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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 23 February 1998
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 23 February 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 23 February, of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order of Business. For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Tuesday 24 February, 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 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list for the last three years for each member state of the European Union the amount in ecu they have been entitled to claim as compensation for falling beef prices as a result of BSE; and how much is deducted from rebates that would otherwise have returned to that country. |
| (31220) | |
| 2 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies who tendered for them. |
| (30707) | |
| 3 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the average level of net income received per farm holding by (a) hill farmers, (b) dairy farmers and (c) cereal farmers at 1996 prices in each year since 1979. |
| (31086) | |
| 4 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the average level of subsidy per farm holding paid to (a) hill farmers, (b) dairy farmers and (c) cereal farmers at 1996 prices in each year since 1979. |
| (31087) | |
| 5 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30757) | |
| 6 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what estimate he has made of the tonnage of (a) cod, (b) plaice, (c) saithe and (d) whiting landed as black fish in the latest available year. |
| (31019) | |
| 7 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, for what reasons fishermen are required to land their catches at designated ports. |
| (31020) | |
| 8 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the distinction between the principle and the application of relative stability as stated in the EC 1991 Report to the Council and to the European Parliament SEC(91) 2288 final. |
| (31018) | |
| 9 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the means of funding of the Food Standards Agency. |
| (31277) | |
| 10 N | Mr Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, for what reason Environmental Agency flood defence work to sea defences at Shoreham and Lancing has been discontinued; and when the programme will be resumed. |
| (30688) | |
| 11 | Ms Sandra Osborne (Ayr): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the outcome of discussions with the fishing industry on arrangements to implement United Kingdom obligations under MAGP IV, with particular reference to the introduction of effort controls in the pelagic and beam trawl segments; and if he will make a statement. |
| (31038) | |
| 12 N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will publish the poultry-meat residue testing programmes of Thailand and Brazil together with the test results. |
| (30943) | |
| 13 N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what volume of poultry-meat has been imported from (a) Thailand and (b) Brazil, in each of the last three years. |
| (30942) | |
| 14 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31183) | |
| 15 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31298) | |
| 16 | Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how he intends to implement his policy of moving agriculture payments from direct commodity support to environmentally linked payments; and to what timetable. |
| (30838) | |
| 17 | Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will assess the factors underlying the lack of correlation between retail prices and ex-farm prices of agricultural products over the last year. |
| (30836) | |
| 18 | Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he proposes to take to ensure that farm produce is labelled by country of origin. |
| (30837) | |
| 19 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if the application for national seed listings submitted to his Department by Plant Genetic Systems, for genetically engineered varieties of oilseed rape, known as Socrates and Archimides (PHY31 and PHY35), has been stopped. |
| (31088) | |
| 20 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 12th February, Official Report, column 373, concerning charges for veterinary inspections and controls, if he will make it his policy to collect the information necessary to allow comparisons of charges across the member states of the European Union. |
| (30944) | |
| 21 N | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 17th February, Official Report, column 608, concerning IACS forms, if he will establish systems to (a) monitor the effectiveness of the use of IACS and similar forms and to (b) improve the accuracy of information supplied on the forms and the efficiency of its processing. |
| (30684) | |
| 22 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Attorney General, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31182) | |
| 23 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask Mr Attorney General, what advice he has issued to the Government on the legality of an attack by the United Kingdom on Iraq under existing United Nations resolutions. |
| (31228) | |
| 24 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, as representing the Church Commissioners, if he will list the properties and land owned by the Commissioners which they have identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30328) | |
| 25 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30317) | |
| 26 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30711) | |
| 27 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30751) | |
| 28 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what is his Department's responsibility for approving the introduction of the National Lottery instant game, TV Dreams. |
| (31196) | |
| 29 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what statutory basis he has set aside the proportion of money payable to good causes from the National Lottery since 14th October 1997 for the New Opportunities Fund. |
| (31207) | |
| 30 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31181) | |
| 31 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31297) | |
| 32 N | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to meet the Chair and Chief Executive of East Midlands Arts. |
| (30927) | |
| 33 N | Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his oral Answer of 16th February, Official Report, column 750, if he will make a statement on the means by which the National Lottery Bill [Lords] represents a statutory authority for the shadow accounts for the new opportunities fund. |
| (30856) | |
| 34 N | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the establishments which are being considered for the NATO European Regional Test Centre for small and medium calibre weapons. |
| (30822) | |
| 35 N | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what submissions have been sought from MoD departments on the re-provisioning of small and medium calibre work carried out at Pendine. |
| (30823) | |
| 36 N | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the DERA Land Ranges Rationalisation Study Stage 2 requested information from MoD departments about re-provisioning of work carried out at Pendine. |
| (30821) | |
| 37 N | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the DERA Land Ranges Rationalisation Study Stage 2 only requested information from MoD departments on re-provisioning of work carried out at Eskmeals and Shoeburyness. |
| (30820) | |
| 38 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential environmental consequences of an air strike on stockpiles held in Iraq of chemical and biological materials; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30607) | |
| 39 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the properties and land owned by his department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30318) | |
| 40 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what has been the total extra cost to public funds since 1st October 1997 of the preparations made to deal with the situation in Iraq. |
| (30606) | |
| 41 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30713) | |
| 42 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where his Department's stockpile of CR is held; and what is the estimated annual cost of storage. |
| (31270) | |
| 43 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department possesses (a) water cannons or (b) equipment designed to be adapted into water cannons. |
| (31267) | |
| 44 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what stockpile his Department holds of CR; and for what purpose the material is held. |
| (31274) | |
| 45 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the United Kingdom's obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention in his policy on the use of CR. |
| (31269) | |
| 46 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30760) | |
| 47 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 13th February, Official Report, column 428, if he (a) permits and (b) encourages the use of rifles as a means of vermin control in areas of his Department's estate which are being used for military training at that time; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30610) | |
| 48 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Storm Shadow stand off missile is expected to enter the RAF service; and what is the current estimated cost of the programme. |
| (30824) | |
| 49 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the location of the new NATO headquarters for GIBMED. |
| (30809) | |
| 50 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of the closure of NATO headquarters in Gibraltar on Gibraltar's (a) air space, (b) border controls and (c) territorial waters. |
| (30810) | |
| 51 | Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British soldiers have been injured or killed on active duty in each of the last five years and to date in the current year. |
| (30975) | |
| 52 N | Mr Richard Livsey (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what inquiry he is currently conducting into the circumstances surrounding the theft of explosives from Dering Lines, Brecon, Infantry Training Centre during 1997. |
| (30923) | |
| 53 N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects Second Division will have an expeditionary force capability. |
| (30509) | |
| 54 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31180) | |
| 55 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31293) | |
| 56 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if RAF Coltishall is planned to be an operational base for Jaguars beyond 2002. |
| (30934) | |
| 57 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are his plans for the future use of RAF Coltishall. |
| (30935) | |
| 58 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the costs of upgrading RAF Coltishall for Jaguar aircraft. |
| (30933) | |
| 59 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements have been made to inoculate British forces and medical auxiliaries currently dispatched to the Gulf against (a) anthrax, (b) botulism and (c) chemical weapon agents; what range of insecticides have been sent; and if serving personnel have been given an option not to receive inoculations. |
| (30830) | |
| 60 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30313) | |
| 61 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what actions are taken by the CCTA to ensure that computer systems introduced by Government departments and agencies meet requirements in terms of value for money and efficiency. |
