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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Tuesday 20 July 1999

Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 20 July 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.
 


 
TUESDAY 20th JULY
1  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92185)
2  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask Mr Attorney General, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92184)
3  
  
Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan):    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what action the Government is taking to tackle age discrimination within government departments.
(92204)
4  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92181)
5  
N  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, as representing the Church Commissioners, what is the cumulative cost to date of the financial compensation package for those priests unwilling to accept women's ordination; and if he will estimate the total cumulative cost at the end of the 10 year guarantee period.
(91657)
6  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on his Department's involvement in the proposed government committee on Holocaust Rembrance Day.
(92158)
7  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92183)
8  
  
Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the Ministry of Defence sites that were surveyed by English Nature in the 1994 national sites of special scientific interest sample survey of lowland heathland, indicating in each case the condition and area of the site.
(92212)
9  
N  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to discourage the deployment of nuclear armaments in space.
(91693)
10  
N  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements the Government has made to monitor the transport of nuclear materials (a) in the European Union and (b) internationally.
(91694)
11  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Land Command paper on district restructuring reference number Land G3 (O and D) 3031/12, dated 9th July.
(92021)
12  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made in the development of personal tags capable of the electronic storage of personal information including medical records.
(92166)
13  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92182)
14  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on his Department's involvement in the proposed Government committee on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
(92160)
15  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92180)
16  
  
Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if major schemes in local transport plans will require appraisal of alternatives using the New Approach to Appraisal.
(92213)
17  
  
Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to increase the capacity of the A1 Newcastle Western By-Pass from the Gateshead Metrocentre Interchange to the Ponteland Road Interchange.
(92226)
18  
  
Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to dispose of land held for the widening of the A1 between Scotch Corner and the junction with the A1/M1 Link; when such land disposal was approved; and if he will state the total area of land involved.
(92227)
19  
  
Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reasons the Highways Agency has agreed to support the plans for the Northern Development Area at the Inquiry called by the Secretary of State; and if he will estimate the Agency's costs of taking part in the Inquiry.
(92229)
20  
N  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he is taking to prevent nuclear contamination to the area surrounding BNFL's reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
(91596)
21  
N  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what studies he has commissioned to determine the effect nuclear wastes from Sellafield have had on the public (a) generally and (b) in Coventry
(91597)
22  
N  
Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what meetings have taken place between Special Advisers in his Department and representatives of or advisers to Central Railways.
(91989)
23  
N  
Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what contacts there have been between Ministers in his Department and representatives of or advisers to Central Railways.
(91991)
24  
N  
Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what contacts there have been between officials in his Department and representatives of or advisers to Central Railways.
(91990)
25  
N  
Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the letter from the honourable Member for Thurrock to the Minister for London and Construction relating to the Minister's planned visit to Poland was received in the Department; to whom it was circulated; and for what purposes it was circulated to persons other than the Minister.
(91977)
26  
N  
Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if the letter from the honourable Member for Thurrock to the Minister for London and Construction concerning the Minister's visit to Poland was brought to the Minister's attention prior to his discussion with the honourable Member for Thurrock on 13th July.
(91980)
27  
N  
Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reasons the letter sent by the honourable Member for Thurrock to the Minister for London and Construction prior to the Minister's visit to Poland, concerning that visit, was not brought to the Minister's attention.
(91979)
28  
N  
Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what the circumstances were in which his Department's response to the letter from the honourable Member for Thurrock concerning the visit of the Minister for London and Construction to Poland was mislaid; and if he will make a statement.
(91978)
29  
N  
Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he is taking to achieve the Government's target of 60 per cent. of additional housing to be built on previously developed land; what assessment he has made of Urban Task Force's prediction of the percentage which will be achieved by 2021; and if he will make a statement.
(92066)
30  
  
