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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Thursday 9 November 2000
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Thursday 9 November, of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| 1 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many people his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137953) | |
| 2 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many (a) Finnish, (b) Spanish and (c) Portuguese vessels he estimates will fish North Sea stocks after 31st December 2002; how many vessels (i) from the UK and (ii) in total fish these stocks at present; and if he will commission a study on the effect of such fishing on stocks. |
| (137899) | |
| 3 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how much of the £51 million extra allocated for flood defence will be available in (a) 2000-01, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03 and (d) 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137401) | |
| 4 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what action he took between August 1998 and August 2000 to improve the institutional arrangements for flood defence recommended by the Agriculture Committee's Sixth Report of Session 1997-98, HC 707; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137535) | |
| 5 | Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the number of staff at his Department's Carlisle regional office will be increased; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137711) | |
| 6 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken into the possibility that cow dung used as a fertiliser could transmit BSE in cattle to humans as CJD; what were the findings; and what advice he has issued on the matter. |
| (137624) | |
| 7 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137695) | |
| 8 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many trawlers operate under the UK flag with quota; and what was the figure in May 1997. |
| (137418) | |
| 9 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what research the Spanish vessels at Newlyn are carrying out; and what net size they are using. |
| (137415) | |
| 10 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what action he is taking to ensure BSE infected meat is not imported from the European continent. |
| (137420) | |
| 11 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what rights UK fishermen have to fish in Spanish waters. |
| (137416) | |
| 12 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what proportion of cod caught in British waters is caught and landed by British trawlers. |
| (137419) | |
| 13 N | Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what measures he will take to conserve stocks of (a) John Dory, (b) anchovy, (c) pilchard and (d) bream. |
| (137417) | |
| 14 | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to increase the subsidy provided to supply milk to schools; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137622) | |
| 15 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many spot checks have been undertaken in the last six months to ensure seed purity. |
| (137347) | |
| 16 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps have been taken to ensure that prohibited GM foods do not enter the UK market. |
| (137349) | |
| 17 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what data he has collated on the extent to which prohibited GM material has entered the food chain in the UK. |
| (137348) | |
| 18 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137785) | |
| 19 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff her Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137958) | |
| 20 | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will end the requirement for civil servants to retire at the age of 60. |
| (137621) | |
| 21 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to her which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137627) | |
| 22 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137955) | |
| 23 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his Answer of 30th October, Official Report, columns 331-2W, what research has been conducted since May 1997 by the Broadcasting Standards Commission into public attitudes towards the portrayal of violence in broadcast programmes. |
| (137998) | |
| 24 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to designate chess a sport. |
| (137992) | |
| 25 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has for funding regional theatre in the areas covered by (a) the South East Arts Board, (b) Waverley District Council and (c) Mole Valley District Council, with particular reference to (i) the Redgrave Theatre, Farnham and (ii) the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead. |
| (137687) | |
| 26 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications for free television licences for pensioners aged 75 years and over have been (a) made and (b) granted in (i) Glasgow, Pollok, (ii) the city of Glasgow and (iii) Scotland; and what each figure represents as a percentage of the eligible groups in each case. |
| (137770) | |
| 27 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when (a) digital terrestrial television, (b) cable television and (c) Channel 5 will be available in High Peak. |
| (137618) | |
| 28 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to his Answer of 30th October, Official Report, column 330W, on sub-titling for the deaf and hard of hearing on digital, cable and satellite television, for what reason the scope of his Department's review has been extended to include satellite and cable TV; and what other aspects of provision and reception of sub-titling, signing and audio description services are also being reviewed. |
| (137919) | |
| 29 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what his policy is on encouraging television subtitle-users to take up digital television prior to analogue television being switched off. |
| (137920) | |
| 30 | Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the review of the National Lottery grants application process is due to be published. |
| (137767) | |
| 31 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137698) | |
| 32 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137791) | |
| 33 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137952) | |
| 34 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 30th October, Official Report, column 271W, on Eurocorps, if he will identify by (a) rank and (b) role the augmentees supplied by the United Kingdom to Eurocorps in Kosovo. |
| (138000) | |
| 35 N | Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he received between November 1999 and November 2000 on (a) the timing and (b) the content of strategic export controls legislation from (i) non-governmental organisations including voluntary and charitable groups, (ii) commercial interests, companies and trade organisations and (iii) other categories; and if he will make a statement. |
| (136602) | |
| 36 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made in the removal of asbestos from his Department's ships. |
| (137692) | |
| 37 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which variants of the Tomahawk land attack missile have been purchased by his Department; and if his Department has taken steps to purchase further variants. |
| (137689) | |
| 38 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent measures he has introduced to improve the reliability and security of postal services to and from Porton Down. |
| (137686) | |
| 39 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the number and locations of (a) X berths and (b) Z berths available to his Department. |
| (137691) | |
| 40 | Mr Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of RAF Brize Norton. |
| (137725) | |
| 41 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of the document DCI Gen 150/97 covering guidance on answers to parliamentary questions in the Library. |
| (137346) | |
| 42 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Sir John Day was aware of the incident at Wilmington, USA in 1989 concerning a Chinook HC1 at the time of the RAF Board of Inquiry into the Mull of Kintyre accident. |
| (137390) | |
| 43 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place a copy of his Department's guidance on answers to parliamentary questions in the Library. |
