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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on Monday 20 December 1999

Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 20 December 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.
 


 
MONDAY 20th DECEMBER
1  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many abattoirs and meat processing plants have failed to pay inspection charges for completed inspections in the last year.
(103352)
2  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to increase the use of information technology within the Meat Hygiene Service.
(103395)
3  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what steps he is taking to remove restrictions in livestock slaughter regulations; and what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages of introducing an intermediate stamp to allow abattoirs to slaughter 40 units a day.
(103389)
4  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has made to the European Commission concerning the levels of veterinary supervision in abattoirs and meat processing plants; and what response he has received.
(103354)
5  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what recent representations he has received from farmers concerning the level and cost of regulations affecting farming in (a) the UK and (b) other EU member states.
(103398)
6  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has for changes to the over-thirty-months scheme.
(103353)
7  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the ban on spraying sulphuric acid on crops was removed in the UK.
(103393)
8  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what studies he has (a) commissioned and (b) received on the effect on wildlife of spraying sulphuric acid on crops; and if he will publish the results of such studies.
(103394)
9  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many abattoirs and meat processing plants have closed in the last year for which figures are available.
(103355)
10  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what progress has been made in the review of the operations of the Meat Hygiene Service.
(103351)
11  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in what proportion of the time official veterinary surgeons spend in abattoirs and meat processing plants they are not engaged in inspection duties.
(103400)
12  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103843)
13  
  
Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of recent reports that sesame seed and oil in foods intended for young children can produce serious anaphylactic attacks; and what discussions his Department has had with NestleĢ on the matter.
(103363)
14  
N  
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what research on organophosphates his Department plans to carry out with relevance to Gulf War syndrome.
(103089)
15  
N  
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to assess the Committee on Toxicity report on organophosphates.
(103250)
16  
N  
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to carry out research on organophosphates; how he will co-ordinate funding of research into organophosphates; how much he will invest in organophosphate research; and over what period he will finance reseach into organophosphates.
(103233)
17  
N  
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of sheep-dips on farmers' health.
(103090)
18  
N  
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what plans he has to discuss the report of the Committee on Toxicity on organophosphates with the (a) Ministry of Defence, (b) Department of Health and (c) Department of the Environment, Transport and Regions.
(103232)
19  
  
Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the outcome of the Agriculture Council held in Brussels on 14th to 15th December; and if he will make a statement.
(103470)
20  
  
Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what was the outcome of the Fisheries Council held in Brussels on 16th and 17th December; and if he will make a statement.
(103840)
21  
  
Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what representations he has (a) made to and (b) received from other European governments about the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill's compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights.
(103553)
22  
  
Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will set out the basis for his Department's statement on the compatibility of the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill with the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will place the relevant documents in the Library.
(103552)
23  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what is the total value of approved payments to Wiltshire farmers for (a) the 1998 calendar year and (b) the 1989-99 financial year; and if he will list by value to Wiltshire farmers CAP schemes supporting market prices but which do not involve payments made directly to them.
(102899)
24  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 22nd October on behalf of his constituent Ms Hodson.
(103084)
25  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 27th October on behalf of his constituent Mr. Jones.
(103085)
26  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 8th October on behalf of his constituent Mrs. Sawyer.
(103087)
27  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what actions she is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of her Department.
(103844)
28  
  
Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if her Department has set targets for reducing access to drugs by (a) young people and (b) school children.
(103383)
29  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she has taken to ensure that proposed changes to the TUPE Regulations are taken into account in ongoing outsourcing negotiations; and if she will make a statement.
(103715)
30  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she has taken to ensure that the findings of the review by her Department of major Government IT projects will be taken into account in negotiations to which they may be relevant.
(103627)
31  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance her Department has issued to cover previously outsourced staff when contracts with private sector suppliers are (a) renewed, (b) renegotiated and (c) put out to tender on their expiry.
(103717)
32  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance her Department has issued on the inclusion in outsourcing contracts of penalties for failure to abide by the TUPE Regulations; what plans she has to vary these penalties following her assessment of performance by private-sector companies subject to the TUPE Regulations; and if she will make a statement.
(103628)
33  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103845)
34  
N  
Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster and Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the successful bids from churches and other religious institutions for grants to assist capital works under the various lottery applications since May 1997.
(103097)
35  
N  
Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster and Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the successful lottery applications in the Lancaster and Wyre parliamentary constituency since May 1997.
(103098)
36  
N  
Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what benefits he expects to secure for the public from the new funding agreement with national museums and galleries.
(102088)
37  
N  
Mr Jon Owen Jones (Cardiff Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the obstacles that have prevented his Department from answering any of the questions tabled by the honourable Member for Cardiff Central since 8th November about ticket sales for the Millennium Experience.
(103601)
38  
  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people from North Yorkshire have bought tickets to visit the Millennium Dome in January 2000.
(103838)
39  
  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the impact of prospective taxes on the London art market.
(103837)
40  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the expenditure on football ground improvements involving grant and loan aid from the Football Trust in each year from 1988, broken down by ground.
(103756)
41  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the amount of government grants to the Football Trust in each year from 1988.
(103757)
42  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what was the cost of government expenditure and support, since 1997, other than in grants and loans, for the England World Cup 2006 bid.
(103755)
43  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the government grant support given to Sport England and its predecessor body for each of the years from 1994 to 1999.
(103874)
44  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the government grant support given to UK Sport and its predecessors in each year from 1994 to 1999.
(103875)
45  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the economic benefits which will accrue to each nation of the UK as a result of the England World Cup 2006 bid being successful; what account was taken of such an assessment in granting government assistance to the England World Cup 2006 bid; and if he will make a statement.
(103752)
46  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the official engagements carried out by Ministers in support of the England World Cup 2006 bid, indicating the cost to his Department of the support given.
(103863)
47  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what was the value of the government grant for the development of Wembley Stadium.
(103754)
48  
N  
Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department paid DLA Ellerbe Beckett for producing their report on the new Wembley Stadium.
(103588)
49  
N  
Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what further response he plans to make to the report of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Staging Professional Sporting Events, HC (1998-99) 124.
(103589)
50  
N  
Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action he has taken to implement the recommendations of the report from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Staging International Sporting Events, HC (1998-99) 124.
(103593)
51  
N  
Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings he (a) has had and (b) plans with members of the UK Athletics Technical Team who worked with Wembley National Stadium Limited on the design of the new National Stadium at Wembley.
(103587)
52  
N  
Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which of his Department's Ministers and officials attended the meeting of the National Stadium Monitoring Committee on 20th May.
(103591)
53  
N  
Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list the dates and locations of the meetings of the National Stadium Monitoring Committee at which Ministers or officials of his Department were present.
(103590)
54  
N  
Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many days interested parties were given to study the DLA Ellerbe Beckett report on the future of Wembley Stadium before he made his statement to the House of 1st December.
(103592)
55  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make provision to give primary school teachers free passes to the Millennium Dome to enable them to make preliminary visits before taking children in school parties.
(103206)
56  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on guide facilities for primary school parties visiting the Millennium Dome.
(103205)
57  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on the allocation of room in the Millennium Dome for primary school children to eat packed lunches.
(103204)
58  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many free school tickets have been granted to primary schools in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales for visits to the Millennium Dome.
(103207)
59  
N  
Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received on the number of overseas visitors to the UK in each of the last three years.
(102016)
60  
N  
Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the accounts of the FA (FIFA) World Cup 2006 bid for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98 and (c) 1998-99.
(102307)
61  
  
