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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 17 January 2000
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 17 January 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 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the United Kingdom's share of the EU Leader Plus programme; which member states receive more funding under the programme than the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105663) | |
| 2 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the total available sum available under the EU surplus food scheme; what was his Department's budget in advertising the scheme; and how much grant was finally used. |
| (105661) | |
| 3 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, on what date the six and 12 mile derogations will expire. |
| (105540) | |
| 4 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on his policy towards the encouragement of development of INFOMAR Systems Fishcast and Fishtrade, with particular reference to a possible pilot study on the United Kingdom. |
| (105666) | |
| 5 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what the estimated cost to the pig sector is of the Spongiform Encephalopathies' Advisory Committee's requirement to remove and dispose of offal. |
| (105138) | |
| 6 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what progress has been made in establishing a state aid scheme for the pig sector in agreement with the EU. |
| (105139) | |
| 7 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what estimate he has made of the additional costs to the pig sector as a result of the Welfare of Animals at Slaughter Act 1991 and the Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1994 since they came into force on 1st January 1999. |
| (105435) | |
| 8 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the progress of his initiative to increase the level of procurement of pork and pigmeat products by government departments and public authorities. |
| (105140) | |
| 9 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the progress of a new labelling regime for food products. |
| (105134) | |
| 10 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assistance the Government has given the pig sector since 1st January 1999; and what further assistance his Department plans to give. |
| (105434) | |
| 11 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will estimate the total value to farmers in Dorset of CAP payments for (a) the 1998 calendar year and (b) the 1998-99 financial year. |
| (105260) | |
| 12 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many farms in (a) Cornwall, (b) Devon, (c) Somerset and (d) Dorset received CAP payments in 1998. |
| (105259) | |
| 13 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105809) | |
| 14 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to the Minister of State's letter of 16th December, reference 133662, when he expects to receive advice from the Veterinary Products Committee in relation to organophosphorous sheep dips; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104398) | |
| 15 | Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will review the level of charges for Meat Hygiene Service veterinary surgeons in independent abattoirs. |
| (105472) | |
| 16 | Sir Peter Emery (East Devon): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he is taking to ensure that the implementation of reform proposals of the EU flax regime will not take effect until after the 2000 harvest. |
| (105609) | |
| 17 | Sir Peter Emery (East Devon): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what action he will take to ensure that UK farmers, producing short fibre flax, are not discriminated against under the EU flax regime proposals for processing aid. |
| (105611) | |
| 18 | Mr Michael Foster (Worcester): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 10th January, Official Report, column 99W, if he will list by value the CAP payments including agri-environment schemes, broken down by individual category which were paid to farmers in Worcestershire in the calendar year 1998. |
| (105589) | |
| 19 | Mr Michael Foster (Worcester): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answers of 10th January, Official Report, column 99W, if he will list the 10 largest recipients of CAP payments made to farms in Worcestershire in the calendar year 1998. |
| (105512) | |
| 20 | Mr Michael Foster (Worcester): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what the total value was of CAP payments made to Worcestershire farmers in the calendar years 1990 to 1997. |
| (105497) | |
| 21 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the pig industry. |
| (105108) | |
| 22 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will seek the introduction of a European ban on stall and tether rearing of pigs and the introduction of standard animal welfare regulations in the European Union. |
| (105029) | |
| 23 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many hectares of land in Lancashire are used for organic farming. |
| (105034) | |
| 24 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will introduce low-interest loans and mortgages for farmers. |
| (105030) | |
| 25 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will ban the import from the EU of pork reared in stalls and tethers. |
| (105028) | |
| 26 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the effect on the farming industry of the strength of the pound. |
| (105027) | |
| 27 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what grants and other assistance his Department (a) gives and (b) plans to give to pig farmers outside assisted areas. |
| (105109) | |
| 28 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that products that do not meet United Kingdom quality and animal welfare standards are labelled accordingly. |
| (105111) | |
| 29 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the labelling of British meat products. |
| (105110) | |
| 30 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assistance is provided by his Department for the export of English beef to the EU. |
| (105032) | |
| 31 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what support is provided by his Department for the export of bull semen. |
| (105031) | |
| 32 | Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is his policy in respect of ensuring that changes in the Sugar Protocol and LomeĢ Convention do not create further competitive advantages for beet at the expense of cane. |
| (105492) | |
| 33 | Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is his policy in respect of ensuring that future arrangements provide a sufficient supply of imported raw sugar to maintain the basic level of can refining. |
| (105491) | |
| 34 | Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if it is his policy that reforms of the Sugar Protocol and LomeĢ Convention should include measures to provide support for traditional suppliers of cane; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105493) | |
| 35 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will provide a breakdown of subsidy payments to farmers in Shropshire in the last year for which data is available; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105528) | |
| 36 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how long the intervention milk price equivalent has been set in euros rather than ecu; what assessment he has made of the effect of the decline of the euro against the pound on UK milk support prices for each 1 per cent. fall in the euro; and if he will estimate the differential in UK milk prices if the IMPE had continued to be set in ecu. |
| (105479) | |
| 37 | Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many live sheep were exported from the United Kingdom in 1999 for (a) slaughter and (b) further fattening. |
| (105208) | |
| 38 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the application of EU Directive 81/851/EEC to the traceability of veterinary medicines in the United Kingdom. |
| (105197) | |
| 39 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many claims were made under the beef special premium scheme, in each of the last five years for which figures are available; how many of these were rejected; and what percentage this figure represent, of the total number of claims. |
| (105206) | |
| 40 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the (a) total value of payments made annually under the beef special premium scheme and (b) average payment per farmer, in each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| (105207) | |
| 41 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how much money was received from the European Union for funding the Beef Special Premium Scheme, and how much was paid to British farmers, in each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| (105205) | |
| 42 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what proportion of dwellings in England with rat infestations were (a) not being treated and (b) had not been reported to the local authority on the most recent date for which figures are available. |
| (105484) | |
| 43 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the findings of the (a) 1996 English House Condition Survey and (b) commensal rodent survey undertaken by his Department and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in 1993, on the number and proportion of dwellings in England affected by rat infestations. |
| (105481) | |
| 44 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she has taken to benchmark the extent of on-line government services in the United Kingdom against other countries, with particular reference to the US and Australia. |
| (105187) | |
| 45 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps Her Majesty's Government has taken to introduce the use of the Internet for (a) VAT payment, (b) passport renewal, (c) renewal of television licenses, (d) renewal of vehicle licences and (e) government procurement contracts; and what targets exist for Internet based transactions in these areas. |
| (105249) | |
| 46 | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what were the numbers of registered drug misusers in Gloucestershire (a) 1997 and (b) 1999. |
| (105552) | |
| 47 | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what measures she is taking to counter the increase in numbers of people registered as drug misusers in Gloucestershire. |
| (105551) | |
| 48 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what action she is taking to reduce smoking in her Department. |
| (105807) | |
| 49 | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when she intends to publish information on the target set by the Prime Minister to deliver 25 per cent. of Government services electronically. |
| (105516) | |
| 50 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will list (a) those Government departments and agencies which have received certification in (i) ISO 9,000s, (ii) ISO 14,000 and (iii) Investors in People; and (b) the status of the remaining departments and agencies; and if she will make a statement. |
| (105527) | |
| 51 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many opera performances have been cancelled by the Royal Opera House since the publication of the new season's programme; and at what estimated cost in lost revenue income. |
| (105339) | |
| 52 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason the maximum daily number of visitors to the Millennium Dome is set at 20,000; and when it will be increased to 35,000. |
| (105245) | |
| 53 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, under what circumstances the Millennium Dome is available for whole-day private hire; and what such deals have been done. |
| (105244) | |
| 54 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons tickets to the Millennium Dome are not available for visits beyond March; and when such tickets will become available. |
| (105246) | |
| 55 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105806) | |
| 56 | Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many retirement pensioners in Heywood and Middleton aged 75 or over (a) will benefit and (b) will not benefit from free TV licences. |
| (105198) | |
| 57 | Mr Ronnie Fearn (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions his Department has had with Sport England over the handling of the money agreed to be refunded by the developers of Wembley Stadium; and if these funds will be held separately. |
| (105348) | |
| 58 | Mr Ronnie Fearn (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if Sport England has received any funds due to be returned to his Department in respect of failure by the developers of Wembley Stadium to provide adequate athletics provision. |
| (105347) | |
| 59 | Mr Ronnie Fearn (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the money due to be repaid to Sport England has been received to date from the developers of Wembley Stadium. |
| (105349) | |
| 60 | Mr Ronnie Fearn (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action his Department has taken to identify potential sites for a national athletics stadium. |
| (105346) | |
| 61 | Mr Ronnie Fearn (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what date Sport England expects full payment of the money agreed to be refunded by the developers of Wembley Stadium. |
| (105350) | |
| 62 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the ministers who have been responsible for the Millennium Dome. |
| (104655) | |
| 63 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many tickets were sold for the Millennium Dome in the first week during which it was open to the public. |
| (104654) | |
| 64 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to extend access to theatres for people living in rural areas. |
| (105042) | |
| 65 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the centres of excellence for sport in England. |
| (105107) | |
| 66 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department provides to local cricket clubs to encourage wider participation in the game. |
| (105087) | |
| 67 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what travel assistance is being provided to schools in the Chorley constituency visiting the Dome. |
| (105041) | |
| 68 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of likely growth in the production of films in the UK in the next five years. |
| (105045) | |
| 69 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which schools in the Chorley constituency will be eligible to receive free tickets to visit the Millennium Dome. |
| (105039) | |
| 70 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on the future of the Chief Executive of the New Millennium Experience Company. |
| (105038) | |
| 71 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will establish a centre of excellence for Rugby League and Rugby Union in the North West. |
| (105101) | |
| 72 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what grants are available to support the production of animated films. |
| (105090) | |
| 73 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to increase the number of running tracks in Lancashire. |
