chemical weapons and (b) nuclear weapons; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22508) | |
| 194 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what work is being carried out by his Department to support the negotiations to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. |
| (22509) | |
| 195 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what measures he will be taking in response to the recent National Audit ffice report relating to fraud at British embassies. |
| (22751) | |
| 196 | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is his Department's policy on Israeli requests to the EU to extend the scope of the EU-Israel Association Agremeent to include jointly produced Israeli-Palestinian goods in exemption to customs duties. |
| (22546) | |
| 197 | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the estimated value of goods jointly produced by Israel and Palestine and imported by the EU; and what proportion have been imported at zero tariff. |
| (22547) | |
| 198 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will make it its policy to prohibit clinical trials of xenotransplantation involving genetic material from pigs until further data has been collected on cross-species viral transfer; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22607) | |
| 199 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice he has received from the Advisory Group on the Ethics of Xenotransplantation regarding clinical trials involving genetic material from pigs. |
| (22611) | |
| 200 | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice he has received from the Advisory Group on the Ethics of Xenotransplantation regarding the possibility of cross-species viral transfer as a result of xenotransplantation. |
| (22612) | |
| 201 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of the proposals in the white paper on Freedom of Information on the modus operandi of (a) the United Kingdom Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority and (b) the Advisory Group on the Ethics of Xenotransplantation. |
| (22633) | |
| 202 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the Members of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, indicating (a) the date on which each membership commenced, (b) those members who are employed or have been employed by companies with interests in biotechnology and (c) those members who, either individually or on behalf of groups, are known to be opposed to xenotransplantation on ethical grounds. |
| (22629) | |
| 203 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 27th November, Official Report, column 652, when the invitation to visit Imutran's animal facilities was received by his Department; and on which date the visit occurred. |
| (22636) | |
| 204 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those companies and other organisations from whom his Department has formally sought views in respect of the development of a regulatory structure for xenotransplantation, indicating in each case the date on which views were formally sought. |
| (22609) | |
| 205 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which animals he plans to exclude, on ethical grounds, from use as source animals for xenotransplantation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22628) | |
| 206 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those studies which he has evaluated regarding the transfer of pig viruses into human cells through the process of xenotransplantation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22610) | |
| 207 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the current cost of introducing free dental preliminary examinations in the United Kingdom; and what plans he has to bring forward proposals to that end. |
| (22769) | |
| 208 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements he has made for emergency dental treatment for those who are deregistered following the change of period for continuing care payments. |
| (22768) | |
| 209 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission a study to evaluate the costs per item of treatment carried out by (a) community dentists and (b) general dental practitioners. |
| (22770) | |
| 210 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what current studies he has commissioned to analyse the benefits of preventative dentistry. |
| (22771) | |
| 211 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what has been the cost to his Department of continuing care payments for dentists in each financial year since the scheme was initiated; and what estimate he has made of the comparable cost had the payments been made on a 15 month basis. |
| (22767) | |
| 212 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the sums allocated to the remuneration of general dental practitioners are cash limited. |
| (22774) | |
| 213 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to recognise the GDPA for purposes of negotiation. |
| (22772) | |
| 214 N | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what have been the rises in real terms in NHS payments to general dental practitioners in the last five years; and how these have compared with (a) the retail price index and (b) real rises in income for non-manual workers. |
| (22773) | |
| 215 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will extend the registration period for NHS dental treatment to 24 months from the end of the month in which the patient last visited his or her dentist. |
| (22283) | |
| 216 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what were the average waiting times for treatment (a) at the Westmorland General Hospital and (b) in the Morecambe Bay Health Authority area in (i) 1994, (ii) 1995, (iii) 1996 and (iv) 1997. |
| (21958) | |
| 217 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of adhesive arachnoiditis have been diagnosed in the last 20 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (21960) | |
| 218 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement concerning the review of Edgware Hospital. |
| (22591) | |
| 219 | Mr Christopher Fraser (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimates he has made of the cost to the National Health Service in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 1998-99 of treating patients previously covered by private health insurance. |
| (22464) | |
| 220 | Mrs Teresa Gorman (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the occupations in each of the 10 years preceding death of those individuals who died from new variant CJD. |
| (22725) | |
| 221 N | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the letter of 14th December from the Minister of State, if he will set out the considerations which led him to conclude that Lady Helen Gardiner should not be reappointed as Chairman of the Surrey Ambulance Service NHS Trust. |
| (22216) | |
| 222 | Mr David Lock (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned into sudden death in epilepsy; what directions have been issued to health authorities and trusts concerning sudden death in epilepsy; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22484) | |
| 223 N | Mr Rhodri Morgan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the length of time required to produce a service-strength product of Read Codes Version 3; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22404) | |
