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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Tuesday 14 March 2000 Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 14 March of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

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

TUESDAY 14th MARCH
1   N	Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when he will reply to the letter of 10th January from the honourable Member for Hexham about the restrictions imposed by his Department on organo-phosphate dips.
	(114543)
2   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many primates have arrived in the UK via Dover port in (a) October 1999, (b) November 1999, (c) December 1999 and (d) January 2000; and of those how many were found to be (i) ill and (ii) dead.
	(114419)
3   N	Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when he intends to reply to the letters to him dated 11th November and 16th December 1999 and 20th January from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs J. Smith.
	(114580)
4   N	Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many farmers in (a) Shrewsbury and Atcham and (b) Shropshire received subsidy payments in each £10,000 band up to £100,000 in the last year for which information is available; and if he will make a statement.
	(114687)
5   N	Miss Geraldine Smith (Morecambe and Lunesdale):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 28th February, Official Report, column 16W, concerning the number of honourable Members he has met or refused to meet to discuss farming issues, for what reasons he did not provide the numbers requested.
	(114536)
6   N	Miss Geraldine Smith (Morecambe and Lunesdale):    To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his Answer of 28th February, Official Report, column 16W, concerning his meetings with honourable Members, if he will list the individual honourable Members he has (a) agreed to meet and (b) refused to meet to discuss farming issues since his appointment.
	(114537)
7   N	Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the membership of each regional cultural consortium.
	(114451)
8   N	Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the objectives of the regional cultural consortia and make a statement on progress to date in meeting these objectives.
	(114452)
9   N	Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on the future of the Museum and Gallery Commission's Conservation Register.
	(114467)
10   N	Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to ensure that the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council co-operates with local authorities and with their representative bodies.
	(114466)
11   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Millennium Dome tickets have been sold through National Lottery terminals.
	(112860)
12   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to alter the ticketing arrangements for the Millennium Dome; and what effect the changes will have on the (a) 12 million visitor target and (b) anticipated income stream.
	(114542)
13   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement about his Department's discussions with Manchester City Council about a national athletics stadium.
	(113937)
14   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if it remains his policy that a venue suitable for staging the World Athletics Championships would require a capacity of about 60,000.
	(114146)
15   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement about progress in the development of Crystal Palace as a London site for the United Kingdom Sports Institute.
	(113945)
16   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the proposal for a national athletics stadium was first discussed by his Department with (a) UK Athletics and (b) Sport England.
	(113944)
17   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received since 3rd March from Sport England on the subject of a possible venue for the 2005 World Athletics Championships.
	(113943)
18   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what financial and other support he proposes to give to support bids for venues for major athletics events in England.
	(113935)
19   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if representatives of English Partnerships were members of the National Stadium Monitoring Committee; and if he will make a statement.
	(113936)
20   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on the location of a national athletics stadium.
	(114178)
21   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will place in the Library a copy of transcripts of (a) media statements and (b) interviews which he gave on or subsequent to 2nd March concerning Wembley National Stadium and venues for major athletics events.
	(113938)
22   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to prohibit activities by United States authorities on his Department's land, which are contrary to the terms of anti-ballistic missile treaty.
	(114423)
23   N	Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions his Department has had with the United States regarding a European-wide ballistic missile defence system.
	(114326)
24   N	Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the 1985 Strategic Defence Initiative Memorandum of Understanding in the Library.
	(114325)
25   N	Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list those scientific research projects on which his Department is collaborating with other European countries.
	(114328)
26   N	Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the scientific areas covered by his Towers of Excellence initiative.
	(114327)
27   N	Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact on the armed forces of extending to all duties of public authorities the provisions of the Race Relations Act 1976 in respect of (a) direct and (b) indirect discrimination.
	(114540)
28   N	Mr Paddy Ashdown (Yeovil):    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is his estimate of the average class sizes for (a) five, (b) six, (c) seven, (d) eight, (e) nine, (f) 10, (g) 11, (h) 12, (i) 13, (j) 14, (k) 15, (l) 16 and (m) 17 year olds for schools within the Yeovil constituency for (i) 1995-96, (ii) 1996-97, (iii) 1997-98, (iv) 1998-99 and (v) 1999-2000; and if he will make a statement.
