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Written Questions tabled on Thursday 27th July for answer today++
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Ms Dari Taylor (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what targets Remploy has been set in its 2000-01 Annual Performance Agreement.
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133781
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| 2 |
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who will have responsibility for paying for losses at the New Millennium Experience Company once the most recent allocation of lottery money has been spent.
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133782
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Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the sale proceeds of the Dome accruing to the New Millennium Company will be returned to the Government as shareholder.
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133783
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Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what arrangements have been made to pay proceeds from the sale of the Dome from the New Millennium Experience Company to the Government as shareholder.
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133784
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Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he will publish findings from the first stage of the Quinquennial Review of the Special Educational Needs Tribunal.
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133785
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Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port and Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of bills were paid on time by Government departments and their agencies during the financial year 1999-2000.
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133786
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Mr Frank Doran (Aberdeen Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if the Government will provide compensation for former distant water trawlermen who lost their livelihoods following the settlement of the cod wars with Iceland in the 1970s.
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133787
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Mr Phil Hope (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will publish the Government's response to the second report of the Home Affairs Committee for Session 1998-99, on Freemasonry in Public Life (HC 467); and if he will make a statement.
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133788
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Mr Patrick Hall (Bedford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what further progress has been made with the Quinquennial Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service.
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133789
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| 10 |
Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make an announcement about the post of Independent Commissioner for Holding Centres.
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133790
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| 11 |
Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he has taken to fill the post of Independent Assessor of Military Complaints Procedures when the present incumbent's term of office ends on 24th August.
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133791
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Mr Colin Burgon (Elmet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on timber procurement following the commitment made by G8 heads of government.
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133792
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Mr Colin Burgon (Elmet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the response to the Government Panel on Sustainable Development's 6th Annual Report will be published.
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133793
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| 14 |
Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park and Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on his plans for new office accommodation for the Home Office and HM Prison Service staff working in Central London.
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133794
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Mr John Heppell (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will publish the outcome of the Government's consultation on its proposals for managing dangerous people with severe personality disorders; and if he will make a statement.
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133795
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Mr Paul Clark (Gillingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to extend to adults the changes to the release on temporary licence scheme introduced for young offenders in September 1998.
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133796
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Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to consult about the way in which the EC Directive implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin will be implemented.
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133797
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| 18 |
Mr Keith Darvill (Upminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will publish the final report of the Metropolitan Police Committee; and if he will make a statement.
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133798
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Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the additional costs relating to the establishment of the Electoral Commission will be met in advance of Royal Assent to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill.
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133799
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Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what is the effect of the outcome of Spending Review 2000 on funding for the United Kingdom Anti-Drugs Strategy; and if she will make a statement.
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133800
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Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he plans to take forward work on the prior options review of the Fire Service College.
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133801
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Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Panel Report will be published on draft regional planning guidance for the South West of England.
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133802
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Mr Alan Meale (Mansfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what progress he has made in drawing up principles governing the ethical conduct of local authority members; and if he will make a statement.
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133803
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| 24 |
Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what sustainable employment target will be set for the Employment Service in 2000-01.
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133804
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| 25 |
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the sale proceeds from the Dome will be allocated to English Partnerships.
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133805
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| 26 |
Mr Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list (a) Government expenditure on ministerial overseas visits for the financial years 1995-96 to 1999-2000 and (b) all visits overseas undertaken by Cabinet Ministers costing in excess of #500 between 1st April 1999 and 31st March 2000, including the cost, destination and purpose of the visit.
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133854
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Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North): To ask the Prime Minister, when the British-Irish Council will next meet.
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133855
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| 28 |
Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Prime Minister, when the annual report of the Chief Commissioner appointed under section 91(1)(a) of the Police Act 1997 will be laid before the House; and if he will make a statement.
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133856
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| 29 |
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how the Wilton Park Executive Agency performed against the targets agreed for 1999-2000; and what the agreed targets are for the current year.
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133857
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Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the export controls on pairs of handcuffs and their individual component cuffs.
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133858
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Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when it is planned to wind up the New Millennium Experience Company.
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133859
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Mr Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assistance is being planned for companies in the Rover supply chain which are heavily dependent on revenue from supplying parts for the Rover 25 and 45 where business is being affected by interruption of production associated with the transfer of the Rover 75 production line from Oxford to Longbridge.
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133860
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Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 19th January to the honourable Member for Blaenau Gwent, Official Report, columns 487-8W, what progress has been made with the study of data on withdrawals of nuclear material from safeguards.
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133861
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Sir Raymond Whitney (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the factors and calculations are on which the Prime Minister based his judgment that to move to a continental European type of social insurance system would cost an extra #1,000 to #1,500 per employee per annum.