| 224 N | Mr Rhodri Morgan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the number of (a) NHS sites participating in the Read Codes Version 3 partnership programme, (b) NHS sites which have ceased participation in the programme, (c) non-partnership NHS sites currently using Version 3 and (d) non-partnership NHS sites which have ceased to use Version 3; and, for categories (a) and (c), to what extent Version 3 is in use on those sites. |
| (22407) | |
| 225 N | Mr Rhodri Morgan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list each evaluation (a) conducted or (b) commissioned by his Department into the efficacy of the Read Codes Version 3 coding system, stating the date and author or body responsible for each one; and if he will place the evaluation reports in the Library. |
| (22408) | |
| 226 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met representatives of the dental profession to discuss improvements in the dental services within the NHS; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22562) | |
| 227 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on free dental check-ups within the NHS. |
| (22564) | |
| 228 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the estimated (a) over and (b) under spend for each quarter of 1997-98 in respect of the NHS dental budget. |
| (22561) | |
| 229 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to make insulin pen injector needles available on prescription for diabetics. |
| (22487) | |
| 230 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS employees earn less than £4 an hour. |
| (22641) | |
| 231 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to seek exemptions from the minimum wage for descriptions of persons working in the NHS. |
| (22654) | |
| 232 | Mr David Ruffley (Bury St. Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what effect the introduction into the capitation formula this year of a needs weighting for (a) services for people with learning disabilities and (b) administration and other hospital services has had on the Government's health spending allocation to the Suffolk Health Authority for 1998-99. |
| (22483) | |
| 233 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS chiropody and podiatry services were provided to ethnic minority patients in each of the last three years. |
| (22555) | |
| 234 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures he is taking to ensure ethnic minorities with non-insulin diabetes have full access to NHS chiropody and podiatry servies. |
| (22554) | |
| 235 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of limitations on the availability of chiropody services to particular age groups; what representations he has received on the subject; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22551) | |
| 236 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Department's Answer of 13th November, Official Report, column 662, how many health authorities have consulted with their local residents during the last 12 months over the proper priority for chiropody within purchasing priorities. |
| (22559) | |
| 237 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health authorities have notified his Department of (a) reductions and (b) increases in chiropody services in the last two years; and what other sources are utilized to collate trends in the level of services. |
| (22558) | |
| 238 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 13th November, Official Report, column 662, what assessment he has made of the extent to which health authorities' decisions to provide chiropody services are determined according to the need of the population served. |
| (22557) | |
| 239 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the budget for each trust in England for NHS chiropody and podiatry services in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1996-97, (c) 1995-96 and (d) 1994-95. |
| (22560) | |
| 240 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 13th November, Official Report, column 662, what methods his Department employs to communicate to health authorities the requirement for chiropody to be included within the full range of NHS services. |
| (22556) | |
| 241 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures his Department takes to ensure that the foot health needs of the elderly population are met; and what indicators measure levels of access to chiropody and podiatry services by those aged over 65 years. |
| (22553) | |
| 242 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the age profile of NHS chiropody and podiatry patients for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1995-96 and (c) 1994-95; and what proportion of initial contacts made by NHS chiropody and podiatry patients were self-referred in these years. |
| (22552) | |
| 243 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients from the Republic of Ireland had operations in the United Kingdom paid for by the Irish Department of Health in each of the last three years; and how many of these were transplant operations. |
| (22538) | |
| 244 | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the (a) date of appointment, (b) terms of reference and (c) membership of the focus groups established by his Department to discuss genetic engineering. |
| (22599) | |
| 245 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to reply to the letter of the honourable Member for South Suffolk of 20th November with respect to the NHS in Suffolk. |
| (22291) | |
| 246 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will ban the import of primates from Indonesia. |
| (22378) | |
| 247 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he has taken to investigate alleged breaches in the provision of the CITES convention in respect of the importing of primates from Indonesia. |
| (22385) | |
| 248 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22673) | |
| 249 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the scope of the work of the Ministerial Group on the Family includes measures to strengthen the institution of marriage. |
| (22713) | |
| 250 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 15 and 16 year olds were held on remand in prison service accommodation at the most recent date for which figures are available. |
| (22708) | |
| 251 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to end the remands of 15 and 16 year olds to prison accommodation. |
| (22706) | |
| 252 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish (a) the agenda for, (b) the minutes of and (c) a list of those attending the Ministerial Group on the Family. |
| (22711) | |
| 253 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what conclusions he has reached on the compliance of the provisions of the Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords] with the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will state his reasons. |
| (22719) | |
| 254 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of 15 and 16 year olds on remand who will be held in prison service accommodation over (a) the next five years and (b) the next 10 years. |
| (22700) | |
| 255 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases involving 10 to 14 year olds it has been necessary for the prosecution to rebut the presumption of doli incapax in the last five years. |
| (22717) | |
| 256 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department has commissioned in respect of the operation of the presumption of doli incapax; and if he will publish it. |
| (22718) | |
| 257 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 15 and 16 year olds remanded into Prison Service accommodation (a) committed suicide and (b) were involved in incidents of self harm in the latest year for which figures are available. |
| (22715) | |