| (137345) | |
| 44 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer dated 23rd October, Official Report, column 28W, on the Mull of Kintyre accident, if Sir John Day knew of the Department's litigation against Textron and Boeing regarding FADEC at the time of the RAF Board of Inquiry into the Mull of Kintyre accident. |
| (137350) | |
| 45 | Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what factors he took into consideration in deciding to make RAF Saint Athan the Headquarters of the Defence Aviation Repair Agency. |
| (137768) | |
| 46 | Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what targets he has set for (a) employment, (b) investment and (c) stakeholder involvement in the Defence Aviation Repair Agency. |
| (137769) | |
| 47 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of RAF Coltishall. |
| (137930) | |
| 48 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent studies his Department has undertaken of the experience of other countries' armed forces in respect of women in combat roles. |
| (137908) | |
| 49 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement about the islamic terrorist threat to (a) Royal Naval ships and (b) British service personnel in foreign ports. |
| (137911) | |
| 50 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date military assistance was first (a) offered to, (b) accepted and (c) provided to Russia in respect of the Kursk disaster; and what the nature has been of the assistance provided since that date. |
| (137925) | |
| 51 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the United Kingdom version of the Eurofighter Typhoon will not be armed with a cannon. |
| (137926) | |
| 52 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement about the deployment of HMS Argus on frontline duties. |
| (137909) | |
| 53 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his assessment is of (a) the damage to and (b) the period needed for repairs to HMS Fearless. |
| (137910) | |
| 54 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is concerning a ground attack role for Eurofighter Typhoon. |
| (137905) | |
| 55 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement about British unmanned aerial vehicles lost in the Balkans theatre since March 1998. |
| (137906) | |
| 56 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received on redeployment from Dishforth Airfield to Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, and for disposal or re-use of Dishforth Airfield. |
| (137703) | |
| 57 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the long-term future for RAF Dishforth. |
| (137705) | |
| 58 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military and civilian posts there are at Dishforth Airfield. |
| (137704) | |
| 59 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137697) | |
| 60 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British troop carriers are on lease from Boeing; and at what cost. |
| (137413) | |
| 61 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137788) | |
| 62 N | Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on compensation for former PoWs of the Japanese; and what estimate has been made of the numbers involved. |
| (137344) | |
| 63 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many staff in his Department are employed under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137956) | |
| 64 N | Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make it his policy to include English and maths key skills qualifications within the curriculum 2000 programme at an equivalent level to GCSE English and maths for the purpose of initial teacher training. |
| (135929) | |
| 65 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what restrictions exist on the future disclosure of material held in his Department's files on former members of the Schools Insepctorate. |
| (137914) | |
| 66 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what his assessment is of the recent research commissioned from the London School of Economics and Exeter University about the effect of (a) class sizes and (b) good teaching on school standards. |
| (137913) | |
| 67 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement about the work of the Value for Money Unit in his Department. |
| (137912) | |
| 68 | Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what progress has been made in the relocation of the jobcentre in Carlisle; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137709) | |
| 69 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137699) | |
| 70 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what measures his Department is taking to publicise the Holocaust Memorial Day Education Pack; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137631) | |
| 71 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what measures his Department has taken to distribute copies of the Holocaust Memorial Day Education Pack to schools and colleges; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137632) | |
| 72 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what guidance his Department has issued to schools and colleges on how to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137633) | |
| 73 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137786) | |
| 74 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many staff are employed by his Department under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137960) | |
| 75 N | Mr David Chidgey (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many responses he has received to the Consultation Paper on Telecommunication Mast Development; and from whom. |
| (136857) | |
| 76 N | Mr David Chidgey (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will place copies of responses received to the Consultation Paper on Telecommunication Mast Development in the Library. |
| (136858) | |
| 77 N | Mr David Chidgey (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he will announce the action he proposes to take following the public consultation on telecommunication mast development. |
| (136859) | |
| 78 N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 31st October, Official Report, column 387W, on road improvements (Gloucestershire) if he will undertake feasibility studies for a Nettleton Bolter Relief Road, a gyratory system at the Air Balloon Pub and an extra lane at Crickley Hill. |
| (137607) | |
| 79 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what his policy is on listing Trichloroethylene as a Category II carcinogen under the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 1994. |
| (137392) | |
| 80 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the area of land on flood plains on which planning permission for house-building has been granted, but on which building has not yet started. |
| (137398) | |
| 81 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to revoke planning permission for houses on land in danger of flooding; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137397) | |
| 82 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he was informed of the report into flood dangers by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University. |
| (137400) | |
| 83 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how he plans to measure the success of the 'Are You Doing Your Bit' campaign; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137396) | |
| 84 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what discussions he has had in the past six months with Ministers of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food about flood defence; and if he will make statement. |
| (137399) | |
| 85 N | Mr Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he will respond to the request by Devon County Council in respect of the exemption from Council Tax penalties sums given to the Environment Agency for flood defence works in excess of the relevant SSA. |
| (137527) | |
| 86 | Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what was the outcome of the Environment Council held in Brussels on 7th November; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137763) | |
| 87 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when he plans to lay regulations bringing in the new style of number plate for motor vehicles; and what the reason is for the delay in laying the regulations. |
| (137532) | |