| (31281) | |
| 62 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what procedures he has in place to ensure that difficulties with computer systems experienced by one Government department or agency are shared with other Government departments and agencies. |
| (31282) | |
| 63 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what was the number of staff employed by the CCTA for each of the last five years. |
| (31283) | |
| 64 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what is the current budget for the CCTA; and what was the budget for each of the last five years. |
| (31280) | |
| 65 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will make a statement on the Government's policy in respect of age discrimination in staff promotion; and what guidelines are issued by (a) his Department and (b) other departments. |
| (31106) | |
| 66 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will make a statement on the age of retirement in the Civil Service; and to what extent (a) policy and (b) the guidelines issued vary between departments. |
| (31107) | |
| 67 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31179) | |
| 68 N | Mr David Ruffley (Bury St. Edmunds): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if his Department has concluded the inquiry into the premature leaking of the contents of the White Paper on freedom of information. |
| (30789) | |
| 69 N | Mr David Ruffley (Bury St. Edmunds): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if his Department has identified the source of the premature leak of the contents of the White Paper on freedom of information. |
| (30788) | |
| 70 | Mr Gerry Steinberg (City of Durham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will extend the proposed registration of Freemasons into all areas of public life. |
| (31013) | |
| 71 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30321) | |
| 72 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30714) | |
| 73 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many people employed by (a) his Department, (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible, (c) schools, (d) colleges and (e) universities earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30745) | |
| 74 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate she has made of he effect of competitive tendering on the ability of a partnership under the welfare to work scheme to meet its contractual obligations. |
| (31205) | |
| 75 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what level of training will be undertaken by Employment Service staff to prepare them for their new duties under the New Deal. |
| (31204) | |
| 76 | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what are the averages of inspectors' ratings for all maintained primary schools with Year 6 pupils inspected by OFSTED in each school year from 1995 on the scale 1 to 7 in their Judgement Recording Forms of the standards of attainment of their Year 6 pupils in the year of inspection (i) English, (ii) maths and (iii) science at Key Stage 2 for each of the seven groups of school produced by ranking all such schools for each year by their same Year 6 pupils' average Key Stage 2 SAT test levels attained for each of these subjects in the same school year as that of inspection; and if he will divide that ranking into seven groups with equal numbers of schools, indicating for each group the number of schools, their simple average SAT test levels and the averages of inspectors' ratings rounded to three decimal places. |
| (31039) | |
| 77 | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many people entered courses of initial teacher training broken down by gender, for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the year 1996-97. |
| (30848) | |
| 78 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the principal expenditure items and the outturn expenditure for his Department and its predecessors on advertising and publicity in the year 1996-97. |
| (30847) | |
| 79 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many non-teaching staff were employed by local education authorities in 1997. |
| (30817) | |
| 80 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the names, current salaries and other emoluments of the (i) Chief Executive and (ii) Chairman of the (a) National Council for Vocational Qualifications, (b) National Council for Education Technology, (c) Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, (d) Education Assets Board, (e) School Curriculum and Assessment Authority, (f) Further Education Funding Council, (g) Higher Education Funding Council for England, (h) Funding Agency for Schools, (i) Teacher Training Agency and (j) Office for Standards in Education. |
| (30818) | |
| 81 | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the proportion of school places in each English county which his Department has identified as surplus in the year 1996-97 in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools and the proportion of surplus places in each county in the financial year 1996-97 in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools. |
| (30997) | |
| 82 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the total expenditure on the salaries and other emoluments of the chief executives and the chairmen of all non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department, for the financial year 1996-97. |
| (30819) | |
| 83 | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the (a) gender profile, (b) average length of service and (c) average age of the teaching profession. |
| (30828) | |
| 84 | Mr Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to encourage the creation of after school club places in premises other than schools, with particular reference to youth clubs and community centres; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30802) | |
| 85 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what responsibilities (a) Ofsted, (b) the Health and Safety Executive, (c) the local education authority and (d) the Secretary of State for Education have to ensure a safe environment for teachers and pupils in nursery schools. |
| (30814) | |
| 86 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the guidelines governing safety of children at nursery schools. |
| (30812) | |
| 87 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will review the penalties available to courts for breach of Health and Safety regulations in nursery schools. |
| (30815) | |
| 88 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to improve training in health and safety best practice for nursery teachers and administrators. |
| (30813) | |
| 89 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he expects to be able to announce a new system of support for students of the performing arts; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30801) | |
| 90 N | Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he has taken towards developing a national childcare strategy. |
| (29094) | |
| 91 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31178) | |
| 92 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31291) | |
| 93 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what the maximum age for entry to the New Deal will be. |
| (30998) | |
| 94 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what measures he is introducing to provide training for those over 55 years old. |
| (30999) | |
| 95 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to improve teacher training in physical education for primary schools. |
| (31003) | |
| 96 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to improve the quality of physical education in primary schools. |
| (31002) | |
| 97 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the effect on physical education teaching of his proposed changes to the National Curriculum. |
| (31004) | |
| 98 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimates he has made of the average number of hours per week spent on physical education in primary schools in (i) 1979-80, (ii) 1995-96 and (iii) 1996-97. |
| (31001) | |
| 99 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what criteria will determine how money is allocated to reduce class sizes; and what sums he will allocate for this purpose to Gloucestershire during (a) 1998-99 and (b) 1999-2000. |
| (30268) | |
| 100 N | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what guidance is available to members of the public seeking to claim compensation in respect of deafness they believe was caused by exposure to noise in the workplace; how many successful claimants there have been in the past 10 years; and what proportion of total claimants these constitute. |
| (30925) | |
| 101 N | Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 12th December, Official Report, column 728, on Gilberts Animal By-Products, if the Environment Agency has completed its investigations into waste disposal activities by the company. |
| (29587) | |
| 102 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what sum his Department has provided to help fund the Minerals '98 Conference; and on what basis this money was provided. |
| (30604) | |
| 103 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30323) | |
| 104 | Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many acres of land are covered by the Contaminated Land Register. |
| (30946) | |
| 105 | Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what percentage of new houses he estimates have been built on brown field land in each of the last five years. |
| (30974) | |
| 106 | Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the total amount spent on derelict land grant in the last five years. |
| (30947) | |
| 107 | Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the extent of public liability in the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. |
| (30937) | |
| 108 | Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the future of the Contaminated Land Register. |
| (30948) | |
| 109 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on what date the Standing Committee on the Code of Practice on Conservation, Access and Recreation last met; how many times it has met; and what reports it has made on the operation of the code. |
| (31005) | |
| 110 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to standardise the process of independent validation of conservation, access and recreation reports produced by the water industry. |
| (31006) | |
| 111 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to review the Code of Practice on Conservation, Access and Recreation to take account of the Environment Act 1995. |
| (31007) | |
| 112 | Mr Eric Clarke (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Government's response to the United Kingdom Round Table on Sustainable Development's Second Annual Report will be published. |
| (31036) | |
| 113 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30750) | |
| 114 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when (a) he and (b) his Ministers last met with representatives of the Association of Train Operating Companies; and what plans he has to alter the area of responsibility of ATOC with particular reference to co-ordination of ticketing arrangements. |
| (31211) | |
| 115 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he expects to publish the results of the strategic roads review. |
| (31210) | |
