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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 23 October 2000
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 23 October, 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 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Chairman of the Accommodation and Works Committee, what the cost is of (a) four two-drawer pedestal units and (b) a four-drawer filing cabinet specified for use in Portcullis House; who took the decision that only the former could be made available in honourable Members' offices in Portcullis House; and what surveys have been conducted on honourable Members' preferences for methods of storage of files. |
| ¶B (134261) | |
| 2 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on his policy towards the establishment of a general fisheries commission for the Mediterranean; if Her Majesty's Government will be represented; if the government of Gibraltar will be represented; what voting arrangements will apply; what costs are involved; what manner of external donations towards running costs are permitted; and what is the nature of European Commission involvement. |
| ¶A (134207) | |
| 3 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the honourable Member for West Chelmsford will receive an Answer to his Question tabled for Answer on 21st July (Ref. 131755) concerning a constituent Mr. H. E. Biggs; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134258) | |
| 4 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many individual lines are operated as part of the touch tone steering system installed at his Department's sites. |
| (134052) | |
| 5 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will publish the guidelines that the Bourne Expert Group is operating with regard to animal husbandry. |
| (133589) | |
| 6 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what progress his Department has made on animal husbandry issues following the report of the Working Party into the role of cattle husbandry in the development of a sustainable policy to control M bovine infection in cattle. |
| (133588) | |
| 7 | Sir Nicholas Lyell (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many complaints about common ragwort his Department has received in each of the past three years; and how many landowners have been approached or written to by his Department's officials following such complaints in each of the past three years. |
| (133984) | |
| 8 | Sir Nicholas Lyell (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his oral statement of 25th July, Official Report, column 1090, on what basis he confines his Department's responsibility for the control of ragwort to seeding ragwort which is growing only on agricultural land as defined by the Agriculture Act 1947. |
| [R] (133999) | |
| 9 | Sir Nicholas Lyell (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many notices under section 1 of the Weeds Act 1959 have been served during each of the past three years; and on how many occasions he has exercised default powers under section 3 of the Weeds Act 1959 in respect of common ragwort. |
| (133956) | |
| 10 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which items of expenditure managed by his Department are directly dependent on the exchange rate between the pound and the euro. |
| (134026) | |
| 11 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of joining the single currency on British agriculture. |
| (134019) | |
| 12 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what conditions the European Commission has imposed on his proposed pig industry restructuring scheme; and what plans he has made for the allocated funding, if the conditions are not met. |
| (134024) | |
| 13 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which expenditure items previously included in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Intervention Board and the Forestry Commission departmental expenditure limits are accounted for as annually managed expenditure. |
| (134011) | |
| 14 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the total cost to date incurred by pig farmers in complying with BSE regulations in force in the United Kingdom. |
| (134016) | |
| 15 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the agricultural shows this year (a) to which (i) he and (ii) other Ministers in his Department have received invitations and (b) which (1) he and (2) each other minister has attended. |
| (134029) | |
| 16 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will provide a breakdown of the annually managed expenditure line in the 2000 Spending Review, listing the items of expenditure previously included in the departmental expenditure limits of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Intervention Board and the Forestry Commission or otherwise managed by his Department. |
| (134012) | |
| 17 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer has sought his Department's advice on the optimum exchange rate for Britain's membership of the single currency. |
| (134023) | |
| 18 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what proportion of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Intervention Board and Forestry Commission departmental expenditure limits given for the years 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02 in the 2000 MAFF Department Report have been re-allocated to other years as a result of the shift to resource budgeting. |
| (134015) | |
| 19 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what priority the Government places on the needs of agriculture in deciding whether and when to join the single currency. |
| (134020) | |
| 20 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what are the departmental expenditure limits for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Intervention Board and the Forestry Commission for the period covered by the last three spending reviews, calculated according to the (a) cash and (b) resource budgeting method. |
| (134009) | |
| 21 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will publish (i) the date and (ii) the subject of (1) meetings and (2) phone conversations he has had with (a) the Belgian Minister for Agriculture and Small and Medium-sized Business, (b) the Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, (c) the German State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry, (d) the Greek Minister for Agriculture, (e) the Spanish Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, (f) the French Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, (g) the Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, (h) the Italian Minister for Agriculture and Forestry Policy, (i) the Luxembourg Minister for Agriculutre, Viticulture and Rural Development, (j) the Dutch Minister for Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, (k) the Austrian Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, the Environment and Water Management, (l) the Portuguese Minister for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, (m) the Finnish Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, (n) the Swedish Minister for Agriculture, (o) the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development & Fisheries, (p) the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection and (q) the American Secretary of Agriculture, since the beginning of this year. |
| (134028) | |
| 22 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what meetings he has held with farmers' representatives to involve them in the National Changeover Plan. |
| (134021) | |
| 23 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when he was informed of the drafting errors on page 15 of the Government's Annual Report; and what steps he is taking to publicise the error. |
| (134030) | |
| 24 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how the Forestry Commission department expenditure limit set out in the 2000 Spending Review will be divided between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. |
| (134013) | |
| 25 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the net advantages and disadvantages to British farmers of joining the single currency at the present time. |
| (134018) | |
| 26 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will provide a detailed reconciliation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Intervention Board and Forestry Commission departmental expenditure limits set out in the 2000 Budget, the 2000 MAFF Departmental Report, the 2000 Spending Review and the 1998 Spending Review. |
| (134008) | |
| 27 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assumptions the Government has made on the pound-euro exchange rate in setting budgets for expenditure managed by his Department. |
| (134027) | |
| 28 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which items of the Intervention Board departmental expenditure limit and annually managed expenditure on the Common Agriculture Policy are determined by the (a) European Union and (b) Government. |
| (134014) | |
| 29 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, on which items of expenditure managed by his Department savings are made when the value of the pound increases in relation to the euro; and what level of savings have been generated in this way since the introduction of the euro. |
| (134025) | |
| 30 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what costs his Department will be seeking from the British Pig Industry Support Group following its court case against the Government. |
| (134017) | |
| 31 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how much his Department has spent on the National Changeover Plan to date broken down into the main items of expenditure. |
| (134022) | |
| 32 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the percentage change in real terms of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Intervention Board and Forestry Commission departmental expenditure limits in the period covered by the 2000 Spending Review; and what this increase would have been had the expenditure limits been calculated by the cash budgeting method. |
| (134010) | |
| 33 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to her Department since June 1997. |
| (133871) | |
| 34 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what value for money studies have been carried out regarding the touch tone steering system installed on her Office's public enquiry line. |
| (134053) | |
| 35 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what staff savings have been made as a result of the use of the touch tone steering system installed on her Office's public enquiry line. |
| (134051) | |
| 36 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many letters of (a) complaint and (b) approbation have been received with regard to the touch tone steering system installed on her Office's public enquiry line. |
| (134050) | |
| 37 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the touch tone steering system installed on her Office's public enquiry line charges premium rates. |
| (134049) | |
| 38 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions she has had with ministerial colleagues on compensation for payment by public bodies after 30 days of invoices from small businesses. |
| (134106) | |
| 39 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she has taken to ensure that government organisations settle invoices within a 30 day period. |
| (134105) | |
| 40 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she has taken to ensure that small businesses automatically receive interest from government organisations on late payments made after 30 days of being invoiced. |
| (134103) | |
| 41 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will seek to amend the Late Payments of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 to ensure that small companies automatically receive interest from government organisations on late payments made after 30 days of being invoiced. |
| (134104) | |
| 42 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what powers he has to curtail Sport England's funding of table tennis. |
| (134099) | |
| 43 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the error on pages 46 and 47 of the Government's annual report regarding the UK Sports Institute was first brought to his attention. |
| (134100) | |
| 44 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who is responsible for appointing the chairman of the Independent Football Commission; and what discussions he had had in this regard with (a) football governing bodies, (b) football supporters groups and (c) the Right honourable Member for Copeland. |
| (134123) | |
| 45 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what date (a) the Millennium Commission and (b) the New Millennium Experience Company were advised that agreement had been reached with Dome Europe for the sale of the Millennium Dome. |
| (134124) | |
| 46 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to his Department since June 1997. |
| (133870) | |
| 47 | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding is being made available to Liverpool City Council in respect of the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. |
| (133881) | |
| 48 | Mr Alan Keen (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what targets he has for getting more people regularly to take exercise; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134150) | |