| 258 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the places in local authority secure accommodation which are (a) currently available and (b) planned within the next five years he plans to use for the accommodation of 15 and 16 year olds on remand. |
| (22705) | |
| 259 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he plans to hold any meetings of the Ministerial Group on the Family in public. |
| (22712) | |
| 260 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he proposes that the Ministerial Group on the Family should produce a report. |
| (22716) | |
| 261 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to extend the role of judges in trials involving rape and other serious sexual offences so as to permit or require them to take over the cross examination of witnesses, with particular reference to victims. |
| (22709) | |
| 262 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information he plans to make available to victims about reparation orders when obtaining their views about the making of such an order. |
| (22714) | |
| 263 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he plans to require (a) medical reports and (b) other reports to be obtained on 15 and 16 year olds before they can be remanded to prison service accommodation on their physical or emotional immaturity or propensity to cause self harm. |
| (22707) | |
| 264 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new places in local authority secure accommodation have become available in each year since 1991. |
| (22703) | |
| 265 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the definition of family which is being used by the Ministerial Group on the Family. |
| (22710) | |
| 266 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the new places which he plans to make available in local authority secure accommodation within the next five years were not planned for on 1st May 1997. |
| (22704) | |
| 267 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received on the practice of remanding 15 and 16 year olds into prison service accommodation. |
| (22701) | |
| 268 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places in local authority secure accommodation he plans to make available in the next (a) five years and (b) 10 years. |
| (22702) | |
| 269 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he plans to promote (a) drug courts and (b) the sponsorship of drug courts. |
| (22720) | |
| 270 N | Mr Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police widows there are in receipt of the preserved rate widow's pension, in each of the police forces of England and Wales; and what is the average weekly payment to them. |
| (22297) | |
| 271 N | Mr Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many retired police officers, who are in receipt of a police injury pension, are now paying tax on the element repayable to police authorities as a result of the changes brought about by the introduction of incapacity benefit. |
| (22296) | |
| 272 N | Mr Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many retired police officers there are in receipt of a police injury pension payable, as a tax free allowance, under Regulation B4 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987. |
| (22295) | |
| 273 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what are the terms of reference for the Advisory Panel for Animal Experimentation; who are its members; what are their qualifications and other employments; and how often the panel meets. |
| (22697) | |
| 274 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to permit voting in national and local elections to take place in venues other than traditional polling stations. |
| (22208) | |
| 275 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many racial attacks were recorded in each of the past 10 years where the attacker was a white person. |
| (22206) | |
| 276 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding unpaid claims there were for compensation under the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 on 1st January 1998; and what was the average delay between claim and payment for categories A, B and C on that date. |
| (22210) | |
| 277 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Maidenhead of 4th December, Official Report, columns 291-2, on compensation for special constables, for what reasons he does not plan to consult organisations representing business and industry on his proposals for new regulations governing the Special Constabulary. |
| (22215) | |
| 278 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to introduce electronic voting in national and local elections. |
| (22209) | |
| 279 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list by police force the number of (a) constables, (b) sergeants and (c) other ranks in post on 1st January 1998. |
| (22123) | |
| 280 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many racial attacks were recorded in each of the past 10 years where the victim was a white person. |
| (22207) | |
| 281 N | Mr Brian Sedgemore (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15th July, Official Report, column 145, when the current review of baton gun guidelines which the Association of Chief Police Officers is conducting will be completed. |
| (22480) | |
| 282 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to make payment for the confiscated pistols of C. J. A. Foules, West Charleston Grange, near Kingsbridge, Devon. |
| (22527) | |
| 283 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement regarding a bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland on mutual assistance in criminal matters. |
| (22544) | |
| 284 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement about the efficacy of the common travel area between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in relation to immigration matters and asylum. |
| (22545) | |
| 285 N | Mr James Wallace (Orkney and Shetlands): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proposals he has to include the offence of cycling on the pavement in the list of fixed penalty offences; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22213) | |
| 286 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is his policy on the collection of statistics on re-offending whilst in receipt of a suspended sentence; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22590) | |
| 287 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many secure cycling spaces there are in her Department. |
| (22683) | |
| 288 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what factors influenced the Government's decision to offer developing countries greater flexibility in the use of aid; and what measures she proposes to prevent aid being used for military purchases. |
| (22469) | |
| 289 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the extra spending obligations arising from the Prime Minister's policy announced at the Denver Summit in relation to overseas aid; and from what budget extra resources will come. |
| (22470) | |
| 290 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much bilateral aid has been given for (a) health care, (b) education and (c) clean water in Africa in each of the last three years; and what is the estimated level for the next three years. |
| (22468) | |
| 291 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22686) | |
| 292 | Mr Keith Hill (Streatham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, on how many occasions in the last 12 months a claim has been made in small claims proceedings for the cost of legal advice under County Court rules Order 19 rule 4 (2) (aa); and what was the value of the average amount awarded in that period. |
