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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Tuesday 3 March 1998
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 3 March 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 Tuesday 3 March, of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order of Business. For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Wednesday 4 March, see Part 2 of this Paper. |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| 1 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32450) | |
| 2 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32484) | |
| 3 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list, for the Central Science Laboratory at (a) Sand Hutton, York and (b) Colney Lane, Norwich, the items of scientific and laboratory equipment, with their estimated current value, included in the National Asset Register. |
| (32117) | |
| 4 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the estimated current value of the Central Science Laboratory sites at (a) Sand Hutton, York and (b) Colney Lane, Norwich. |
| (32118) | |
| 5 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, for what reason he decided not to attend the Countryside March on 1st March. |
| (32806) | |
| 6 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will publish his list of official engagements for Saturday 28th February and Sunday 1st March. |
| (32807) | |
| 7 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, for what reason two Ministers will be attending the Countryside March on 1st March. |
| (32808) | |
| 8 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made on the safety of unpasteurised milk; what representations he has received from (i) individuals and (ii) organisations who believe it to be safe to drink; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32119) | |
| 9 N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many payments in excess of (a) £500,000 and (b) £1 million were made under the arable area payments scheme in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (32121) | |
| 10 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32480) | |
| 11 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32446) | |
| 12 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32460) | |
| 13 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32457) | |
| 14 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32443) | |
| 15 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32476) | |
| 16 N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons Group Captain Lagle's request for redress of grievance was rejected; and what factors underlay the length of time taken to reach this decision. |
| (32268) | |
| 17 N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment was made by his Department, when compiling the report on the pay of prisoners of war during World War II, of the true value to the individual prisoners of war of services supplied to them by the enemy during World War II. |
| (32267) | |
| 18 N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the Government has refused to allow ex-servicemen to have access to an independent assessor for their complaints. |
| (32269) | |
| 19 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the staff employed in his Department through Reynolds & Dean; and the total value of the contract with Reynolds & Dean. |
| (32347) | |
| 20 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Chinese nationals are currently working in (a) the MoD and (b) its agencies; and if he will list them and give details of the work which they are carrying out. |
| (32346) | |
| 21 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32456) | |
| 22 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32474) | |
| 23 N | Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what statistics he collates on the age profile of those employed in the Civil Service and Government agencies. |
| (32120) | |
| 24 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what plans he has to replace the Open Government Code of Practice with a more legally enforceable system. |
| (31712) | |
| 25 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will make it his policy to supply a detailed breakdown of all costs for each department for achieving millennium compliance. |
| (32361) | |
| 26 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what plans he has to inform the House about progress of government departments on millennium compliance. |
| (32360) | |
| 27 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when he last met (a) Treasury Ministers and (b) the Prime Minister to discuss the costs of millennium compliance across Government. |
| (32359) | |
| 28 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which departments have reported problems with obtaining responses from suppliers over remedying the millennium computer problem. |
| (32357) | |
| 29 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what estimate he has made of the numbers of departments that have begun code renovation work for millennium compliance. |
| (32358) | |
| 30 N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will list the (a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged by his Department to address millennium computer compliance problems, indicating the cost of such consultancies to his Department. |
| (32599) | |
| 31 N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many individuals working within his Department on millennium compliance have (a) given notice of their intention to leave and (b) left the Department in the last six months. |
| (32590) | |
| 32 N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when all testing on Year 2000 compliance will be completed within his Department. |
| (32602) | |
| 33 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32471) | |
| 34 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32453) | |
| 35 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32440) | |
| 36 N | Mr Stephen Dorrell (Charnwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many employers signed contractual agreements to provide places under the New Deal arrangements between 6th February and 17th February. |
| (31869) | |
| 37 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the costs of reducing class sizes for Key Stage 2 to a maximum of 30 (a) in total and (b) broken down into the costs of (i) additional teachers, (ii) teacher training and (iii) premises. |
| (32377) | |
| 38 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is his estimate of the cost in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000, (c) 2000-01 and (d) 2001-02 of ensuring that by 2002 no maintained school has to rely on outside toilet facilities. |
| (32315) | |
| 39 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to give financial support to parents in respect of the education of children aged under one year; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32316) | |
| 40 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the (a) total costs and (b) specific costs of (i) additional teachers, (ii) teacher training and (iii) premises arising from the extension of high quality early years education to three year olds; and what assumption of likely demand was used in his calculations. |
| (32492) | |
| 41 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many requests for work permits have been received in the past 12 months for foreign nationals to work on computer-related matters. |
