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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Tuesday 8 June 1999
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 8 June of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| 1 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what trials of the synthetically genetically-engineered dairy hormone bovine somatotropin were conducted in the UK prior to the imposition of an EU moratorium and between which dates; how many farms were involved; what the locations of the farms involved were; what quantity of milk containing this hormone was sold for human consumption; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85743) | |
| 2 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list each application for national seed listing of genetically-modified varieties, indicating the (i) application number, (ii) company name, (iii) approximate date of proposed decision, (iv) release consent number, (v) date consent was granted and (vi) if different from the national list applicants, the applicants' names. |
| (85934) | |
| 3 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what estimate he has made of the extent of the illegal trade in bat meat within the UK; and what steps he is taking to eradicate it. |
| (85742) | |
| 4 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many test sites there have been in each relevant year for each of the national list applications of genetically-modified seed varieties. |
| (85946) | |
| 5 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will set out the terms of reference for the trials on patients in a Newcastle hospital involving genetically-modified food. |
| (85741) | |
| 6 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what requirements are placed on honey producers in respect of the labelling of honey which may contain genetically-modified pollen. |
| (85923) | |
| 7 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to issue guidance and regulations concerning the use of bacillus thuringiensis spores by organic farmers and forestry workers. |
| ¶A (86214) | |
| 8 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what discussions he has had with users of bacillus thuringiensis in respect of its safety; and what plans he has for future discussions. |
| ¶A (86216) | |
| 9 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has received from producers of bacillus thuringiensis bacteria concerning its safety. |
| ¶A (86215) | |
| 10 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make it his policy to submit the drafts of proposed amendments to the secondary legislation on quarantine to the European Commission for inclusion in EU law. |
| (85745) | |
| 11 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make it his policy to approve rabies antibody sera-testing for pet dogs and cats; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85748) | |
| 12 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to instruct his advisors on quarantine reform to ensure that all new implementation proposals comply with European Community law, with particular reference to Articles 30-36 of the Treaty of Rome. |
| (85744) | |
| 13 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make rabies vaccines for pet dogs and cats freely available to pet owners preparing to travel abroad and return to Britain without quarantine; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85747) | |
| 14 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will place a copy of the draft of proposed amendments to the secondary legislation on quarantine in the Library; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85746) | |
| 15 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many broiler chickens slaughtered in the United Kingdom were rejected as unfit for human consumption in (i) 1997 and (ii) 1998. |
| ¶A (86208) | |
| 16 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many broiler chickens were dead on arrival at UK poultry slaughterhouses in (i) 1997 and (ii) 1998. |
| ¶A (86207) | |
| 17 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has received on the Berlin Summit agreement for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy relating to beef. |
| (86024) | |
| 18 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if his decision to discontinue safety grants for fishing vessels applies in Scotland; and what consultations he has held on this with his Scottish counterpart. |
| (85908) | |
| 19 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what arrangements he is making for the English fishing industry to be consulted on proposals for the Scottish Executive to develop distinctive management measures for Scottish waters. |
| (85907) | |
| 20 | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what timetable he plans to follow for developing a pilot scheme for the new pet transport system; and when he expects to announce (i) the list of approved laboratories in the EU and rabies-free islands, (b) the vaccines, (iii) the identification system and (iv) the certification format. |
| (86105) | |
| 21 | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the policies of European Union Agriculture Ministers in respect of the proposed energy tax on the horticultural industry; and what reports he has received of plans to exempt the industry in individual member states. |
| (86050) | |
| 22 | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the applicability of the EU fruit and vegetable regime to the UK horticulture industry; and what proposals he has to improve the UK take-up of assistance under the regime. |
| (86107) | |
| 23 | Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the impact of an energy tax on the UK glasshouse industry. |
| (86106) | |
| 24 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86095) | |
| 25 N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what grants will be available from (i) his Department and (ii) the EU for each of the next three years for fishing safety measures. |
| (85953) | |
| 26 N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the total grants available from (i) his Department and (ii) the EU for each of the last 10 years for fishing safety measures. |
| (85952) | |
| 27 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what were the total costs of the introduction of the British Cattle Movement Service. |
| (85771) | |
| 28 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many passports for imported animals have been processed each month by the British Cattle Movement Service from September 1998 to the latest month for which figures are available. |
| (85732) | |
| 29 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many passports for imported animals are currently awaiting processing at the British Cattle Movement Service; and how many working days, on average, it takes to process each animal. |
| (85733) | |
| 30 N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will re-instate the bounty for grey squirrel tails. |
| (85772) | |
| 31 N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many licences to cull cormorants were issued by Her Majesty's Government in each of the last five years. |
| (85773) | |
| 32 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many grants and to what value have been given to the fishermen from (i) Brixham, (ii) Paignton, (iii) Kingswear, (iv) Dartmouth, (v) Salcombe and (vi) the West Country in total for harbour and fishing vessel safety equipment in each of the last five years. |
| (85852) | |
| 33 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Stroud of 21st May, Official Report, columns 451-2 on spending priorities, what has been the total grant paid through the fisheries grant scheme in each of the last five years; and what was the total grant allocation available for spending. |
| (85853) | |
| 34 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Stroud of 21st May, Official Report, columns 451-2 on spending priorities, what was the legislative authority for the introduction of the fishing vessel safety equipment grant; and what compliance cost assessment was carried out (a) at its introduction and (b) prior to its discontinuation. |
| (85854) | |
| 35 | Mr Phil Woolas (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to propose changes to EU Regulation 820/97 regarding ear tagging of cattle. |
| (85777) | |
| 36 | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what consultations he has had with quarantine kennel owners since he announced his proposals for reform of quarantine law relating to pets. |
| ¶A (86278) | |
| 37 | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on (a) the new vaccination and identification systems and (b) the process for approving the laboratories in the EU, which will be necessary before the introduction of the new pet transport regulations. |
| ¶A (86239) | |
| 38 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if the new measures he announced in his statement to the House on biotechnology will include the extension of buffer zones between fields of genetically-modified crops and fields of non-genetically-modified crops. |
| (86132) | |
| 39 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what compensation is available for farmers whose businesses are compromised through the cross-pollination of their non-genetically-modified crops with genetically-modified crops. |
| (86130) | |
| 40 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what protection from cross-pollination of genetically-modified crops and non-genetically-modified crops exists for (a) organic farmers and (b) conventional farmers. |
| (86129) | |
| 41 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to improve the labelling of animal feedstuffs that may contain genetically-modified ingredients. |
| (86131) | |
| 42 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he is taking to ensure that companies involved in the commercial growing of genetically-modified crops segregate genetically-modified crops from non-genetically modified crops. |
| (86134) | |
| 43 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Lewes of 24th May, Official Report, column 39, if he will provide further details in respect of the questions asked. |
| (85659) | |
| 44 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the trips, facilities, gifts and other offerings of a financial value provided by Monsanto to civil servants since 1st May 1997. |
| (85962) | |
| 45 N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he has visited the magistrates' court at Pontefract; and how many other (a) magistrates' courts and (b) Crown courts he has visited since he became Minister with responsibility for drugs policy. |
| (85899) | |
| 46 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86096) | |
| 47 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria were used by the Biotechnology Presentation Group in identifying an independent scientist to appear on the Today programme on 10th May to comment on the Christian Aid/Action Aid report on GM foods in the third world. |
| (85929) | |
| 48 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the dates on which MISC 6 has met since 21st October 1998; what was discussed; and who attended. |
| (86068) | |
| 49 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the scientific sources of his advice on the benefits of biotechnology, indicating those he will make available to honourable Members. |
| (85933) | |
| 50 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place the initial draft of the paper on GM foods prepared by the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser in the Library. |
| (85930) | |
| 51 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons the briefing notes on biodiversity, herbicide resistance and cross pollination in connection with GMOs prepared for the Government's Biotechnology Presentation Group were inadequate. |
| (85932) | |
| 52 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the authors of the report he published on the Health Implications of Genetically-Modified Foods had been asked to redraft their report by the Biotechnology Presentation Group; how many drafts the report went through prior to publication; and if he will publish the original draft. |
| (86117) | |
| 53 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to publish all reports by the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Adviser without amendment. |
| (86118) | |
| 54 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the minutes of all meetings of the Biotechnology Presentation Group. |
| (86119) | |
| 55 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what amendments the Biotechnology Presentation Group made in the report he published on the Health Implications of Genetically-Modified Foods by the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Adviser; and if he will publish a list of all the amendments stating the reasons for them. |
| (86116) | |
| 56 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what central rebuttals strategy had been established for use after his oral statement of 21st May on biotechnology. |
| (86127) | |
| 57 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the new advisory committees he announced in his oral statement of 21st May on biotechnology will sit in public. |
| (86133) | |
| 58 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to make books of poetry, drama, the visual arts, architecture, history, biography and fiction available for purchase in the Dome. |
| (86082) | |
| 59 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to make recorded music available for purchase in the Dome. |
| (86079) | |
| 60 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to ensure the financial stability of RADA; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86080) | |
| 61 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has for the future funding of the Museum of London. |
| (86081) | |
| 62 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to make copies of (a) the Bible and (b) multi-faith religious books available for purchase in the Dome. |
| (86078) | |
| 63 | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list those purposes for which his Department and its executive agencies require a birth certificate to be provided by (a) employees, (b) contractors, (c) those applying for employment and contracts and (d) other persons. |
| (85686) | |
| 64 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the private companies which (a) have made and (b) are to make, financial contributions to the Millennium Dome. |
| ¶A (86238) | |
| 65 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25th May, Official Report, column 142, on the BBC, if he will set out the internal and external audit requirements for BBC Worldwide and BBC Resources Ltd. |
| ¶A (86270) | |
| 66 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25th May, Official Report, column 142, on the BBC, what are the agreed borrowing limits for BBC Worldwide and BBC Resources Ltd.; and what is the security for such borrowing. |
| ¶A (86268) | |
| 67 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25th May, Official Report, column 142, on the BBC, if the agreed borrowing limits for BBC Worldwide and BBC Resources Ltd. count as part of the public sector borrowing requirement. |
| ¶A (86269) | |
| 68 N | Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will instruct the ITC to obtain from ITV the latest figures showing (i) the change in the numbers watching news on Channel 3 since the abolition of News at 10 and (ii) the change in the viewing numbers for the 10.00 to 10.30 p.m. weekday slot on Channel 3 since the abolition of News at 10. |
| (85775) | |