| (105546) | |
| 74 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure an equal geographical distribution of Olympic-size swimming pools in the United Kingdom. |
| (105085) | |
| 75 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what percentage of tourists to the UK in the last year for which figures are available visited (a) the North West and (b) London. |
| (105048) | |
| 76 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assistance his Department is giving to (a) Astley Hall and (b) other historic buildings in Chorley. |
| (105036) | |
| 77 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much per head of population was spent on the promotion of tourism in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) the UK in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (105051) | |
| 78 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what is his estimate of the number of animated films to be made in the United Kingdom in 2000. |
| (105092) | |
| 79 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the Department for Education and Employment on increasing the number of playing fields and extending sporting facilities at schools. |
| (105102) | |
| 80 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make grants available to Rugby League clubs for renewing and replacing equipment. |
| (105089) | |
| 81 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to ensure that all pensioners receive free TV licences. |
| (105414) | |
| 82 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to provide support for the creation of running tracks in each district authority area. |
| (105545) | |
| 83 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding his Department has made available to increase the number of tourists to the North West. |
| (105050) | |
| 84 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many pupils in each school in the Chorley constituency will be eligible for free tickets to visit the Millennium Dome. |
| (105040) | |
| 85 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to encourage the Royal Ballet to make tours to all the English regions. |
| (105043) | |
| 86 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assistance his Department gives local authorities for employing tourism officers. |
| (105049) | |
| 87 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make grants available to cricket clubs for renewing and replacing cricket equipment. |
| (105088) | |
| 88 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with train and coach operators about promoting tourist attractions in the North West. |
| (105047) | |
| 89 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what revenue was generated by the exports of (a) animated films and (b) all films produced in the UK in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (105046) | |
| 90 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many district authority areas in England do not have all-weather running tracks. |
| (105105) | |
| 91 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authority running tracks there are in Lancashire. |
| (105106) | |
| 92 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what resources for (a) youth cricket, (b) Rugby League, (c) Rugby Union, (d) track and field sports and (e) swimming were made available for the current financial year and will be made available in the next financial year. |
| (105104) | |
| 93 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has held with local education authorities on the increased provision of facilities for sporting groups. |
| (105544) | |
| 94 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many animated films were made in the United Kingdom in each of the last five years. |
| (105093) | |
| 95 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department gives to the animated film industry. |
| (105091) | |
| 96 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people are employed in the animated film industry. |
| (105044) | |
| 97 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assistance his Department provides to Olympic swimmers. |
| (105086) | |
| 98 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on bonus payments to the Chief Executive and the senior team of the New Millennium Experience Company. |
| (105037) | |
| 99 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to improve and encourage sporting talent in the UK. |
| (105103) | |
| 100 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the honourable Member for Walsall North will receive a reply to his letter of 30th November regarding a constituent (ref. C99/24781). |
| (104816) | |
| 101 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the offer to adapt the City of Manchester Stadium to accommodate the British National Athletics Stadium; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105550) | |
| 102 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he intends to announce his decision on the location for a British National Athletics Stadium; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105501) | |
| 103 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on his plans for a British national athletics stadium. |
| (105502) | |
| 104 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he will announce the publication of the Football Task Force report. |
| (104913) | |
| 105 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth and Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on substances buried at the Nancekuke base in Cornwall. |
| (105606) | |
| 106 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the level of availability of ration packs for training exercises in the field; and what orders have been issued to limit distribution of such items. |
| (105590) | |
| 107 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, Pursuant to his Answers of 6th December, Official Report, columns 343-44W, on the common foreign and security policy, if he will make a statement on developments in the issues referred to in his Answers following the European Council in Helsinki in December 1999. |
| (105657) | |
| 108 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the cost of the British contribution to the intervention in Kosovo to the end of 1999; and what are the projected costs for 2000. |
| (105503) | |
| 109 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on military relations with Russia. |
| (105026) | |
| 110 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105805) | |
| 111 | Mr Michael Foster (Worcester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what rights of access currently exist for hunting wild mammals with dogs on his Department's land. |
| (105496) | |
| 112 | Mr Michael Foster (Worcester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what rights of access currently exist for walkers on his Department's land. |
| (105498) | |
| 113 N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procedures his Department has to ensure that elected representatives for an area are consulted on possible future disposals of MoD property in that area prior to discussions with local government officers. |
| (105149) | |
| 114 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the Defence Procurement Agency will adopt the practices of smart procurement in relation to the Future Transport Aircraft requirement. |
| (105171) | |
| 115 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procurement practices the Defence Procurement Agency has adopted with regard to the Future Transport Aircraft selection. |
| (105174) | |
| 116 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent meetings the Minister for Defence Procurement has had with Airbus to discuss the A400M; and what was discussed. |
| (105033) | |
| 117 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will assess the benefits of defence procurement practices used by Airbus Military Company. |
| (105172) | |
| 118 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent meetings, and on what dates, the Minister for Defence Procurement has had with Boeing to discuss the C-17 transport aircraft. |
| (105035) | |
| 119 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the requirements for airlift and air portability being used by his Department in its assessment of the Future Transport Aircraft contenders with those in the European Staff Requirement. |
| (105173) | |
| 120 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he is taking to improve recruitment to the cadet branch of HM armed forces. |
| (105144) | |
| 121 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to make an announcement on the A400M project. |
| (105555) | |
| 122 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel in each of the three armed services are currently classified as category P7R, unfit for operational duty. |
| (104924) | |
| 123 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Salisbury of 10th January, Official Report, column 92W, for what reasons the temporary field accommodation project in Kosovo was not fully deployed by December 1999; and under contract penalty clauses how much of the cost he will claw back from the contractor. |
| (104797) | |
| 124 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what unforeseen costs have arisen in connection with the refurbishment of forces' married quarters; what impact this will have on the timing of the refurbishment programme; and what additional budgetary provision is being made available to the Defence Housing Executive to meet the shortfall. |
| (104799) | |
| 125 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of accommodation for British forces in Kosovo in the absence of the planned temporary field accommodation; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104798) | |
| 126 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when and for what reason the £1.5 million allocated across all three services to reduce secondary care agency orthopaedic waiting lists for those on operational duties was withdrawn as part of his department's annual efficiency savings. |
| (104923) | |
| 127 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria he will use in reaching a decision to revise guidelines on the wearing of service uniforms in public. |
| (104800) | |
| 128 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the units of the armed services that have been awarded the Wilkinson Sword of Peace in each year since its inception, indicating the aspect of community relations recognised in the award. |
| (105457) | |
| 129 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list (a) the means by which consultation takes place prior to announcement of the annual Wilkinson Sword of Peace awards and (b) his Department's inputs in nomination and selection. |
| (105458) | |
| 130 | Mr Richard Ottaway (Croydon South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 10th January, Official Report, columns 97-8W, concerning HMS 'Westminster' and the In Year Budget Management Measure, what were the sums allocated for fuel for the Fleet in the current year and in the two previous years; and what provision is made in the budget for increases in fuel prices. |
| (105148) | |
| 131 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of ex-servicemen and women who are former Far East prisoners of war. |
| (105239) | |
| 132 | Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the report on the long-term management of the redundant Royal Marines rifle range at Kingsdown in Deal, commissioned by his Department in 1988 and conducted by the consultants Mouchel, will be made available to Dover District Council. |
| (105210) | |
| 133 | Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received in connection with coastal protection work at the redundant Royal Marines rifle range at Kingsdown in Deal. |
| (105209) | |
| 134 | Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he intends taking in the immediate term to prevent the potential collapse of Undercliff Road at the redundant Royal Marines rifle range at Kingsdown in Deal into the sea. |
| (105211) | |
| 135 | Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects works to commence to secure the long-term future of Undercliff Road at the redundant Royal Marines rifle range at Kingsdown in Deal in line with proposals made by his Department in May 1996. |
| (105212) | |
| 136 | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 10th January, Official Report, columns 89-90W, on Sandhurst, how many of the British officer cadets who were medically discharged from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in each of the years 1995 to 1999 received their secondary education at (a) Welbeck College, (b) state schools, (c) independent schools and (d) overseas schools. |
| (105241) | |
| 137 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth and Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will appoint an ombudsman for further and higher education. |
| (105480) | |
| 138 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he will publish the prospectus for the new Youth Support Service. |
| (105352) | |
| 139 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what was the cost to English local education authorities of maintaining sixth forms in schools in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (105351) | |
| 140 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what ethical guidelines were set for Hays Document Management before the Student Loan contract was placed in Calcutta and Columbo. |
| (105505) | |
| 141 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if all the computers being installed in schools under the Government's initiative for computers in schools are able to provide access to the Internet. |
| (105157) | |
| 142 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105804) | |
| 143 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will give the destination of those who have left the New Deal for 18-24 year olds (a) at the time at which they left the New Deal, (b) 13 weeks after leaving the New Deal and (c) 26 weeks after leaving the New Deal, for each parliamentary constituency in the (i) City of Liverpool and (ii) Wirral. |
| (104615) | |
| 144 N | Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list for each regional development agency (a) the amounts granted and (b) the companies facing closure or large-scale redundancies to which the sums have been allocated under the rapid response scheme. |
| (104811) | |
| 145 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what measures he is taking to improve the pay and conditions of teaching staff in (a) colleges of further education and (b) universities. |
| (105143) | |
| 146 N | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what support has been given to schools to reduce the level of unauthorised absences. |
| (104119) | |
| 147 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many school governor vacancies there are in each local education authority area; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105530) | |
| 148 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many 18 to 24 year olds have entered the New Deal in Shrewsbury and Atcham; what the destinations of the leavers were; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105525) | |
