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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 18 May 1998
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 18 May 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 18 May, of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order of Business. For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Tuesday 19 May, 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 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee, how many recycling sacks were distributed around the Palace of Westminster last year. |
| (41330) | |
| 2 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42833) | |
| 3 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42832) | |
| 4 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42834) | |
| 5 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 5th May, Official Report, column 301, for what reasons 16 of the non-mobile staff at the Norwich laboratory of the CSL are not entitled to redundancy payments in the event that the Norwich laboratory is closed. |
| (42371) | |
| 6 N | Mr Charles Clarke (Norwich South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 30th April, Official Report, column 247, what the financial implications are for his Department of the High Table versus Horst case, in the event that mobile staff of the Central Science Laboratory in Norwich refused to relocate to York. |
| (42373) | |
| 7 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his letter, 113574, of 23rd April, what information has been obtained about anti-smuggling devices that can detect the heart-beat of an animal concealed inside a vehicle. |
| (41120) | |
| 8 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what research he is (a) commissioning and (b) evaluating on the link between high blood pressure and salt levels in food. |
| (42621) | |
| 9 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will set criteria to govern the priorities of the research programme of the proposed Food Standards Agency. |
| (42620) | |
| 10 | Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what information was held by his Department on the state of flood defences prior to the current exercise by the Environment Agency to compile an asset register of flood defences. |
| (42384) | |
| 11 | Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the Environment Agency began compiling its asset register of flood defences; and when it expects to finish it. |
| (42381) | |
| 12 | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the toxicological data for (a) [(i) symmetrical and (ii) unsymmetrical,] monothiono TEPP, (b) [(x) symmetrical and (y) unsymmetrical,] sulfotep, (c) s-ethyl diazinon, (d) iso diazinon, (e) TEPP, (f) z-isopropenyl diazinon, (g) diazonon and (h) hydroxymethyl diazinon found in sheep dips which has been collated by his Department. |
| (42475) | |
| 13 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has for ensuring that information is available to the consumer about the origin of food at the point of sale. |
| (42160) | |
| 14 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many environmental appraisals were produced by the European Commission to accompany proposals presented to the EU Agriculture Council on 16th and 17th February. |
| (42663) | |
| 15 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he is taking to regulate the activities of gangmasters; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42583) | |
| 16 | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when he expects to publish the report of the inter-departmental committee on organophosphate pesticides; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42615) | |
| 17 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on his recent visit to China; and what United Kingdom participation there will be in the 1998 International Horticultural Event in Kunming, Yunnan. |
| (42349) | |
| 18 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the cost to his Department of administering grants to agriculture in the last year; and how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff were involved. |
| (42438) | |
| 19 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42824) | |
| 20 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42825) | |
| 21 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42823) | |
| 22 | Mr Tom Pendry (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress the Government has made in implementing its commitment to ensure that the UK Sports Council becomes the lead strategic body for sport in the UK. |
| (42574) | |
| 23 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the extent of racism in cricket; what negotiations he has had with the English Cricket Board in respect of racism in cricket; and what steps he proposes to reduce incidences of racism in cricket. |
| (42614) | |
| 24 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42830) | |
| 25 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42831) | |
| 26 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42829) | |
| 27 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, between what dates HMS 'Monmouth' was deployed off the coast of Sierra Leone. |
| (42557) | |
| 28 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates (a) employees of and (b) personnel connected with Sandline International boarded HMS 'Monmouth' during her recent deployment to West Africa. |
| (42558) | |
| 29 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if HMS 'Monmouth' provided support to ECOMOG in discharging UNSCR 1132; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42559) | |
| 30 N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future use of the buildings of Staff College, Camberley. |
| (41306) | |
| 31 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procurement contracts have been placed since May 1997 by the armed services for trucks and other heavy goods vehicles. |
| (42575) | |
| 32 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many man training days per year are spent on training on private land; and what would be the cost to his Department if charges were raised at the current rate of £1.50 per man day. |
| (41885) | |
| 33 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the agreement was signed between him and the Masters of Foxhounds Association establishing the terms and conditions whereby the Association and recognised hunts may have access to his Department's land for the purpose of fox hunting. |
| (41886) | |
| 34 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if licence applications to hunt with hounds on his Department's land in the 1998-99 season will be determined before the beginning of August. |
| (42151) | |
| 35 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if under his proposals to harmonise the issuing of all hunting licences across his Department's estate, his policy on hunting practices and conditions laid down in previous licences will be changed. |
| (42150) | |
| 36 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what standing orders were issued by his Department concerning assistance by British forces in Sierra Leone. |
| (42154) | |
| 37 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the dates in 1998 when HMS 'Cornwall' was within 50 miles of the coast of Sierra Leone. |
| (42279) | |
| 38 | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish all despatches from HMS 'Cornwall' whilst on station off West Africa in the last year. |
| (42408) | |
| 39 | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the captain's log of HMS 'Cornwall' for the last 12 months in the Library. |
| (42407) | |
| 40 | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the ship's log of HMS 'Cornwall' for the last 12 months in the Library. |
| (42418) | |
| 41 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the quantity of (a) oil, (b) gas and (c) electricity purchased for the heating, lighting and powering of all accommodation occupied by his Department within the UK in each year since 1989-90; and what was the total cost in real terms of (a) to (c) in each year. |
| (42553) | |
| 42 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of his Department's energy usage was from (a) renewable energy and (b) combined heating in each year since 1989-90. |
| (42556) | |
| 43 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the total value in real terms of (a) staff car mileage claims paid and (b) staff rail fares paid in each year since 1989-90; and what was the total amount of staff car mileage for which reimbursement was made and the percentage change in each year since 1989-90. |
| (42554) | |
| 44 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the total number of staff of all grades employed by his Department; and what percentage of these staff were eligible to claim a car mileage allowance on 31st March in each year since 1990. |
| (42555) | |
| 45 N | Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Private Office was first informed of the plan for military intervention to restore the government of President Kabbah of Sierra Leone. |
| (42320) | |
| 46 N | Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Private Office was first informed of the involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42322) | |
| 47 N | Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he was first informed of the involvement of Sandline International in Sierra Leone. |
| (42321) | |
| 48 N | Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Private Office was first informed of the existence of the Customs and Excise investigation into the involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42319) | |
| 49 N | Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he was first informed of the plan for military intervention to restore the government of President Kabbah of Sierra Leone. |
| (42318) | |
| 50 N | Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he was first informed of the existence of the Customs and Excise investigation into the involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42317) | |
| 51 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42820) | |
| 52 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42821) | |
| 53 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42822) | |
| 54 | Mr Eric Forth (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when he plans to reply to the question tabled by the Right honourable Member for Bromley and Chislehurst on 24th February, on official cars (31663). |
| (42402) | |
| 55 | Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what is the number of staff [whole time equivalent] working on the Public Appointments List. |
| (42623) | |
