Order Book Part 1

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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 10 May 1999

Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 10 May of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 10 May, of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order of Business.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Tuesday 11 May, see Part 2 of this Paper.

Notes:
* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
[N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
[R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.

MONDAY 10th MAY

1
   Mr Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath and Crayford):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what estimate he has made of the producers' costs of (a) fruit, (b) vegetables, (c) wheat and (d) rice when grown (i) by modern agricultural methods and (ii) organically.

(83890)

2
   Mr Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath and Crayford):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what the current worldwide balance of supply and demand is for food; and what estimate he has made of what it would be if Northern American and Western European agricultural demand switched to organic produce in the proportions (a) 5 per cent., (b) 10 per cent. and (c) 20 per cent.

(83891)

3
N   Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when he will publish the 1995 Institute of Occupational Medicine (Edinburgh) report on the study into organophosphate dips.

(83715)

4
N   Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will place in the Library the results of his Department's latest tests of organophosphate residues in celery.

(83779)

5
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83119)

6
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire can expect a reply to his letter of 18th March to the Minister of State on behalf of his constituent Mr Marshall.

(83751)

7
N   Mrs Diana Organ (Forest of Dean):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many members of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Animal Welfare team will be deployed to carry out the Krebs Trial in the two triplet sites within the Forest of Dean constituency.

(83717)

8
N   Mrs Diana Organ (Forest of Dean):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the announcement will be made concerning the triplet sites in the Krebs Trial area of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire; and which will be the control, reactive and pro-active areas in the trial.

(83718)

9
   Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead):    To ask Mr Attorney General, if he will make a statement on the current caseload of the Serious Fraud Office.

(83889)

10
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83111)

11
N   Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South):    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many letters were sent to magistrates in the Duchy as part of the exercise to establish a voluntary register of freemasons; when the letters were sent; and if he will break down the total between (a) declared masons, (b) declared non-masons, (c) those who refused to indicate their status and (d) those from whom no reply was received, distinguishing in each case between men and women.

(83497)

12
N   Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the matched funding being sought by the Millennium Commission capital projects is expected to come from (a) local authorities, (b) development corporations, (c) ERDF, (d) other Government sources and (e) private donations.

(83759)

13
N   Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the expected sources of partnership funding for each of the Millennium capital projects; and how much has now been secured in each case.

(83758)

14
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83115)

15
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83113)

16
N   Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future development of the RAF museum at Hendon and Cosford.

(82594)

17
   Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the agenda for the WEU Council of 10th May.

(83815)

18
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he intends to publish the statement on the Defence Estimates; and if he will make a statement.

(83581)

19
N   Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of morale in the Territorial Army.

(82605)

20
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83109)

21
N   Mr John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what discussions he has held with (a) the Local Government Association and (b) particular local authorities with regard to school provision for child refugees entering Britain from Kosovo.

(83712)

22
N   Mr John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the additional cost to local education authorities of providing an appropriate education for child refugees entering Britain from Kosovo.

(83711)

23
N   Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many headteachers will receive the maximum pay award this year.

(83757)

24
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83105)

25
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps the Government is taking to improve facilities in urban centres for (a) the less mobile and (b) those on low incomes.

(83599)

26
N   Mr Christopher Fraser (Mid Dorset and North Poole):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what the Government's policy is on returning rural brownfield sites developed in the Second World War and no longer required for the original purpose to greenfield status.

(83778)

27
N   Mr Christopher Fraser (Mid Dorset and North Poole):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what account he takes of public support for the construction of a relief road in deciding whether to give statutory protection to an area considered by English Nature to be worthy of special conservation the designation of which will obstruct the building of that road.

(83777)

28
N   Mr Christopher Fraser (Mid Dorset and North Poole):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what account his Department takes of the effect on environmental pollution of selecting a site for protection as a special area of conservation whose designation will obstruct the construction of a relief road.

