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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 15 February 1999
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 15 February of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 15 February, of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order of Business. For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Tuesday 16 February, see Part 2 of this Paper. |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| 1 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Chairman of the Accommodation and Works Committee, how long the temporary arrangement is due to last for the provision of a passage between the House and the Norman Shaw buildings. |
| (70996) | |
| 2 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if crops grown in genetically modified food trials will be allowed to enter the food chain. |
| (71413) | |
| 3 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what studies his Department has commissioned on the safety of synthetic pyrethroid products. |
| (71541) | |
| 4 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the impact of synthetic pyrethroid sheep dips on water courses. |
| (71540) | |
| 5 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71270) | |
| 6 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71284) | |
| 7 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70470) | |
| 8 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70484) | |
| 9 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will estimate how many food premises are exempt from the Food Premises (Registration) Regulations 1991 by reason of not being open for more than four days in any consecutive period of five weeks. |
| (71365) | |
| 10 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 12th January, Official Report, columns 160-1, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71024) | |
| 11 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 12th January, Official Report, columns 160-1, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71025) | |
| 12 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70978) | |
| 13 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many acres of farm land in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland have been bought in each of the last five years for which figures are available with funds released by roll-over relief. |
| (71161) | |
| 14 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what recent representations he has received about a possible ban on the sale of pork products whose methods of production are illegal in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71525) | |
| 15 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71348) | |
| 16 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the current statistical risk of dying from new variant CJD as a result of the consumption of beef on the bone (a) using 1999 data together with the SEAC published 1997 risk analysis formula and (b) provided to him by his Department. |
| (70089) | |
| 17 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has received on the EU Groundwater Directive and the cost of its implementation in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71528) | |
| 18 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has received on the importation of hormone-treated beef from the United States of America; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71537) | |
| 19 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71518) | |
| 20 N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what powers will be available to the Food Standards Agency to enforce food labelling regulations. |
| (70814) | |
| 21 N | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what powers the Food Standards Agency will have to regulate the activities of local authorities with regard to enforcement of food hygiene and labelling regulations. |
| (70815) | |
| 22 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how much land held by his Department he estimates would fall within the definition of open country as set out in the consultation document Access to the Open Countryside of February 1998. |
| (71639) | |
| 23 N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he is taking to investigate the incidence of salmonella in chickens sold in supermarkets. |
| (70883) | |
| 24 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what grants the Home Grown Cereals Authority has made for research into organic cereal production. |
| (71534) | |
| 25 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has received concerning methods of enforcement of meat hygiene regulations in other EU states as compared to enforcement in the United Kingdom and the impact of any differences on the competitiveness of UK products; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71158) | |
| 26 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask Mr Attorney General, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70461) | |
| 27 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask Mr Attorney General, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70475) | |
| 28 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the arrangements and mechanisms whereby the Women's Unit will ensure that women's interests are taken into account in the development and delivery of policies by all Government departments in line with the performance targets. |
| (71533) | |
| 29 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70977) | |
| 30 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 21st January, Official Report, columns 576-7, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71020) | |
| 31 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 21st January, Official Report, columns 576-7, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71021) | |
| 32 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71339) | |
| 33 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71519) | |
| 34 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the numbers of New Deal participants currently working in each Government department. |
| (71187) | |
| 35 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will invite all honourable Members to recommend policy areas for detailed discussions using the Joint Consultative Committee mechanism. |
| (71636) | |
| 36 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, as representing the Church Commissioners, if he will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70961) | |
| 37 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70955) | |
| 38 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what regulations have been introduced which would implicitly exclude Christian broadcasters from the process of obtaining a national radio frequency. |
| (71551) | |
| 39 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71285) | |
| 40 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71271) | |
| 41 | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the amount of (a) inward investment to and (b) total investment in the United Kingdom for feature film production in each of the last five years. |
| (71153) | |
| 42 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70483) | |
| 43 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70469) | |
| 44 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his Answer of 11th January, Official Report, columns 29-30, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71026) | |
| 45 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his Answer of 11th January, Official Report, columns 29-30, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71027) | |
| 46 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70976) | |
| 47 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71343) | |
| 48 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what grants are available for the creation of rides at theme parks in the North West from the English Tourist Board. |
| (71490) | |
| 49 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to develop facilities for (a) cricket and (b) football within Herefordshire; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71156) | |
| 50 | Mr David Lepper (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on the (a) role and (b) levels of public funding of each of the regional film archives. |
| (71167) | |
| 51 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the possible future use of digital television for the broadcasting of sign language inserts and audio description services to complement the use of programme subtitles. |
| (71378) | |
| 52 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress he has made towards establishing targets for the percentage of programmes which should carry subtitles on (a) digital, (b) cable and (c) satellite television media. |
| (71376) | |
| 53 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate when digital, cable and satellite television media will provide subtitling to the same extent as conventional free to air television media; and if he will ensure that such a level is reached on all digital television media before analogue television broadcasting services are withdrawn. |
| (71548) | |
| 54 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to promote greater awareness and use of closed caption television subtitles. |
| (71377) | |
| 55 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the level of (a) public awareness of and (b) usage of closed caption television subtitles (i) amongst people with a hearing impairment and (ii) generally. |
| (71375) | |
| 56 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what reviews, task forces and advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71520) | |
| 57 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimates his Department has made of the proportion of subtitled programmes for deaf and hard of hearing viewers (a) at present and (b) in five years time for (i) digital terrestrial, (ii) satellite, digital and analogue and (iii) cable television. |
| (69642) | |
| 58 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department intends to make recommendations to the ITC about how its annual targets for subtitling for deaf and hard of hearing people should be calculated, with particular reference to digital television. |
| (69643) | |
| 59 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimates his Department has made of how long it will be before digital set top boxes are able to support subtitling. |
| (69644) | |
| 60 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his Answer of 11th January, official Report, column 31, what specific policies his Department intends to bring forward to improve the level of subtitling on cable and satellite television following the meetings his officials have held with broadcasters and subtitle providers. |
| (69645) | |
| 61 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what amount and what percentage of the total awarded by the National Lottery Charities Board has been allocated to organisations representing older people and pensioners in each year since the Lottery's establishment; and if he will list the recipients and the amounts received. |
| (71406) | |
| 62 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were (a) prosecuted and (b) threatened with prosecution for failing to have a television licence in 1998 broken down by those aged (i) under 25, (ii) 25 to 39, (iii) 40 to 59 and (iv) 60 years and over. |
| (71407) | |
| 63 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much land held by his Department he estimates would fall within the definition of open country as set out in the consultation document Access to the Open Countryside of February 1998. |
| (71640) | |
| 64 N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason The Mall is to be closed for the three weeks from 15th February. |
| (70813) | |
| 65 N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the amount of money which the New Opportunities Fund will spend on after-school sports clubs. |
| (70650) | |
| 66 N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many planning applications for the sale of school playing fields have (a) been considered and (b) been objected to by the Sports Council since 1st January. |
| (70980) | |
| 67 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70956) | |
| 68 | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral statement of 28th January, Official Report, column 574, if he will publish in the Official Report the text of the note instructing HMS 'Glorious' to proceed to Scapa Flow to conduct the court martial. |
| (71396) | |
| 69 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71272) | |
| 70 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71286) | |
| 71 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70482) | |
| 72 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70468) | |
| 73 | Mr Michael Colvin (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the public opinion research commissioned by his Department into the Strategic Defence Review covered attitudes to the Defence Medical Services; and if he will make a statement on the conclusions of the research. |
| (71661) | |
| 74 | Mr Michael Colvin (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future of electronic range simulators in London. |
| (71662) | |
| 75 N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list his Department's (a) official papers, (b) documents and (c) maps and charts which refer to the Bay of Gibraltar as the Bay of Algeciras. |
| (71371) | |
| 76 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 4th February, Official Report, column 732, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71016) | |
| 77 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70975) | |
| 78 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 4th February, Official Report, column 732, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71017) | |
| 79 N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) military and (b) civilian aircraft movements there were at RAF Manston in each of the past five years for which figures are available; how many of the civilian movements related to gliders and light aircraft; and if he will make a statement. |
| (70810) | |
| 80 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Spanish citizens ordinarily domiciled in Spain and previously employed in HM Dockyard Gilbraltar are in receipt of British pensions; and at what cost in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (71694) | |
| 81 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what expenditure has been incurred by his Department in respect of the Gilbraltar base in each of the last 10 years at current prices. |
| (71692) | |
| 82 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71341) | |
| 83 | Mr John Grogan (Selby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will introduce legislation to ensure that in an action for liability in tort against the armed forces a plaintiff need not in all cases show negligence on the part of the Crown. |
| (71689) | |
| 84 | Mr Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on NATO exercises in the Barents Sea between 7th and 11th February 1974, with special reference to (a) collisions and (b) damage to NATO vessels. |
| (71501) | |