| 69 | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 10th May, Official Report, columns 13-14, on manning levels, on the assumption that (i) progress towards full manning was as predicted in the Strategic Defence Review, (ii) the level of operational commitment was as deployed in Bosnia currently and (iii) 5,000 troops were deployed in Kosovo indefinitely, how many additional (a) major units and (b) trained soldiers the Army would require to sustain 24 month tour intervals. |
| ¶A (86277) | |
| 70 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what were the (a) actual manning and (b) establishment levels of the (i) Royal Navy (excluding the Royal Marines), (ii) Army, (iii) Royal Air Force and (iv) Royal Marines as at 31st March. |
| (85910) | |
| 71 N | Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what would be the additional annual full capitation costs to his Department if the services were manned up to establishment levels as at 31st March; and what is the breakdown of this figure between the (a) Royal Navy (excluding the Royal Marines), (b) Army, (c) Royal Air Force and (d) Royal Marines. |
| (85911) | |
| 72 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the current status of the land that formerly constituted RAF Quedgeley. |
| (85883) | |
| 73 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what planning permissions have been sought for RAF Quedgeley; and what is their current status. |
| (85885) | |
| 74 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with local councils and residents over the future of RAF Quedgeley during the last year. |
| (85884) | |
| 75 N | Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will reply to the letters dated 4th February and 4th May from the honourable Member for Rutland and Melton to the Minister for the Armed Forces in respect of the playing fields amenity at the site known as ABRO Old Dalby. |
| (86112) | |
| 76 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS 'Albion' and HMS 'Bulwark' will be in service; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85960) | |
| 77 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when (a) HMS 'Fearless' and (b) HMS 'Intrepid' will be taken out of service; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85961) | |
| 78 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the current operational life of (a) 'Sir Belvidere', (b) 'Sir Geraint' and (c) 'Sir Percivale'. |
| (85959) | |
| 79 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the cost and timescale for the Service Life Extension Programme for (a) 'Sir Belvidere', (b) 'Sir Geraint' and (c) 'Sir Percivale'; and when contracts will be let. |
| (85956) | |
| 80 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14th May, Official Report, column 215, on Porton Down, what was the date of the Minister of Defence Procurement's visit. |
| (85555) | |
| 81 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. |
| (85648) | |
| 82 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement regarding the pay received by British soldiers who are on duty in and around Kosovo. |
| (85650) | |
| 83 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the (i) established strength and (ii) recruited strength of (a) 1st, (b) 2nd, (c) 3rd, (d) 4th and (e) 10th Battalion Parachute Regiments. |
| (85625) | |
| 84 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the overspend for the (i) land equipment budget, (ii) sea equipment budget and (iii) air equipment budget in the present financial year. |
| (85916) | |
| 85 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the shortfall in numbers and percentage of trained personnel for the (i) Royal Navy, (ii) Army, (iii) Royal Air Force and (iv) Royal Marines. |
| (85915) | |
| 86 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the current proportion of (a) the Army and (b) Land Command (i) committed and (ii) warned to deploy for operations. |
| (85913) | |
| 87 N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the average interval between operational tours for (i) Infantry battalions, (ii) Royal Armoured regiments, (iii) Royal Logistical Corps units, (iv) Adjutant-General Corps units and (v) Royal Army Medical Corps units. |
| (85914) | |
| 88 N | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many letters he has received concerning the future of Defence Medical Services; and of these, how many opposed the closure of the Royal Hospital, Haslar. |
| (85553) | |
| 89 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make it his policy to change departmental refrigeration and air-conditioning systems to operate on not-in-kind refrigerants. |
| ¶A (86165) | |
| 90 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the impact of the implementation of fair funding for former grant maintained high schools. |
| (86067) | |
| 91 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make it his policy to implement transitional arrangements to assist former grant maintained high schools adjust their budgets under the Fair Funding regulations. |
| (85969) | |
| 92 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated from the schools sector on the policy of naming and shaming failing colleges. |
| ¶A (86171) | |
| 93 N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many jobs under a long-term contract of employment have been secured by 16 to 18 year olds who have completed the New Deal since its introduction in the Leeds Central constituency; what was the cost of each job; and what percentage of those who entered the New Deal in Leeds Central have failed to complete it and for what reasons. |
| (85705) | |
| 94 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what progress he is making with the Sure Start programme; when (a) the application for the second round of Sure Start bids will be announced and (b) the application brochures will be sent to local authorities; who can bid for Sure Start funding; and when the closing date is for the next round. |
| (85670) | |
| 95 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what discussions he has had with the Education Department of the London Borough of Wandsworth on the number of children who have not obtained places in secondary schools in the Borough for the September 1999 school entry. |
| (85778) | |
| 96 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the (a) median and (b) average length of time spent on the Gateway of the New Deal for 18 to 24 year olds by those for whom no eventual destination is known. |
| (85863) | |
| 97 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, Official Report, column 474, on the New Deal for Young People, when he expects to be able to provide the number of New Deal trainees in various sectors of industry. |
| (85559) | |
| 98 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he will announce his response to the consultation on post-16 education and training. |
| (85725) | |
| 99 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if a participant on a European Social Fund course of training is designated as an employee for the purposes of the (a) Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and (b) Race Relations Act 1976. |
| (85753) | |
| 100 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list, and place in the Library in machine-readable form, for (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000 the support for capital expenditure allocated by his Department (i) to each local authority, (ii) in aggregate to each class of local authority and (iii) in aggregate to England, showing each capital grant and borrowing approval separately, and the total of that support. |
| (85758) | |
| 101 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the maximum number of hours per week that a trainee on a European Social Fund training course can undertake without affecting his entitlement to receive jobseeker's allowance. |
| (85752) | |
| 102 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list, and place in the Library in machine-readable form, for (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000 the revenue grants falling within the aggregate external finance, other than revenue support grant, allocated by his Department to (i) each local authority, (ii) in aggregate, to each class of local authority and (iii) in aggregate to England; and in the case of each local authority the total of such grants. |
| (85757) | |
| 103 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if a participant on a European Social Fund course of training is entitled to take a complaint against (a) the training provider and (b) an employer with whom they may be doing work tasters or work placements as part of the course to an employment tribunal. |
| (85754) | |
| 104 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if a participant on a European Social Fund course of training is covered by the Department's Analogous Industrial Injuries Compensation Scheme. |
| (85755) | |
| 105 | Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what was the outcome of the Social Affairs Council held in Brussels on 25th May; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86038) | |
| 106 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how his Department is evaluating the (a) environmental and (b) educational benefits of the New Deal Environment Task Force projects. |
| (86073) | |
| 107 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many young people are currently mandated on to the Environment Task Force having already unsuccessfuly tried other New Deal options. |
| (86076) | |
| 108 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many young people are currently on the Environment Task Force option of New Deal. |
| (86099) | |
| 109 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what range of skills training and qualifications are available in the placements on the New Deal Environment Task Force projects. |
| (86074) | |
| 110 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many different placement projects there are currently within the New Deal Environment Task Force. |
| (86075) | |
| 111 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what funding is given to schools to provide first aid training to school children. |
| (85699) | |
| 112 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many and what percentage of school children currently receive first aid training in schools; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85701) | |
| 113 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will introduce first aid training for all school children. |
| (85700) | |
| 114 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list for each local education authority in England the total amount of funding transferred to individual school budgets in 1999-2000 as a result of his fair funding initiative. |
| (85947) | |
| 115 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list for each local education authority in England (a) the total aggregated schools budget for 1998-99 including amounts allocated to grant maintained schools, (b) the total individual schools budget for 1999-2000 and (c) the education standard spending assessment in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. |
| (86070) | |
| 116 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answers of 25th May, Official Report, columns 101-2, if the Performance Management Framework due to be published later this year is the same as the Appraisals Handbook for which tenders were invited on 6th February 1998. |
| (85945) | |
| 117 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, of the 34 per cent. of young people who had left the New Deal by the end of February 1999 for unknown reasons, how many are (a) no longer claiming jobseeker's allowance, (b) have retained their previous jobseeker's allowance entitlement and (c) have had their jobseeker's allowance entitlement reduced. |
| (85638) | |
| 118 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86097) | |
| 119 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many responses to the consultation paper on teachers have been received; and how many and what percentage were received from (a) headteachers, (b) teachers, (c) governors and governing bodies, (d) education authorities and (e) others. |
| (85738) | |
| 120 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in the responses to the consultation paper on teachers, how many and what percentage of (a) headteachers, (b) teachers, (c) governors and governing bodies, (d) education authorities and (e) others, expressed support for performance related pay. |
| (85739) | |
| 121 | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when the Government is proposing to publish the Bett Committee Report on pay and conditions for staff in higher education. |
| (85868) | |
| 122 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if it is his policy that all underspend on the Rural Bus Services Grant for 1998-99 will be added to monies available to improve rural bus services in 1999-2000. |
| (85658) | |
| 123 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will publish the agreement which he has negotiated for the management of the farm-scale trials of genetically-modified crops in 1999. |
| (85924) | |
| 124 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the farm-scale sites for genetically-modified sugar or fodder beet, indicating the (i) location, (ii) area grown and (iii) consent holder and number. |
| (85943) | |
| 125 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in what ways the harvested material from the genetically-modified crop test sites of (a) herbicide resitant oilseed rape, (b) high laurate modified oilseed rape, (c) herbicide resistant maize and (d) herbicide resistant beet will be disposed of. |
| (85942) | |
| 126 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when regional development agencies will publish their required strategies. |
| (86100) | |
| 127 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received from the Countryside Alliance concerning his recent consultation paper on the use of lead shot over wetlands; and what reply he has sent. |
| (86046) | |
| 128 | Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the national speed policy review is to be concluded; when the Government plans to announce the findings of the national speed policy review; and when the Government plans to announce its proposals for changes to speed limits. |
| (86055) | |
| 129 | Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many and what proportion of settlements of less than 3,000 in population have (i) no signed speed restrictions and (ii) a maximum speed limit of (a) 40 mph, (b) 30 mph and (c) 20 mph. |
| (86114) | |
| 130 | Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the Government's national speed policy review. |
| (86053) | |
| 131 | Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what proportion of (a) road accidents and (b) road accidents involving fatalities occur on country lanes; and in how many such accidents speed was identified as a major contributor factor |
| (86057) | |
| 132 | Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many respondents to the consultation document, Developing an Integrated Transport Policy: An Invitation to Contribute, recommended lower speed limits. |
| (86054) | |
| 133 | Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations the Government has received in the course of the national speed policy review on the need to reduce speed limits in country lanes and in villages. |
| (86056) | |
| 134 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of passenger loading on the Thameslink rail route. |
| (85691) | |
| 135 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what discussions he has had with the Rail Regulator on the transfer of rolling stock between Train Operating Companies to reduce over-crowding. |
| (85692) | |