| 88 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, for what reason details of the font to be used on the new style of number plates for motor vehicles announced in March have not been released to manufacturers of number plates. |
| (137533) | |
| 89 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has for further negotiations with his US counterpart on air service agreements; and what timescale he proposes for their conclusion. |
| (137534) | |
| 90 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the incidents of NATS software and systems failure since 31st July 2000, indicating the duration and severity of their effects. |
| (137528) | |
| 91 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make it his policy to gather information centrally on the previous employers of the most senior staff of registered social landlords that have taken over former local authority housing stock and the names and relevant financial interests of the chairs of the boards of these organisations. |
| (137707) | |
| 92 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will take steps to ensure that homes for which planning permission is given on the basis of affordability remain affordable on re-sale or reallocation. |
| (137708) | |
| 93 | Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to amend the planning law relating to mobile phone masts. |
| (138024) | |
| 94 | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, by how much the output of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide have been reduced in the last five years; and which power stations continue to emit these substances. |
| (137719) | |
| 95 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how much was paid to bus companies under the bus fuel rebate scheme between the financial year 1998-99 and the latest available date. |
| (137761) | |
| 96 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what will be the cost of his plans to extend the bus fuel rebate to community transport schemes; and if he will estimate for each of the last three years the cost of the scheme had the same rebate been extended to community transport schemes in that period. |
| (137760) | |
| 97 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what progress he has made on extension of the bus fuel rebate to community transport schemes; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137814) | |
| 98 | Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he is taking to encourage the use of sustainable urban drainage systems in new housing developments. |
| (138002) | |
| 99 | Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to increase turnouts in local referenda on directly elected mayors; and what plans he has to provide public funds for this purpose. |
| (138007) | |
| 100 | Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what changes he plans to make to the calculation of the area cost adjustment for local authorities in the South-East; and if he will make a statement. |
| (138005) | |
| 101 | Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what his latest estimate is of the number of (a) hostel places for rough sleepers available and (b) rough sleepers in (i) London, (ii) Liverpool, (iii) Leeds, (iv) Birmingham and (v) Manchester. |
| (138001) | |
| 102 | Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list those small district councils which will be exempted from the regime of an executive/scrutiny split under the Local Government Act 2000. |
| (138004) | |
| 103 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he plans to amend the calculation of the area costs adjustment to reflect data from the 1999 New Earnings Survey. |
| (137531) | |
| 104 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137783) | |
| 105 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to provide additional tax relief for small independent petrol retailers. |
| (137635) | |
| 106 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137951) | |
| 107 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was (a) the total annual budget and (b) Her Majesty's Government's annual contribution to the Euratom Safeguards Agency in each of the last five years; and what are the estimated figures for each of the next five years. |
| (137693) | |
| 108 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the methodology for adjusting for quality improvements in the calculation of the retail price index; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137865) | |
| 109 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research his Department has undertaken on the matter of hedonic price indices; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137864) | |
| 110 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what conditions apply to the supply of diesel fuel to farmers at a reduced rate of duty. |
| (137778) | |
| 111 N | Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the introduction of ultra low sulphur diesel. |
| (137609) | |
| 112 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to measure the level of fraud in applications for working families tax credit. |
| (137389) | |
| 113 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Newport West of 2nd November, Official Report, column 575W, for how many years the National Insurance Fund will remain in surplus over and above the recommended surplus if contribution rates remain unchanged and contribution thresholds are uprated in line with average earnings. |
| (137524) | |
| 114 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his latest estimate is of the number of recipients of the working families tax credit. |
| (137388) | |
| 115 | Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the outcome of the ECOFIN Council held in Brussels on 7th November; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137764) | |
| 116 N | Dr Stephen Ladyman (South Thanet): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the average household in mortgage repayments were current interest rates at the average level between 1992 and 1997. |
| (135971) | |
| 117 N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received on the level of fuel duties; and if he will make a statement. |
| (135970) | |
| 118 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137625) | |
| 119 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his latest estimate is of the impact on net tax revenue of the purchasing abroad of (a) fuel for heavy goods vehicles operating in the UK, (b) tobacco products for consumption in the UK and (c) alcoholic beverages for consumption in the UK; and if he will make a statement . |
| (138014) | |
| 120 | Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his latest estimate is of the percentage of (a) fuel used in heavy goods vehicles, (b) tobacco products consumed and (c) alcoholic beverages consumed in the United Kingdom which are purchased abroad; and if he will make a statement. |
| (138013) | |
| 121 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137779) | |
| 122 | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families he estimates are eligible for the working families tax credit but not claiming it. |
| (137615) | |
| 123 | Mr David Atkinson (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss the conclusions of the OSCE reports on the parliamentary and presidential elections in Kazakhstan in 1999, and the issue of freedom and independence of the media, with President Nazarbaev during his forthcoming visit. |
| (137713) | |
| 124 N | John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he has taken in response to recent territorial claims on Belize by Guatemala; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137325) | |
| 125 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the issues that have been tabled by EU member states and the Commission for discussion at the IGC relating to qualified majority voting. |
| (137897) | |
| 126 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 25th October, Official Report, column 145W, on the LomeĢ Peace Accords, what the nature was of the close touch maintained. |
| (137995) | |
| 127 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those areas of extension of qualified majority voting that are proposed by (a) EU member states and (b) EU bodies. |
| (137966) | |
| 128 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, further to his reply of 1st November, Official Report, column 534W, on the Intergovernmental Conference, if he will list those minor issues not listed, but which are also on the agenda for the IGC. |