| (32349) | |
| 42 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the government departments which have applied for work permits for foreign nationals to work on computer related matters since 1st May 1997. |
| (32350) | |
| 43 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the companies which have applied for work permits for foreign national IT staff in the last year. |
| (32351) | |
| 44 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many work permits have been issued to Indian nationals to work on computer related matters in the last 12 months. |
| (32348) | |
| 45 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many work permits have been issued to Chinese nationals to work on computer-related matters in the last 12 months. |
| (32343) | |
| 46 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will estimate the number of IT professionals from countries whose nationals require a work permit, who are currently working in the United Kingdom without a work permit. |
| (32344) | |
| 47 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what checks for work permits are made on IT consultancy firms who employ foreign nationals on contract in the United Kingdom. |
| (32345) | |
| 48 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many work permits have been issued to IT professionals from countries outside the United Kingdom in the last 12 months. |
| (32342) | |
| 49 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what methods of advertising the Access to Work scheme are currently being used. |
| (32199) | |
| 50 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how much Government money has been distributed to business as part of the Access to Work scheme since its inception. |
| (32198) | |
| 51 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how much of the 1997-98 budget for the Access to Work scheme has been spent to date. |
| (32201) | |
| 52 N | Mr Alan Williams (Swansea West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many workers have been recruited by Remploy in the last 12 months; how many of these are in Remploy's factories; how many vacancies existed, at the latest available date, in these factories; and if recruiting is continuing as vacancies arise. |
| (32598) | |
| 53 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has for further assistance for students in part-time education. |
| (32823) | |
| 54 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many students are currently in part-time (a) further and (b) higher education. |
| (32824) | |
| 55 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the cost of extending student loans to part-time students in (a) further and (b) higher education. |
| (32822) | |
| 56 N | Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the persons he has appointed to the Northumberland National Park Authority and state which of those appointees lives within the park area. |
| (32491) | |
| 57 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32455) | |
| 58 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32473) | |
| 59 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32442) | |
| 60 N | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what recourse is open to a member of the public who is dissatisfied with the treatment he receives from his parish council. |
| (32271) | |
| 61 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on greenfield land, excluding Green Belt, in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in England. |
| (32326) | |
| 62 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on trends in the number of empty (a) local authority homes, (b) private homes, (c) Government properties containing residential accommodation and (d) flats above shops in each of the last 12 years. |
| (32319) | |
| 63 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many (a) sites of special scientific interest, (b) areas of outstanding natural beauty, (c) national parks and (d) hectares were affected by road building, housing or retail developments; and how many miles of roads were built on (a) to (c) in each of the last 12 years by (i) county and (ii) region. |
| (32318) | |
| 64 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on recycled land in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in England. |
| (32328) | |
| 65 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on Green Belt land in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in England. |
| (32327) | |
| 66 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will reduce the number of units or hectares in a housing development above which local authorities can require an element of social housing to be provided in the development. |
| (32335) | |
| 67 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will amend planning guidelines to allow local authorities greater scope to turn down planning applications on the grounds of poor quality or design. |
| (32334) | |
| 68 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to extend the scope of Part M of the Building Regulations to apply to buildings requiring a change of use. |
| (32595) | |
| 69 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if his Department has written to all local authorities within the last six months to remind them of the requirements of council tax regulations in respect of the carers discount. |
| (32677) | |
| 70 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to incorporate Part M of the Building Regulations into the criteria for planning approval, when an applicant applies for a change of use. |
| (32596) | |
| 71 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessement he has made of the experiment of fitting cameras to buses to record the identity of other vehicles misusing bus lanes; and if he will make a statement. |
| (31495) | |
| 72 N | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on his proposals for the regulation of minicabs and their drivers in London. |
| (30651) | |
| 73 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to encourage adherence to the self-regulatory code on car advertising in other EU member States. |
| (31709) | |
| 74 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to review the present legislation concerning the allocation of local authority housing. |
| (31711) | |
| 75 N | Mr Howard Flight (Arundel and South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of levels of increase in council tax in 1998-99. |
| (30621) | |
| 76 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will arrange for a substantive reply to be sent to Fenco Projects Ltd following their enquiry sent to Mr Paul Lancaster of his Department in connection with the Channel Tunnel Link route on 3rd February. |
| (32674) | |
| 77 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many police officers have been deployed at Stansted Airport over each of the past five years; and how many of these were special constables. |
| (32676) | |
| 78 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if all agreements reached between London and Continental and landowners on the line of the Channel Tunnel Link route between Kent and London will be honoured, separately identifying those relating to timescales and funding for parallel operations. |
| (32673) | |
| 79 N | Mr Colin Pickthall (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to review the Local Government (Politically Restricted Posts) (No. 2) Regulations 1990. |