	(114181)
29   N	Mr Andrew George (St Ives):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if each station on the new Jubilee tube line is fully accessible to disabled people.
	(114353)
30   N	Mr Andrew George (St Ives):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what facilities exist at Westminster tube station for access without assistance to trains by wheelchair users.
	(114354)
31   N	Mr Nigel Griffiths (Edinburgh South):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what evaluation he has made of the use of video conferencing by his Department to help reduce journeys by car for business purposes; and if he will make a statement on the contribution of video conferencing to reducing car journeys.
	(114579)
32   N	Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to publish a report on voluntary and community transport.
	(114483)
33   N	Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he has decided the date, time and venue for the proposed rail summit in May; and if he will make a statement.
	(114482)
34   N	Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what measures he will take to ensure sufficient availability of paper for the central production of the Greater London Mayoral Elections Booklet; and if he will make a statement.
	(114484)
35	Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the average annual subsidy per tenant, taking into account housing benefits and capital grants paid by the Exchequer, to (a) council tenants and (b) tenants of registered social landlords, in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	(114719)
36	Julia Drown (South Swindon):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will support the proposal to be put forward by Canada at the United Nations Special Session in Geneva for a further study into the feasibility of a currency transaction tax.
	(114713)
37	Julia Drown (South Swindon):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the conclusion of the recent IMF Report on the value of capital controls.
	(114714)
38	Julia Drown (South Swindon):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission a study into the feasibility of introducing a tax on currency transactions.
	(114712)
39   N	Mr David Faber (Westbury):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport about capital funding for facilities for major athletics events; and if he will make a statement.
	(113946)
40   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the effect on the price of gold of sales to date of UK gold reserves; and what effect this will have on the revenue from IMF sales of gold intended to benefit poor countries.
	(112862)
41   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library the publicity material his Department has published, aimed at low-income families, to encourage take-up of working families tax credit.
	(114477)
42   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance he will issue to the Inland Revenue to ensure that working families tax credit is (a) paid in full and on time and (b) takes account of the amount owed when an employee claiming working families tax credit leaves their job.
	(114481)
43   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if small businesses will be reimbursed promptly in respect of payments made by them as a result of handling working families tax credit; and if he will make a statement.
	(114479)
44   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to discuss proposals for a Tobin tax, at the forthcoming IMF spring meetings in Washington.
	(114355)
45   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the annual household income for the purposes of calculating working families tax credit includes child benefit to which the family is entitled.
	(114486)
46   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the additional amount per week that would be received by a family entitled to working families tax credit, for (a) one, (b) two and (c) three children, when the family's annual income is £10,400 and (i) there are no childcare costs and (ii) the parental contribution to childcare costs per week is (1) £10, (2) £20, (3) £30, (4) £40 and (5) £45.
	(114478)
47   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the £200 a week minimum income received by families on working families tax credit includes child benefit.
	(114485)
48   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will amend housing benefit regulations so as to increase the value of working families tax credit to low-income families.
	(114480)
49   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the lowest possible income for a family where one partner is working for 16 hours or more a week, with one or more dependent children under (a) 16 and (b) 19 years if in full-time education.
	(114487)
50   N	Mr Michael Portillo (Kensington and Chelsea):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the remit of the European Union's Taxation Policy Group.
	(114226)
51   N	Mr Michael Portillo (Kensington and Chelsea):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what position was taken by Her Majesty's Government on (a) improving the VAT system in the internal market and (b) company taxation in the European Community, at the meeting of the European Union's Taxation Policy group on 2nd March.
	(114228)
52   N	Mr Michael Portillo (Kensington and Chelsea):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the agendas and minutes of the meetings of the EU Taxation Policy Group which have taken place to date.
	(114227)
53   N	Mr Michael Portillo (Kensington and Chelsea):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, who attends meetings of the European Union's Taxation Policy Group on behalf of Her Majesty's Government.
	(114225)
54	Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is his most recent estimate of (a) the contribution to the gross national product and (b) total revenue to the Exchequer of the activities of the City of London.
	(114704)
55   N	Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total expenditure of his Department and its agencies on publicity for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98 and (c) 1998-99; what estimate he has made of such expenditure for (d) 1999-2000, (e) 2000-01 and (f) 2001-02; and if he will break these figures down to indicate expenditure on (i) advertising and (ii) Press and public relations.
