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Session 1998-98 Publications on the internet The Order Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Friday 16 April 1999 Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Friday 16 April 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 Friday 16 April, of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order of Business. For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Monday 19 April, 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.

FRIDAY 16th APRIL
1	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81200)
2	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81178)
3	Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what will be the payment per hectare in sterling under the arable area payments scheme for (a) cereals, (b) set-aside, (c) pulses, (d) oilseed rape and (e) linseed for each year from 1999-2000 to 2005-06, using current exchange rates.
	(81372)
4	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81207)
5	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in the Cabinet Office have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81187)
6	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department and its predecessor have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81174)
7	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81196)
8	Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received concerning the cancellation of the British Open Squash Championship 1999.
	(81345)
9	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the benefits of the United Kingdom becoming a member of the World Tourism Organisation.
	(81401)
10   N	Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria were used in deciding to disband the Royal Armoured Corps Pool of Officers.
	(80687)
11   N	Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to replace the specialist armoured skills and experience at junior commander level which had been provided by the Royal Armoured Corps Pool of Officers.
	(80689)
12	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81189)
13	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81194)
14	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the roles which servicemen aged 16 and 17 are not eligible to perform, by service.
	(81238)
15	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on his policy towards the recruitment of under 18 year olds to the Armed Forces.
	(81239)
16	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the planned deployment of Territorial Army (i) units and (ii) individual personnel in Kosovo; and what reassessment he is making of the Strategic Defence Review following the engagement of British troops in the Balkans.
	(81251)
17	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the reduction of access to Wellington Barracks Electronic Range Simulator.
	(81247)
18	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many enlisted 16 and 17 year olds there are in each service.
	(81241)
19	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many 16 and 17 year old servicemen are currently deployed overseas, by (i) service and (ii) theatre; and how many have been removed from their unit on its current deployment.
	(81236)
20   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the headings or fields of information under which his Department's databases record personal details of serving and former members of HM armed forces.
	(80614)
21   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will (a) set out his reasons for issuing an injunction on 23rd February 1998 concerning plans for publication of a book to have been entitled Ten Thirty Three, by Mr Nicholas Davies, and (b) ensure that no investigation or inquiry into the death of solicitor Patrick Finucane is prevented from having access to unpublished material that is in Mr Davies's possession.
	(80601)
22	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the countries (a) from which police officers have visited the UK and (b) have been visited by United Kingdom military personnel to receive training or other military assistance under the Defence Military Assistance Fund since 1st April 1997.
	(81378)
23	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if British military personnel have visited the School of the Americas training establishment at the United States Army base at Fort Benning, Georgia, in each of the last eight years.
	(81375)
24	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British military personnel have assisted United States military personnel in providing military training to, or in conducting joint training exercises with, members of the Colombian (a) armed forces and (b) police in (i) the United States and (ii) Colombia in each of the last eight years.
	(81374)
25	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the countries from which military officers (a) have visited the United Kingdom and (b) have been visited by United Kingdom military personnel to receive training or other military assistance under the Defence Military Assistance Fund since 1st April 1997.
	(81379)
26	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the constituents of the emergency rations issued to Army personnel in the field.
	(81350)
27	Dr Tony Wright (Cannock Chase):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will release the information held by his Department on the number of airmen during the Second World War who were classified as lacking moral fibre; and if he will take steps to remove this classification from service records.
	(81341)
28	Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he has issued revised guidance on the education of children out of school, including pupil referral units, following his consultation.
	(81191)
29	Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many year 11, 10 and 9 pupils were expelled from schools in London and the South East over the last three years and for the first quarter of 1999.
	(81169)
30	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department and its predecessors have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81186)
31	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81206)
32	Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what information about the retirement packages of principals of FE colleges is made publicly available.
	(81211)
33	Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the compliance with the FEFC guidance on retirement financial arrangements for principals of tertiary colleges of the provision made for the recently retired Principal of Wirral Metropolitan College.
	(81210)
34	Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what are the arrangements for publication of the inspection report on Wirral Metropolitan College.
	(81209)
35	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81201)
36	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department and its predecessors have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81181)
37	Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the objectors to the application to release genetically-modified organisms in Monmouthshire.
	(81347)
38	Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the members of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, indicating their professional backgrounds in each case.