| (32597) | |
| 80 N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what studies his Department has evaluated into the numbers of second homes let for fewer than 140 days a year. |
| (32656) | |
| 81 N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the cost to public funds of the exemption of second homes let for fewer than 140 days per year from the uniform business rate in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (32658) | |
| 82 N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list by local authority area the numbers of second homes let for fewer than 140 days a year. |
| (32654) | |
| 83 N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the uniform business rate concession regulations relating to properties let for fewer than 140 days a year; and what measures he proposes to eliminate fraudulent claims in this area. |
| (32657) | |
| 84 N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received about business rate concessions on properties let for fewer than 140 days a year; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32655) | |
| 85 N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for how many dwellings situated in the Green Belt he has given planning consent on appeal since 1st May 1997. |
| (32258) | |
| 86 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32479) | |
| 87 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32459) | |
| 88 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32445) | |
| 89 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research his Department has evaluated into the advantage of exempting artisan golf associations from VAT. |
| (32803) | |
| 90 N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of individuals in receipt of weekly earnings between (a) £107 and £109, (b) £136 and £154, (c) £188 and £209 and (d) £444 and above. |
| (32490) | |
| 91 N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the cost to date of the Council of Economic Advisers; and when he expects to appoint further members to it. |
| (32594) | |
| 92 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost of allowing income tax relief on computers and software purchased by teachers for use at home indicating his assumptions in calculating these figures. |
| (32317) | |
| 93 N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Government's proposal to introduce resource accounting includes accruing for the Government's unfunded liabilities for pay-as-you-go state pensions. |
| (32794) | |
| 94 N | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 17th February, Official Report, column 528, for what reasons he has decided not to commission research on the effect of the sale of excess reserves of (a) gold and (b) foreign currency by central banks participating in the euro on (i) world gold prices and (ii) international exchanges; what assessments have already been made in respect of that issue; and what departmental studies will be made of this matter prior to introduction of the single currency. |
| (32796) | |
| 95 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual cost of the Exchequer of reducing VAT on house renovation to the lowest level permissible under European Union law. |
| (32073) | |
| 96 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual cost to the Exchequer of reducing the level of betting duty from 6.75 per cent. to 5 per cent. |
| (32046) | |
| 97 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many residents of Northern Ireland obtained abortions in England and Wales in each of the last three years for which figures are available. |
| (32818) | |
| 98 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32477) | |
| 99 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32458) | |
| 100 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32444) | |
| 101 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to discuss his Department's progress towards millennium compliance. |
| (32664) | |
| 102 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what advice has been given to British embassies and consulates overseas concerning the need to achieve millennium computer compliance; and what funds he will make available for this purpose. |
| (32670) | |
| 103 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will estimate the cost to his Department of (a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged by his Department to address millennium computer compliance problems; and if he will list them. |
| (32665) | |
| 104 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, from which budgetary sub-head the costs of millennium compliance will be met by his Department. |
| (32663) | |
| 105 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met a Minister from Her Majesty's Treasury to discuss the costs of millennium compliance within his Department. |
| (32662) | |
| 106 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials or individuals working within his Department on millennium compliance have (a) given notice of their intention to leave and (b) left his Department within the last six months. |
| (32667) | |
| 107 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when all testing on year 2000 computer compliance will be completed within his Department. |
| (32666) | |
| 108 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his Department will be fully millennium compliant by September 1999. |
| (32669) | |
| 109 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is his estimate of the cost to his Department of his Department achieving millennium compliance. |
| (32668) | |
| 110 N | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the changes which have been made to European Union foreign policy objectives as a result of the UK's commitment to an ethical foreign policy. |
| (32601) | |
| 111 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will press the Abu Dhabi authorities to restrict the use of children as camel jockeys; and what representations his Department has received on this matter. |
| (32815) | |
| 112 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those occasions on which the United Kingdom Government has raised the issue of enfranchisement of Gibraltarians in Europe since 1st May; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32044) | |
| 113 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32469) | |
| 114 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32439) | |
| 115 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32452) | |
| 116 | Mrs Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the findings of the EU ad hoc committee on dental amalgam; and what is its response. |
| (32827) | |
| 117 | Mrs Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received on the use of mercury in dental amalgam fillings; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32825) | |
| 118 | Mrs Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice his Department issues to dentists on the contra-indications for use of mercury in dental amalgam fillings. |
| (32826) | |
| 119 N | Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to amend the notional rent scheme in respect of general practitioners' surgeries to ensure that notional rent is not paid on the proportion of capital arising out of fundholder savings. |
| (30846) | |
| 120 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when all testing on Year 2000 compliance will be complete within his Department. |