Mrs Ray Michie (Argyll and Bute):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he will respond to the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee Sixth Report of Session 1998-99 on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (HC. 31).
(92205)
31  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92179)
32  
N  
Mr Tony Baldry (Banbury):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received in relation to the potential of the proposed climate change levy on certain fuels to increase carbon dioxide emissions.
(92152)
33  
N  
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what occasions since 1993 his Department received written or oral approaches from the honourable Member for Hertford and Stortford on matters relating to banking regulations in Belize.
(92068)
34  
N  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many firms are on the waiting list to register for the construction industry scheme; and what is the average time taken from application to registration.
(91655)
35  
N  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advertisements the Inland Revenue has placed to inform businesses of the need to register under the new construction industry scheme; and what has been the cost of the advertisements.
(91656)
36  
N  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses that should have registered under the construction industry scheme by 1st August; and what projection he has made of the number which will have done so by that date.
(91658)
37  
N  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 12th July, Official Report, column 83, if he will estimate the number of pensioners with effective rates of deduction from gross income of (a) between 50 and 60 per cent., (b) between 60 and 70 per cent., (c) between 70 and 80 per cent., (d) between 90 and 100 per cent. and (e) above 100 per cent., taking into account the effects of tax rates and benefit withdrawal rates, and the rules regarding deemed income from capital.
(91659)
38  
N  
Mr David Rendel (Newbury):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to instruct the Inland Revenue to consult with pension providers in respect of the proposed NIRS2 compensation package.
(92146)
39  
N  
Mr Martin Salter (Reading West):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has had from (i) consumer organisations and (ii) organisations representing (a) the elderly, (b) the disabled and (c) the visually impaired, regarding the closure and automation of district banks in (1) rural and (2) urban communities; and what responses he has made.
(91695)
40  
  
Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff at the Contributions Agency aged 60 years or over have been required to retire since April.
(92200)
41  
  
Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes have been made to the terms and conditions affecting Contributions Agency staff aged 60 years or over since April.
(92201)
42  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92169)
43  
N  
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if Mr Michael Ashcroft has used a diplomatic passport for entry to the United Kingdom and enjoyed diplomatic immunity within the UK in the last five years (a) when declaring himself to be an Ambassador on entry and (b) when entering not having so declared himself.
(92070)
44  
N  
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what occasions since 1993 his Department received written or oral approaches from the honourable Member for Hertford and Stortford on matters relating to banking regulations in Belize.
(92069)
45  
N  
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what rules govern the use of overseas accredited diplomatic passports by UK Nationals.
(92071)
46  
  
Tom Cox (Tooting):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reason people making visa applications on behalf of relatives living in India for entry to the United Kingdom are required to submit original documents rather than photocopies; and if he will make a statement.
(92211)
47  
N  
Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what follow-up action he has taken to the conclusions of the Conference on the Environment in the Dependent Territories, organised at the Zoo, Regents Park, on 29th and 30th June by his Department, in relation to (a) degradation of coral reefs and (b) mangrove swamps.
(90729)
48  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his Department's involvement in the proposed government committee on Holocaust Rembrance Day.
(92159)
49  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what forms of telecommunications in Iraq will be permitted to be restructured under the extension of the oil-for-food programme.
(92157)
50  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the stance of the United Kingdom delegation to the UN Security Council on 14th June, with reference to the debate over the Chinese Embassy bombing in Belgrade; and what was the United Kingdom vote on the relevant resolutions.
(92156)
51  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his Department's policy towards the peace process in Tajikstan; and if he will support an extension of the UN Mission of Observers there.
(92154)
52  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to support the proposed United Nations mission in East Timor; what level of troop deployment is planned for the mission; and what plans he has for UK troop deployment there.
(92155)
53  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the countries which have ratified the Rome Agreement to set up the International Criminal Court, indicating in each case the date of ratification.
(92162)
54  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the total cost to date of the tribunals on (a) Rwanda and (b) the former Yugoslavia.
(92163)
55  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the legislation for British ratification of the International Criminal Court will be published.
(92161)
56  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 12th July, Official Report, column 55, what projection he has made of the estimated loss of revenue over the next three years as a result of the withdrawal of DFID contracts from the British Council.
(92164)
57  
N  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will report on the confidence-building measures and discussions between the two communities in Cyprus.
(90466)
58  
N  
The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what actions he is taking to protect the citizens of countries whose security services are guilty of crimes against them.
(90799)
59  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92178)
60  
  
Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase (a) the amount of information available to cancer sufferers and (b) their involvement in determining their treatment; and if he will make a statement.
(92210)
61  
  
Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the procedures for the selection of doctors to vacant general practices; and when those procedures were last revised.
(92228)
62  
  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is planning to take to ensure that nurses are refunded the costs of all work-related journeys.
(92208)
63  
  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical nurses working in the community are not refunded for the cost of their work-related journeys.
(92207)
64  
N  
Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many breaches of his Department's Clinical Pathology Accreditation guidelines were reported in 1998.
(92107)
65  
N  
Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd July, Official Report, colums 399-400, on clinical negligence, what was the nature of the comparison made by the NHS Executive between the costs of commercial versus public sector insurance for clinical negligence risks; when it was carried out; what was the indicative margin between NHS-provided clinical negligence insurance premiums and comparable commercial cover; and if he will list the features of NHS-provided clinical negligence cover that cannot be provided by commercial insurers.
(92108)
66  
N  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the implications of contamination of polio vaccine in the United Kingdom with simian virus 40 between 1955 and 1963, for the development of cancers in humans.
(92020)
67  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92176)
68  
  
Mr Stephen Hesford (Wirral West):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the (a) Joint Prison Health Policy Unit and (b) Joint Prison Health Care Task Force was established.
(92198)
69  
  
Mr Stephen Hesford (Wirral West):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the members of (a) the Joint Prison Health Policy Unit and (b) the Joint Prison Health Care Task Force.
(92209)
70  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints have been received by the Police Complaints Authority against the Ministry of Defence Police in each year since they were granted statutory constabulary powers.
(92165)
71  
N  
Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his planned timetable for the establishment of the Criminal Records Agency.
(91988)
72  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92175)
73  
N  
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on what occasions since her Department's formation its Ministers have received written or oral approaches from the honourable Member for Hertford and Stortford on matters relating to banking regulations in Belize.
(92072)
74  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate the Commonwealth Development Corporation has made of the number of employees at (a) the (i) Abosso gold and (ii) Satellite gold fields in Ghana and (b) the East Africa gold mines in Tanzania.
(92151)
75  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the current portfolio of Commonwealth Development Corporation investments together with the estimates of their current value and annual income.
(92149)
76  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what measures she is taking to support the work of the World Food Programme in the Sudan.
(92153)
77  
N  
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the firms which have provided advice to her Department on the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the public-private partnership process together with the fees paid to those advisers to date.
(92150.)
78  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) her, (b) other ministers in her Department, (c) special advisers in her Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in her Department.
(92177)
79  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92174)
80  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) her, (b) other ministers in her Department, (c) special advisers in her Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in her Department.
(92167)
81  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Prime Minister, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92173)
82  
  
Mrs Ray Michie (Argyll and Bute):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on his responsibilities with regard to the Crown Estate.
(92206)
83  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92172)
84  
  
Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many (a) new claims of invalidity benefit were made in each year since 1995, (b) exits from incapacity benefit to other work or benefits were made in each year since 1995 and (c) claimants of incapacity benefit were resident in each local authority in (i) Tyne and Wear, (ii) the counties of Northumberland and Durham, and (iii) the area covered by the former county of Cleveland in each year since 1995.
(92225)
85  
N  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans he has to reform the Child Support Act 1991.
(91594)
86  
N  
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans he has to encourage parents to reach amicable agreements with free help and advice provided by the Government, in the matter of child maintenance.
(91595)
87  
N  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many CSA cases were uncleared after (a) 78 weeks and (b) 104 weeks on 31st March.
(92147)
88  
N  
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many, and what proportion of, applications for maintenance to the Child Support Agency dating from after (a) 31st March 1997, (b) 30th September 1997 and (c) 31st March 1998 were uncleared 52 weeks later.
(92148)
89  
  
Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if staff at the Benefits Agency aged 60 years or over are allowed to continue in employment on a year to year basis until the age of 65.
(92203)
90  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92171)
91  
N  
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on what occasions since 1993 his Department has received written or oral approaches from the honourable Member for Hertford and Stortford on matters relating to banking regulations in Belize.
(92073)
92  
N  
Mr Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what reports he has received from the late payment monitoring unit at Bradford University since the implementation of the first stage of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
(91902)
93  
N  
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which Minister has specific responsibility for the Horizon Project.
(92067)
94  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92170)
95  
N  
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will publish a list of all those official documents of the last administration which have been seen by (a) him, (b) other ministers in his Department, (c) special advisers in his Department and (d) non-career civil servants appointed since May 1997 in his Department.
(92168)
96  
  
Tom Cox (Tooting):    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had, and with whom, about improving the environmental situation in Kosovo following the conflict there; and if she will make a statement.
[Transferred] (92199)
97  
  
Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if staff at the Contributions Agency aged 60 years or over were allowed to continue in employment on a year to year basis until the age of 65, prior to the Agency's transfer from the Department of Social Security.
[Transferred] (92202)


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