	(81346)
39	Mr Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many drivers of mobile cranes have not been granted a Group 2 (category C) licence under the second EC Driving Licence Directive (91/439/EEC) and the implementing legislation (SI 1996/2824).
	(81244)
40	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his oral Answer of 13th April, Official Report, column 18, what estimate she has made of the number of filling stations which offer re-fuelling for (a) LPG and (b) compressed natural gas.
	(81383)
41	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will rank the 10 local authorities with the greatest number of dwellings built before 1919.
	(81351)
42	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he expects the Channel Tunnel Rail Link to be completed in its entirety; and if he will make a statement.
	(81352)
43   N	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list for each of the vehicles listed in Schedule I, paragraphs 3, 5, 6 and 8 of the 1999 Finance Bill the costs in each European Union Country, of (a) any taxes paid, and the rate of such tax on (i) a new vehicle, (ii) a secondhand vehicle, (b) the vehicle excise duty or the equivalent tax, (c) the total tax on a litre of fuel, (d) tax paid on lubricants, (e) running commercial vehicles, on average, (f) running commercial vehicles per mile, (g) running a commercial vehicle for a year, (h) running a commercial vehicle for 100,000 miles, (i) running a commercial vehicle over the average life of such a vehicle, the estimates of (e) (f) (g) (h) and (i) all to be exclusive of salaries and wages, and where the vehicle descriptions are not the same in each country all figures and sums to relate to the nearest equivalent vehicle in each country and all sums to be shown in Sterling.
	(81155)
44   N	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the amount of subsidy paid to the road haulage industry in each European Union country in the last financial year; and if he will indicate the basis on which such help is determined.
	(81158)
45   N	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what was the tonnage of goods transported by the UK road haulage industry in each of the last three years (i) within the UK, (ii) from the UK and (iii) into the UK; and what was the tonnage of goods moved by vehicles (a) owned by and (b) operated from other EU countries in each of those years.
	(81157)
46   N	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is his estimate of the extent of over-capacity of the road haulage industry in the United Kingdom; what proportion of the road haulage vehicles operating in the UK are (i) UK owned, (ii) UK registered and (iii) from other EU countries.
	(81154)
47   N	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the items he took into account when estimating the running costs of a goods vehicle in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) each of the other EU countries.
	(81153)
48	Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the rules relating to the exemption of children's clothes and shoes from VAT were (a) introduced and (b) last revised.
	(81384)
49	Mr David Atkinson (Bournemouth East):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received on ending VAT on the Bleep Alarm Service; and if he will make a statement.
	(81368)
50	Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of (a) annual tax loss as a result of tax avoidance in the area of personnel services covered by IR 35 and (b) the value in 1998 of Government contracts with IT and other companies providing personnel services which will be affected by IR 35.
	(81329)
51	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81182)
52	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81202)
53   N	Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects to reply to the question from the honourable Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton of 11th March (Ref. 76246).
	(80894)
54   N	Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which authorised person under the Financial Services Act 1986 approved the Inland Revenue ISA advertisements.
	(81105)
55   N	Mr David Rendel (Newbury):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what systems are in place to enable his Department to notify self-employed people paying National Insurance contributions by direct debit, that those payments are not being received.
	(80934)
56   N	Mr David Rendel (Newbury):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) men and (b) women are currently entitled to the additional personal tax allowance; and how many of those men and women are (i) parents and (ii) carers.
	(80935)
57   N	Mr David Rendel (Newbury):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the current take-up rate of the additional personal tax allowance; and what estimate he has made of the additional cost should full take-up occur.
	(80936)
58   N	Mr David Rendel (Newbury):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the abolition of the additional personal tax allowance in relation to carers; and if he will introduce a new allowance or credit to assist working carers with the costs of caring.
	(80937)
59   N	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the ethnic groups present in the United Kingdom and indicate the number of adult (i) males, (ii) females and (iii) children in each such group.
	(81156)
60	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households without work for two years or more there were in each local authority in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81336)
61	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many premature deaths there were in each local authority area in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81337)
62	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many births to girls conceiving under the age of 16 years there were in each local authority in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81332)
63   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received regarding the right of a sovereign country to deport its own citizens from the land of their birth and nationality; and if he will make a statement.
	(80801)
64   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to allow the Chagos islanders to visit their homeland; and if he will make a statement.