| (22486) | |
| 293 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, what recent assessment he has made of his answering practices in respect of his duties other than in connection with the Millennium Dome, and the guidance to Ministers provided in the Ministerial Code of Conduct. |
| (22657) | |
| 294 N | Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the latest estimates by the Register General of Populations of those aged 17 years and over, plus 63 per cent. of those aged 16 years, for each district council area and parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland, together with the equivalent electoral registration figures also expressed as a percentage of these population figures and in ascending order. |
| (22294) | |
| 295 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many secure cycling spaces there are in her Department. |
| (22681) | |
| 296 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how she intends to deploy New Deal Welfare to Work resources relating to Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22735) | |
| 297 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement on the progress of the Local Enterprise and Development Unit in generating self-employment and small-business development in the last year. |
| (22741) | |
| 298 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement on the New Deal Welfare to Work as it affects lone parents and people with disabilities. |
| (22744) | |
| 299 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the current arrangements in the Youth Service; and if she will order a review of the service. |
| (22736) | |
| 300 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she expects to respond to the recommendations of the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights report on Fair Employment and Equality Review; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22738) | |
| 301 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she proposes to announce the results of the Government's consultation on long-term unemployment; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22743) | |
| 302 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she expects to announce changes to the structure of the Health Service; when she intends to reorganise the health and social services boards and trusts; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22739) | |
| 303 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement on her strategy for re-negotiating European Union Structural Funds after the year 2000. |
| (22745) | |
| 304 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the priorities announced by the Prime Minister for the Social Exclusion Unit in relation to Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22734) | |
| 305 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement on the progress made by the Industrial Development Board in promoting inward investment since July 1997. |
| (22740) | |
| 306 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she proposes to announce the results of the Comprehensive Spending Review in respect of (a) Departmental and (b) spending priorities; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22742) | |
| 307 | Mr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement on the arrangements applying to the merger and reorganisation of museums in Northern Ireland. |
| (22737) | |
| 308 | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when her Department will be able to provide statistical information based on the constituency boundaries in force at the General Election in 1997. |
| (22807) | |
| 309 | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment her Department made of the effect on numbers using public transport to travel to work in Belfast of the introduction of parking charges in Bangor Market; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22804) | |
| 310 | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what have been the total costs of the talks at Castle Buildings to date; how much (a) has been paid by and (b) is outstanding from the Irish Government; and how much has been paid to or on behalf of the three independent chairmen, broken down between expenses and taxable remuneration. |
| (22805) | |
| 311 | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many penalty tickets have been issued and what was the amount paid in relation to those tickets in respect of the Bangor Market parking area now suspended; and what steps her Department is taking to cancel outstanding proceedings and return monies to those who have paid penalties and fines. |
| (22803) | |
| 312 | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will review the decision by the Department of Finance and Personnel not to exercise its discretion to allow a late transfer of the superannuation rights of Mr W. J. Allen to the Department of Education; and if she will make a statement about the types of extenuating circumstances which have applied to such transfers. |
| (22806) | |
| 313 | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the inclusion of Northern Ireland in the Government's proposed legislation on the funding of political parties. |
| (22808) | |
| 314 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the Police Authority for Northern Ireland is taking to prepare and plan for its meetings to be held in public. |
| (21049) | |
| 315 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will amend the Police (Northern Ireland) Bill to require the Police Authority for Northern Ireland to hold its meetings in public and publish minutes for public inspection. |
| (21050) | |
| 316 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what operating procedures were issued to prison officers dealing with the prisoners' children's Christmas 1997 parties at H M Prison, Maze; in what order prisoners and visitors left after the party; and if this procedure was based on previous practice. |
| (22785) | |
| 317 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many operators have been trained to use the Rapiscan equipment at H M Prison, Maze; and by whom operating instruction is provided. |
| (22783) | |
| 318 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what use is made of the Rapiscan baggage scanner installed at the main gate staff search area at HM Prison, Maze; and if every item of (a) staff and (b) official visitors' baggage and property is scanned. |
| (22782) | |
| 319 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) off-duty members and (b) retired members of the Ulster Defence Regiment/Royal Irish Regiment have been murdered by terrorists since 1st April 1970; and what account she will take of these statistics in respect of personal protection weapons in her review of the Firearms (NI) Order 1981. |
| (22775) | |
| 320 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what was the cost of the provision of new cutlery and crockery at HM Prison, Maze; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22791) | |
| 321 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what refresher courses in the use of Rapiscan baggage scanner equipment have been provided at H M Prison, Maze during the three year period ending 30th November 1997. |
| (22784) | |
| 322 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what risk assessment was conducted by her Department prior to the introduction of metal cutlery in HM Prison, Maze. |
| (22813) | |
