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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Thursday 19 July 2001
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Thursday 19 July, of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| 1 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Advocate General, if she will arrange to be made available to the family of Mr Surjit Chhokar the documents presented to (a) the inquiry into the conduct of the Crown Office and (b) the inquiry under Dr Jandoo into the treatment of the Chhokar family during the investigation into the murder of Mr Chhokar; what representations have been received from the Chhokar family about (i) those two inquiries and (ii) the murder of Mr Chhokar; what has been the response to them; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5656) | |
| 2 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review the restrictions on those employed in the Civil Service to permit them to stand as parliamentary candidates. |
| (5873) | |
| 3 N | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what representations he has received concerning the variations between the consultation processes undertaken by government departments. |
| (5369) | |
| 4 N | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which government departments have failed to produce a regulatory impact assessment for each paper that requires a R & A. |
| (5368) | |
| 5 | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to reduce the number of Government NDPBs. |
| (5519) | |
| 6 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to his Answer of 16th July, Official Report, column 17, on Church Buildings (Maintenance), how much has been invested in the maintenance of church buildings in each of the last five years; and what has been the percentage increase in real terms. |
| (5891) | |
| 7 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her Answer of 10th July, Official Report, column 449-50W, on the World Athletics Championship, what indications she received from Mr Gyalia regarding the IAAF's continuing commitment to holding the World Athletics Championships in London; and if they discussed a contingency plan for the games to be held outside the UK. |
| (5383) | |
| 8 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the membership of the Advisory Panel which is considering applications for the Chairmanship of the BBC. |
| (5127) | |
| 9 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to extend subtitling requirements to digital, cable and satellite television. |
| (5126) | |
| 10 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what is the total number of employees of (a) the New Opportunities Fund, (b) UK Sport, (c) NESTA, (d) Sport England, (e) the Millennium Commission and (f) the Advisory Committee on Libraries; and how many of these are (i) women, (ii) members of ethnic minorities and (iii) registered disabled. |
| (5124) | |
| 11 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, by what date every household in Worcestershire will be able to receive digital television by cable or terrestrial distribution systems; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5753) | |
| 12 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish past and current methods of treatment for (a) pralidoxime mesylato, (b) arsenic chloride and (c) a mixture of ethylphosphonyl dichloride and ethylphosphonyl difluoride before disposal. |
| (5790) | |
| 13 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the results of testing and decontamination of materials disposed of into the sea at Nancekuke when the base was decommissioned (a) were recorded and (b) will be published. |
| (5791) | |
| 14 | Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 11th July, Official Report, column 581W, if he will place in the Library the incomplete record of materials which were deposited in the sea off the North Cornish coast when CDE Nancekuke was decommissioned. |
| (5947) | |
| 15 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the timetable is for receiving bids and awarding contracts for the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5621) | |
| 16 N | Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received on (a) Fylingdales and (b) Menwith Hill in relation to recent proposals to install a national missile defence system at Fort Greely, Alaska; and if he will make a statement. |
| (4856) | |
| 17 | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the spare capacity of his Department's housing stock in Barton Stacey; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5442) | |
| 18 | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will made a statement on Defence Estates' refusal to respond to requests for repair at Moody's Farm House, Barton Stacey. |
| (5437) | |
| 19 | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will suspend work on Moody's farmhouse at Barton Stacey pending an inquiry. |
| (5440) | |
| 20 | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future of the first floor flat, Moody's Down Farmhouse, Barton Stacey, operated by Defence Estates. |
| (5441) | |
| 21 | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Out of Bounds for All Purposes areas will be reviewed in Barton Stacey; and if he intends to include all residential properties on his Department's land at Barton Stacey in the review. |
| (5439) | |
| 22 | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the future accommodation needs of non-commissioned officers in Barton Stacey; and if he will made a statement. |
| (5438) | |
| 23 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he was made of the impact on the value of UK exports of Bowman if (a) CDC, (b) TRW or (c) Thales were awarded the Bowman contract; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5128) | |
| 24 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assurances he has received from CDC about its performance in respect of the Canadian IRIS programme; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5131) | |
| 25 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on progress with the CV(F) (aircraft carrier) assessment phase contracts; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5134) | |
| 26 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact on procurement policy, with particular reference to the willingness of each of the competitors to accept future UK defence prime contracts, if (a) CDC, (b) TRW and (c) Thales were awarded the Bowman contract; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5135) | |
| 27 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what consultations he has had with the US Government to verify the performance of TRW in respect of digitisation programmes for the US armed forces; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5132) | |