| 136 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make it his policy to change departmental refrigeration and air-conditioning systems to operate on not-in-kind refrigerants. |
| ¶A (86164) | |
| 137 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if the environmental assessment regimes for afforestation, land drainage, salmon farming, harbours, electricity lines, pipe-lines and applications under the Transport and Works Act 1992 comply with EU Directive 97/11 on environmental assessment. |
| (86049) | |
| 138 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he expects to lay before Parliament delegated legislation dealing with lead shot. |
| (85917) | |
| 139 | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the 10 most indebted local authorities in (a) 1997 and (b) 1998, indicating the cost (i) in total and (ii) per council tax payer of servicing the debt; and what plans he has to ensure that the debt level is reduced. |
| (85776) | |
| 140 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps will be taken to ensure satisfactory levels of public service in areas where driving test centres have been closed. |
| ¶A (86262) | |
| 141 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, by what means the Driving Standards Agency deals with complaints from (a) the general public, (b) approved driving instructors and (c) honourable Members; and for what reasons records are not kept of the nature and numbers of check test complaints from driving instructors. |
| ¶A (86256) | |
| 142 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to re-open previously closed driving test centres. |
| ¶A (86248) | |
| 143 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what forecasts the Driving Standards Agency has made of future demand levels. |
| ¶A (86246) | |
| 144 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on the basis of what factors or criteria the Driving Standards Agency will decide to re-open a previously closed test centre. |
| ¶A (86258) | |
| 145 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on what criteria the guidelines for the maximum distance which a test candidate should have to travel to a test centre are set. |
| ¶A (86251) | |
| 146 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what effect current trends in demand for driving tests are having on examiner staffing levels. |
| ¶A (86245) | |
| 147 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what opportunities exist for local communities to participate in the consultation process prior to a driving test centre closure. |
| ¶A (86259) | |
| 148 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what future changes are planned for the driving test centre estate; and what assessment he has made of the effect of these on present levels of public service. |
| ¶A (86223) | |
| 149 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, by what means the Driving Standards Agency intends to improve and expand its consultation processes to ensure information and proposals reach approved driving instructors who do not belong to any of the national associations. |
| ¶A (86266) | |
| 150 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to reform the consultation process for driving test centre closures. |
| ¶A (86264) | |
| 151 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to reform the Independent Complaints Advisory Service. |
| ¶A (86263) | |
| 152 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the closure of driving test centres on demand. |
| ¶A (86221) | |
| 153 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many contractual examiners are currently employed by the Driving Standards Agency; and under what circumstances they are used. |
| ¶A (86244) | |
| 154 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he intends to take to ensure the establishment of a formal appeals procedure against the result awarded on a check test. |
| ¶A (86250) | |
| 155 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans the Driving Standards Agency has to (a) change the criteria for check tests, (b) limit their frequency and (c) ensure examiner consistency. |
| ¶A (86265) | |
| 156 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reasons the Driving Standards Agency's written submission to the Minister recommending the closure of a Driving Test Centre is not made publicly available; and if he will make it his policy to publish such submissions in future. |
| ¶A (86257) | |
| 157 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the introduction of the theory test on the numbers of people learning to drive. |
| ¶A (86255) | |
| 158 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the opinion of driving instructors of the check testing regime. |
| ¶A (86267) | |
| 159 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps the Driving Standards Agency takes to provide a local service when it decides temporarily to close a local test centre. |
| ¶A (86260) | |
| 160 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what further steps the Driving Standards Agency intends to take to ensure that all those who pass the theory test apply for the practical test. |
| ¶A (86254) | |
| 161 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reason no consultation is undertaken when a driving test centre is closed temporarily for operational reasons. |
| ¶A (86220) | |
| 162 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what level of qualification and experience is required before an examiner may check test an approved driving instructor. |
| ¶A (86249) | |
| 163 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what impact current trends in demand are having on the Driving Standards Agency's cashflow; and what plans the Agency has to respond to the impact of these trends. |
| ¶A (86243) | |
| 164 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what alternatives are considered to closures of driving test centres. |
| ¶A (86222) | |
| 165 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reasons the Driving Standards Agency plans to recruit a further 85 examiners in 1999. |
| ¶A (86247) | |
| 166 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the issuing of reminders to those who have failed to apply for their practical driving test. |
| ¶A (86253) | |
| 167 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on trends in the levels of (a) ammonia, (b) benzene, (c) mercury and (d) phosgene in the atmosphere. |
| (86026) | |
| 168 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the total costs of the road transport system in the UK in the most recent year for which figures are available, broken down by (a) road building and maintenance, (b) traffic law enforcement, (c) pollution and (d) congestion; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86111) | |
| 169 N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the planned reduction in service by Thameslink, to and from Hendon. |
| (85712) | |
| 170 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans Her Majesty's Government has to secure the provision of extra runway space in the South East of England. |
| (85876) | |
| 171 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he plans to take to protect the slots at present allocated to Regional Air Services in the South East from re-allocation to other services. |
| (85836) | |
| 172 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what safeguards exist to ensure that airspace management by NATS of airports and air traffic, where NATS does not provide the services, is impartial. |
| (85841) | |
| 173 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the occasions in the last five years where twin-engined transport aircraft have made single-engined approaches to Heathrow. |
| (85846) | |
| 174 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what provision HM Coastguard makes for the control of the operations room by experienced staff during meal breaks. |
| (85839) | |
| 175 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the increase in (a) fuel burn and (b) emissions as a result of the increased times taken on scheduled flights to Scotland. |
| (85872) | |
| 176 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many random ramp checks on foreign airlines have been undertaken by his Department in the last year; and in how many cases were problems found. |
| (85844) | |
| 177 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will ask the airport co-ordinator with responsibility for Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted to make a statement on runway constraints. |
| (85878) | |
| 178 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what changes there have been in the published times for arrival and departure for domestic air routes in the last 12 months. |
| (85927) | |
| 179 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list each occasion in the last 12 months on which untrained staff were substituted for trained Coastguard personnel. |
| (85842) | |
| 180 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what consultation has taken place with the Coastguard at Dover Maritime Rescue Control Centre about the implementation of the mandatory reporting regime. |
| (85881) | |
| 181 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the change in air traffic movements at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick, (c) Stansted, (d) Glasgow, (e) Manchester and (f) Belfast airports in each of the last 10 years. |
| (85871) | |
| 182 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans Her Majesty's Government has for the future of the Safety Regulation Group following the reorganisation of the CAA. |
| (85882) | |
| 183 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what discussions his Department has held with the British airlines holding slots at south east airports about their re-allocation. |
| (85837) | |
| 184 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the change in scheduled journey time between (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick and (c) Stansted and (i) Glasgow, (ii) Manchester and (iii) Belfast International airports in each of the last 10 years. |
| (85926) | |
| 185 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on how many occasions in the last six months the broadcast service for mariners in the Swansea area has been reduced. |
| (85880) | |
| 186 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of aircraft near-misses in the last year; and what action has been initiated to check the efficiency of the air traffic control system. |
| (85847) | |
| 187 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on how many occasions in the period January to April 1999 staffing levels at the Coastguard stations at (i) Oban, (ii) Liverpool, (iii) Belfast and (iv) Stornoway were maintained by the use of unqualified or partly-qualified staff. |
| (85838) | |
| 188 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the number of incidents in the last five years in which aircraft have flown over central London with one engine inoperative intending to land at Heathrow. |
| (85886) | |
| 189 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what bilateral agreements the United Kingdom has established to govern the arrangements for checking the operating procedures of foreign aircraft flying into the United Kingdom. |
| (85845) | |
| 190 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will set out the Public Service Obligation rules to protect air services for those airports to which they apply. |
| (85925) | |
| 191 | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what advice he has received on the future of Mark I rolling stock from the HSE; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (86190) | |
| 192 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what were the (a) estimated and (b) actual aircraft movements at the three major south east airports for (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 1997-98. |
| (85879) | |
| 193 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what extra staff will be required by HM Coastguard to fulfil their additional duties to deal with weather forecasts and meteorological reports; and what talks have taken place on this subject with staff representatives. |
| (85840) | |
| 194 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the recommended staffing levels for the Maritime Rescue Sub Centre Co-ordinating stations at (i) Oban, (ii) Liverpool, (iii) Belfast and (iv) Stormoway for the period January to April 1999. |
| (85843) | |
| 195 N | Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what principles and objectives underly the review of standard spending assessments; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85740) | |
| 196 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what targets, in respect of the encouragement of rail freight, the multimodal study of the London and South West Corridor announced as part of the Trunk Roads Review will have. |
| ¶A (86196) | |
| 197 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what account the multimodal study of the London to South West Corridor announced in the Trunk Roads Review will take of the Railtrack report on the feasibility of reducing the peripherality of the western extremities of the rail network. |
| ¶A (86197) | |
| 198 | Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 25th May, Official Report, column 84, on British Rail employees, what information is available from the British Railways Board on compensation payments since 1991 to former employees of British Rail who are diagnosed as having mesothelioma, asbestosis or primary carcinoma of the lungs related to exposure to asbestos. |
| (85935) | |
| 199 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, Official Report, column 471, on school budgets, if it is his objective in carrying out the present review of the formula for distributing central Government grant to local authorities to remove factors that cannot be justified by reference to actual cost and other objectively verifiable criteria. |
| (85703) | |
| 200 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many road users were killed in drink-drive related accidents during the last year for which figures are available. |
| (85690) | |
| 201 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the main issues addressed in responses to his Department's consultation on Combating Drinking and Driving: Next Steps. |
| (85689) | |
| 202 | Mr Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when a decision will be made on the sale of British Rail land to the Dogs' Home, Battersea. |
| ¶A (86241) | |
| 203 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Green Ministers' Committee (a) has discussed and (b) plans to discuss, the New Deal Environment Task Force. |
| (86040) | |
| 204 | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will introduce an Environment Task Force Charter Mark to be awarded to projects achieving environmental benefit to the community. |
| (86072) | |
| 205 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what status regional chambers currently have within the acquis of the European Union; what personnel are currently responsible for their administration; and what information is collated centrally concerning their membership functions and activities. |
| ¶A (86230) | |
| 206 | Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what research his Department has assessed of the number of (a) homeless people and (b) prisoners who are former members of the armed forces. |
| (85665) | |
| 207 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what powers he has to monitor the composition of parish and town councils; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85547) | |