| 116 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the current deficit of the Air Transport Operators Licence Fund; and what proposals he has to reduce this amount. |
| (31190) | |
| 117 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the safety of aircraft operated by Olympic Airways; and if the CAA have implemented increased safety oversight checks in response to press reports in the Greek media. |
| (31206) | |
| 118 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the annual salary of each member of the Board of the National Air Traffic Services. |
| (31186) | |
| 119 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the annual salary paid to Derek McClaughlan for each of the last five years of his employment as Chief Executive of National Air Traffic Services. |
| (31185) | |
| 120 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the occasions that the CAA has been called on to use funds from the ATOL bonding scheme for each of the last five years, indicating the companies and amounts involved. |
| (31191) | |
| 121 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when an application was originally received by Air Operations of Europe or its subsidiaries to operate from the United Kingdom; and how many applications have been received over the last 12 months. |
| (31189) | |
| 122 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list those airlines which have been subject to ramp checks by the Civil Aviation Authority whilst at a United Kingdom airport during the last 12 months, indicating those irregularities found. |
| (31188) | |
| 123 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what proposals he has to extend the length of the franchises for the existing rail operators. |
| (31212) | |
| 124 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what progress he has made in his review of the problem of car clocking; and when he expects to bring forward legislation on this matter. |
| (31187) | |
| 125 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment the Civil Aviation Authority has made of the advantage of introducing child safety seats for children under two years of age travelling on aircraft. |
| (31209) | |
| 126 N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is his Department's policy on the use of canals and navigable rivers for the carrying of freight traffic; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30686) | |
| 127 N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what are the average (a) construction and (b) maintenance costs for a mile of (i) canal, (ii) road and (iii) railway. |
| (30691) | |
| 128 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the emission levels of cars manufactured in Japan to run on low sulphur fuels imported into the United Kingdom for sale as second-hand cars relative to cars manufactured in the EU; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30721) | |
| 129 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if the checks proposed under the new single vehicle approval system will ensure that all cars manufactured and used in Japan and subsequently imported into the United Kingdom as second-hand cars will meet EU type approved regulations; and if such cars comply with United Kingdom safety standards. |
| (30722) | |
| 130 | Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when Mornington Crescent London Underground station will be reopened. |
| (30953) | |
| 131 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to give additional powers to planning authorities to enable them to intervene in disputes between neighbours caused by (a) Leylandii trees and (b) other excessively high boundaries; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30800) | |
| 132 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list (a) the percentage of each local authority budget currently spent on care of the elderly services and (b) the amount per capita of the population aged over 65 years for each local authority area. |
| (31227) | |
| 133 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list (a) the number of urban trams and trolley bus systems built in the United Kingdom in the last 20 years, (b) the number of passengers carried by each tram/trolley bus system operating in the United Kingdom in 1997-98, (c) those tram/trolley bus systems currently under construction and (d) the bids submitted to the Government for future construction of tram/trolley bus systems. |
| (31213) | |
| 134 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many responses he has received on the review of the United Kingdom Eco-labelling Board; and how many were in favour and how many against a United Kingdom scheme. |
| (30978) | |
| 135 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement regarding the latest European Commission proposals to revise ecolabelling regulations. |
| (30787) | |
| 136 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will reduce the vehicle licence fee for diabetics by an appropriate amount in recognition of their being precluded by the second EC directive on vehicle licensing from driving certain classes of heavier vehicles. |
| (30849) | |
| 137 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to the Answer of 19th January, Official Report, column 425, on historic battlefields, what steps he is taking to protect the battlefield site at Tewkesbury from housing development. |
| (31074) | |
| 138 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31177) | |
| 139 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31290) | |
| 140 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he is taking to investigate the profits levels of train rolling stock leasing companies. |
| (31008) | |
| 141 | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he is taking to promote the re-introduction of passenger rail lines in semi-rural areas. |
| (31009) | |
| 142 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will appoint representatives of the Environment Agency to serve on regional development agencies; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30266) | |
| 143 | Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will place in the Library the development agreement signed between the Government and London and Continental Railways. |
| (31031) | |
| 144 N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the unpublished Department of Energy Report into the electrical fire on the Piper Alpha oil platform in 1984; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30532) | |
| 145 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps have been taken by his Department in conjunction with the trades unions and Employers' Federation to promote improved health and safety practice at work. |
| (30829) | |
| 146 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what reviews are being, or have recently been, conducted governing the adequacy of the safety arrangements for the import and export of dangerous and toxic substances (a) by air, (b) by ship and (c) via the Channel Tunnel. |
| (31023) | |
| 147 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the reduction of road freight transport from the North West and West Midlands Regions to mainland Europe that would be achieved by (a) the completion of the high speed rail link from the Channel Tunnel to central London, connecting to the West Coast main line and (b) a scheme between the Channel Tunnel and Ebbsfleet; and if he will make a statement. |
| (31192) | |
| 148 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received from Abbey National Plc on the subject of the current Energy Efficiency Bill. |
| (31010) | |
| 149 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what will be the (a) timetable and (b) scope of the national debate on the achievement of the Government's (i) legally binding target set at the Kyoto conference and (ii) own target for reductions in CO2 emissions by 2010; who will be consulted; and when and how the Government will report on it. |
| (31011) | |
| 150 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30315) | |
| 151 | Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the workings of the PFI rules in the case of London and Continental Railways and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; and what plans he has to review those rules. |
| (30938) | |
| 152 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of Article 26 of the Agreement Between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Gradual Abolition of Controls at the Common Frontiers [Dep 5505 (3s)] on the pace of harmonisation of VAT in the European Commission. |
| (31221) | |
| 153 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what allocations from the contingency reserve for 1998-99 to departments have been approved over the last two months and for what purpose; what is the current amount of the contingency reserve for 1998-99; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30507) | |
| 154 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, by what date he has instructed that the departmental comprehensive spending reviews will be made available to Her Majesty's Treasury; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30614) | |
| 155 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30710) | |
| 156 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the spending allocations of estimated windfall tax receipts in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99, (c) 1999-2000 and (d) 2000-01 in terms of (i) welfare to work programmes, (ii) other identified programmes and (iii) receipts not yet allocated. |
| (31264) | |
| 157 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is his estimate of windfall tax receipts in (a) 1997-98 and (b) in total. |
| (31263) | |
| 158 | Mr Alan Campbell (Tynemouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the inward investment projects located in intermediate status areas for which his Department has permitted the higher development area job subsidy limit to apply and the dates on which the permission was given. |
| (30977) | |
| 159 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30748) | |
| 160 N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's definition is of a universal benefit; and if that definition covers a benefit which is taxed or means-tested. |
| (30608) | |
| 161 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many children have died at nursery schools in the United Kingdom in each of the last five years; and if he will provide statistics for each region. |
| (30811) | |
| 162 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when and in what form, he will publish the report from the Taylor Task Force on Tax and Benefits. |
| (29473) | |
| 163 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a list of the written representations received by the Taylor Task Force on Tax and Benefits. |
| (29475) | |
| 164 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the special interest groups which submitted papers to the Taylor Task Force on Tax and Benefits. |
| (29469) | |
| 165 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the membership of the Taylor Task Force on Tax and Benefits; and on how many occasions each official member of the Task Force attended meetings of the Task Force. |
| (29470) | |
| 166 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list each meeting the Taylor Task Force on Tax and Benefits had with representatives of non-government organisations and companies. |
| (29471) | |
| 167 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list each paper commissioned by the Taylor Task Force on Tax and Benefits from (a) inside and (b) outside government; and if he will place copies of those papers in the Library. |