| 56 | Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what was the total cost to public funds of the collection of names, maintenance and updating of responses, and circulating to departments of responses to their requests for names, for the Public Appointments List in the last available year. |
| (42619) | |
| 57 | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the planned increase in budget for access funds and hardship funds for higher education students in 1998-99. |
| (42370) | |
| 58 | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many (a) mature and (b) regular students took up higher education places in (i) 1996 and (ii) 1997; and how many in each case are predicted to do so in 1998, in (1) England, (2) Wales and (3) the UK. |
| (42417) | |
| 59 | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what changes he plans in eligibility for access and hardship funds for higher education students in 1998-99. |
| (42369) | |
| 60 | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what the maximum grant and loan available to higher education students in 1998-99 will be; what the maximum loan available in future years will be; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42374) | |
| 61 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42838) | |
| 62 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42839) | |
| 63 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42840) | |
| 64 | Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 6th April, Official Report, column 92, which parliamentary constituencies are included in the Guildford unit of delivery for the New Deal; and, for each constituency, what is (a) the adult population, (b) the number of young persons aged 18 to 24 years unemployed, (c) the number of young persons aged 18 to 24 years unemployed who could be eligible to join the New Deal, (d) the number who have signed up under the New Deal, (e) the number placed in jobs under the New Deal since the scheme's commencement, (f) the number placed in unsubsidised jobs under the New Deal in the same period, (g) the number of young persons aged 18 to 24 years unemployed who found employment in 1997 and 1998, (h) the number of employers who have signed up to the New Deal and (i) the number of unemployed people who found employment in 1997 and 1998. |
| (42568) | |
| 65 | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what percentage change has taken place in the numbers of (a) mature students applying for courses of higher education and (b) lone parents applying for courses of higher education as mature students in each of the last three years. |
| (42403) | |
| 66 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the impact there would be on national collaborative partnerships between colleges and training providers of allowing further education colleges to provide only for local communities. |
| (41924) | |
| 67 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the impact of segregated special education on community care policies. |
| (41923) | |
| 68 | Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what steps he is taking to monitor the content of teaching and information materials about the Euro currency funded by the European Commission supplied to schools in England and to ensure its compliance with the terms of the Education Act 1996. |
| (42679) | |
| 69 | Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many children living within the local education authority boundaries of (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster currently receive subsidised private education via the assisted places scheme; and how many will do so from 1st September. |
| (42657) | |
| 70 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, on what date he intends to publish the next teacher vacancy figures. |
| (42312) | |
| 71 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he expects to issue new strategic guidance to TECs. |
| (42677) | |
| 72 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, from what source the development fund he plans for use by regional development agencies to analyse and tackle regional skills shortages in their area will be provided. |
| (42674) | |
| 73 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how much he plans to allocate to the development fund for use by regional development agencies to analyse regional skills shortages and to design and implement solutions. |
| (42675) | |
| 74 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when the development fund for use by regional development agencies to tackle skills shortages in their areas will be made available; and whether the shadow RDAs will be able to make use of it. |
| (42676) | |
| 75 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he expects to complete the review of the future role and funding of TECs; and what plans he has to publish the findings. |
| (42673) | |
| 76 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, for what reasons it is the official policy of the Employment Service not to provide public toilets in their buildings. |
| (42768) | |
| 77 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if his Department will publish statistical data for each of the last five academic years on (a) academic and (b) non-academic staff in higher education institutions to include a breakdown of employment by (i) age band, (ii) gender, (iii) ethnicity, (iv) mode of employment to include (A) part-time and (B) casual and hourly-paid employees and (v) grading; and if he will arrange for these statistics to be published annually within six months of the end of each academic year. |
| (42388) | |
| 78 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many claims have been (a) terminated in each year since the implementation of the jobseeker's allowance because of a breach of the Jobseeker's Agreement and (b) subsequently reinstated following their referral to an adjudication officer. |
| (42386) | |
| 79 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what was the average time between termination of a jobseeker's allowance claim because of a breach of the Jobseeker's Agreement and reinstatement following referral to an adjudicator in each year since the implementation of the jobseeker's allowance. |
| (42387) | |
| 80 N | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, on what date he proposes to make an announcement on the proposed merger of Derby University and High Peak College. |
| (42289) | |
| 81 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of higher and further education to residents in rural areas. |
| (42581) | |
| 82 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what research his Department has commissioned into the (i) causes of autism, (ii) the treatment methods offered by local education authorities and (iii) the effectiveness of different treatments. |
| (42795) | |
| 83 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the Lovaas intensive behaviour therapy. |
| (42793) | |
| 84 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the number of school children with autism in each year since 1992. |
| (42798) | |
| 85 | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what arrangements are being made to ensure that the management groups for candidate marine special areas of conservation incorporate the views of the advisory groups in developing their conservation objectives and management schemes. |
| (42617) | |
| 86 | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many and which of the United Kingdom's candidate marine special areas of conservation have established management and advisory groups. |
| (42622) | |
| 87 | Mr Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many and which of the United Kingdom's candidate marine special areas of conservation have begun to draft (i) conservation objectives and (ii) management schemes. |
| (42618) | |
| 88 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42837) | |
| 89 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42836) | |
| 90 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42835) | |
| 91 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the different options for restructuring London Underground put forward by London Transport; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42363) | |
| 92 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the transitional costs and ongoing costs of (a) keeping London Underground in the public sector, (b) privatising the whole of London Underground as a single unit and (c) creating a number of concessions to take over the London Underground infrastructure; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42362) | |
| 93 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of who will be liable in the case of a serious infrastructure failure on London Underground after concessions for managing the infrastructure of London Underground have been awarded to private companies; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42365) | |
| 94 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on London Underground fares of a fall in net revenues after concessions for managing the infrastructure of London Underground have been awarded to private companies; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42364) | |
| 95 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what controls there will be on the charges contractors can make to London Underground for use of track, signals and stations under his proposals; what estimate he has made of the likely impact on fares; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42394) | |
| 96 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the effectiveness of the Priority Estates Project in Coventry. |
| (41918) | |
| 97 | Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he is taking to assist with the renovation of dilapidated housing stock in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster. |
| (42655) | |
| 98 | Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Canning Town): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received from (a) local honourable Members, (b) local authorities, (c) private sector businesses and (d) other organisations on Thames river crossings. |
| (42797) | |
| 99 | Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Canning Town): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the East Thames Appraisal Framework results and the Secretary of State's consequent decision will be published. |
| (42796) | |
| 100 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he proposes to take on pitch fees for owners of mobile homes. |
| (42361) | |