| 208 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to exempt children who are in full time education from paying full fares on bus and train services; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85548) | |
| 209 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86086) | |
| 210 | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many homes have benefited from Government-sponsored programmes of energy efficiency in each year since their establishment. |
| ¶A (86206) | |
| 211 | Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the cost to his Department of the inquiry into the Heathrow Fifth Terminal; and what is the estimated cost to his Department of the Inspector's preparation of his report. |
| (86041) | |
| 212 N | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, who will be participating on the scientific steering group overseeing the farm-scale trials of genetically-modified crops; and when they plan to meet. |
| (85949) | |
| 213 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, where the seed used for and to be used for this year's farm-scale trials of genetically-modified oilseed and maize were grown; and where the seeds to be used for next year's trials will be grown. |
| (85948) | |
| 214 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what consultations were undertaken with neighbouring farmers about the location of genetically-modified crop farm-scale trials. |
| (85950) | |
| 215 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how the controls on the marketing of genetically-modified crops provided for in Part VI of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 are applied in the absence of a marketing consent issued thereunder. |
| (85951) | |
| 216 N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to conduct a deer count in West Sussex. |
| (85774) | |
| 217 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will commission an assessment of the (i) cost and (ii) risk effectiveness of the safety equipment currently required to be carried by fishing vessels. |
| (85855) | |
| 218 | Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if all aspects of the scientific design of the field-scale evaluations of the ecological effects of genetically-modified crops will be subject to the scrutiny of members of the Scientific Steering Group. |
| ¶A (86176) | |
| 219 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received regarding the location of telecommunication masts and the issuing of interim planning guidance pending publication of the findings of the National Radiological Protection Board into the non-thermal effects of microwave radiation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85931) | |
| 220 N | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will take steps to prevent properties bought under the right to buy legislation from being let to holidaymakers for extended periods on a commercial basis; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85895) | |
| 221 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether in petrol was authorised in the United Kingdom. |
| (85869) | |
| 222 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what recent scientific evidence he has evaluated concerning the use of methyl teritary butyl ether in petrol in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85870) | |
| 223 | Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on what date he was formally asked by Surrey County Council if he planned to call in their planning application for a temporary replacement for the existing Walton Bridge across the Thames; and when he expects to take a decision. |
| (85903) | |
| 224 | Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what central government grant will be made available for the construction of a temporary replacement to the existing Walton Bridge across the Thames; and when he expects it to be released to Surrey County Council. |
| (85902) | |
| 225 | Dr Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will release all parts of the Concession Agreement for the Birmingham Northern Relief Road under the terms of the Environmental Information Regulations 1992 after the end of judicial proceedings. |
| (85824) | |
| 226 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if the new measures he announced in his oral statement of 21st May on biotechnology will enable some commercial planting of genetically-modified crops to take place with Government approval. |
| (86128) | |
| 227 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if another member state of the European Union were to license the commercial planting of genetically-modified crops by a company there would be any bar to that company proceeding with commercial planting in the United Kingdom. |
| (86135) | |
| 228 | Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will exempt Northern Ireland from the climate change levy or energy tax until such time as electricity costs are comparable to average electricity costs in Great Britain. |
| (85896) | |
| 229 | Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of proposals for (a) an aircraft emissions tax and (b) an aircraft fuel charge, (i) in revenue terms and (ii) in respect of their impact on pollution from aircraft. |
| (85687) | |
| 230 N | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list those purposes for which his Department and its executive agencies require a birth certificate to be furnished by (i) employees, contractors or those applying for employment of contracts, and (ii) other persons. |
| (85823) | |
| 231 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if information on certified agencies and other clients of personal services companies will be available through EDI to enable recruitment consultancies and others to check on a company's status. |
| ¶A (86188) | |
| 232 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what requirements to report to the Inland Revenue will be placed on companies utilising personal service companies (a) via a certified agency and (b) independent of a certified agency. |
| ¶A (86177) | |
| 233 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the tax affairs of certified agencies for personal service companies will be handled through a central office. |
| ¶A (86179) | |
| 234 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how VAT will be applied to non-certified agencies supplying personal services when they have paid income tax and national insurance. |
| ¶A (86182) | |
| 235 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which forum European finance ministers modified stability pact targets in relation to Italy. |
| (85894) | |
| 236 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Inland Revenue plans to withdraw Decision 4 of February 1992 which makes it unnecessary for an agency to operate PAYE when a limited company is contracting with an agency to provide personal services. |
| ¶A (86185) | |
| 237 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in other G7 countries regarding their Governments' contributions to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85719) | |
| 238 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how self-certification of public service companies will apply in the case of companies with two streams of income, one within and the other outside the new rules. |
| ¶A (86180) | |
| 239 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Inland Revenue will define costs which are incidental to the supply of materials and equipment in contracts for personal service companies. |
| ¶A (86178) | |
| 240 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if non-certified agencies providing personal services will be given a tax code. |
| ¶A (86183) | |
| 241 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the retained profits of personal service companies will be treated by the Inland Revenue after April 2000. |
| ¶A (86181) | |
| 242 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what agreement was reached at the last G7 Finance Ministers' Meeting on reducing the debt burden of the poorest countries; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85718) | |
| 243 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons Inland Revenue examples of the impact of tax changes affecting personal services companies do not include reference to agency workers. |
| ¶A (86186) | |
| 244 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what period directors of personal service companies who default on their certifications will be banned from self-certification. |
| ¶A (86189) | |
| 245 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with IMF officials concerning the sale of IMF gold stocks in order to finance debt relief; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85720) | |
| 246 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how legitimate expenses for personal service companies in respect of (i) professional indemnity and public liability insurance and (ii) training costs, will be handled for tax purposes. |
| ¶A (86184) | |
| 247 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to make regulations to amend the duty of marriage registrars to report suspicious marriages; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86031) | |
| 248 | Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the total amount of tax which would have been collected in the fiscal year 1998-99 by paying agents situated in the United Kingdom if the draft EU directive on the taxation of interest payments at the rate of 20 per cent. had been operational and if the UK had opted for the withholding regime. |
| (85833) | |
| 249 | Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made, for the purposes of the draft EU directive on the taxation of interest payments, of the percentage of Euro-bond holders who are individuals resident in the EU. |
| (85834) | |
| 250 N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what were the results of the inquiry by HM Customs and Excise set up in June 1995 into the allegations that directors of BMARC had condoned or participated in the illegal export of naval cannon to Iran; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85920) | |
| 251 | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the assumptions for household spending and council tax payment which were used in the Answer to the honourable Member for Edinburgh Central of 11th December 1996, Official Report, columns 190-202. |
| (85912) | |
| 252 | Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 10th May, Official Report, column 58, on working families tax credit, what will be the effect on their eligibility for working families tax credit of an employee taking unpaid parental leave under the Employment Relations Bill at a time which coincides with the assessment for their next award period. |
| (85832) | |
| 253 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if a training allowance paid to a trainee, who is not receiving an unemployment-related benefit whilst on a European Social Fund course of training, is subject to (a) income tax and (b) national insurance contributions. |
| (85749) | |
| 254 | Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the per capita Gross National Product in the Republic of Ireland as a percentage of the EU average, for the most recent year available. |
| (85851) | |
| 255 | Mr Seamus Mallon (Newry and Armagh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps are being taken to enable the person whose National Insurance number is BT 21 74 42 B, to pay their Class 2 National Insurance contributions, and how long it will be before these steps are completed. |
| ¶A (86173) | |
| 256 N | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the revenue implications for the Exchequer of the judgement of the European Court in the First National Bank of Chicago case (Case C-172/96); and if he will make a statement. |
| (85684) | |
| 257 N | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is his policy with regard to the VAT treatment of (a) unilateral and (b) bilateral supplies in the field of financial transactions and instruments following the judgement of the European Court in the First National Bank of Chicago case (Case C-172/96). |
| (85683) | |
| 258 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what external legal advice he has received regarding the VAT treatment of (a) speculative and (b) supportive foreign exchange transactions following the judgement of the European Court in the First National Bank of Chicago case (Case C-172/96). |
| (85676) | |
| 259 N | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proposals for legislation with regards to VAT on financial services have been made by the European Union VAT Committee; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85681) | |
| 260 N | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions (i) he, (ii) Treasury ministers and (iii) Treasury officials have had with (a) the European Commission, (b) the European Union VAT Committee and (c) the Council of Ministers with regards to VAT on financial services. |
| (85682) | |
| 261 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Business Brief 16/98, what representations he has received with regard to VAT on foreign exchange transactions following the judgement of the European Court in the First National Bank of Chicago case (Case C-172/96). |
| (85677) | |
| 262 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on his policy with regards to longer term foreign exchange executory contracts following the judgement of the European Court in the First National Bank of Chicago case (Case C-172/96). |
| (85678) | |
| 263 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, by what means statistics relating to the flow of capital investment for all, or particular, purposes, from the United Kingdom into each of the other member states of the European Union, are collated following the introduction of the single currency; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the United Kingdom joining the single currency on the collation of such statistics. |
| ¶A (86228) | |
| 264 | Mr Bill Rammell (Harlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the outcome of the ECOFIN Council held in Brussels on 25th May; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85827) | |
| 265 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is following the agreement of the Berlin Council on the European budget of the net United Kingdom contributions to the budget until 2006. |
| (86051) | |
| 266 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86092) | |
| 267 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to what extent he has taken into account his Department's assessment of the alleged role of Colonel Gadaffi in terrorist incidents since 1988 in deciding to seek to normalise relations between the UK and Libya. |
| (85759) | |
| 268 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the extent of the involvement of Colonel Gadaffi in terrorist incidents since 1988. |
| (85760) | |
| 269 N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proposals he has to change (a) the number of British Council staff in Manchester and (b) the functions of the British Council which are currently based in Manchester. |
| (86109) | |
| 270 N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he intends to inform British Council staff based in Manchester of his detailed proposals for changes in the staffing and functions of the Manchester office. |
| (86108) | |
| 271 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made by the United Kingdom Government in promoting dialogue between the Chinese Government and the Dalai Lama. |
| (85850) | |
| 272 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has (a) sought and (b) obtained from the Chinese Government about the whereabouts of welfare of the Panchen Lama. |
| (85864) | |