| (29472) | |
| 168 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effect on the incentive to work of receiving in-work benefits through the pay packet rather than by giro. |
| (29474) | |
| 169 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh and Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many children live in workless households headed by an adult who is (a) a lone parent, (b) in full-time education, (c) retired, (d) unemployed and (e) sick or disabled. |
| (29476) | |
| 170 N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement concerning Mr Alan Sugar's role in the Young Enterprise initiative. |
| (30508) | |
| 171 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the European Commission review of the scope of reduced VAT rates. |
| (30687) | |
| 172 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list occasions when he has raised the issue of a wider relief of VAT on energy saving materials with other member states of the EU. |
| (30689) | |
| 173 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review methods of controlling and managing credit by means other than interest rates. |
| (31030) | |
| 174 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31166) | |
| 175 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31294) | |
| 176 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the cost of the refurbishment of the wooden floor in the state room at Number 11 Downing Street. |
| (30970) | |
| 177 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions the Financial Secretary's office has had with the City of London Corporation since 1st January. |
| (30930) | |
| 178 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the increase in pension contributions British business will need to make to replace the extra tax levied on funds in the last Budget in a full year. |
| (30613) | |
| 179 N | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made towards cancelling the debt burden of Mozambique as part of Britain's contribution to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. |
| (30926) | |
| 180 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will introduce a VAT concession for renovations on houses similar to the VAT concession applied to the building of new houses; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30312) | |
| 181 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the proposals the Government is making on writing off Third World debt. |
| (30267) | |
| 182 | Mr Jonathan R. Shaw (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when barn conversions were first zero-rated for VAT. |
| (30973) | |
| 183 | Mr Jonathan R. Shaw (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the amount of revenue forgone by the Exchequer since barn conversions were zero-rated for VAT. |
| (30972) | |
| 184 | Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations Her Majesty's Government has made to the Iraqi Government concerning the abuse and torture of prisoners of war from Kuwait. |
| (30981) | |
| 185 | Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action Her Majesty's Government has taken to secure reparations from Iraq for Kuwait under United Nations Resolution 687. |
| (30979) | |
| 186 | Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps Her Majesty's Government has taken in the last year in pressing for Saddam Hussein to be indicted as a war criminal. |
| (30980) | |
| 187 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30319) | |
| 188 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the funding of the dining club Europe 2010 by the London office of the European Commission. |
| (31265) | |
| 189 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 18th June, Official Report, column 179, if he will list the Schengen documents he (a) has examined and (b) has requested to examine. |
| (31275) | |
| 190 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30716) | |
| 191 | Mr Martin Caton (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what factors underlay the policy of the United Kingdom Government to oppose the inclusion of the use of nuclear weapons as a war crime under the jurisdiction of the proposed International Criminal Court. |
| (31032) | |
| 192 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic effort his Department has undertaken to bring a halt to armed conflict in Sierra Leone; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30761) | |
| 193 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of (a) the volume of oil sold by Iraq since the introduction of UN sanctions, (b) the net price paid to Iraq and (c) the comparative free market price for oil. |
| (30762) | |
| 194 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30749) | |
| 195 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the work the Government has commissioned on opinion research or focus groups concerning people's views on Iraq; what were the terms of reference; to whom each contract was awarded; what was the cost of each contract; and if he will publish in full the transcripts and conclusions of each piece of research. |
| (30945) | |
| 196 | Mr Howard Flight (Arundel and South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will deposit in the Library a copy of the response by the United Kingdom representative to the letter of 16th July 1997 of the Dutch permanent representative in connection with the Schengen Agreement and the Amsterdam Treaty. |
| (31048) | |
| 197 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the withdrawal of NATO headquarters from Gibraltar. |
| (30808) | |
| 198 | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what has been the cost to the United Kingdom in terms of (a) manpower and (b) finance for each year of operation of the UN Special Commission on Iraq. |
| (30932) | |
| 199 | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his policy regarding (a) human rights and (b) the treatment of Roma people in those European countries likely to be in the next group to join the European Union. |
| (31073) | |
| 200 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31176) | |
| 201 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31289) | |
| 202 | Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the board of Premier Oil Ltd, in relation to their participation in the Burma-Thailand gas pipeline. |
| (31076) | |
| 203 | Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of Burma's GNP being spent on armaments and instruments of repression. |
| (31077) | |
| 204 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps Her Majesty's Government has taken, other than seeking intergovernmental assurances, to ensure that military equipment sold abroad by British companies is not used for (a) internal repression and (b) acts of extra-border military aggression. |
| (30831) | |
| 205 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reasons other members of the (a) United Nations Security Council and (b) European Union Council of Ministers, who oppose a military attack on Iraq, have given to Her Majesty's Government for their opposition to such action. |
| (30982) | |
| 206 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 16th February, Official Report, column 489, for what reasons it is not his policy to list the British manufacturers of equipment found by inspectors in Iraq. |
| (31273) | |
| 207 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to ensure Israel implements United Nations Security Council resolutions passed in respect of Israel and her neighbouring states. |
| (30832) | |
| 208 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he received during his recent visit to the Bahamas from his Bahamian counterpart on the risks of nuclear waste and materials shipments through the Caribbean. |
| (30835) | |
| 209 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the size of Israel's (a) nuclear and (b) chemical weapon arsenal. |
| (30833) | |
| 210 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to secure the release of Mordechai Vanunu. |
| (30834) | |
| 211 N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reason he did not discuss the ethical foreign policy objective of Her Majesty's Government with the President of the European Commission on the occasion of the latter's recent visit. |
| (30502) | |
| 212 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30324) | |
| 213 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd July, Official Report, column 229, when he expects to give a substantive reply to the honourable Member for Boston and Skegness relating to the EC Workshop on Sexuality. |
| (31232) | |
| 214 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park and Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase charges in the NHS; and if he will make a statement. |
| (31219) | |
| 215 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30712) | |
| 216 | Mr Robin Corbett (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about plans to run pilot healthcare schemes to assist people who are sick and disabled to go or return to work. |
| (31000) | |
| 217 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the National Health Service earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30746) | |
| 218 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the percentage of medicinal drugs which carry advice against driving after consumption. |
| (31028) | |
| 219 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on how many faulty hip replacements have been identified in the North West in each of the last 10 years. |
| (31029) | |
| 220 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is (a) the number of NHS hospital acute service beds in each health authority in England and (b) the number per head of population in each area arranging the health authorities in order of the number per head of population. |
| (30850) | |
| 221 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list expenditure on the care of the elderly per health authority and per capita over 65 years for each health authority. |
| (31208) | |
| 222 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the annual average cost for completed NHS consultant episodes since 1987-88 in real terms. |
| (31226) | |
| 223 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list by local authority the population over the age of 65 years in each London borough. |
| (31243) | |
| 224 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many occupational therapists are employed by (a) the NHS and (b) local authorities; how many he estimates are employed by the private sector; and how many trainee occupational therapists are currently undertaking training at colleges and universities. |
| (31225) | |
| 225 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list by local authority the number of home care staff employed by each London borough. |
| (31242) | |
| 226 | Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Stephen Daggett will be moved to a medium secure unit. |
| (31089) | |
| 227 | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list for each English health authority the real percentage increase in the authority's revenue budget (a) for 1997-98 over 1996-97 on an expected out turn basis and (b) for 1998-99 over 1997-98 on a forecast basis. |
| (30992) | |
| 228 | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) capital and (b) revenue costs of (i) keeping Bart's Hospital open, as proposed by the Turnberg Committee and (ii) concentrating all services on the Royal London site in a new hospital. |