| (32305) | |
| 121 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to discuss the Department's progress regarding millennium compliance. |
| (32308) | |
| 122 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, from which budgetary sub-head the costs of millennium computer compliance will be met by his Department. |
| (32309) | |
| 123 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials or individuals working within his Department on millennium compliance have (a) given notice of their intention to leave, or (b) left the Department in the last six months. |
| (32306) | |
| 124 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met a Treasury Minister to discuss the costs of millennium computer compliance. |
| (32307) | |
| 125 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of the cost to his Department of (a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged to address millennium computer compliance problems; and he if will list the consultants and contractors. |
| (32310) | |
| 126 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32441) | |
| 127 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32472) | |
| 128 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32454) | |
| 129 N | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings (a) Prison Service and (b) Probation personnel have had which involved consultation on the options for the Prison-Probation review; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32485) | |
| 130 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many extra police officers could have been established in Essex in 1997-98 as a result of the extra funding made available to meet the target of 5,000 extra police officers in the United Kingdom over three years; and how many extra officers will actually be recruited in 1997-98 in Essex. |
| (32340) | |
| 131 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to enable blind and partially sighted people to vote in person and unaided in the European elections in 1999. |
| (32804) | |
| 132 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects his Department's working party on electoral procedures to report. |
| (32805) | |
| 133 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice he has issued to the Metropolitan Police concerning enforcement of parking restrictions in bus lanes and at bus stops; and if he will make a statement. |
| (31494) | |
| 134 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to extend the protection given to witnesses into a more formal framework allowing local authorities to relocate witnesses to, and victims of, crime. |
| (31710) | |
| 135 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data his Department has collated concerning addiction rates amongst (a) 16 to 18 year olds and (b) those aged over 18 years for (i) amusement with prizes machines, (ii) scratchcards and (iii) on-line lotteries. |
| (32660) | |
| 136 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the advice given to him by Dr Mark Griffiths in respect of on-line frequent lotteries. |
| (32661) | |
| 137 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many organisations responded to his consultation process on the Draft Lotteries (Frequent Draws) Bill; how many supported his proposals; how many did not; and if he will publish a list of all responding organisations. |
| (32659) | |
| 138 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to introduce a licensing system for private detectives. |
| (32589) | |
| 139 N | Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letters dated 10th September and 20th November 1997 and 8th January 1998 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mr. Mohammed Amin, husband of Mrs. Stazin Amin, 2 Fir Grove. |
| (32592) | |
| 140 N | Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letters dated 11th November and 18th December 1997 and 22nd January 1998 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mrs Haslin Nasrin, 58 Clitheroe Road. |
| (32593) | |
| 141 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate the cost to his Department of (a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged by his Department to address millennium computer compliance problems; and if he will list the consultants and contractors. |
| (32299) | |
| 142 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of whether (a) the Fire Service College, (b) the Forensic Science Service, (c) the UK Passport Agency and (d) HM Prison Service will be fully millennium compliant by 1st January 1999. |
| (32303) | |
| 143 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when all testing on Year 2000 compliance will be completed in his Department. |
| (32312) | |
| 144 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is his estimate of the cost of (a) the Fire Service College, (b) the Forensic Science Service, (c) the UK Passport Agency and (d) HM Prison Service achieving millennium compliance. |
| (32301) | |
| 145 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he or his ministers last met a Treasury minister to discuss the costs of millennium compliance in his Department. |
| (32296) | |
| 146 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when (a) the Fire Service College, (b) the Forensic Science Service, (c) the UK Passport Agency and (d) HM Prison Service will each complete their examination of the options available for achieving millennium compliance. |
| (32300) | |
| 147 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is his assessment, based on the most recent information from the Association of Chief Police Officers, of (a) the cost and (b) the timetable for all police forces in England and Wales achieving millennium compliance. |
| (32304) | |
| 148 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he or his ministers last met the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to discuss his Department's progress towards millennium compliance. |
| (32313) | |
| 149 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contingency plans have been made for (a) the Fire Service College, (b) the Forensic Science Service, (c) the UK Passport Agency and (d) HM Prison Service in the event of a failure due to Year 2000 computer problems. |
| (32302) | |
| 150 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials or individuals, working within his Department on millennium compliance have (a) given notice of their intention to leave and (b) left the Department in the last six months. |
| (32311) | |
| 151 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from which budgetary sub-head the costs of millennium compliance will be met by his Department. |
| (32298) | |
| 152 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what factors underlie the length of interval between application and completion of the process for aliens to apply for indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom, what plans he has to reduce this period; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32821) | |
| 153 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received from the Church of England regarding the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law; what further meetings he expects to hold with representatives of the Church; and if he will make a statement. |
| (31733) | |
| 154 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to support and protect witnesses to crimes during and after giving evidence. |
| (32045) | |