Mr Martin Bell (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the incidents of uncommanded flying control movements in Chinook helicopters since 1994 in which subsequent inspections reported no fault found.
(103639)
62  
N  
Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many commanding officers of territorial units were (a) regular officers and (b) territorial officers on (i) 1st January, (ii) 1st April, (iii) 1st July and (iv) 1st October.
(103401)
63  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103847)
64  
  
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the land owned and managed by the Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association in Hightown (Crosby), Merseyside.
(103747)
65  
  
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received from the Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association in Hightown regarding the purchase of access land.
(103748)
66  
N  
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on what support is available for former and serving personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
(103227)
67  
N  
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on what training is provided for (a) officers and (b) other ranks, on understanding international law.
(103228)
68  
N  
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on Britain's contribution towards the Rapid Reaction Force which was agreed in principle at the Helsinki Conference.
(103226)
69  
  
Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many employees of his Department took early retirement packages and at what total cost, in the financial year 1996-97.
(103362)
70  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Joint Rapid Reaction Force Exercise in Oman, scheduled for October 2001, on (a) the timetable for a decision on the FTA programme and (b) the assessment of the merits of the A400M aircraft.
(103110)
71  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) geographical and (b) other constraints are placed on the three US Air Force C-17s which might be used by the RAF for the MoD's short-term lift requirement.
(103107)
72  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times the Antonov 124-100 aircraft has been used by the MoD-RAF in the last two years.
(103102)
73  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) geographical and (b) other constraints are placed on the use of the Antonov 124-100.
(103108)
74  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the ability to provide logistic support for the three C-17s through the US supply system.
(103109)
75  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what length of runway is required for the Antonov 124-100 when fully loaded.
(103104)
76  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the prospects for short-term use of the Antonov 124-100.
(103105)
77  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial savings he has assessed can be gained on the current defence budget by the use of the Antonov 124-100 for the short-term strategic airlift role.
(103106)
78  
N  
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the Antonov 124-100 has the capacity to lift two main battle tanks simultaneously.
(103103)
79  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel in (a) the Royal Navy, (b) the Army and (c) the RAF have elected for court martial rather than face a summary hearing since 1997.
(102525)
80  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) service personnel and (b) civilian dependents have sought and received advice from the legal branches of each armed service; and how many of those received advice (i) by telephone, (ii) by letter, (iii) by clients visiting legal branch offices and (iv) by legal specialists visiting clients (1) at UK locations and (2) overseas locations, specifying the locations in each case.
(102526)
81  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much fuel duty his Department has paid in each of the past five years.
(102527)
82  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for each of the armed services, how many courts-martial have been convened in each of the past five years; and at what locations.
(102528)
83  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advice he has issued to the Territorial Army on compliance with the Working Time Directive.
(102901)
84  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for each armed service (a) how many applications were made for redress of grievance and (b) what was the average length of time between application and conclusion of the process, in each of the past five years.
(102529)
85  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel in each of the armed services were (a) arrested by civilian police, (b) released by civilian police into the custody of the Royal Military Police, (c) arrested by civilian police and taken before a magistrate and (d) released from magistrates' courts into the custody of the Royal Military Police, in (i) 1997, (ii) 1998 and (iii) 1999.
(102530)
86  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the average (a) cost and (b) length, in each armed service, of (i) a summary hearing and (ii) a court martial.
(102531)
87  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are employed in the (a) Army legal service, (b) Royal Navy legal service and (c) the RAF legal service, broken down by (i) rank and (ii) grade; and at what locations they are based.
(102532)
88  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in each armed service, how many personnel (a) went absent without leave and (b) deserted in each of the last three years.
(102533)
89  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for each armed service, what is the average time a suspect spends in custody awaiting court martial.
(102534)
90  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what variations he has made to the spending plans for his Department announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review in July 1998.
(102900)
91  
  
Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he has completed his examination of Gurkha pensions.
(103638)
92  
N  
Mr Richard Livsey (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent reports he has received on radiation which has been measured in the vicinity of impacts of ammunition containing depleted uranium.
(103391)
93  
  
Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many flights by United Kingdom and allied aircraft have taken place over Iraq during the last month; and what quantities of missiles were discharged into Iraq during that period.
(103640)
94  
  
Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of officers accepted for training at Sandhurst Military College in each of the last five years received their secondary education in (a) independent and public schools and (b) maintained schools, broken down by company.
(103871)
95  
  
Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what percentage of officers accepted for training at Sandhurst Military College have been discharged for medical reasons before completing their training, broken down by company, in each of the last five years.
(103870)
96  
N  
Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of recent incidents involving health hazards associated with organophosphate lubricants, including the possible involvement of organophosphates in the near accident of a BAe 146 aircraft in Sweden on 12th November, in relation to military aircraft; and if he will make a statement.
(103111)
97  
  
Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will add Northumberland to the list of authorities with high social need to which funding is provided for new pre-school education places for three year olds.
(103476)
98  
  
Mr A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when the name of the adjudicator appointed to consider the disputed closure proposals for Milfield, Kirknewton and Acklington schools in Northumberland will be announced; by what date representations relating to these closure proposals need to be submitted; and whether arrangements will be made for the adjudicator to visit the areas served by the schools.
(103475)
99  
  
Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the total budget allocated for advertising the Access to Work scheme; and what is the level of expenditure allocated to advertising on (a) radio, (b) television, (c) newspapers and (d) journals and trade magazines.
(103358)
100  
  
Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what is the total budget allocated for informing disabled people and employers about the Access to Work scheme; and what the breakdown of that expenditure is.
(103356)
101  
  
Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if his Department has produced a marketing strategy for the Access to Work scheme.
(103357)
102  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on UCAS's proposals for a unified tariff of Level 3 qualifications.
(102920)
103  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he is taking to ensure that examining bodies maintain consistant and mutually coherent standards.
(102922)
104  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many British citizens who have been educated in other European Union countries are currently unable to access student loans on the grounds of recent non-residence in the United Kingdom.
(102924)
105  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what steps he is taking to support Local Learning Partnerships where they cross the boundaries of local Learning and Skills Councils.
(102985)
106  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he is taking to ensure that Curriculum 2000 qualifications are of equal rigour and reflect equal attainment to their predecessors.
(102921)
107  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to transfer buildings (a) from the Further Education Funding Council to the Learning and Skills Council and (b) from TECs to local Learning and Skills Councils; and what will be the net cost of transfers, sales and reprovision.
(102923)
108  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the significant differences between the updated Transition Plan for Post-16 Education and Training published on 26th November and the draft published on 30th June; and what is the reason for these differences.
(102926)
109  
  
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what steps he has taken to raise awareness of the dangers of gamma hydroxy butyrate in schools.
(103378)
110  
N  
Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 1st December, Official Report, column 227W, what was the proportion of out-of-borough pupils attending primary and secondary schools in Barnet in each of the last five years.
(103008)
111  
N  
Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West and Penistone): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what mechanisms exist for ensuring that the educational attainment and progress of children who are taught at home by their parents are adequately monitored to ensure that children are not educationally disadvantaged.
(103572)
112  
N  
Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West and Penistone): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will provide a breakdown by local education authority of the number of children who are taught at home by their parents; and what plans he has to institute a national register and to make it a requirement that parents who plan to teach their children at home inform the local education authority.
(103571)
113  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103846)
114  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the cost of administration of the provision of education and training for 16 to 19 year olds under his proposals by (a) schools, (b) further education colleges, (c) sixth form colleges, (d) the National Learning and Skills Council, (e) local learning and skills councils, (f) local life-long learning partnerships and (g) sixth form colleges maintained by the Learning and Skills Council.
(103576)
115  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list those consultants who have been engaged by his Department to advise on the management of individual local education authorities following Ofsted reports on them; how many companies have bid for each contract; what the criteria were against which the successful bidders were selected; and what is the total cost of these consultancy contracts.
(103575)
116  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the cost of administration in providing education and training for 16 to 19 year olds by (a) schools, (b) further education colleges, (c) sixth form colleges and (d) TECs.
(103577)
117  
N  
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, which educational institutions will benefit from funding under the capital guidelines for Lancashire for 2000-01.
(103229)
118  
N  
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, section 486, what the procedure is for applying for grants under the Education Act 1996, Part VIII; and if guidelines are available.
(103570)
119  
  
Mr David Tredinnick (Bosworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many medical schools offer training in complementary and alternative medical techniques; what percentage this constitutes of the total number of medical schools; and if he will make a statement.
(103477)
120  
  
Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what response he has received to the consultation paper on valuation tribunal membership issues.
(103636)
121  
  
Mr Andrew F. Bennett (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he is taking to improve water quality in the Mersey Basin; and what guidance he has given to (a) the Water Regulator and (b) North-West Water on the sewage works at Bolton, Eccles, Ellesmere Port, Sale and Wigan.
(103390)
122  
  
Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 15th December, Official Report, column 187W, on utilities' standards of compliance, if he will quantify the shortfall in utilities compliance with the statutory code of practice on reinstatement of highways and footways.
(103579)
123  
  
Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement about his plans for housing revenue account subsidy for the year 2000-01.
(103633)
124  
  
Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 6th December, Official Report, column 431W, when he will report on London Transport's expenditure on external consultants up to the end of the first half of the current financial year.
(103582)
125  
N  
Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the London Transport Report of 1997 into options for London Underground; and if he will make a statement.
(103562)
126  
N  
Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the government and other reports compiled since May 1997 covering PPP, public interest companies, privatisation and other options for London Underground; if he will place them in the Library; and if he will make a statement.
(103563)
127  
N  
Mr Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will break down the £3 billion efficiency savings identified in the Pricewaterhousecoopers report about PPP and London Underground.
(103564)
128  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103842)
129  
  
Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to promote the provision of accessible transport for disabled people.
(103619)
130  
  
Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has for the further development of (a) regional and (b) local land use planning policies.
(103618)
131  
  
Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what discussions he has held with the Passenger Transport Authority on plans to extend the Manchester Metro Link throughout Greater Manchester.
(103620)
132  
N  
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, which organisations he has consulted in the preparation of the Rural White Paper.
(103218)
133  
N  
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on what measures he intends to introduce to maximise consultation on the Rural White Paper.
(103219)
134  
  
Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the locations of the long sea sewage outfalls still in use around the shores of the United Kingdom.
(103381)
135  
  
Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many meetings his officials have attended with Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food officials on the joint review of flood and coastal defence funding.
(103861)
136  
  
Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received on the joint review of flood and coastal defence funding.
(103862)
137  
  
Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he is taking to ensure the joint review of flood and coastal defence funding meets his Department's objectives on the water environment; and if he will make a statement.
(103860)
138  
  
Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the local Wildlife Sites Review Group will report; and if he will make a statement.
(103859)
139  
  
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he plans to include provisions relating to public sector leaseholders in his legislation to reform leasehold law.
(103584)
140  
  
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what his policy is towards indemnities underwriting unforeseen major works on the sale or transfer of local authority housing stock.
(103583)
141  
  
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if the Leasehold Advisory Service is able to advise public sector leaseholders; and if it employs anyone with specific knowledge of public sector leaseholders' issue.
(103585)
142  
  
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what guidance he has given to local authorities concerning the funding of advice services for private sector leaseholders only.
(103586)
143  
  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the current extent of housing need in London.
(103613)
144  
  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what account he will take of the effect of the judgement in Regina vs the London Borough of Newham Ex Parte Aurura Sacupima and Others in the measures he proposes to take to assist London boroughs to house homeless people within their boundaries.
(103617)
145  
  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what measures he proposes to take to reduce the number of people living in temporary accommodation in London.
(103615)
146  
  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the factors contributing to current shortages of low cost accommodation in London.
(103614)
147  
  
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what resources he proposes to allocate to tackle shortages of affordable housing in London in addition to the funding currently allocated through the Housing Investment Programme.
(103616)
148  
  
Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the standard spending assessment per head of population in the areas covered by Derbyshire Dales District Council and Amber Valley Borough Council.
(103726)
149  
  
Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will estimate, per pupil, the standard spending assessment for each shire county local education authority, ranked and numbered in descending order, for each of the last five years.
(103724)
150  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 29th September to the Minister for the Environment on behalf of his constituent Mr Logan.
(103086)
151  
N  
Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to update the existing rules and procedures for highway inquiries following the publication of the New Deal for Transport White Paper.
(103115)
152  
N  
Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the current rules and procedures for highway inquiries were published.
(103114)
153  
  
Kali Mountford (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to improve the rating of telecommunications masts; and if he will make a statement.
(103635)
154  
N  
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what discussions he has had with the Civil Aviation Authority about safety (a) in general, (b) relating to the spaces between seats on aircraft and (c) relating to reclining seats; and if he will make a statement.
(103598)
155  
  
Mr Ernie Ross (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what reports he has received from the Vehicle Inspectorate on the safety of Dennis Dart buses; what response he has made; if he will establish a formal investigation of Dennis Dart buses; and if he will make a statement.
(103751)
156  
  
Mr Ernie Ross (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what resources he will make available to authorities that were reorganised on 1st April 1998 for reorganisation costs incurred by them in 2000-01; and if he will make a statement.
(103722)
157  
  
Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what is the revenue support grant per head of population in (a) Stoke-on-Trent, (b) Kensington and Chelsea, (c) Wandsworth, (d) Waltham Forest and (e) Redbridge.
(103622)
158  
  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 will be fully implemented; and if he will make a statement.
(103216)
159  
  
Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how much public spending will be allocated to the Transport Direct telephone line; and where it will be based.
(103373)
160  
  
Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will reply to the letter of 18th October sent by Nigel Petrie on behalf of Edison Mission Energy to Mr L. Jaero of his Department; and if he will make a statement on how this issue has been handled by his Department.
(103737)
161  
N  
Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the amount of capital expenditure by the water industry for improving the environment over the past five years; and what his estimate is of the anticipated expenditure on such schemes, by the industry, over the next five years.
(103101)
162  
  
Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, on what date it was decided that the consultation mechanism relating to business rating revaluation proposals in Wales should be transferred to the National Assembly for Wales from his Department; and on what date he announced this decision.
(103738)
163  
  
Mr Dafydd Wigley (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages of extending the 50 per cent. reduction in business rating available to environmentally-friendly sources of electricity generation to the generation of electricity by pumped storage hydro techniques; and if he will make a statement.
(103739)
164  
  
Mr Phil Woolas (Oldham East and Saddleworth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what was the outcome of the consultation on residential leasehold reform; and how he proposes to take the matters forward.
(103750)
165  
  
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the French Government's decision to reduce VAT on energy-saving materials.
(103474)
166  
  
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to reduce VAT on energy-saving materials.
(103473)
167  
  
Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on his policy in respect of (a) direct and (b) indirect taxation in relation to the tax treatment of e-commerce and its impact on any renegotiated double tax agreement.
(103632)
168  
  
Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what economic evaluation his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned of the overall balance of advantage of existing double tax agreements.
(103631)
169  
N  
Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the annual population (a) inflow to and (b) outflow from the Government Office, North East Region; and what was migration between the Government Office North East Region and (i) other parts of the UK and (ii) other countries in each year from 1992 to 1998.
(102810)
170  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103857)
171  
  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made in establishing a web-site to provide advice on mortgages and pensions to the general public.
(103745)
172  
  