| 323 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many prison officers in HM Prison, Maze are fully trained in the operation of walk-through metal detection scanners; and how often refresher training courses have taken place during the past three years. |
| (22779) | |
| 324 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to her Answer of 10th December, Official Report, columns 554-8, concerning weapons stolen from the Army during the past 10 years, how many of the recovered weapons were known to be in the possession of (a) Loyalists, (b) Republicans and (c) others. |
| (22801) | |
| 325 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for how long the two walk-through metal detection scanners in the prisoner search area at the rear of Visits in HM Prison, Maze have been inoperative. |
| (22778) | |
| 326 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if there was a full search of H M Prison, Maze carried out during the 17 days between the Averill escape and the murder of Mr Wright. |
| (22789) | |
| 327 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will now make available to honourable Members the Steele Report on the tunnel escape attempt inquiry. |
| (22787) | |
| 328 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what representations were made to the Governor of H M Prison, Maze on 6th August 1996 concerning difficulties arising from large numbers of prisoners being returned from recreational areas who failed to co-operate with the returning of numbers procedures; and whether action was taken to deal with this problem. |
| (22786) | |
| 329 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in what respect the implementation of the best value regime is intended to lead to more responsibility being devolved to local authorities in Northern Ireland. |
| (22777) | |
| 330 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what are the estimated costs to local government authorities during each of the next five years of the transition from compulsory competitive tendering to best value; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22776) | |
| 331 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many PTZ spy-in-the-sky cameras are installed at H M Prison, Maze; if that which gave coverage of H Block 6 where Mr Wright was murdered was in full working order at the time of the killing; and if she will make a full statement. |
| (22788) | |
| 332 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if Key Function 1.6 of the Business and Corporate Plan relating to HM Prison, Maze has been fully implemented, taking account of the 1994 Woodcock Report and the RUC Review; and if she will indicate the number and description of unauthorised articles found during searches of (a) Loyalist and (b) Republican residential areas during the year to 30th November 1997. |
| (22790) | |
| 333 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what use is made of the Rapiscan baggage scanner installed at the visitors' reception area at HM Prison, Maze; and if every item of prisoner visitors' baggage and property is scanned. |
| (22781) | |
| 334 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many local councils are investigating the development of waste incineration plants; what financial resources have been involved; whether the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland has established a co-ordinating facility to encourage and assist local government attempts; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22800) | |
| 335 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if there are walk-through metal detection scanners installed and in use at the visitors' reception area at HM Prison, Maze. |
| (22780) | |
| 336 | Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to (a) privatise and (b) alter the present organisational structure of the water service in Northern Ireland. |
| (22756) | |
| 337 N | Mr Brian Sedgemore (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to her Answer of 15th July, Official Report, column 145, whether the army is participating in the review of baton gun guidelines which the Association of Chief Police Officers is conducting. |
| (22481) | |
| 338 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to her Answer of 17th November, Official Report, column 27, when it became her policy to have priority groups for the provision of NHS chiropody services; how this policy was communicated to boards and trusts; and what notifications she has received regarding (a) increases and (b) reductions in services for the priority groups in the present year or next year. |
| (22563) | |
| 339 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she was notified of the resignation of the Reverend Roy Magee as a member of the Parades Commission; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22493) | |
| 340 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list those Ministers who have advisors paid for in whole or in part by (a) commercial and (b) charitable concerns; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22608) | |
| 341 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, when he and the law officers approved the threat of legal action in a letter on behalf of the Paymaster General to newspapers. |
| (22586) | |
| 342 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, if the request made in November by the consortium of organisations representing people with disabilities for a meeting with Ministers has been granted. |
| (22583) | |
| 343 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will meet the all-party group on disablement issues to discuss the scope and possible outcomes of the official and ministerial reviews of disabilily allowances, benefits and income support. |
| (22582) | |
| 344 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he has read the notes of the ministerial meeting with officers and members of the parliamentary all-party group on disablement issues on Thursday, 18th December. |
| (22581) | |
| 345 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, what instructions were given to officials involved in reviewing disability allowances, benefits and income support; when the instructions were issued; who issued them; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (22584) | |
| 346 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, when he decided to take charge of the policy and review of disability allowances, benefits and income support. |
| (22580) | |
| 347 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, how long each main Cabinet meeting lasted since 1st May. |
| (22597) | |
| 348 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will transfer financial provision for education and training in prisons to the Department for Education and Employment. |
| (22585) | |
| 349 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the (a) agreed pay and (b) numbers employed by each Department in London of staff aged (i) 16, (ii) 17, (iii) 18 and (iv) 19 years. |
| (22587) | |
| 350 | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Prime Minister, what was the cost to public funds of arrangements made in respect of his civil servants and security staff, for his summer holiday in Tuscany. |
| (22655) | |
| 351 N | Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Prime Minister, if it is his policy to require that Ministers who have misled the House make a statement correcting the record. |
| (22279) | |
| 352 N | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the Prime Minister, how many letters he has received in the last three months urging him to ban fur farming in the United Kingdom. |