	(113891)
56   N	Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the fall in seasonally adjusted volume of goods exports excluding oil and erratics since August 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(113890)
57   N	Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell):    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the reduction in tax paid per year in cash terms, and as a percentage of total gross annual income, for each income decile group, resulting from a 1p reduction in the basic rate of income tax.
	(114179)
58   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his policy in respect of the proposed resolution on China, to be tabled at the 56th United Nations Commission for Human Rights.
	(114420)
59   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what percentage of costs of the construction of the new GCHQ building and contents at Cheltenham are being met from non-UK Government sources.
	(114110)
60   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the employees working in embassies overseas paid for by business, indicating in each case (a) the name of the employee, (b) the business providing the financial support, (c) the level of financial support and (d) the embassy.
	(114421)
61   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his policy in respect of co-sponsoring a resolution on China at the 56th United Nations Commission for Human Rights.
	(114422)
62   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to establish whether the Panchen Lama is alive.
	(114111)
63   N	Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last made representations to the Government of Iran on the situation of the 13 Jews arrested on charges of espionage.
	(112935)
64   N	Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received from the Egyptian Government regarding the grounds for the charges brought against Father Gabriel Abdel-Masseeh Gabriel following the sectarian violence in Al-Kosheh.
	(114590)
65	Mr Stephen McCabe (Birmingham, Hall Green):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the current situation in Kashmir.
	(114702)
66   N	Mr Francis Maude (Horsham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations have been made to him by experts on the level of international police numbers in Kosovo.
	(114577)
67   N	Mr Francis Maude (Horsham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 6th March, Official Report, column 501W, on which two dates the UN Secretariat requested additional police officers for the international peacekeeping effort in Kosovo.
	(114692)
68   N	Mr Francis Maude (Horsham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the number of (a) international police officers and (b) UK police officers in Kosovo is sufficient to ensure security in the province.
	(114578)
69   N	Mr Francis Maude (Horsham):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 6th March, Official Report, column 501W, concerning the UN Secretariat's requests for more police officers for Kosovo, for how many police officers the UN Secretariat asked on (a) the first and (b) the second occasion; and how many police officers the United Kingdom offered in response to each request.
	(114691)
70   N	Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the oral Answer of 15th February, Official Report, column 759, if he will set out the terms of reference and budget for Europe Day on 9th May.
	(114147)
71   N	Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the criteria used by his Department to decide the number of people travelling to Iraq on the flight organised by the honourable Member for Glasgow, Kelvin.
	(114134)
72   N	Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the cost to public funds of the launch of the European Commission's Dialogue on Europe.
	(114136)
73   N	Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the oral Answer of 15th February, Official Report, column 759, when the Minister of State will visit Loughborough; and what other towns and cities he plans to visit and on what dates.
	(114145)
74   N	Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the honourable Member for Glasgow, Kelvin was told that his original plans for the flight to Iraq were not acceptable to his Department.
	(114133)
75   N	Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will estimate the cost to public funds of the training programme for young citizens of the member states who will be attending the launch of the European Commission's Dialogue on Europe.
	(114135)
76   N	Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the (a) meetings and (b) discussions which have taken place between the honourable Member for Glasgow Kelvin and (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in his Department, regarding the proposed flight to Iraq.
	(114232)
77   N	Mr Paddy Ashdown (Yeovil):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is his estimate of the number of people waiting for outpatient appointments at the (a) East Somerset Health Trust and (b) Taunton and Somerset Health Trust on 1st February for each of the years (i) 1995-96, (ii) 1996-97, (iii) 1997-98, (iv) 1998-99 and (v) 1999-2000; and if he will make a statement.
	(114180)
78	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason he has not issued guidance to area health authorities following the Court of Appeal judgement in the Coughlan case.
	(114737)
79	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans to implement the report from the Royal Commission on long-term care for the elderly chaired by Sir Stewart Sunderland.
	(114740)
80	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that eligibility criteria issued by area health authorities following the judgement of the Court of Appeal in the Coughlan case are lawful.
	(114736)
81	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of nursing home patients means-tested by social services were granted fully-funded NHS nursing care (a) between 1980 and the judgement of the Court of Appeal in the Coughlan case and (b) from the Coughlan judgement to date.