| (137685) | |
| 129 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 1st November, Official Report, column 557W, on European federation, which further powers (a) need to be transferred from the United Kingdom Parliament and (b) require QMV decision-making procedures to be applied, to fulfil his Department's policy objectives. |
| (137684) | |
| 130 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which rights contained in the draft EU Charter of Fundamental Rights are not identical to rights already incorporated in the European Convention on Human Rights. |
| (137898) | |
| 131 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd November, Official Report, column 557W, on European federation, if he will list those EU countries which share his policy objective. |
| (137762) | |
| 132 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137954) | |
| 133 N | Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he received between November 1999 and November 2000 on (a) the timing and (b) the content of strategic export controls legislation from (i) non-governmental organisations including voluntary and charitable groups, (ii) commercial interests, companies and trade organisations and (iii) other categories; and if he will make a statement. |
| (136604) | |
| 134 | Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the Government's policy on the UN arrangements to ensure that goods imported into Iraq under the oil-for-food scheme are for the agreed purposes. |
| (137680) | |
| 135 | Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his estimate is of the value of humanitarian goods the UN Sanctions Committee is currently holding back from delivery to Iraq. |
| (137681) | |
| 136 | Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of children in Iraq who are chronically malnourished and the proportion of the total number of children this represents. |
| (137682) | |
| 137 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) first and (b) second elections in Zanzibar. |
| (137940) | |
| 138 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of preparations for the elections in Ghana in December. |
| (137941) | |
| 139 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential threat to (a) the United Kingdom and (b) the NATO area by rogue states. |
| (138009) | |
| 140 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 1st November, Official Report, column 536W, on the single European Foreign Policy, if he will list the principal UK national foreign policy objectives which the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy is a means of achieving. |
| (137928) | |
| 141 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 1st November, Official Report, column 539W, for what reason the United Kingdom has not ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. |
| (137921) | |
| 142 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has received in respect of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. |
| (137922) | |
| 143 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to visit (a) Peking and (b) North Korea. |
| (137924) | |
| 144 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 1st November, Official Report, column 536W, what representations he has made to Russia in respect of claims that a British submarine was involved in the Kursk disaster. |
| (137927) | |
| 145 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement about the return of displaced islanders to Diego Garcia. |
| (137915) | |
| 146 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had since 29th September with the foreign ministers of (a) France, (b) Germany and (c) Denmark about the single European currency. |
| (137918) | |
| 147 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the terrorist threat to British visitors to Middle Eastern countries. |
| (137916) | |
| 148 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement about the Biopreparat organisation in Russia and the manufacture of biological weapons. |
| (137929) | |
| 149 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the United Kingdom's relations with (a) Libya, (b) Iran, (c) Syria and (d) Yemen. |
| (137917) | |
| 150 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 1st November, Official Report, column 539W, what representations he has made to Germany in respect of the German Foreign Minister's proposal for co-sovereignty between states within the EU. |
| (137904) | |
| 151 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the human rights situation in (a) the People's Republic of China and (b) Hong Kong. |
| (137923) | |
| 152 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137700) | |
| 153 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the assistance his Department intends to give to the displaced peoples of the Chagos Islands in British Indian Ocean Territory to return home. |
| (137874) | |
| 154 | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which of the components or equipment given open individual export licences by Her Majesty's Government since 1997 for sale to the Israeli armed forces can be used in firearms, tanks or helicopters of the types used by the Israeli armed forces in action against civilians in the Occupied Territories. |
| (138010) | |
| 155 | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what evidence Her Majesty's Government has obtained that components or equipment licensed for export to Israel by the United Kingdom Government since 1990 have not been used by Israeli forces (a) against civilians in the Occupied Territories and (b) in Southern Lebanon. |
| (138006) | |
| 156 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137782) | |
| 157 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children and young people committed suicide in local authority secure units in each of the last 10 years. |
| (137811) | |
| 158 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff are employed by his Department under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137961) | |
| 159 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer, what the estimated annual cost is to the NHS in Buckinghamshire of treating people with drug-related illnesses. |
| (137994) | |
| 160 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he has received over the last six months from local authorities and health authorities regarding (a) capacity in nursing homes and residential care homes, (b) changes in time taken to find suitable care home spaces for patients discharged from hospital and (c) local and regional variations in (i) care home capacity and (ii) hosptial discharge times. |
| (137121) | |
| 161 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reports he has received this year from the Association of Directors of Social Services regarding overspending by local authorities on personal social services; and what the conclusions were of these reports. |
| (137122) | |
| 162 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many eye tests were carried out on people over the age of 65 years in the last 12 months. |
| (137797) | |
| 163 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many acute hospital beds there are in the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority area. |
| (137795) | |
| 164 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many school nurses were employed in each health authority in England and Wales in (a) 1979, (b) 1987, (c) 1997, (d) 1998 and (e) 1999; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137869) | |
| 165 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he has received a copy of the report 'School Nursing within the Public Health Agenda' jointly published by the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association, the Queen's Nursing Institute and the Royal College of Nursing; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137866) | |
| 166 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals he has for adopting a benchmark for the provision of school nurses within a health authority in terms of the number of pupils per school nurse. |
| (137867) | |
| 167 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals he has to increase the total number of school nurses across England and Wales; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137868) | |