| 273 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the membership and functions of the United Kingdom/China Forum. |
| (85835) | |
| 274 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many ambassadors are chartered engineers. |
| ¶A (86162) | |
| 275 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage men and women with engineering qualifications to enter the Diplomatic Service. |
| ¶A (86163) | |
| 276 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he next proposes to visit the Middle East and to meet the new Israeli government. |
| (85711) | |
| 277 N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he is taking within the EU to put pressure on Turkey to comply with the judgement in the Loizidou case. |
| (85626) | |
| 278 N | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he is taking to persuade Turkey to comply with the judgement in the Loizidou case. |
| [R] (85627) | |
| 279 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he has taken over the missing Israeli serviceman Ron Arad. |
| (85715) | |
| 280 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what system has been established for the end-use monitoring of military equipment sold to the Government of Indonesia in the last five years. |
| (85970) | |
| 281 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many F680 applications for clearance to promote products for export were (i) made, (ii) approved and (iii) refused in 1998. |
| ¶A (86205) | |
| 282 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Indonesian Government, and what representations he has received, concerning the massacre of unarmed civilians on 3rd May near the city of Lhokseumave. |
| (85954) | |
| 283 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the current situation in Sierra Leone. |
| (85551) | |
| 284 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how long, on average, it took between refusal of settlement entry clearance at (a) New Delhi, (b) Bombay, (c) Islamabad, (d) Karachi, (e) Lagos, (f) Accra and (g) Moscow and the despatch of the explanatory statement to the UK for statements despatched in (i) September 1998, (ii) December 1998 and (iii) March 1999; and if he will estimate how long it will take for explanatory statements to be despatched for refusals made in (A) December 1998, (B) March 1999, (C) April 1999 and (D) May 1999. |
| (86101) | |
| 285 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Pakistan and Indian Governments about Kashmir; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86063) | |
| 286 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received following recent hostilities on the line of control in Kashmir. |
| (86062) | |
| 287 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to make contact with the newly elected South African Government and the new President; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86059) | |
| 288 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the Angolan Government regarding (a) the activities of Unita in that country and (b) the international supply of arms to Unita; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86061) | |
| 289 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what analysis his Department has made on the effect of the present conflict on the trade and economies of those countries neighbouring Kosovo and Yugoslavia; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86060) | |
| 290 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Indonesia on measures to protect the Christian and Chinese minorities in that country from violence in the period before the general election; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85649) | |
| 291 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86093) | |
| 292 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral Answer to the honourable Member for Carshalton and Wallington, of 18th May, Official Report, column 861, on MOX shipments to Japan, by what means the plutonium in MOX fuel is destroyed in nuclear reactors; and if he will list the evidence on which he based his reply. |
| (85825) | |
| 293 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the cross-departmental annual report on the mainstreaming initiative is to be published for 1998-1999. |
| (86039) | |
| 294 | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on his Department's progress in implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
| (86123) | |
| 295 N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those National Health Service trusts which will not pay the increased pay award to nurses in their pay packets for May 1999. |
| (86083) | |
| 296 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if hospitals and other NHS facilities used not-in-kind refrigerants. |
| ¶A (86168) | |
| 297 N | Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what are the estimated administration costs, including remuneration of members, of the primary care groups in the Greater London Area for their first year of operation. |
| (85549) | |
| 298 N | Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the total estimated cost of the primary care groups in the Greater London Area in their first year of operation; and what is the administration cost net of existing costs being transferred. |
| (85550) | |
| 299 N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many council-managed residential and nursing homes have been closed in the Leeds Central constituency in the last two years; how many people were affected; and what the cost was of the closures including the relocation of the occupants. |
| (85707) | |
| 300 N | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the dates since 1st January on which he has had official meetings with representatives of (a) UNISON, (b) MSF, (c) RCN, (d) BMA, (e) RCM, (f) professions allied to medicine and (g) other trade unions; and if he will make a statement on his policy on when (i) to meet trade unions and (ii) to speak at their annual conferences. |
| (86022) | |
| 301 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure the retention of samples of smallpox cultures; and what discussions he has had with international colleagues on the subject. |
| (85230) | |
| 302 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the operation of the yellow card scheme. |
| ¶A (86156) | |
| 303 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional money he plans to make available to health authorities to establish hospital-based dental anaesthesia services for dental general practice. |
| ¶A (86160) | |
| 304 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many yellow card scheme reports since 1989 have been received by the Medicines Control Agency regarding adverse reaction to metrizamide/myodil; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (86158) | |
| 305 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the NHS has in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001 to 2003 to (i) reduce the number of hospital beds and (ii) close hospitals in Sunderland; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (86279) | |
| 306 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he proposes to take to increase the awareness of the yellow card scheme among medical and dental practitioners. |
| ¶A (86157) | |
| 307 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those health authorities that have implemented career start schemes to attract medical students to general practice indicating the (i) start date, (ii) duration, (iii) number of places available and (iv) annual cost of each scheme. |
| ¶A (86161) | |
| 308 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received regarding the arrangements for dental anaesthesia in dental community services. |
| ¶A (86159) | |
| 309 N | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made in targeting resources on prostate cancer treatment. |
| (85002) | |
| 310 N | Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS trusts have failed to implement the nurses' pay award for 1999-2000 in time for the end of May pay arrangements. |
| (86035) | |
| 311 N | Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the budgeted surplus or deficit for each (i) National Health Service authority and (ii) National Health Trust in England for the financial year 1999-2000. |
| (86033) | |
| 312 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 11th May, Official Report, column 136, on junior doctors, when he expects the decision to be made on the extension of Council Directive 93/104/EC relating to junior doctors. |
| (86032) | |
| 313 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital were referred for radiotherapy treatment in each year from 1989 to date; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85695) | |
| 314 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to enable it to benchmark services provided by the NHS against similar services in the private health sector. |
| (85937) | |
| 315 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will abolish all dental charges for pensioners; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85706) | |
| 316 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital will be informed of the outcome of its bid for a linear accelerator; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85698) | |
| 317 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the Government-funded research programme, showing (a) the research organisation, (b) the funding and (c) the research details; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85697) | |
| 318 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the national report on reviewing radiography equipment will be sent to him; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85694) | |
| 319 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those cancer centres in the UK which do not have two linear accelerators; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85693) | |
| 320 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the letter of 12th April from the Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department of Health, if his officials have considered the financial terms of funding a second linear accelerator at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85696) | |
| 321 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of lives which could be saved in road traffic accidents if first aid was immediately applied. |
| (85702) | |
| 322 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reasons underlie the length of time taken by the NHS Executive, West Midlands Regional Office to consider the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital's business case for funding to replace its cobalt unit with a new linear accelerator; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85716) | |
| 323 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of his Department's expenditure was spent on administration in each year since 1989. |
| (85936) | |
| 324 | Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date the national framework for coronary heart disease will be published. |
| (85963) | |
| 325 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the average pay award to (a) nurses, (b) doctors, (c) speech therapists, (d) medical laboratory scientific officers and (e) NHS administrative staff, in percentage terms, in the most recent round of pay negotiations; how much each of these awards cost in cash terms in (i) Gloucestershire and (ii) nationally; what percentage of the increase in the NHS budget each of these awards took up (1) in Gloucestershire and (2) nationally; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85647) | |
| 326 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the salary structure of state-registered medical laboratory scientific officers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85646) | |
| 327 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86085) | |
| 328 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many disciplinary hearings have been heard under existing disciplinary procedures for hospital and community medical and dental staff; what has been the average length of time taken to hear and resolve each case; and how many such cases were discontinued in each of the last 10 years. |
| ¶A (86273) | |
| 329 N | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many letters he has received concerning the future of the Royal Hospital, Haslar; and of these, how many supported its closure and how many opposed it. |
| (85552) | |
| 330 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the estimated combined annual running costs in the last financial year of the (a) Commission for Health Improvement and (b) National Institute for Clinical Excellence; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85737) | |
| 331 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the health authorities which are currently refusing to fund recently available drugs for cancer patients; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86028) | |
| 332 N | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the drugs or procedures which are currently rationed in the National Health Service. |
| (86064) | |
| 333 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were waiting more than 13 weeks for an out-patient consultation in the last quarter for which figures are available. |
| (85762) | |
| 334 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated annual running costs are for the last financial year of (a) the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation, (b) Local Education Consortia and (c) the Capital Priorities Advisory Group; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86071) | |
| 335 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the grading of midwives. |
| (85721) | |
| 336 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to monitor the number of incidents of patients waiting on trolleys in accident and emergency departments. |
| (86029) | |
| 337 N | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the health authorities which have asked general practitioners to reduce the number of patients they refer to hospitals for waiting list surgery. |
| (86065) | |
| 338 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have been removed from Central Returns Health Service waiting list statistics since 2nd May 1997 without having received the treatment intended. |
| (85722) | |
| 339 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement regarding the safety of medical appliances in respect of the transmission of CJD. |
| (86030) | |
| 340 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the likely impact on domestic violence statistics of the change of definition which has been issued to police forces. |
| (85918) | |
| 341 | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list those areas which (a) have successfully bid for additional funding for the targeted policing initiative, and how much has been allocated in each case and (b) submitted unsuccessful bids; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86124) | |
| 342 | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many, and what percentage of, criminal prosecutions were completed in (a) magistrates' courts, and (b) higher courts, in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86122) | |
| 343 | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if all the persons within government who had sight of the Macpherson Report before its publication were required to account for their movements during the period within which a copy was shown to a journalist and whether any checks were made of their account. |
| (86115) | |
| 344 | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many DNA samples have been taken of people (a) charged and (b) cautioned, in each police area and in total in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86125) | |