| 101 N | Miss Melanie Johnson (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 28th April, Official Report, column 88, on leaded paint, what are the terms of reference for the Building Research Establishment's consultation on behalf of the Department; and when its findings are to be published. |
| (42263) | |
| 102 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many planning applications were made in England in each year from 1992 to 1997. |
| (42152) | |
| 103 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in each of the years from 1992 to 1997 how many planning applications in England were referred to his Department (a) because they were applications raising issues of more than local significance, (b) following referral by the local planning authority as proposals which depart from the local development plan and (c) following voluntary referral by the local planning authority; and how many in each category were called in. |
| (42153) | |
| 104 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will support proposals to inform each person who passes the driving test that pedestrians carrying red and white striped canes are both deaf and blind. |
| (42802) | |
| 105 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will take steps to promote awareness amongst drivers of motor vehicles that a pedestrian carrying a red and white striped cane is both deaf and blind. |
| (42801) | |
| 106 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will take steps to promote awareness amongst drivers of motor vehicles that pedestrians carrying a red and white striped cane are both deaf and blind. |
| (42801) | |
| 107 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what are the terms of the franchise granted to LTS Rail in respect of the times for the opening of booking offices. |
| (42414) | |
| 108 N | Mr Tony McWalter (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he has taken to permit powered two-wheel vehicles to use bus lanes, on a national basis. |
| (42316) | |
| 109 N | Mr Tony McWalter (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to establish a Motorcycling Strategy Group as part of the Integrated Transport Policy. |
| (42314) | |
| 110 N | Mr Tony McWalter (Hemel Hempstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the role for powered two-wheel vehicles in an Integrated Transport Policy. |
| (42315) | |
| 111 | Sir Raymond Powell (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 13th May, Official Report, column 118, if he will list the Park and Ride schemes initiatives, by local authority funded by his Department. |
| (42792) | |
| 112 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will raise from 13 years the age at which a person can lawfully drive a tractor on a farm. |
| (42610) | |
| 113 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many children under the age of 16 have been killed on farms in each year since 1990 as a result of an accident arising from agricultural work. |
| (42609) | |
| 114 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many sites of special scientific interest there were in England on 31st March; and what was their total area in hectares. |
| (42441) | |
| 115 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what measures he will take to increase the numbers of new officer recruits to the Merchant Navy; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42547) | |
| 116 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will take steps to reduce employment costs in the Merchant Navy; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42548) | |
| 117 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if an environmental appraisal was produced for the 'A Mayor and Assembly for London' White Paper. |
| (42665) | |
| 118 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many environmental appraisals were produced by the European Commission to accompany proposals presented to the EU Environment Council on 23rd March. |
| (42666) | |
| 119 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many copies of Policy Guidance on Policy Appraisal and the Environment have been printed. |
| (42658) | |
| 120 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many copies of Policy Guidance on Policy Appraisal and the Environment have been requested by each Government department. |
| (42659) | |
| 121 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what procedures have been put in place in the Government Office for the Eastern Region to ensure that Policy Guidance on Policy Appraisal and the Environment is implemented. |
| (42660) | |
| 122 | Mr Gareth Thomas (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the scope and nature of his responsibilities in relation to the review of European structural funds in respect of Wales, indicating the timetable for action by his Department. |
| (42472) | |
| 123 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many accidents on farms there were in (a) 1995, (b) 1996 and (c) 1997; and how many (i) were fatal and (ii) involved children. |
| (42582) | |
| 124 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42852) | |
| 125 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42850) | |
| 126 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42851) | |
| 127 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Department's paper, European Community Finances, if he will calculate the United Kingdom's net payments to European Community institutions in 1998-99, on the same basis as the figures given for European Communities' expenditure in Table B18, page 128 of the Financial Statement and Budget Report, March 1998. |
| (41979) | |
| 128 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 5th May, Official Report, column 331, if he will make it his policy to continue to publish the updated series for the tax burden until a new methodolgy for updating the tax burden can be introduced; by what date he expects to introduce improved statistics for the tax burden; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42148) | |
| 129 N | Mr Douglas Hogg (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when Treasury Ministers were first informed that Her Majesty's Customs and Excise were undertaking an enquiry into the allegations that Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials may have acted unlawfully in connection with the coup in Sierra Leone. |
| (42340) | |
| 130 | Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 20th April, Official Report, columns 400-2, concerning income tax, national insurance and child benefits, if he will provide comparable figures for (a) the tax year 1998-99 and (b) the second half of 1999-2000 on the basis of the figures used in the Financial Statement and Budget Report. |
| (42670) | |
| 131 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many environmental appraisals were produced by the European Commission to accompany proposals presented to ECOFIN at its meeting on 16th February. |
| (42664) | |
| 132 | Mr Gareth Thomas (Clwyd West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the scope and nature of his responsibilities in relation to the review of European structural funds in respect of Wales, indicating the timetable for action by his Department. |
| (42469) | |
| 133 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on his discussions with the Korean trade union movement. |
| (42351) | |
| 134 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list his official engagements during his recent visits to (a) Indonesia, (b) Korea and (c) Malaysia. |
| (42398) | |
| 135 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42847) | |
| 136 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42848) | |
| 137 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42849) | |
| 138 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in what way official telegrams are recorded in (a) his Department and (b) British missions overseas. |
| (42457) | |
| 139 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the application of Security Council Resolution 1132 to the Nigerian-led military observers group of the Economic Community of West African States at the time it was seeking to restore democracy in Sierra Leone. |
| (42560) | |
| 140 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if any official of his Department was in contact with officials of the Customs and Excise on 28th or 29th April in connection with the investigation into Sandline International. |
| (42313) | |
| 141 N | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Turkey on the shooting of the Human Rights Association Leader Akin Birdal. |
| (42439) | |
| 142 N | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will call on the government of Indonesia to show restraint when dealing with unarmed student demonstrators. |
| (42458) | |
| 143 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what has been Her Majesty's Government's contribution to the United Nations Special Commission on Rwanda in each of the last three years. |
| (42389) | |
| 144 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he or his officials have had with the Belgian authorities concerning the investigation into the murder of Mr Gerald Bull; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42608) | |
| 145 N | Mrs Ann Cryer (Keighley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the EU report, Assessing the Technologies of Political Control, what guidelines govern the intelligence-gathering operations of the United States National Security Agency in the United Kingdom in respect of other EU countries. |
| (42044) | |
| 146 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has received from Mr Martin Cadman in response to the Adjournment Debate of 29th April on Lockerbie. |
| (42393) | |
| 147 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Minister of State, the honourable Member for Manchester Central, met representatives of Sandline International in Sierra Leone on 31st March. |
| (42287) | |
| 148 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the occasions on which his special representative to Sierra Leone, Mr John Flynn, met representatives of Sandline International in (a) London and (b) Sierra Leone since 9th January. |
| (42286) | |
| 149 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the basis of Mr John Flynn's appointment as his special representative to Sierra Leone. |
| (42281) | |
| 150 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what are the terms of reference of Mr John Flynn's appointment as his special representative to Sierra Leone. |
| (42282) | |
| 151 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions he has (a) met (b) spoken to Mr John Flynn, his special representative to Sierra Leone since 9th January; and what was discussed on each occasion. |
| (42285) | |