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of working days lost through sickness per 1,000 employees in (a) the public sector and (b) the private sector in the last year for which data are available
(103539)
173  
N  
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was repaid to the Bank of England by the European Monetary Institute when it went into liquidation upon the establishment of the European Central Bank.
(103300)
174  
N  
Mr Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, under what terms of agreement the Paris Club of creditor countries operates; and if he will place a copy of such terms in the Library.
(103397)
175  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanisms are used to assess how much extra contract work outsourced operations will need to take on; and how the viability of plans to generate this extra work is assessed.
(103625)
176  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what measures of added value are currently used when assessing outsourcing plans in terms of (a) technology and (b) procedure.
(103629)
177  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what measures of added value when assessing the benefits of outsourcing were used between 1994-1997; and what additional measures have been included in the assessment of outsourcing plans since 1997.
(103630)
178  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 11th October on behalf of his constituent Mr Gent.
(103083)
179  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 26th October on behalf of Mr Bastow.
(103078)
180  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 28th September on behalf of his constituent Mr Walkinshaw.
(103079)
181  
  
Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will break down into the constituent items the figures included as the United Kingdom gross contribution to EU institutions in 1998 stated in Table (a) 9.2 and (b) 9.7 of the 1999 Pink Book.
(103385)
182  
N  
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what factors underlay his decision to award free television licences to people aged 75 years and over; and if he will make a statement.
(103602)
183  
  
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of (a) families with dependent children, (b) non-pensioner couples with no children, (c) non-pensioner single people, (d) pensioner couples and (e) single pensioners who have gross annual income of less than £10,000 and who (i) pay tax and (ii) do not pay tax, if receipts of tax credits are treated as negative taxation.
(103551)
184  
  
Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens have been killed in Nigeria in the last five years; how many of these worked in the oil industry; and for how many of these deaths police reports were obtained from the Nigerian authorities.
(103403)
185  
  
Mr Russell Brown (Dumfries): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the forthcoming business in the Council of the European Union for December; and if he will list the major European Union events for the next six months.
(103718)
186  
  
Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the binding embargoes agreed by the European Union since 1990, indicating for each the period of the embargo and any arrangements made for extension of the period of validity of export licences to those countries to reflect the period of embargo.
(103555)
187  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103848)
188  
  
Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those countries seeking EU membership which will have to raise their external tariffs to qualify for membership.
(103388)
189  
  
Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will call for reports on how many people have been successfully prosecuted in Pakistan under the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1992 for employing bonded labour since this law was passed.
(103872)
190  
  
Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will call for reports on how many people have been successfully prosecuted in India under (a) the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976 and (b) the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, for employing bonded labour since these laws were passed.
(103873)
191  
N  
Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which countries have signed the UN Convention on the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings.
(103231)
192  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress is being made with the process of returning East Timorese refugees living in West Timor.
(103214)
193  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his European counterparts regarding the lifting of the EU embargo on arms sales to Indonesia.
(103209)
194  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Sudan concerning President Omar Hassan al Bashir's decision to dissolve parliament and declare a state of emergency.
(103217)
195  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on current diplomatic relations with Iran.
(103208)
196  
  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures he has implemented to shorten the waiting times for patients awaiting day case surgery; and what effect these have had.
(103472)
197  
N  
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 13th December, Official Report, column 53W, on Mid-Essex Hospital Services Trust, for what reason he was unable to specify the exact number of patients who had waited more than 18 months for treatment in the Middlesex Hospital Trust area on 9th December.
(103117)
198  
  
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to raise awareness of the dangers of gamma hydroxy butyrate.
(103377)
199  
  
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to publish the third report to Parliament on the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme.
(103540)
200  
N  
Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence was given by his Department on behalf of departmental staff to the Personal Investment Authority in respect of free-standing additional voluntary contribution schemes; and if he will place a copy of that evidence in the Library.
(102811)
201  
  
Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors from overseas are working in National Health Service hospitals in the Greater London area.
(103729)
202  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103849)
203  
  
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, under what circumstances a medical practitioner can be required to supply to a third party information given by a patient in confidence.
(103741)
204  
  
Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to give pensioners and benefit recipients concessions for the purchase of TV Patientline cards in NHS hospitals.
(103556)
205  
  
Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under five years of age are living in the area covered by Parkside Community Health Trust.
(103360)
206  
  
Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in (a) Brent, (b) Harrow, (c) Kensington and Chelsea and (d) Westminster have no named health visitor.
(103359)
207  
  
Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent health visitors carrying a clinical caseload are employed by Parkside Community Health Trust.
(103361)
208  
  
Mr Christopher Gill (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the cost implications for residential homes for the elderly of the proposals contained in the consultation document, Fit for the Future; and if he will make a statement.
(103471)
209  
  
Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department will reply to the letters from the honourable Member for Ashford of 25th September and 4th November; and if he will make a statement on the performance of the correspondence sections of his Department.
(103858)
210  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received concerning protection of the job titles of physiotherapist and physical therapist; and if he will make a statement.
(103230)
211  
  
Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that all contracts for the purchase of meat by NHS providers contain clauses specifying that the animals must have been reared under animal welfare conditions to a standard as high as those enforced in the UK.
(103350)
212  
  
Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what are the terms of reference for the independent enquiry into the removal of children's organs at Alder Hey hospital; and to what timescale it will operate.
(103753)
213  
  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to test the validity of the scientific research underlying recent studies into the link between overhead powerlines and skin cancer.
(103600)
214  
  
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many private nursing homes and residential homes there were in the United Kingdom in (a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999.
(103836)
215  
  
Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to respond to the Royal College of Surgeons' report on transplant services; and if he will make a statement.
(103386)
216  
  
Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost of introducing a national transplant service; and if he will make a statement.
(103387)
217  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a substantive reply to his letter of 4th November.
(103088)
218  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish new guidelines governing the remuneration of dispensing appliance contractors.
[R] (103093)
219  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ensure that local government social services departments establish traceability systems for medical devices registered for CE marking.
[R] (103094)
220  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints he has received about the activities of the Fraud Investigation Unit of the Prescription Pricing Authority in each of the last three years.
[R] (103100)
221  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what use he has made of Crown immunity to avoid liability for breach of commercial patents on medical products.
[R] (103301)
222  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses employed in the NHS have their salary paid for by (a) a commercial organisation and (b) sponsorship.
[R] (103091)
223  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has issued to health authorities to ensure that wheelchair voucher users are made aware of alternative providers of wheelchairs outside the NHS.
[R] (103095)
224  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidelines he has issued to health authorities on the use of negative pressure therapy.
[R] (103096)
225  
N  
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines he has issued to health authorities on charging (a) companies bidding for work to tender and (b) in-house bids for tendering.
[R] (103092)
226  
  
Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if resources allocated to the BCG vaccination programme have been transferred (a) in the short term and (b) permanently to the vaccination programme for meningitis.
(103396)
227  
  
Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the level of stocks of BCG vaccine in the NHS.
(103392)
228  
  
Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to give priority to Brentwood when stocks of BCG vaccine become available.
(103399)
229  
N  
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to allow doctors and hospitals to withdraw life-sustaining food and water from patients; and if he will make a statement.
(103599)
230  
  
Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health authorities (a) have authorised the prescription of the drug Aricept to ameliorate the symptons of Alzheimer's disease in each of the Government standard regions, (b) have refused to authorise its use and (c) have not yet reached a decision.
(103634)
231  
N  
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultant vacancies currently exist in accident and emergency departments.
(102084)
232  
N  
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many accident and emergency departments currently have no consultant in post.
(102085)
233  
N  
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of UK CCST holders who are available to fill consultant vacancies in accident and emergency departments.
(102086)
234  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what directions are given to health authorities and trusts regarding the issue of form E112 for continuing medical and surgical treatment in the EU paid for by the NHS.
(103210)
235  
N  
Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the cost of the report on organophosphates by the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment; what evaluation he has made of its recommendations; and if he will make a statement.
(103200)
236  
  
Mr Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reimburse local authorities for their expenditure on the Kosovan Humanitarian Evacuation Programme.
(103721)
237  
  
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the use of gamma hydroxy butyrate as a date rape drug.
(103376)
238  
  
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reclassify gamma hydroxy butyrate as a drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
(103379)
239  
  
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to limit the availability of gamma hydroxy butyrate.
(103375)
240  
  
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful prosecutions have been made against illicit (a) advertisers, (b) suppliers and (c) manufacturers of gamma hydroxy butyrate in each of the last five years.
(103374)
241  
  
Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) men and (b) women under the age of 18 years were serving a prison sentence in England and Wales on 1st November.
(103728)
242  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103850)
243  
  
Mr Denzil Davies (Llanelli): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the last available 12 months for which figures are available, what percentage of the victims of convicted paedophiles in England and Wales were infant girls.
(103384)
244  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will make a statement on the outcome of the consultation on the Holocaust Remembrance Day proposal.
(103040)
245  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he has received the conclusions of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Corporate Manslaughter; and if he will make a statement.
(103580)
246  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many representations he has received in response to the consultation document on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
(103039)
247  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in response to the consultation on the proposal for a Holocaust Remembrance Day, (a) which organisations and public bodies have submitted responses and (b) how many responses have been received from private individuals.
(103402)
248  
  
Mr Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures his Department is taking to tackle the problems caused by drugs in local communities.
(103382)
249  
N  
Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of those people who were arrested as a result of actions they took during the visit by the President of China, how many are (a) on bail, (b) in custody, (c) have had charges against them proved and (d) were released without charge.
(103222)
250  
  
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his proposals for testing offenders and suspected offenders for drug use will include tests for (a) cannabis, (b) amphetamine, (c) ecstasy, (d) cocaine, (e) LSD and (f) heroin.
(103744)
251  
N  
Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the number of applications for political asylum in the United Kingdom for each month from January 1997 to November 1999.
(103380)
252  
N  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to re-assess regularly the baseline figure of planned police recruits during the life of the Crime Fighting Fund; and if he will make a statement.
(103333)
253  
N  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the funds which will need to be available through the Crime Fighting Fund in year two and year three in order for police forces to be able to recruit a total of 5,000 officers; and if he will make a statement.
(103328)
254  
N  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on extra funding for his Department from government reserves; and if he will make a statement.
(103330)
255  
N  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to make funding available for the retention of police officers recruited through the Crime Fighting Fund; and if he will make a statement.
(103331)
256  
N  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces are not recruiting new police recruits; and if he will make a statement.
(103332)
257  
N  
Mr Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional funding will be made available for the Crime Fighting Fund in year two and year three; and if he will make a statement.
(103329)
258  
  
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate the cost to local authorities in the last year for which figures are available of (a) providing secure remand places for juveniles and for the escort of juveniles for court appearances and (b) the reimbursement paid under Section 21 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
(103869)
259  
  
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Youth Justice Board will assume responsibility for the procurement and provision of secure remand places for juveniles.
(103868)
260  
N  
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it is a condition of service that retained firemen must record on job applications or inform their existing employers of their Fire Service obligations.
(102898)
261  
  
Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average length of time taken by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to process travel document applications.
(103596)
262  
  
Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green and Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the length of time taken by the Immigration and Natonality Directorate to process travel document applications.
(103597)
263  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 22nd September on behalf of his constituent Mrs. Birkbeck.
(103082)
264  
  
Mr Ernie Ross (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 8th December, Official Report, column 534W, on Gaming, if he will make a statement on the composition of the Independent Review Body he intends to establish to review and advise on the law on gaming.
(103867)
265  
  
Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what were the factors that determined the police grant (a) net expenditure and (b) percentage increase in real terms for Staffordshire in (i) 1997-98, (ii) 1998-99 and (iii) 1999-2000; and if he will make a statement.
(103621)
266  
  
Mr Ian Stewart (Eccles): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he has received the report of the Fire Service College Prior Options Review; and if he will make a statement.
(103720)
267  
  