| 168 N | Mr Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many agency nurses were employed in the NHS, and at what total cost, in each year since 1979 for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137120) | |
| 169 | Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate has been made of the loss of beds in the care home sector, both private and public, resulting from limits on shared rooms from 1st April 2002; and how many care homes he expects will become unviable. |
| (137758) | |
| 170 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department about measures to protect NHS staff from assault. |
| (137933) | |
| 171 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the proposed new community hospital at Lymington. |
| (137932) | |
| 172 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the health risks involved in the use of mobile telephones (a) with and (b) without hands-free kits. |
| (137931) | |
| 173 | Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on out-patient waiting times in the North Cumbria Health Authority. |
| (137710) | |
| 174 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137688) | |
| 175 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons he rejected the PFI bid to build a new community hospital in Lymington. |
| (137405) | |
| 176 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the role of community hospitals in the NHS 10 year national plan. |
| (137404) | |
| 177 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the future of the proposed new community hospital at Lymington. |
| (137402) | |
| 178 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration he gave to the PFI bid to build a new community hospital in Lymington as a separate project from other community hospitals. |
| (137403) | |
| 179 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137780) | |
| 180 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners hanged themselves in 1999. |
| (137801) | |
| 181 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement regarding the young woman who gave birth inside New Hall prison this summer. |
| (137808) | |
| 182 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the jurisdiction of HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Probations and the Prisons Ombudsman extends to Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. |
| (137799) | |
| 183 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Prison Service Health Care Department will publish the 1997-98 annual report. |
| (137805) | |
| 184 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mothers and babies were transported from one prison to another in (a) 1998 and (b) 1999. |
| (137810) | |
| 185 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding his Department provides for the evaluation of the Kourios programme at Her Majesty's Prison The Verne. |
| (137717) | |
| 186 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost is of a prison place in each contracted out prison. |
| (137804) | |
| 187 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners were committed to prison in (a) 1998 and (b) 1999 for each imprisonable offence. |
| (137712) | |
| 188 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what sum Premier Prison Services has repaid to the Prison Service as a result of the refinancing of PFI schemes for HM Prisons (a) Lowdham Grange, (b) Ashfield, (c) Dovegate and (d) Hassockfield Secure Training Centre. |
| (137798) | |
| 189 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women prisoners applied for a place in a mother and baby unit in (a) 1998 and (b) 1999 during the reception procedure. |
| (137809) | |
| 190 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff there are on night duty in each prison holding juveniles; and what the staff to prisoner ratio is in such prisons on night shifts. |
| (137723) | |
| 191 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of days spent in hospital post-birth was by prisoners before return to prison in the last 12 months; and what special arrangements exist for granting additional time in hospital if mother and baby are to be separated. |
| (137807) | |
| 192 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much it has cost on average to build a prison place in each of the contracted out prisons. |
| (137803) | |
| 193 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what operational lessons have been learned, and what changes have been made, following the deaths in HMP Leicester in December 1999; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137721) | |
| 194 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the ratio of staff to inmates is in (a) each prison holding 18 to 21 year olds and (b) each institution holding juveniles. |
| (137724) | |
| 195 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners suffered permanent damage as a result of an attempted suicide in 1999. |
| (137802) | |
| 196 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the elapsed time between estimated time of death and discovery of the body for each prisoner who committed suicide in 1998 and 1999. |
| (137800) | |
| 197 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the ethnic composition is of (a) staff and (b) prisoners in each prison which holds juvenile offenders. |
| (137722) | |
| 198 | Jackie Ballard (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women have given birth whilst held in HMP Brockhill in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137806) | |
| 199 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will commission a statistical study of the link between domestic violence and child abuse. |
| (137883) | |
| 200 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the United Kingdom will not make any enquiries of the Schengen Information System during its first year of membership. |
| (137892) | |
| 201 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average custodial sentence imposed in each of the last three years on persons convicted of repeat offences of domestic violence. |
| (137878) | |
| 202 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 25th October, Official Report, column 430W, how many of those convicted in England and Wales in (a) 1997 and (b) 1998 for possession of cannabis have been convicted again since then. |
| (137999) | |
| 203 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd November, Official Report, column 611W, if he will (a) list the categories of offence for which the 1,756 people were sentenced and (b) the action taken following the breaches of the conditions of their release. |
| (137993) | |
| 204 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals convicted of offences of domestic violence have been released under the Home Detention Curfew Scheme. |
| (137813) | |
| 205 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with his Dutch counterpart about the policy of the Government of the Netherlands towards drugs. |
| (137887) | |
| 206 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals convicted of a second offence of domestic violence were imprisoned in each of the last three years. |
| (137880) | |
| 207 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-molestation orders were issued in (a) 1999 and (b) 1989. |
| (137881) | |
| 208 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed by his Department under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137964) | |
| 209 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of child abuse were reported in each police force area in each of the last three years. |
| (137882) | |
| 210 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd November, Official Report, column 610W, on the home detention curfew scheme, if he will list the sentences imposed on those prisoners released under the home detention curfew scheme who have since been convicted of a further offence. |
| (137967) | |
| 211 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 31st October, Official Report, column 425W, how many representations he has received (a) supporting and (b) opposing the civil registration of homosexual and lesbian relationships. |
| (137997) | |
| 212 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of sentencing policy towards persons convicted of offences of domestic violence. |
| (137879) | |
| 213 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 31st October, Official Report, column 435W, how many responses he has so far received to the consultation paper 'Setting the Boundaries: reforming the law on sex offenders'. |
| (137996) | |