| 49 | Mr Alan Keen (Feltham and Heston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to integrate the facilities provided by fitness clubs and leisure facilities into the Government's sports strategy. |
| ¶A (134167) | |
| 50 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what accountancy firms audited and prepared the first two years of accounts for the Dome. |
| ¶A (134174) | |
| 51 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what fee was paid to PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the report on the finances of the Dome; and when he intends to publish the report. |
| ¶A (134173) | |
| 52 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which legal firm advised on the contracts with sponsors for the Dome. |
| ¶A (134175) | |
| 53 N | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many pensioners will benefit from free television licences in Warrington South this year. |
| (133753) | |
| 54 | Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many acres of (a) public and (b) school playing fields have been sold off in each year since 1997. |
| (133989) | |
| 55 N | Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the criteria on medical evidence used by the RAF boards of inquiry into the 1994 Chinook crash and the crash on 1st June 1995 of Harrier GR7 ZG475 were identical. |
| (133590) | |
| 56 N | Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 11th July, Official Report, column 456W, on the 1994 Chinook crash, if the fact that the mental and physical state of Flight Lieutenant Cook was most unlikely to have been a factor in the accident is sufficient to establish that there was absolutely no doubt whatsoever about the matter, under RAF Board of Inquiry rules. |
| (133591) | |
| 57 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on (a) the management, technical and financial innovation, (b) the cost and quality, (c) the value for money and (d) the competitiveness of the Cammell Laird component of the Maersk bid for ro/ro vessels. |
| (133973) | |
| 58 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the relationship between the partnership agreement between BAe systems and his Department on maintenance and repair work and orders for ro/ro vessels. |
| (133942) | |
| 59 | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what legal advice he has had from counsel on the activities of sport divers, in relation to the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986; and if he will make a statement on his policy on intrusive diving. |
| ¶A (134179) | |
| 60 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the members of the Ships' Names and Badges Committee, the dates and locations of meetings during the last 12 months and the costs of such meetings. |
| ¶A (134164) | |
| 61 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the Bowman Radio Project with special reference to the (a) project overrun and (b) cost. |
| (133586) | |
| 62 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on future use of the Clausman Radio System with relevance to its life expectancy. |
| (133587) | |
| 63 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 25th July, Official Report, column 550W, on the Chinook crash, whether the emergency power warning lights were switched on at the time of the impact at the Wilmington crash. |
| (133755) | |
| 64 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 25th July, Official Report, column 550W, on the Chinook crash, (a) who made the examination of the FADEC system as quoted in the Air Accident Investigation Board's report to the RAF Board of Inquiry and (b) if that examination found no possible link between the FADEC system and the accident. |
| (133756) | |
| 65 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 25th July, Official Report, column 550W, on the Chinook crash, if he will give details of the outcome of his Department's claim against Textron Lycoming. |
| (133759) | |
| 66 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 25th July, Official Report, column 550W, on the Chinook crash, if he will list the faulty test procedures that his Department was seeking redress for in their litigation claim against Textron Lycoming. |
| (133757) | |
| 67 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 25th July, Official Report, column 550W, on the Chinook crash, whether Sir William Wratten and Sir John Day knew of his Department's legal claim against the FADEC manufacturer, Textron Lycoming at the time of their investigation into the fatal crash of Chinook ZD576. |
| (133758) | |
| 68 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 25th July, Official Report, column 550W, on the Chinook crash, if (a) the Air Accident Investigation Board and (b) his Department have concluded that FADEC was not a factor in the Wilmington crash. |
| (133773) | |
| 69 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what former Royal Navy ships have been sold in the last four years; to whom; what was received for each sale; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134138) | |
| 70 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Joint Force Harrier programme on the operational capability and engineering efficiency of the RAF's GR7 and the Royal Navy's FA2 Harriers; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134251) | |
| 71 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which former Royal Navy submarines have been sold to Canada in the last three years; what plans he has for submarine sales in the next three years and at what price; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134137) | |
| 72 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact of the merging of the Royal Air Force's and Royal Navy's trade structures resulting from the Joint Force Harrier programme; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134255) | |
| 73 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost was of development of the MK8 MoD 14.5 inch gun system; if the programme is running to schedule; what the original estimated cost and in-service date was; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶ (134142) | |
| 74 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the cost efficiency of (a) the Soothsayer electronic warfare system and (b) the stand-alone systems currently deployed in the British Army and Royal Marines; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134253) | |
| 75 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to procure a suitable weapon system for the UK Rapid Reaction Force to replace the Trigat-Medium Range Anti-Tank Weapon Programme; what it will cost; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134134) | |
| 76 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost is to (a) the Royal Air Force and (b) the Royal Navy of the Joint Force Harrier programme; when the programme is expected to be completed; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134249) | |
| 77 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost is of the procurement of the AGM-6552 Maverick Programme; when deployment will take place; how long this programme is scheduled to last; how long the development programme was; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134141) | |
| 78 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost was of developing the AGM-6562 Maverick Medium Range air to surface missile for RAF use; how long this process has taken; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134140) | |
| 79 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the electronic warfare management information system included in Soothsayer will be completed; at what cost to the programme; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134252) | |
| 80 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of (a) the Royal Air Force's annual budget is allocated to its Harrier GR7 and (b) the Royal Navy's budget is allocated to its Harrier FA2; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134248) | |
| 81 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what UK forces took part in the NATO Peace Shield 2000 exercise; how many personnel were involved; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134139) | |
| 82 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what timetable has been set for Lockheed Martin Systems Integration and Thomson Racal Defence to assess the requirements of the Soothsayer integrated electronic warfare system; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134256) | |
| 83 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the UK has paid in the last five years to (a) help destroy and (b) make safe (i) chemical weapons, and (ii) stocks of plutonium; how long current programmes are scheduled to run; what the total cost is and from which budget the money has come; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134135) | |
| 84 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies bid for the contract for the Soothsayer electronic warfare programme other than Lockheed Martin Systems Integration and Oswego and Thomson Racal Defence; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134254) | |
| 85 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on the Trigat-Medium Range Anti-Tank Guided Weapon Programme; over what time; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134136) | |
| 86 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the single service identities of the RAF's Harrier GR7 and the Royal Navy's Harrier FA2 are maintained within the Joint Force Harrier programme; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134250) | |
| 87 | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the Report of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigation of the RAF Chinnook ZD576 in the Library. |
| (133996) | |
| 88 | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the function of the Institute of Flight Safety; and what role it performed in the Inquiry into the crash of RAF Chinnook ZD576. |
| (133994) | |
| 89 | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the statement given by Mr R. Parkinson, Senior Inspector of Air Accidents, to the Royal Air Force Board of Inquiry into the crash of RAF Chinnock ZD576. |
| (133997) | |
| 90 | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list each occasion in the last 10 years in which the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been involved in the investigation of military accidents. |
| (133995) | |
| 91 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the Future Army Concept Paper in the Library. |
| (132175) | |
| 92 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made in the procurement of the Formation Communications System. |
| (132176) | |
| 93 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the Modernising Defence initiative. |
| (132177) | |
| 94 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what budget his Department has for e-business projects. |
| (132178) | |
| 95 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to procure software programmable radios. |
| (132179) | |
| 96 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which UK military assets are equipped with Link 16/JTIDS terminals. |
| (132180) | |
| 97 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the in-service date is for the Bowman combat radio system; and if he will make a statement. |
| (131786) | |
| 98 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the companies and organisations which have expressed interest in future purchase No. N/SUB1/64247, interim land storage of radioactive waste from de-commissioned nuclear submarines. |
| (132475) | |
| 99 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what savings his Department has achieved so far under the Smart Procurement Initiative; and what savings he expects to achieve up to July 2008. |
| (133841) | |
| 100 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on the MRAV programme; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133836) | |
| 101 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are connected by the ARMYMAIL electronic mail system supplied by Bull Information Systems Ltd; at what cost; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133729) | |
| 102 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the result of the Future Carrier-Borne Aircraft down selection; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133837) | |
| 103 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he and his European counterparts have made in implementing the OCCAR Convention; and if he will list the projects that that organisation will be overseeing. |
| (133840) | |
| 104 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he intends to announce the winner of the roll-on roll-off vessel competition; and if he will give the in-service date of the vessels. |
| (133838) | |
| 105 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to inform service personnel of the implications of section 7 of the Representation of the People Act 2000 for armed forces voters. |
| (133730) | |
| 106 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he will make a decision on the new prime contractor for BOWMAN; and if he will state the (a) in-service date and (b) available budget. |
| (133839) | |
| 107 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the security implications for Marchwood Military Port of the siting of a container port and access roads thereto in its close vicinity. |
| (133808) | |