| 85 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reviews, task forces and advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71521) | |
| 86 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what delays have occurred over the last two months in delivering personal mail to the crews of Royal Navy ships stationed in the Gulf. |
| (71185) | |
| 87 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much land held by his Department he estimates would fall within the definition of open country as set out in the consultation document Access to the Open Countryside of February 1998. |
| (71638) | |
| 88 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the benefits of using the PFI to fund the next generation of weapons of mass destruction designed to replace Trident. |
| (71172) | |
| 89 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71289) | |
| 90 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71277) | |
| 91 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how much his Department spent on promotional literature between (a) 1st May 1997 and 1st January 1999 and (b) 1st May 1995 and 1st January 1997. |
| (70443) | |
| 92 | Mr Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what guidance he has issued to (a) job centres and (b) other parts of the Employment Service on their role in monitoring the introduction of the national minimum wage. |
| (71496) | |
| 93 | Mr Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, whether job centres will be permitted (a) to process and (b) to display job vacancies notified to them at pay rates below the national minimum wage. |
| (71497) | |
| 94 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70481) | |
| 95 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70467) | |
| 96 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many copies of the New Deal Public Relations Toolkit for Employers have been produced; and at what cost. |
| (71366) | |
| 97 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list those who attended the launch of the New Deal Public Relations Toolkit for Employers; and what was the cost. |
| (71367) | |
| 98 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, columns 661-2, for what reasons his Answer did not indicate how many persons aged 18 to 24 years (a) have been invited to join the New Deal and failed to keep any appointments and (b) started the New Deal but subsequently dropped out. |
| (71643) | |
| 99 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will estimate (a) how many students resident in Newcastle are educated in local education authorities outside Newcastle, (b) how many students are educated in Newcastle local education authority schools who are resident in other local education authorities, (c) how many school students resident in Newcastle were educated in non-local education authority schools in 1996-97 and (d) how many school students resident in Newcastle who will be educated in local education authority schools in 1999-2000 in each local education authority in the City of Newcastle. |
| (71703) | |
| 100 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what grants have been made by his Department to Durham County Council in addition to the revenue support grant in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 1998-99. |
| (71555) | |
| 101 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70974) | |
| 102 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71337) | |
| 103 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the schools identified in the OFSTED annual report for the academic year 1997-98 which, through OFSTED inspection and performance in examinations and assessments, are providing a good quality education and achieving high standards. |
| (70931) | |
| 104 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many individuals in the target group of the New Deal for 18 to 24 year olds have left unemployment (i) between May 1997 and the nation-wide commencement of the New Deal and (ii) between the nation-wide commencement of the New Deal and the latest available date. |
| (71131) | |
| 105 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, for what reasons individuals may stay on the Gateway to the New Deal for 18 to 24 year olds for longer than four months. |
| (71133) | |
| 106 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what proportion of those leaving the New Deal for 18 to 24-year-olds for a distination other than unsubsidised employment up to the most recent date for which information is available are now claiming welfare benefits; and at what cost. |
| (71641) | |
| 107 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what has been the cost of providing information and advisory services on the New Deal in (i) Vietnamese, (ii) Chinese and (iii) all languages other than English and Welsh. |
| (71093) | |
| 108 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what has been the total cost of advertising and marketing of the New Deal programme to date. |
| (71188) | |
| 109 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71522) | |
| 110 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many children of asylum seekers are currently attending school in the United Kingdom; and if he will estimate the cost of their attendance. |
| (71092) | |
| 111 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many individuals of (a) Vietnamese nationality and (b) Chinese nationality have (i) participated in the New Deal and (ii) found jobs through the New Deal. |
| (71094) | |
| 112 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he is taking to ensure that the computer systems of (a) schools, (b) colleges and (c) higher education centres, are millennium compliant. |
| (71680) | |
| 113 N | Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many people have entered the New Deal for the young unemployed in Hertfordshire; how many have left to enter unsubsidised work; and how many have transferred to other benefits. |
| (70248) | |
| 114 N | Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many people have entered the New Deal for long-term unemployed people aged over 25 years in Hertfordshire since 29th June 1998; and how many have (a) left to enter unsubsidised jobs, (b) left to enter subsidised work, (c) returned to jobseekers' allowance and (d) entered education or training opportunities and work-based training for adults. |
| (70247) | |
| 115 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if provision exists for teachers to take early retirement without the need for schools to top up their pensions, on the occasions when such teachers are prepared to accept actuarially reduced pensions; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71138) | |
| 116 N | Mrs Marion Roe (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many students are (a) currently taking a postgraduate certificate in education in design technology and (b) in their fourth year of a B.Ed design technology course. |
| (70442) | |
| 117 N | Mr Gareth R. Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what discussions his Department has held with police forces on the investigation of incidents of attacks on teachers. |
| (69118) | |
| 118 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many grant maintained/foundation schools with basic need capital building projects starting after 1st April will have building works which are liable for VAT; how these building projects will be funded after August; how payments will be made to individual schools, with particular reference to the role of local education authorities in passing on funding to schools; and what arrangements are in place for grant maintained/foundation schools to reclaim VAT paid on these projects. |
| (71357) | |
| 119 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many local authority/partnership schools have basic needs capital building projects starting after 1st April; and what arrangements are in place for local authority/partnership schools to reclaim VAT paid on these projects. |
| (71358) | |
| 120 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many grant maintained/foundation schools have basic need capital building projects starting after 1st April; in how many of these cases the funding will be provided directly to the school via the Funding Agency for Schools; what is the estimated cost of those projects for which funding will be provided directly to the schools via the Funding Agency for Schools; and what proportion of these costs (a) relate to new buildings and (b) involve no element of VAT on the building works. |
| (71356) | |
| 121 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71274) | |
| 122 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71292) | |
| 123 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many (a) miles of single carriageway road and (b) sets of traffic lights are on the A3 between London and Portsmouth. |
| (71159) | |
| 124 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what safety advice was received from station staff at Swiss Cottage about the advisability of continuing services on the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines of the London Underground on 7th February; and if this advice was followed. |
| (71083) | |
| 125 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, between what hours on Sunday 7th February water penetrated the Jubilee and Metropolitan tube line tunnels between Finchley Road and Swiss Cottage on the London Underground; and to what depth. |
| (71081) | |
| 126 N | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what safety procedures are in place in the event of water penetration into London Underground tunnels. |
| (71082) | |
| 127 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to encourage energy from waste plants to increase energy efficiency. |
| (70766) | |
| 128 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to treat energy from waste plants on the same basis as other electricity and power generating bodies for rating purposes. |
| (70764) | |
| 129 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to issue regulations with regard to the rating of energy from waste plants prior to the Coventry appeal case being heard by the House of Lords. |
| (70763) | |
| 130 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the definition used by his Department of an energy from waste plant. |
| (70765) | |
| 131 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many signs, and at what cost, are currently being installed by the Highways Agency to complete signing routes to the M25. |
| (71075) | |
| 132 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70466) | |
| 133 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to support the development of community transport services for the (a) elderly and (b) disabled. |
| (70453) | |
| 134 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received concerning the extension of eligibility for fuel duty rebate to door-to-door services for disabled and elderly people. |
| (70452) | |
| 135 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70480) | |
| 136 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what financial adjustments were made to each local education authority for 1999-2000 in respect of (a) net movement of resident students into other local education authorities and (b) resident students in the non-maintained sector. |
| (71708) | |
| 137 | Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on what date London Economics completed its field work for the second research contract into the environmental costs and benefits of the supply of aggregates. |
| (71704) | |
| 138 | Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on what date he communicated the final conclusions of the second research contract carried out by London Economics into the environmental costs and benefits of the supply of aggregates, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| (71706) | |
| 139 | Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on what date he received the final conclusions of the second research contract carried out by London Economics into the environmental costs and benefits of the supply of aggregates. |
| (71705) | |
| 140 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 536, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71007) | |
| 141 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 536, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71004) | |
| 142 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70973) | |
| 143 | Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Carshalton and Wallington, of 13th January, Official Report, column 212, if he will list the consultancy firms with contracts to provide advice jointly to London Transport and the Government on the implementation of his public/private partnership plans for London Underground. |
| (71763) | |
| 144 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71331) | |
| 145 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which the Minister of Transport has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71350) | |
| 146 | Mr John Grogan (Selby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what proposals he has to introduce legislation for the control of light pollution. |
| (71683) | |
| 147 | Mr John Grogan (Selby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the one day meeting of experts organised by the Institute of Environment and Health, at the request of his Department, to discuss the links between congenital anomalies and hazardous waste landfill sites. |
| (71691) | |
| 148 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the impact on road and rail traffic levels between London and Portsmouth of (a) an improvement in the quality of the rail rolling stock and (b) an increase in the frequency of main line rail services. |
| (71559) | |
| 149 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the investment required to reduce main line rail journey times from Portsmouth to London by (a) 10 per cent. and (b) 20 per cent. |
| (71562) | |
| 150 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will discuss with the rail franchising director the condition of the rolling stock operated by Connex services into Portsmouth. |
| (71564) | |
| 151 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received about the condition of the rolling stock operated by Connex services to Portsmouth. |
| (71523) | |
| 152 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received on capital investment needs of the main railway line from Portsmouth to London. |
| (71558) | |
| 153 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received in support of the creation of a passenger rail interchange at Portsmouth Ferry Port. |
| (71563) | |
| 154 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has for the compulsory inclusion of mileage information on vehicle documents. |
| (71076) | |
| 155 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has for the introduction of an annual emissions test for all cars. |
| (71078) | |
| 156 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Road Safety Strategy will be announced. |
| (71077) | |
| 157 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what planning guidance has been sought from his Department in respect of a planning application for a development on the route of the proposed Hereford bypass; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71182) | |