| 345 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the need for and use of rapid response by police vehicles. |
| ¶A (86200) | |
| 346 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what were the average response times of police cars to emergency calls in the last year for which figures are available. |
| ¶A (86201) | |
| 347 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many racial attacks for which people were prosecuted took place in London, broken down by police district, (a) in total, (b) per head of population and (c) per head of the ethnic minority population, in (i) 1998, (ii) 1997 and (iii) 1993. |
| (85688) | |
| 348 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on preparations to tackle the millennium bug problem in (a) police forces and (b) fire services. |
| ¶A (86172) | |
| 349 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of millennium bug preparations in (a) the police forces and emergency services of (i) Avon and Somerset, (ii) Devon and Cornwall, (iii) Cheshire, (iv) Hampshire, (v) Metropolitan London, (vi) Warwickshire and (vii) Sussex and (b) the National Criminal Intelligence Service. |
| ¶A (86240) | |
| 350 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the current applications process for police checks in the National Identification Service; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (86199) | |
| 351 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what are the rules governing blue light police car responses. |
| ¶A (86202) | |
| 352 | Mr Jamie Cann (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list those purposes for which his Department and its executive agencies require a birth certificate to be provided by (a) employees, (b) contractors, (c) those applying for employment and contracts and (d) other persons. |
| (85685) | |
| 353 N | Mr Roger Casale (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to ensure that the Metropoliton Police have sufficient resources effectively to enforce speed limits. |
| (86077) | |
| 354 N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 25th May, Official Report, column 80, what factors underlay his decision to select Nottingham Prison for the location of accommodation for offenders previously convicted of offences against children; and what other prisons were considered. |
| (85906) | |
| 355 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many indictable offences have been dealt with by either magistrates courts or the Crown Court serving (a) Croydon, (b) Gloucester and (c) Liverpool since 30th September 1998. |
| (85763) | |
| 356 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of drug treatment and testing orders have been revoked since 30th September 1998. |
| (85770) | |
| 357 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answers of 27th April, Official Report, column 110, 18th May, Official Report, column 295 and 26th May, on home detention curfews, what powers he has to revoke the licences of the 14 curfewees who were charged with an offence during the period of curfew and who remained on home detention curfew. |
| (86058) | |
| 358 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offenders have been (a) assessed for and (b) made subject to drug treatment and testing orders in (i) Liverpool, (ii) Croydon and (iii) Gloucester since 30th September 1998. |
| (85765) | |
| 359 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the proportion of indictable offences which fall into the category of drug related offences in the most recent period for which figures are available. |
| (85764) | |
| 360 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has further to publicise the decision to accommodate offenders previously convicted of offences involving children in Nottingham Prison. |
| (86103) | |
| 361 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of indictable offences were the result of drug related offending in the most recent period for which figures are available. |
| (85767) | |
| 362 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drug treatment and testing orders he has forecast to be made in his financial plans for the first full year of their operation. |
| (85766) | |
| 363 N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 19th May, Official Report, column 369, on asylum seekers, when he plans to write. |
| (85944) | |
| 364 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average length of a drug treatment and testing order imposed in the three pilot areas. |
| (85769) | |
| 365 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offenders have been convicted of offences involving the supply or possession of drugs in either the magistrates court or the relevant Crown Court serving (a) Liverpool, (b) Croydon and (c) Gloucester since 30th September 1998. |
| (85768) | |
| 366 | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultations (a) he has carried out and (b) he proposes to carry out concerning his plan to accommodate offenders previously convicted of offences involving children in Nottingham Prison. |
| (86104) | |
| 367 N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the terms of reference for the Options Review Team for the Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh, provide for the financial figures for 1998-99 and projected figures for 1999-2000 to be taken into consideration in forming the conclusions. |
| (85709) | |
| 368 N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the members of the Options Review Team for the Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh; how many of them are related to each other; and what resignations there have been and for what reasons. |
| (85708) | |
| 369 N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the total number of police officers in (a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999 in the Leeds Central constituency. |
| (85704) | |
| 370 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on what constitutes anti-social behaviour under the behaviour orders under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998; how he will monitor the (a) use and (b) effectiveness of (i) behaviour orders, (ii) curfews and (iii) parenting orders; and what action he will take to encourage the use of such orders by (1) the police and (2) local authorities. |
| (85671) | |
| 371 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what will be (a) the establishment and (b) actual numbers of officers in post of the London River Police on 1st January 2000; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86036) | |
| 372 N | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often Shamrock Ltd. of Henfield, West Sussex, (or the relevant certificate holder) is inspected by the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate; and when it was last inspected. |
| (86110) | |
| 373 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received relating to the reliability of CCTV cameras in providing evidence in speeding cases. |
| (86027) | |
| 374 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the staffing requirement of the London River Police over the Millennium public holiday; and if he will make a statement. |
| (86037) | |
| 375 N | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many primates imported into the UK for research purposes in the last five years from (a) China, (b) Mauritius, (c) Indonesia, (d) the Philippines and (e) other countries were (i) dead on arrival at the UK and (ii) suffered serious injury during transit, broken down (1) by the species of primate, (2) the place where the death or injury was discovered, (3) the cause of the death or injury and (4) in the case of injury, disposal of the primate. |
| (86102) | |
| 376 N | Mr Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the honourable Member for Weston-super-Mare's letter of 11th January concerning Avon Probation Service. |
| (85657) | |
| 377 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the whereabouts of Ethiopian asylum seeker Adagn Gebremuruim, previously detained in Haslar prison. |
| ¶A (86218) | |
| 378 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the work of the Inside Out charity in prisons. |
| ¶A (86203) | |
| 379 N | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many stop and search operations have been conducted by the Metropolitan Police in each month in 1999; and what was the total number of reported crimes for each month. |
| (85560) | |
| 380 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who were (a) recognised as refugees, (b) granted exceptional leave and (c) refused asylum, in each year from 1991, were (i) female and (ii) male. |
| (86121) | |
| 381 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants in each year from 1991 were (a) female and (b) male. |
| (86120) | |
| 382 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what powers officers at the frontier of the common travel area of the United Kingdom and Ireland are entitled to (a) question, (b) examine the belongings of, (c) search the person of and (d) detain a citizen of the European Union or European Economic Area or their accompanying relatives. |
| ¶A (86229) | |
| 383 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he expects to take place in the Council of Ministers relating to judicial and police cooperation in respect of the use of joint teams of police officers to investigate fraudulent transactions within the United Kingdom arising from the receipt of funds from the European Union. |
| (85674) | |
| 384 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list in respect of the new Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum concerned with matters arising from Title IV of Articles 61 to 69 of the consolidated Treaty on the European Community, the policy of Her Majesty's Government concerning those matters in respect of which by virtue of Protocol 4 of the Treaty of Amsterdam the United Kingdom has no current obligation; if representatives of Her Majesty's Government may participate in consideration of those matters; and, in respect of Article 3 of Protocol 4 of the Amsterdam Treaty enabling the United Kingdom or Ireland to enter into obligations not yet made, what consultation and scrutiny procedures will be adopted prior to such notification to the President of the Council. |
| ¶A (86227) | |
| 385 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when a draft of the Convention on the Fight Against Corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of member states of the European Union, (Cm 4266) published in April was first published; and what scrutiny of it is planned to be conducted in either House of Parliament. |
| ¶A (86234) | |
| 386 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list in respect of the Convention on the Protection of the European Communities Financial Interests and subsequent protocols (i) the dates of promulgation and signature, (ii) the dates of draft and final publication in the United Kingdom, (iii) any relevant parliamentary proceedings and (iv) the dates of coming into force. |
| (85679) | |
| 387 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what will be the name of the replacement committee dealing with matters arising from Title VI of the consolidated Treaty on European Union, Articles 29-42 concerning police and judicial cooperation on criminal matters; who will represent the UK at its meetings; and how frequently it is planned to meet. |
| ¶A (86233) | |
| 388 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what documents have been published relating to the activities, financing and powers of EUROPOL; what agreements need to be made prior to the commencement of operations of mixed national police teams, under its supervision within national states; and if he will state the name of the replacement committee concerning all matters of police and judicial cooperation in Title VI of the Treaty on European Union, the frequency of planned meetings and the nature and number of the representatives of the European Commission on that committee. |
| ¶A (86226) | |
| 389 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to amend the criminal law and procedures in respect of the Convention on the Protection of the European Communities' Financial Interests relating to international criminal fraud, and its protocols. |
| (85680) | |
| 390 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 20th May, Official Report, columns 445-6, concerning the business conducted at the final meeting of the K4 Committee in Brussels on 29th to 30th April, if he will list (a) the 25 agenda items there considered, (b) the Treaty base, terms of reference for Eurodac, and documentary reference to rules for its implementation, and any parliamentary scrutiny related thereto and (c) where, and by what means, the proposals of the United Kingdom for mutual recognition of criminal court decisions have been published, what consultative or scrutiny procedures have taken, or are to take, place in respect of them, and what comparable proposals have been received from other member governments. |
| ¶A (86235) | |
| 391 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 20th May, Official Report, columns 445-6, when, and by whom, the agenda for the additional European Council Meeting due in October at Tampere, Finland, concerning judicial and home affairs in the European Union will be published; what principal documents will be available to the public and national parliaments prior to that meeting; and when it is planned that they will be available. |
| ¶A (86232) | |
| 392 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whom he plans to appoint to the co-ordinating committee of officials established by article 31 of the Treaty on European Union, whose duty is to prepare for deliberations of the Council of Ministers concerning judicial and police co-operation in criminal matters. |
| (85675) | |
| 393 | Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the number of former members of the armed forces in Her Majesty's prisons and into the possibility of a relationship between crimes of violence and active service; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85663) | |
| 394 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list all those organisations which made a submission to his Department's sexual offences review; and if these submissions are publicly available. |
| (85928) | |
| 395 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to amend Part V of the Police Act 1997 regarding the Criminal Records Bureau; what timescale he envisages for reform; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85904) | |
| 396 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86098) | |
| 397 | Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers are currently deployed on witness protection duties in the Eltham Police Division. |
| ¶A (86194) | |
| 398 N | Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the (a) current and (b) proposed legislation relating to the ownership, breeding and keeping of dogs. |
| (85761) | |
| 399 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, as representing the House of Commons Commission, when the 1999 pay settlement for House of Commons staff will be implemented; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85971) | |
| 400 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much British aid money has been invested in agricultural projects in developing countries which include the growing of tobacco crops for each year over the last five years. |
| ¶A (86212) | |
| 401 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on tobacco consumption in the developing world. |
| ¶A (86213) | |
| 402 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid has been provided to Kashmir by her Department since 1997. |