| 214 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the level of credit card fraud over the last three years; and what plans he has to reduce its incidence. |
| (137886) | |
| 215 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if UK nationals have been placed on the Schengen Information System by non-UK government authorities. |
| (137895) | |
| 216 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if individuals who have received custodial sentences for offences of domestic violence are eligible for release under the home detention curfew scheme. |
| (137877) | |
| 217 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who have been released from prison under the Home Detention Curfew Scheme have committed two or more offences since their release; and what sentences they have received. |
| (137884) | |
| 218 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd November, Official Report, column 590W, when he will publish his conclusions regarding measures to protect children from exposure to sexually explicit material contained in videos with an R18 classification. |
| (137991) | |
| 219 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list those proposals, orginally set out in Corpus Juris, which are under discussion at EU level (a) separately and (b) conjointly; and what his policy is regarding the exercise of the UK's veto in each case. |
| (137896) | |
| 220 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people arrested at Premiership and Nationwide league grounds during the (a) 1998-99 and (b) 1997-98 seasons were (i) convicted of an offence and (ii) given a custodial sentence. |
| (137889) | |
| 221 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd November, Official Report, column 520W, when the review of the Codes of Practice which govern police procedures under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 will be completed and its findings published. |
| (137990) | |
| 222 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many responses he received to the consultation paper published on 24th July regarding the protection of children from exposure to sexually explicit material. |
| (137890) | |
| 223 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans (a) to put data on the Schengen Information System and (b) to obtain access to its data. |
| (137893) | |
| 224 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to issue guidelines to the courts on the sentencing of persons convicted of offences of domestic violence. |
| (137876) | |
| 225 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what pilot projects have been introduced since May 1997 on alternative methods of voting at elections in the United Kingdom. |
| (137948) | |
| 226 N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 4th April, Official Report, column 445W, on Lancashire Police, what changes in (a) to (d) have occured since 4th April. |
| (136860) | |
| 227 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers began basic training in Gloucestershire in (a) 1992, (b) 1996, (c) 1997, (d) 1998 and (e) 1999; and how many he estimates will do so in 2000. |
| (137947) | |
| 228 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civilian police personnel were based in Gloucestershire on 1st January (a) 2000, (b) 1999, (c) 1998, (d) 1997, (e) 1996 and (f) 1992. |
| (137946) | |
| 229 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many uniformed police personnel were based in Gloucestershire on 1st January (a) 2000, (b) 1999, (c) 1998, (d) 1997, (e) 1996 and (f) 1992. |
| (137945) | |
| 230 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in Gloucestershire were (a) arrested and (b) convicted for drug related incidents in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. |
| (137937) | |
| 231 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his policy on Proof of Age cards. |
| (137938) | |
| 232 | Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will amend the legislation relating to the issue of registration plates for vehicles in order to reduce the incidence of crime involving the misuse of number plates. |
| (137628) | |
| 233 | Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will introduce measures to require that scrap vehicles have number plates destroyed on arrival at scrap yards in order to reduce crime involving the use of false number plates. |
| (137630) | |
| 234 | Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of thefts of fuel from service station forecourts. |
| (137629) | |
| 235 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is in respect of the creation of a National Confiscation Agency. |
| (137935) | |
| 236 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the reliability of DNA testing (a) in convicting the guilty and (b) in exonerating the innocent. |
| (137936) | |
| 237 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the proposal by the president of the British Board of Film Classification for an increase in the number of licensed sex shops in British cities. |
| (137934) | |
| 238 | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the overall spending on probation services was for each county in England and Wales in the last 12 months; and what was the average cost of maintaining a person on probation in the last 12 months. |
| (137720) | |
| 239 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137701) | |
| 240 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police authorities have been classified as property hot spots as part of his plan to assist with police recruitment. |
| (137414) | |
| 241 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he has taken in the past three months to instal more safe cells for remand prisoners. |
| (137714) | |
| 242 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137781) | |
| 243 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes to parliamentary constituency boundaries are due to take place before (a) March 2001 and (b) May 2002. |
| (138023) | |
| 244 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff her Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137959) | |
| 245 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department makes available to Uganda to prevent mother to baby transmission of HIV. |
| (137942) | |
| 246 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department makes available to African countries which are not in conflict for mine clearance. |
| (137944) | |
| 247 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of Malawi's requirement for teaching staff in the next four years; and how she expects that need to be met. |
| (137943) | |
| 248 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to her which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137702) | |
| 249 | Mr Ian Pearson (Dudley South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what changes will be made to the department expenditure limit and running costs limit for her Department in 2000-01. |
| (138012) | |
| 250 N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has given in each of the last three years to Cambodia, indicating the projects for which aid was given; what recent request she has received for aid for flood relief; and if she will make a statement. |
| (137323) | |
| 251 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by her Department. |
| (137792) | |
| 252 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137957) | |
| 253 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137626) | |
| 254 N | Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what work has been undertaken since 1996 for the Court Service by (a) Information Initiatives and (b) Myriad. |
| (137322) | |
| 255 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff are employed by his Department under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137963) | |
| 256 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137790) | |
| 257 | Mr Christopher Leslie (Shipley): To ask the President of the Council, what proposals she has to amend the Privy Council Office departmental expenditure limit and running costs limit for 2000-01. |
| (137634) | |
| 258 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer from the Minister for Europe of 2nd November, Official Report, column 557W, on European federation, if he will define the difference between the two types of government mentioned; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137683) | |