| 158 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what consultation he had with (a) Herefordshire Council and (b) other parties concerning planning application SS 980 800 P.F., Westfields Football Club, Hereford; and if he will make a statement. |
| [R] (71183) | |
| 159 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if it is his policy that local authorities should set each head of their budgets at the figure published by central government as a standard spending assessment. |
| (70930) | |
| 160 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what guidance he proposes to give to local authorities as to the (a) targets for road casualty reductions and (b) road safety strategy to be included in the first local transport plans that they are required to draw up. |
| (71478) | |
| 161 N | Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to restore the duty on local authorities to find permanent housing for the homeless; and if he will make a statement. |
| (70890) | |
| 162 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received on the use of hush-kit aircraft in Britain and Europe after 2002; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71539) | |
| 163 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many (a) privately-owned motor vehicles, (b) company cars and (c) commercial vans and lorries there were in the United Kingdom at the latest date for which figures are available. |
| (70696) | |
| 164 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what reviews, task forces and advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71506) | |
| 165 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list how much each local authority spends on education as a percentage of their total budget. |
| (71547) | |
| 166 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to extend the permissible additional purposes or objects of registered social landlords so that they can play a full part in regeneration activities; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71642) | |
| 167 | Ms Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the housing associations identified by the Housing Corporation as having rents above their recommended levels and in each case the percentage by which their average rents exceed the Housing Corporation's recommended levels. |
| (71139) | |
| 168 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on identifying the locations of the worst housing conditions (i) in general terms and (ii) in respect of energy efficiency. |
| (71405) | |
| 169 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what information local authorities have provided to him on the relative energy efficiency of their housing stock. |
| (71404) | |
| 170 N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate expenditure on the bus fuel rebate scheme in each year from 1999-2000 to 2003-04. |
| (71435) | |
| 171 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will review the impact of increases in bus grant on the pattern of (a) rural bus services, with particular reference to passenger usage, (b) frequency and (c) routings. |
| (71637) | |
| 172 | Mr Lawrie Quinn (Scarborough and Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to improve the availability of information on emissions of polluting substances in England and Wales. |
| (71707) | |
| 173 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reasons drivers approaching the age of 70 years are asked for the country of their birth; what purpose such a question serves in determining a person's fitness to drive; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71137) | |
| 174 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the operational effectiveness of waste management schemes funded to date under the PFI; and what plans he has to develop more PFI-backed waste management schemes. |
| (71168) | |
| 175 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what are the total fees his Department has paid to date to consultants engaged in the financial and operational restructuring of London Underground; what additional sums he expects to pay consultants on this work; which consultants have been employed on the restructuring project; and if he will make a statement on progress made so far with the project. |
| (71179) | |
| 176 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he received a copy of the Commission Communication on the present situation regarding prospects for radioactive waste management in the European Union, COM(1998) 799, dated 11th January 1999; what assistance the United Kingdom nuclear authorities gave to the Commission in its preparation; and if he will make a statement on the implications of the report for radioactive waste management in the United Kingdom. |
| (71178) | |
| 177 N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, who is responsible for co-ordinating road works in Central London. |
| (70812) | |
| 178 | Mr Clive Soley (Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many staff were employed by HOMES for each year from 1993. |
| (71678) | |
| 179 | Mr Clive Soley (Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what was the total cost of HOMES for each year from 1993. |
| (71677) | |
| 180 N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Town and Country Planning (Playing Fields) (England) Directive 1998 in maintaining the number of school playing fields; and if he will estimate the number of school playing fields (a) which remain in use and (b) which were closed in each of the last five years. |
| (70979) | |
| 181 | Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate how many (a) men and (b) women working (i) part-time and (ii) full-time in Paisley South earn less than (1) £3 per hour, (2) £3.60 per hour and (3) £2.50 per hour; and in each case what is the percentage of the total number involved. |
| (71431) | |
| 182 | Mr Joe Benton (Bootle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the contribution which the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative will make towards the achievement of the OECD target of halving world poverty by 2015. |
| (71308) | |
| 183 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71293) | |
| 184 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71264) | |
| 185 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) amount and (b) proportion of overall government expenditure that Mozambique will pay in servicing its debt in the year following its Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative completion point. |
| (71393) | |
| 186 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total amount of Government expenditure by Malawi on debt servicing in (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) the latest available year. |
| (71392) | |
| 187 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70456) | |
| 188 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70457) | |
| 189 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many IT computerisation projects his Department has commissioned from the private sector; on which dates they were commissioned; what was the expenditure on such projects to date; and what was the termination date of the projects. |
| (71785) | |
| 190 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff were employed in Inland Revenue Special Compliance Offices in (a) 1990 and (b) each year since 1993; and what was the turnover of staff in each year. |
| (71787) | |
| 191 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70963) | |
| 192 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 568, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71015) | |
| 193 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 568, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71014) | |
| 194 | Mr Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will press for the inclusion of Malawi in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. |
| (71394) | |
| 195 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71332) | |
| 196 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71333) | |
| 197 | Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the effect on the British rebate under the Fontainebleau Agreement of the the implementation of the Agenda 2000 proposals for co-financing the Common Agricultural Policy in the event of (a) an increase in overall support to British agriculture and (b) an increase in agricultural support provided from UK domestic funds. |
| (71648) | |
| 198 | Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the relationship between the calculation of the British rebate under the Fontainebleau Agreement and the proposed system of co-financing of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Agenda 2000 proposals. |
| (71647) | |
| 199 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects to announce changes in the Vehicle Excise Duty system for cars; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71079) | |
| 200 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many substantive responses he has received to the Vehicle Excise Duty consultation paper. |
| (71080) | |
| 201 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individuals are currently in receipt of MIRAS. |
| (70677) | |
| 202 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of people affected by the extension of insurance premium tax to travel insurance announced in the 1998 Budget. |
| (70690) | |
| 203 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses were affected by the landfill tax announcement in the 1998 Budget; and if he will estimate the average cost per business. |
| (70670) | |
| 204 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses which will be affected by the new rules on transfer pricing which were announced in the 1998 budget; and what will be the average cost per business. |
| (70688) | |
| 205 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what has been the cost to the average taxpayer of the restriction of MIRAS to 10 per cent. in the 1997 Budget. |
| (70676) | |
| 206 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) businesses and (b) individuals are affected by the abolition of the foreign earnings deduction announced in the 1998 Budget; and in each case, if he will estimate the average annual cost. |
| (70654) | |
| 207 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the average increase in the income to the Treasury per transaction arising from the increase in gaming duty announced in the 1998 Budget. |
| (70656) | |
| 208 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many purchases of (a) private dwellings and (b) business premises in excess of £250,000 were made in 1998. |
| (70691) | |
| 209 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses were affected by the 1997 Budget announcement which prohibited the (a) transfer of unused past allowances and (b) acceleration of capital allowances; and if he will estimate the average cost to each affected business. |
| (70685) | |
| 210 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses were affected by the 1997 Budget announcement that dividends will be taxed as trading profits; and if he will estimate the average cost per business. |
| (70686) | |
| 211 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual average levy on a private healthcare insurance scheme as a result of the extension of insurance premium tax to such schemes in the 1997 Budget. |
| (70678) | |
| 212 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) personal pension plans and (b) occupational pension schemes which will be affected by the abolition of ACT credits. |
| (70684) | |
| 213 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses were affected by the 1997 Budget announcement which blocked company purchase schemes; and if he will estimate the average cost to each affected business. |
| (70699) | |
| 214 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what has been the average increase in stamp duty payable on purchases of private dwellings as a result of (a) the 1997 Budget measures and (b) the 1998 Budget measures. |
| (70679) | |
| 215 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71510) | |
| 216 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what has been the average increase in stamp duty payable on the purchase of business premises as a result of (a) the 1997 Budget measures and (b) the 1998 Budget measures. |
| (70698) | |
| 217 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses have been affected, and by what average amount, as a result of the reduction in the (a) main and (b) small firms rate of corporation tax in the 1997 and 1998 budgets. |
| (70674) | |
| 218 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many taxpayers were affected by the restriction of the married couple's allowance to 10 per cent. announced in the 1998 Budget; and what is the average cost per taxpayer. |
| (70655) | |
| 219 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) domestic households and (b) businesses have been affected by the changes in fuel and gas oil duty announced in the 1997 and 1998 budgets; and in each case what has been the average cost. |
| (70680) | |
| 220 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses have been affected by the 1997 Budget measure to restrict trading loss carry back to one year. |
| (70675) | |
| 221 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what additional revenue the average (a) private motorist and (b) company car driver will have contributed to the Exchequer as a result of the 1997 and 1998 budgets. |
| (70681) | |
| 222 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the average number of company cars owned or leased per company in the United Kingdom. |
| (70697) | |
| 223 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the average annual cost to (a) a personal pension plan and (b) an occupational pension scheme as a result of the abolition of ACT credits. |
| (70683) | |
| 224 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households were affected by the reduction of VAT on fuel in the 1997 Budget; and what is the average change in (a) electricity and (b) gas bills. |
| (70673) | |
| 225 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses which will be affected by the introduction of quarterly payments of corporation tax; and what will be the average cost per business. |
| (70652) | |
| 226 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of businesses which will be affected by the 1998 Budget announcement of withdrawal of cash basis for professional businesses and (b) the average cost per business. |
| (70653) | |
| 227 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the average increase in contributions which will have to be made to (a) a personal pension plan and (b) an occupational pension scheme in order to maintain the value at maturity they would have attained had not ACT credits been abolished. |
| (70682) | |
| 228 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses were affected by the amusement machine licence duty announced in the 1998 Budget; and if he will estimate the average cost per business. |
| (70672) | |
| 229 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses which will be affected by the change in rules on (a) capital gain buying and (b) controlled foreign companies which were announced in the 1998 Budget; and what will be the average cost per business. |
| (70687) | |