| (22522) | |
| 353 | Mr Ken Maginnis (Fermanagh and South Tyrone): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list those (a) Ministers and (b) participants in the current Northern Ireland talks process with whom he has discussed the escape of Liam Averill from HM Prison, Maze. |
| (22792) | |
| 354 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his discussions with President Daniel arap Moi. |
| (22811) | |
| 355 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to recommend that titles be removed in cases where local councillors have been surcharged. |
| (22569) | |
| 356 N | Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the latest estimates by the Register General of Populations of those aged 17 years and over, plus 63 per cent. of those aged 16 years, for each district council area and parliamentary constituency in Scotland, together with the equivalent electoral registration figures also expressed as a percentage of these population figures and in ascending order. |
| (22293) | |
| 357 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22677) | |
| 358 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on the number of police officers in Scotland for each year since 1978-79. |
| (22420) | |
| 359 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of small businesses in Scotland. |
| (22393) | |
| 360 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of GPs in Scotland. |
| (22413) | |
| 361 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the level of resources devoted to the promotion of and education in the Gaelic language. |
| (22415) | |
| 362 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of (a) domestic and (b) international departures from Scotland's airports. |
| (22403) | |
| 363 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the percentage of Scottish children attending a nursery school in their pre-school year. |
| (22400) | |
| 364 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of new motor cars registered in Scotland. |
| (22391) | |
| 365 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 average salaries in primary and secondary schools in Scotland in (a) cash terms and (b) current prices. |
| (22401) | |
| 366 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what was the average annual salary of (a) nurses, (b) doctors and (c) consultants employed in Scotland's hospitals for each year since 1978-79 in 1996 prices. |
| (22388) | |
| 367 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings he has had with the Scottish Pre-school Play Association to discuss (a) nursery provision and (b) the Nursery Voucher Scheme. |
| (22382) | |
| 368 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many meetings he has had with Capita. |
| (22406) | |
| 369 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many meetings he has had with representatives of private nursery providers to discuss (a) the abolition of the Nursery Voucher Scheme and (b) alternative means of making nursery provision. |
| (22383) | |
| 370 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many meetings he has had with local authority representatives to discuss nursery provision. |
| (22381) | |
| 371 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of (a) hospital operations and (b) hip operations carried out in Scotland. |
| (22386) | |
| 372 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the average houshold income in Scotland. |
| (22394) | |
| 373 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the amount of business rates levied in Scotland in (a) cash terms and (b) current prices. |
| (22402) | |
| 374 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of hours of Gaelic broadcasting on (a) radio and (b) television. |
| (22411) | |
| 375 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the clear-up rates for crime in Scotland relative to levels of recorded crime. |
| (22397) | |
| 376 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the total amount of (a) public and (b) private money invested in public housing in Scotland in 1996 prices. |
| (22399) | |
| 377 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much it will cost to cancel the Government's contract with Capita following the abolition of the Nursery Voucher Scheme. |
| (22380) | |
| 378 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the impact on public expenditure of the measures contained in the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Invergarry, Kyle of Lochalsh Trunk Road (A87) Extension (Skye Bridge Crossing) Toll Order (Variation) Order 1997; from what budget expenditure it is to be met; and if he will make a statement. |
| (22377) | |
| 379 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of (a) nurses, (b) doctors and (c) consultants employed in Scotland's hospitals. |
| (22390) | |
| 380 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will state for each of the years between 1978-79 and 1996-97 inclusive, the number of (a) jobs created and (b) safeguarded in Scotland as a result of inward investment projects; and if he will indicate those projects that have (i) created and (ii) safeguarded 100 jobs or more. |
| (22419) | |
| 381 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of owner-occupiers within Scotland as a percentage of the overall housing stock. |
| (22395) | |
| 382 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of sheltered houses provided by public agencies in Scotland. |
| (22398) | |
| 383 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list, in (a) cash terms and (b) 1997-98 prices, the amount of money allocated in each financial year since 1978-79 and 1997-98 to each area of expenditure currently within his responsibility. |
| (22417) | |
| 384 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of (a) inpatients and (b) outpatients treated in Scotland's hospitals. |
| (22392) | |
| 385 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the average class sizes in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in Scotland. |
| (22418) | |
| 386 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the number of miles of (a) dual-carriageway and (b) motorway in Scotland. |
| (22387) | |
| 387 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list for each year since 1978-79 the percentage of Scottish households owning one or more motor cars. |
| (22389) | |
| 388 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what representations he has received from island communities about the costs of fares on ferry service in West of Scotland. |
| (22384) | |
| 389 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many working days were lost in Scotland as a result of industrial action in each year since 1978-79. |
| (22379) | |
| 390 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on GDP per capita in relation to (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) the United Kingdom for each year since 1978-79. |
| (22414) | |
| 391 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on the rate of growth in the Scottish economy for each year since 1978-79. |
| (22410) | |
| 392 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on the level of manufacturing exports from Scotland in each year since 1978-79. |
| (22412) | |
| 393 | Mrs Ray Michie (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will amend the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 to bring the procedures for issuing fixed penalty notices in Scotland into line with those in England and Wales. |
| (22533) | |