| 108 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ghurka troops are serving in the Army; what percentage that is of British infantry; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133875) | |
| 109 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to recruit another battalion of Ghurkas; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133880) | |
| 110 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on progress made in extending the wet inlet facility for storage of submarine reactor fuel at Sellafield. |
| ¶A (134171) | |
| 111 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department was represented at the meeting held in Paris at the beginning of September on the health implications for servicemen and medical auxiliaries of inhalation of depleted uranium during Operation Granby in Kuwait/Iraq in 1991; and if he will examine the evidence presented at the Conference of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine by Professor Durakovic, of Georgetown University, on depleted uranium. |
| ¶A (134170) | |
| 112 | Mr Neil Turner (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel have left the armed forces as a result of post traumatic stress disorder brought on during service in the forces in each of the last five years; and what counselling services are available to service personnel involved in a traumatic situation. |
| ¶A (134161) | |
| 113 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will deposit in the Library a copy of the (a) minutes and (b) agenda of the European Community Working Group on Education and the Euro; and when the group will next meet. |
| ¶A (134211) | |
| 114 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the value for money of Merseyside Tech's annual contribution to Mersey Partnerships. |
| (133813) | |
| 115 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what accountability arrangements are in place to ensure the effective spending of the annual contribution of Merseyside Tech to Mersey Partnerships. |
| (133814) | |
| 116 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will issue guidance to school governors on how to take account of parental concerns over transport hired for school trips; and if he will make a statement in respect of the written risk assessment requirement of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1994. |
| ¶ (134147) | |
| 117 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many students have switched from B.Ed degree courses to PGCE training courses following the introduction of training salaries; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134153) | |
| 118 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to raise the level of funding for OFSTED following its increased responsibilities in inspecting further education, introduced by the Learning and Skills Bill. |
| (134102) | |
| 119 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what proportion of the SureStart Budget will derive from his Department. |
| (134101) | |
| 120 | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what status the roundabout to be built at Cophall as part of the A27 Polegate bypass will have; if the Order as made assumed that the A27 Folkington Link extension westwards would be built; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133807) | |
| 121 | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the volume of long-distance east-west traffic along the South Coast which uses the M25 in preference to roads along the South Coast as indicated in his 1997 Roads Review Consultation Document, entitled What Role for Trunk Roads in England; and, in respect of the traffic studies being undertaken as part of the Access to Hastings Study, what estimate he has made of the volume of long-distance traffic which would transfer from the M25 to the A27 between Lewes-Polegate as a consequence of the construction in isolation of the A259 Hastings and Bexhill bypass. |
| (133809) | |
| 122 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on progress made with the French authorities on recognising a standard pilot retirement age of 65; and when he expects a solution will be reached. |
| ¶A (134195) | |
| 123 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what reasons underlie his policy of modifying regulations to allow the European flag to be flown without planning permission; what representations he has received on this issue; how many locations he expects will be affected; what manner of appeal locally will be possible; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134184) | |
| 124 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on his policy towards not applying for participation in the European Communities 2010 Horizon Plan for Inland Ports and Inland Waterways, under the TEN project, as set out in OJ C228, Volume 43, 9th August 2000; and what funds are available to participating states. |
| ¶A (134206) | |
| 125 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is an adequate supply of environmental health officers. |
| (133866) | |
| 126 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the need for new or extended waste management facilities to enable waste disposal authorities in London to meet the target for diverting waste from landfill by 2005. |
| (134061) | |
| 127 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what guidance he will issue to the Mayor of London on the exercise of his development control powers in relation to waste management developments with a capacity of more than 50,000 tons per annum; and if he will publish such guidance. |
| (134056) | |
| 128 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list sites identified in the Unitary Development Plans of London boroughs for possible major waste management schemes. |
| (134066) | |
| 129 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the case for imposing maximum (a) size and (b) capacity limits on particular types of waste management facilities; and if he will make a statement. |
| (134064) | |
| 130 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what powers planning authorities have to impose a moratorium on specific waste management options. |
| (134058) | |
| 131 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the waste disposal authorities in London that plan to let contracts for the transportation, treatment and disposal of their waste in the next two years. |
| (134063) | |
| 132 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how he will ensure that the Mayor of London's municipal waste strategy conforms with the principles and objectives of the Waste Strategy 2000. |
| (134057) | |
| 133 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what guidance he will issue to waste disposal authorities in London that will tender for their waste contracts in the next 12 months in respect of (a) promoting the use of rail and water transport and (b) attainment of the landfill diversion targets of the EU Landfill Directive and the national waste strategy; and if he will publish such guidance. |
| (134062) | |
| 134 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what cooperation he plans for work with the Mayor of London to safeguard and enhance use of the River Thames for the transportation of waste. |
| (134065) | |
| 135 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he expects waste planning authorities to consider the need to provide for all forms of waste management, in line with the integrated approach required by Waste Strategy 2000. |
| (134060) | |
| 136 N | Mr Peter Brooke (Cities of London and Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when Waste Strategy 2000 became a material consideration for land-use planning purposes. |
| (134059) | |
| 137 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer 27th July, when the valuation of North West Development Agency freehold and leasehold assets was last undertaken. |
| (133966) | |
| 138 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will place in the Library the register of interests as it applies to each development agency in the United Kingdom. |
| (133961) | |
| 139 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what are the names of the (a) ad hoc and (b) permanent subcommittees and subgroups of the North West Development Agency which deal with regional issues; and what is the remit of each such committee. |
| (133964) | |
| 140 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 27th July, what is the name of the tenant at Lakeland Business Park, Cockermouth, whose letting commenced on 20th March. |
| (133971) | |
| 141 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 27th July, to whom the North West Development Agency is accountable on the provision of information on decisions, and estimates of efficiency gains and financial benefits that arose out of moving the location of its offices. |
| (133962) | |
| 142 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 27th July, if he will list those interests in relation to which members of the board of the North West Development Agency stood aside from consideration of agency business in the 12 month period used in answer. |
| (133960) | |
| 143 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the scale and nature of the financial and other support provided by the North West Development Agency in the case of (a) Workington Town Centre, (b) Maryport Endowment, (c) Dovenby Hall, (d) Hills of the North, (e) Westlake Science Park, (f) Kingmoor Park, Carlisle, (g) Lillyhall Partnership, (h) Alston Foundry, (i) Cumbria Credits, (j) Guided Steps to Lifetime Learning, (k) Regeneration of Maryport Averdale, (l) Building Bridges, (m) Cleator Regeneration, (n) Cumbria Rural Regeneration and (o) Heart of Barrow. |
| (133959) | |
| 144 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many square feet are available under the terms of the lease being negotiated by North West Development Agency for occupation at Penrith. |
| (133969) | |
| 145 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what purposes the Chief Executive of the North West Development Agency visited Copeland and Allendale in the last 12 months. |
| (133968) | |
| 146 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what office accommodation is available to the North West Development Agency and at what cost at Lillyhall, Workington. |
| (133967) | |
| 147 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what indication he has received of the cost per square foot of office space being negotiated by North West Development Agency for occupation at Penrith. |
| (133970) | |
| 148 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations were made by the North West Development Agency to the DTI on the reductions in percentage levels of regional assistance payable in West Cumbria. |
| (133965) | |
| 149 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what are the names of the consultancies employed by the North West Development Agency over the last 12 months. |
| (133963) | |
| 150 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate how many people in the United Kingdom use pedal cycles more than once a week. |
| (134005) | |
| 151 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has under local transport note 1/97 to codify the ways in which cyclists may use bus lanes. |
| (134054) | |
| 152 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what conclusions have been drawn from his Department's quarterly monitoring of the Mersey Partnerships' performance. |
| (133944) | |
| 153 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate how many people in the United Kingdom own pedal cycles. |
| (134007) | |
| 154 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to encourage local authorities to create more cycle ways in order to increase traffic flows in bus lanes. |
| (134034) | |
| 155 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate how many people used a pedal cycle at least once a week in each of the last five years. |
| (134004) | |
| 156 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make it his policy to request the NRPB to publish detailed advice to nuclear regulators and operators on the provisions of the Radioactive Substances (Basic Safety Standards) Directive in respect of the calculation of population doses from practices giving rise to radiation exposure. |
| (133592) | |
| 157 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what surrogate price he used to reflect the value of carbon saved into the cost of fuel, within the costings included in his consultation document on proposed alterations to Part L of the Building Regulations. |
| (133594) | |
| 158 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he is taking to encourage the commercial sector to improve its energy efficiency. |
| (133593) | |
| 159 | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many driving tests were conducted per month since April 1999; how many tests can be carried out in a month; how many cancellations there were in each month since April 1999 and how many such cancellations were reallocated; and what was the average waiting time for driving tests in each month since April 2000 in the Norris Green and Southport Driving Test Centres. |
| ¶A (134176) | |
| 160 | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he expects to establish if ship tracking systems are reliable; what assessment he has made of the effect of such systems on the incidence of piracy; and what action he is taking with the International Maritime Organisation against piracy and armed robbery in international waters. |