	(80803)
65   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he intends to open a trade mission in Libya; and if he will make a statement.
	(80808)
66   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Libyan Arab Jamahirya regarding the re-opening of a Libyan diplomatic mission in London; and if he will make a statement.
	(80809)
67   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the demand of the Chagos islanders to return to their homeland following the recent High Court ruling on this matter; and if he will make a statement.
	(80802)
68   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he intends (a) to re-open the British Embassy in Tripoli and (b) to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Libya; and if he will make a statement.
	(80807)
69   N	Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will report progress on the department's monitoring of the use to which its advice is put by Granger Telecom in respect of their staff working in Chechnya.
	(81148)
70	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81203)
71	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81183)
72   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the work he has done to secure (a) Japanese and (b) Korean inward investment into the United Kingdom.
	(81104)
73   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions took place on the issue of brokering in the meeting of the Council of Ministers COARM working group on 18th March; and what position was taken by the United Kingdom representative.
	(81103)
74	Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how frequently his Department is updating information on travel advice to individual countries on his Department's website; and if more regular updates are planned for countries with (a) a political involvement in and (b) close proximity to the current NATO bombing campaign in the Balkans.
	(81214)
75	Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what advice his Department is giving to tourists planning to visit areas in close proximity to the NATO military actions in the Balkans.
	(81215)
76	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on a future role for the International Criminal Court in Kosovo following cessation of hostilities.
	(81250)
77	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the report by the UN Observer Mission in Sierra Leone concerning alleged civil rights abuses by the Economic Community of West Africa States Monitoring Group; and what representations he has made on the report.
	(81242)
78	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the progress made under the United Kingdom presidency of the EU of the Single Market Action Plan by number of targets achieved; and how many targets were met during each other presidency.
	(81226)
79	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what correspondence his (a) Department and (b) office have received from (i) posts abroad and (ii) the Prime Minister's office on placement of articles written by the Prime Minister in the foreign media, which would facilitate identification of those articles; and if he will make a statement.
	(81237)
80	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the countries (a) from which police officers have visited the UK and (b) have been visited by UK military or police personnel to receive training under the assistance for in-service training scheme since 1st April 1998.
	(81376)
81	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the countries from which police officers (a) have visited the United Kingdom and (b) have been visited by United Kingdom military or police personnel to receive training under the United Kingdom military training assistance scheme in the financial year 1997-98.
	(81377)
82	Jackie Ballard (Taunton):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission research into the mechanisms of central fatigue in multiple sclerosis.
	(81343)
83	Jackie Ballard (Taunton):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has issued to health authorities about the criteria for NHS prescriptions for the drug Aricept.
	(81168)
84	Jackie Ballard (Taunton):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the impact of clinical psychology in the management of multiple sclerosis.
	(81344)
85	Jackie Ballard (Taunton):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to implement the recommendations in the report from the Working Party on Multiple Sclerosis produced by the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine.
	(81342)
86   N	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those people appointed chairman or non-executive director of an NHS trust or health authority since 1st May 1997 who are the spouse or partner of an elected local councillor, stating the party affiliation of the councillor in each case.
	(80931)
87   N	Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those people appointed chairman or non-executive director of NHS trusts or health authorities since 1st May 1997 who are the spouse or partner of an honourable Member stating the party affiliation of the honourable Member in each case.
	(80932)
88	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81195)
89	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81190)
90	Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons his Department withdrew its proposed stand from the Conference of the Royal College of Midwives in Glasgow; and if he will make a statement.
	(81416)
91   N	Mr Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what has been the salary increase for speech therapists in the NHS in each of the last five years (a) in real terms and (b) as a percentage.
	(81065)
92   N	Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 12th March, Official Report, columns 415-8, if he will list the women's organisations which have been invited to send representatives to the Listening to Women roadshows at (a) Newcastle, (b) Reading, (c) Leeds and (d) Nottingham.
	(80898)
93   N	Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if disabled people and their organisations will have specific representation on the board of the newly-established National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
	(80930)
94	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met representatives of the black and ethnic minority communities to discuss mental health treatment.
	(81411)
95	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the provision of mental health treatment for members of the (a) black and (b) ethnic minority communities; and if he will make a statement.