| 149 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what the (a) percentage and (b) total reduction in youth unemployment have been since 1st May 1997 in (i) Shrewsbury and Atcham and (ii) Shropshire; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105526) | |
| 150 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will set out the rescheduled increase in employers' contributions for teachers' pensions in the next and future financial years, the actuarial basis of the calculation and the impact on the budget of each local education authority. |
| (105100) | |
| 151 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will review incentives for schools to recruit children early into reception classes. |
| (105356) | |
| 152 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list local authorities which maintain (a) a single point of entry and (b) two points of entry to reception classes. |
| (105355) | |
| 153 | Mr Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 11th January, Official Report, column 148W, on local education authority administration costs, if he will update his reply for the financial year 1998-99. |
| (105671) | |
| 154 | Mr Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how standards are being raised in areas not in education action zones. |
| (105601) | |
| 155 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the changes to the Standard Fund Grant 19 and their impact on match funding for the Single Regeneration Budget funded Inclusion Unit at Minster College on the Isle of Sheppey. |
| (105201) | |
| 156 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will take steps to secure the future of the Inclusion Unit at Minster College on the Isle of Sheppey. |
| (105202) | |
| 157 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the withdrawal by Kent County Council of match funding from the Single Regeneration Budget funded Inclusion Unit at Minster College on the Isle of Sheppey. |
| (105200) | |
| 158 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth and Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what recent representations he has received regarding the use of netting to secure scrap metal carried in open-top lorries. |
| (105141) | |
| 159 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth and Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what recent guidance he has issued to road haulage companies regarding the securing of scrap metal carried in lorries. |
| (105142) | |
| 160 N | Mr Andrew F. Bennett (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how much was spent by (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency on headhunters in the process of finding a new Chairman for the Environment Agency. |
| (105287) | |
| 161 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has for changes in the law relating to ports. |
| (105185) | |
| 162 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 10th January, Official Report, column 4W, on driving licences , if he will make a statement on the reasons for the use of private opticians. |
| (105416) | |
| 163 | Mr Martin Caton (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what consideration, under ie his policy of ensuring that local authority councillors receive a basic allowance. |
| (105520) | |
| 164 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the precepting councils in England and Wales in order of the average council tax payable in that area. |
| (105180) | |
| 165 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the police authorities of England and Wales in order of the average council tax payable in that area. |
| (105182) | |
| 166 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the police authorities of England and Wales in order of their Band D council tax precept. |
| (105181) | |
| 167 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many council houses were (a) sold and (b) built in each of the last 10 years in the London borough of Wandsworth. |
| (105509) | |
| 168 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105803) | |
| 169 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will revise planning and development control legislation to bring cable communications development within the ambit of regulations governing radio installations; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105664) | |
| 170 | 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 height and bulk of cable telecommunications companies, roadside cabinets which can be installed without planning consent; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105522) | |
| 171 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to introduce planning control requirements to empower local authorities to control the length, bulk and location of roadside cable telecommunication cabinets; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105521) | |
| 172 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many complaints have been received by the Public Carriage Office regarding London taxi drivers who have refused to carry blind passengers with guide dogs in the last year. |
| (105203) | |
| 173 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what factors were taken into account, other than indices for local deprivation, when deciding which London authorities would be invited to submit delivery plans for Round 2 of the New Deal for Communities. |
| (105166) | |
| 174 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what factors will be taken into account when choosing which local authorities will be invited to submit delivery plans for Round 3 of the New Deal for Communities. |
| (105165) | |
| 175 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate how many passengers with guide dogs are carried by London taxi drivers per year. |
| (105204) | |
| 176 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps the Government is taking to promote the use of washable nappies for environmental reasons; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105178) | |
| 177 | Mr Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he will announce the result of his review of the contribution utilities should make to the cost of diverting their equipment for public transport schemes. |
| (105675) | |
| 178 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what monitoring his Department carries out of the level of bus services to rural areas in Chorley District. |
| (105549) | |
| 179 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what percentage of heavy goods vehicles run on alternative fuels. |
| (105022) | |
| 180 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what role his Department will play in ensuring direct rail links from Europe to the North West in order to help businesses in this area. |
| (105267) | |
| 181 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if the record of train operating companies in meeting punctuality and overcrowding targets will be taken into consideration when franchises for services are renewed. |
| (105053) | |
| 182 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will introduce a toll on foreign heavy goods vehicles entering the UK. |
| (105024) | |
| 183 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the cost to business of traffic congestion on British motorways. |
| (105264) | |
| 184 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages of a reduction in vehicle excise duty for vehicles powered by alternative fuels. |
| (105023) | |
| 185 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will set minimum standards of facility provision at town centre railway stations in relation to (a) CCTV and (b) park and ride. |
| (105547) | |
| 186 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will investigate the extent of the availability of special offer tickets offered by rail companies. |
| (105548) | |
| 187 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what guidelines his Department has issued for the gritting of roads in icy conditions. |
| (105056) | |
| 188 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what regulations govern the levying of fines in relation to parking at motorway service centres. |
| (105055) | |
| 189 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make it a condition of awarding or extending rail franchises that passenger facilities including toilets, public telephones, CCTV, and park and ride, are provided at town centre railway stations. |
| (105052) | |
| 190 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the cost to British business of the latest road blockade in France. |
| (105265) | |
| 191 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will take steps to prevent train operating companies from extending journey times advertised in timetables to allow for delays. |
| (105054) | |
| 192 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the congestion costs of the movement of police-escorted wide loads between 7am and 7 pm. |
| (105543) | |
| 193 | Mr Alan Hurst (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the criteria for the sale of residual assets of British Rail which retain a potential public transport use. |
| (105328) | |
| 194 | Mr Alan Hurst (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to respond to the Crowe Report; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105329) | |
| 195 | Mr Alan Hurst (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list, for each London borough, in the year 1998, the percentage of waste disposal by (a) landfill, (b) recycling and (c) incineration. |
| (105327) | |
| 196 | Mr Alan Hurst (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what percentage of waste from London boroughs in 1998 was disposed of outside the area of the former Greater London Council. |
| (105326) | |
| 197 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many times the Countryside Traffic Measures Group has met since July 1998. |
| (105279) | |
| 198 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to announce the outcome of his consultation on the proposed spending limits for London Mayoral and Greater London Assembly candidates and his decision on whether candidates will have free mailshots; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105282) | |
| 199 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to lay orders under Schedule 3 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 before the House. |
| (105283) | |
| 200 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many officials within his Department are directly employed in developing rural transport policy; and what proportion this figure represents of the total number of people employed by his Department. |
| (105280) | |
| 201 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many people have been prosecuted since 1997 as a result of enforcement action taken by the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency for possessing a vehicle without a road fund licence; and how much has been collected as a result of this action. |
| (105285) | |
| 202 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on prospects for employment in the water utilities following OFWAT's recommendations on water pricing. |
| (105147) | |
| 203 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what was the expenditure by his Department and its agencies on road safety schemes in each financial year since 1997. |
| (105485) | |
| 204 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the consultant's study into the viability of Eurostar services north of London; if he will publish the consultant's report; and when he will make a statement on the report. |
| (105486) | |
| 205 | Mr David Lepper (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what monitoring his Department undertakes of the work of leasehold valuation tribunals; and if he will publish a report on that monitoring. |
| (105813) | |
| 206 | Mr David Lepper (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what guidance he has issued to leasehold valuation tribunals since September 1997. |
| (105812) | |
| 207 | Mr David Lepper (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement about the issues discussed during the recent visit to Cuba by UK and EU officials and scientists in connection with the forthcoming meeting of the parties to the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species. |
| (105810) | |
| 208 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what initiatives have been taken by the Health and Safety Executive in relation to the marketing and use of Canadian chrysotile asbestos in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104663) | |
| 209 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many new homes have been built in (a) Shropshire and (b) Shrewsbury and Atcham from 1979 to date; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105531) | |
| 210 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what was the level of public expenditure, in each of the last 10 years, in each EU member state, on (a) railways and (b) roads. |
| (105188) | |
| 211 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what regulations govern the practice of placing passengers' luggage in corridors outside cabins on cruise ships; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105186) | |
| 212 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many railway passenger fatalities there were in each EU member state in the last 10 years. |
| (105189) | |
| 213 | Mr Jonathan R. Shaw (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what discussions he has had with representatives of the haulage industry about the freight forwarding companies; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105240) | |
| 214 | Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what resources have been made available to Stoke-on-Trent City Council under the housing capital receipts policy in each year since its inception, including amounts agreed for 2000-01. |
| (105156) | |
| 215 N | Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will provide free or low-cost travel for those with a disability. |
| (105163) | |
| 216 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what the findings were of the 1996 English House Condition Survey on the relationship between rat infestations and unfitness due to ineffective draining of foul, waste and surface water. |
| (105482) | |
| 217 | Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what statutory obligations local authorities have to provide street lighting. |
| (105341) | |
| 218 N | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the progress that his Department has made on its review of the local government standard spending assessment system. |
| (104817) | |
| 219 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the objectives and purpose of each working group participating in the Outline National Changeover Plan. |
| (105658) | |
| 220 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the UK share of Community resources provided to the Federal Council of the International European Movement on 6th November; what was the nature of that support; and what was the nature of UK participation. |