(83760)

29
N   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the remit for the multi-modal transport study for the London-Ipswich corridor; when it will be completed; if he will place any papers relating to traffic flows, investment options and opportunities for the injection of private finance received in the course of the study in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(83749)

30
N   Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 5th May, Official Report, column 396, concerning services to Fenchurch Street Station, if he will introduce legislation to improve the level and speed of compensation for customers in respect of infrastructure failures which are the responsibility of Railtrack.

(83714)

31
N   Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 5th May, Official Report, column 396, concerning services to Fenchurch Street Station, what action the Government is taking to ensure that Railtrack invest sufficiently to reduce the incidence of infrastructure failure.

(83716)

32
   Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 20th April, Official Report, column 473, on genetically modified crops, if he will make a statement on the reasons for the delay between the holding reply and the final reply.

(83820)

33
   Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what measures he plans to put in place to ensure that local authority transport schemes which currently exceed the proposed minimum standard of half price concessionary bus fares for older people do not reduce their benefits to older people when the proposed national scheme is implemented.

(83845)

34
   Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if his proposed minimum national concessionary bus fare scheme for older people will be applicable to all people aged over 60 years.

(83844)

35
N   Mrs Gillian Shephard (South West Norfolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the total cost to public funds of the Westminster auditor's inquiry into the Westminster Council's designated sales policy over the period 18th July 1989 to 30th April 1999.

(83381)

36
N   Mrs Gillian Shephard (South West Norfolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will set out the authority under which the Audit Commission may make, vary, or refuse payments to a District Auditor it has appointed; and if he will make a statement.

(83382)

37
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83106)

38
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons only fee-based financial advisers are permitted to describe themselves as independent.

(83553)

39
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what factors underlie the Financial Services Authority's decision not to publish league tables on the costs and charges of mortgage products.

(83555)

40
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to extend the protection afforded under the Financial Services Act 1986 to home-buyers.

(83554)

41
N   Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to make available replacement income through working families tax credit or benefit to persons normally in receipt of working families tax credit who take unpaid parental leave under the provision of the Employment Relations Bill.

(83610)

42
N   Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of how families (a) in receipt of and (b) not in receipt of the working families tax credit will make up for wages lost due to unpaid parental leave being taken under the provisions of the Employment Relations Bill.

(83611)

43
N   Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is his estimate of the numbers of households which will be eligible for the working families tax credit which are (a) single parent families, with the woman the sole earner, (b) single parent familes, with the man the sole earner, (c) couples, where the male is the sole earner, (d) couples, where the female is the sole earner and (e) dual-income families.

(83807)

44
   Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the agenda for the ECOFIN Council of 10th May.

(83817)

45
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire can expect a reply to his letter of 24th March on behalf of his constituent Miss Marvin.

(83750)

46
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire can expect a reply to his letter of 16th February on behalf of his constituent Mr Gascoynes.

(83756)

47
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83107)

48
N   Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made on the effects of an oil embargo on Montenegro.

(83582)

49
N   Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the letter from Lady Bingham of Cornhill to the Minister of State the Right honourable Member for Leeds Central, what assistance he has given to the Sudanese Red Crescent (a) emergency vaccine campaign against meningitis and (b) malaria eradication programme.

(83354)

50
   Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish as a single paper the texts of the revised Treaties on European Union and the European Community as coming into effect on 1st May together with all the protocols and declarations contained in their component treaties and showing for each article therein references to earlier numbered Articles related to those now current.

(83819)

51
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83114)

52
   Mrs Eileen Gordon (Romford):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the forthcoming White Paper, Our Healthier Nation, will include measures aimed at preventing injury from accidents caused by unsafe cigarette lighters; and if he will make a statement.

(83814)

53
   Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS prescriptions were issued in each year from 1992 to date; and if he will make a statement on the recording of the number and type of prescriptions issued by each individual general practitioner.

(83821)

54
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire can expect a reply to his letter of 12th February on behalf of Dr Kravitz.

(83752)

55
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to revise the rules governing refusal of asylum on safe third country grounds in respect of Kosovan Albanians.