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133862
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Mr John Maxton (Glasgow, Cathcart): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he intends to announce the Government's response to the report of the Football Task Force, entitled Football: Commercial Issues.
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133863
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Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action he intends to take to reduce the costs to organisations of making National Lottery funding applications.
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133864
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Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he intends to undertake a review of the English Sports Council.
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133865
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Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer when the next edition of the Tax Benefit Reference Manual will be published.
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133867
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| 39 |
Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future of the Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency.
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133927
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| 40 |
Laura Moffatt (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what key targets have been set for the Disposal Sales Agency for the Financial Year 2000-01.
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133928
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Ms Dari Taylor (Stockton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what key targets have been set for the Ships Support Agency for the financial year 2000-01.
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133929
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| 42 |
Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what progress his Department has made in meeting the service delivery targets set out in Commitment to Service.
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122930
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Barbara Follett (Stevenage): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on the MR TRIGAT Anti-Tank Guided Weapon programme; and if he will make a statement.
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133931
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Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Written Answer of 27th July, if he will provide the figures requested in respect of cancer referrals in general.
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133932
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Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will now make a statement about his plans for the National Weights and Measures Laboratory.
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133933
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Mr Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he proposes to use his reserve capping powers for 2000-01; and if he will make a statement.
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133934
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Mr Patrick Nicholls (Teignbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 20th July, Official Report, column 269W, if he will give the same information on stays by unaccompanied spouses of Ministers at the Lisbon Embassy as for the Residence; and if he will make a statement.
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133935
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Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Prime Minister, when he will answer question 129755, tabled by the honourable Member for Ludlow on 4th July.
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133936
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| 49 |
Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer when he will answer question 131091, tabled by the honourable Member for Ludlow on 12th July.
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133937
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Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will answer questions 131098 and 131099, tabled by the honourable Member for Ludlow on 17th July.
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133938
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Mr Patrick Nicholls (Teignbridge): To ask the Prime Minister, when he will answer the question tabled by the honourable Member for Teignbridge for Answer on 17th July (reference 131363).
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133939
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Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what changes he proposes to make to the terms of service of the members of the Competition Commission.
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133940
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Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer when the public service agreements for 2001 to 2004 will be published.
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133949
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Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what the administrative costs were for (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000 and (c) the current year to date as a proportion of the benefit delivered, of (i) state pensions, (ii) income support, (iii) minimum income guarantee, (iv) the Social Fund and (v) disability benefits.
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133950
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Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of pensioners who qualified for income support and did not take it up, in the most recent year for which figures are available and (b) the comparable figures for minimum income guarantee.
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133951
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Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration detainees, at the latest available date, had been held for (a) less than one week, (b) less than one month, (c) less than three months, (d) less the six months, (e) less than one year and (f) more than one year.
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133952
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Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deaths were recorded in each of the past five years of asylum seekers (a) at the port of entry, (b) on the coast or in UK territorial waters and (c) in custody.
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133953
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Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were held under immigration law powers in (a) HM prisons, (b) immigration detention centres, (c) police stations and (d) ports, at the latest available date.
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133954
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Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what monitoring of legal processes in Chile against General Pinochet is being undertaken by the British Embassy; and if he will make a statement.
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133955
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| 60 |
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 26th June to the honourable Member for Great Grimsby, Official Report, columns 384-6W, if he will call for reports on the reasons for the fewness of fixed penalties for cycling on pedestrian footways in (a) Cheshire, (b) Cleveland, (c) Cumbria, (d) Derbyshire, (e) Dorset, (f) Durham, (g) Lancashire, (h) Norfolk, (i) Northamptonshire, (j) Nottinghamshire, (k) Staffordshire, (l) Thames Valley, (m) Warwickshire, (n) West Midlands, (o) Wiltshire, (p) Dyfed-Powys and (q) South Wales between 1st August and 31st December 1999.
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133993
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Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 26th June to the honourable Member for Great Grimsby, Official Report, columns 384-6W, if he will call for reports on the reasons for the absence of fixed penalties for cycling on pedestrian footways in (a) Bedfordshire, (b) Cambridgeshire, (c) Essex, (d) Humberside and (e) Gwent, between 1st August and 31st December 1999.
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133990
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Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 26th June to the honourable Member for Great Grimsby, Official Report, columns 384-6W, if he will call for reports on the reasons for the absence of fixed penalties for carrying more than one person on a pedal cycle in (a) Wiltshire, (b) South Wales, (c) Dyfed-Powys and (d) Gwent, between 1st August and 31st December 1999.
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133991
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