| ¶A (134180) | |
| 161 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what performance targets have been set to ensure that small businesses automatically receive interest from local authorities on late payments made after 30 days of being invoiced in line with the Late Payments of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998. |
| (134114) | |
| 162 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what recent discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on compensation for payment by public bodies after 30 days of invoices from small firms. |
| (134115) | |
| 163 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the working of the Audit Commission Act 1998 as regards (a) access by the public to accounts of public bodies, (b) the grounds on which access to information can be withheld during the prescribed period of access and (c) the circumstances in which agreements between a public body and a private contractor can be withheld from inspection on grounds of confidentiality. |
| (133948) | |
| 164 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Government will announce plans relating to a licensing system for property in multiple occupancy. |
| ¶B (134260) | |
| 165 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 21st July, Official Report, column 350W, if he will list all departmental initiatives between May 1997 and 18th July 2000 requiring bids from voluntary organisations and local authorities for funding, together with the total resources allocated to these initiatives, the number of successful bids and the proportion this represents of total bids received; and what data he collects on the average cost of preparing the bids for funding through each initiative. |
| (133983) | |
| 166 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to require local authorities to publish written policies on housing people suffering (a) racial harassment and (b) domestic violence. |
| (133820) | |
| 167 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, by what means he intends to evaluate pilot schemes for introducing choice into the letting of social housing; and if the results of these evaluations will be made public. |
| (133819) | |
| 168 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the consistency with which local authorities assess the vulnerability of homeless applicants under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996. |
| (133821) | |
| 169 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement in respect of safety protection required in the event of a frontal impact to (a) children and adults travelling on coaches and (b) children and adults travelling on a double or single decker bus if (a) sitting and (b) standing. |
| ¶A (134186) | |
| 170 | Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will set out the costs of repairs and maintenance to the elevated section of the M6 through Birmingham in each year from 1990 to 1999. |
| ¶A (134160) | |
| 171 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the Euro Made Easy programme of DGX of the European Commission; if a report has been submitted to the Council on the programme; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134208) | |
| 172 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how long sterling has maintained stability within the exchange rate mechanism bandwidth vis-a¬-vis the euro. |
| ¶A (134209) | |
| 173 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to his Department since June 1997. |
| (133873) | |
| 174 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that small companies automatically receive interest from public bodies on late payments made after 30 days of being invoiced. |
| (134107) | |
| 175 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on compensation for payment by public bodies after 30 days of invoices from small businesses. |
| (134110) | |
| 176 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to ensure that public bodies settle invoices within a 30 day period. |
| (134109) | |
| 177 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will seek to amend the Late Payments of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 to ensure that small companies automatically receive interest from public bodies on late payments made after 30 days of being invoiced. |
| (134108) | |
| 178 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what has been the total administrative cost to date of the Pensions Mis-selling Review. |
| ¶B (134265) | |
| 179 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of businesses which failed in 1999 due to a tax demand from the Inland Revenue and (b) the cost of these failures to the Exchequer. |
| (133885) | |
| 180 | Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what powers of discretion the Paymaster General has over the payment of tax arrears. |
| (133926) | |
| 181 N | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in what ways eligible third country exporters and producers will benefit from their participation in the import preferences granted their products under the EU's preferential trade-related agreements. |
| (133750) | |
| 182 N | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of a failure to collect applicable duties on goods produced in Israeli settlements on their competitiveness in EU markets; and what impact the loss of customs revenues to the (a) Community and (b) UK Exchequer will have on (i) export sales and (ii) export pricing power for the settlement-based producers of those goods. |
| (133710) | |
| 183 N | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 17th July, Official Report, column 95W, and 1st March, Official Report, column 267W, on the EC-Israel Trade Agreement, if the importation under preferences of goods produced in Israeli settlements reduces their landed cost in the EU; and what financial resources that should accrue to the Community and the UK treasuries thereby accrue to the operators engaged in the production and trade in such goods. |
| (133751) | |
| 184 | Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representation has been made by Her Majesty's Government to Iraq and to the United Nations regarding Kuwaiti and other third country nationals who have been missing since the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops; and if he will make a statement. |
| (134002) | |
| 185 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if Sherbimi Informativ I Kosaves is (a) officially and (b) informally active in Kosovo. |
| ¶A (134197) | |
| 186 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many copies of the booklet A Glossary of Eurosceptic Beliefs: An Expos«e of Misunderstanding have been produced; and what is the target audience. |
| ¶A (134193) | |
| 187 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of the Prime Minister of 19th May, Official Report, column 286W, if he will deposit in the Library a copy of his letter to the European Federation of Retired and Elderly Persons. |
| ¶ (134145) | |
| 188 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those areas where the negotiators of the Lome« Peace Accords requested advice from Her Majesty's Government. |
| ¶A (134196) | |
| 189 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 19th July, Official Report, column 186W, on Sierra Leone, if he will make a statement on the nature of the conflict between the Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources and existing Sierra Leonese Government ministries, with reference to related action by Her Majesty's Government. |
| ¶A (134198) | |
| 190 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what was the (a) budget line and (b) cost of producing the booklet entitled A Glossary of Eurosceptic Beliefs: An Expose« of Misunderstanding; and if his Department was consulted thereon. |
| ¶A (134194) | |
| 191 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those articles of the Lome« Peace Accords on which his Department contributed advice. |
| ¶A (134192) | |
| 192 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will request the European Commission to publish a document of like format to the Glossary of Eurosceptic Beliefs assessing the arguments of European integrationists. |
| ¶A (134185) | |
| 193 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to his Department since June 1997. |
| (133872) | |
| 194 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department is holding with Mr Denktash on reasons for the arrest of newspaper editor Mr Semer Levent in Northern Cyprus. |
| (133815) | |
| 195 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if Sir David Hannay will hold discussions with Mr Denktash on the arrests of trade union members in Northern Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133816) | |
| 196 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the necessity of genetically modifying the mycotoxins involved in the United Nations Drug Control Programme research into the use of mycotoxins in drug crop eradication programmes; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134272) | |
| 197 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential dangers arising from United Nations Drug Control Programme research into the use of mycotoxins in drug crop eradication programmes; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134271) | |
| 198 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much has been contributed by his Department towards the funding of United Nations Drug Control Programme research into the use of (a) pleospora papaverecea, (b) fusarium oxysporum and (c) other mycotoxins in drug crop eradication programmes during each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| ¶B (134275) | |
| 199 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much has been contributed by his Department towards the funding of United Nations Drug Control Programme research during each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| ¶B (134276) | |
| 200 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential for mutation of the mycotoxins involved in the United Nations Drug Control Programme research into the use of mycotoxins in drug crop eradication programmes; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134273) | |
| 201 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential dangers arising from the use of (a) naturally occurring and (b) genetically-modified mycotoxins in drug crop eradication programmes; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134274) | |
| 202 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which states have contributed towards the funding of United Nations Drug Control Programme research into the use of (a) pleospora papaverecea; (b) fusarium oxysporum and (c) other mycotoxins in drug crop eradication programmes during each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| ¶B (134264) | |
| 203 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how long a person applying for entry clearance for settlement in (a) February, (b) March, (c) April, (d) May and (e) June can be expected to have to wait for an interview in each queue at each post in the Indian sub-Continent; and what estimate he has made of the numbers of additional staff required in (i) Dhaka, (ii) Islamabad and (iii) New Dehli to bring waiting times down to the levels maintaining at the British Post in Colombo. |
| (133845) | |
| 204 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has held with (a) the United Nations, (b) the OSCE and (c) other international organisations concerning the participation of serving and former RUC officers in peace-keeping duties overseas. |
| (133523) | |
| 205 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place the provisional text of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Library. |
| ¶A (134172) | |
| 206 | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions the United Kingdom Government has had with the Saudi Arabian authorities on the establishment by Saudi Arabia of the governmental and non-governmental organisations recommended by the UN Commission on Human Rights. |
| (133945) | |
| 207 | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the Government has made to the Saudi Arabian government in support of increased access to Saudi Arabia for non-governmental human rights monitors, with particular reference to monitors from Amnesty International. |
| (133947) | |
| 208 | Mr Bill Tynan (Hamilton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Egyptian Government to ensure Shaiboob William Arsal's appeal against his conviction for murder is held in an open and transparent manner. |
| (133847) | |
| 209 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his policy in respect of UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone. |
| ¶B (134262) | |
| 210 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the United Nations settlement plan for the Western Sahara; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134188) | |
| 211 | John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve recruitment and retention of biomedical scientists; and if he will make a statement. |
| (134001) | |
| 212 | John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when medical laboratory scientific officers will be brought within the scope of the Pay Review Body. |
| (134000) | |
| 213 | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase basic pay for consultants in the first few years of practice to compensate for the prohibition on private work. |