| 152 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Minister of State, the honourable Member for Manchester Central, discussed the activities of Sandline International with Mr John Flynn at their meeting on 19th March. |
| (42284) | |
| 153 N | Mr David Faber (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Minister of State, the honourable Member for Manchester Central, discussed the activities of Sandline International with representatives of NGOs at their meeting on 1st April |
| (42283) | |
| 154 N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his Inquiry into the supply of arms to Sierra Leone will be held in public. |
| (42262) | |
| 155 N | Mr Douglas Hogg (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral Answer of 12th May, Office Report, column 164, if the telegram of 6th February was copied to (a) his Private Office and (b) other ministerial private offices. |
| (42311) | |
| 156 N | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure that defence exports promoted by his Department are not used to repress internal dissent in the purchasing countries. |
| (41307) | |
| 157 | Ms Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he intends to take to encourage the international community to broker a resolution of the Kashmir issue. |
| (42764) | |
| 158 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what was the total number of staff of all grades employed by his Department; and what percentage of these staff were eligible to claim a car mileage allowance on 31st March in each year since 1990. |
| (42550) | |
| 159 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what was the total value in real terms of (a) staff car mileage claims paid and (b) staff rail fares paid in each year since 1989-90; and what was the total amount of staff car mileage for which reimbursement was made and the percentage change in each year since 1989-90. |
| (42551) | |
| 160 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of his Department's energy usage was from (a) renewable energy and (b) combined heating in each year since 1989-90. |
| (42552) | |
| 161 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what was the quantity of (a) oil, (b) gas and (c) electricity purchased for the heating, lighting and powering of all accommodation occupied by his Department within the UK in each year since 1989-90; and what was the total cost in real terms of (a) to (c) in each year. |
| (42549) | |
| 162 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on human rights in the Congo and the expulsion of UN representatives. |
| (42799) | |
| 163 | Mr Gareth Thomas (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the nature and scope of his responsibilities in relation to the review of European structural funds in respect of Wales, indicating the timetable for action by his Department. |
| (42471) | |
| 164 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Indian counterparts on India's defence policies. |
| (42564) | |
| 165 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on relations with Sudan; and if he will facilitate discussions between the Khartoum government and the SPLM/SPLA. |
| (42346) | |
| 166 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his most recent discussions with Jos«e Ramos Horta; and what representations he has made recently to the government of Indonesia regarding human rights, with particular reference to ethnic Chinese residents of Indonesia. |
| (42345) | |
| 167 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take further steps to assist the governments of (a) Kenya and (b) Uganda to resolve conflicts in their countries. |
| (42397) | |
| 168 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received regarding the first annual human rights report from (a) foreign governments and (b) British non-governmental organisations. |
| (42396) | |
| 169 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the President of the European Commission concerning the future size of European structural funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42430) | |
| 170 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42828) | |
| 171 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42826) | |
| 172 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42827) | |
| 173 N | Mr John Butterfill (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish and place in the Library the detailed statistical basis for the statement by the Minister for Public Health on 6th May, Official Report, column 700, that more than two-thirds of the public support the fluoridation of water; and if he will publish the particulars of all the areas where consultation has taken place, the identity of the sponsors of the consultation, details of the questions asked, including information as to whether there was any public education of those interviewed, details of the representations received and precise information as to sample sizes. |
| (41982) | |
| 174 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the targets set for (a) Redbridge and Waltham Forest District Health Authority, (b) Forest Healthcare Trust and (c) Redbridge Health Trust for (i) the current year and (ii) previous years. |
| (42392) | |
| 175 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the risk of myelography causing arachnoiditis; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42391) | |
| 176 N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages of insurance as a way for individuals to pay for long-term care. |
| (42064) | |
| 177 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reports he has received of adverse reactions following the use of the anti-acne drug Roaccutane/Accutane; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42061) | |
| 178 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that inducements may not be offered to surgeons in order to encourage them to use specific hip replacement prostheses. |
| (42063) | |
| 179 | Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that the present terms and conditions of staff employed by the National Blood Authority remain in place. |
| (42678) | |
| 180 N | Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the discovery of prescribed drugs collected by Ian Brady at Ashworth Hospital and the purposes for which they were collected. |
| (42605) | |
| 181 N | Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the current prescribing of drugs and checks on patients taking medication at Ashworth Hospital. |
| (42606) | |
| 182 N | Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of procedures for the checking of items (a) coming in and and (b) leaving Ashworth Hospital. |
| (42607) | |
| 183 N | Alice Mahon (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he has taken regarding recent security breaches at Ashworth Hospital. |
| (42604) | |
| 184 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are taken to ensure that National Health Service trusts have adequate arrangements for recording accidents on National Health Service premises; what encouragement is given to staff to report accidents; and what steps the National Health Service Executive takes to monitor the safety performance of National Health Service trusts. |
| (42461) | |
| 185 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many working days were lost through sickness, ill health or injury by National Health Service staff in the last year for which figures are available; and at what estimated total cost. |
| (42459) | |
| 186 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list his duties in respect of ensuring the safety of (a) staff employed in the National Health Service, and (b) patients and visitors to National Health Service premises. |
| (42464) | |
| 187 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if National Health Service trusts are required to include reports on their health and safety record in their annual reports. |
| (42463) | |
| 188 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical and nursing staff have worked in occupational health in the National Health Service for the last five years for which figures are available; and what were the grades of those employees. |
| (42460) | |
| 189 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of National Health Service staff in each region have access to an occupational health service. |
| (42462) | |
| 190 | Mr David Prior (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists practise in Norfolk; and what is the average number of people registered with each dental practitioner (a) in Norfolk and (b) nationally. |
| (42770) | |
| 191 | Mr Brian Sedgemore (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to establish the NHS Executive Regional Office for London; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42671) | |
| 192 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received in the last year on the extension of glaucoma testing as part of the NHS standard sight test; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42368) | |
| 193 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evaluation he has made of (a) the increased cost of ensuring that every NHS periodic sight test includes all three glaucoma detection tests and (b) the additional number of early-stage glaucoma cases that would be detected with universal three test procedures; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42367) | |
| 194 | Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimates he has made of (a) the number and (b) the proportion of opticians who carry out the full three stage test for glaucoma in the course of NHS sight tests; what plans he has to extend the provision of all three tests to all patients receiving NHS sight tests; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42366) | |
| 195 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many environmental appraisals were produced by the European Commission to accompany proposals presented to the EU Health Council on 1st May. |
| (42668) | |
| 196 | Mr David Tredinnick (Bosworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make complementary medicine therapies more readily available under the NHS to those on lower incomes. |
| (42566) | |
| 197 | Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with spinal cord injury have not received specialist treatment at a spinal injuries unit in each of the last three years. |
| (42653) | |
| 198 | Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what studies have been undertaken or commissioned by his Department on (a) the quality of life and (b) the long term cost of care of people with spinal cord injury who (i) received treatment and (ii) did not receive treatment at a spinal injuries unit. |