| 230 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the average annual contribution made to personal pension plans by (a) standard rate and (b) higher rate taxpayers. |
| (70695) | |
| 231 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on (a) the use of and (b) the cost of focus groups by the Financial Services Authority for its advertising campaigns. |
| (71129) | |
| 232 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from the Ice Cream Alliance regarding the Financial Services Authority advertising campaign on pensions mis-selling. |
| (71132) | |
| 233 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual revenue from VAT on ice cream sales by mobile ice cream vendors. |
| (71130) | |
| 234 N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement about the boarding of the 'Simon de Danser' by Customs and Excise officials. |
| (70891) | |
| 235 | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the policy of the new government in Germany towards debt relief for those countries included in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. |
| (71391) | |
| 236 | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the expected reduction in total public expenditure on servicing debt for (i) those countries which have reached the completion point and (ii) all countries within, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative for (a) 1998, (b) 1999, (c) 2000, (d) 2001 and (e) 2002. |
| (71390) | |
| 237 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) estimate the total spending on housing within the Scottish Block in each year from 1994-95 to 2000-2001 in (i) current and (ii) constant 1998-99 prices, (b) estimate the annual percentage change (i) for each of these categories and (ii) in total, (c) estimate (i) the cumulative change and (ii) in total between the years 1994-95 and 2000-2001 and between the years 1996-97 and 2000-2001 and (d) estimate the same as requested in (a) (b) and (c) for the housing expenditure in England. |
| (71773) | |
| 238 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) estimate the total spending (i) by main category of expenditure and (ii) in total, across each of the main categories of the Scottish Block as determined by the Block and Barnett Formula arrangement in each year from 1994-95 to 2000-2001 in (1) current and (2) constant 1998-99 prices, (b) estimate the annual percentage change for (i) each of these categories and (ii) in total, (c) estimate the cumulative change (i) for each category and (ii) in total between the years 1994-95 and 2000-2001 and between the years 1996-97 and 2000-2001 and (d) estimate the same as requested in (a) (b) and (c) for the equivalent expenditure categories in England that form the basis for the determination of the Barnett Formula calculation, (i) for those categories that are available, (ii) and in total. |
| (71772) | |
| 239 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) estimate the total spending on health across the Scottish Block as determined by the Block and Barnett Formula arrangement in each year from 1994-95 to 2000-2001 in (i) current and (i) constant 1998-99 prices, (b) estimate the annual percentage change (i) for each of these categories and (ii) in total, (c) estimate the cumulative change (i) for each category and (ii) in total between the years 1994-95 and 2000-2001 and between the years 1996-97 and 2000-2001 and (d) estimate the same as requested in (a) (b) and (c) for the equivalent health expenditure in England. |
| (71774) | |
| 240 | Mr Gareth R. Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on government policy on the proposed EU Energy Products Directive as it affects the biofuel industry. |
| (71397) | |
| 241 N | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon and East Chelmsford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he proposes to answer the four parliamentary questions tabled by the honourable member for Maldon and East Chelmsford on 14th January for answer on 18th January. |
| (71087) | |
| 242 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70939) | |
| 243 | Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the Government's implementation of the non-binding arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNSCR 1227) and on the steps taken to publicise the ban. |
| (71645) | |
| 244 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71283) | |
| 245 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71269) | |
| 246 N | Mr Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement about the role of Her Majesty's Government in the appointment of a former serving officer in the British Army in a leading security role on behalf of the Government of Bahrain. |
| (71303) | |
| 247 N | Mr Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will introduce an embargo on the export of arms to Bahrain. |
| (71302) | |
| 248 N | Mr Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the extent to which human rights are violated by the Government of Bahrain; and what action he has taken to increase respect for human rights in Bahrain. |
| (71300) | |
| 249 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70479) | |
| 250 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70465) | |
| 251 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 10th February, Official Report, column 288, what (a) categories and (b) quantities of humanitarian assistance have been given to (i) Kurdish groups in northern Iraq and (ii) Shia groups in southern Iraq. |
| (71428) | |
| 252 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department made to the Pakistan government during the visit to Pakistan by the Minister of State between 8th and 10th February, concerning the supression of the Daily Jang newspaper; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71184) | |
| 253 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70972) | |
| 254 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, column 721, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71013) | |
| 255 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, column 721, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71012) | |
| 256 N | Mr George Galloway (Glasgow, Kelvin): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the public engagements of the Minister of State, the honourable Member for Leeds Central, on 1st February. |
| (70649) | |
| 257 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to respond to the Matutes proposals regarding the future of Gilbraltar. |
| (71771) | |
| 258 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Government has to alter the constitutional status of Gibraltar; and if he will make a statement on the likely date of implementation. |
| (71693) | |
| 259 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what was the estimated value of British tourism to mainland Spain in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (71699) | |
| 260 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the estimated value of fish caught by Spanish vessels fishing in British waters, out to 200 miles or the median line, in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (71698) | |
| 261 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the amount of European funding allocated to Spain in each year since accession. |
| (71697) | |
| 262 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the level of manpower and military assets Spain dedicates to the NATO alliance. |
| (71696) | |
| 263 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to take legal action regarding Spanish imposed delays at the Gibraltar frontier. |
| (71701) | |
| 264 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Spanish nationals normally domiciled in Spain are regularly employed in Gibraltar. |
| (71695) | |
| 265 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what cost burden Gibraltar has imposed upon HM Treasury in each of the last 10 years. |
| (71700) | |
| 266 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71334) | |
| 267 | Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the steps taken by the Government to implement the requirement in UNSCR 1160 for UN member states to prevent arming and training for terrorist activities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
| (71549) | |
| 268 N | Mr Michael Howard (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of the People's Republic of China concerning the independence of the Hong Kong legal system. |
| (71316) | |
| 269 N | Mr Michael Howard (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the status of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. |
| (71317) | |
| 270 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71507) | |
| 271 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will deposit in the Library the Answers to Parliamentary Questions 59798 19th November, Official Report, column 808, on Our Europe Association, 59795 19th November, Official Report, column 808, on the London Conference (European Association), 59805 19th November, Official Report, column 808, on the European Adventure Project and 59796 19th November, Official Report, column 808, on the Business Euro Label. |
| (71146) | |
| 272 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those articles, written by the Prime Minister, which his Department has placed through overseas posts in foreign newspapers and journals; and if he will deposit the English version in the Library. |
| (71145) | |
| 273 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 4th February, Official Report, columns 702-3, if he will list the agenda of the bilateral meeting with the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Defence; at whose request that meeting took place; for how long it lasted; which common foreign and security policy issues were resolved to be specific areas for further discussion; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71355) | |
| 274 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will deposit in the Library a list of the members of the cabinets of Euopean Commissoners, with their pay scales. |
| (71148) | |
| 275 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, further to his reply of 2nd February, Official Report, column 542, if he will make a statement on the nature of the activities authorised under (i) 3706--other political activities and (ii) 3708--information work. |
| (71143) | |
| 276 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made in resolving the fishing dispute in British waters around Gibraltar. |
| (71381) | |
| 277 N | Dr John Marek (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what actions he is taking to reduce the queues at the Gibraltar-Spanish frontier. |
| (71380) | |
| 278 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what input his Department has made in determining the Government's objectives in the forthcoming negotiations on the Biosafety Protocol to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. |
| (70936) | |
| 279 | Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Chinese Government on its campaign to promote atheism in Tibet. |
| (71163) | |
| 280 | Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what impact the current situation regarding human rights in China and Tibet will have on (a) bilateral aid to and (b) EU dialogue on human rights with, the Chinese Government. |
| (71162) | |
| 281 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71290) | |
| 282 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71276) | |
| 283 | Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish proposals to modernise the NHS pay system. |
| (71710) | |
| 284 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 9th February, Official Report, column 166, concerning the judgement in R. v North and East Health Authority, when he will complete his assessment of the implications of the case. |
| (71408) | |
| 285 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines he has issued to general practitioners on the prescription of contraceptives to under-16 year olds. |
| (70454) | |
| 286 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70464) | |
| 287 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the increase in admissions to hospital for cold-related illnesses during the winter months and the effect of this on the availability of hospital beds. |
| (70448) | |
| 288 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the costs to the National Health Service of treating cold-related illnesses; and what measures he is taking to reduce these costs. |
| (70451) | |
| 289 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70478) | |
| 290 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) support and (b) advice his Department has offered to health authorities in respect of treating illnesses caused by cold and damp conditions in the home. |
| (70449) | |
| 291 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what analysis his Department has made of (a) the extent of illness caused by cold and damp housing and (b) the cost to his Department of treating such illness. |
| (70450) | |
| 292 | Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the manufacturers from which the NHS purchased the single mumps vaccine for use in the UK, and the dates when it did so; and what is the cost of a dose sufficient to immunise a child. |
| (71314) | |
| 293 | Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, between which dates the single mumps vaccine (a) has been available in the UK and licensed for use by the Medicines Control Agency and (b) has been available on the NHS. |
| (71311) | |
| 294 | Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of immunisations against mumps in the UK on the NHS are by way of (a) the single mumps vaccine and (b) the MMR vaccine. |
| (71310) | |
| 295 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70970) | |
| 296 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 560, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71009) | |
| 297 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 560, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71008) | |
| 298 | Sir Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much extra money was provided to the NHS in the Mersey region in connection with the 1998 winter pressures; and how and where it was spent. |
| (71306) | |
| 299 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71342) | |
| 300 | Mr John Grogan (Selby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the future of allergy services. |
| (71690) | |
| 301 | Mr John Grogan (Selby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to publish the report of the working party on the problems of incontinence. |
| (71702) | |
| 302 | Mr Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines his Department gives to hospitals and trusts about (a) the information to be given to, and (b) the permission to be secured from, relatives of patients who die in surgery, before the organs of the deceased are retained. |
| (71089) | |
| 303 | Mr Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will investigate the extent of the practice of hospitals and trusts of retaining the organs of patients who die in surgery. |
| (71088) | |
| 304 | Mr Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the legislation governing the retention of tissue or organs of patients who die in surgery; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71090) | |