| (133812) | |
| 214 N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out the composition and terms of reference of the new independent commission for NHS appointments, stating the means by which members of the commission will be chosen. |
| (133868) | |
| 215 | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the UK private healthcare sector will expand as a result of the NHS national plan. |
| (133811) | |
| 216 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to his Department since June 1997. |
| (133876) | |
| 217 | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the Mid Essex Hospital Trust area were waiting (a) for in-patient treatment in the last three months (b) more than 12 months for in-patient treatment in the last three months and (c) 13 weeks or more for an out-patient appointment in the last two quarters. |
| ¶A (134168) | |
| 218 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individual lines are operated as part of the touch tone steering system installed in his Department's public enquiry office. |
| (134055) | |
| 219 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the figures for the increases in revenue income to Bury Health Care NHS Trust for (a) 1998-99 and (b) 1999-2000 will be made available. |
| (133596) | |
| 220 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with Trent Regional Health Authority regarding plans for a new breast cancer unit at Nottingham City Hospital; and when he expects an announcement. |
| (133827) | |
| 221 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mandate has been given to those negotiating on behalf of the European Union on the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control; and if he will list the ways in which the objectives differ from those of Her Majesty's Government. |
| (133883) | |
| 222 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on employment in the UK of adoption of the European Directive concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products. |
| (133825) | |
| 223 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on UK tobacco manufacturers of the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control. |
| (133831) | |
| 224 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will conduct an economic impact assessment of the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133835) | |
| 225 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the World Health Organisation about the private sector funding of its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; and if he will list those companies which have contributed. |
| (133832) | |
| 226 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what Her Majesty's Government's objectives are in discussions on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133884) | |
| 227 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings he has held in preparation for the negotiations on the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control. |
| (133882) | |
| 228 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will conduct an economic impact assessment of the proposal for a European Directive on the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133834) | |
| 229 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of the adoption of the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control on jobs in each constituency. |
| (133826) | |
| 230 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with UK tobacco companies about the economic impact on companies and the communities in which they are located of the possible adoption of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. |
| (133833) | |
| 231 | Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on UK exports of the European Directive concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products. |
| (133830) | |
| 232 | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the ways in which patient groups can play a greater role in explaining the benefits of animal experiments. |
| ¶A (134178) | |
| 233 | Julia Drown (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to improve the morale of (a) biomedical scientists and (b) other staff who work in the NHS pathology services. |
| (134006) | |
| 234 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has evaluated into the risk of idiopathic venous thromboembolism in users of conventional antipsychotic drugs. |
| ¶B (134266) | |
| 235 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what further research his Department plans to commission into the risk of adverse events, including idiopathic venous thromboembolism, in users of conventional antipsychotic drugs; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134268) | |
| 236 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to psychiatrists concerning the risk of idiopathic venous thromboembolism in users of conventional antipsychotic drugs. |
| ¶B (134267) | |
| 237 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the impact of the Comprehensive Spending Review on (a) cancer research, (b) cancer screening and (c) palliative care of cancer patients. |
| (133844) | |
| 238 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) maggot-treated and (b) conventionally treated ulcers were evaluated by specialists at the West Cumberland Hospital in the study of use of maggots in larval therapy; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134131) | |
| 239 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidelines have been set by health authorities in testing larval therapy; what preventative measures are included in studies to ensure the safety of human volunteers; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134129) | |
| 240 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines have been given to health authorities for the prescribing of the drug Zyban; and which health authorities allow GPs to prescribe this drug. |
| ¶A (134133) | |
| 241 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what is the cost of his study on larval therapy; and if he will make a statement on potential NHS budget gains associated with such therapy. |
| ¶A (134130) | |
| 242 | Mr Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to ensure that psychiatric hospitals are aware of the provisions of the Representation of the People Acts as they affect patients in mental hospitals. |
| (133822) | |
| 243 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of funding was in each of the last three years for health care in Chorley. |
| (133853) | |
| 244 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the number of (a) nurses and (b) doctors in Chorley in each of the last three years. |
| (133828) | |
| 245 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to arrange for a further national survey of the use of electro-convulsive therapy before information from the Mental Health Minimum Data Set becomes fully available in 2003. |
| (133946) | |
| 246 | Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to seek advice from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, regarding the prescribing of the Prosorba column. |
| (133846) | |
| 247 | Mr Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if health authorities and primary care trusts are required to publish details of the service agreements they have commissioned with NHS trust hospitals. |
| (133998) | |
| 248 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's expenditure on medication treatment for dementia was in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what were (a) the expenditure, (b) the numbers treated and (c) the numbers awaiting treatment for each health authority area in the latest year for which figures are available. |
| (133957) | |
| 249 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on how organ donation is co-ordinated nationally and locally in the UK. |
| (133982) | |
| 250 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients, by age group, have received kidney dialysis in the last five available years; and what proportion of these are kidney patients in each age group. |
| (133981) | |
| 251 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of how up-to-date the names and addresses on the NHS Organ Donor Register are. |
| (133976) | |
| 252 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients died in each year from 1995 to 1999 whilst on the waiting list for a (a) heart, (b) heart and lung, (c) lung and (d) liver transplant. |
| (133979) | |
| 253 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action is being taken to increase public awareness of the NHS Organ Donor Register; and if he will make a statement. |
| (133975) | |
| 254 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are currently awaiting (a) a kidney transplant, (b) a heart transplant, (c) a heart and lung transplant, (d) a lung transplant, (e) a liver transplant and (f) other forms of transplant; and if he will make a statement on the shortfall between the numbers of organs available for transplant and of people needing such organs. |
| (133980) | |
| 255 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how frequently the NHS Organ Donor Register was accessed in 1999 by hospitals seeking donors. |
| (133977) | |
| 256 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organ transplants were carried out in the last five years for which figures are available. |
| (133978) | |
| 257 | Dr Nick Palmer (Broxtowe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of the population has joined the NHS Organ Donor Register. |
| (133974) | |
| 258 | Mr David Prior (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Norfolk were waiting to see a consultant on (a) 31st March 1997, (b) 31st March 1998, (c) 31st March 1999 and (d) 31st March 2000. |
| (133829) | |
| 259 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a table listing, by health authorities, the awards for each of the 2000-01 Modernisation Fund budgets that have been allocated via a bidding process on or before 28th July. |
| (134121) | |
| 260 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the value of the 2000-01 Modernisation Fund was allocated on or before 28th July (a) via a bidding process and (b) by other means. |
| (134116) | |
| 261 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ministerial decisions in respect of allocations of the 1999-2000 Modernisation Fund via a bidding process were at variance with the recommendations to ministers in respect of such bids by departmental officials; and what the total amount was of bids so decided. |
| (134118) | |
| 262 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the value of the 1999-2000 Modernisation Fund was allocated (a) via a bidding process and (b) by other means. |
| (134117) | |
| 263 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of each of the 1999-2000 Modernisation Fund budgets was allocated by ministerial decisions which varied from the recommendations submitted by departmental officials in the course of the bidding process. |
| (134120) | |
| 264 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ministerial decisions up to 28th July in respect of allocations of the 2000-01 Modernisation Fund via a bidding process were at variance with the recommendations to ministers in respect of such bids by departmental officials; and what the total amount was of bids so decided. |
| (134119) | |
| 265 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 26th July, Official Report, column 622W, in respect of the Modernisation Fund, for what reasons he did not provide (a) the breakdown of decisions requested and (b) information in respect of the 2000-01 allocations to date. |
| (134122) | |
| 266 N | Mr Nick St. Aubyn (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of each of the 100 health authorities' allocations under the 1999-2000 Modernisation Fund budgets was allocated by ministerial decisions which varied from the recommendations submitted by departmental officials in the course of the bidding process. |
| (134125) | |
| 267 N | The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the benefits of using (a) adult stem cells and (b) stem cells from embryos created by therapeutic cloning in treating damage to the brain, internal organs, bone and other tissues and organs. |
| ¶B (134257) | |
| 268 N | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) cataract, (b) knee joint replacement, (c) hip joint replacement and (d) hernia operations were performed at Warrington Hospital in each of the last three years. |
| (133754) | |
| 269 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to change the reimbursement arrangements for pharmacists and dispensing doctors relating to generics. |
| (133852) | |
| 270 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out WHO requirements in respect of (a) monitoring of fluoride levels, and (b) children in receipt of fluoridated milk. |
| ¶ (134146) | |
| 271 | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Mrs M. Blee, a constituent of the honourable Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, will receive answers to her letters of 20th December 1999, 11th February, 23rd February and 4th April. |
| ¶ (134143) | |
| 272 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to instigate research into the extent to which people with mental health problems are denied access to the criminal justice system. |
| (133810) | |