| (105539) | |
| 221 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd December, Official Report, column 318W, if he will list those elements of tax harmonisation which have been identified by member states. |
| (105613) | |
| 222 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to ensure that no low-income and elderly pensioners are sent inappropriate self-assessment forms by the Inland Revenue in April. |
| (105495) | |
| 223 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the tax liability of the provision by employers of stress counselling for employees. |
| (105333) | |
| 224 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105802) | |
| 225 | Mr David Curry (Skipton and Ripon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what would be the impact on tax revenue in a full year of levying a 5 per cent. rate of VAT both on house refurbishment and repair and on construction on previously undeveloped land. |
| (105145) | |
| 226 | Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to encourage the growth of credit unions; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105199) | |
| 227 | Mr Christopher Fraser (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what bodies his Department has consulted on each of its programmes since May 1997. |
| (105243) | |
| 228 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reduce the duty on beer. |
| (105357) | |
| 229 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the effect of the strength of the pound on UK exports in the last 12 months. |
| (105413) | |
| 230 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the revenue lost to the Exchequer in each of the last three years. |
| (105550) | |
| 231 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the amount of UK duty lost through the smuggling of alcohol in each of the last three years. |
| (105358) | |
| 232 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of the smuggling of petrol and diesel into the UK in each of the last three years. |
| (105359) | |
| 233 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Tamworth were unemployed and claiming benefit in (a) 1997 and (b) 1999. |
| (105152) | |
| 234 | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the extent of charitable giving is calculated; how much charitable giving there was in (a) 1998, (b) 1978 and (c) 1988; and how the age, gender, race and occupational profile of charitable giving has changed over this period. |
| (105476) | |
| 235 | Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the outsourcing of the Information Technology Services Agency will be subject to pre-contract review by the Treasury PFI Taskforce. |
| (105195) | |
| 236 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many taxpayers there are in (a) Shrewsbury and Atcham and (b) Shropshire. |
| (105524) | |
| 237 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice the Financial Secretary received from the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury regarding his shares declared in the Register of Members' Interests. |
| (105433) | |
| 238 N | Mr Brian Sedgemore (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of Martin Taylor's report on the Government's Strategy to Combat Tobacco Smuggling. |
| (105332) | |
| 239 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the level of preparedness for the introduction of the Euro among (a) small and medium-sized enterprises and (b) other enterprises on (i) 30th June 1999 and (ii) 31st December 1999. |
| (105814) | |
| 240 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what measures his Department has developed of efficiency improvements in delivering the Treasury's outputs over the three year Comprehensive Spending Review period. |
| (105815) | |
| 241 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is his estimate of the annual cumulative savings to the Exchequer which would result from lower debt interest costs if United Kingdom interest rates were (a) 0.5 per cent., (b) 0.75 per cent., (c) 1 per cent., (d) 2 per cent. and (e) 3 per cent. lower across the yield curve for (i) 1999-2000, (ii) 2000-01, (iii) 2001-02, (iv) 2002-03, (v) 2003-04 and (vi) 2004-05. |
| (105428) | |
| 242 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 20th December, Official Report, column 436W, on winter deaths, if he will assess the contribution of influenza and related conditions to the statistics for excess winter deaths. |
| (105432) | |
| 243 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 20th December, Official Report, column 436W, on excess winter deaths, if he will provide a breakdown by age for each year of data. |
| (105431) | |
| 244 | Mr Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with mortgage companies about repossessions caused by a shortfall between payments that income support cover and actual interest due. |
| (105600) | |
| 245 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the honourable Member for Walsall North will receive a reply to his letter of 25th November regarding a constituent. |
| (104815) | |
| 246 | Mr Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the current situation in Burma. |
| (105278) | |
| 247 N | Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received about United Kingdom citizens experiencing difficulties in arranging for funds to be remitted from bank accounts in India to the UK; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104901) | |
| 248 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the reasoning behind the selection of each venue for the Your Britain Your Europe, roadshow. |
| (105536) | |
| 249 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he held with honourable Members regarding the Your Britain Your Europe roadshow, prior to its tour. |
| (105537) | |
| 250 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what are the non-military crisis response tools referred to in Section 56 of the Cologne Presidency Conclusions. |
| (105588) | |
| 251 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will deposit in the Library a copy of the Wilton Park paper entitled Europe after Economic and Monetary Union; and if he will make a statement on his Department's assessment of political conclusions reached. |
| (105587) | |
| 252 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reason Her Majesty's Government has sponsored the Your Britain Your Europe roadshow; which organisations were consulted over planning; and if he will make a statement on efforts made to maintain political neutrality therein. |
| (105538) | |
| 253 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on progress made by the European Commission's Committee of Experts on transport costs. |
| (105608) | |
| 254 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the nature of the activities featuring in the Your Britain Your Europe roadshow as concern (a) the British Embassy in Paris, (b) schools, (c) Nissan, Sunderland, (d) the House of Commons and (e) the South West Regional Euro Forum; and if he will deposit a copy of all material distributed during the tour in the Library. |
| (105535) | |
| 255 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the mission statement of the International Federation of Europe Houses; and if he will deposit in the library a list of (a) these Houses and (b) the activities of the Houses funded by the EU in 1999. |
| (105790) | |
| 256 N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he made to the Iranian Foreign Minister during his recent visit to the UK regarding (a) human rights in Iran, including the human rights of the Jewish community and (b) support for the Middle Eastern peace process; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104905) | |
| 257 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy toward arms sales to Pakistan. |
| (105184) | |
| 258 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken by British diplomatic representatives at the United Nations towards developing a strategy for peace in Chechnya. |
| (104909) | |
| 259 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Russian Government concerning their bombing campaign in Chechyna. |
| (104903) | |
| 260 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what sources of information he has on the effect of the Russian bombardment of Chechnya. |
| (105025) | |
| 261 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish recent representations he has received concerning Government policy toward Russian action in Chechnya; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104907) | |
| 262 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Government of Sri Lanka and (b) Tamil forces on the resolution of the conflict in Sri Lanka. |
| (104908) | |
| 263 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what NATO observation has taken place of the hostilities in Chechnya. |
| (104910) | |
| 264 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings have been held by (a) Diplomatic Service officials and (b) Ministers with elected representatives of the Chechen people since the commencement of hostilities in Chechnya; and which Chechen representatives were involved. |
| (104904) | |
| 265 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the International Labour Organisation on child labour; and which issues were discussed during 1999. |
| (105511) | |
| 266 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what Ministers from his Department have visited Sri Lanka since 1st May 1997. |
| (105597) | |
| 267 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what was the average waiting time for interview at British High Commission offices in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka for a person seeking (a) permanent settlement in the United Kingdom, (b) to attend further and higher education courses and (c) visits to members of their family living in the UK in the last 12 months. |
| (105510) | |
| 268 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105801) | |
| 269 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to encourage (a) the Greek Government, (b) the Turkish Government and (c) the Government of Cyprus to resolve the issue of Northern Cyprus. |
| (105159) | |
| 270 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the timetable for the accession of Cyprus to the European Union. |
| (105158) | |
| 271 | Mr Stephen McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the affiliations and roles of Ghobad Mansour-Beigi, Reza Molai and Alireza Ali-Hosseini; and what assessment he has made of these reports. |
| (105238) | |
| 272 | Mr Stephen McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he discussed events in the province of Ilam in Iran when he met the Iranian Foreign Minister. |
| (105237) | |
| 273 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what criteria he uses to judge whether an author should be permitted access to classified material. |
| (104707) | |
| 274 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who authorised the disclosure of information, contained in the book by Alan Judd, entitled, The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104708) | |
| 275 | Mr Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many jobs in (a) the Foreign Office and (b) EU institutions have an age limitation. |
| (105595) | |
| 276 | Mr Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to implement Article 13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam with regard to age discrimination. |
| (105596) | |
| 277 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the honourable Member for Walsall North will receive a reply to his letter of 7th December regarding a constituent (ref. GV100/SG801). |
| (104814) | |
| 278 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the value of business (a) directly and (b) indirectly won by the commercial departments of (i) UK embassies and consultates in EU member states and (ii) the UK embassy and consulates in the USA in each of the last five years. |
| (105286) | |
| 279 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 11th January, Official Reply, column 132W, on embassy costs, for what reasons the embassies in Rome and Bonn spend 9 per cent. and 2 per cent, respectively, on commercial work. |
| (105255) | |
| 280 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 11th January, Official Reply, column 132W, on embassy running costs, if he will break down the percentages listed under other activities. |
| (105254) | |
| 281 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the average delay in reimbursement by the NHS Litigation Authority in the last 12 months; and how much is owed to each health authority. |
| (105504) | |
| 282 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the expenditure on healthcare in the Dorset Health Authority area for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98 and (c) 1998-99 identifying separately expenditure on (i) drugs and (ii) general dental services. |
| (105253) | |
| 283 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many babies born in each health authority area in England in each of the last five years have been dependent at birth upon heroin or heroin substitutes. |
| (105256) | |
| 284 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the current annual cost to the National Health Service of methadone; and what is the latest estimate of the number of patients in each health authority area being prescribed methadone. |
| (105257) | |
| 285 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105800) | |
| 286 N | Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will answer the Question tabled for Answer on 26th November from the honourable Member for Burton (ref. 100496) on inspection of food outlets. |
| (105325) | |
| 287 | Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many primary care groups have applied to become primary care trusts. |
| (105506) | |
| 288 | Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals he has for health authority mergers. |
| (105507) | |
| 289 | Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to control the cost and availability of generic drugs. |
| (105508) | |
| 290 | Julia Drown (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the Government has to ban the sale and possession of the sedative drug, Gamma-hydroxybutyrate. |
| (105612) | |
| 291 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 11th January, Official Report, column 139W, for each of the weight categories for the year 1997, what percentage of those (a) babies conceived by IVF and (b) other babies were single births. |
| (105430) | |
| 292 | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Minister of State, the honourable Member for Barrow and Furness, will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Harborough of 22nd November 1999, on behalf of Mr L. W. Bennett of Oadby, Leicestershire. |
| (105789) | |
| 293 N | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) maximum waiting times have been for treatment for patients using each of the first two dental access centres. |
| (104776) | |
| 294 N | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a list of intensive care beds in each NHS hospital in England and Wales on (a) 31st March 1999 and (b) the latest date for which figures are available. |