| (30995) | |
| 229 | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the estimate made by the Royal Hospitals NHS Trust of the additional annual cost of keeping Bart's Hospital open as a cancer and cardiac centre compared to concentrating all services in a new hospital on the Royal London site; and if he will compensate the trust or health authority for those additional costs. |
| (30993) | |
| 230 | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Turnberg Committee submitted to him an analysis of the costs of (a) keeping Bart's Hospital open, as proposed by the committee and (b) concentrating all services on the Royal London site in a new hospital building. |
| (30996) | |
| 231 | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he consulted the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians on the clinical costs and benefits of concentrating all services on the Royal London site in a new hospital before making his decision to keep Bart's Hospital open as a cancer and cardiac centre. |
| (30994) | |
| 232 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) chairpersons and (b) other board members on (i) NHS trusts, (ii) Ambulance NHS trusts and (iii) health authorities previously served on a community health council in a volunteer capacity. |
| (31043) | |
| 233 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many chairpersons of (a) NHS trusts, (b) Ambulance NHS trusts and (c) health authorities were, prior to their appointment, chair of a community health council. |
| (31044) | |
| 234 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the World Health Organisation concerning their research into the effects of the long term use of cannabis. |
| (31042) | |
| 235 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31174) | |
| 236 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31288) | |
| 237 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what investigations he has made of the level of provision of dental care in each of the towns in the South Hams; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30793) | |
| 238 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of his decision not to abolish the death penalty for treason and piracy on the prospects of other countries being persuaded to sign the Strasbourg Declaration. |
| (30611) | |
| 239 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30316) | |
| 240 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the prevention of delinquency in Article 18 of the Agreement Between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Gradual Abolition of Controls at the Common Frontiers [Dep 5505 (3s)]; what complementary measures are understood in Article 17 concerning (a) security and (b) illegal immigration; and what manner of cooperation with Schengen countries his Department is preparing in these areas. |
| (31222) | |
| 241 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the United Kingdom's participation during its presidency in the Joint Supervisory Authority of Schengen. |
| (31223) | |
| 242 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on negotiations between Ireland and the United Kingdom on the Schengen Area. |
| (31285) | |
| 243 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in relation to his written Answer of 13th February, Official Report, column 402, on the Prison Service, what additional amount of money he has allocated to prisons expenditure in 1998-99; what amount of this is to be allocated from the contingency reserve; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30510) | |
| 244 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30717) | |
| 245 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will reduce the age range of the intake at Feltham Young Offender Unit. |
| (31262) | |
| 246 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect on 15 and 16 year old offenders of sharing a secure young offender unit with offenders in the age group 17 to 21 years. |
| (31279) | |
| 247 N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the paper of 17th December 1997 written by Professor Ian McLean of Oxford University on the effect of different proportional representation formulae on the allocation of seats to parties in the European elections with particular reference to his conclusions on the use of the d'Hondt and Ste-Lague divisions. |
| (30826) | |
| 248 N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seats were won by the Labour Party in (a) the Scotland region and (b) England and Wales in his Department's simulation of the 1994 European elections using the d'Hondt divisor and the Ste-Lague divisor. |
| (30825) | |
| 249 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department possesses (a) water cannons and (b) equipment designed to be adapted into water cannons. |
| (31266) | |
| 250 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research he has commissioned on the (a) benefits and (b) disadvantages of replacing CS spray with sprays based on CR. |
| (31268) | |
| 251 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed by (a) his Department, (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible and (c) the police earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30747) | |
| 252 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects reports to be made on the investigations into the conduct of the South East Regional Crime Squad. |
| (30449) | |
| 253 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the decision to release John Haase and Paul Bennett from jail; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30447) | |
| 254 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what protection has been provided from public funds to John Haase and Paul Bennett following their convictions for heroin smuggling and their release from jail. |
| (30451) | |
| 255 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what new proposals he has to discourage the employment of convicted criminals in the security industry. |
| (30450) | |
| 256 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrests and convictions resulted from information supplied to the Customs or police by John Haase and Paul Bennett after their convictions for heroin smuggling. |
| (30448) | |
| 257 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list treatment programmes for sex offenders funded by his Department; what assessment he has made of their effectiveness; what proportion of (a) convicted child sex abusers, (b) convicted rapists and (c) those convicted of other sexual abuses of adult women receive treatment; and what plans he has to extend the provision of sex offender treatment programmes. |
| (31085) | |
| 258 N | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will review the guidelines for courts dealing with child victims of crimes of sexual abuse; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30464) | |
| 259 N | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the sentencing guidelines are for juveniles convicted of sexual offences against children. |
| (30463) | |
| 260 N | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of sexual abuse of children by other juveniles, in the latest 10 year period available, (a) came to trial, (b) were sent to (i) a magistrates' court and (ii) a crown court, (c) involved more than one child victim giving evidence, (d) involved boy victims only, and how many of these were dealt with by magistrates' courts, (e) involved girl victims only, and how many of these were dealt with by magistrates' courts and (f) resulted in the successful conviction of a juvenile for the offence. |
| (30461) | |
| 261 N | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria determine whether a case of sex abuse of a child by another juvenile is heard in a magistrates' court or a crown court; and when these criteria last changed. |
| (30462) | |
| 262 N | Mr Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December, Official Report, column 176, on what date the notebook containing the manuscript In Excelsis by Lord Alfred Douglas was released to the Public Record Office at Kew. |
| (30785) | |
| 263 N | Mr Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons and on what authority the notebook containing the manuscript In Excelsis was released for public inspection before the expiration of the 100 year limit. |
| (30786) | |
| 264 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings (a) Home Office lawyers, (b) Home Office civil servants and (c) Home Office Ministers, have had with the honourable Member for Worcester to discuss the Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill. |
| (30505) | |
| 265 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he intends to put forward new clauses to replace the defective clauses of the Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill before the bill leaves Standing Committee. |
| (30503) | |
| 266 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the last occasion on which his Department redrafted a Private Member Bill, which was not government-drafted, before the bill left committee. |
| (30506) | |
| 267 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government decided that there were defective clauses in the Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill which needed redrafting. |
| (30504) | |
| 268 | Mr Patrick Nicholls (Teignbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is his latest estimate of the eventual amount of compensation on Options A, B and C of the Firearms Compensation Scheme; and when he expects to be able to finalise payment, under each category. |
| (30799) | |
| 269 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31173) | |
| 270 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the estimated cost to date of the police investigation into the alleged perjury of Mr Jonathan Aitken. |
| (31081) | |
| 271 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contracts and with what value the Government has placed with the laboratory of the Government chemist in each year since 1992. |
| (31047) | |
| 272 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31287) | |
| 273 | Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on progress with his Department's review of the practice of circulating around prisons prisoners' sexual histories, witness statements and other sexually explicit material. |
| (30984) | |
| 274 | Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what initiatives have been taken by the police during the last year in respect of training relating to domestic violence. |
| (30983) | |
| 275 | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he plans to ensure that known football hooligans are prevented from travelling to France during the World Cup. |
| (31090) | |
| 276 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Totnes dated 31st December 1997 concerning Tom Neil, a school teacher at Rudolf Steiner School, Totnes, relating to his visa extension. |
| (30792) | |
| 277 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the anticipated average time for payment of compensation between the submission of a claim and its authorisation in respect of the handing in of .22 target pistols; and what has been the average time achieved to date for the payment of compensation. |
| (31084) | |
| 278 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the total amount (a) claimed and (b) paid out to date under the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997; and what is the anticipated cost of administering the scheme in the first 12 months of operation. |