| (42650) | |
| 199 | Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with acute spinal cord injury are awaiting admittance to a spinal injuries unit. |
| (42649) | |
| 200 | Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people diagnosed with spinal cord injury died before reaching a spinal injuries unit, in each year since 1990-91. |
| (42652) | |
| 201 | Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department (a) has commissioned and (b) proposes into (i) the incidence and (ii) the prevalence of spinal cord injury. |
| (42628) | |
| 202 | Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with spinal cord injury are currently being treated in (a) spinal injuries units and (b) non-specialist hospitals. |
| (42651) | |
| 203 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the mechanism used to determine funding for the West Kent Health Authority for (a) 1995-96, (b) 1996-97, (c) 1997-98 and (d) 1998-99; and what factors underlay (i) the requirement for additional funding in (1) 1995-96, (2) 1996-97 and (3) 1997-98 and (ii) the overspend in the current year. |
| (41922) | |
| 204 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the PFI for the new hospital on the Isle of Sheppey; and what contingency plans his Department has made in the event of failure of the PFI. |
| (41919) | |
| 205 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors led to the construction of two new wards in the Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital in 1996-97; what funding was secured to staff and equip them; and when they will be staffed and equipped. |
| (41920) | |
| 206 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors led the North Kent Health Trust to purchase a new greenfield site for the intended Sheppey Community Hospital prior to determination of the PFI. |
| (41921) | |
| 207 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42841) | |
| 208 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42842) | |
| 209 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42843) | |
| 210 | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences involving a loaded antique firearm have been committed in the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42800) | |
| 211 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the advice contained in Section Two: Board Report of Form HDC (4) in the draft guidance to governors on the eligibility of prisoners for early release on home detention curfew applies in the case of prisoners required to register under Part I of the Sex Offenders Act 1997. |
| (42356) | |
| 212 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if prisoners required to register under Part I of the Sex Offenders Act 1997 will not be eligible to apply for early release on home detention curfew. |
| (42353) | |
| 213 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Brigg and Goole of 12th May, Official Report, column 70, if he will define the exceptional circumstances in which prisoners who are required to register under Part I of the Sex Offenders Act 1997 would be released on home detention curfew. |
| (42372) | |
| 214 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners (a) are currently eligible for release on home detention curfew and (b) will be released following (i) a standard assessment and (ii) an enhanced assessment. |
| (42355) | |
| 215 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if prisoners who are required to register under Part I of the Sex Offenders Act 1997 and who apply for early release under home detention curfew are to be evaluated by any criteria under the enhanced assessment procedure which are not used in the case of other categories of prisoner required to go through the enhanced assessment procedure before early release under the home detention curfew. |
| (42354) | |
| 216 N | Mrs Ann Cryer (Keighley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines his Department issues on the use of CS gas against individuals being restrained by police officers. |
| (41980) | |
| 217 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the letter of Lord Williams of Mostyn AP/981/10/207, what assessment he has made of the quality of animal care in British universities. |
| (41121) | |
| 218 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases lodged with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board under the 1992 scheme or its predecessors remain (a) to be disposed at first instance and (b) to be disposed of on appeal. |
| (42445) | |
| 219 | Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of people driving under the influence of drugs have been reported by South Yorkshire Police in each of the last five years. |
| (42656) | |
| 220 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the impact of recent measures to remove drugs and alcohol from Everthorpe Prison on discipline at that prison. |
| (42062) | |
| 221 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of prisons he forecasts will be free of the use of illegal drugs by 2002. |
| (42060) | |
| 222 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the training courses offered to Metropolitan Police officers in 1997 and 1998 to date. |
| (42805) | |
| 223 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department last reviewed police training. |
| (42791) | |
| 224 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the total training budget of the Metropolitan Police for the current financial year. |
| (42807) | |
| 225 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the training consultants commissioned by the Metropolitan Police during 1997 and 1998 to date. |
| (42806) | |
| 226 N | Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects claim reference HER 13040 to be settled under the firearms compensation scheme; and if interest will be paid on this claim. |
| (41983) | |
| 227 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the dates in the last 12 months on which members of the Association of Chief Police Officers Administration of Firearms and Explosives Licensing Sub-Committee attended the Home Office Working Groups on (a) the Reference Panel on Historic Firearms, (b) the Firearms Forms, (c) the Approved Club Criteria and (d) the Home Office Memorandum of Guidance on the Administration of Firearms revision; and if he will list the names of the (i) committee members, and (ii) others attending each of these meetings. |
| (42412) | |
| 228 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the letter of 5th May from the Scottish Office, Home Department, Police Division, to Mr T. McCarthy, Secretary Scottish SPA, regarding consultation on matters affecting the administration of Firearms Acts for what reasons Mr McCarthy has not been (a) supplied with documents and (b) consulted by the Home Office Operational Police Policy Unit in London in connection with their review and proposed changes to the firearms rules or forms. |
| (42411) | |
| 229 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assurances an applicant for a firearm or shotgun certificate will have in respect of patient confidentiality between himself and his doctor, under the proposals recommended by his Department's Operational Police Policy Unit to require or authorise enquiries to be made by the police directly with the applicant's general medical practitioner; what safeguards he proposes to include in the proposals; and if he will publish copies of the advice which he has received from the British Medical Association and other professional medical representative bodies. |
| (42416) | |
| 230 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assurances the applicant for a firearm or shotgun certificate will have that enquiring police officers or police civilians have a satisfactory understanding of the medical facts presented to them, under the proposals being made by his Department's operational police policy units to require future applications to disclose to the police any medical condition or disability. |
| (42415) | |
| 231 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the funds and assistance provided in each year since 1994-95 to the Association of Chief Police Officers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from (a) the Home Office, (b) other Government departments and (c) each police authority or board. |
| (42410) | |
| 232 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultations the Home Office Operational Police Policy Unit held with (a) Scottish Firearms Clubs or Associations and (b) the Deer Commission for Scotland on their proposed changes to the Firearms Rules and Firearms Forms. |
| (42413) | |
| 233 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the grades within the uniformed police or civilian police service which make up the membership of the Association of Chief Police Officers in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. |
| (42406) | |
| 234 | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to what extent probation services provided through local authorities have (a) been expanded and (b) diminished between 1996-97 and 1997-98. |
| (42400) | |
| 235 | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the current and capital probation grant and credit approvals to local authorities were reduced between 1996-97 and 1997-98. |
| (42401) | |
| 236 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42815) | |
| 237 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42814) | |
| 238 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when her Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if she will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42816) | |
| 239 N | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on her policy towards providing aid to countries with extensive military programmes including the development of weapons of mass destruction. |
| (42390) | |
| 240 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list for (i) India, (ii) Pakistan and (iii) China the amount of (1) aid delivered (a) government to government (b) through non-governmental organisations and (c) by other means and (2) export credit guarantees made available; and if she will list in each case the projects involved in each of the last two years. |
| (42760) | |
| 241 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has received about the resources available to Operation Lifeline Sudan; and if she will make a statement. |
| (42761) | |
| 242 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department is giving to human rights projects, and at what cost, in (a) Malawi, (b) Zambia, (c) Sierra Leone and (d) Nigeria. |
| (42468) | |