	(114739)
82	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding arrangements exist in other European Union countries for individuals whose needs are primarily for nursing rather than social care; and if he will make a statement.
	(114738)
83	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government plans to take to provide compensation for nursing home patients and their relatives who have suffered financial loss and hardship due to the imposition of means testing by social services departments based on eligibility criteria which have been found to be unlawful.
	(114741)
84   N	Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on (a) his Department, (b) health authorities, (c) NHS trusts and (d) NHS primary care groups of the extension to all duties of public authorities of the provisions on indirect discrimination contained in the Race Relations Act 1976.
	(114539)
85   N	Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has offered to health authorities on the priority which they should give to non-medical circumcision.
	(114538)
86	Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will reply to the letter of 26th January from Mr John Wood of 21 The Martels, Barton on Sea.
	(114728)
87	Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to publish the Stewart Report on mobile phone masts; and if he will make a statement.
	(114710)
88   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long the journey time was on each occasion wild-caught baboons were imported into the UK in (a) 1998 and (b) 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(114106)
89   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to end the importation of wild-caught baboons for research; and if he will make a statement.
	(114107)
90   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when approval was last given for baboons to be imported into the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	(114104)
91   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when an inspector from his Department last visited Mr Richard Mann's wildlife trading premises near Nairobi, Kenya; and if he will make a statement.
	(114108)
92   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many wild-caught baboons from Kenya have been imported into the UK for research during (a) 1998 and (b) 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(114105)
93	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the last three years for which figures are available, what was the average time taken to process a criminal record check under child protection arrangements (a) per police force area and (b) in total; and if he will make a statement.
	(114734)
94	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many criminal record checks were carried out under child protection arrangements in each month in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(114735)
95	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations he has received concerning delays in the issuing of criminal records checks on individuals under child protection arrangements; and if he will make a statement.
	(114733)
96   N	Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to introduce a bond scheme for visitors to the UK from areas other than South Africa; and if he will make a statement.
	(113941)
97   N	Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will publish the Government's response to the consultation on its proposal for a bond scheme for visitors to the UK.
	(113940)
98   N	Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the responses to the consultation process on a bond scheme for visitors to the UK.
	(113939)
99	Jane Griffiths (Reading East):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the criteria, including those related to population, for a town to be eligible to receive city status; and if he will make a statement.
	(114711)
100   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many early leavers there were from the police pension scheme in each police authority area in (a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999.
	(114456)
101   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the number of police pensions in payment in each police authority area in (a) 1989, (b) 1997 and (c) 1999.
	(114459)
102   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the national application of the Association of Chief Police Officers' document, Harmonisation of Business Processes, and its role in delivering Best Value by comparison of police forces' performance.
	(114464)
103   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the number of deferred members of the police pension fund in each police authority area in (a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999.
	(114460)
104   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to use the business excellence model as the framework for future inspections of police forces by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.
	(114463)
105   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many early leavers there were from the police pension scheme in each police authority area between 30th September 1998 and 30th September 1999.
	(114455)
106   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the occasions on which he and Ministers in his Department have undertaken overseas visits in the cause of their ministerial duties since 28th January 1999, indicating the purpose and duration of each visit.
	(114458)
107   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the number of active members of the police pension fund in each police authority area in (a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999.
	(114461)
108   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the external consultants used by his Department since 1997, excluding public relations and marketing consultants, and their cost.
	(114453)
109   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in each police authority area were eligible to be members of the police pension fund in (a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999.
	(114462)
110   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it is his policy that police forces should use (a) external consultants or (b) internal assessment for the purposes of assessing Best Value performance.
	(114465)
111   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the number of special constables recruited to the Metropolitan Police Service between 30th September 1998 and 30th September 1999 is available; and if he will make a statement.
	(114454)
112   N	Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if, in delivering Best Value, it is his policy that comparisons should be made between the performance of basic command units within police forces; and if he will make a statement on the criteria to be used.
	(114457)
113   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the cost to date of damage caused by those held at each secure training centre; and if he will make a statement.