| (31079) | |
| 279 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the properties and land owned by her Department which she has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30327) | |
| 280 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the advertising contracts her Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30720) | |
| 281 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action she has taken to assist refugees fleeing from conflict in Sierra Leone; and if she will make a statement. |
| (30763) | |
| 282 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people employed by (a) her Department and (b) the agencies for which her Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30753) | |
| 283 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many of her officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31175) | |
| 284 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many meetings have been requested with her Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31299) | |
| 285 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30325) | |
| 286 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30718) | |
| 287 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30752) | |
| 288 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how much expenditure the Government proposes for the proposed community legal service over the next three years, in addition to existing funding for law and advice centres. |
| (31244) | |
| 289 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what are the Legal Aid Board's forecasts for net Legal Aid Fund expenditure over the next three years. |
| (31276) | |
| 290 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his Answer of 10th February, Official Report, column 139, concerning changes in court rules and procedures consequent to the draft European convention concerning harmonisation of court proceedings and documentation, when he expects to finalise his plans for implementation; by what means he plans to publish them; and to whom he plans to circulate them. |
| (31054) | |
| 291 | Kali Mountford (Colne Valley): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what proportion of claims awarded by small claims courts were successfully collected in each of the last three years. |
| (31041) | |
| 292 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his Answer of 13th February, Official Report, column 400, how many High Court judges had their applications for silk rejected at their (a) fourth and (b) more than fourth attempts. |
| (31215) | |
| 293 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his Answer of 12th February, Official Report, column 300, regarding consultations on the suitability of applicants for silk, if he will list those consultees who are not members of the judiciary. |
| (31184) | |
| 294 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his Answer of 13th February, Official Report, column 400, concerning the number of unsuccessful applications for silk made by an individual before taking silk; what assessment he has made of the (a) advantages and (b) disadvantages of placing a limit on the number of applications which can be made. |
| (31082) | |
| 295 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31172) | |
| 296 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what is the average number of applications for silk before an appointment is made. |
| (31092) | |
| 297 N | Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what volume of work was undertaken in Loughborough County Court in each year since 1980; and what was the national average for county courts with a similar catchment area in each year. |
| (30928) | |
| 298 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, if he will list the occasions since 1st May 1997 when he has met (a) Mr John Birt and (b) Ms Elisabeth Murdoch; and what was the (i) purpose and (ii) outcome of each meeting. |
| (30609) | |
| 299 | Yvette Cooper (Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, what level of sponsorship has to date been achieved in respect of the Millennium Experience at Greenwich. |
| (31195) | |
| 300 | Yvette Cooper (Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, when he will announce further details of the contents of the Millennium Dome. |
| (31203) | |
| 301 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, how many firms have pledged to provide sponsorship for the Millennium Exhibition. |
| (31197) | |
| 302 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, when he plans to provide the full details of the contents of the Millennium Experience. |
| (31202) | |
| 303 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, what areas of the design of the large scale figure for the Millennium Experience have been finalised with particular reference to (a) its load bearing qualities, (b) emergency exits, (c) point of entry and (d) the provision of lavatory facilities. |
| (31194) | |
| 304 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, how the temperature of the Millennium Dome will be controlled. |
| (31193) | |
| 305 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people employed by (a) her Department and (b) the agencies for which her Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30755) | |
| 306 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when and who signed the contract on behalf of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland for the purchase of land at Antrim Road, Belfast, where RUC Antrim Road now stands; if the Common Seal was applied; and if the transaction was numbered and recorded in the book provided. |
| (29220) | |
| 307 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will place in the Library copies of the (a) correspondence, (b) surveys, (c) contracts, (d) minutes of the Police Authority and (e) other relevant material concerning the purchase of land at Antrim Road, Belfast, for the building of a police station. |
| (29221) | |
| 308 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which members of the Police Authority declared a pecuniary or other interest in the purchase of land at Antrim Road, Belfast, for the building of a police station. |
| (29222) | |
| 309 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who were the vendors of land at Antrim Road, Belfast, purchased for the building of RUC Antrim Road, Belfast; and what was the purchase price paid by the Police Authority. |
| (29223) | |
| 310 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list by item and amount the personal fitness equipment purchased since June 1989 by (a) the Police Authority and (b) the RUC from public funds for the use of chief officers at RUC Headquarters Brooklyn; and what is the present location and value of the equipment. |
| (29224) | |
| 311 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who signed the contract on 4th March 1988 on behalf of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland for the purchase of the Seapark Complex, Carrickfergus; if the Common Seal was applied; and if the transaction was numbered and recorded in the book provided. |
| (29215) | |
| 312 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will place in the Library copies of the (a) correspondence, (b) surveys, (c) contracts, (d) minutes of the Police Authority and (e) other relevant material concerning the purchase, development and subsequent asbestos problems at the Seapark Complex. |
| (29216) | |
| 313 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which members of the Police Authority declared a pecuniary or other interest in the purchase of the Seapark Complex between 1986 and 1989. |
| (29217) | |
| 314 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for what reasons professional surveys carried out at the Seapark Complex before purchase by the Police Authority failed to reveal the presence of an asbestos problem. |
| (29218) | |
| 315 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the cost and remit of each of the professional, architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical surveys carried out before the purchase of the Seapark Complex; and what steps are being taken to establish the reasons for the failure to identify the subsequent problems with asbestos material. |
| (29219) | |
| 316 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by whom candidates for silk are interviewed. |
| (31045) | |
| 317 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many of her officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31171) | |
| 318 | Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what are the subjects of the health and food safety research projects in which the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are co-operating. |
| (30807) | |
| 319 | Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is the current status of the all-Ireland Institute of Public Health, agreed to in December 1995 by the then Minister for Health in Northern Ireland and the Government of the Irish Republic. |
| (30806) | |
| 320 | Mr Ian Bruce (South Dorset): To ask the Prime Minister, what official appointments have been given to the trustees of the blind trust set up to finance his office when Leader of the Opposition. |
| (31091) | |
| 321 | Mr Ian Bruce (South Dorset): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the names of people who have been given official appointments and also donated towards the blind trust set up to finance his office when Leader of the Opposition; and if he will make a statement on the mechanism whereby he is notified of such matters. |
| (31093) | |
| 322 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 16th February, Official Report, column 473, what was the nature of the seminar attended by Mr Gavyn Davies in Washington; who were the United States participants; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30765) | |
| 323 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list his (a) paid and (b) unpaid economic advisers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30764) | |
| 324 | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the oral Answer of the Secretary of State for Defence of 17th Febraury, Official Report, column 987, what discussions he has had with the US authorities about the implications of their research at (a) Fort Detrich Maryland biological warhead facilities and (b) elsewhere into the likely effects of a near-miss of missiles or bombs on (i) anthrax and (ii) other chemical and biological warhead facilities. |
| (31012) | |
| 325 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Prime Minister, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31170) | |
| 326 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions his Office has had with the City of London Corporation since 1st January. |
| (30929) | |
| 327 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30326) | |
| 328 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30715) | |
| 329 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30759) | |
| 330 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what financial guarantees have been extended to the construction companies and their subcontractors in association with the Hyundai project in Dunfermline. |
| (30685) | |
| 331 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the total public monies expended in the Dunfermline area in association with the Hyundai project, separately identifying the costs of the provision of utility infrastructure for the development area and the reconfiguration of the M90 interchange at Halbeath. |