| (104774) | |
| 295 N | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is his target waiting time for calls to NHS Direct to be answered; what measures are in place to monitor waiting times; and what waiting times were being achieved at the latest date for which figures are available. |
| (104777) | |
| 296 N | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the definition of an intensive care bed referred to in his oral statement on 10th January, Official Report, column 27. |
| (104773) | |
| 297 N | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will state the current definition used by his Department of an epidemic. |
| (104775) | |
| 298 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money is spent per head of population on health services in (a) South Lancashire and (b) North Lancashire Health Authority area. |
| (105115) | |
| 299 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of medical services at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. |
| (105117) | |
| 300 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the provision of satellite renal services at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. |
| (105116) | |
| 301 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the financial situation of the South Lancashire Health Authority. |
| (105114) | |
| 302 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce new and enhanced existing medical services at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. |
| (105170) | |
| 303 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will end the practice of postcode medicine in Lancashire by merging the relevant health authorities. |
| (105113) | |
| 304 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that winter pressures money is directed to hospitals and not retained by health authorities. |
| (105112) | |
| 305 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) morphine and (b) diamorphine by (i) weight and (ii) cost the NHS has purchased in each of the last 10 years. |
| (105354) | |
| 306 | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what supplies of influenza vaccine are held within the North Essex Health Authority by the authority itself, its trusts and by its GPs; and if he will estimate the number of patients this will treat. |
| (105281) | |
| 307 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the demand placed on NHS resources by the provision of preventative health measures in (a) Staffordshire Health Authority and (b) the United Kingdom. |
| (105161) | |
| 308 N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to require organisations which provide care in the community to ensure that residents in receipt of the mobility component of disability living allowance retain that money or have it expended solely on their behalf. |
| (104818) | |
| 309 N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to require health authorities which make Section 64 grants to charities to include a term in their contracts requiring them to be notified of changes in the charities' objects. |
| (104821) | |
| 310 N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will investigate the salary on-call payments and mileage payments made to senior staff of Integrate Services while the organisation was in receipt of a section 64 grant. |
| (104822) | |
| 311 N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with ministers on proposals to amend charity law to enable charities in receipt of Section 64 grants to improve accountability of their use of public funds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104820) | |
| 312 N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to investigate the use of a Section 64 grant by Integrate Services to purchase holiday facilities; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104819) | |
| 313 N | Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will reply to the question tabled by the honourable Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland on 1st December for answer on 6th December relating to death rates from cancer (ref. 101422). |
| (104772) | |
| 314 | Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the take up rate of beta interferon for multiple sclerosis sufferers in each of the health authorities in Greater London in each of the last three years. |
| (105425) | |
| 315 | Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the Department of Health's guidance on the number of expert assessments that need to be carried out before a multiple sclerosis patient can be prescribed with beta interferon; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105426) | |
| 316 | Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the average cost of a course of treatment of beta interferon for a patient with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105427) | |
| 317 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many cases of influenza per 100,000 there have to be for an influenza outbreak to be defined as an epidemic and (b) how many cases of influenza per 100,000 there were on 11th January. |
| (105677) | |
| 318 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) intensive care beds and (b) high dependency beds there were within the NHS in each of the last 30 years. |
| (105676) | |
| 319 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if a person who has been instructed to go to hospital by NHS Direct and is found to have influenza is included in the official influenza figures. |
| (105678) | |
| 320 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS Direct calls received each day between 27th December and 12th January were from people complaining of influenza symptoms; and what percentage of these callers were instructed to go to hospital. |
| (105679) | |
| 321 | Mr David Maclean (Penrith and The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses working for NHS Direct were, in their previous employment, working full-time in the NHS. |
| (105672) | |
| 322 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the progress made by Shropshire Health Authority on the Government's priority health targets of cancer, coronary heart disease, mental health and accidents. |
| (105529) | |
| 323 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21st December 1999, Official Report, column 508W, on plans to incorporate the human papilloma test in cervical cancer screening, when he will make a statement on the advice on HPV testing he received from the National Screening Committee following its meeting on 8th December 1999. |
| (105190) | |
| 324 | Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children received BCG vaccinations on the basis of clinical need in (a) England and (b) Brentwood in the last 12 months. |
| (105192) | |
| 325 | Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on how stocks of BCG vaccine are allocated on the basis of clinical need; who makes the applications; and who determines the allocation. |
| (105193) | |
| 326 | Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the routine BCG vaccination programme for school children in the parliamentary constituency of Brentwood and Ongar will recommence. |
| (105194) | |
| 327 | Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many school children in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency are waiting to receive BCG vaccination. |
| (105191) | |
| 328 | Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the categories of children at greatest clinical risk from tuberculosis ranked in order of risk. |
| (105176) | |
| 329 N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will appoint board members for the university hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. |
| (104823) | |
| 330 N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the National Institute for Clinical Excellence will assess Infliximab (Remicade). |
| (105057) | |
| 331 N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 8th December, Official Report, column 565W, concerning treatment of Crohn's disease, how many people with Crohn's disease he estimates have the indications referred to in his Answer. |
| (105058) | |
| 332 N | Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP referrals were there of people with mental health problems in each of the last 10 years. |
| (105120) | |
| 333 N | Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what were the sickness rates of staff employed in NHS mental health services for each of the last 10 years. |
| (105122) | |
| 334 N | Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the staff-to-patient ratio in NHS mental health services for each of the past 10 years. |
| (105119) | |
| 335 N | Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the ratio of National Health Service employees working with people with mental health problems per 100,000 of the population, in each of the past 10 years. |
| (105084) | |
| 336 N | Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the average annual caseload for (a) mental health social workers, (b) mental health occupational therapists, (c) psychiatric nurses and (d) psychologists for each of the last 10 years. |
| (105123) | |
| 337 N | Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the additional money allocated for the NHS in the Comprehensive Spending Review has been earmarked for NHS mental health services. |
| (105118) | |
| 338 N | Mr Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the total number of staff working in NHS mental health services in each of the last 10 years. |
| (105121) | |
| 339 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors left employment with the National Health Service in each year from 1990 to the latest year for which figures are available. |
| (105655) | |
| 340 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors were employed by the National Health Service in each year from 1990 to the latest year for which figures are available. |
| (105593) | |
| 341 | Mr Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors were in training in each year from 1990 to the latest year for which figures are available. |
| (105656) | |
| 342 N | Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide free eye tests and prescriptions for the disabled. |
| (105162) | |
| 343 N | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with health authorities concerning the availability of influenza vaccine and the promotion of its use. |
| (104911) | |
| 344 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many major accident and emergency units have their full complement of consultants; and how many of these units have consultants on duty 24 hours a day. |
| (105518) | |
| 345 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the availability of vaccines to GP surgeries and community health clinics, with particular reference to triple vaccines and TB vaccines. |
| (105519) | |
| 346 N | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the average bed occupancy rate in each NHS hospital in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (104912) | |
| 347 N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much public money has been spent by Thames Gateway NHS Trust on consultants' and lawyers' fees in respect of the PFI contract for the hospital for the Isle of Sheppey. |
| (105196) | |
| 348 N | Mr Paddy Ashdown (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the real terms change in police budgets in each English county and Metropolitan area for each year from 1990-91 to 2001-02; if he will provide estimates on the same basis excluding monies needed to fund annual increases in police pensions; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105097) | |
| 349 N | Mr Paddy Ashdown (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there were in the Avon and Somerset force in each year from 1985 to 1999, giving figures on a quarterly basis from 1995 onwards; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105094) | |
| 350 N | Mr Paddy Ashdown (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate the number of police officers (a) per head of population and (b) per notifiable offence, in each year from 1992 to 1999, in each English county and Metropolitan area, listing these in each case in descending order. |
| (105096) | |
| 351 N | Mr Paddy Ashdown (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there were in South Somerset in each year from 1995 to 1999; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105095) | |
| 352 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of prisoners who have electronic tags have not been convicted of violent crimes. |
| (105334) | |
| 353 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list for each police authority in England the percentage of net expenditure in (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98 and (c) 1998-99 which was funded by (i) council tax, (ii) police grant and (iii) other grants. |
| (105258) | |
| 354 | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list by Police Authority for each of the last four years the number of (a) civilian and (b) non-civilian employees who have retired early on the grounds of ill health and the cost of such retirements. |
| (105343) | |
| 355 N | Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum have been received from people from Chechnya, and how many Chechens have arrived in the UK, since the start of hostilities in Chechnya. |
| (104906) | |
| 356 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105799) | |
| 357 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action his Department is taking to regulate intermediaries who sell on animals bred on puppy farms, with regard to certification of the animals' health. |
| (105342) | |
| 358 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were committed (a) in the last 12 months and (b) in the last three years in the UK that were drug-related. |
| (105321) | |
| 359 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) heroin, (b) cocaine and (c) synthetic drug seizures have been made in the (i) last and (ii) preceding 12 months. |
| (195322) | |
| 360 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average weight of (a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) cannabis, (d) synthetic drugs and (e) all controlled drugs in seizures (i) in the last and (ii) in the preceding 12 months; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105323) | |
| 361 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what were the average street prices of (a) heroin and (b) cocaine per gram in London and Glasgow in the (i) last and (ii) preceding 12 months. |
| (105320) | |
| 362 | Mr Phil Hope (Corby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons it has been decided to allow Mike Tyson to enter the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105673) | |
| 363 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) businesses and (b) the economy of the movement of police-escorted wide loads between 7am and 7pm. |
| (105021) | |
| 364 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many journeys have been made in each of the last five years by police-escorted wide loads. |
| (105020) | |