	(81409)
96	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of the NHS budget was allocated to mental health services for each of the last three years.
	(81412)
97	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the rates of (a) schizophrenia and (b) depression among (i) Afro-Carribeans and (ii) the British white population.
	(81415)
98	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice he has given to health authorities regarding mental health treatment for members of the black and ethnic minority communities.
	(81410)
99	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the principal advances in treatment which have been implemented in mental health since 1995.
	(81413)
100	Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health patients were treated on the NHS over the last five years.
	(81414)
101	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he intends the composition of the appraisal groups established by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to be in accordance with the proposals made in the document, Faster Access to Modern Treatment.
	(81230)
102	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the appraisal process for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence following the consultation on the document, Faster Access to Modern Treatment.
	(81229)
103	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81205)
104	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81185)
105	Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in Cleveland Police Force are under investigation in the Redwood inquiry; how many have been charged; and if he will make a statement.
	(81165)
106	Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of serving CID officers in Cleveland Police Force are under investigation in the Lancet inquiry in the boroughs of (a) Middlesbrough, (b) Stockton, (c) Langbaurgh and (d) Hartlepool; and if he will make a statement.
	(81164)
107	Sir Nicholas Lyell (North East Bedfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the (a) costs of setting up and (b) annual running costs of the Immigration Services Tribunal and its staff; what provisions have been made to meet such costs; and what plans he has for designated professional bodies to contribute towards these costs.
	(81403)
108	Sir Nicholas Lyell (North East Bedfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what level of fee he plans to be payable by those applying to be registered with the Immigration Services Commission under paragraph 5 of schedule 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill; by what criteria the level of the fee will be fixed; and on what basis each scale of fees will be determined.
	(81404)
109	Sir Nicholas Lyell (North East Bedfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of applicants who will seek to register with the Immigration Services Commissioner in the first year of operation.
	(81405)
110	Sir Nicholas Lyell (North East Bedfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the (a) start-up costs and (b) annual running costs of the office of the Immigration Services Commissioner and staff; and what provisions have been made to meet such costs.
	(81402)
111	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what staff under his control are engaged in monitoring criminal activity by elements of the Kosovo Liberation Army; what is the nature of that activity; and if he will make a statement.
	(81243)
112	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what factors underlay the length of time between the meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 12th March and his report to the House.
	(81240)
113	Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will introduce a ceremony to mark the award of UK citizenship.
	(81353)
114	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children from each local unitary authority in Wales were in young offenders' institutions in each of the past 10 years.
	(81333)
115   N	Mr David Winnick (Walsall North):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the honourable Member for Walsall North will receive a reply to his letter of 9th March concerning a constituent (HO Reference 4068/99).
	(80800)
116	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in her Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81198)
117	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in her Department and its predecessor have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81176)
118   N	Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she has taken to ensure that privately-donated aid destined for refugees from Kosovo is not being delayed by unnecessary bureaucracy; and if she will investigate the reasons for a lorry loaded by NMT Crane Hire of Bedfordshire with aid not being allowed to leave Bishops Stortford for Albania during the past week.
	(81106)
119	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81184)
120	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81204)
121   N	Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what plans he has to permit solicitors to practise as limited liability companies; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (81097)
122   N	Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what plans he has to permit the development of multi-disciplinary partnerships in the legal profession; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (81094)
123   N	Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what plans he has to review the complaints procedures applying (a) to solicitors and (b) to barristers; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (81095)
124   N	Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what plans he has to permit barristers to practise in (a) partnerships and (b) limited liability companies; and if he will make a statement.
	(81096)
125	Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how much absence through illness was recorded at the Legal Aid Board during the year 1998-99 in relation to grades 7 and above; and what the figures were for 1995-96.
	(81249)
126	Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many complaints he has received about the behaviour of members of the judiciary in each of the last three years; how many have been upheld; and if he will make a statement.
	(81246)
127	Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what action he takes on receipt of a complaint against a member of the judiciary; and if he will make a statement.
	(81222)
128	Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what priority will be given to children with disability in the allocation of pre-school places.
	(81417)
129	Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the policy of Her Majesty's Government is on the pay of the crew of the research vessel 'Lough Foyle'.
	(81213)
130	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in the Northern Ireland Civil Service have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81173)
131	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in her Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81197)
132   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the (a) numbers and (b) type of firearms officially registered or held by private individuals in Northern Ireland, indicating how many are for personal protection.