| 273 | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision he has made to meet the needs of asylum seekers who have been victims of torture before arriving in the UK. |
| (133823) | |
| 274 | Mr Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision he has made to provide asylum seekers with (a) legal representation, (b) housing, (c) health services, (d) welfare advice and (e) language provision. |
| (133824) | |
| 275 | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many funded police officers there are in the Essex Constabulary; and what is the total number of police officers in the force. |
| ¶B (134246) | |
| 276 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 21st July, Official Report, columns 362-3W, if he will assess the impact of the controls added to the drinks industry's code of practice on the merchandising and packaging of alcoholic drinks. |
| (134074) | |
| 277 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 21st July, Official Report, columns 362-3W, about merchandising and packaging of alcoholic drinks, if he will assess the impact of the measures the drinks industry is taking to ensure alcohol is made less accessible to children. |
| (134072) | |
| 278 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with representatives of the drinks industry on the application of the code of practice on the naming of alcoholic products. |
| (133972) | |
| 279 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 21st July, Official report, columns 362-3W, about merchandising and packaging of alcoholic drinks, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the provision in the Code of Practice about avoiding artificially bright colours in the product and the packaging has been implemented. |
| (134071) | |
| 280 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 21st July, Official Report, columns 362-3W, about merchandising and packaging of alcoholic drinks, if he will make a statement on how the taste and texture of beers, ciders and lagers are assessed when deciding if the product misleads about its true alcoholic nature. |
| (134073) | |
| 281 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Great Grimsby of 26th June, Official Report, columns 384-6W, if he will call for reports on the reasons for the absence of fixed penalties for carrying more than one person on a pedal cycle in (a) Avon and Somerset , (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Cheshire, (e) Derbyshire, (f) Durham, (g) Essex, (h) Gloucestershire, (i) Hertfordshire, (j) Humberside, (k) the City of London, (l) the Metropolitan Police area, (m) Norfolk, (n) Northamptonshire, (o) North Yorkshire, (p) Nottinghamshire, (q) South Yorkshire, (r) Staffordshire, (s) Surrey, (t) Sussex, (u) Warwickshire, (v) the West Midlands and (w) West Yorkshire, between 1st August and 31st December 1999. |
| (134070) | |
| 282 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Great Grimsby, of 26th June, Official Report, columns 384-6W, if he will call for a report on the reason for the absence of fixed penalties for cycling on pedestrian footways in West Yorkshire between 1st August and 31st December 1999. |
| (134069) | |
| 283 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to collect information, broken down by sub-division within each police authority, on the number of anti-social behaviour orders issued. |
| (133595) | |
| 284 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reduce (a) the number of experiments conducted on animals and (b) the number of animals used in experiments in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134277) | |
| 285 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many animals, broken down by species, were used in experiments in the United Kingdom during each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| ¶B (134281) | |
| 286 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many primates have been (a) used in scientific procedures and (b) killed during their use in scientific procedures during the last 10 years for which figures are available. |
| ¶B (134278) | |
| 287 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reduce the numbers of primates used in scientific procedures; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134270) | |
| 288 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent by his Department on work to find alternatives to the use of animals in scientific procedures in each of the last five years; what is the projected expenditure for each of the next two years; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134269) | |
| 289 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many experiments were conducted on animals in the United Kingdom during each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| ¶B (134280) | |
| 290 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the compliance of Imutran with the terms of the special dispensation licensing their use of primates in scientific procedures in the UK; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶B (134279) | |
| 291 | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library a copy of the notes of the meeting on 27th October 1997 between the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the honourable Member for Warwickshire, the Right honourable Member for Folkestone and North Hythe and the honourable Member for North Thanet. |
| (133941) | |
| 292 | Mr Bruce George (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been given by his Department in the last 12 months for which figures are available to organisations in Walsall, including the local authority, to improve race relations and to enhance ethnic minority businesses and employment. |
| ¶B (134259) | |
| 293 | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average length of time for an appeal against a Criminal Injuries Compensation Board's decision being lodged to the appeal being heard; and if he will list the number of people who have been waiting (a) 12 to 23 months, (b) 24 to 35 months, and (c) more than three years; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134149) | |
| 294 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 27th July, if he will explain the reasons underlying his decision not to classify the period of residence of Senator Pinochet in Surrey as an unforeseen burden on Surrey Police, committing them to exceptional additional expenditure and as being an event of international dimension, arising as a consequence of a decision by the Government. |
| (133958) | |
| 295 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the funding for policing in Chorley was in each of the last three years. |
| (133848) | |
| 296 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made since 24th July on his Department's acquisition of (a) through-the-wall imaging systems and (b) life signs monitoring systems; and if he will make a statement. |
| (131787) | |
| 297 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he has taken to encourage police services (a) in England and Wales and (b) in London to recruit from ranks of former RUC officer and reservists; what retraining facilities are available; and how many former RUC officers and reservists have been recruited in the last 12 monhts. |
| (133543) | |
| 298 | Mr Neil Turner (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police and fire officers left their respective services due to post traumatic stress disorder in each of the last five years; and what guidance he gives to police forces and fire services on counselling of officers involved in traumatic situations. |
| ¶A (134162) | |
| 299 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations he has received from the Government of the Isle of Man concerning the effects of radiation from Sellafield on the environment and health of the Isle of Man; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134189) | |
| 300 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, for what reason the House of Commons gift shops sell rulers that are not marked in imperial measurements; and if he will ensure that such rulers are stocked. |
| ¶A (134201) | |
| 301 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to her Department since June 1997. |
| (133874) | |
| 302 N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost was of producing the report entitled Viewing The World. |
| (133869) | |
| 303 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what value for money studies have been carried out regarding the touch tone steering system installed in the Public Trust Office on its Mental Health Service enquiry line. |
| (134041) | |
| 304 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what staff savings have been made as a result of the use of the touch tone steering system installed in the Public Trust Office on its Mental Health Service enquiry line. |
| (134042) | |
| 305 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many touch tone steering systems employed in his Department involve premium rates. |
| (134044) | |
| 306 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many letters of (a) complaint and (b) approbation have been received with regard to the touch tone steering system installed in the Public Trust Office on its Mental Health Service enquiry line. |
| (134043) | |
| 307 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many letters of (a) complaint and (b) approbation have been received with regard to the touch tone steering system installed in the Public Record Office on its Family Record Centre enquiry line. |
| (134045) | |
| 308 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what value for money studies have been carried out regarding the touch tone steering system installed in the Public Record Office on its Family Record Centre enquiry line. |
| (134046) | |
| 309 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his Answer of 11th July, Official Report, column 511W, if he will estimate the cost of ascertaining how many telephones in The Court Service and Land Registry make use of touch tone steering systems. |
| (134048) | |
| 310 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what staff savings have been made as a result of the use of the touch tone steering system installed in the Public Record Office on its Family Record Centre enquiry line. |
| (134047) | |
| 311 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what continuing safeguards are to be in place to protect clients with less than £10,000 and their funds after those funds have been transferred elsewhere from the Public Trust Office. |
| (134033) | |
| 312 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what consultation and options for management of funds will take place with clients of the Public Trust Office prior to any change in such management. |
| (134040) | |
| 313 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what consultation his Department has had with the Trustees of (a) the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund and (b) the House of Commons Pension Fund about their losing the services of the Public Trust Office. |
| (134032) | |
| 314 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what level of staffing is proposed for the body replacing the Public Trust Office. |
| (134035) | |
| 315 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what measures he is taking to ensure that the cost to Public Trust Office clients does not increase if solicitors are appointed as last resort receivers and are permitted to charge on a timed basis. |
| (134037) | |
| 316 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what guarantees will be given to clients that losses to clients arising from fraud or mismanagement will continue to be made good when clients' investments currently managed by the Public Fund Office Receivership Division, Trust Division and Court Funds Office are managed by an external custodian. |
| (134038) | |
| 317 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, where the replacement body for the Public Trust Office will be located. |
| (134036) | |
| 318 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, who will be responsible for the compensation given to Public Trust Office clients for losses on investments and fraud where such investments are made by an external custodian. |
| (134039) | |
| 319 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to his Department since June 1997. |
| (133878) | |
| 320 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what were the terms of reference for the research currently being undertaken on the uniform to be worn by members of the new police service; how many institutions submitted tenders to undertake this research; what were the best-value criteria employed; if he will place the outline of the successful research proposal in the Library; and what is the estimated cost of this research. |
| (133520) | |
| 321 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many external change specialists have been (a) consulted by and (b) recruited to the Change Management Team established by the Chief Constable; what method of selection was employed to ensure best value in appointments of external consultancies; and what has been the cost to date of external consultancies. |
| (133541) | |
| 322 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he published each of the regulations on (a) part-time working, (b) job-sharing and (c) career breaks for police officers and Police Service civilians; how this information has been disseminated and at what cost; how many officers and civilians will have taken these options by the end of the first year of their introduction; and what his estimate is for each of the next five years. |