| 365 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the latest crime figures for Lancashire. |
| (104154) | |
| 366 N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will require police-escorted wide loads to travel during the night. |
| (105019) | |
| 367 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he is taking to combat car theft. |
| (105155) | |
| 368 N | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of illegal immigrants who arrived in the UK concealed in lorries in 1999. |
| (104186) | |
| 369 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the number of police officers who are in receipt of means-tested benefits; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105605) | |
| 370 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it is his policy to encourage these with experience of other professions and with skills developed in other careers to join the police; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of police rates of pay to attract such recruits. |
| (105610) | |
| 371 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what account is taken of their prior skills and experience in setting the starting pay of new entrants to the police forces of England and Wales. |
| (105607) | |
| 372 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the recruitment of mature individuals by the police and of the pay levels of such new entrants in their previous employment. |
| (105614) | |
| 373 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the level of starting salary was for new recruits to the police forces of England and Wales in each of the last three years (a) in cash terms and (b) as a proportion of earnings. |
| (105604) | |
| 374 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 13th January, Official Report, columns 217-18W, on prisoner statistics, if he will reformulate the table provided on Sudbury prison to show the number of prisoners serving a life sentence. |
| (105662) | |
| 375 | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will request a report from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on the incident in which a CS gas canister was discharged at Heathrow Airport on 18th October 1999. |
| (105594) | |
| 376 | Mr George Mudie (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was his Department's estimate of the average cost of making and enforcing an anti-social behaviour order at the time of the passage of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. |
| (105557) | |
| 377 | Mr George Mudie (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been enforced since the passing of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in (a) Birmingham, (b) Leeds, (c) Manchester, (d) Newcastle, (e) Liverpool and (f) Sheffield. |
| (105558) | |
| 378 | Mr George Mudie (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the cost per order of making and enforcing an anti-social behaviour order in (a) Birmingham, (b) Leeds, (c) Manchester, (d) Newcastle, (e) Liverpool and (f) Sheffield. |
| (105556) | |
| 379 | Mr Jim Murphy (Eastwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of English football hooligans obtaining tickets for Euro 2000 via the EUFA website; and what guidance he plans to issue to English fans intending to travel on the possibility of violance resulting from such sales. |
| (105248) | |
| 380 N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports he has received about police forces in EU member states which have installed black boxes in (a) police and (b) other emergency vehicles. |
| (104844) | |
| 381 N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces have installed black boxes in police vehicles. |
| (104845) | |
| 382 N | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the recommendations of the Association of Chief Police Officers' report of September 1998 on police pursuit driving have been implemented; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104846) | |
| 383 N | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the (a) maximum and (b) minimum number of (i) police officers and (ii) civilian employees on duty in each of the police stations in the Hillingdon Division of the Metropolitan Police Service on (1) 31st December 1999 and (2) 1st January 2000. |
| (105183) | |
| 384 | Mr John M. Taylor (Solihull): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the cost to public funds of the proceedings concerning Senator Pinochet since his arrest. |
| (105494) | |
| 385 | Mr John Townend (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the total cost to date of the detention of Senator Pinochet broken down into (a) legal, (b) security and (c) other costs. |
| (105247) | |
| 386 | Mr Bill Tynan (Hamilton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average waiting time for the processing of an application by a foreign national for settlement in this country on the basis of his or her marriage to a UK citizen. |
| (105602) | |
| 387 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter of 18th August 1999, acknowledged on 26th August 1999 (reference 16888 /99), regarding allegations relating to experimental psychological research. |
| (105154) | |
| 388 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the earliest postmarked date of unopened mail in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate on (a) 1st November 1999, (b) 1st December 1999 and (c) 1st January 2000; and how many items of mail remained unopened on each date. |
| (105674) | |
| 389 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will make inquiries regarding the delay in the honourable Member for Walsall North's being informed by the Police Complaints Authority about a case concerning a constituent (ref. (D) 1999 100345). |
| (104813) | |
| 390 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on progress made in advancing cooperation with French speaking countries. |
| (105660) | |
| 391 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the role of the IMF in poverty reduction. |
| (105236) | |
| 392 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action she is taking to reduce smoking in her Department. |
| (105798) | |
| 393 | Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the countries that will benefit from debt relief, stating (a) by how much in each case and (b) their order of priority. |
| (105235) | |
| 394 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what changes there have been in full-time staff numbers in her Department in the UK and abroad in each quarter between 1st May 1997 and 13th January 1999. |
| (105684) | |
| 395 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what is the role of her Department in monitoring and measuring the bilateral debt relief programme. |
| (105681) | |
| 396 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what was the cost of (a) setting up and (b) updating her Department's website; and how often it is updated. |
| (105692) | |
| 397 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many special advisers she has; and what are their current salaries. |
| (105686) | |
| 398 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if the British Council will be involved in monitoring the outcome of debt relief measures. |
| (105683) | |
| 399 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what has been the total cost of the humanitarian programme in Kosovo since the beginning of the conflict; and how much has been disbursed in (a) cash and (b) in materials and products. |
| (105689) | |
| 400 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to visit Kosovo. |
| (105688) | |
| 401 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many locally employed staff are employed by her Department in Zimbabwe at pay levels below the British national minimum wage. |
| (105687) | |
| 402 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to review the efficiency of the EU aid budget. |
| (105691) | |
| 403 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the number of casual staff employed by her Department for every quarter since 1st May 1997. |
| (105682) | |
| 404 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which countries she has visited in the past six months. |
| (105690) | |
| 405 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what changes there have been in Civil Service staff numbers in her Department for each quarter between 1st May 1997 and 13th January 1999. |
| (105685) | |
| 406 | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what budget is available from her Department to monitor and measure the bilateral debt relief initiative. |
| (105680) | |
| 407 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action is taken by the Government to ensure that developing countries are aware of the hazards of chrysotile asbestos and to discourage the dumping of this product in developing and third world countries; and if she will make a statement. |
| (104662) | |
| 408 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what research reports she has received directed to the spread of malaria amongst people living in highland areas and its relationship with climate change; and if she will make a statement. |
| (104664) | |
| 409 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what request she has received from the City of Freetown for assistance from her Department for office equipment; and what response she has made to the City of Freetown in respect of its request for training of the senior staff and management of the city council. |
| (103812) | |
| 410 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the effectiveness of partnerships in developing countries to improve access to renewable sources of energy. |
| (105164) | |
| 411 | The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what response her Department has made to the situation of refugees from the Maluka Islands in Indonesia. |
| (105591) | |
| 412 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list for the period since May 1997 the cases he has investigated involving the conduct of individual judges and the action taken as a result. |
| (105335) | |
| 413 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105797) | |
| 414 | Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many (a) women and (b) disabled magistrates sit on the (i) Barnsley and (ii) Doncaster bench. |
| (105167) | |
| 415 | Mr Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East and Mexborough): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what is the average age of the magistrates who sit on the (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster bench. |
| (105168) | |
| 416 | Mr Christopher Fraser (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what bodies his Department has consulted on each of its programmes since May 1997. |
| (105242) | |
| 417 | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people have been promoted within the Northern Ireland Court Service in each of the last three years; and what is the religious breakdown of such promotions. |
| (105345) | |
| 418 | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people are employed in the Northern Ireland Court Service. |
| (105324) | |
| 419 | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what is the current religious breakdown at all levels of staff in the Northern Ireland Court Service; what were the figures for (a) 1992, (b) 1995 and (c) 1997; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105344) | |
| 420 | Mr Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what steps he is taking to prevent age discrimination in the training of solicitors. |
| (105598) | |
| 421 | Mr Hilary Benn (Leeds Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in each of the past five financial years, how many students from Northern Ireland have attended Ruskin College, Oxford. |
| (105277) | |
| 422 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105796) | |
| 423 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will establish an independent judicial inquiry under the Tribunal of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 into the murder of Robert Hamill. |
| (105353) | |
| 424 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he will lay the designation order specifying which additional public bodies are to be obliged to develop equality schemes in order to comply with section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998; and which bodies external to the public service he consulted when determining which organisations to designate under the proposed designation order. |
| (103813) | |
| 425 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps have been taken to create an Equality Unit within the Northern Ireland Office to co-ordinate the work relating to equality schemes of United Kingdom departments and other bodies designated by the Secretary of State under section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. |
| (103814) | |
| 426 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what provision has been made within the Northern Ireland Office to ensure that it, and the voluntary and community sectors with which it works, have been provided with sufficient resources to ensure that they are able to comply with the statutory duty to promote equality of opportunity. |
| (103815) | |
| 427 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the reasons why the report of the Criminal Justice Review established under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement has not yet been published; and when he expects it to be published. |
| (103816) | |
| 428 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions the issue of the personal security of Mrs Rosemary Nelson was raised in meetings between the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition and officials of the Northern Ireland Office and the Prime Minister's Office. |
| (103817) | |
| 429 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the written threats issued against Mrs Rosemary Nelson were passed to the Minister of Security's office by the Committee on the Administration of Justice. |
| (103818) | |
| 430 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what action he took in response to the report of the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, presented to the United Nations in 1998. |
| (103819) | |
| 431 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps were taken by the Government to ensure the safety of Mrs Rosemary Nelson. |
| (103820) | |
| 432 | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many written submissions were received by the Patten Commission; and if he will place these documents in the Library. |
| (105475) | |
| 433 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following reports on the night of 7th-8th August of attacks upon (a) the Presbyterian church hall in Ballyroney, County Down, (b) the Orange hall in Ballyroney, County Down and (c) the Free Presbyterian church; in each case, how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions, what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105463) | |
| 434 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of a petrol bomb attack on a property in Ligoniel, north Belfast on 13th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105446) | |