	(114641)
114   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total change was in the number of police officers (a) in each force in England and Wales and (b) in total since March 1997; what estimate he has made of the (i) planned recruitment to, (ii) expected wastage from and (iii) change in police numbers in police forces, including transfers, including information provided in the bids for the Crime Fighting Fund and the allocation of Crime Fighting Fund money, (1) in total and (2) in each of the next three years; and what estimate he has made of the expected change in police numbers in each force and in total between March 1997 and the end of each of the first three years of the Crime Fighting Fund; and if he will make a statement.
	(114700)
115   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employees involved in education have resigned at each secure training centre since they opened; and if he will make a statement.
	(114642)
116   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is his estimate of the impact on the average daily prison population of ending automatic release on licence of offenders; and if he will make a statement.
	(114644)
117   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the (a) capital cost of establishing each secure training centre and (b) average cost per place per year; how many places are there in total at secure training centres; what plans he has to open further secure training centres; and if he will make a statement.
	(114643)
118   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of concerted indiscipline have been recorded at each secure training centre in each quarterly period since they have been open and in total to date; and if he will make a statement.
	(114640)
119   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average time between arrest and sentencing for persistent young offenders (a) in 1999 and (b) from July to December 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(114639)
120   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the cost to police forces of additional commitments for policing for the Millennium celebrations; and if he will make a statement.
	(114649)
121   N	Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the (a) number of incidents of concerted indiscipline at each young offender institution and (b) average daily population at each young offender institution in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(114638)
122   N	Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letters to him dated 15th November and 16th December 1999 and 20th January from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr A. H. Sameh.
	(114582)
123   N	Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letters to him dated 16th November and 15th December 1999 and 20th January from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr K. Mandelsi Ibrahim.
	(114581)
124   N	Mr Robert Key (Salisbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the total cost to date of the investigation by Wiltshire Constabulary into the Chemical and Biological Defence establishment at Porton Down; and how many (a) police officers and (b) civilians are employed on it.
	(114224)
125   N	Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the testing of asylum seeker support vouchers began; and what progress has been made with those tests.
	(114541)
126   N	Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which local authorities have been consulted by Sodexho about the implementation of the new asylum seeker voucher scheme.
	(114584)
127   N	Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he expects Sodexho to have an asylum seeker voucher scheme ready to implement on 1st April; and if he will make a statement.
	(114583)
128   N	Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list, for each local authority, the number of anti-social behavioural orders (a) in total and (b) per head of population; and if he will make a statement.
	(114588)
129   N	Bob Russell (Colchester):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the towns which have applied for city status for the third millennium.
	(114587)
130	Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations he has received concerning section 182 of the Licensing Act 1964.
	(114727)
131   N	Norman Baker (Lewes):    To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what criteria determine the removal for disposal of documents from the Public Record Office; how many were so disposed of in 1999; and if he will make a statement.
	(114109)
132	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the civil legal aid fund of increases in court fees in each of the last four years.
	(114731)
133	Mr John Burnett (Torridge and West Devon):    To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many courts have (a) been due for closure and (b) closed in each of the last four years; and what estimate he has made of the costs saved by each closure.
	(114732)
134	Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many RUC detectives are engaged in the investigation into the death of Rosemary Nelson.
	(114717)
135	Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many RUC detectives are engaged in the investigation into the deaths of 29 people in Omagh on 15th August 1998.
	(114716)
136   N	Mr John D. Taylor (Strangford):    To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) Protestants and (b) Roman Catholics are enrolled at each of the integrated primary schools and at each of the integrated secondary schools in Northern Ireland.
	(113687)
137	Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough):    To ask the President of the Council, how many bills published since the Queen's Speech were accompanied by a statement of their implications for the environment; and what proportion this represents of the total number of bills published in the current session.
	(114703)
138   N	Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):    To ask the Prime Minister, if he will acquire a copy of John Pilger's film on Iraq, broadcast on 6th March, for the library of No. 10 Downing Street.
	(114586)
139   N	Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli):    To ask the Prime Minister, how many plenary meetings of the Joint Ministerial Committee on the relationship between Westminster and the devolved administrations have been held.
	(114585)
140   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will meet ministers in the Scottish Executive to discuss steps to investigate the reasons for the difference between the average weekly wages of women and men in Glasgow.
	(113214)
141   N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the margin of error of the statistics being used to measure (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) income support and (c) income support and jobseeker's allowance for his Department's Public Service Agreement.