| (85828) | |
| 403 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer to the honourable Member for Tooting, of 19th April, Official Report, columns 420-1, regarding debt write-offs for outstanding loans, if she will list the loans written off for Indonesia, in each case stating (a) the nature of the aid project, (b) the date on which the loan was written off and (c) the reason for the loan being written off. |
| (85849) | |
| 404 | Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what position Her Majesty's Government has taken on the proposal that the World Bank should fund the Chinese Western Poverty Reduction Project; and if she will make a statement. |
| (85664) | |
| 405 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86094) | |
| 406 N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the 20 United Kingdom companies which have received (a) the largest number of technical co-operation consultancy contracts and (b) the highest value technical co-operation consultancy contracts with her Department in the last financial year. |
| (85965) | |
| 407 N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of United Kingdom bilaterial aid is provided to developing countries in the form of UK-sourced goods, services and contracts. |
| (85966) | |
| 408 N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action her Department is taking to build up private sector capacities in poor countries through the aid programme. |
| (85967) | |
| 409 N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with representatives of the business community on untying British aid in the past six months. |
| (85968) | |
| 410 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what preparations her Department has made for winter accommodation for Kosovar refugees; and what discussions it has held with the refugees on this matter. |
| ¶A (86193) | |
| 411 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what plans he has to consult on the future of calculation of future pecuniary loss in personal injury claims. |
| (85713) | |
| 412 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, what exemptions from jury service are available to jurors with unavoidable childcare responsibilities. |
| ¶A (86198) | |
| 413 | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, when Law Commission draftsmen commenced work on the consolidation of the Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts; and when they will complete the consolidation. |
| (85889) | |
| 414 | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many senior draftsmen have been employed on consolidation of legislation in respect of (a) the service discipline acts and (b) other acts in each year since 1991; and if he will make a statement. |
| (95891) | |
| 415 | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many Parliamentary Counsel are currently seconded to the Law Commission for purposes of consolidation bill drafting in connection with (a) the Army, Navy and Air Force Discipline Acts, (b) work on the next Armed Forces Bill and (c) other consolidation measures; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85890) | |
| 416 | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will make a statement on progress made with revision of the topics identified by the Law Commission in 1995 where consolidation was essential and very desirable in their memorandum to the committee on the Armed Forces Bill in 1996; what additional topics have been so identified since 1996; and if he will make a statement with regard to the recommendations of the report from the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (HC 143, Session 1995-96). |
| (85898) | |
| 417 N | Ms Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will introduce legislation to amend the Children Act 1989 to include a no-contact clause where there is evidence of domestic violence. |
| (85007) | |
| 418 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86084) | |
| 419 | Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the number of occupational therapists required in Northern Ireland to reduce the waiting time for assessment of need to (a) six months and (b) three months. |
| (85874) | |
| 420 | Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time occupational therapists are employed in Northern Ireland. |
| (85875) | |
| 421 | Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to recruit and train extra occupational therapists in Northern Ireland. |
| (85887) | |
| 422 | Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is the average waiting time for a home visit and assessment by an occupational therapist in Northern Ireland. |
| (85873) | |
| 423 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will estimate the total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if hospitals and other NHS facilities in Northern Ireland used not-in-kind refrigerants. |
| ¶A (86170) | |
| 424 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has to review the legislation governing coroners' inquests in Northern Ireland. |
| ¶A (86271) | |
| 425 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if the security force helicopters operating in the Ashgrove area of Lurgan on Sunday 14th and Monday 15th March were equipped with still or video cameras; and if photographs or video footage from them has been made available to the policy inquiry team investigating the murder of Rosemary Nelson. |
| ¶A (86174) | |
| 426 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will make a statement on the progress of the Royal Ulster Constabulary investigation into the murder of Robert Hamill. |
| ¶A (86272) | |
| 427 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is the present role of the Chief Constable of Kent Constabulary in the police investigation into the murder of Rosemary Nelson. |
| ¶A (86175) | |
| 428 N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the possibility of utilising the spare capacity at the incinerator at Duncrue in Belfast for the incineration of meat and bone meal and tallow required under the Over Thirty Month Scheme arising out of the BSE crisis. |
| (85957) | |
| 429 N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what changes have been made by the Department of the Environment (N.I.) to the funding made available to (a) the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company and its subsidiaries and (b) the NI Roads Programme in (i) 1998 and (ii) 1999. |
| (85958) | |
| 430 | Mr Clifford Forsythe (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what arrangements are in place to take account of the views of objectors and their public representatives when deciding on contentious planning applications. |
| (85919) | |
| 431 | Mr Clifford Forsythe (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, from what date the European Union Directive on landfill of waste will be applied to planning applications in Northern Ireland. |
| (85921) | |
| 432 | Mr Clifford Forsythe (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if the European Union Directive on landfill of waste will be taken into account when current planning applications are being decided. |
| (85922) | |
| 433 N | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what are the total sums which her Department has spent on the present inquiry into the events on Sunday 30th January 1972, up to 31st May 1999; under what headings those sums were disbursed; and what are the sums under each heading. |
| (85909) | |
| 434 N | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many hospital patients there are in each health and social services trust who require discharge to (a) a residential home (b) a nursing home and (c) domiciliary care. |
| (85857) | |
| 435 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86089) | |
| 436 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which organisations are represented on the Whiterock Steering Group to examine development proposals for the former Fort Whiterock army base on Springfield Road, Belfast. |
| ¶A (86152) | |
| 437 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, under what authority the Government funds the Glencree Reconciliation Centre in Co. Wicklow, Republic of Ireland. |
| ¶A (86150) | |
| 438 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she has taken to examine the case for enhanced financial assistance for the work of reconciliation as agreed in the Belfast Agreement; what consultations have been undertaken with the Irish Government; and if she will make a statement. |
| ¶A (86149) | |
| 439 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans she has to meet the Irish Prime Minister to agree a joint British-Irish funding body for organisations involved in reconciliation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. |
| ¶A (86151) | |
| 440 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the likely progress at the forthcoming G7 Summit in reducing the debt burden of the poorest countries; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85724) | |
| 441 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the Government's policy on a ground invasion of (a) Kosovo and (b) Serbia. |
| (85897) | |
| 442 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his discussions with the Prime Minister of Hungary in relation to the safety of the ethnic Hungarians living in Northern Yugoslavia, and on the concerns of the Hungarian Prime Minister about the threat to ethnic Hungarians from Serbian military forces and paramilitaries positioned near their homes. |
| (85900) | |
| 443 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Prime Minister, when he received a report from the Department for Education and Employment on the review of post-16 training and education. |
| (85723) | |
| 444 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement regarding the overall pupil/teacher ratio in maintained schools in England. |
| (86113) | |
| 445 N | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Prime Minister, how many letters he has received concerning the future of the Royal Hospital, Haslar; and of these, how many supported its closure, and how many opposed it. |
| (85554) | |
| 446 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if hospitals and other NHS facilities in Scotland used not-in-kind refrigerants. |
| ¶A (86169) | |
| 447 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86090) | |
| 448 | Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps the Government has taken to ensure that the Judiciary and the Procurator Fiscal Service is equipped to deal with the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998; what material has been produced to assist with this process; and if he will place copies of it in the Library. |
| ¶A (86209) | |
| 449 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will estimate the total amount that will be paid by students in tuition fees during 1998-99. |
| (85888) | |
| 450 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what response the Government has made to the World Heritage Committee's concerns regarding the environmental protection of St Kilda. |
| (85673) | |
| 451 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans his Department has to be involved in the United Nations 1999 Year of the Elderly; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (86191) | |
| 452 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many appeals were made during the last 12 months against benefit assessments. |
| ¶A (86192) | |
| 453 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what representations he has received about the change in the composition of social security appeal tribunals; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (86155) | |
| 454 | Mr Bill Etherington (Sunderland North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans he has to evaluate the impact on claimants' decisions of the change in the composition of social security appeal tribunals. |
| ¶A (86154) | |
| 455 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what benefits are planned to be paid through the barcode system to be used in post offices. |
| (85877) | |
| 456 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what visible information on order books will be concealed by the barcode technology to be installed in post offices. |
| (85858) | |
| 457 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 24th May, Official Report, column 47, on housing benefit, what charges are made by the Post Office for not redirecting benefit-related mail in a local authority's area. |
| (86066) | |
| 458 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what forms of technology he is evaluating as a replacement to the magnetic strip of the benefit payment card; and what the projected savings are. |
| (85862) | |
| 459 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the barcode system to be installed in post offices will be able to record stolen order books. |
| (85861) | |
| 460 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if the barcode technology to be introduced on order books will require Post Office staff to ask a security question. |
| (85860) | |
| 461 N | Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what assistance will be available to widows aged 45 to 60 years to help them to find a job or a training/education place during the six months for which they receive benefit. |
| (85940) | |
| 462 N | Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what will be the minimum possible income support paid per week under the proposals for welfare reform to a single adult aged over 18 years, with no dependants, who has no savings or other income, and (a) who is not eligible for JSA because the severity of his disability makes him unable to do any work and (b) is eligible for JSA but is unable to find work; and what is the proposed minimum level of disability income guarantee. |
| (85939) | |
| 463 N | Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what consultations he has had about the likelihood of widows aged 45 to 60 years, who are not already in full-time paid work, obtaining such work within six months of their bereavement. |
| (85941) | |
| 464 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the effect on the benefit of a jobseeker's allowance claimant who is participating on a European Social Fund course of training, if the course provider makes payments directly to (a) a childminder and (b) a person providing accommodation in circumstances where the childcare or accommodation needs are directly related to participation on the course. |
| (85751) | |
| 465 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if (a) travelcards and passes, (b) luncheon vouchers, (c) protective clothing, (d) gift vouchers and (e) other payments in kind are disregarded for benefit purposes if received by a jobseeker's allowance claimant who is participating on a European Social Fund training course. |
| (85750) | |
| 466 | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if recipients of (a) incapacity benefit and (b) severe disablement allowance can participate on a European Social Fund course of training without loss of benefits. |
| (85756) | |
| 467 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he expects to receive the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate's report on housing benefit administration in Tower Hamlets. |
| ¶A (86187) | |
| 468 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will provide an analysis of responses made to the Support in Bereavement consultation document (Cmd 4104). |
| (86126) | |