| 259 | Sir Richard Body (Boston and Skegness): To ask the Prime Minister, if it is his practice to notify honourable Members when he has received a complaint about a personal constituency matter for which the honourable Member would expect to take responsibility; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137772) | |
| 260 N | Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Prime Minister, what representations he received between November 1999 and November 2000 on (a) the timing and (b) the content of strategic export controls legislation from (i) non-governmental organisations including voluntary and charitable groups, (ii) commercial interests, companies and trade organisations and (iii) other categories; and if he will make a statement. |
| (136603) | |
| 261 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137950) | |
| 262 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many, and what percentage of, first degree full time graduates from higher education institutions in Scotland were unemployed six months after graduation in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (137777) | |
| 263 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137787) | |
| 264 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many staff are employed by his Department under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137962) | |
| 265 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what changes have been made in the rules for eligibility for payments under the Vaccine Damage Payment Act 1979 in each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137776) | |
| 266 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the annual cost of extending winter fuel payments to those under the age of 60 who are in receipt of (a) the middle or higher rate of disability living allowance care component or (b) higher rate of mobility component and who are presently resident within Scotland. |
| (137679) | |
| 267 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people have applied to date for information packs for the minimum income guarantee; how many applications have been returned; how many are receiving the minimum income guarantee in (a) Glasgow, Pollok (b) Glasgow and (c) Scotland; and what this figure is as a percentage of the eligible population. |
| (137766) | |
| 268 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list the local authorities in Scotland which have been inspected by the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate, together with the dates when (a) these inspections began and (b) reports were issued. |
| (137775) | |
| 269 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list, by category, the reasons for which applications for the minimum income guarantee have been rejected (a) in total and (b) in each Benefit Agency area. |
| (137875) | |
| 270 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many pensioners have applied (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully for the minimum income guarantee, expressed as a percentage of (i) the total numbers and (ii) each benefit area. |
| (137771) | |
| 271 | Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people over the age of (a) 60 and (b) 70 years claim income support in (i) the constituency of Glasgow, Pollok, (ii) Glasgow and (iii) Scotland; and if he will express these figures as a percentage of the total number of people over (1) 60 and (2) 70 years in each category. |
| (137765) | |
| 272 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Cunninghame South, 2nd November, Official Report, column 573W, if he will list the percentage of each five year age group above the age of 60 years who are in receipt of the minimum income guarantee, broken down by gender. |
| (137387) | |
| 273 | Mr Howard Flight (Arundel and South Downs): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will make a statement regarding the level of complexity of the form that needs to be completed by pensioners wishing to claim the minimum income guarantee and its impact on the numbers of people making a claim. |
| (137617) | |
| 274 N | Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many pensioner households are entitled to the winter fuel payment. |
| (136319) | |
| 275 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he expects the review of housing benefit claims from people living in supported and sheltered housing to be completed; and if he will list those local authorities that have not yet submitted information on this matter. |
| (137706) | |
| 276 | Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many pensions advisers at each grade in his Department there were in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999 and (d) 2000; and what was the relevant staff establishment in each year. |
| (137759) | |
| 277 | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what the overall social security bill is for Wales in the last 12 months; and if he will give a breakdown of how the money is spent by constituency. |
| (137715) | |
| 278 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the number of incomplete national insurance records on the NIRS2 computer system for the financial year 1997-98; and if he will make a statement on the implications of these incomplete records on the benefit and pension entitlements of those effected. |
| (137694) | |
| 279 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will estimate the average award of minimum income guarantee which has been paid to the pensioners who have started to receive the minimum income guarantee as a result of his Department's current take-up campaign. |
| (137408) | |
| 280 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will amend the benefit regulations to ensure that people who suffer from long-term illness or disability do not suffer a lower benefit entitlement by virtue of discovering after a trial period in work that they are unable to sustain that work because of the effects of their illness or disability. |
| (137812) | |
| 281 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137794) | |
| 282 | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the effect on social security expenditure of the termination of the Anglo-Australian Social Security Agreement. |
| (137612) | |
| 283 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what the current value of the (a) Christmas Bonus and (b) 25 pence age addition for pensioners aged over 80 years would be if they had been uprated in line with prices since their first introduction. |
| (137526) | |
| 284 | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people living in (a) Australia, (b) Britain and (c) elsewhere will be affected by the termination of the Anglo-Australian Social Security Agreement. |
| (137614) | |
| 285 | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people retired in each of the past five years with part of their pension coming from credits earned whilst in Australia; and what was the average amount of pension earned by these credits. |
| (137610) | |
| 286 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd November, Official Report, column 572W, on the relationship between pensioners' incomes and the minimum income guarantee, if he will update the table assuming a MIG level of £90 for single pensioners and £135 for married couples and to include pensioners with savings between £20,000 and £25,000. |
| (137608) | |
| 287 | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people living in Australia are earning credits towards British contributory benefits. |
| (137613) | |
| 288 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Pendle of 31st October, Official Report, columns 349-50W, (a) how many people have been sent letters inviting them to apply for the minimum income guarantee and of these (i) how many tear-off slips have been returned and (ii) how many of the letters have resulted in a successful claim and (b) how many people have contacted the minimum income guarantee helpline and as a result (i) how many claims have been submitted as a result of a helpline inquiry and (ii) how many of the helpline inquiries have resulted in a successful claim. |
| (137525) | |
| 289 | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 4th July, Official Report, column 164W, how many of the cases of people travelling to the Euro 2000 Football Championships investigated by the Benefits Agency have led to loss of benefits. |
| (137774) | |