| 155 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the workings of the Family Court Welfare Service; what plans he has to reform it; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32047) | |
| 156 N | Mr John M. Taylor (Solihull): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to be able to reply to the letter sent to him by the honourable Member for Solihull, dated 23rd February, concerning his constituent Dr Zaw, Dr Zaw's mother and their passports. |
| (32314) | |
| 157 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32436) | |
| 158 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when she appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32470) | |
| 159 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32465) | |
| 160 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32448) | |
| 161 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32462) | |
| 162 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32482) | |
| 163 N | Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when he expects the Legal Aid Board's corporate information system to be fully operational. |
| (32678) | |
| 164 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what assessment he has made of the possible impact of capping successful litigants' ability to recover costs from their opponents on the ability of unions to pursue cases for their members. |
| (31708) | |
| 165 N | Ms Roseanna Cunningham (Perth): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many applications to the Legal Aid Board for England and Wales seeking damages as a result of the contracting of CJD have been made in each of the last five years; how many such applications (a) succeeded and (b) were refused; and what were the reasons given in respect of those which were refused. |
| (32672) | |
| 166 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when she appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32478) | |
| 167 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32467) | |
| 168 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32438) | |
| 169 N | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the names of the members of Parades Commission since its establishment, the dates of their appointments and where appropriate resignations, the length of the normal period of service and the salaries to be paid to the Chairman and to each member. |
| (32256) | |
| 170 N | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the sums paid to date to each member by the Parades Commission and under such headings as may be convenient other sums paid to such members which have arisen in respect of their work. |
| (32257) | |
| 171 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many cases of sexual offence, under each category, were recorded in Northern Ireland for each of the last three years for which figures are available. |
| (32819) | |
| 172 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many women in Northern Ireland had babies at (a) 16 years and under, (b) 17 years, (c) 18 years and (d) 19 years in each of the last three years for which figures are available. |
| (32820) | |
| 173 N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the President of the Council, when she last met Treasury Ministers to discuss the cost of millennium compliance. |
| (32591) | |
| 174 N | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list those whom he has consulted on the formation of a cross-party committee on Europe. |
| (32600) | |
| 175 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study into computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Office has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32755) | |
| 176 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) officials and (b) others are currently working on computer millennium compliance in the Scottish Office; and how many have (i) given notice of their intention to leave or (ii) left the Department in the last six months. |
| (32750) | |
| 177 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the main computer systems used by the Scottish Office and its agencies. |
| (32749) | |
| 178 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he last met Treasury Ministers to discuss the costs of computer millennium compliance; and from which budgetary sub-head the costs will be met. |
| (32753) | |
| 179 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he last met the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to discuss the progress of the Scottish Office towards achieving computer millennium compliance. |
| (32752) | |
| 180 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when all testing on year 2000 computer compliance will be completed in the Scottish Office. |
| (32751) | |
| 181 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32758) | |
| 182 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of Historic Scotland has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32757) | |
| 183 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the cost to the Scottish Office of (a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged by his Department to address the issue of computer millennium compliance; and if he will list them. |
| (32754) | |
| 184 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Court Service has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32728) | |
| 185 N | Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Fisheries Research Service has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32756) | |
| 186 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32461) | |
| 187 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32481) | |
| 188 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32447) | |
| 189 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on recycled land in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in Scotland. |
| (32325) | |
| 190 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many (a) sites of special scientific interest, (b) areas of outstanding natural beauty, (c) national parks and (d) hectares were affected by road building, housing or retail developments; and how many miles of roads were built on (a) to (c) in each of the last 12 years by (i) county and (ii) region. |
| (32329) | |
| 191 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on trends in the number of empty (a) local authority homes, (b) private homes, (c) Government properties containing residential accommodation and (d) flats above shops in each of the last 12 years. |
| (32330) | |
| 192 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will amend planning guidelines to allow local authorities greater scope to turn down planning applications on the grounds of poor quality or design. |
| (32336) | |
| 193 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will reduce the number of units or hectares in a housing development above which local authorities can require an element of social housing to be provided in the development. |
| (32337) | |
| 194 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on greenfield land, excluding Green Belt, in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in Scotland. |
| (32323) | |
| 195 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on Green Belt land in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in Scotland. |
| (32324) | |