| (133538) | |
| 323 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment the Human Rights Commission has made of the police training programme on the Human Rights Act 1998; how many officers have completed this course; what evaluation he has made of its effectiveness; and what progress has been made on drawing up guidelines and contents for a course on the impact on policing of the new constitutional arrangements for Northern Ireland, the new policing arrangements set out in the Patten Report and the proposed reforms of the criminal justice system. |
| (133529) | |
| 324 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps have been taken to draw up personal specification and job description for (a) a Commissioner for Covert Law Enforcement and (b) members of a Complaints Tribunal for Covert Law Enforcement operations; when and where he will advertise these positions; what the composition will be of the interview panel; how many of its members will be independent; and if he will place the relevant documents in the Library. |
| (133533) | |
| 325 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what percentage of police officers recruited in the last two years are studying for academic qualifications; what is the numerical and percentage breakdown by type of qualifications sought and subjects studied; what measures have been taken to encourage officers to undertake academic courses; and what assessment he has made of their effectiveness. |
| (133535) | |
| 326 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many Police Service staff are assigned to develop a new appraisal system for human rights performance; what grades and ranks these staff are; how many hours per week they are working on this project; where they are based and what is their geographical spread from policing districts across Northern Ireland; what their composition is in respect of (a) gender and (b) perceived community background; when this project started and when it will be completed; and what is its (i) work programme and (ii) budget. |
| (133539) | |
| 327 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many police cars are currently in service, what the figures were for (a) July 1994 and (b) July 1998; and how many armoured Landrovers were in regular use for patrols in (i) July 1994, (ii) July 1998 and (iii) July 2000. |
| (133513) | |
| 328 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in drawing up the terms of reference for an independent, strategic review of the use of information technology in policing; how and whom he will consult on these terms of reference; and when he will advertise for tenders to be submitted. |
| (133515) | |
| 329 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what personal specification and job description has been drawn up for (a) members of the group to review criminal convictions and other character tests to determine the suitability of candidates applying to join the police service and (b) the independent adviser to sit on this group; what the composition will be of the interview panels; and how many of their members will be independent; when he expects the report of the review group to be completed; and what arrangements he has made to publish the report. |
| (133518) | |
| 330 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions have been held with (a) the Irish Government and (b) the Garda Siochana to identify possible venues for the first annual conference between police services north and south of the border. |
| (133522) | |
| 331 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in establishing a fund to help injured police officers, serving or retired and their families; how many Police Service staff are assigned to this project and at what grades and ranks; how many hours per week they are working on this project; where they are based; what their geographical spread is from policing districts across Northern Ireland; and what their composition is in terms of (a) gender and (b) perceived community background; and what budget has been allocated to this project. |
| (133526) | |
| 332 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what is his response to the Chief Constable's first evaluation of the comprehensive tutor officer scheme; how many tutor officers have been selected; where they are based; what their geographical spread is from policing districts across Northern Ireland; what their composition is in terms of (a) gender and (b) perceived community background; what training they have had; how many hours training they have had on the operation of the Human Rights Act 1998; and how many officers have received training to date. |
| (133528) | |
| 333 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps have been taken to recruit teachers for the police training programme on the Human Rights Act 1998; what arrangements has he made to facilitate officers' completion of the course; how many hours of tuition and study each officer will undertake; and by what criteria officers will be assessed on their comprehension of the issues and ability to put human rights policing into effect. |
| (133530) | |
| 334 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what preparations have been made for the Office of Police Ombudsman to become fully operational; what budget has been assigned for publicity aimed at (a) officers and staff of the Police Service, (b) members of the public, (c) members of disadvantaged groups, (d) people with disabilities, (e) people whose first language is not English, (f) children and (g) users of police stations. |
| (133532) | |
| 335 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in drawing up revised conduct regulations for police officers; what bodies have been consulted over draft versions; what advice he has sought from police services in other jurisdictions; and when he plans to introduce the new regulations. |
| (133534) | |
| 336 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made so far in downsizing the Police Service; and what his estimate is of likely progress in the next six months. |
| (133545) | |
| 337 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what written documentation in furtherance of the Patten implementation plan has been supplied to the Oversight Commissioner in order to set out the objectives in the next 12 months of (a) the Government, (b) the Police Service and (c) the Police Authority; and if he will place such documentation in the Library. |
| (133536) | |
| 338 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to (a) cease using and shut down remaining holding centres at Gough Barracks and Strand Road; how many fully equipped custody suites are currently available and in which police stations; and what additional facilities will come on line in the next six months. |
| (133519) | |
| 339 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions his Department has initiated with (a) the Irish Government and (b) the Garda Siochana to consider facilitation of lateral recruitment of experienced officers into the new police service. |
| (133521) | |
| 340 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he has taken to provide a non-discriminatory working environment for all Police Service employees; how many complaints have been made by employees in the past 12 months; how many disciplinary actions have been instigated; what evidence has been distributed to workplaces; what consultation has taken place with employees; what surveys have been undertaken to solicit views of employees; and what information exchanges have been initiated with non-UK police services. |
| (133525) | |
| 341 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in investigating options for premises to be used by the RUC Widows Association; where these premises are located; what funding he has agreed to contribute towards the financing of the Widows Association; how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff the Association will employ; and what regulations will govern the spending of the association. |
| (133527) | |
| 342 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what measures have been taken to identify appropriate non-police environment institutions for management training in Ireland and overseas; and how many members of the Change Management Team have studied or have the qualifications to assess the effectiveness of management workshops. |
| (133531) | |
| 343 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects to receive the first report from the Oversight Commissioner; what arrangements he has put in place to publish the report; how many copies he intends to publish; and at what estimated cost. |
| (133544) | |
| 344 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he will publish the severance arrangements agreed with police representatives; what is the estimate of the total expenditure involved; and what is his forecast of the costs of severance and other payments associated with the downsizing programme calculated on a quarterly basis for each of the next 10 years. |
| (133537) | |
| 345 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what personal specification and job description have been drawn up for the appointment of a lawyer with human rights expertise to advise the police service; what will be the composition of the interview panel; and how many of its members will be independent. |
| (133512) | |
| 346 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in painting the word POLICE on the side of each Landrover currently in service. |
| (133514) | |
| 347 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what measures have been taken to inform police recruitment agencies in Great Britain of the advantages of recruiting former RUC officers and reservists; and how many ex-RUC officers and reservists have been recruited in the last 12 months. |
| (133516) | |
| 348 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 composition of the Change Management Team established by the Chief Constable; how many police service officers and staff are assigned to the team; what grades and ranks these staff are; how many hours per week they are working on this project; where they are based and what their geographical spread is from policing districts across Northern Ireland; and what their composition is in terms of (a) gender and (b) perceived community background. |
| (133524) | |
| 349 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what development work has so far been undertaken in order to prepare the service for carrying out crime pattern and complaint analysis; how many Police Service staff are assigned to develop this programme and at what grades and ranks; how many hours per week they are working on this project; where they are based; what their geographical spread is from policing districts across Northern Ireland; what their composition is in terms of (a) gender and (b) perceived community background; and what budget has been allocated for this project. |
| (133540) | |
| 350 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many boys who committed suicide in Hydebank Wood had been (a) subjected to single separation in an observation cell and (b) placed in a heavy canvas suit. |
| ¶A (134155) | |
| 351 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times heavy canvas suits have been used on suicidal boys in Hydebank Wood Young Offenders' Institution in each of the last 10 years. |
| ¶A (134158) | |
| 352 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many prisoners took their own lives in prison in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years broken down by age, religion, institution in which they were held and the method of death. |
| ¶A (134159) | |
| 353 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when action to prevent suicide in Northern Ireland prisons will be brought into line with practice in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134156) | |
| 354 | Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times single separation has been used on suicidal boys in Hydebank Wood Young Offenders' Institution in each of the last 10 years. |
| ¶A (134157) | |
| 355 N | Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent): To ask the President of the Council, how many Government amendments were accepted in the House of Lords to Government bills in the present session. |
| (134098) | |
| 356 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Prime Minister, if the Government approves the discharge of the 1998 Community Budget; and what representations it has made on the issue. |
| ¶A (134200) | |
| 357 | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he tabled proposals at the G8 summit in Japan for concerted action to be taken to encourage the Zimbabwe Government to desist from its programme of illegal seizures of white-owned farms. |
| (133851) | |
| 358 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to his Office since June 1997. |
| (133879) | |
| 359 N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement about the Government's review of ex gratia payments for former British prisoners of war of the Japanese. |
| (133728) | |
| 360 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on recent steps taken to alleviate poverty. |
| ¶A (134128) | |