| 435 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of an attack on the BT Target Sports Club near Loughbrickland, County Down, on 22nd August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105437) | |
| 436 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) Irish language and (b) Ulster Scots street signs have been damaged or stolen in each district council area in the past 12 months; what legal sanctions are available in respect of acts of vandalism; what guidelines have been issued to the police to assist in the prevention of vandalism; how many persons have been charged with offences concerned with bilingual signs in each district council area; and what was the outcome of the prosecution. |
| (105459) | |
| 437 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the (a) pre-school institutions, (b) primary and (c) secondary schools visited by the RUC and police community relations units in 1999. |
| (105454) | |
| 438 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of a pipe bomb attack on property in Sallagh Park South, Larne, on 30th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105444) | |
| 439 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what efforts are made to secure parental consent prior to school visits by the RUC. |
| (105455) | |
| 440 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of a pipe bomb being discovered at St. Peter the Rock church, Lisburn, on 29th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105442) | |
| 441 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of an assault on a woman in Kilkeel on 14th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what injuries were sustained as a result of the attack; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105447) | |
| 442 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of an attack on St. Mary's Gaelic Athletic Association club in Ahoghill, County Antrim, on 29th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached so far on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105441) | |
| 443 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC has taken to respond to reports of verbal abuse and intimidation of tourists in the Bushmills area, County Antrim; and how many meetings have been held with the Bushmills Community Association in the past 12 months. |
| (105438) | |
| 444 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of an attack on a Church of Ireland hall in Strabane on 15th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached so far on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105448) | |
| 445 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of attacks on property and residents on Craigwell Avenue, Portadown, on 17th August; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; what is the present stage of the investigation; and what is his estimate of the number of families that have moved out of the area or sought rehousing as a consequence of community tensions in the past four years. |
| (105436) | |
| 446 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of a serious assault upon a 16 year-old boy from the Lower Ormeau Road, Belfast, on 26th August 1999; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached so far on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105439) | |
| 447 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of a paint bomb attack on a property on the Curryneirin estate, Derry, on 15th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105449) | |
| 448 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what guidelines are given to the police on the carrying of weapons on visits to school premises. |
| (105456) | |
| 449 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of an attack on Ryan's Presbyterian church hall outside Rathfriland, Co. Down, on 9th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105445) | |
| 450 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of a petrol bomb attack on a residential property in the early hours of 9th August; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105464) | |
| 451 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of an attack on the home of councillor Danny O'Connor in Larne, on 28th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what bearing controversial parades have on these actions; what conclusions he has reached so far on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105440) | |
| 452 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the Irish News newspaper report of 5th August concerning threats received by organisers and children participating in a hurling summer scheme to have taken place on the O'Neill Park, Dungannon; when the police first learned of the threats against the scheme; and what measures were taken to address the community relations aspects of this incident. |
| (105462) | |
| 453 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of an attack on the home of Mr Kevin O'Connor in Larne on 30th August 1999; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what conclusions he has reached on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105443) | |
| 454 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following the report of attacks on vehicles and properties on the Shankill Road, Belfast, on the night of 30th-31st July; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; what is his estimate of the damage to property; what record of similar incidents exists in that area; what conclusions he has reached so far on the number and community affiliation of the perpetrators; and what is the present stage of the investigation. |
| (105460) | |
| 455 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps the RUC took following reports of an incident on Craigwell Avenue, Portadown, on 31st July; how long it took for police to arrive on the scene; how many shots were fired; what conclusions he has reached on the community affiliation of the perpetrator; how many persons were (a) arrested and (b) charged; and what is the present stage of proceedings. |
| (105461) | |
| 456 | Mr William Ross (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the meetings held between the International Independent Commission on Decommissioning with the representatives of each political party and the authorised representatives of each paramilitary organisation since 1st November 1999. |
| (105816) | |
| 457 N | Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the President of the Council, how many sitting days in the 1997-98 and 1998-99 sessions were (a) partially and (b) wholly taken up with business now devolved. |
| (105179) | |
| 458 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the President of the Council, when she intends to set up the joint Committee to consider the Report of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords; and if she will make a statement. |
| (105669) | |
| 459 | Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the President of the Council, when the report of the Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords will be published. |
| (105603) | |
| 460 | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the President of the Council, how much her Department, its agencies and associated public bodies spent in total on extra bonuses above usual payments for staff working over the New Year period, indicating the maximum and minimum bonuses paid, and the number of people to whom the maximum and minimum payments were made; and if she will make a statement. |
| (105429) | |
| 461 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list those areas identified by EU member states for discussion of extension of qualified majority voting at the next Intergovernmental Conference. |
| (105541) | |
| 462 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his recent meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister. |
| (105340) | |
| 463 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with the President of Syria on the construction of the Ilisu Dam. |
| (105453) | |
| 464 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the impact of the construction of the Ilisu Dam on the Kurdish People. |
| (105451) | |
| 465 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Prime Minister, which EU states have joined with the UK Government in providing financial support for the construction of the Ilisu Dam. |
| (105450) | |
| 466 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he had with the Heads of Government of the EU at Helsinki on the future of the Ilisu Dam. |
| (105452) | |
| 467 | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions took place between EU Commission officials and the Prime Minister of Turkey on the Ilisu Dam Project during the 48 hours prior to his attendance at the Helsinki Summit. |
| (105592) | |
| 468 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he had with the Turkish Prime Minister at the Helsinki Summit concerning the construction of the Ilisu Dam; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105477) | |
| 469 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the compliance of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury with the Ministerial Code in relation to his shares declared in the Register of Members' Interests. |
| (105288) | |
| 470 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Prime Minister, how many recent papers considered by the Joint Cabinet Consultative Committee have been drafted by Liberal Democrat honourable Members. |
| (105668) | |
| 471 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Prime Minister, what plans he has to establish joint working groups between government and Liberal Democrat honourable Members with a brief to report back to the Joint Cabinet Consultative Committee. |
| (105667) | |
| 472 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105795) | |
| 473 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the cost of backdating the state second pension to (a) 1978, (b) 1981, (c) 1986, (d) 1992 and (e) 1998 for carers in receipt of invalid care allowance. |
| (105251) | |
| 474 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the costs which would result if the state second pension were backdated to (a) 1978, (b) 1981, (c) 1986, (d) 1992 and (e) 1998 for carers of ill, elderly or disabled relatives in receipt of home responsibilities protection. |
| (105252) | |
| 475 | Mr Martin Caton (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what incidental costs can be offset from a councillor's basic allowance when assessing their entitlement to incapacity benefit. |
| (105517) | |
| 476 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105794) | |
| 477 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what progess he has made in developing the Debt Accounting and Management System for debt recovery; and when he expects the system to be operational. |
| (104659) | |
| 478 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many (a) administrative financial penalties and (b) formal cautions were issued to benefit claimants in the year for which he has the most recent data. |
| (104660) | |
| 479 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is his Department's follow-up procedure for Benefit Fraud Inspectorate reports on local authorities; what follow-up assessments have been made to date; and if he will place the follow-up assessments in the Library. |
| (104613) | |
| 480 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list those councils which have never prosecuted claimants for housing benefit fraud. |
| (104616) | |
| 481 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many local authorities have implemented the verification framework relating to housing benefit fraud. |
| (104618) | |
| 482 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many cases of housing benefit fraud by local authority (a) members and (b) officials were detected in the City of Edinburgh in 1998-99. |
| (104653) | |
| 483 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many local authorities had installed remote access terminals (a) on the most recent date for which he has information and (b) at the end of March 1999. |
| (104657) | |
| 484 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many records were held on the Personal Details Computer System at (a) the start of January 1999 and (b) the end of December 1999. |
| (104658) | |
| 485 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what changes have been made in the past year to identity checks on staff issuing National Insurance numbers. |
| (104612) | |
| 486 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what procedures he has established to assess the fraud savings from the Best Value Project. |
| (104614) | |
| 487 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what, in the last year for which figures are available, was the total amount collected from the 30 per cent. penalty on minor frauds when the scheme first came into operation; and what enhancements were made to the scheme between January and July 1999. |
| (104617) | |
| 488 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if every local authority had been invited by the end of January 1999 to join his Department's scheme to ensure that benefit post is not redirected; and how many have joined. |
| (104619) | |
| 489 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will give details for the most recent year for which he has data of how many individual cases of fraud have been committed by local authority (i) members and (ii) officers; what the total value of that fraud is; how many prosecutions have so far occurred; how much of the money has been returned; and how many of the (a) members and (b) officials were dismissed from local authority employment. |
| (104656) | |
| 490 | Mr Alan Hurst (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what arrangements he has made to ensure that recipients of pensions and benefits are aware that they may be paid in cash after 2003. |
| (105331) | |
| 491 | Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if section 10 of the Social Security Act 1998 and Regulation 7(c)(ii) of the Social Security (Decision and Appeals) Regulations 1999, which allows supercession at a later date of an original decision to award Disability Living Allowance when it is believed there has been a change of circumstance, can be applied following an appeal tribunal decision that has found in favour of the claimant using the same evidence available for the same period of time. |
| (105175) | |
| 492 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what assessment he has made of (a) average pensioner income and (b) average earnings in (a) Tamworth, (b) Staffordshire and (c) the United Kingdom in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (105153) | |
| 493 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is his estimate of the additional annual cost of the minimum income guarantee if annual increases are in line with earnings rather than prices in (a) 2005, (b) 2010, (c) 2020 and (d) 2050; and what would be the further cost in each of those years of paying the basic state pension at the same rate as the minimum income guarantee. |