| 469 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the total cost to the Government of paying a SERPS widow's/widower's pension to any person bereaved after 6th April 2000 broken down into the following groups (a) based on 100 per cent. of the amount accrued for any contributions made between 6th April 1978 and the Royal Assent of the Social Security Act 1986, (b) based on 75 per cent. of the amount accrued for any contributions made between the Royal Assent of the Social Security Act 1986 and (i) 5th April 1996 and (ii) 5th April 1999 and (c) based on 50 per cent. of the amount accrued for any contributions made (1) since 6th April 1996 and (2) since 6th April 1999. |
| (86048) | |
| 470 | Mr Edward O'Hara (Knowsley South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will place in the Library a copy of all the responses made to the Support in Bereavement consultation document (Cmd 4104). |
| (86042) | |
| 471 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the public expenditure effects, excluding setting up costs, of passporting disabled people with broken work records onto the state second pension by 2002 and for every five-year period until 2047. |
| ¶A (86219) | |
| 472 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what interim conclusions have been reached by the housing benefit verification pilot projects; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85640) | |
| 473 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, in what circumstances temporary national insurance numbers in the format TN(date of birth) M/F are issued. |
| (85644) | |
| 474 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the length of time currently taken to process DCI1LA forms for (a) children leaving care and (b) people from abroad. |
| (85641) | |
| 475 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what discretionary powers Benefits Agency staff have when trying to establish the identity of individuals who are unable to supply documents in the housing benefit verification pilots. |
| (85645) | |
| 476 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the public expenditure effects, excluding setting up costs, of passporting child benefit recipients, where the youngest child for whom the benefit received is aged five or under, onto the state second pension by 2002 and for every five-year period until 2047. |
| ¶A (86211) | |
| 477 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the public expenditure effects, excluding setting up costs, of passporting recipients of invalid care allowance and carers of people receiving attendance allowance or disability living allowance who qualify for home responsibilities protection onto the state second pension by 2002 and for every five year period until 2047. |
| ¶A (86210) | |
| 478 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what emergency provisions exist for claimants and their partners (a) who do not have a national insurance number and (b) whose identity cannot be confirmed to replace housing benefit and council tax benefit under the housing benefit verification pilot schemes. |
| (85642) | |
| 479 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he will publish (a) the statistics collected under and (b) the final results and conclusions of the housing benefit verification pilot projects relating to national insurance numbers. |
| (85639) | |
| 480 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, in cases where there is an over payment of housing benefit which cannot be reclaimed from the recipient, from which organisation's budget the overpayment is deducted once it is detected. |
| (85643) | |
| 481 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people employed in (a) his Department and (b) its associated public bodies have benefited from the introduction of the national minimum wage. |
| (86023) | |
| 482 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the cost of allowing students to claim (a) housing benefit, (b) income support during the summer and (c) income support all year round; and if he will estimate the numbers who would be newly entitled in each case. |
| (86052) | |
| 483 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the criteria are for approval of capital purchases overseas by the Post Office. |
| (86047) | |
| 484 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what evaluation he has carried out on the impacts of a climate change levy, rebated by a general reduction in national insurance contributions, on the (a) steel, (b) chemical, (c) aluminium, (d) cement and (e) other major energy-using industries. |
| (86043) | |
| 485 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he now expects to conclude the Review of Electricity Trading Arrangements. |
| (86045) | |
| 486 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make it his policy to change departmental refrigeration and air-conditioning systems to operate on not-in-kind refrigerants. |
| ¶A (86166) | |
| 487 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what advice is available from his Department to individuals and companies who wish to avoid importing goods made with the use of forced labour or child labour. |
| (85829) | |
| 488 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what advice his Department gives to prospective exporters about the human rights record of the receiving country; and whether this advice is given only in response to a specific request. |
| (85830) | |
| 489 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the individual items of military equipment licensed for export to Indonisia and their uses which are referred to in the Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls as (a) communications equipment, (b) electrical components, (c) electronic equipment and (d) miliary simulator. |
| (85831) | |
| 490 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 6th May, Official Report, column 450, concerning ECGD liabilities in respect of exports in Indonesia if he will list (i) the unrecovered claims, (ii) the proportion of the unrecovered claims which relates to military exports and (iii) the unrecovered claims which ECGD expects to be written off. |
| (85848) | |
| 491 N | Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he plans to respond to the report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the selling of raw milk. |
| (86025) | |
| 492 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what data he has collated on the extent of the cross-subsidy of Parcel Force by Royal Mail in the financial years from 1994 to 1998. |
| (85734) | |
| 493 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what actuarial advice was received on the employee contribution rate to the Post Office Pension Scheme; and if his approval was sought for the rate chosen. |
| (85736) | |
| 494 N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions his officials have had with the BBC on its commercial policy guidelines; and if the guidelines were subject to prior approval by (a) his Department and (b) the Office of Fair Trading. |
| (85893) | |
| 495 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions he has had with the Post Office about the future of the Post Office Pension Scheme and Post Office Staff Superannuation Scheme. |
| (85735) | |
| 496 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what modifications have to be made to the computer terminals installed in post offices as part of the Horizon project to make them compatible with (a) smart card and (b) barcode technology. |
| (85865) | |
| 497 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if the ICL/Pathway consortium will be liable for losses arising from fraud when the Post Office barcode technology is in use. |
| (85859) | |
| 498 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions he has had with the nuclear industry on its plans for new stations. |
| (85710) | |
| 499 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many open individual export licences were (a) applied for, (b) approved and (c) refused during 1998. |
| ¶A (86242) | |
| 500 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research into wave power is currently being funded by the Government. |
| (85955) | |
| 501 | Mr Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations he has received concerning customers complaining that their gas supplier has been changed without their consent; what gas suppliers have been disciplined by OFGAS owing to their conduct in transferring customer accounts; and if he will make a statement. |
| (85714) | |
| 502 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer of 26th April, Official Report, column 29, on oesophageal cancer, what representations he has received that patients' consents were not obtained prior to their admission to the trial procedures. |
| (85717) | |
| 503 | Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations he has received about the decision of airline companies to separate passenger service charges from the price of their tickets; and what assessment he has made of that decision. |
| ¶A (86237) | |
| 504 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what elements of the World Trade Agreement prohibit (a) the United Kingdom and (b) the European Union from placing restrictions on the import of animal-based foodstuffs liable to contain high levels of antibiotic substances; which officials (i) negotiated, (ii) agreed to and (iii) endorsed on behalf of the negotiating parties those elements; and what ratification procedure was followed in (1) the European Union and (2) the member states. |
| ¶A (86231) | |
| 505 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans he has to amend the Hearing Aid Council Act 1968 to permit a more streamlined disciplinary procedure for hearing aid dispensers; and what plans he has to consult on the effectiveness of the powers of the Hearing Aid Council. |
| (85938) | |
| 506 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86088) | |
| 507 | Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he is taking to discourage charities from using premium telephone line charges. |
| ¶A (86217) | |
| 508 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many people are currently employed in the medical and pharmaceutical applications of biotechnology in the United Kingdom; and what has been the annual financial contribution of this area of biotechnology to the United Kingdom's GDP since and including 1992 (a) in actual terms and (b) in terms of a percentage of the whole. |
| (86069) | |
| 509 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will place in the Library a copy of the United Kingdom maritime threat assessment prepared as part of the MOX transport plan. |
| (85821) | |
| 510 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what communications he had with the relevant United States authorities in respect of the relevance of the United States Government's threat assessment to the sea shipment of plutonium prior to concluding the safety and security plan for such shipments from the United Kingdom to Japan. |
| (85822) | |
| 511 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on what date the details of the United Kingdom safety and security plans covering the sea shipment to Japan from Sellafield of plutonium-based MOX fuel was communicated to the Japanese Government and Japanese nuclear authorities; and what response he received. |
| (85826) | |
| 512 N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions he has had with the CBI and other trade associations regarding untying UK bilateral development aid. |
| (85964) | |
| 513 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on progress on the identification, distribution and preservation of (a) coal and (b) non-coal records which have been the responsibility of the Coal Authority. |
| (85901) | |
| 514 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will estimate the total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if hospitals and other NHS facilities in Wales used not-in-kind refrigerants. |
| ¶A (86167) | |
| 515 N | Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the budgeted (a) surplus and (b) deficit for each (i) NHS authority and (ii) NHS trust in Wales for the financial year 1999-2000. |
| (86034) | |
| 516 N | Ms Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will publish the results of the study which he undertook on dualling the A40 to St. Clears; and if he will place a copy of the study in the Library. |
| (85661) | |
| 517 N | Ms Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make a statement on the responsibilities of the First Secretary of the National Assembly for Wales over issues directly related to disposal or storage of nuclear waste in Wales when that waste does not originate in Wales. |
| (85662) | |
| 518 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people in his Department and its associated bodies and agencies have benefited from the introduction of a national minimum wage. |
| (86091) | |
| 519 | Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many disciplinary hearings have been heard under Welsh Health Circular (WHO(96)22) Disciplinary Procedures for Hospital and Community Medical and Dental Staff; what has been the length of time taken to hear and resolve each of the cases; and how many such cases were discontinued. |
| ¶A (86276) | |
| 520 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact which the National Institute for Clinical Excellence will have on regional variations in the delivery of health services. |
| [Question Unstarred] (85027) | |
| 521 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the power of (a) local authorities and (b) the police to prosecute people who drop litter in the street; and how many people have been prosecuted for dropping litter in the street under these powers in each of the last three years. |
| [Transferred] (85672) | |
| 522 N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his Answer of 25th May, Official Report, column 142, on the BBC, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's rules governing borrowing by the BBC and its commercial subsidiaries. |
| [Transferred] (85892) | |
| 523 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has for introducing (a) energy efficiency and (b) renewable energy strategies at regional level. |
| [Transferred] (86044) | |
| 524 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, under what Article of the Treaty consents for growing genetically-modified crops are issued; when the relevant substantive resolution was agreed in each House of Parliament relating thereto; and what amendments have subsequently been made. |
| [Transferred] (86236) | |
| 525 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, under the landfill tax credit scheme, which landfill operators have contributed to environmental bodies; and if he will list those environmental bodies, including contact details, which have received support from landfill operators. |
| [Transferred] (86148) | |
| 526 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the nature of the files relating to the black diaries allegedly written by Sir Roger Casement which have yet to be released into the public domain. |
| [Transferred] (86153) | |
| 527 | Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from the Irish Prime Minister regarding the black diaries allegedly written by Sir Roger Casement; and what plans she has to release further documents at his request. |
| [Transferred] (86225) | |
| 528 | Mr Phil Woolas (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what conclusions he reached about the quality of information supplied with regard to women who continued to pay reduced National Insurance contributions after 1977 about national insurance entitlements; and what plans he has to assist those affected. |
| [Transferred] (86195) | |
| 529 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the value of defence products exported to Turkey during 1998. |
| [Transferred] (86204) | |
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