	(80454)
133   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list those public bodies concerned in the administration of justice which maintain computerised databases containing personal details and information about non-employees.
	(80609)
134   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Home Secretary's statement to the House on 24th February, Official Report, columns 389-403, (a) how she plans to respond to Sir William Macpherson's recommendations and (b) whether she will consider amending the Fair Employment and Treatment Order 1998.
	(80610)
135   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will list the Irish-medium (a) primary and (b) secondary schools and state the number of pupils enrolled in each at the start of the current school year.
	(80611)
136   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many school pupils were being taught in the Irish language medium in each year since 1985.
	(80612)
137   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to her Answer of 9th February, Official Report, column 125, on arrest warrants, if she will list the definition and procedural arrangements for review for each of the five categories of arrest warrant and indicate what bodies might constitute the issuing authority in each case; how many extradition warrants were issued to which countries in each of the last 20 years; and how many warrants led to successful extradition.
	(80613)
138   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will request HM Inspector of Prisons to investigate assaults and arson attacks on prison officers at HMP Maghaberry.
	(80602)
139   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many officer days have been lost through sickness and what percentage of officers at Maghaberry prison have (i) reported sick and (ii) been absent from work for reasons of illness or stress (a) over the last month and (b) over the same four week period in 1998 and 1997.
	(80603)
140   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in what form and where (a) complaints made under fair employment legislation, (b) friendly settlements and (c) decisions of the Fair Employment Tribunal are listed.
	(80604)
141   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assistance is available for employers to maintain a computerised record of monitoring under fair employment legislation and what assessment she has made of the practicality of developing a dedicated software package for these purposes.
	(80605)
142   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions in each year since 1990 the Fair Employment Commmission has acted on section 33(3) of the Fair Employment Act (NI) 1989 in (a) serving a notice containing directions under section 34 and (b) making an application to the Tribunal under section 16.
	(80606)
143   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions in each year since 1990 (a) the Fair Employment Commission has served a notice under section 36(2) of the Fair Employment Act (NI) 1989 concerning goals and timetables and (b) a person has been (i) prosecuted and (ii) found guilty of an offence under section 36(7).
	(80607)
144   N	Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions in each year since 1990 (a) the Fair Employment Commission has issued a notice under section 38 of the Fair Employment Act (NI) 1989 stating an employer is not qualified under the Act and (b) an employer has won an appeal against such a decision.
	(80608)
145	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when, where and by what means (a) Judge William Doyle, (b) Mr Edgar Graham, (c) Lord Justice Gibson and his wife, (d) Resident Magistrate W. Stanton and (e) Resident Magistrate Martin Burney were murdered; which terrorist organisation was responsible; how many persons have been brought before the courts for that crime; and what sentences were imposed.
	(81166)
146	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when, where and by what means Resident Magistrate Mr Tom Travers and his wife were injured and their daughter murdered; which terrorist organisation was responsible; how many persons have been brought before the courts for that crime; and what sentences were imposed.
	(81167)
147   N	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is her estimate of the savings which will result from the changes introduced into the organisational and regional structures of the Roads Service on the 1st April for the present financial year and the following two years; and to what use such savings will be put.
	(81159)
148	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when, where, and by what means Judge Rory Cochanan was murdered; which terrorist organisation was responsible; how many persons have been brought before the courts for that crime; and what sentences were imposed.
	(81245)
149	Mr Cecil Walker (Belfast North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what role she plans for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive following the transfer of responsibility for social housing to the Northern Ireland Assembly; and if she will make a statement.
	(81212)
150	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Prime Minister, if he will estimate the man hours required by (a) his office and (b) the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (i) to write articles for placement in the foreign media and (ii) to place those articles; and if he will estimate the time required for future recording of those articles for reference purposes.
	(81228)
151	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the sources which enabled him to identify articles he had written for publication by the foreign media; and if he will make a statement on the means by which the use of these sources could be expanded.
	(81235)
152	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list those points in his office at which records of where authorship and distribution of articles produced by him for publication by the foreign media could be maintained.