	(114671)
142   N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if a representative sample of landlords is included in the current area benefit review.
	(114670)
143   N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what was the amount of the Security and Control Programme funding for the weekly benefit savings scheme for each year between 1996 and 1999.
	(114589)
144   N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what was the amount of (a) erroneous underpayment and (b) erroneous overpayment arising as a result of error by (i) officials and (ii) customers, for each benefit administered by his Department for each of the last three years.
	(114669)
145   N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer to the honourable Member for Heywood and Middleton, Official Report, 7th March, column 612W, on what is the basis for his calculation of the amounts automated credit transfer will save from the elimination of instrument of payment fraud.
	(114668)
146   N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate what proportion of the savings from the non-redirection of mail accrue from claims made by (a) landlords, (b) private tenants and (c) local authority or housing association tenants.
	(114672)
147   N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Heywood and Middleton 7th March, Official Report, column 612W, on what date he estimates these savings in respect of instrument of payment fraud will be achieved.
	(114689)
148   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what steps he will take to ensure all pension schemes are compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
	(112861)
149   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many grievances about occupational pension schemes have been considered by the Pensions Ombudsman in the last year for which figures are available.
	(112863)
150   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many cases the Office of the Pensions Advisory Service has referred to the Pensions Ombudsman in the last year for which figures are available; and of these how many were upheld and subsequently enforced.
	(112864)
151   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will seek to amend the Pensions Act 1995 to ensure that the remit of the trustees of a pension scheme includes improving the level of protection of the interests of employees.
	(112865)
152   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what reports he has received as a result of monitoring and evaluating pension schemes of failures to comply with the Pensions Act 1995.
	(112866)
153   N	Maria Fyfe (Glasgow, Maryhill):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what cases of complaint to the (a) Office of the Pensions Advisory Service and (b) the Pension Ombudsman, have involved breaches of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
	(112867)
154	Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will backdate awards of the pensioners' minimum income guarantee to the date when he announced that there would be a take-up campaign for all pensioner claimants who would have qualified had they applied earlier.
	(114718)
155	Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what action he is taking to improve the uptake of disability living allowance.
	(114726)
156   N	Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, from which organisations personal advisers in the ONE pilot areas run by the Reed/Shaw Trust are on secondment.
	(114231)
157   N	Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what training in adjudication has been given to the personal advisers in the ONE pilot scheme.
	(114229)
158   N	Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, who employs the personal advisers working in the ONE pilot area currently being run by the Reed/Shaw Trust.
	(114230)
159   N	Mr David Willetts (Havant):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what is the cost of implementing the housing benefit verification framework; and what estimates have been made of the savings in housing benefit costs through fraud reduction.
	(114103)
160   N	Mr David Willetts (Havant):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what evidence he has assessed and what monitoring is being undertaken, of the impact of the housing benefit verification framework on (a) the overall level of housing benefit claims, (b) the level of housing benefit claims from pensioners and (c) the time taken to process new and repeat claims for housing benefit.
	(114102)
161	Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans he has to carry out research into calculating disability-related living costs in a manner which allows them to be taken into account when deciding local authority service charges.
	(114715)
162   N	Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):    To ask the Solicitor General, if he will publish the papers he has concerning the request made to the Attorney General for permission to pursue a private prosecution of General Pinochet for the death of William Beausire and Father Michael Woodward.
	(113942)
163   N	Mr Nigel Griffiths (Edinburgh South):    To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish the advice of the Director General of the Office of Fair Trading on the proposed acquisition by NTL of Cable and Wireless when he publishes the report of the Competition Commission on this case.
	(114576)
164   N	Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the UK's relations with Egypt.
	[Question Unstarred] (112870)
165	Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the evidence of HC 541-i, 3rd November 1999 to the Defence and other committees, what discussions he has had with the United Kingdom's European Union partners about an arms embargo on Pakistan.
	[Transferred] (114730)
166	Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey):    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue guidelines to local authorities to ensure that domiciliary care charges are consistent, transparent and equitable.
	[Transferred] (114720)
167	Julia Drown (South Swindon):    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the responsibilities of the Defence Sales Desk Officer in the South East Asia Department.
	[Transferred] (114729)

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