| 196 N | Ms Roseanna Cunningham (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many applications to the Scottish Legal Aid Board seeking damages as a result of the contracting of CJD have been made in each of the last five years; how many such applications (a) succeeded and (b) were refused; and what reasons were given for those which were refused. |
| (32671) | |
| 197 N | Mr Frank Doran (Aberdeen Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what estimates he has made of the future numbers of elderly people in (a) Scotland, and (b) Grampian; and what projections he has made of the numbers of elderly people in each case who will require over the next 10 years (i) continuing care in the National Health Service, (ii) long-term residential care and (iii) domiciliary care support services from local authorities, and on what basis he calculated those projections. |
| (32254) | |
| 198 N | Mr Frank Doran (Aberdeen Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what criteria are applied in respect of the admission of elderly people in Grampian to continuing care in the National Health Service to assess whether they require continuing medical and nursing care; and in what respects these criteria differ from the criteria which are applied in other health board areas in Scotland. |
| (32255) | |
| 199 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Accounts Commission for Scotland has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32734) | |
| 200 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of each health board in Scotland have has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32741) | |
| 201 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32729) | |
| 202 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of Scottish Enterprise has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32736) | |
| 203 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32738) | |
| 204 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Prison Service has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32731) | |
| 205 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Office Pensions Agency has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32730) | |
| 206 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of each police constabulary in Scotland have been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32740) | |
| 207 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of Highlands and Islands Enterprise has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32735) | |
| 208 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Scottish Record Office has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32732) | |
| 209 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32733) | |
| 210 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of Scottish Homes has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32739) | |
| 211 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what contingency plans he will establish in case of computer failure on 1st January 2000 in respect of the Scottish water authorities. |
| (32748) | |
| 212 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what contingency plans he will establish in case of computer failure on 1st January 2000 in respect of (a) the police, (b) the Fire Service and (c) the Ambulance Service in Scotland. |
| (32747) | |
| 213 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what contingency plans he will establish in case of computer failure on 1st January 2000 in respect of the Scottish Office. |
| (32746) | |
| 214 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the East of Scotland Water Authority has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32743) | |
| 215 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if pilot studies of computer millennium compliance in respect of each NHS trust in Scotland have been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32742) | |
| 216 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of West of Scotland Water Authority has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32745) | |
| 217 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of North of Scotland Water Authority has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32744) | |
| 218 N | Mr Robert Maclennan (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he anticipates that the first payments of £1,000 for the purchase of books under the National Year of Reading will be made to schools in Scotland. |
| (32798) | |
| 219 N | Mr Robert Maclennan (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which authority has regulatory responsibility for the waste disposal shaft and other repositories of waste at Dounreay. |
| (32797) | |
| 220 N | Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people in Scotland had been on waiting lists for NHS treatment for (a) nought to three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to nine months, (d) nine to 12 months and (e) over 12 months, on (i) 1st January 1998, (ii) 1st October 1997, (iii) 1st July 1997, (iv) 1st April 1997, (v) 1st January 1997 and (vi) 1st January 1996. |
| (31070) | |
| 221 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when she appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32468) | |
| 222 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans she has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32464) | |
| 223 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32435) | |
| 224 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to her Answer of 9th July 1997, Official Report, columns 516-17, concerning the face-to-face interviews being conducted as part of the Benefit Integrity Project, what further estimate her Department has made of the cost of (a) the face-to-face interview and (b) postal questionnaire aspects of the project. |
| (32800) | |
| 225 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what measures the Secretary of State will be taking, in the course of the Government's pension review, to provide a more flexible decade of retirement for pensioners aged 55 to 65 years. |
| (31707) | |
| 226 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many companies bid for the tender to provide outsourcing of the Benefits Agency Medical Service. |
| (32200) | |
| 227 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she has personally reviewed individual Benefit Integrity Project appeal cases. |
| (32333) | |
| 228 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32437) | |
| 229 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32475) | |
| 230 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what plans she has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32466) | |
| 231 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make it her policy to disaggregate figures for ECGD guarantees relating to the export of lethal weapons from other defence-related business in statistics for future years. |
| (32816) | |
| 232 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her Answer of 12th December, Official Report, columns 718-19, what was the total value of potential ECGD liabilities under guarantees relating to defence-related business; what was that figure as a percentage of the value of all liabilities under ECGD guarantees, in each year; and when figures for 1996-97 will be available. |
| (32817) | |
| 233 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what action she will take to encourage retailers of electricity to promote energy saving. |
| (32270) | |