	(81234)
153	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 31st March, Official Report, columns 716-7, if he will indicate those sections of his oral statement of 29th March, Official Report, columns 732-47, which answered the questions tabled by (a) the Right honourable Member for Penrith and the Border, (b) the honourable Member for Gordon, and (c) the honourable Member for Christchurch, with regard to the EU budget negotiations at Berlin.
	(81385)
154	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Prime Minister, for which areas of gross receipts of EU monies it was decided that the United Kingdom total would diminish as a consequence of the Berlin summit; by how much; and if he will make a statement.
	(81224)
155	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Prime Minister, what measures he is taking to extend the mandate of the UN Preventive Deployment Force in Macedonia; and what assessment he has made of the effect on efforts to achieve this on the number of UK troops in the region.
	(81248)
156	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Prime Minister, what is his estimate of the cost of keeping a record of articles written in his capacity as Prime Minister for publication by the foreign media.
	(81233)
157	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what qualifications and experience will be required of the successful candidate for the position of Head of the Statistical Service in his Department.
	(81175)
158	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81208)
159	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81188)
160   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on the work he has done to secure (a) Korean and (b) Japanese inward investment into the United Kingdom.
	(81101)
161	Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list by authority and service area the surpluses and deficits recorded in Scottish local authority direct labour or service organisations' audited accounts for 1995-96.
	(81369)
162	Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what will be the payment per hectare in sterling under the arable area payment scheme for (a) cereals, (b) set-aside, (c) pulses, (d) oilseed rape and (e) linseed for each year from 1999-2000 to 2005-06, using current exchange rates.
	(81371)
163	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is his estimate of the percentage of salmon and grilse caught by anglers in Scotland in each of the last 10 years which were caught by (a) persons permanently resident in Scotland and (b) anglers visiting Scotland.
	(81219)
164	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is his estimate of the value of each salmon taken be an angler visiting Scotland to the Scottish economy in each of the last 10 years.
	(81220)
165	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is his estimate of the value of salmon angling to the economy of Scotland in each of the last 10 years; and of this how much in each year represents spending by visitors from outside Scotland.
	(81221)
166	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is his estimate of the value to the Scottish economy of salmon farming in each of the last 10 years.
	(81217)
167	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is his estimate of the number of (a) salmon and grilse and (b) sea trout eaten per seal in Scottish waters in each of the last 10 years.
	(81218)
168	Mr William Ross (East Londonderry):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what is his estimate of the minimum number of (a) grey seals and (b) common seals required to maintain a viable population in Scottish waters.
	(81216)
169   N	Mr James Wallace (Orkney and Shetland):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he intends to reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Orkney and Shetland of 5th February regarding the operation of the New Opportunities Fund in Scotland.
	(80933)
170	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81199)
171	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department and its predecessors have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81177)
172   N	Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to the Government's White Paper, Cm. 4310, Modernising Government, what changes he proposes to make to his Department's services for people with special needs; what methods of consultation he will undertake to assess the effectiveness of the changes; and if he will make a statement.
	(80897)
173   N	Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to the Government's White Paper, Cm. 4310, Modernising Government, what are his Department's targets for answering letters, seeing callers without appointments and answering telephone calls; and if he will make a statement.
	(80895)
174   N	Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people earning between £9,000 and £18,500 are currently paying into some form of non-state administered pension provision; and if he will estimate the proportion which (a) will remain in this earnings bracket for more than five years and (b) will have an income above £18,500 within five years.
	(81123)
175   N	Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to the Government's White Paper, Cm. 4310, Modernising Government, what complaints procedure is to be implemented by his Department; how it will be publicised; and if he will make a statement.
	(80896)
176	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what was the total expenditure on the Motability scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	(81397)
177	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many vehicles were bought under the Motability scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	(81398)
178	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many manufacturers supplied vehicles under the Motability scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	(81399)
179	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the maximum amount of money available to a claimant under the Motability scheme to assist in the purchase of a vehicle.
	(81400)
180	Ms Jenny Jones (Wolverhampton South West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people were receiving incapacity benefit in (a) the UK and (b) the West Midlands on 31st March.
	(81162)
181	Ms Jenny Jones (Wolverhampton South West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people were receiving severe disablement allowance in (a) the UK and (b) the West Midlands on 31st March.
	(81163)
182   N	Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list for (a) Wales, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland, (d) England and (e) the United Kingdom, the number of people who applied (i) successfully and (ii) unsuccessfully in the last year for disability living allowance.
