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Part 2: Written Questions for Answer on Tuesday 11 December 2001 |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| Questions for Written Answer | |
| 1 N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the level of delayed discharges. |
| (19848) | |
| 2 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he intends to ensure informed consent to participation in random assignment for those with (a) learning disabilities and (b) mental health problems. |
| (19497) | |
| 3 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the random assignment evaluation was delayed until six months into the national extension of New Deal for Disabled People; and for what reasons this evaluation was not conducted during the pilot programmes. |
| (19498) | |
| 4 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money will be spent on the New Deal for Disabled People over the next three years. |
| (19499) | |
| 5 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice he has given to job brokers about recruitment to the New Deal for Disabled People during the random assignment evaluation period; how job brokers' presentation of the random assignment research will be monitored; and how long volunteers to the New Deal for Disabled People will have to wait before they are told whether they are part of the control group for the random assignment evaluation. |
| (19500) | |
| 6 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what responses were received from (a) job brokers and (b) other interested parties about the random assignment evaluation. |
| (19501) | |
| 7 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the study A Review of the Use of Random Assignment will be completed; and if he will place it in the Library. |
| (19502) | |
| 8 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many regulatory changes affecting the administration of housing benefits have been made (a) in each year since 1997 and (b) in each month since July 2000. |
| (19503) | |
| 9 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many departmental circulars modifying housing benefit rules have been issued (a) each year since 1997 and (b) each month since July 2000. |
| (19504) | |
| 10 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions since 1997 the Parliamentary Ombudsman has written to him asking for redress on the grounds of equity to be made to clients of his Department resulting from a finding of maladministration leading to injustice; and how many people have received compensation in each case. |
| (19505) | |
| 11 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid in compensation in each year since 1997 as a result of cases related to his Department decided by the Parliamentary Ombudsman. |
| (19506) | |
| 12 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which local authorities the Housing Benefit Help Team has intervened since its creation; and when. |
| (19507) | |
| 13 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many repeat visits the Housing Benefit Help Team has made to individual local authorities; and to which ones. |
| (19508) | |
| 14 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long the Housing Benefit Help Team has spent with each local authority housing benefit office. |
| (19509) | |
| 15 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place the report he has received from Affinity on the Integrated Enquiry Service in the Library. |
| (19510) | |
| 1 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on his discussions with the Civil Service Commissioners about the terms of appointment of the next head of the Civil Service. |
| (19948) | |
| 2 N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, what proposals he has to look outside the Civil Service for the appointment of the next Cabinet Secretary; what plans he has to fuse the Cabinet Office with the office in No. 10 Downing Street; and what new conditions an applicant will be required to agree to before appointment as (a) Head of the Civil Service and (b) Cabinet Secretary. |
| (19949) | |
| 1 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the National Health Service spent on hiring agency nursing staff in the last 12 months. |
| (20735) | |
| 2 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimates he has made of the impact of staff shortages on NHS capacity. |
| (20625) | |
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