| 305 N | Mr Michael Howard (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to announce his decision on the holding of a public inquiry into the causes, consequences and implications of the conduct of Mr Rodney Ledward. |
| (71315) | |
| 306 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of stocks of highly enriched uranium for the treatment of cancer patients; and if he will list those hospitals experiencing difficulty in obtaining supplies. |
| (71679) | |
| 307 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement defining what statistical level of risk to human health the Government finds acceptable in making recommendations that different forms of food and drink are allowed to be consumed by the public. |
| (70090) | |
| 308 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish details of the risks of mortality assessed by his Department from the consumption of foodstuffs associated with incidence of cancer and cardiovascular illness for (i) men and (ii) women aged (a) 20, (b) 30, (c) 40, (d) 50, (e) 60 and (f) 65 years. |
| (70088) | |
| 309 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will instruct the Chief Medical Officer to publish tables showing the statistical mortality risk associated with the consumption of common foodstuffs and drink. |
| (70091) | |
| 310 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cigarettes per day are smoked by the average smoker. |
| (70692) | |
| 311 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71508) | |
| 312 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what records the NHS maintains of the nationality of patients. |
| (71095) | |
| 313 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many adults in the United Kingdom were (a) cigarette smokers and (b) smokers of other tobacco products at the latest date for which figures are available. |
| (70693) | |
| 314 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many chief executives of primary health care groups have been appointed in South Derbyshire and North Derbyshire. |
| (71434) | |
| 315 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the annual cost to South Derbyshire and North Derbyshire Health Authorities of employing the chief executives for the primary health care groups in their area. |
| (71436) | |
| 316 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to extend the NHS wheelchair voucher scheme to cover powered wheelchairs. |
| (71134) | |
| 317 N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many representations from honourable Members he has received about the implementation of the investing in dentistry scheme; how many honourable Members have sought meetings with him; and how many have taken place. |
| (70882) | |
| 318 | Mr David Prior (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors are currently on sick leave for a period in excess of six months; and what proportion of those doctors are suffering from psychological illnesses. |
| (71142) | |
| 319 N | Mr Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to deal with violent attacks on nurses, doctors and other medical staff. |
| (69120) | |
| 320 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are followed in resolving differences of preference between authorities and individual patients as to their transfer from a learning disability hospital to alternative care; how many patients have been moved against their express wish over the last three years; and with what medical consequences for the patients involved. |
| (71487) | |
| 321 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are currently accommodated within hospitals for learning disabilities. |
| (71488) | |
| 322 | Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to submit the business case for mental health service provision in Leeds to the Treasury. |
| (71553) | |
| 323 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the progress of discussions with Mediation UK for core funding for 1999-2000. |
| (71542) | |
| 324 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71287) | |
| 325 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71273) | |
| 326 | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which organisation has overall responsibility for prosecuting trespass on railways; and how many prosecutions for trespassing on railways have taken place in each year since 1996. |
| (71531) | |
| 327 | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list (a) the hunts which have been investigated by the police for possible offences since 1996 and (b) the investigations which related to (i) trespassing on railways and (ii) causing road accidents. |
| (71530) | |
| 328 | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement about the progress of the investigation by Devon and Cornwall Police into the road accidents on the A38 near Ashburton in December 1998 involving the South Devon Hunt. |
| (71590) | |
| 329 | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions since 1996 an individual identified by the police as causing a rail accident whilst trespassing on the railway has not subsequently been prosecuted. |
| (71532) | |
| 330 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70477) | |
| 331 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70463) | |
| 332 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contigency plans he has for dealing with the effects of premature re-entry of the space probe Cassini. |
| (70455) | |
| 333 N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration and nationality cases are currently being held in a work in progress store; and how many of these have been outstanding for more than (a) six months, (b) one year and (c) two years. |
| (71369) | |
| 334 N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police authorities in England Wales are currently funding in whole or in part the legal costs of serving or former police officers facing criminal charges. |
| (71427) | |
| 335 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the latest date by which immigration and nationality cases currently in a work in progress store are planned to be passed to a case management unit. |
| (71368) | |
| 336 N | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the police response to crimes with a racial element. |
| (69134) | |
| 337 | Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prosecutions have been brought and (b) convictions have been secured against individuals holding a mink-keeping licence or employed by the holder of such a licence for offences related to that activity in the last five years. |
| (71313) | |
| 338 | Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prosecutions have been brought and (b) convictions have been secured against individuals in connection with protests against establishments holding a mink-keeping licence in the last five years. |
| (71312) | |
| 339 | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the operation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71359) | |
| 340 | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long the Criminal Cases Review Commission has been considering the case of Mr John Kamara; and when he expects them to reach a decision. |
| (71360) | |
| 341 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 604, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71011) | |
| 342 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70971) | |
| 343 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December 1998, Official Report, column 604, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71010) | |
| 344 | Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of trespass onto private property have resulted in prosecution in each of the past 10 years. |
| (71526) | |
| 345 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71336) | |
| 346 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the role of voluntary organisations as partners in combating crime and disorder. |
| (69211) | |
| 347 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to ensure that the systems in use by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate are millennium compliant; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71091) | |
| 348 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what actions he is taking to ensure greater consistency among police forces in road policing. |
| (71479) | |
| 349 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the upper limit to nullify the effects of unusually lengthy cases used in the time intervals surveys conducted by the Lord Chancellor's Department was not used in the calculation of his benchmark figure of 142 days from arrest to sentencing for persistent young offenders; and if he will estimate the impact on that figure of using such a limit. |
| (70811) | |
| 350 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate how many illegally obtained (a) National Insurance numbers and (b) UK passports are currently held by non-UK nationals. |
| (71097) | |
| 351 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71509) | |
| 352 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many speed cameras are situated in each county police force area. |
| (71438) | |
| 353 N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to ensure that (a) chimpanzees and (b) other non-domestic animals in private ownership are not maltreated. |
| (70887) | |
| 354 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers are employed by South Wales Police; and what the figure was in May 1997. |
| (71296) | |
| 355 | Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cyclists have been convicted of riding on pedestrian footpaths in (a) 1996, (b) 1997 and (c) 1998. |
| (71550) | |
| 356 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70957) | |
| 357 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which she is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans she has further to decentralise the location of her Department and its agencies. |
| (70462) | |
| 358 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the total number of staff (a) in her Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which she is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70476) | |
| 359 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 14th December 1998, Official Report, column 343, if she will list the expenditure not included in her Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if she will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71006) | |
| 360 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 14th December 1998, Official Report, column 343, if she will list the expenditure not included in her Answer incurred by (a) her agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for her Department. |
| (71005) | |
| 361 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the expenditure incurred by her Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if she will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70969) | |
| 362 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the parliamentary constituencies which she has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71346) | |
| 363 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by her Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71516) | |
| 364 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will estimate the number of genetically modified crops available world-wide which could be substituted immediately for those crops currently grown by farmers in developing countries. |
| (71171) | |
| 365 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what impact her Department has had in determining the Government's objectives in the forthcoming negotiations on the Biosafety Protocol in Colombia. |
| (70937) | |
| 366 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the genetically-modified crops available worldwide which can be grown in developing countries. |
| (70934) | |
| 367 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the proportion of genetically-modified crops available worldwide which can be grown in developing countries. |
| (70933) | |
| 368 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with developing countries regarding their interests in the forthcoming negotiations on the Biosafety Protocol in Colombia. |
| (70938) | |
| 369 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the revenues which would flow from developing to developed countries as a result of genetic patenting. |
| (70932) | |
| 370 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford ): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what research her Department has undertaken into the possible social, economic and environmental consequences of the introduction of genetically-modified crops into developing countries. |
| (70935) | |
| 371 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the British aid schemes currently operating in the former states of the Soviet Union giving assistance to the educational and health care systems; what private or semi-private British aid initiatives are operating in conjunction with these; and if she will make a statement. |
| (71175) | |
| 372 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement regarding (a) British and (b) EU aid to Papua New Guinea. |
| (71484) | |
| 373 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70958) | |
| 374 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if his Department intends to support Mediation UK with core funding for 1999-2000. |
| (71543) | |
| 375 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71265) | |
| 376 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71279) | |
| 377 | Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list (a) those Crown courts where the Crown Prosecution Service has had rights of audience, (b) the dates on which those rights of audience were first granted and (c) the number of successful appeals from (i) courts where rights of audience have been so granted and (ii) Crown courts where rights of audience have not been so granted. |
| (71499) | |
| 378 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70460) | |
| 379 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70474) | |
| 380 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70968) | |
| 381 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, columns 726-7, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71031) | |
| 382 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, columns 726-7, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71030) | |
| 383 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71335) | |
| 384 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71515) | |
| 385 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how long, on average, people who were refused entry clearance at a British post abroad in (i) March 1997, (ii) June 1997, (iii) September 1997, (iv) December 1997, (v) March 1998 and (vi) June 1998 (a) to join a British or settled spouse in the UK, (b) to join a British or settled parent in the UK, (c) as the elderly parent of a British or settled adult child in the UK, (d) to come to follow a course of studies for more than six months, waited between the date of lodging the appeal and (1) the appeal papers being sent to the UK and (2) the date of the adjudicator's determination of their appeal; and how long he estimates those refused in each category in (x) September 1998, (y) December 1998 and (z) January 1999 will wait. |
| (71783) | |