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his plans to implement the policies announced on 25th January to protect the national infrastructure against electronic attack.
(103719)
268  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Metropolitan Police and social services departments in London regarding begging activities in London by women claiming to be Kosovan refugees using children and babies.
(103211)
269  
N  
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many British public sector pensioners whose entitlement derives from overseas service are unable to obtain a pension for their current spouse.
(102925)
270  
  
Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in which countries her Department is working on projects for the benefit of street children.
(103730)
271  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what actions she is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of her Department.
(103851)
272  
N  
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much British bi-lateral aid was given to the governments in sub-Equatorial Africa over the past five years; how much of that money is not accounted for; and if she will make a statement.
(103198)
273  
N  
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was paid to the British Council for managing DFID contracts in sub-Equatorial Africa over the past five years; and if she will make a statement.
(103197)
274  
N  
Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people are employed to monitor British bi-lateral aid given to governments in sub-Equatorial Africa over the past five years; and if she will make a statement.
(103196)
275  
  
Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has undertaken of the amount of humanitarian relief provided to shelter those Kosovars whose homes have been destroyed or damaged; and if all the shelter requirements for Kosovars this winter have been met.
(103595)
276  
  
Ms Ruth Kelly (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what guidance her Department gives to British companies wishing to donate their products or services to assist in the provision of humanitarian relief organised by charities.
(103594)
277  
  
Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has lent to each developing country for the last five financial years; what lending is expected to be this year; and what she expects it to be for each of the subsequent five years.
(103736)
278  
  
Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to what extent lending to developing countries within her Department's budget will be counted as (a) an asset and (b) current spending under resource accounting and budgeting.
(103735)
279  
  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations she has received on women's human rights in Iran; and if she will make a statement.
(103746)
280  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations she has received on women's rights in Pakistan; and if she will make a statement.
(103213)
281  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103852)
282  
  
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will make a statement on the Lord Chancellor's disciplinary powers regarding the conduct of High Court judges.
(103742)
283  
  
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many High Court Judges have been censured by the Lord Chancellor since May 1997.
(103811)
284  
N  
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what other methods of consulting solicitors as part of the secret soundings process for applicants to the judiciary and for silk he proposes to adopt following the withdrawal by the Law Society and other solicitors' bodies from that process.
(103581)
285  
N  
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what discussions the Lord Chancellor's Department has had concerning the interpretation and application by Greek courts of Articles 7, 11, 16, 24 and 30 of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
(103080)
286  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what factors underlay the retention of business process re-engineering within the Land Registry when the recent decision over contracting out IT systems was taken.
(103626)
287  
  
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the role played by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Kosovo and Bosnia.
(103725)
288  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103853)
289  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the occasions on which vehicles which were being used officially by executive or non-executive members of the Northern Ireland Police Authority were involved in road collisions or otherwise damaged in the past three years; and in each case if he will give (a) the circumstances in which the damage occurred, (b) who was determined to be legally responsible and (c) who paid for the damage.
(103568)
290  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which executive and non-executive members of the Northern Ireland Police Authority have held authorised fuel charge cards at any time in the past three years; and, in each case, how much has been charged to each card.
(103567)
291  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the official visits made by executive and non-executive members of the Northern Ireland Police Authority outside Northern Ireland in the past three years, indicating in each case (a) who authorised the visit, (b) the cost of the visit to public funds and (c) if non-members' costs were borne by the taxpayer.
(103566)
292  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the executive or non-executive members of the Northern Ireland Police Authority for any part of the years (a) 1997, (b) 1998 and (c) 1999.
(103565)
293  
N  
Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which executive or non-executive member of the Northern Ireland Police Authority has taken responsibility for the testing or evaluation of vehicles for police use in the last three years.
(103569)
294  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will provide a breakdown by department of (a) current leak investigations and (b) leak investigations since 1st May 1997.
(103201)
295  
N  
Mr George Galloway (Glasgow, Kelvin): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 13th December, Official Report, column 60, on the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, if he will list the circumstances to which he refers which led to the strike against the Chinese Embassy.
(103202)
296  
N  
Mr George Galloway (Glasgow, Kelvin): To ask the Prime Minister, what representations he has received concerning allegations relating to the United States bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade; and what response his Government has made.
(103203)
297  
  
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 16th December (ref. 102121) if the dinner held on 21st October at 10 Downing Street was undertaken in an official capacity.
(103749)
298  
N  
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Prime Minister, if Liberal Democrat members of the Joint Cabinet Consultative Committee are under an obligation not to disclose publicly the content of discussions in that forum.
(103077)
299  
N  
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Prime Minister, who attended the Joint Cabinet Consultative Committee meeting on 13th December on behalf of the Liberal Democrat Party.
(103081)
300  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103854)
301  
  
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what action he took before July in response to the report of the Scottish Office Central Research Unit in 1992 on sexual history and sexual character evidence in Scottish sexual offence trials.
(103740)
302  
N  
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many carers have received (a) invalid care allowance and (b) underlying entitlement to ICA for a full year in each year from 1978 to 1999.
(103073)
303  
N  
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how much it would cost to backdate the state second pension to 1978 for qualifying carers who reach retirement age after 2002-03.
(103118)
304  
N  
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many carers have received invalid care allowance in each year since 1978.
(103075)
305  
N  
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many carers for elderly and disabled people, who have been in receipt of or who have underlying entitlement to invalid care allowance and home responsibilities protection, he estimates will benefit from the state second pension in each of the 10 years from the start of the state second pension.
(103071)
306  
N  
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many carers have received invalid care allowance for (a) two, (b) five, (c) 10, (d) 15 and (e) 20 years since 1978.
(103074)
307  
N  
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many carers have received home responsibilities protection since 1978.
(103076)
308  
N  
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what estimate he has made of the costs of providing the state second pension to carers who have been in receipt of or who have underlying entitlement to invalid care allowance or home responsibilities protection in the first 10 years of the state second pension.
(103072)
309  
  
Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many cases are being dealt with by the Child Support Agency in England and Wales.
(103727)
310  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103855)
311  
  
Mrs Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will make a statement on winter fuel payments following the judgement made by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Taylor.
(103839)
312  
  
Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what advice is given to assessors and adjudicators on applications for disability living allowance on the mobility and care needs of those suffering from achondroplasia.
(103642)
313  
  
Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what account is taken of the needs of persons suffering from achondroplasia in framing criteria for disability living allowance.
(103641)
314  
N  
Mr Richard Livsey (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, after what period data about payments made by absent parents is routinely erased from CSA records.
(103116)
315  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what conditions he has identified as reasonable cause to terminate outsourcing contracts for the Information Technology Services Agency in terms of (a) cost, (b) delay and (c) failure to meet operational needs.
(103623)
316  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, when he next plans to meet trade union side representatives to discuss plans for outsourcing at the Information Technology Services Agency.
(103624)
317  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people aged under 18 years in Scotland have received income support with a care premium in each year since 1991.
(103758)
318  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people in Scotland have received invalid care allowance in each year since 1991.
(103759)
319  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people in Scotland have become ineligible for invalid care allowance on the grounds of age in each of the last five years.
(103865)
320  
  
Mr Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people in Scotland, under the age of 18 years, are in receipt of (a) income support, (b) housing benefit, (c) job seeker's allowance and (d) lone parent benefit as part of child benefit.
(103866)
321  
  
Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what remuneration, pensions and allowances are paid by his Department to persons who are appointed under the Social Security Act 1998 to act as members of an appeal tribunal; and if he will make a statement.
(103731)
322  
  
Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many medically qualified panel members appointed under the Social Security Act 1998 were formerly (a) employed and (b) contracted on a sessional basis, by the (i) Benefits Agency and (ii) Sema Group to carry out medical assessments in connection with social security benefit claims.
(103732)
323  
  
Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many medically qualified panel members appointed under the Social Security Act 1998 are (a) employed and (b) contracted on a sessional basis, by the Sema Group to carry out medical assessments on behalf of the Benefits Agency.
(103733)
324  
  
Mr Ted Rowlands (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Havant, of 13th December, Official Report, column 40W, on spending revisions, if he will estimate the number of recipients of each of the allowances and benefits listed in the table (a) in Wales and (b) in Merthyr Tydfil (i) currently and (ii) in 2000-01 and 2001-02.
(103372)
325  
  
Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans the Government has to extend the £100 winter heating allowance to disabled people below the age of retirement.
(103864)
326  
N  
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 13th December, Official Report, column 43W, on automated credit transfer of benefits, in what circumstances he would envisage exception to the norm of benefit payment by automated credit transfer.
(103199)
327  
  
Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will investigate the petrol prices charged to customers by car hire companies.
(103578)
328  
N  
Mr Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish the report concerning Blue Arrow plc to which his Department referred in its written answers of 30th June and 14th July 1992.
(103557)
329  
N  
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations in relation to Toyota he has made to (a) the Monetary Policy Committee and (b) Members of the Monetary Policy Committee regarding the (i) value of sterling and (ii) level of UK interest rates.
(103038)
330  
N  
Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish a timetable of action needed to re-establish the WTO talks.
(103225)
331  
N  
Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations he has made to the Bank of England in relation to Toyota.
(103220)
332  
N  
Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will publish the gross funding allocated by the Government for the SMART budget for (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-00.
(103221)
333  
N  
Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations he has made to (a) the EU and (b) the US Government about reinstating the WTO talks.
(103224)
334  
N  
Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what his policy is on (a) a sale and (b) an exchange of equity, relating to the Post Office.
(103223)
335  
  
Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the licence granted in November 1996 for the export of Hawk aircraft to Indonesia will cease to be valid.
(103554)
336  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103856)
337  
N  
Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster and Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures he will urge the World Trade Organisation to adopt in respect of environment and labour standards in order to ensure that free trade is fair and sustainable.
(103099)
338  
  
Mr Jim Marshall (Leicester South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he plans to take to prevent further job losses in textile, clothing and footwear manufacture.
(103643)
339  
N  
Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on the implementation of licensing of off-shore wind farms.
(103478)
340  
N  
Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on his Department's policy towards oil and gas companies which hold fallow fields in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf.
(103112)
341  
N  
Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on the timing of the next round of licensing in respect of the White Zone.
(103479)
342  
N  
Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many fallow fields there are in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean which have seen no development over the last ten years; and which company currently holds the licence to develop in each case.
(103113)
343  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what is his policy on taking environmental factors into account when granting export credit guarantees.
(103215)
344  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will make a statement on his policy on the export of diphtheria, tetanus and yellow fever vaccines for Iraqi children.
(103212)
345  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 29th November, Official Report, column 23W, on the Ilisu dam, when he will make a decision on the application for export credit support; and if he will make a statement.
(103234)
346  
  
Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what action he is taking to increase the productivity and reduce the running costs of his Department.
(103841)
347  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many breaches of the TUPE Regulations there have been in the last 12 months.
[Transferred] (103644)
348  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what mechanisms exist to monitor the observance of the TUPE Regulations by private sector employers.
[Transferred] (103645)
349  
  
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to amend the TUPE Regulations.
[Transferred] (103716)
350  
  
Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what representations he has received about changes to the calculation of non-dependent income contributions to council tax rebate allowances; and if he will make a statement.
[Transferred] (103723)
351  
  
Kali Mountford (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received about refunds for television licence stamps already purchased by people aged over 75 years.
[Transferred] (103637)
352  
  
Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much HM Treasury has lent to each developing country in the last five financial years; what the amount of lending is expected to be this year; and what it is expected to be for the next five years.
[Transferred] (103743)
353  
  
Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to what extent lending to developing countries from the Treasury's budget will be counted as (a) an asset and (b) current spending under resource accounting and budgeting.
[Transferred] (103734)


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