| (105474) | |
| 494 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what targets he has set for (a) the reduction in the number of pensioners living below the poverty line and what is his definition of this term and (b) the reduction in the number of pensioners reliant on means-tested benefits. |
| (105473) | |
| 495 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the income that two pensioners in examples 1 and 2 of page 122 of the Opportunities for All report could expect to recieve from the minimum income guarantee, assuming that benefit is increased in line with income. |
| (105811) | |
| 496 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what action he proposes to take to ensure that UK citizens whose enttilement to a British state pension is partially based on contributions made abroad are not prevented from receiving their full pension if they retire in an EU member state. |
| (105488) | |
| 497 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many UK citizens receive a pension which is partly dependent on contributions made while resident in (a) Canada and (b) all other countries outside the UK. |
| (105489) | |
| 498 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is his estimate of the cost to the Exchequer in each of the next five financial years of allowing those British citizens who have made contributions to their pensions while working aboad, to receive their full pension entitlement if they are (a) not ordinarily resident in the UK and (b) not ordinarily resident in the UK, but live within the EU. |
| (105490) | |
| 499 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the cost of restoring the link between the basic state pension and average earnings in the UK. |
| (105250) | |
| 500 | Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people aged between 55 and 65 years acting as carers for relatives under the age of 50 years received (a) invalid care allowance and (b) carers premium in (i) 1998, (ii) 1988 and 9 (iii) 1978; and what is the projected figure for 2008. |
| (105177) | |
| 501 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the expenditure in current prices in (1) 1978-79, (2) 1982-83, (3) 1986-87, (4) 1991-92, (5) 1996-97 and (6) 2001-02 on (a) the basic state retirement pension, including Christmas bonus, (b) additional retirement pensions, (c) invalidity benefit, (d) incapacity benefit, (e) industrial injuries and death benefits, (f) national insurance widow's benefits, including lump sums, (g) sickness benefit, (h) statutory sick pay, (i) statutory maternity pay, (j) national insurance maternity benefits, (k) unemployment benefit, (l) contribution-based jobseeker's allowance, (m) national insurance lump-sum maternity grants and (n) national insurance lump-sum death grants, including any social security expenditure by local authorities; and if he will provide, where available, a breakdown in each case for (i) pensioners, (ii) disabled non-pensioners, (iii) unemployed non-pensioners and (iv) other non-pensioners. |
| (105532) | |
| 502 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he expects the first combined pension forecasts to be issued, as described on page 89 of the Partnership in Pensions White Paper. |
| (105151) | |
| 503 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the expenditure in current prices in (1) 1978-79, (2) 1982-83, (3) 1986-87, (4) 1991-92, (5) 1996-97 and (6) 2001-02 on (a) child benefit, (b) one parent benefit, (c) non-contributory retirement pensions, (d) war pensions, (e) attendance allowance, (f) disability living allowance, (g) mobility allowance, (h) invalid care allowance, (i) non-contributory invalidity pension, (j) severe disablement allowance, (k) maternity grants not funded from the National Insurance Fund, (l) winter fuel payments and (m) concessionary television licences, where funded by his Department, including any social security expenditure by local authorities; and if he will provide where available, a breakdown in each case for (i) pensioners, (ii) disabled non-pensioners, (iii) unemployed non-pensioners and (iv) other non-pensioners. |
| (105534) | |
| 504 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the expenditure in current prices in (1) 1978-79, (2) 1982-83, (3) 1986-87, (4) 1991-92, (5) 1996-97 and (6) 2001-02 on (a) supplementary benefit, (b) income support, (c) family income supplement, (d) family credit, (e) working families tax credit, (f) disability working allowance, (g) disabled persons tax credit, (h) rent rebates and allowances, (i) rates rebates, (j) community charge rebates, (k) council tax benefit, (l) social fund grants and (m) social fund loans, including any social security expenditure by local authorities; and if he will provide, where available, a breakdown in each case for (i) pensioners, (ii) disabled non-pensioners, (iii) unemployed non-pensioners and (iv) other non-pensioners. |
| (105533) | |
| 505 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Solicitor General, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105793) | |
| 506 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Solicitor General, what recent representations he has received relating to immunity from prosecution for those giving evidence before a tribunal with special reference to the Paddington rail disaster; and if he will make a statement. |
| (104710) | |
| 507 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Solicitor General, if he will make a statement on the prospects for criminal prosecutions being started relating to the Paddington rail disaster. |
| (104709) | |
| 508 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth and Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what guidance he has given on the retrospective funding of projects under the forthcoming Objective 1 Programme. |
| (105523) | |
| 509 N | Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will formulate plans for state aid to the UK coal industry which are compliant with article 2(1) of Commission Decision 3632/93/ECSC. |
| (104902) | |
| 510 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer of 6th December, Official Report, column 420W, on the Employment Pact, if it is her Department's assessment that a quantitative evaluation is possible of the practical benefits arising from the European Employment Pact. |
| (105659) | |
| 511 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which countries are off cover for medium/long-term ECGD export credit cover. |
| (105478) | |
| 512 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list for the years (a) 1980, (b) 1985, (c) 1990, (d) 1995, (e) 1996, (f) 1997, (g) 1998 and (h) 1999 the value of British exports of (i) goods and (ii) traded services to (1) the other 14 present members of the EU and (2) the three members of NAFTA. |
| (105336) | |
| 513 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the economic impact of the moratorium on gas-fired power stations, including the direct and indirect impact on employment. |
| (105160) | |
| 514 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the (a) countries and (b) bodies which have bought arms from the United Kingdom in the last five years under the export credits guarantee scheme and defaulted on their payments, indicating the amounts involved in each case. |
| (105337) | |
| 515 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the estimate prepared for the Defence Committee concerning annual ECGD net costs attributable to arms exports. |
| (105338) | |
| 516 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will estimate the public expenditure on the ECGD's business for (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-00, (c) 2000-01 and (d) 2001-02, (i) in aggregate, (ii) with highly indebted landmine-developing countries and (iii) related to defence. |
| (105418) | |
| 517 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list for each member of the ECGD Advisory Committee how much ECGD business has been undertaken in respect of which the member has a declared financial interest. |
| (105419) | |
| 518 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105792) | |
| 519 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what financial assistance he will provide for company expansion in non-assisted areas. |
| (105273) | |
| 520 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what initiatives his Department is taking to promote British business abroad. |
| (105268) | |
| 521 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the location of the DIAMOND project. |
| (105262) | |
| 522 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will investigate the prospects for independent petrol retailers. |
| (105269) | |
| 523 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent discussons have taken place between his Department and the DETR about reducing business rates in the North West. |
| (105272) | |
| 524 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he investigate regional monopolies of the sale of petrol by oil companies. |
| (105270) | |
| 525 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what support his Department makes available to manufacturing companies based in non-assisted areas in (a) Chorley and (b) the North West. |
| (105275) | |
| 526 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assistance he is giving to truck manufacturing in the North West. |
| (105263) | |
| 527 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the decision by the Japanese electricity company Kansai Electric Power to return nuclear fuel to Britain. |
| (105266) | |
| 528 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the effect of the strong pound on UK manufacturing industry in the last 12 months. |
| (105271) | |
| 529 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on car pricing in the UK. |
| (105276) | |
| 530 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what financial assistance is available to new businesses in non-assisted areas. |
| (105274) | |
| 531 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the Office of Fair Trading's investigation into BSkyB and cable. |
| (105261) | |
| 532 | Mr Alan Hurst (Braintree): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he is taking to encourage the major clearing banks to agree agency banking services with Post Office Counters. |
| (105330) | |
| 533 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many properties in (a) Tamworth and (b) the United Kingdom have electric card meters; what proportion this represents of all properties; and how much is paid for electricity by a customer using (i) an electric card meter and (ii) standard payment methods. |
| (105146) | |
| 534 | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement about the membership of the Independent Assessment Panel for the Partnership Fund. |
| (105515) | |
| 535 N | Mr Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what consideration has been given in the WTO to extending the market access of Canadian chrysotile asbestos; and what is the United Kingdom's policy on this issue. |
| (104661) | |
| 536 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what were the total tonnages of coal delivered to power stations in Great Britain in 1999, giving the breakdown between (a) collieries in England, Scotland and Wales and (b) deep mines and opencast. |
| (105513) | |
| 537 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much coal was imported into the United Kingdom in 1999 (a) in total and (b) from each country supplying coal to the United Kingdom. |
| (105514) | |
| 538 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the implementation of the Part-time Work Directive. |
| (105542) | |
| 539 | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what is the Government's target date for replacing the UK electricity pool system. |
| (105421) | |
| 540 N | Mr Peter L. Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on the electricity pool price of the fire at Drax Power Station in December; and if he will make a statement on the related discussions he has had with the industry on this subject. |
| (105420) | |
| 541 | Mr Kerry Pollard (St. Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures he is taking to liaise with the Secretary of State for Social Security to ensure that the introduction of stakeholder pension schemes are introduced in a way which minimizes the regulatory impact and cost of compliance for small businesses. |
| (105599) | |
| 542 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of electricity supply cabling in urban areas of England is over (a) 25 years, (b) 35 years and (c) 50 years old. |
| (105665) | |
| 543 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, by what means individuals will be able to exercise their proposed right of access to a post office in circumstances where an existing postmaster or postmistress is retiring and no other person is willing to continue the business. |
| (105150) | |
| 544 N | Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when the Waterhouse Report into abuse in North Wales children's homes will be published. |
| (105099) | |
| 545 | Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what action he is taking to reduce smoking in his Department. |
| (105791) | |
| 546 N | Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he will deposit in the Library the bids of (a) Theatre Iolo and (b) Gwent Theatre for the provision of theatre in education; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105169) | |
| 547 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what consultations he has had with other Government departments concerning the Airbus 3XX project; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105554) | |
| 548 | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what consultations he has had with other departments concerning the award of EU Objective Two status to the constituency of Alyn & Deeside; and if he will make a statement. |
| (105553) | |
| 549 | Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he will announce his proposals concerning areas of outstanding natural beauty. |
| [Transferred] (105471) | |
| 550 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to increase funding to the Environment Agency to undertake emergency flood prevention measures in the South West. |
| [Transferred] (105417) | |
| 551 | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are for the length of time taken by the Home Office to decide whether to use the former Department of the Environment buildings at Marsham Street, London SW1. |
| [Transferred] (105499) | |
| 552 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what the findings were of the 1996 English House Condition Survey on the relationship between rat infestations in and around dwellings and (a) unfitness and (b) poor living conditions. |
| [Transferred] (105483) | |
| 553 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the level of fraud and irregularities reported by the United Kingdom in 1998 under Regulations 1681/94 and 1831/94, set out in Official Journal C350, 3rd December 1999, page 97, with reference to the increase in sums involved. |
| [Transferred] (105670) | |
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