| 28 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what consultations he has had with the Canadian Government to verify the performance of CDC in respect of the IRIS programme; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5133) | |
| 29 N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assurances he has received from TRW about its performance in respect of US digitisation programmes; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5129) | |
| 30 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the implications of the Defence Training Review for the future of RAF Halton. |
| (4938) | |
| 31 N | Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which existing collaborative projects will become co-operative armaments programmes under the Six-Nation Framework Agreement. |
| (5360) | |
| 32 N | Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which government departments will be involved in approving the permitted export lists under the Six-Nation Framework Agreement. |
| (5359) | |
| 33 N | Mr A.J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidance she has issued to education authorities and to learning and skills councils on future funding arrangements for transport to school for pupils aged over 16 years; how many education authorities propose to discontinue free transport on post-16 pupils; and if she will make a statement. |
| (4997) | |
| 34 N | Mr A.J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions she has had with religious organisations about the implications for church schools of new funding arrangements for school transport of pupils over the age of 16 years. |
| (4996) | |
| 35 | Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of newly qualified teachers have left the teaching profession in each of the last five years for which information is available. |
| (5396) | |
| 36 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which secondary schools in Oxfordshire have applied for specialist status; and what awards have been made to date. |
| (5625) | |
| 37 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there were in Oxfordshire in each of the years from 1997 to 2001. |
| (5626) | |
| 38 N | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on her plans for public investment in schools. |
| (3355) | |
| 39 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the condition of school buildings in North Somerset; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5877) | |
| 40 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money has been allocated for (a) new school building and (b) school building repairs and improvement in North Somerset for each year since May 1997. |
| (5876) | |
| 41 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of 16 to 18 year olds were in education or training in (a) 1998, (b) 1999 and (c) 2000. |
| (5238) | |
| 42 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate she has made of the number of exclusions from schools that arose from drug-related incidents in each year since 1997. |
| (5885) | |
| 43 N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidance has been issued on the circumstances in which it is appropriate for a local education authority exclusion officer to overrule a school over a decision to exclude. |
| (4930) | |
| 44 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the change in incidence of special needs children with statements between 1997 and 2001 as a proportion of pupils on roll at all schools. |
| (5372) | |
| 45 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the factors underlying the change in the incidence of special educational needs children without statement from 1997 to 2001 as a proportion of pupils at all schools. |
| (5373) | |
| 46 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, why the number of vacancies for (a) mathematics and (b) information technology teachers changed between 1997 and 2000. |
| (5370) | |
| 47 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children with special educational needs were on roll in each local education authority in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999, (d) 2000 and (e) 2001 broken down by those without and those with statements. |
| (5375) | |
| 48 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding is available to schools with special educational needs; and how much is available under each stream. |
| (5374) | |
| 49 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there were at (a) January 2001 and (b) January 2000 in each local education authority; and if she will place these figures in the Library. |
| (4931) | |
| 50 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, for what reason teacher vacancies as a percentage of teachers in post changed from 1997 to 2000 (a) in the South East and (b) in London. |
| (5376) | |
| 51 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many appeals were heard by the Special Educational Needs Tribunal; and how many were successful in 1999-2000. |
| (5377) | |
| 52 N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will place the teacher vacancies statistics for January 2001 in the Library. |
| (5371) | |
| 53 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, for what reason teachers in England are required to pass the national numeracy test before being qualified to teach. |
| (5869) | |
| 54 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, for what reason teachers who have qualified in Scotland or Wales are allowed to teach in England without passing the national numeracy test. |
| (5868) | |
| 55 N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many day care places in nurseries have been created in Warrington North since 1997. |
| (4992) | |
| 56 N | Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many out-of-school hours childcare places have been created in Warrington North since 1997; and how many of those places are in wards which are amongst the most deprived 20 per cent. of wards in England as measured by the Official Index of Deprivation. |
| (4993) | |
| 57 N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will take into account the concerns of teachers about the proposed clause 5 of the professional code of conduct of teachers, drafted by the General Teaching Council, on the grounds of religious conscience. |
| (4920) | |
| 58 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 9th July, Official Report, column 403W, how many students who obtained QTS status last summer have (a) failed the skills tests in numeracy and literacy and (b) applied for an extension in order to retake the tests that they have failed. |
| (5357) | |
| 59 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the criteria for the inclusion of organisations in her Department's anti-bullying website, Don't Suffer in Silence. |