	(80940)
183   N	Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list for (a) Wales, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) each region of England, the number of disabled people who have been awarded disability living allowance since 1st June 1997 (i) on their initial application, (ii) at review and (iii) at appeal.
	(80938)
184   N	Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list for (a) Wales, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland, (d) England and (e) the United Kingdom, the number of people whose main disabling condition is deafness (i) who were awarded disability living allowance since 1st June 1997 (1) on their initial application, (2) at review and (3) at appeal, and (ii) who applied (x) successfully and (y) unsuccessfully in the last year for disability living allowance.
	(80939)
185	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many pensioners with no private income there were in each local authority area in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81340)
186	Steve Webb (Northavon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what proposals he has to require annuity rates to be equalised between men and women.
	(81370)
187   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will establish a one-stop-shop to provide information, advice and support to British companies wishing to trade with Libya.
	(80804)
188   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he is taking to promote exports to and trade with Libya.
	(80806)
189   N	John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the benefits to British manufacturers of the ending of sanctions against Libya; and if he will make a statement.
	(80805)
190	Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of current (a) German and (b) US licensing requirements for arms brokers; and if he will introduce similar licensing requirements for arms brokers in his proposed legislation on strategic exports.
	(81172)
191	Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will introduce legislation to require the publication of annual reports on strategic exports and to permit scrutiny by relevant parliamentary bodies.
	(81171)
192	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81179)
193	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81193)
194	Mr Ronnie Fearn (Southport):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what powers he has to prevent car manufacturers from refusing to supply right-hand drive vehicles to continental dealers for sale to United Kingdom customers.
	(81223)
195   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the work he has done to secure (a) Korean and (b) Japanese inward investment into the United Kingdom.
	(81098)
196   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate his Department has made of the number of arms brokers operating in the United Kingdom.
	(81099)
197   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he has taken to establish a national register of arms brokers.
	(81100)
198	Ms Jenny Jones (Wolverhampton South West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what sites in the United Kingdom are licenced for storing depleted uranium.
	(81232)
199	Ms Jenny Jones (Wolverhampton South West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what safety standards exist for the storage of depleted uranium.
	(81231)
200	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list those areas for which extension of the Working Time Directive is currently scheduled for discussion at the European Council, for which a qualified majority of member states have already declared their support.
	(81227)
201	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff who have worked as professional statisticians in his Department have left on early retirement in each of the past 10 years.
	(81180)
202	Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff by grade are employed as professional statisticians in his Department; how many of these staff have been accepted as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society.
	(81192)
203	Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the problem of noise to residents from the A449 trunk road near Llanishen in Monmouthshire.
	(81348)
204	Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he proposes to publish revised criteria for noise mitigation measures on existing trunk roads.
	(81349)
205   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on the work he has done to secure (a) Korean and (b) Japanese inward investment into the United Kingdom.
	(81102)
206	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of new atypical anti-pyschotic drugs in the treatment of mental health.
	(81382)
207	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will meet mental health groups to discuss the prescribing of atypical anti-pyschotic drugs for mental health patients.
	(81381)
208	Ms Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what advice he has given to health authorities regarding the prescribing of atypical anti-psychotic drugs for mental health patients.
	(81380)
209	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people have been diagnosed as suffering limiting long-standing illness or disability in each of the (i) unitary and (ii) health authority areas in Wales for each of the past 10 years.
	(81338)
210	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many young adults left school without a basic qualification in each local authority area in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81335)
211	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many children were living in workless households in each local authority area in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81331)
212	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many young adults started drug treatment in each local authority area in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81334)
213	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people have been diagnosed as suffering from depression in each (i) health and (ii) unitary authority area in Wales area in each of the past 10 years.
	(81339)
214	Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what percentage of low birthweight babies were born in each (i) local and (ii) health authority area in Wales in each of the past 10 years.
	(81330)
215	Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask Mr Attorney General, for what reason a representative of the Crown Prosecution Service was in Madrid prior to the issue of a final warrant for the arrest of Senator Pinochet; if he will list that official's meetings in Madrid; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (81225)
216	Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will ensure that annual reports on defence exports contain a breakdown of licences refused.
	[Transferred] (81170)

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