(83614)

56
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the contract with Siemens Business Systems for work at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to be fully implemented.

(83616)

57
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many whole-time equivalent staff were committed to the processing of asylum applications at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate on 1st April (a) 1994, (b) 1995, (c) 1996, (d) 1997, (e) 1998 and (f) 1999.

(83620)

58
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what payments have been made to Siemens Business Systems in respect of work for the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to date.

(83617)

59
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Kosovar Albanians have been (a) refused asylum and (b) removed to other countries on safe third country grounds since 24th March.

(83615)

60
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the additional costs to the Government which have resulted from the late delivery of the Siemens Business Systems contract with the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

(83618)

61
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what penalties have been imposed on Siemens Business Systems for late delivery of work at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

(83613)

62
N   Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the total cost of the contract with Siemens Business Systems for work at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

(83612)

63
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83108)

64
   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will assess the benefits of compulsory registration of privately operated CCTV systems with the local police.

(83886)

65
   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the financial costs to the Metropolitan Police of the additional security arrangements in London in response to the recent nail bomb attacks; and what additional financial provision he proposes to make to cover these costs.

(83888)

66
   Mrs Eileen Gordon (Romford):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of house fires which are caused each year by faulty cigarette lighters; and if he will make a statement.

(83813)

67
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 28th March, Official Report, column 554, concerning when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the honourable Member for North Warwickshire, would reply to the letter of 3rd February from the honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire, for what reason the Parliamentary Under-Secretary did not respond in the week beginning 29th March.

(83771)

68
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire can expect a reply to his letter of 3rd February to the Parliamentary Under Secretary on behalf of his constituent Mr Perry.

(83755)

69
N   Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to accommodate Kosovan refugees in East Lanchashire.

(83605)

70
N   Mr Brian White (North East Milton Keynes):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to be able to publish on the Internet, drafts of the subordinate legislation to be made under the Data Protection Act 1998.

(83748)

71
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many applications for information she received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83117)

72
   Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, when he proposes to publish the Community Legal Service consultation document.

(83822)

73
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the acts and the sections of those acts which define public access to census returns.

(83773)

74
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the honourable and Right honourable Members who, since 1st September 1998, have been informed by the Public Record Office that access to the 1921, 1951 and 1961 census returns is covered by the Census Act 1920 as amended by the Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991.

(83754)

75
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many applications for information she received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83116)

76
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the President of the Council, how many applications for information she received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83110)

77
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Prime Minister, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session and how many of these applications were granted.

(83104)

78
N   Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effect of the use of graphite weapons to attack the electrical system in Yugoslavia, on (a) hospitals without auxillary generators, (b) the nuclear installation at Vinca and (c) chemical factories.

(83780)

79
N   Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield):    To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on Government responsibility after 1st July, for the authorisation for disposal of radioactive waste, subject to the Radioactive Substances Act 1993, which originates in Scotland but is disposed of in England.

(83710)

80
N   Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):    To ask the Prime Minister, in what circumstances he would make the removal from power of President Milosevic an explicit policy objective.

(83604)

81
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83112)

82
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many linear metres of storage space at the Public Record Office for Scotland are (a) occupied by records and (b) vacant.

(83753)

83
N   Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what are (a) the storage space occupied by the enumerators' books for the post-1920 decennial censuses for Scotland and (b) the estimated costs of micro-filming each of these census records.

(83772)

84
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83118)

85
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate his Department has made of the costs of the stakeholder pension being based on (a) trustee and (b) other forms of governance.

(83607)

86
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will make a statement on his policy for fees paid to doctors working for the Benefits Agency Medical Service and on the progress of talks between Sema/NDA on the level of fees.

(83606)

87
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list the governance structures, other than those based on trustees, which his Department has evaluated in relation to the governance of stakeholder pensions.

(83602)

88
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of disabled people who will receive an increase in their income as a result of the disability income guarantee.

(83608)

89
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if his proposals for stakeholder pensions will contain a statutory requirement for people to seek financial advice before they join a stakeholder pension scheme.