| 394 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much the Government spent in each of the last 10 years on (a) new social housing stock and (b) maintenance of social housing stock, in (i) Glasgow and (ii) Scotland. |
| (22750) | |
| 395 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on the Government's economic policies for Scotland. |
| (22748) | |
| 396 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps have been taken to avert a shortage of hospital beds during the winter of 1997-98. |
| (22747) | |
| 397 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on the trends in respect of long-term unemployment in Scotland. |
| (22749) | |
| 398 N | Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will support the introduction of a national screening programme for diabetes among high risk groups, with particular reference to those aged over 40 years with a hereditary propensity. |
| (21617) | |
| 399 | Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what emergency procedures are in place in respect of (a) the East of Scotland and (b) the West of Scotland water authorities to deal with contamination to local water supplies. |
| (22482) | |
| 400 N | Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if students who take a year out from their studies will be able to return to the same financial arrangements as before their year out. |
| (22405) | |
| 401 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many secure cycling spaces there are in her Department. |
| (22680) | |
| 402 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park and Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, for each local authority in England how many households are in receipt of housing benefit for (a) local authority homes, (b) private rented homes and (c) housing association homes; and what was the average weekly payment in each category. |
| (22485) | |
| 403 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what funds are available under the Government's welfare to work programme for the establishment and maintenance of after school clubs for under eights. |
| (22592) | |
| 404 | Dan Norris (Wansdyke): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what representations she has received on protection for asbestos-related disease sufferers, aside from mesothelioma victims, in relation to the provisions of the Social Security Bill in respect of the backdating of claims to one month. |
| (22691) | |
| 405 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is her policy concerning the role of investment income in the calculation of council tax benefit; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22467) | |
| 406 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she will make a statement regarding her policy on benefits for single parents in work on low wages. |
| (22466) | |
| 407 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when she expects the appeal to be heard in relation to the motability claim, of J. C. Markinson, at his home, because of his inability to gain access to the Appeals Tribunal building in Torbay. |
| (22526) | |
| 408 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the average (a) rent of tenants and (b) mortgage interest for homebuyers in respect of lone parents in the New Deal pilot areas. |
| (22530) | |
| 409 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what proportion of lone parents on income support are (a) tenants, (b) owner occupiers with mortgages, (c) owner occupiers who own outright and (d) non-householders; and what is their (i) mean and (ii) median gross weekly housing costs. |
| (22531) | |
| 410 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many secure cycling spaces there are in her Department. |
| (22675) | |
| 411 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the United Kingdom representatives on the informal group on guidelines for the management of plutonium proposed that details of plutonium isotopic quality be included in section 9 on nuclear material accountancy and control in the report on the guidelines recently placed in the Library. |
| (22285) | |
| 412 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 2nd December, Official Report, columns 163-4, if she will list (a) the United Kingdom participants in the informal group on the management of civil plutonium, and their qualifications for participation and (b) the number and dates of meetings of the informal group; when the Government received a copy of the new guidelines to which reference is made; and when she intends to publish the details of the new national strategy for nuclear power and the nuclear fuel cycle. |
| (22298) | |
| 413 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 10th December, Official Report, column 548, if she will list the international experts consulted since 1988 in the review of measures to protect against terrorist activity directed at nuclear materials in transit; and if she will list the research her Department has evaluated on this subject. |
| (22300) | |
| 414 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 9th December, Official Report, column 528, if she will set out the material balance areas and particular safeguard provisions covering MOX nuclear fuel which are covered by the Euratom safeguards. |
| (22346) | |
| 415 | Mr Alan Clark (Kensington and Chelsea): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what action the Government intends to take on the EU Directive, Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions; and what amendments it proposes in respect of its provisions on the patentability of the human body. |
| (22728) | |
| 416 N | Mr Terry Davis (Birmingham, Hodge Hill): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many export licences to Turkey were (a) granted and (b) refused between 1st May and 30th November stating in each case the military or police list number of the equipment concerned. |
| (22214) | |
| 417 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what discussions (a) she and (b) the European Commission has had with the (i) Japanese, (ii) US and (iii) Russian authorities on the scope for cooperation in planning future satellite navigation systems. |
| (22242) | |
| 418 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement on the role she envisages for UK industry in investigating the future of satellite navigation within Europe. |
| (22241) | |
| 419 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she will publish the table of Government departments' payment performance. |
| (22243) | |
| 420 N | Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what assessment she has made of the conduct of the pre-signatory environmental review of Multilateral Agreement on Investment in terms of transparency and range of investment and subject matter. |
| (22205) | |
| 421 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what work is being carried out by her Department to support the negotiations to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. |
| (22511) | |
| 422 N | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many mink skins have been (a) imported to and (b) exported from the United Kingdom in each of the last 10 years. |
| (22523) | |
| 423 | Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent East): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what work her Department is currently carrying out to support and implement arms control treaties in the fields of (a) chemical weapons and (b) nuclear weapons; and if she will make a statement. |
| (22510) | |