| 386 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how long on average people who (a) were refused leave to remain in the United Kingdom in (i) March 1997, (ii) June 1997, (iii) September 1997, (iv) December 1997, (v) March 1998 and (vi) June 1998, (1) for a year on the grounds of marriage, (2) indefintely on grounds of marriage, (3) indefinitely as a child of parents settled here, (4) indefinitely as the parent of children settled here and (5) for a longer period as a student and (b) were refused asylum in the United Kingdom waited between the date of refusal and the date of determination of their appeal by an adjudicator or special adjudicator; and how long he estimates those refused in each category in (x) September 1998, (y) December 1998 and (z) January 1999 will wait. |
| (71795) | |
| 387 | Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list those incidents of violence attributed to Loyalist paramilitary groups which have occurred in 1999 to date. |
| (71379) | |
| 388 | Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many Action for Community Employment worker posts are attached to pre-school playgroups in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement on future funding for ACE workers employed by pre-school playgroups. |
| (71489) | |
| 389 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the impact on her Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71266) | |
| 390 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what amounts in her Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71280) | |
| 391 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to her Answer of 11th January, Official Report, column 1, if she will list the expenditure not included in her Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if she will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71029) | |
| 392 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to her Answer of 11th January, Official Report, column 1, if she will list the expenditure not included in her Answer incurred by (a) her agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for her Department. |
| (71028) | |
| 393 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the expenditure incurred by her Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if she will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70967) | |
| 394 N | Dr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what representations she has received concerning the working practices of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry; and if she will make a statement. |
| (69796) | |
| 395 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the parliamentary constituencies which she has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71344) | |
| 396 | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many objections her Department has received to the proposed pedestrianisation of parts of Belfast; from whom they have been received; and what are the main grounds for objection put forward by each objector. |
| (71552) | |
| 397 | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what instructions she has given her officials in the Roads Service of the Department of the Environment in respect of requests for meetings from organisations of disabled people to discuss the access needs of disabled people in the implementation of pedestrianisation in Belfast. |
| (71554) | |
| 398 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by her Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71513) | |
| 399 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans the Government has to discourage smoking by those aged under 16 in Northern Ireland in 1999-2000. |
| (71536) | |
| 400 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much money has been raised by speeding fines issued by (a) speed cameras and (b) police officers, in each of the past five years. |
| (71402) | |
| 401 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (i) full and (ii) part-time teachers there were in (a) schools and (b) further education colleges in Northern Ireland in each of the past five years; and what percentage of each had a postgraduate certificate in education. |
| (71410) | |
| 402 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the incidence was of cigarette smoking among (a) children under 16 and (b) adults in 1998 in Northern Ireland. |
| (71535) | |
| 403 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is the timetable for normalizing security in Northern Ireland under the Good Friday Agreement. |
| (71399) | |
| 404 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the amount of illegal drugs discovered in Northern Ireland prisons in each of the last three years, broken down by type of drug. |
| (71400) | |
| 405 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many New Deal places have been offered in Northern Ireland, broken down by industry; and how many have been taken up in each month to date. |
| (71412) | |
| 406 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if all departments are Year 2000 compliant; and if she will make a statement on the progress of the Year 2000 bug-busters in Northern Ireland. |
| (71529) | |
| 407 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many Year 2000 bug-busters have successfully completed their training; and how many are currently employed to tackle the problem in Northern Ireland. |
| (71544) | |
| 408 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much funding has been provided per pupil in each type of school in Northern Ireland in each of the past five years; and what the planned funding levels are for the next three years. |
| (71411) | |
| 409 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what public funds have been spent on mandatory drug tests in Northern Ireland prisions in each of the last three years. |
| (71401) | |
| 410 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many persons given early release from prison under the Good Friday Agreement have been arrested or had their licences revoked. |
| (71556) | |
| 411 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many education and library boards in Northern Ireland have (a) requested and (b) received additional funding in order to reduce class sizes to under 30 pupils in the past year. |
| (71403) | |
| 412 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many students are studying for computer science degrees in Northern Ireland colleges; and how many of these are studying (a) business information systems and (b) programming; and how many computer science degrees have been awarded in the past five years. |
| (71560) | |
| 413 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (i) full and (ii) part-time teachers with no teaching qualifications there were in (a) schools and (b) further education colleges in Northern Ireland in each of the past five years. |
| (71409) | |
| 414 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list in real terms the annual percentage change in spending in Northern Ireland between 1996-97 and 2001-02 on (a) education, (b) health, (c) transport, (d) housing, (e) police and (f) local government. |
| (71398) | |
| 415 | Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much money was spent in each of the past five years to treat NHS patients in Northern Ireland for illnesses relating to cigarette smoking. |
| (71538) | |
| 416 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the President of the Council, if she will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70959) | |
| 417 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the President of the Council, if she will list the parliamentary constituencies which she has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71338) | |
| 418 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley (South West Surrey): To ask the Prime Minister, what guidelines he has established for the use of No. 10 Downing Street for hospitality funded by non-government sources; and if he will list those occasions on which such hospitality has been offered since May 1997. |
| (71160) | |
| 419 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, what contacts took place during his visit to Amman on 8th February between Her Majesty's Government and Members of the Iraqi delegation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71426) | |
| 420 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 25th January, Official Report, column 24, on Iraq, when (a) the paper circulated by the Russians and (b) the French proposals will be discussed in the Security Council; and if he will make a statement. |
| (69991) | |
| 421 | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 10th February, Official Report, column 283, on Concorde flights, if he will list the ministers who have taken a Concorde flight; and what was the total cost of the flights. |
| (71307) | |
| 422 N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Prime Minister, when he plans to provide a substantive answer to the question from the honourable Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton of 25th January, Official Report, column 283, regarding ministerial concorde flights (Ref. 67984). |
| (71190) | |
| 423 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71330) | |
| 424 | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral Answer of 10th February, Official Report, column 313, what is his policy towards each of the criticisms of the Civil Service set out in the second Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee on Sierra Leone (HC116 of session 1998-99). |
| (71687) | |
| 425 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Prime Minister, how many reviews and task forces he has established since May 1997; and how many of them have reported. |
| (71151) | |
| 426 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, column 642, on overseas publications, if he will deposit in the Library copies of the English versions of the articles he has written for foreign newspapers and journals. |
| (71144) | |
| 427 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Prime Minister, what percentage of total EU directives in force is currently under review under the Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market. |
| (71147) | |
| 428 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Prime Minister, on how many occasions since 1979 permanent secretaries have filed a formal note of dissent registering their disapproval of a ministerial instruction. |
| (71681) | |
| 429 N | Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list each overseas visit in an official capacity by a special adviser since 2nd May 1997, stating the cost and who paid. |
| (69723) | |
| 430 | Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much National Lottery funding has been distributed by (a) the National Lottery Charities Board (Scotland), (b) the Scottish Sports Council and (c) the Scottish Arts Council for projects in (i) Paisley South Constituency and (ii) Renfrewshire Council area. |
| (71429) | |
| 431 | Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people his Department is committed to employing during 1999 under the subsidised job option of the New Deal programme. |
| (71433) | |
| 432 | Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what arrangements his Department proposes to make in order to select candidates to propose for City Status. |
| (71430) | |
| 433 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71268) | |
| 434 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71282) | |
| 435 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his Answer of 14th January, Official Report, column 232, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71022) | |
| 436 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his Answer of 14th January, Official Report, column 232, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71023) | |
| 437 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70966) | |
| 438 N | Dr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement anent waiting lists in (a) Inverclyde and (b) Scotland as a whole. |
| (69797) | |
| 439 N | Dr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many student nurses there are in (a) the Argyll and Clyde Board and (b) Scotland as a whole; and if he will make a statement. |
| (69798) | |
| 440 N | Dr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the food industry anent the production of genetically-modified food; and if he will make a statement. |
| (69799) | |
| 441 N | Dr Norman A. Godman (Greenock and Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many cataract operations were carried out in 1998 in (a) the Argyll and Clyde Health Board area and (b) Scotland as a whole. |
| (69800) | |
| 442 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what plans he has to introduce arrangements to monitor the management of after school care clubs for secondary school pupils. |
| (71361) | |
| 443 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much of the funding allocated to colleges under European funding schemes is currently outstanding. |
| (71362) | |
| 444 | Mr Donald Gorrie (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many bids by Scottish colleges for European funding have been successful; and what has been the average length of time between the intitial approval of the scheme and the receipt by the College of the first and the final payments. |
| (71363) | |
| 445 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71340) | |
| 446 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71514) | |
| 447 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much land held by his Department he estimates would fall within the definition of open country as set out in the consultation document Access to the Open Countryside of February 1998. |
| (71634) | |
| 448 | Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what was the average daily number of prisoners employed and the percentage of prisoners involved in vocational training by (a) quarter and (b) month in 1998. |
| (71646) | |
| 449 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the total spending on education for Scotland across all categories of education expenditure for each year from 1994-95 to 2000-01 in (i) current and (ii) constant 1998-99 prices. |
| (71776) | |
| 450 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the spending on health for Scotland as a whole for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000 and (e) 2000-01 in (i) current and (ii) constant 1998-99 prices. |
| (71779) | |
| 451 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the spending on housing in Scotland as a whole for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000 and (e) 2000-01 in (i) current and (ii) constant 1998-99 prices. |
| (71777) | |
| 452 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the total spending on housing for Scotland across all categories of housing expenditure for each year from 1994-95 to 2000-01 in (i) current and (ii) constant 1998-99 prices. |
| (71778) | |
| 453 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the spending on education in each of the current local government areas and for Scotland as a whole for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000 and (e) 2000-01 in (i) current and (ii) constant 1998-99 prices. |
| (71775) | |