| 290 | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how the Government intends to respond to the termination of the Anglo-Australian Social Security Agreement. |
| (137611) | |
| 291 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, on how many occasions since 21st August he has referred to The Court of Appeal sentences imposed for drug trafficking. |
| (137885) | |
| 292 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, how many people his Department employs under the New Deal for Young People. |
| (137949) | |
| 293 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Solicitor General, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137793) | |
| 294 N | Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations he received between November 1999 and November 2000 on (a) the timing and (b) the content of strategic export controls legislation from (i) non-governmental organisations including voluntary and charitable groups, (ii) commercial interests, companies and trade organisations and (iii) other categories; and if he will make a statement. |
| (136601) | |
| 295 | Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many licences were granted for the export of cluster munitions in each of the last five years. |
| (137690) | |
| 296 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what position Her Majesty's Government has adopted on the definition of renewable energy being negotiated for the European Union Draft Renewable Energy Directive; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137393) | |
| 297 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total cost is of the projects approved under the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation for (a) waste incineration, (b) offshore wind, (c) onshore wind, (d) solar power and (e) barriers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137395) | |
| 298 N | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the waste incineration projects which have been approved under the terms of Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation, but which have yet to be built. |
| (137394) | |
| 299 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what stocks of road fuels are being held by Government and its agencies. |
| (137530) | |
| 300 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures he is providing to ensure continuing availability of road fuels in the event of disrupted supplies. |
| (137529) | |
| 301 | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many small and medium enterprises failed by constituency in Wales and England in the last 12 months. |
| (137716) | |
| 302 | Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the impact of the national minimum wage on wage rates in England and Wales. |
| (138011) | |
| 303 | Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the non-departmental public bodies responsible to him which have duties relating to Scotland, indicating their budget and staffing in Scotland, the number of Scottish board members and their emoluments. |
| (137696) | |
| 304 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent communications he has had from the European Commission in respect of the adequacy of data provided to the Commission in regard to the applicability of Euratom Treaty Article 37 to the MOX demonstration facility at Sellafield. |
| (137871) | |
| 305 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representation his Department received at the Plutonium 2000 Conference held in Brussels in October; and what assessment he has made of the presentation made on the business viability of BNFL's plutonium MOX fuel plans. |
| (137870) | |
| 306 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on progress made by his Department's Joint Environmental Markets Unit in securing sales of British green technologies and services abroad. |
| (137873) | |
| 307 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137784) | |
| 308 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list, by region, the number of sub-post office managers and proprietors who, during the past three months, have submitted notice of their intention to close their sub-post office; what the corresponding number was in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (137939) | |
| 309 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what proportion of people completing the New Deal for Young People have (a) ceased to be in work after 13 weeks and (b) returned to income support within 12 months. |
| (137888) | |
| 310 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are HIV-positive do not suffer discrimination as a result of employment practices followed by his Department. |
| (137789) | |
| 311 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will introduce legislation to devolve responsibility for the police service and for the prison service in Wales from the Home Office to the National Assembly for Wales. |
| (138026) | |
| 312 | Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what additional funding will be made available for the National Assembly of Wales to meet the unforeseen additional costs incurred by local authorities and other public sector agencies in Wales arising from recent acute bad weather and flooding; and if he will make a statement. |
| (138025) | |
| 313 | Mr Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the remaining level of contamination land at the Millennium Site on the Greenwich Peninsula; and what plans exist to remediate the site. |
| [Transferred] (137872) | |
| 314 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the security implications of the return of displaced islanders to Diego Garcia. |
| [Transferred] (137907) | |
| 315 | Mr Howard Flight (Arundel and South Downs): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence concerning the deployment of troops to assist in areas of West Sussex disrupted by recent flooding; and if he will make a statement. |
| [Transferred] (137616) | |
| 316 | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will instruct the Environment Agency to re-assess the risks of flooding in Buckinghamshire. |
| [Transferred] (138003) | |
| 317 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1st November, Official Report, column 537W, what constitutional factors were considered in relation to possible British membership of the single European currency, prior to the 27th October 1997 statement concerning British membership of EMU. |
| [Transferred] (138008) | |
| 318 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what independent research the Government has commissioned on the health aspects of using mobile telephones and the level of radiation from hands-free kits. |
| [Transferred] (137773) | |
| 319 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 30th October, Official Report, column 242W, on hospital staff assaults, how many of the violent incidents against NHS trust staff in 1998-99 led to (a) prosecution and (b) conviction. |
| [Transferred] (137968) | |
| 320 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the anticipated length is of the clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of using cannabis for medicinal purposes. |
| [Transferred] (137894) | |
| 321 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what bearing the Charter of Fundamental Rights will have on verdicts of the European Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement. |
| [Transferred] (137965) | |
| 322 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on recent thefts from the CFSP Headquarters in the Justis Lipsius building; what classified material (a) was and (b) is to be stored in that location; and if he will make a statement. |
| [Transferred] (137900) | |
| 323 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people living in the Tooting constituency receive working families tax credit. |
| [Transferred] (137796) | |
| 324 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what sentences were imposed on people convicted in (a) 1999 and (b) 1998 of incitement to racial hatred. |
| [Transferred] (137891) | |
| 325 | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many charities have failed in each year since 1995. |
| [Transferred] (137718) | |
| 326 | Ms Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what discussions he has held with the insurance industry about measures to prevent age discrimination in employment. |
| [Transferred] (137623) | |
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