| 424 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many (a) former mineworkers and (b) mineworkers' widows are in receipt of concessionary fuel (i) in the United Kingdom and (ii) the North East region. |
| (22630) | |
| 425 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many (a) former mineworkers and (b) mineworkers' widows are in receipt of cash-in-lieu of fuel payments in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) the North East region. |
| (22634) | |
| 426 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement regarding the right of employees to a contract of employment. |
| (22465) | |
| 427 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 19th December, Official Report, column 343, if she will provide a breakdown of the £90,000 travel budget. |
| (22638) | |
| 428 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if her flat in Admiralty buildings is classified as secure accommodation for a Minister. |
| (22644) | |
| 429 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she plans to complete her discussion on the co-ordination of inward investment bids. |
| (22650) | |
| 430 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what changes (a) are planned and (b) have been made with respect to the free coal scheme for miners' families. |
| (22656) | |
| 431 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer to the honourable Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central of 23rd June, Official Report, column 296, on Dixons plc and to the honourable Member for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale of 8th December, Official Report, column 462, on Guinness plc, what factors underlay her decision to give reasons for her action in the case of the individuals referred to in her Department's report on Guinness plc. |
| (22664) | |
| 432 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 22nd December, if she will provide a breakdown of the sum spent on the President's apartment. |
| (22653) | |
| 433 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if her apartment in Admiralty buildings is a taxable benefit. |
| (22645) | |
| 434 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what action her Department is taking to ensure accounts for the New Statesman and Society are filed. |
| (22344) | |
| 435 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the Government will amend the Scotland Bill to clarify the powers of the (a) Secretary of State for Scotland, (b) the first Minister of the Scottish Executive and (c) the DTI concerning inward investment. |
| (22651) | |
| 436 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, in what circumstances her Department prosecutes directors of companies in respect of a failure to file accounts on time if the director for the trading period concerned has resigned. |
| (22347) | |
| 437 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what is the floor area of the President's apartment in the Admiralty. |
| (22647) | |
| 438 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will list the hourly pay rates of the cleaners employed at Admiralty House. |
| (22652) | |
| 439 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many people were invited on each occasion when she has used her apartment for official business. |
| (22648) | |
| 440 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, in what circumstances her Department grants an extension for the filing of accounts; and what actions her Department takes to ensure that accounts are filed on time. |
| (22348) | |
| 441 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, for what reasons a washing machine and hoover were provided at her Admiralty apartment. |
| (22649) | |
| 442 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many representations received by Her Majesty's Government regarding the proposed port development by P&O at Vadhavan in Dahanu Taluka, India have been (a) in favour of and (b) against the project. |
| (22457) | |
| 443 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has received from P&O regarding their proposed port development at Vadhavan in Dahanu Taluka, India. |
| (22458) | |
| 444 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has received from the people of Dahanu Taluka regarding the proposed port development by P&O at Vadhavan in Dahanu Taluka, India; and if they were in favour of the proposed port development. |
| (22459) | |
| 445 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what action she has taken in response to representations she has received regarding the proposed port development by P&O at Vadhavan in Dahanu Taluka, India. |
| (22456) | |
| 446 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations the Government has made to (a) P&O and (b) the Indian Government regarding the proposed port development by P&O at Vadhavan in Dahanu Taluka, India. |
| (22455) | |
| 447 | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will list the (a) date of appointment, (b) terms of reference and (c) membership of the focus groups established by her Department to discuss genetic engineering. |
| (22603) | |
| 448 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what action she will take during the British presidency of the European Union in respect of the White Paper on Renewable Energy. |
| (22287) | |
| 449 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what was the outcome of the meeting with European Union energy ministers on 8th December about the European Union White Paper on Renewable Energy. |
| (22288) | |
| 450 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she will announce the outcome of her review of Renewable Energy. |
| (22290) | |
| 451 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many secure cycling spaces there are in his Department. |
| (22682) | |
| 452 | Mr Martin Caton (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what was the percentage of total revenue spending dedicated to schools in each of the local education authorities in Wales during the current financial year. |
| (22602) | |
| 453 | Mr Martin Caton (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what was the change in the number of teaching posts in each of the local education authorities in Wales in the current financial year. |
| (22600) | |
| 454 | Mr Martin Caton (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what changes in pupil numbers have been recorded in each of the local education authorities in Wales over the past three years. |
| (22601) | |
| 455 N | Mr Cynog Dafis (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what were the research assessment exercise ratings for each of the individual research groups included in the University of Aberystwyth Institute of Earth Studies RAE submission. |
| (22212) | |
| 456 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what factors led to the delay in payment of premiums by his Department to farmers; and what measures he proposes to ensure that similar delays do not occur. |
| (22462) | |
| 457 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the age profile of NHS chiropody patients for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1995-96 and (c) 1994-95 in Wales. |
| (22543) | |
| 458 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what was the budget for each trust in Wales for NHS chiropody and podiatry services in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1996-97, (c) 1995-96 and (d) 1994-95. |
| (22542) | |
| 459 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when pensioner households will receive the £20 fuel supplement; and if she will make a statement. |
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