| 243 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 1997-98 in the areas of (i) human rights and (ii) democracy and good governance; in which countries; and what provision she has made for similar expenditure in 1998-99. |
| (42467) | |
| 244 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, who represented her Department at the World Bank meeting in Washington on 1st April on international humanitarian aid efforts for Indonesia; what was discussed; and if she will make a statement. |
| (42762) | |
| 245 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department is giving towards promoting the human rights of remote area dwellers in Botswana; and at what cost. |
| (42466) | |
| 246 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the (a) Minister without Portfolio and (b) Chancellor of the Exchequer about a Third World Debt reduction project at the Millenniun Dome; and if she will make a statement. |
| (42716) | |
| 247 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provided to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 1997-98; and what sums she plans to provide in 1998-99. |
| (42444) | |
| 248 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her Indian counterparts on the impact on the Warli culture of a deepwater port at Vadhavan in Dahanu Taluka. |
| (42562) | |
| 249 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to review aid contributions to the Indian sub-continent. |
| (42563) | |
| 250 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish her Department's guidelines for UK multinationals investing in ecologically-sensitive areas overseas. |
| (42561) | |
| 251 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has received regarding Her Majesty's Government's first annual human rights reports from (a) foreign governments, (b) international aid agencies and (c) British charities and non-governmental organisations. |
| (42347) | |
| 252 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the present level of British aid to Sudan; to what sectors and categories it is apportioned; and to what jurisdictions and areas it is delivered. |
| (42348) | |
| 253 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42844) | |
| 254 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department. |
| (42845) | |
| 255 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when his Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if he will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42846) | |
| 256 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what evaluation he has made of the Law Society's research undertaken by Sheffield University, and the Law Society's response to his Department's research undertaken by KPMG into conditional fees; and if he will publish his conclusions and the evidence underlying them. |
| (42584) | |
| 257 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what research he has commissioned or undertaken into the effect of his proposals for the (a) wider introduction of conditional fee arrangements and (b) allocation of legal aid in personal injury cases from the consumer's perspective. |
| (42586) | |
| 258 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many barristers in England and Wales undertook legal aid work in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what was the average income from legal aid, excluding VAT, of those barristers in each of those years; and how many of those barristers were not included in his parliamentary Answer of 28th April to the honourable Member for West Lancashire, Official Report, column 65. |
| (42599) | |
| 259 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what evaluation he has made of the pre-action protocols piloted by nine firms of solicitors and six insurers since October 1997; and if he will publish his conclusions, indicating the evidence underlying them. |
| (42585) | |
| 260 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many firms of solicitors in England and Wales underlook legal aid work in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what was the average income from legal aid, excluding VAT and disbursements, of those firms in each of those years; and how many of these firms were not included in his Answer of 28th April to the honourable Member for West Lancashire, Official Report, column 65. |
| (42598) | |
| 261 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the dates when those parts of the Defamation Act 1996 not yet in force are to come into force; and when the attendant rules of court will become effective. |
| [R] (42456) | |
| 262 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, which sections of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 have been implemented; and what are his plans for the implementation of outstanding sections. |
| (42288) | |
| 263 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, what assessment he has made of the risk of release of toxic gases from the structure of the Millennium Dome in the event of a fire. |
| (42616) | |
| 264 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister without Portfolio, what fire prevention measures will be installed in the Millennium Dome. |
| (42654) | |
| 265 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42808) | |
| 266 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when her Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if she will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42810) | |
| 267 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42809) | |
| 268 N | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the new commissions and other bodies that will be brought into being under the Castle Buildings Agreement, stating the estimated (a) annual running costs and (b) number of staff to be employed by each entity. |
| (42161) | |
| 269 N | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has to make ministers in the proposed Northern Ireland Assembly subject to the Official Secrets Act 1989 on taking office; and if she will make a statement about the security implications of Ministers from paramilitary-connected parties taking government office. |
| (42164) | |
| 270 N | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) numbers and (b) percentage of police reservists have not had their contracts renewed in the last three years. |
| (42165) | |
| 271 N | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the acts of paramilitary violence carried out in April, indicating to which paramilitary organisation the police have attributed responsibility. |
| (42162) | |
| 272 N | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what salary and expenses she proposes to pay to (a) each member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and (b) each Minister. |
| (42163) | |
| 273 N | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement about the decision concerning the number of graduate management trainees to be recruited to the Northern Ireland Civil Service in 1997. |
| (42167) | |
| 274 N | Mr Robert McCartney (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement about the implications of the use of forged medical cards for election personation; and what recent progress has been made in eliminating this form of fraud. |
| (42166) | |
| 275 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many sites of special scientific interest there were in Northern Ireland on 1st March; and what was their total area in hectares. |
| (42440) | |
| 276 N | The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to her oral statement of 22nd April, Official Report, column 940, if she will list the amounts paid or due to be paid to the various parties in connection with the forthcoming referendum. |
| (42146) | |
| 277 | The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimates he has made of the costs of extending reproductive health care and abortion services in Northern Ireland; and which aspects will receive priority. |
| (42685) | |
| 278 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will ensure that the people of Northern Ireland have the same access to reproductive health care and abortion services as is available in England and Wales. |
| (42567) | |
| 279 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she will take to ensure that the proposed new Equality Commission, addresses the concerns of the (a) South Asian and (b) Chinese communities in Northern Ireland. |
| (42350) | |
| 280 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what was the cost to her Department of administering grants to agriculture in the last year; and how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff were involved. |
| (42436) | |
| 281 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the President of the Council, if she will list the occasions since 1968 on which standing committee proceedings have not been reported by Hansard in their entirety. |
| (42375) | |
| 282 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Prime Minister, what United Kingdom public funds were made available to President Kabbah of Sierra Leone during his exile; and what reports he has received on what the money was used for. |
| (42803) | |
| 283 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 11th May, Official Report, columns 19-20, what weight the Government places on the decision of the Lord Advocate, stated on 6th October 1995, that proof of the case against the two Libyans accused in respect of Lockerbie does not depend on evidence which may be given by Mr James T. Thurman; and what independent assessment it has made of the relevance of Mr Thurman's evidence. |
| (42611) | |
| 284 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, what plans Her Majesty's Government has to provide contributions in terms of (a) food aid, (b) agricultural development and (c) the provision of light water reactors to North Korea. |
| (42424) | |
| 285 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, what plans he has to visit (a) the Suzlou Industrial Park and (b) Sichuan Province during his forthcoming visit to China. |
| (42352) | |
| 286 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will support the expansion of ASEM to include India and Pakistan; |
| (42358) | |
| 287 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, when he plans to visit the Republic of Korea. |
| (42360) | |
| 288 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on ASEM II in London, listing his bilateral meetings with foreign leaders during the summit; and what responses have been received to the proposed trust fund from (a) foreign governments and (b) international financial institutions. |
| (42357) | |
| 289 | Mr Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his discussions with the President of the Republic of Korea, with particular reference to his policy towards North Korea. |