| 454 | Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the total spending on health for Scotland across all categories of health expenditure for each year from 1994-95 to 2000-01 in (i) current and (ii) constant 1998-99 prices. |
| (71780) | |
| 455 | Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many lone parents in Paisley South were on income support in the periods (a) May 1995-96, (b) May 1996-97 and (c) May 1997-98. |
| (71432) | |
| 456 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71278) | |
| 457 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71288) | |
| 458 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70459) | |
| 459 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70473) | |
| 460 N | Dr David Clark (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the piloted changes to the composition of appeal tribunals for incapacity benefit are to be introduced nationally. |
| (70558) | |
| 461 N | Dr David Clark (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the current average time before appeals are heard by appeal tribunals in relation to incapacity benefit. |
| (70559) | |
| 462 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, for which customers and from what dates the Contributions Agency has declined to accept national insurance contributions because of an inability to record those contributions; how many customers are affected; how much revenue has been lost; and how it will be recovered. |
| (71784) | |
| 463 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he requires customers receiving child benefit to distinguish between children of different relationships. |
| (71709) | |
| 464 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what studies have been commissioned under the Housing Benefit Computing Strategy Study; when such studies were commissioned; what agencies are employed in the study; how much expenditure has been committed so far; and what are the implementation milestones to completion. |
| (71786) | |
| 465 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what are the objectives of the NIRS 2 project; when the final decision was taken to implement the project; on what dates revisions of the objectives were approved; what has been the expenditure on this project to date; and if he will list the remaining implementation milestones to completion. |
| (71770) | |
| 466 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many extra staff have been recruited to compensate for the delays in the NIRS 2 project; how many of these staff are (a) short-term and (b) part-time workers; what has been the cost of employing these staff including employment on-costs; and how much of this cost is recoverable from Anderson Consulting. |
| (71788) | |
| 467 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what are the objectives of (a) the accord project and (b) the assist computerisation project; on what date the final decision was taken to implement the project; what was the expenditure on each project; and if he will list the remaining implementation milestones to completion. |
| (71781) | |
| 468 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will indicate the objectives of the benefits payments smartcard project; on what date the final decision was taken to implement the project; what has been the expenditure on the project so far; and if he will list the remaining implementation milestones to completion. |
| (71764) | |
| 469 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will place the responses to the Green Paper, A New Contract for Welfare, in the Library. |
| (71101) | |
| 470 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the total savings to the social security budget, for the past five years, resulting from maintenance paid to families through the Child Support Agency. |
| (71099) | |
| 471 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, at what intervals under the single gateway proposals (a) single mothers and (b) other claimants will be required to attend for interview as a condition of receiving benefit. |
| (71304) | |
| 472 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the annual pension statements proposed in the Green Paper, Partnership in Pensions, will include details of the predicted level of the minimum income guarantee at individuals' retirement age, and of predicted benefits receivable therefrom. |
| (71305) | |
| 473 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will make a statement on plans for the division of responsibilities between the Treasury and the Department of Social Security with respect to (a) answering parliamentary questions and (b) appearances before select committees following the implementation of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Bill [Lords]. |
| (71124) | |
| 474 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the total cost to the taxpayer of benefits paid to widows and widowers (1) if the benefit rules were to remain unchanged and (2) if the reforms in Support in Bereavement were implemented, in (a) 2002, (b) 2007, (c) 2012 and (d) 2017. |
| (71100) | |
| 475 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what additional resources will be made available to fund interviews taking place under the Single Gateway system proposed in the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill. |
| (71189) | |
| 476 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the increase in the number of pensioners receiving income support in March 2002 resulting from the minimum income guarantee, assuming that the guarantee is uprated in line with (a) prices and (b) average earnings. |
| (71482) | |
| 477 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the state second pension will be calculated by reference to each year's earnings. |
| (71483) | |
| 478 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what assumption was made about the number of pensioners and pensioner units in 2050 for the purpose of his estimates of the proportion likely to be receiving income support. |
| (71480) | |
| 479 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the additional costs which would be incurred by including in his package of measures to tackle pensioner poverty the annual uprating of the minimum income guarantee in line with average earnings in (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02. |
| (71481) | |
| 480 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, columns 718-9, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71032) | |
| 481 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, columns 718-9, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71033) | |
| 482 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70964) | |
| 483 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71347) | |
| 484 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if it is the policy of the Benefits Agency when making telephone calls to people to give a reference number and contact address if requested. |
| (71127) | |
| 485 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if it is the policy of the Benefits Agency to comply with requests from people not to be telephoned with inquiries. |
| (71128) | |
| 486 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the policy of the Benefits Agency in respect of telephoning people outside office hours. |
| (71126) | |
| 487 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will make a statement on (a) access which the Benefits Agency has to ex-directory telephone numbers and (b) its policy on their use. |
| (71125) | |
| 488 | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he first assessed the advantages of closing the Benefits Agency offices in Abingdon and Wantage. |
| (71688) | |
| 489 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the additional annual cost of the second pension in (a) 10, (b) 15, (c) 20 and (d) 25 years' time. |
| (71372) | |
| 490 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the additional annual cost of the introduction of the guaranteed minimum pension. |
| (71373) | |
| 491 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the additional annual cost of increasing the state retirement pension to the same level as the guaranteed minimum pension. |
| (71374) | |
| 492 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many (a) personal pension plans and (b) occupational pension schemes are currently held in the United Kingdom. |
| (70694) | |
| 493 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans he has to investigate the level of social security fraud committed by asylum seekers. |
| (71096) | |
| 494 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will provide a breakdown of the types of benefit received by those leaving the New Deal for 18 to 24 year olds to transfer to other benefits. |
| (71186) | |
| 495 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the number of individuals who will be affected by the abolition of the employee entry rate in national insurance contributions; and what will be the average cost per individual. |
| (70689) | |
| 496 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71512) | |
| 497 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the number of people claiming social security benefits while receiving a wage paid in cash; and what measures he plans to take to reduce the number. |
| (71098) | |
| 498 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many extra staff his Department (a) has had to employ and (b) expects to employ in future to deal with backlogs as a result of delays in the implementation of the NIRS II system; and what estimate he has made of the cost of employing the extra staff. |
| (71383) | |
| 499 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the saving to the Exchequer as a result of delays to and underpayment of benefits following problems with the new NIRS II computer system. |
| (71382) | |
| 500 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he will publish the New Fraud Strategy, in response to the consultation on the Green Paper, Beating Fraud is Everyone's Business (Cm 4012). |
| (71309) | |
| 501 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what assessment he has made of the current charging levels of unit trusts, with respect to the feasibility of incorporating lifetime individual savings accounts within the stakeholder pension framework. |
| (71173) | |
| 502 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 13th January, Official Report, columns 222-3, on income support, what assessment he has made of the gender breakdown of the one in four pensioners whom he expects to be on income support in 2050. |
| (71437) | |
| 503 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the proportion of pensioners who will be on (a) income support and (b) other means-tested benefits in (i) 2000, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2020, (iv) 2030, (v) 2040 and (vi) 2050 on the basis of (1) unchanged policies, (2) unchanged policies except for an income guarantee linked to earnings and (3) full implementation of his proposed pensions reforms. |
| (71180) | |
| 504 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the cost of extending entitlement to invalid care allowance to those above state pension age. |
| (71498) | |
| 505 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what will be the rights of women who are widowed (a) before and (b) after pension age in respect of their late husband's state second pension. |
| (71177) | |
| 506 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, where an employee takes out a stakeholder pension through the access given by his employer and then changes job, what arrangements will ensure continued access to the same stakeholder pension. |
| (71174) | |
| 507 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what proportion of pensioners he expects to have incomes at least as great as the minimum income gaurantee in their year of retirement once his pensions reforms are fully implemented. |
| (71181) | |
| 508 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many non-married pensioners with income below £80 per week are (a) men and (b) women who are (i) 65 to 69, (ii) 70 to 74, (iii) 75 to 79 and (iv) 80 years or above; and if he will list separately the figures in each case for those who are (1) widows/widowers, (2) divorced or separated and (3) never married. |
| (71176) | |
| 509 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if a person has earnings of £9,000 per annum or less throughout their lifetime, retires in 2050 on the basic state pension and the state second pension, and lives for a further 20 years, at what point they will start to need income support to top up their income. |
| (71157) | |
| 510 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will ensure that the local Benefits Agency office in Walsall reconsiders the application by Miss McNulty; and if he will make a statement. |
| (70768) | |
| 511 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what circumstances were taken into account when deciding that a Social Fund payment for a mobility scooter should be refused in the case of Miss H. McNulty, of Walsall, reference JP/4L/KJM. |
| (70446) | |
| 512 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, for what reasons Miss H. McNulty, reference JP/4L/KJM in Walsall was refused a social fund payment for a mobility scooter. |
| (70447) | |
| 513 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what contact was made with Walsall Social Services before Miss H. McNulty, of Walsall, reference JP/4L/JKM was refused a Social Fund payment for a mobility scooter; and if he will make a statement. |
| (70445) | |
| 514 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if Miss H. McNulty, of Walsall, reference JP/4L/JKM was seen by officials prior to a decision being made that she should not receive a Social Fund payment for a mobility scooter. |
| (70444) | |
| 515 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the local Benefits Agency ofice in Walsall intends to send an official to visit Miss McNulty ref JP/4L/JKM. |
| (70767) | |
| 516 | Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the response by business to legislation on the late payment of debt. |
| (71477) | |
| 517 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71275) | |
| 518 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71291) | |
| 519 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the average retail price of petrol per litre in each country of the European Union, the tax element in these prices and the proportion of the final price accounted for by taxation in each case. |
| (70762) | |
| 520 N | Mr Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many licences have been granted since 1st May 1997 for the export of arms to Bahrain; and if he will provide details of the arms covered by each licence and the declared purpose. |
| (71301) | |
| 521 | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if Her Majesty's Government has objected to the contents of the European Commission Note from Directorate General I to the Article 113 Committee on investment and the World Trade Organistation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71754) | |
| 522 | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate he has made of the benefits to the United Kingdom economy in (a) output and (b) jobs of the Uruguay round of trade and investment talks. |
| (71757) | |