(83600)

90
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will make it his policy to allow group personal pensions to register as stakeholder pensions.

(83603)

91
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of disabled children whose benefit will increase as a result of the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance being extended to children aged (a) three and (b) four years of age.

(83609)

92
N   Mr Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimates his Department has made of the average cost of financial advice for an individual seeking to join (a) a personal, (b) an occupational, (c) a group personal and (d) a stakeholder pension.

(83601)

93
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, at what level the upper limit of the middle band of earnings would have to be set in order to give higher earners the same pension entitlement from phase 1 of the state second pension as from SERPS, assuming that the lower limit is as proposed in the pensions Green Paper.

(83495)

94
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate (a) the additional cost in 2009-10 if the basic pension were raised in line with earnings from 2000 and (b) the increase in revenue from national insurance contributions if contributors paid the same proportion of their earnings in 2009-10 as in 1999-2000.

(83496)

95
N   Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what his estimate is of the cost to the Exchequer of the introduction of two weeks' statutory paternity pay at 90 per cent. of earnings replacement value, assuming full take-up.

(83804)

96
N   Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is his estimate of the gross cost to the Exchequer on an annual steady-state basis of paying parental leave at (a) full earnings replacement value, (b) 90 per cent. of earnings replacement value, (c) 50 per cent. of earnings replacement value and (d) 30 per cent. of earnings replacement value assuming the take-up of fathers is 50 per cent. and the take-up of mothers is 90 per cent.

(83806)

97
N   Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is his estimated of the gross cost to the Exchequer on an annual steady-state basis of paying parental leave at the rate of (a) £60 and (b) £100 a week assuming the take-up of fathers is (i) 10 per cent., (ii) 15 per cent., (iii) 20 per cent., (iv) 25 per cent. and (v) 30 per cent. and the take-up of mothers is (1) 30 per cent., (2) 40 per cent., (3) 50 per cent., (4) 60 per cent. and (5) 70 per cent.

(83805)

98
N   Mr David Rendel (Newbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what the planned savings were as a result of the introduction of the single room rent restriction for each quarter since its introduction; and what the actual savings for each quarter have been.

(83713)

99
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83120)

100
N   Mr Cynog Dafis (Ceredigion):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will place in the Library copies of (a) the environmental impact assessment produced in 1998 in connection with the Ilisu Dam project in Turkey, (b) the independent study subsequently commissioned in respect of the project by the Swiss Government, (c) the minutes of the meetings of the Export Credits Guarantee Department at which the environmental and social impact of the project was discussed and (d) the current procedures of the Export Credits Guarantee Department for assessing the environmental impact of projects it supports, and for raising awareness of these issues amongst its customers.

(82711)

101
N   Mr Cynog Dafis (Ceredigion):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps his Department and the ECGD have taken to investigate the matters highlighted in the independent study of the Ilisu Dam project commissioned by the Swiss Government.

(82712)

102
N   Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what his estimate is of the numbers and percentages of (a) mothers and (b) fathers who will choose to take their parental leave entitlement.

(83808)

103
   Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish the agenda for the Energy Council of 11th May.

(83816)

104
N   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what joint meetings he has attended with the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales and the Deputy Prime Minister to discuss the Assisted Area Map.

(83619)

105
N   Dr David Clark (South Shields):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many applications for information he received under the Open Government: Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in the last parliamentary session; and how many of these applications were granted.

(83121)

106
   Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list those subjects (a) which he will raise and (b) which he expects other states to raise at the Trade Ministers Council of 10th and 11th May.

[Transferred] (83818)

107
   Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many heavy goods vehicles are receiving the reduction in vehicle excise duty announced in his Budget statement following a reduction in the amount of their exhaust emissions.

[Transferred] (83823)

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   Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the cost per heavy goods vehicle of the fitting of an exhaust system incorporating a particulates trap in order to attract the reduction in vehicle excise duty announced in his Budget statement.

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