| (42359) | |
| 290 N | Mr Desmond Browne (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the report which he commissioned into Women's Offending. |
| (42280) | |
| 291 | Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps he is taking to monitor the content of teaching and information materials about the Euro currency funded by the European Commission supplied to schools in Scotland and to ensure its compliance with the terms of the Education Act 1996. |
| (42681) | |
| 292 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how his Department ensures that police boards have an appropriate mechanism for dealing with formal complaints against the chief constable or deputy or assistant chief constables. |
| (42428) | |
| 293 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many formal complaints have been made in each of the last five years against (a) Scottish chief constables and (b) deputy and assistant chief constables; how they were dealt with; and what the outcome was of each complaint. |
| (42431) | |
| 294 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on his policy regarding the conservation of the Green Belt and of the countryside around cities and towns. |
| (42546) | |
| 295 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what system each police board has in place to deal with formal complaints against the chief constable or deputy or assistant chief constables. |
| (42427) | |
| 296 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list planning approvals allowing development in the Green Belt in Scotland since 1st January 1995, indicating the council concerned, the nature, date, location and extent of each development, the developer and whether approval was given by the council or by his Department. |
| (42429) | |
| 297 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the councils which have sought approval since 1st January 1995 to remove protection from land previously designated as greenbelt and the date and the area of land involved in each case. |
| (42446) | |
| 298 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the parts of Scotland designated as Green Belt, indicating the areas covered. |
| (42433) | |
| 299 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when the agreement was signed between the Forestry Commission and the Masters of Foxhounds Association incorporating standard terms and conditions for hunting with hounds on Forestry Commission land. |
| (41887) | |
| 300 | Mrs Ray Michie (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on his Department's funding for the Scottish National Sleep Centre for (a) 1998 and (b) each year since 1992. |
| (42717) | |
| 301 | Mrs Ray Michie (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people are currently on waiting lists to be treated at the Scottish National Sleep Centre. |
| (42718) | |
| 302 | Mrs Ray Michie (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what was the average length of time for which a patient had to wait for treatment at the Scottish National Sleep Centre in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42719) | |
| 303 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) 0 to 3 months, (b) 3 to 6 months, (c) 6 to 9 months, (d) 9 to 12 months and (e) over 12 months on 31st March. |
| (42337) | |
| 304 N | Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list (a) by Employment Service region and (b) in total (i) the number of personal advisers in post to administer the New Deal programme and (ii) the number of New Deal applicants expected in 1998-99; and if he will calculate by Employment Service region the ratio of expected New Deal applicants to personal advisers, indicating the average for Scotland. |
| (42149) | |
| 305 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many sites of special scientific interest there were in Scotland on 31st March; and what was their total area in hectares. |
| (42443) | |
| 306 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the funds and assistance provided in each year since 1994-95, to the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland by (a) the Scottish Office, (b) other Government departments and (c) each police authority or board. |
| (42409) | |
| 307 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) the report by the Deputy Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police, on the Grampian Constabulary and (b) other reports concerning the management and administration of the Constabulary. |
| (42404) | |
| 308 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the grades within the uniformed police or civilian police service which make up the membership of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland. |
| (42405) | |
| 309 | Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when the Green Paper on the childcare strategy for Scotland will be published. |
| (42769) | |
| 310 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what was the cost to his Department of administering grants to agriculture in the last year; and how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff were involved. |
| (42437) | |
| 311 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42812) | |
| 312 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when her Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if she will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42813) | |
| 313 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42811) | |
| 314 N | Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster and Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she will estimate the cost of establishing a common minimum pension for men and women at 60 years including a breakdown of both costs and savings. |
| (41981) | |
| 315 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many actors received non-means tested jobseeker's allowance in 1997-98; and how much was paid to actors in terms of non-means tested jobseeker's allowance in 1997-98. |
| (42577) | |
| 316 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she will calculate the net difference in the amount that actors as a group pay in class 1 national insurance contributions and the amount that they claim and receive in terms of non-means tested benefits. |
| (42576) | |
| 317 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many staff are currently employed on casual contracts by the Child Support Agency. |
| (42767) | |
| 318 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many employees resigned from working for the Child Support Agency in (a) 1997, (b) 1996, (c) 1995 and (d) 1994; and how many employees were appointed by the Child Support Agency in each of those years. |
| (42765) | |
| 319 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many full-time equivalent vacancies the Child Support Agency had on 14th May. |
| (42766) | |
| 320 | Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what grants or loans are available to pensioners in Northampton who were victims of the recent floods. |
| (42385) | |
| 321 | Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many flood victims in Northampton have received (a) community care grants, (b) budgeting loans and (c) crisis loans; and what is the average value of each category of grant or loan. |
| (42382) | |
| 322 | Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the (i) average and (ii) range of time it has taken to process (a) community care grants, (b) budgeting loans and (c) crisis loans from date of receipt of application by the Benefits Agency to receipt of funds by the applicant. |
| (42383) | |
| 323 | Ms Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if she will make a statement on the future funding of women's aid refuges. |
| (42763) | |
| 324 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans she has, when reviewing the level of the basic state pension, to take account of the rises in the levels of fuel tax and council tax in 1998-99; and if she will make a statement. |
| (42662) | |
| 325 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when she plans to undertake the reassessment of Mr Trevor J. Collier's war pension disability assessment, made in 1959, of 20 per cent., which he requested in 1996. |
| (42465) | |
| 326 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when the honourable Member for Walsall North will receive a reply to his letter of 30th March regarding a constituent, Ref. 5/3644/30. |
| (42264) | |
| 327 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what is the average attendance fee of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42818) | |
| 328 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what is the average salary of (a) male and (b) female members of boards of non-departmental public bodies responsible to her Department. |
| (42817) | |
| 329 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when her Department's action plan for increasing the number of women holding public appointments will be published; and if she will place a copy in the Library. |
| (42819) | |
| 330 N | Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what representations she has received regarding the eligibility for Objective 5b funding of projects involving the private sector. |
| (42323) | |
| 331 | Mr Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement on the regulation of insolvency practitioners and of their charges. |
| (42804) | |
| 332 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will institute enquiries under section 432 of the Companies Act 1985 into the price paid and arrangements made for the sale and distribution of the assets, including stock, of Cabouchon jewellery and the Cabouchon trade mark. |
| (42565) | |
| 333 | Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement on the preparations for issuing licences under the Wireless Telegraphy Acts for operators of third generation mobile telecommunications networks. |
| (42794) | |
| 334 N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how old the longest outstanding application for an export licence is. |
| (42580) | |
| 335 N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many export contracts she estimates have been cancelled because of the withholding of export licences as a result of the ethical foreign policy; and if he will estimate the number of jobs lost in consequence. |
| (42578) | |
| 336 N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when each of the current reviews relating to the energy industry will be completed. |
| (42596) | |
| 337 N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many export licence applications are currently pending. |
| (42579) | |
| 338 | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many reviews of the energy industry the Government is conducting. |