| 234 N | Ms Roseanna Cunningham (Perth): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what are the estimated costs of work still to be carried out in relation to preparing UKAEA's D2670 plant at Dounreay Nuclear Establishment to enable the reprocessing of spent fuel from the ICI TRIGA reactor at Billingham. |
| (31734) | |
| 235 N | Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she plans to decide on the issue of bus competition in Glasgow and Strathclyde following the recent OFT report. |
| (32675) | |
| 236 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when (a) the conversion and (b) the testing of systems in Companies House for achieving millennium compliance will be completed. |
| (32367) | |
| 237 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when all testing on Year 2000 compliance will be completed within the Department. |
| (32353) | |
| 238 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when the testing of all systems within the Employment Tribunals Service will be completed. |
| (32365) | |
| 239 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she last met the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to discuss her Department's progress towards millennium compliance. |
| (32354) | |
| 240 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the estimate of £850,000 for achieving millennium compliance within the Patent Office has been revised. |
| (32372) | |
| 241 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when the remedial work on millennium compliance at the Insolvency Service will be completed. |
| (32362) | |
| 242 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when the audit of the Employment Tribunals Service for millennium compliance will be completed. |
| (32364) | |
| 243 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when the testing of systems for millennium compliance at the Export Credits Guarantee Department will be completed. |
| (32375) | |
| 244 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the estimate of £1,000,000 for achieving millennium compliance at the Radiocommunications Agency has been revised. |
| (32374) | |
| 245 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the estimate of £2,700,000 for achieving millennium compliance at her Department has been revised. |
| (32370) | |
| 246 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she last met a Treasury Minister to discuss the costs of millennium compliance in her Department. |
| (32355) | |
| 247 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many calls have been received by the Action 2000 hotline. |
| (32487) | |
| 248 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the Patent Office has completed contacting all suppliers about millennium compliance. |
| (32371) | |
| 249 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will estimate the cost to her Department of (a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged by the Department to address millennium computer compliance problems; and if she will list them. |
| (32489) | |
| 250 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, from which budgetary sub-head will the costs of millennium compliance be met by her Department. |
| (32356) | |
| 251 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the estimate of £184,187 for achieving millennium compliance at the Export Credits Guarantee Department has been revised. |
| (32376) | |
| 252 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many people working within the Department on millennium compliance have (a) given notice of their intention to leave and (b) left the Department in the last six months. |
| (32352) | |
| 253 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, to what extent her estimate for the costs of achieving millennium compliance in the Employment Tribunals Service has been revised, following the systems audit. |
| (32366) | |
| 254 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if a Director of Action 2000 has been appointed. |
| (32486) | |
| 255 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when the assessment of the main systems at her Department for millennium compliance will be completed. |
| (32369) | |
| 256 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the estimate of £317,000 for achieving millennium compliance in the systems at Companies House has been revised. |
| (32368) | |
| 257 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if her estimate of £7,200 for the cost of achieving millennium compliance in the Insolvency Service has been exceeded. |
| (32363) | |
| 258 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when the code checking exercise for millennium compliance at the Radiocommunications Agency will be completed. |
| (32373) | |
| 259 | Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the military, security and police supplies sent to Kenya in the last two years went to the military or to police units. |
| (32832) | |
| 260 N | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she plans to publish the proposed draft concordat on inward investment. |
| (32202) | |
| 261 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement on her Department's plans to spend £40,000 refurbishing her office. |
| (32688) | |
| 262 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what assessment she has made of the effect of the recent mild weather on (a) future purchases of coal by the generators and (b) the timing of deliveries of coal to the generators. |
| (32691) | |
| 263 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, to what extent the agreements by the generators to bring forward purchases of coal from the third to the second quarter of 1998 are enforceable. |
| (32692) | |
| 264 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to her oral statement of 16th December 1997, Official Report, column 167, concerning variations in the level of the proposed minimum wage, if she categorises the armed services as a sector. |
| (32799) | |
| 265 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has received in the last fortnight about the Millennium Bug Hotline. |
| (32682) | |
| 266 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many enquiries can be answered at the same time for people ringing the Millennium Bug Hotline. |
| (32685) | |
| 267 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how much her Department will spend on achieving millennium compliance for its own computer systems between the present time and 1st January 2000. |
| (32687) | |
| 268 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will publish in the Official Report her letter of 25th February to the honourable Member for Wokingham concerning the BEUA. |
| (32686) | |
| 269 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what communications she has received from the Northern Development Corporation concerning the concordat on Inward Investment; and if she has replied. |
| (32679) | |
| 270 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what ceiling she plans to place on offers of grant made by the regional development agencies to inward investors. |
| (32680) | |
| 271 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, which new books, periodicals and consultancies she has added to the lists supplied by the Millennium Bug Hotline in the last months. |
| (32684) | |
| 272 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will publish a breakdown of the costs of refurbishing ministerial apartments and offices for each of her Department's Ministers since 1st May 1997. |