| (30690) | |
| 332 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will take steps to protect employment levels amongst the construction companies and their subcontractors during the suspension of work at the Hyundai project in Dunfermline. |
| (30766) | |
| 333 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is the estimated total cost of acquiring the Holyrood site for the Scottish Parliament. |
| (30854) | |
| 334 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when (a) he and (b) his officials first became aware of the asbestos contamination on the Holyrood site. |
| (30851) | |
| 335 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what share of the cost of clearing the Holyrood site is to be borne by the purchaser and what share will be met from public funds, with respect to (i) known asbestos hazard and (ii) unforeseen asbestos hazard. |
| (30853) | |
| 336 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what was the estimated cost of clearing the Holyrood site (a) at the time the contract for purchasing the site was agreed and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available. |
| (30852) | |
| 337 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is the latest estimated total cost of establishing the Scottish Parliament, separately identifying provision for temporary accommodation for the Parliament pending completion of the Holyrood Parliament building. |
| (30855) | |
| 338 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31169) | |
| 339 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, by whom candidates for silk are interviewed. |
| (31046) | |
| 340 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31296) | |
| 341 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions, or correspondence, he has had with Aberdeenshire and Moray Councils with regard to the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm; and what views the councils expressed to him. |
| (31235) | |
| 342 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what provisions have been made by Highlands and Islands Enterprise for expenditure that may be incurred under Clause 10(d) of the S.50 agreement relating to the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm. |
| (31231) | |
| 343 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will increase his Department's contribution to the Cairngorm funicular following agreement of the level of the Objective 1 grant. |
| (31240) | |
| 344 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when the baseline survey on areas likely to be affected by the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm began; and if he will request Scottish Natural Heritage and the Highland Council to publish their results and engage in public consultation prior to its approval. |
| (31230) | |
| 345 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what advice the Cairngorms Partnership Board gave him with regard to their consideration of the planning application for the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm. |
| (31236) | |
| 346 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has held with the European Commission with regard to the proposed expenditure of structural funds on the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm. |
| (31239) | |
| 347 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the areas protected by the S.50 agreement relating to the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm. |
| (31241) | |
| 348 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what projects will receive a reduction in support as a result of proposed HIE expenditure on the proposed funicular railway. |
| (31238) | |
| 349 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will ask Highlands and Islands Enterprise to publish the option appraisal regarding the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm referred to by the Scottish Office Minister of State in his recent letter to Aberdeenshire Council. |
| (31229) | |
| 350 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings (a) he and (b) his officials have had with officials of the European Commission to discuss (i) the boundaries of the SPA/SAC on Cairngorm and (ii) the proposed funicular railway on Cairngorm. |
| (31237) | |
| 351 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will request (a) Highland Council and (b) Scottish Natural Heritage to publish the proposed monitoring scheme for the funicular railway on Cairngorm and to consult the public and interested parties prior to its approval. |
| (31245) | |
| 352 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he consulted the Chairman of the Cairngorms Partnership on the proposed Cairngorm funicular; and what advice he was given. |
| (31214) | |
| 353 N | Rachel Squire (Dunfermline West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is the estimated overall cost of closing Lynebank Hospital and transferring all patients to other sites; and what are the costs in respect of transferring (a) the elderly, (b) those with learning disabilities and (c) those with forensic and or dual diagnosis. |
| (29151) | |
| 354 N | Rachel Squire (Dunfermline West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the cost of maintaining long-stay hospital facilities at Lynebank for 40 elderly patients and 40 patients with forensic and dual diagnosis for severe learning and physical disabilities. |
| (29152) | |
| 355 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she will list the properties and land owned by her Department which she has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30322) | |
| 356 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many applications were made under the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 in each year since 1993; and of these applications, how many were successful and which vaccines were involved. |
| (30805) | |
| 357 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what provisions the Government intends to make to provide compensation to those who have suffered severe brain damage as a result of vaccination administered on behalf of the Department of Health. |
| (30827) | |
| 358 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she will list the advertising contracts her Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30719) | |
| 359 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is her Department's latest estimate of the total cost of the welfare to work scheme in 1997-98 and each of the next three financial years calculated (a) gross and (b) net of reduced social security spending, and increased tax and national insurance receipts. |
| (31278) | |
| 360 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans she has to cap the amount of benefit money the State can recover from absent parents. |
| (30921) | |
| 361 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what consultations she is planning as part of her review of the Child Support Act; when she expects the review to be completed; and if she will publish the evidence submitted to the review. |
| (30985) | |
| 362 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans she has to seek to amend the Child Support Acts in order to protect voluntary agreements between separated parents. |
| (30920) | |
| 363 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans she has to allow the disabled to continue to receive benefits when at work, while paying an increased level of tax. |
| (30922) | |
| 364 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people employed by (a) her Department and (b) the agencies for which her Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30756) | |
| 365 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many social security tribunal hearings were lodged in each of the 12 months preceding and succeeding October 1996 (a) in Birmingham, (b) in the West Midlands Region and (c) nationally for each benefit; and what was the percentage of cases heard orally. |
| (31271) | |
| 366 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans the Government has to ensure that people appealing against decisions to reduce or withdraw benefit entitlement have access to free advice and representation at independent tribunal hearings. |
| (31083) | |
| 367 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people have been subject to the all work test (a) in Birmingham, (b) in the West Midlands and (c) nationally; what percentage failed the test; how many of those failing the test appealed; how many of the appeals were oral hearings; and what was the success rate for (i) hearings held orally and (ii) other appeals. |
| (31272) | |
| 368 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many of her officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31168) | |
| 369 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many meetings have been requested with her Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31300) | |
| 370 N | Mr David Ruffley (Bury St. Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the maximum value of a loan available under the Social Fund for the purchase of (a) kitchen units, (b) carpets, (c) curtains, (d) a bed and (e) a dining table. |
| (30790) | |
| 371 | Mr Jonathan R. Shaw (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many Social Fund loan awards were (a) partially and (b) wholly changed to community care grants as a result of first-tier reviews each year since 1993-94. |
| (30971) | |
| 372 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many payments have been made to applicants following assessment by the Vaccine Damage Payments Unit since its inception, by type of vaccine. |
| (30939) | |
| 373 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what was the outcome of the review of the decision to withdrew disability living allowance from Mrs C. J. Archer of Queen's Road. Brixham, Devon. |
| (30791) | |
| 374 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what would be the effect in (a) gross pensions expenditure, (b) income-related benefits expenditure and (c) income tax revenues, of relaxing contribution rules so that all adults over state pension age were to be immediately entitled to a full basic state pension in their own right. |
| (31033) | |
| 375 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what would be the effect in each of the next 10 years on (a) gross pensions expenditure, (b) income-related benefits expenditure and (c) income tax revenues, of crediting to all adults below state pension age a full year of national insurance contributions every year from 1998-99 onwards, regardless of the amount of national insurance contributions actually paid. |
| (31034) | |
| 376 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what sum her Department has provided to help fund the Minerals '98 Conference; and on what basis this money was provided. |
| (30605) | |
| 377 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will list the properties and land owned by her Department which she has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30314) | |
| 378 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what is her Department's policy on the adoption of a multiannual action plan on promoting safe use of the Internet as set out in COM (97) 582. |
| (31284) | |
| 379 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will list the advertising contracts her Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies which tendered for them. |
| (30709) | |