| 523 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list those nations which have (a) already signed and (b) declared an intent to sign, legally binding contracts with British Nuclear Fuels to purchase MOX fuel. |
| (70489) | |
| 524 | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if Her Majesty's Government has asked the European Commission to redraft the leaked Note from Directorate General I to the Article 113 Committee on investment and the World Trade Organisation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71756) | |
| 525 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment his Department has made of the technical feasibility of returning spent nuclear fuel, nuclear waste and separated plutonium currently at Sellafield to Germany; and if he will make a statement on the technical studies undertaken. |
| (70486) | |
| 526 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what studies his Department has undertaken of the availability of containers to transport German spent nuclear fuel, German nuclear waste and German separated plutonium now at Sellafield; and if he will make a statement of the results of them. |
| (70485) | |
| 527 | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if her Majesty's Government supports the Investor-State Dispute Settlement set out in the European Commission Note from Directorate General I to the Article 113 Committee on investment and the World Trade Organisation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71753) | |
| 528 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the total number of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in each of the agencies for which he is responsible and their location in (i) London, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) each of the English regions. |
| (70471) | |
| 529 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he has taken to relocate staff in (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which he is responsible to the regions of the United Kingdom with the highest levels of unemployment; and what plans he has further to decentralise the location of his Department and its agencies. |
| (70458) | |
| 530 | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will provide data on foreign direct investment in the United Kingdom for each of the last 20 years, broken down into, (a) the stocks and flows of inward investment for each year, (b) the percentage of foreign direct investment in mergers and acquisitions for each year, (c) the percentage of the labour force employed in foreign direct investment for each year, (d) the contribution of foreign direct investment to United Kingdom tax revenues for each year, (e) the total subsidies given to foreign investors for each year and (f) the total royalties paid to abroad by the United Kingdom on foreign direct investment for each year. |
| (71561) | |
| 531 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if his Department has undertaken a study of how contracts for the reprocessing of German spent nuclear fuel at Sellafield could be converted into contracts for dealing with German spent nuclear fuel, nuclear waste and separated plutonium now at Sellafield; and if he will make a statement. |
| (70488) | |
| 532 | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if it is Her Majesty's Government's policy to support the eight elements of an ideal result as outlined in the European Commission Note from Directorate General I to the Article 113 Committee on investment and the World Trade Organisation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71755) | |
| 533 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions he has had with the German Government concerning the possibility of converting contracts for the reprocessing of German spent nuclear fuel into contracts for the conditioning, temporary storage, transport cask construction, transport to Germany and building of storage facilities in Germany of German spent nuclear fuel, German nuclear waste and German separated plutonium now at Sellafield; and if he will make a statement. |
| (70487) | |
| 534 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many copies of New Hallmarks, a consumer guide have been printed; and by what means it is being distributed. |
| (71364) | |
| 535 N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he expects the draft Precious Metals Directive to be discussed next by EU ministers. |
| (71370) | |
| 536 | Maria Eagle (Liverpool, Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he will announce his decision on British Sugar plc's application to build a new combined heat and power gas-fired power station. |
| (71524) | |
| 537 | Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many businesses in the Doncaster MBC area are registered at Companies House; and how many of these businesses have fewer than 20 employees. |
| (71140) | |
| 538 | Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many businesses in the Barnsley MBC area are registered at Companies House; and how many of these businesses have fewer than 20 employees. |
| (71141) | |
| 539 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, for what reason the Government has decided to oppose attempts by (a) India and (b) other developing countries to ban the import of genetically-modified organisms. |
| (70997) | |
| 540 N | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the way in which the UK is advancing its policies on sustainable development through international trade with South Asia. |
| (70998) | |
| 541 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 28th January, Official Report, column 315, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71018) | |
| 542 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 28th January, Official Report, column 315, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71019) | |
| 543 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70965) | |
| 544 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71349) | |
| 545 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations he has received concerning competition between financial intermediaries to which small businesses can apply for venture capital; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71527) | |
| 546 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) reviews, (b) task forces and (c) advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71511) | |
| 547 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what publicity has been arranged for the Dormant Company Accounts form relating to the submission of annual accounts by dormant companies. |
| (71135) | |
| 548 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what changes have been made to the CHN21, Dormant Company Accounts booklet to ensure that directors of dormant companies are made aware of the DCA forms. |
| (71136) | |
| 549 | Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures he plans to introduce to encourage UK manufacturing companies to adopt the best practice techniques of their international competitors. |
| (71644) | |
| 550 N | Mr John Wilkinson (Ruislip-Northwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when his predecessor, the Right honourable Member for Hartlepool met as Secretary of State (a) the Chairman and (b) the Chief Executive of British Aerospace plc during 1998; and what subjects were discussed on each occasion. |
| (70651) | |
| 551 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the mileage rates currently applicable to staff, indicating what changes have been made to encourage staff to switch from cars to public transport and other less polluting forms of travel. |
| (70960) | |
| 552 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what amounts in his Department's budget for 1998-99 can be attributed to spending on disabled people; and what proportion this represents of total departmental spending. |
| (71281) | |
| 553 | Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the impact on his Department's policies of the goods and services provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to be implemented in October 1999. |
| (71267) | |
| 554 | Mr Martin Caton (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which area health authorities in Wales fund the prescription of the drug Donepezil Hydrochloride (Aricept) to treat Alzheimer's disease. |
| (71486) | |
| 555 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, column 690, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. |
| (71034) | |
| 556 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 1998, Official Report, column 690, if he will list the expenditure not included in his Answer incurred (a) by task forces and review bodies, (b) by focus groups, (c) on market research and (d) for publications and publicity; and if he will list the bodies which incurred the expenditure. |
| (71035) | |
| 557 N | Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. |
| (70962) | |
| 558 N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the parliamentary constituencies which he has visited in an official capacity in the past 12 months. |
| (71345) | |
| 559 | Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he proposes to lay a draft Order making provision for the elections to the National Assembly for Wales; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71682) | |
| 560 N | Ms Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if additional funding in the form of a ring-fenced grant will be made available to Welsh local authorities to provide the means for carers to have a break from their caring responsibilities. |
| (70954) | |
| 561 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what reviews, task forces and advisory groups have been established by his Department since 1st May 1997; what costs they have incurred to date; and what reports they have published. |
| (71517) | |
| 562 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much land held by his Department he estimates would fall within the definition of open country as set out in the consultation document Access to the Open Countryside of February 1998. |
| (71635) | |
| 563 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is estimated amount of aggregate external finance excluding specific grants for local government in 1999-2000; and how this figure compares with each year since 1992. |
| (71650) | |
| 564 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the estimated aggregate external finance as a percentage of the total standard spending of local government in 1999-2000; and what was the equivalent percentage in each year since 1992. |
| (71649) | |
| 565 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for (a) public health and (b) traffic on the M4 of the burning of underground spoil at Grovesend. |
| (71295) | |
| 566 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many whole time equivalent nurses were employed in Wales on 31st January. |
| (71155) | |
| 567 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many doctors are employed at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend; and how many were employed there in May 1997. |
| (71169) | |
| 568 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many whole-time equivalent teachers were employed in Wales on 31st January 1999. |
| (71152) | |
| 569 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the annual running costs of the Pierhead building. |
| (71299) | |
| 570 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many Key Stage 1 pupils were in classes with more than 30 pupils in each of the last five years. |
| (71298) | |
| 571 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what progress has been made in setting up individual learning accounts; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71150) | |
| 572 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many mixed sex wards there were in hospitals in Wales in each of the last five years. |
| (71395) | |
| 573 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the cost of the opening ceremony of the National Assembly. |
| (71154) | |
| 574 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list the number of managers in the NHS in Wales in each of the last five years. |
| (71165) | |
| 575 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many persons are currently registered homeless in Wales; and how many were so registered for the quarter ending June 1997. |
| (71297) | |
| 576 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the average class size is in the Bridgend County Borough; and what it was in May 1997. |
| (71294) | |
| 577 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will estimate the changes in administrative costs to the NHS in Wales consequent upon the reorganisation of NHS trusts this year and over the next four years. |
| (71170) | |
| 578 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he will begin consultations regarding the implementation of education action zones. |
| (71149) | |
| 579 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he held regarding the bridging of A4042 during his recent visit to Croesyceiliog. |
| (71164) | |
| 580 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with headteachers and governors of schools in Monmouth regarding the compulsory teaching of Welsh at Key Stage 4; and if he will make a statement. |
| (71166) | |
| 581 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make available to local authorities in Wales his estimate of the minimum finance which each authority might expect to receive for housing renovation and repair, out of the all Wales fund for which initial bids are invited by 15th February; and if he will make a statement on the guidance which he plans to give to local authorities on the preparation of 1999-2000 housing budgets in advance of decisions on the total finance which will be available to them from his Department. |
| (71354) | |
| 582 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, by what date he plans to inform local authorities in Wales of their allocation from the all Wales fund for housing renovation for which they have been invited to bid; by what date the final bids have to be submitted by local authorities; and if he will list the criteria on which these bids will be assessed. |
| (71351) | |
| 583 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the total cost of renovations and repairs needing to be done to the housing stock of Wales (a) in the public rented sector, (b) in the voluntary rented sector and (c) in the private sector. |
| (71352) | |
| 584 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the outstanding housing renovation grants in Wales on the basis of existing commitments made by local authorities at 31st March 1998, or the latest date at which the information is available. |
| (71353) | |
| 585 N | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many businesses were affected by the change in the gas levy announced in the 1997 budget; and what is the average reduction in the levy per business. |
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| 586 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of people who (a) were originally mis-sold personal pensions and (b) had reached a satisfactory settlement in respect of their pension entitlement (i) by 1st May 1997 and (ii) at the latest available date. |
| [Transferred] (71557) | |
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