| (32795) | |
| 273 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how much loan and cover is required from the Export Credits Guarantee Department for the 16 Hawk jets which were to be supplied to Indonesia after 1st May 1997. |
| (32683) | |
| 274 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what has been the cost of overtime worked by private office staff of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs since 1st May. |
| (32689) | |
| 275 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. |
| (32483) | |
| 276 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will estimate the cost of employee travel on office business, broken down into (a) fuel allowances, (b) unproductive time during travel, (c) other costs related to car transport and (d) costs related to public transport, for (i) 1994-95, (ii) 1995-96, (iii) 1996-97 and (iv) 1997-98. |
| (32449) | |
| 277 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what plans he has (a) to reduce the number of car parking spaces available for use by staff and (b) to introduce charges for staff using workplace car parking spaces. |
| (32463) | |
| 278 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on Green Belt land in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in Wales. |
| (32321) | |
| 279 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on recycled land in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in Wales. |
| (32322) | |
| 280 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many (a) sites of special scientific interest, (b) areas of outstanding natural beauty, (c) national parks and (d) hectares were affected by road building, housing or retail developments; and how many miles of roads were built on (a) to (c) in each of the last 12 years by (i) county and (ii) region. |
| (32331) | |
| 281 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on trends in the number of empty (a) local authority homes, (b) private homes, (c) Government properties containing residential accommodation and (d) flats above shops in each of the last 12 years. |
| (32332) | |
| 282 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will amend planning guidelines to allow local authorities greater scope to turn down planning applications on the grounds of poor quality or design. |
| (32338) | |
| 283 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will reduce the number of units or hectares in a housing development above which local authorities can require an element of social housing to be provided in the development. |
| (32339) | |
| 284 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the number and surface area of out-of-town shopping centres and leisure centres that have been built on greenfield land, excluding Green Belt, in each of the last 12 years by (a) county and (b) region in Wales. |
| (32320) | |
| 285 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Welsh Development Agency has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32769) | |
| 286 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when all testing on year 2000 computer compliance will be completed in the Welsh Office. |
| (32762) | |
| 287 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he last met Treasury Ministers to discuss the costs of computer millennium compliance; and from which budgetary sub-head the costs will be met. |
| (32764) | |
| 288 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Welsh Office of (a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged by his Department to address the issue of computer millennium compliance; and if he will list them. |
| (32765) | |
| 289 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if pilot studies of computer millennium compliance in respect of each NHS trust in Wales have been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32768) | |
| 290 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the main computer systems in the Welsh Office and its agencies. |
| (32759) | |
| 291 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many officials or other individuals in the Welsh Office working on computer millennium compliance have (a) given notice of their intention to leave or (b) left this Department in the last six months. |
| (32761) | |
| 292 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Development Board for Rural Wales has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32771) | |
| 293 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if pilot studies of computer millennium compliance in respect of each health authority in Wales have been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32767) | |
| 294 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many officials or other individuals in the Welsh Office are currently working on computer millennium compliance. |
| (32760) | |
| 295 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Welsh Office has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32766) | |
| 296 N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he last met the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to discuss the progress of the Welsh Office towards achieving computer millennium compliance. |
| (32763) | |
| 297 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what contingency plans he will establish in case of failure on 1st January 2000 of computer systems in the Welsh Office. |
| (32773) | |
| 298 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what contingency plans he will establish in case of failure on 1st January 2000 of computer systems in the NHS in Wales. |
| (32774) | |
| 299 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if the pilot study of computer millennium compliance in respect of the Land Authority for Wales has been completed; what conclusions have been drawn; when millennium compliance will be achieved; at what cost to public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (32772) | |
| 300 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what contingency plans he will establish in case of failure on 1st January 2000 of computer systems in the Ambulance Service in Wales. |
| (32775) | |
| 301 N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations have been received on the 1998-99 local government financial settlement. |
| [Question Unstarred] (30634) | |
| 302 N | Mrs Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the impact of the phased pay award for GPs on those GPs retiring during the year. |
| [Transferred] (32488) | |
| 303 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to instigate an advertising campaign advising carers of their entitlement to the carers council tax discount. |
| [Transferred] (32341) | |
| 304 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) loan guarantees and (b) increased borrowing approvals the Tote has received in the last three months. |
| [Transferred] (32690) | |
| 305 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he will take to ensure political balance in, and industrial expertise amongst, government appointments to regional development agencies. |
| [Transferred] (32681) | |
| 306 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contingency plans he will establish in case of failure on 1st January 2000 of computer systems in the Fire Service in Wales. |
| [Transferred] (32776) | |
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