| (5122) | |
| 60 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when her officials plan to meet representatives of the charity Bullying Online. |
| (5123) | |
| 61 | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions she has had with the Minister for Education in the Welsh Assembly regarding the conclusions of the Independent Investigation Group on Student Hardship and Funding in Wales; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5754) | |
| 62 | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assistance she plans to give the Minister for Education in Wales to address student poverty; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5755) | |
| 63 | Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the benefits of abolishing tuition fees throughout England and Wales; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5756) | |
| 64 N | Mr Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to ensure that all documents that school governing bodies are required to consider are written in plain English. |
| (4774) | |
| 65 | Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the Computers Within Reach scheme; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5657) | |
| 66 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what requirements she has placed on (a) local authorities and (b) pre-school settings for the preparation of and application for kitemark schemes. |
| (5084) | |
| 67 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will publish, for each local education authority, in respect of (a) three year olds and (b) four year olds (i) the number resident in each local education authority, (ii) the number for whom places are available in pre-school settings, (iii) the number for whom places are available in schools, (iv) the number of places for which government funding is provided, (v) category (iv) as a percentage of (i), (vi) category (iv) as a percentage of (ii) and (iii) and (vii) the number of residents whom the local EYCDP identifies as in need of provision. |
| (5085) | |
| 68 N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons the inspector appointed by the Government to oversee the consultation exercise during the drawing up of the recent Essex Waste Plan forbade Essex County Council from specifically excluding incinerators from the plan. |
| (5196) | |
| 69 N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers inspectors appointed to oversee the drawing up of county waste plans have to overrule decisions of the councils concerned. |
| (5197) | |
| 70 N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of landfill tax will be given to the local authorities which are responsible for waste management, in order to fund recycling initiatives in (a) the current year and (b) 2002-03. |
| (5195) | |
| 71 N | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to reduce the proportion of waste disposed of by incineration over the next five years. |
| (5194) | |
| 72 N | Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will instruct OFWAT to require Southern Water to review the main sewer system in the Little Stove and Nailbourne Valley; and if he will publish the results. |
| (5189) | |
| 73 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government's CHP strategy will be published. |
| (5765) | |
| 74 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the installed capacity for CHP is; and what she expects this to be in (a) 2005 and (b) 2010. |
| (5767) | |
| 75 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what further measures the Government plans to introduce to encourage the installation of CHP to ensure that the target of 10 GWe is reached by 2010. |
| (5766) | |
| 76 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the Green Minister for each Government department. |
| (5770) | |
| 77 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much CHP capacity has been put out of service since the new electricity trading arrangements commenced. |
| (5768) | |
| 78 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many environmental appraisals have been produced and held on DEFRA's central database since it was established, broken down by Government department. |
| (5771) | |
| 79 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to restrict the long distance movement of farm animals. |
| (5417) | |
| 80 N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will introduce legislation to regulate the size of high hedges. |
| (4928) | |
| 81 N | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has for reducing the waste produced from salmon farming; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5282) | |
| 82 | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research projects CEFAS has undertaken into the loss of fish in power plant cooling systems. |
| (5629) | |
| 83 | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research CEFAS has undertaken to evaluate the success of fish deterrent systems, with particular reference to bubble screens and acoustic devices in reducing entrapment. |
| (5632) | |
| 84 | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information CEFAS has collected on the number of coastal or estuarine power stations that (a) reduce their pumping rates to avoid killing fish and (b) use fish deterrent systems or acoustic devices. |
| (5631) | |
| 85 | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate CEFAS has made of the number of (a) juvenile and (b) protected fish killed each year by cooling water intakes at power stations. |
| (5630) | |
| 86 | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings she has held with (a) her French counterparts and (b) the US Environmental Protection Agency to discuss juvenile fish killed by cooling water intakes at power stations. |
| (5627) | |
| 87 | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science has taken to enforce juvenile protection zones for bass in UK estuaries. |
| (5628) | |
| 88 | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money CEFAS has spent over the last 10 years on research into fish deterrent systems to reduce the loss of fish in power plant cooling systems. |
| (5633) | |
| 89 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a statement on the progress of the Market Towns Initiative as it affects Evesham. |
| (5750) | |
| 90 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy not to impose penalties on farmers where errors on IACS forms lead to an underclaim. |
| (5747) | |
| 91 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received concerning (a) coordination by her Department's officials of efforts to combat foot and mouth and (b) the way in which her Department's officials observe the Department's biosecurity precautions; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5507) | |