| 380 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what plans she has to exclude the sick, the incapable and those on Fuel Direct from the proposed levy on electricity users for the extension of the Prepayment Meter Scheme. |
| (30924) | |
| 381 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many people employed by (a) her Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30758) | |
| 382 N | Mr Bruce George (Walsall South): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will list the export licences granted to Iraq by Britain since 2nd August 1990, separately identifying those for the export of growth medium broken down by (i) size and (ii) value of shipment and by stated end use; what are the current rules controlling the export of growth medium to Iraq; and what changes have been made to them since 2nd August 1990. |
| (30919) | |
| 383 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what assessment she has made of the impact of the importation of second-hand cars manufactured and used in Japan on the United Kingdom manufacturing and retail motor industry; and if she will make a statement. |
| (30723) | |
| 384 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many second-hand cars, manufactured and used in Japan, were imported into the United Kingdom in 1997; and what is her estimate of the number in 1998. |
| (30724) | |
| 385 | Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what estimates she has made of the value of contracts secured by British industry in Kuwait since the ending of the Gulf War. |
| (30816) | |
| 386 N | Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she expects to end the moratorium on gas-fired power-stations. |
| (30941) | |
| 387 N | Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has received regarding the moratorium on gas-fired power-stations. |
| (30940) | |
| 388 N | Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she expects to conclude her review of energy policy. |
| (30976) | |
| 389 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will list those of her Department's inspectors' reports which (a) are complete but will not be published and (b) are finalised and are being considered for publication, together with the total cost and fees paid to each of the inspectors in respect of each report. |
| (31056) | |
| 390 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will provide for a duty of care incumbent on auditors by audit regulations. |
| (31199) | |
| 391 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will list (a) the number of complaints per annum received by each of the bodies responsible for regulating insolvency practitioners, (b) the nature of the complaints, (c) the average and the longest time taken to investigate the complaints and (d) the nature of the outcomes in each of the last five years. |
| (31200) | |
| 392 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement on the application of the Government's proposed open government measures on the accountancy regulatory structures sponsored by her Department. |
| (31201) | |
| 393 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many (a) firms and (b) individuals are registered with each of the bodies responsible for authorising insolvency practitioners under the Insolvency Act 1986. |
| (31234) | |
| 394 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what proposals she has for regulatory reform following the publication of the Guinness plc 1985 report. |
| (31072) | |
| 395 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when her Department's report on audit failures at Wickes will be published. |
| (31198) | |
| 396 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what factors governed those interests represented on the sponsored Insolvency Working Party. |
| (31233) | |
| 397 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement on the auditors' duties in respect of reporting money laundering to the regulatory authorities. |
| (31055) | |
| 398 | Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she plans to consult with relevant non-government organisations in preparation for the Business Event she is hosting at the ASEM II meeting in April. |
| (31021) | |
| 399 | Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what account she will take of human rights issues during her preparation for the Business Event which she is hosting at the ASEM II meeting in April; and if she will make a statement. |
| (31022) | |
| 400 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she next meets the Regulator for the Electricity Industry if she will ask him to reply to the letters of 24th October 1997 and 1st December 1997 sent by the honourable Member for Normanton to his office. |
| (31037) | |
| 401 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many of her officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31167) | |
| 402 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many meetings have been requested with her Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31295) | |
| 403 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how much money has been committed by the ECGD since 1st May 1997 for (a) loan and (b) cover for deliveries of Hawk jets to Indonesia. |
| (30534) | |
| 404 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what measures she is proposing to help exporters and manufacturers in respect of the current sterling exchange rate. |
| (30612) | |
| 405 | Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has made in relation to participation by Premier Oil Ltd in the Burma-Thailand gas pipeline. |
| (31078) | |
| 406 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she expects to reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Walsall North of 13th January regarding Aspray Transport Ltd. |
| (30533) | |
| 407 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the properties and land owned by his Department which he has identified as surplus to requirements, giving in each case their estimated value. |
| (30320) | |
| 408 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the advertising contracts his Department has awarded since 1st May 1997, indicating the value of contracts and the number of companies who tendered for them. |
| (30708) | |
| 409 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people employed by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible earn (i) less than £3.20 per hour, (ii) between £3.20 and £3.60 per hour, (iii) between £3.60 and £4.00 per hour and (iv) between £4.00 and £4.62 per hour. |
| (30754) | |
| 410 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much funding St. David's and Glan Hafren secondary schools are receiving in the current year; and what these amounts are per pupil. |
| (30798) | |
| 411 | Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list those public bodies in Wales which currently operate a ban on British beef. |
| (30951) | |
| 412 | Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will estimate how much money was spent on health promotion in Wales in each of the last five years; and what is planned to be spent in the current year. |
| (30954) | |
| 413 | Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department and the Welsh Development Agency spent on (a) inward investment and (b) developing indigenous Welsh companies in 1997; and if he will make a statement. |
| (30950) | |
| 414 | Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people are currently estimated to be homeless in each unitary authority. |
| (30952) | |
| 415 | Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what regulations govern the raising of revenue by schools through the erection of bill boards on their premises. |
| (30949) | |
| 416 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if a committee established under sections 3, 4 (1)(a) and 17 of the NHS Trusts (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990 No. 2024) prior to the establishment of a remuneration committee has powers (a) to appoint a chief executive and (b) to agree the terms and conditions of employment of the chief executive. |
| (30931) | |
| 417 | Ms Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what plans he has to consult local authorities in Wales on the problems caused by the planting of hedges and trees around residential property. |
| (30936) | |
| 418 | Mr Richard Livsey (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he intends to make a decision regarding the creation of a new mental health unit at Branllys, Powys, through the Private Finance Initiative. |
| (31035) | |
| 419 | Mr Richard Livsey (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement regarding the future of the Mid-Wales Hospital, Talgarth, Powys, with particular reference to its planned date of closure in April 1999. |
| (31040) | |
| 420 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many of his officials attended conferences (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) overseas; and how many and what percentage made (i) oral and (ii) written contributions to the matters under discussion in the last 12 months for which figures are available. |
| (31165) | |
| 421 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many meetings have been requested with his Department's Ministers by (a) Labour and (b) Conservative honourable Members; and how many meetings have been granted in each category. |
| (31292) | |
| 422 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residential homes caring for the elderly there are in each London borough. |
| [Transferred] (31217) | |
| 423 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the Government has to introduce a unified inspectorate for residential and nursing homes. |
| [Transferred] (31216) | |
| 424 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many inspections of residential homes were undertaken per London borough in (a) 1994-95, (b) 1995-96, (c) 1996-97 and (d) 1997-98; and how many residential homes were visited in each borough. |
| [Transferred] (31218) | |
| 425 | Mr John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals the Government has for the inspection of residential and nursing homes for the elderly. |
| [Transferred] (31224) | |
| 426 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the amount of money derived from criminal activities laundered through (a) the UK and (b) the European Union in the last five years. |
| [Transferred] (31075) | |
| 427 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate the cost to local authorities of cleaning up areas which have been temporarily inhabited by travellers. |
| [Transferred] (31049) | |
| 428 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to make damage to sites by travelling people a criminal offence. |
| [Transferred] (31050) | |
| 429 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to introduce compensation for private landowners and local authorities who have had damage done to their property by travelling people. |
| [Transferred] (31051) | |
| 430 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the powers available to (a) local authorities and (b) private landowners to remove travellers from their land. |
| [Transferred] (31052) | |
| 431 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate the current number of travellers in the North West Region. |
| [Transferred] (31053) | |
| 432 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications of articles 29 to 42 of the Treaty on European Union; and what plans he has to publish information on their impact on police operations and on the judicial system in the United Kingdom. |
| [Transferred] (31080) | |
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