| (42600) | |
| 339 N | Sir Raymond Powell (Ogmore): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how much has been paid to (a) widows and (b) miners who were in receipt of state benefits for chronic bronchitis and emphysema; how many (i) miners and (ii) widows are entitled to receive these benefits; when the final payments are to be paid; and what arrangements apply to the interest on this money whilst negotiations continue. |
| (42341) | |
| 340 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what directions and instructions have been issued in the last month to the UKAEA by the Safety Inspectorate. |
| (42376) | |
| 341 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what export licences have been granted to Sandline International in the last year. |
| (42379) | |
| 342 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if the recycling capacity at Dounreay is currently operational. |
| (42121) | |
| 343 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how frequently she receives reports on arms sales to African markets. |
| (42378) | |
| 344 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when information was first placed in her red boxes about the Customs and Excise investigation into involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42594) | |
| 345 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when information was first placed in her red boxes about military intervention to restore the government of President Kabbah of Sierra Leone. |
| (42593) | |
| 346 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when her Private Office was first notified of the Customs and Excise investigation into the involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42592) | |
| 347 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what instructions she has given on the information which she wished to be drawn to her attention (a) in red boxes and (b) otherwise; and if she will indicate when and how these instructions have been modified. |
| (42587) | |
| 348 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what contacts (a) officials and (b) ministers in her Department have had with Sandline over the last year. |
| (42380) | |
| 349 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she was first notified of the Customs and Excise investigation into the involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42588) | |
| 350 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, what investment the UKAEA is planning at its Dounreay facilities in the next three years; and what revisions to these plans have been made in the last six months. |
| (42122) | |
| 351 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when information was first placed in her red boxes about the involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42595) | |
| 352 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when her Private Office was first informed of the involvement of Sandline International in operations in Sierra Leone. |
| (42590) | |
| 353 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, which facilities at Dounreay are not currently functioning; and what recent reports she has received on the safety and condition of the plant. |
| (42120) | |
| 354 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she was first notified of the involvement of Sandline International in Sierra Leone. |
| (42589) | |
| 355 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when she was first informed of the involvement of a British company in the restoration of the democratic government in Sierra Leone. |
| (42377) | |
| 356 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, when (a) she and (b) her Private Office first received reports of proposed military intervention to restore the government of President Kabbah of Sierra Leone. |
| (42591) | |
| 357 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if an environmental appraisal will be produced as part of the Competitiveness White Paper, using Policy Guidance on Policy Appraisal and the Environment. |
| (42667) | |
| 358 | Mr Gareth Thomas (Clwyd West): To ask the President of the Board of Trade, if she will make a statement on the scope and nature of her responsibilities in relation to the review of European structural funds in respect of Wales, indicating the timetable for action by her Department. |
| (42470) | |
| 359 | Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps he is taking to monitor the content of teaching and information materials about the Euro currency funded by the European Commission supplied to schools in Wales and to ensure its compliance with the terms of the Education Act 1996. |
| (42680) | |
| 360 | Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is his estimate of the cost of (a) preparing a corporate plan for the NHS in Wales and (b) managing the trust reconfiguration exercise. |
| (42597) | |
| 361 | Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the total estimated amount of New Deal funding to be provided in Wales for (i) young people and (ii) disabled people. |
| (42672) | |
| 362 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on the competitiveness of manufacturing industry in Wales, with particular reference to the steel production centres in Wales. |
| (42447) | |
| 363 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what visits he has made to aerospace factories in North East Wales; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42454) | |
| 364 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on publicly funded assistance for people to participate in sport. |
| (42451) | |
| 365 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the amounts of Sports Council, Wales money allocated to cricket clubs in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42452) | |
| 366 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what progress has been made in finding a tenant for the factory at Drury, Buckley in Flintshire which was previously occupied by the Optec D.D. |
| (42453) | |
| 367 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what action his Department has taken following the recent redundancies announced at Assi Doran Buckley, and Kimberley Clark, Deeside; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42455) | |
| 368 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how he encourages competitiveness in small businesses in Wales, with particular reference to export-dependent manufacturing businesses. |
| (42450) | |
| 369 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement as to how he assists the automotive industry in Wales, with particular reference to the Toyota Engine Plant, Deeside, North East Wales. |
| (42448) | |
| 370 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on the impact of the current level of sterling upon export-dependent small businesses in Wales. |
| (42449) | |
| 371 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many sites of special scientific interest there were in Wales on 31st March; and what was their total area in hectares. |
| (42442) | |
| 372 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many modern apprenticeships will be available in each training and enterprise council area for 1998-99. |
| (42682) | |
| 373 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list those further education colleges which are currently in deficit; and by how much. |
| (42613) | |
| 374 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many students were in further education in Wales at the time of incorporation of the further education colleges; and what have been the annual changes in numbers since incorporation. |
| (42647) | |
| 375 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what will be the budget for each training and enterprise council in Wales for 1998-99; and if he will indicate the change in the Budget in money and percentage terms compared with those of 1997-98. |
| (42683) | |
| 376 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what has been the budget for further education in each year since incorporation and what the budget will be for 1998-99; and what percentage change has occurred since incorporation. |
| (42646) | |
| 377 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the average funding per student in further education in Wales; and what assessment he has made of this level relative to that applying in (a) England and (b) Scotland. |
| (42684) | |
| 378 N | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his Answer of 8th May, Official Report, columns 512-3, on Gwent Tertiary College, if he will place copies of the letters from the Chairman of Gwent Tertiary College Further Education Corporation in the Library. |
| (42147) | |
| 379 | Mr Gareth Thomas (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on the nature and scope of his responsibilities in relation to the review of European structural funds in respect of Wales, indicating the timetable for action by his Department. |
| (42473) | |
| 380 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much new funding is available in the current year to (a) build new community hospitals and (b) upgrade existing community hospitals; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42432) | |
| 381 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what consultation he is undertaking concerning the brief for architects for the competition to design the National Assembly building in Cardiff; what studies his Department is undertaking of new parliamentary buildings in other countries; and at what stage he will specify the financial parameters for the construction of the building. |
| (42474) | |
| 382 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the terms of reference for the consultants he has engaged to make recommendations on a new system of administering agricultural grants and payments in Wales; and if he will make a statement. |
| (42434) | |
| 383 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many (a) temporary, (b) part-time and (c) seasonal staff worked in (i) the agricultural department and (ii) other departments of the Welsh Office in (1) 1997-98 and (2) 1998-99. |
| (42435) | |
| 384 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has received concerning changes to quarantine regulations for domestic animals returning from EU countries. |
| [Transferred] (42669) | |
| 385 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will publish a command paper listing, by Department, the environmental appraisals which have been produced in accordance with Policy Guidance on Policy Appraisal and the Environment. |
| [Transferred] (42661) | |
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