| 361 | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Prime Minister, when Mr A. Blee, a constituent of the honourable Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey,will receive answers to his letters of 17th February 1998, 12th February, 23rd February, 18th April and 26th September. |
| ¶ (134144) | |
| 362 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the errors in the Government's Annual Report 1999-2000; when he was informed of each one; and what steps he is taking to make the correct information public. |
| (134031) | |
| 363 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 27th July, Official Report, column 809W, on the Common Agricultural Policy, if he will make a statement on how the drafting error on page 15 of the Government's Annual Report occurred. |
| (134068) | |
| 364 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 27th July, Official Report, column 809W, on the Common Agricultural Policy, when he was first informed of the drafting errors on page 15 of the Government's Annual Report; what steps he is taking to publish a correction; and when the errors were corrected on the Government's website. |
| (134067) | |
| 365 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what measures he has taken to encourage police services to recruit from ranks of former RUC officer and reservists, what retraining facilities are available; and how many former RUC officers and reservists have been recruited in the last 12 months. |
| (133517) | |
| 366 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people receive attendance allowance (a) in the constituency of Glasgow, Pollok and (b) in Glasgow. |
| ¶A (134165) | |
| 367 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he received the Government Actuary's report under section 36 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000; and when he will lay it before Parliament. |
| ¶B (134263) | |
| 368 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what his timetable is for the implementation of the proposed changes to the Child Support Agency; and what proposals he has to amend assessments made under the existing rules. |
| (133988) | |
| 369 N | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many households will benefit from the winter heating allowance in Warrington South in 2000. |
| (133752) | |
| 370 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, for what reason the annex, Budgeting Loans Reasons for Refusal by Client Group, was omitted from his 1999-2000 Annual Report on the Social Fund. |
| (133850) | |
| 371 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many applications were made for a budgeting loan in 1999-2000; and how many were refused on the grounds of inability to meet the repayments. |
| (133849) | |
| 372 | Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many war widows' pensions have been awarded to widows of British nuclear test veterans since 1970. |
| (133842) | |
| 373 | Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many claims for war pensions by British nuclear test veterans who believe they might have been exposed during service to excessive ionising radiation have been (a) turned down and (b) awarded by (i) the Pensions Appeal Tribunal for Scotland and (ii) the Pensions Appeal Tribunal for England and Wales since 1970. |
| (133843) | |
| 374 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Solicitor General, how many members of the Crown Prosecution Service have taken voluntary redundancy since the review of the Crown Prosecution Service; and for what reasons. |
| (134003) | |
| 375 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Solicitor General, how many members of the Crown Prosecution Service have taken early retirement since the review of the Crown Prosecution Service; and for what reasons. |
| (133943) | |
| 376 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what is his policy on the provision of temporary aid to UK businesses affected by the EU-USA banana trade dispute; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134210) | |
| 377 | Dr Peter Brand (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to his Department since June 1997. |
| (133877) | |
| 378 | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he expects to respond to the report of the departmental Task Force on Asteroids set up in January. |
| ¶A (134166) | |
| 379 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he has taken to ensure that public bodies settle invoices from small businesses within a 30 day period. |
| (134112) | |
| 380 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will ensure that small businesses automatically receive interest from public bodies on late payments made after 30 days of being invoiced. |
| (134111) | |
| 381 | Mr Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on compensation for payment by public bodies after 30 days of invoices from small businesses. |
| (134113) | |
| 382 | Mr Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps the Government has taken to regulate the price of cars in response to the report of the Competition Commission. |
| (133806) | |
| 383 | Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews (Medway): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on what date he intends (a) to make and (b) to lay before Parliament, regulations to enable members of the Bar and solicitors in Scotland and Northern Ireland, who are qualified for appointment as chairmen of employment tribunals in those regions, to be eligible for appointment in England and Wales. |
| ¶B (134247) | |
| 384 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if the Competition Commission's Inquiry into supermarkets will look at the impact on small (a) newsagents and (b) publishers of the proposed distribution arrangements for magazines between Tesco and W H Smith News. |
| (133817) | |
| 385 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will ask the Director General of Fair Trading to inquire into the proposed new distribution arrangement between W H Smith Retail and Tesco; and if he will assess what percentage of the wholesale market in the UK is held by each and the consequences of this for competition. |
| (133818) | |
| 386 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many offers of compensation for chronic bronchitis and emphysema have been made under the expedited process; how many offers have been accepted; what the names are of the solicitors or organisations dealing with these claims; and what the average value is of these claims. |
| (133986) | |
| 387 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many MAP testing centres there are in the UK; where they are; on what dates they opened; how many examinations were carried out at each centre; and how many persons are waiting to be examined at each centre. |
| (133985) | |
| 388 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many claims in respect of chronic bronchitis and emphysema have been settled under the MAP process; what the names are of the firms dealing with these claims and the numbers of claims settled in each case; and what the average value is of these claims. |
| (133987) | |
| 389 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will place in the Library the reports of Dr Ayse Kudat concerning the social and environmental impacts of the Ilisu Dam in Turkey. |
| ¶A (134169) | |
| 390 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proposals he has to introduce measures to control fraudulent sales promotions from operators outside the UK; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶ (134148) | |
| 391 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the Government decided to underwrite plans by Balfour Beatty to undertake work on the Ilisu Dam in Turkey; and what the maximum potential liability is to the Treasury assessed from such underwriting. |
| ¶A (134190) | |
| 392 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the First Secretary of the National Assembly concerning the recognition of St. David's Day as an official holiday in Wales; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A (134191) | |
| 393 N | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if third country exporters and producers are expected to derive benefit from their participation in the import preferences granted their products under the EU's preferential trade-related agreements. |
| [Transferred] (133708) | |
| 394 N | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if the selective elimination and reduction of import duties on products imported into the UK under EU preferences enables eligible third country producers to benefit from a combination of stronger export pricing power, larger export sales and increased competitiveness in EU markets relative to third country producers that are not eligible to participate in EU preferences. |
| [Transferred] (133709) | |
| 395 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on new rules and regulations proposed by the European Community concerning the labelling, storage, use, cooking and servicing of foodstuffs on public premises, stating what consultation has been made with (a) UK local authorities, (b) HM Government and (c) similar bodies in member states of the European Community. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134182) | |
| 396 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much is allocated to the European Movement in the Draft EU Budget for 2000. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134126) | |
| 397 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will state the name and qualifications of the representative of the United Kingdom on the Board of the European Investment Bank and the United Kingdom institutions or persons to which he is responsible; what part (a) that person and (b) Her Majesty's Government plays in the nomination and appointment of the (i) president and (ii) vice-president of that bank; what changes have (A) occurred and (B) are about to occur in that office; and what representations he has received concerning the filling of such vacancies. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134181) | |
| 398 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the sites of special scientific interest that he intends to introduce following their designation by the European Union for (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134127) | |
| 399 | Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former members of the Ulster Defence Regiment whose claims for the Accumulated Service Medal were reviewed because of insufficient evidence were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful in claiming the medal. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134152) | |
| 400 | Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procedure was followed by the Honours and Distinction Committee to ascertain the eligibility of former members of the Ulster Defence Regiment claiming Accumulated Service Medals, but for whom the necessary records were not available. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134151) | |
| 401 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action she has taken to combat illegal logging; and if she will make a statement in respect of implementation and related procurement practices. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134187) | |
| 402 | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in what circumstances the Air Accidents Investigation Board investigates military accidents. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134154) | |
| 403 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what products of SAMR and Porton Down Porton Products have had agreements to market and distribute since 1980; to whom they were marketed and distributed; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134132) | |
| 404 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 17th July, Official Report, column 2W, on Eurofighter, if he will define offensive air support in the context of his reply; and to what extent the 27 mm Mauser cannon was identified as an asset in that role of the Eurofighter. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134199) | |
| 405 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on increasing cooperation between the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134202) | |
| 406 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the basic principles attached to EU membership, breach of which encourages EU sanctions, as discussed at Feira; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134203) | |
| 407 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his policy towards the development of a charter of fundamental rights. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134204) | |
| 408 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his policy on (a) the interinstitutional agreement on transparency in European Community institutions and (b) extending transparency beyond that agreement. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134205) | |
| 409 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recommendations the Government received pertaining to the installation of the cannon in the Eurofighter; for what reason a cannon was an original feature; and if he will make a statement. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134183) | |
| 410 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place the text of Sir Con O'Neill's Memorandum on the EEC negotiations of 1970-72 in the Library. |
| ¶A[Transferred] (134177) | |
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