| 92 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received requesting a full public inquiry into the foot and mouth crisis. |
| (5508) | |
| 93 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the handling by her Department of the foot and mouth outbreak. |
| (5436) | |
| 94 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made towards producing contingency plans for preventing the spread of foot and mouth through (a) the Vale of York, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) the Yorkshire and the Humber Region. |
| (5435) | |
| 95 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms were visited by a vet from her Department before contracting foot and mouth disease during the current outbreak. |
| (5618) | |
| 96 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward specific proposals to assist the local parish council surrounding the Great Orton disposal site. |
| (5548) | |
| 97 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will set out in detail the steps taken by her Department to process claims for animals slaughtered on an infected premise, setting out the reasons for taking each such step. |
| (5615) | |
| 98 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers in Cumbria have been notified that the numbers of sheep collected by lorries in the voluntary cull were less than the numbers previously valued. |
| (5547) | |
| 99 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what reports she has received of bovine body parts being found in the countryside on land where animals have not previously been slaughtered because of foot and mouth disease. |
| (5614) | |
| 100 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for West Derbyshire dated 4th July concerning Mr and Mrs Don Holland of Shallow Grange Farm, Chelmorton, Derbyshire. |
| (5444) | |
| 101 | Mr Patrick McLoughlin (West Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will reply to the letters from the honourable Member for West Derbyshire dated 18th March and 18th June, concerning Mr A. Tabbenor of Brooklands, Barnes Lane, Youlgrave, Derbyshire, and his suckler cow premium. |
| (5881) | |
| 102 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much CHP capacity has been put out of service since the new electricity trading arrangements came into effect. |
| (5181) | |
| 103 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what opinions the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment has received from the Advisory Committee on Feedingstuffs (ACAF) on the dossier of evidence presented by Aventis in support of its application for marketing consent for the T25 GM maize, with particular reference to their opinion on the chicken feeding study; and if she will place a copy of ACAF's opinion in respect of (a) the whole dossier and (b) the chicken feeding study in the Library. |
| (4932) | |
| 104 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the current installed capacity is for CHP; and what she expects this to be in 2005 and 2010. |
| (5185) | |
| 105 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what further measures the Government will introduce to encourage the installation of CHP to ensure that the target of 10Gwe is reached by 2010. |
| (5187) | |
| 106 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government's CHP strategy will be published. |
| (5186) | |
| 107 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the consultation meetings, together with their dates, held in relation to the winter oilseed rape farm trials of GM crops. |
| (5658) | |
| 108 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the parish and community consultations to be held ahead of the autumn-sown farm scale trials of GM crops. |
| (5659) | |
| 109 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in what ways the Government intends to respond to concerns raised by parishoners and local farmers near to the proposed autumn-sown farm trials of GM crops. |
| (5660) | |
| 110 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the contracts her Department has with the National Institute of Agriculture and Botany in respect of GM (a) crops and (b) foods. |
| (5661) | |
| 111 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the public inquiry will be reconvened into the proposed inclusion of Chardon LL genetically modified fodder maize on to the National Seed List. |
| (5662) | |
| 112 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contacts her Department has had with the European Commission since October 2000, in respect of proposed listing of the GM fodder maize, Chardon LL; and if she will place copies of the correspondence in the Library. |
| (5663) | |
| 113 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the timetable is for reviewing and re-appointing the Forestry Commission as the agency for managing the Crown Lands of the New Forest; and if she will make a statement. |
| (3758) | |
| 114 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement about the ownership of the New Forest. |
| (3759) | |
| 115 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a statement on the powers available to the Forestry Commission to restrict and impose conditions upon access to the New Forest and the statutory provisions which govern their use. |
| (4099) | |
| 116 | Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will provide financial assistance to farmers to help with feeding their animals over the winter. |
| (5494) | |
| 117 | Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much compensation has been paid to date to people affected by foot and mouth in East Devon. |
| (5745) | |
| 118 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the value is of her contracts with ADAS for monitoring the transport of livestock from farm to slaughterhouse. |
| (5180) | |
| 119 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in which countries foot and mouth disease is endemic; and from which of those countries the importation of (a) carcasses, (b) raw meat and (c) cooked meat is permitted. |
| (5179) | |
| 120 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what restrictions are placed on the import of meat from countries in which foot and mouth disease is endemic. |
| (5178) | |
| 121 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average cost is to public funds, per journey, of ADAS monitoring transport from farm to slaughterhouse; and what the average cost is, per journey, for livestock transported from the Isle of Wight. |
| (5090) | |
| 122 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of journeys of livestock from farm to slaughterhouse ADAS is required to monitor under contract from her Department. |
| (5089) | |
| 123 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications under (a) the 30-month scheme and (b) the welfare scheme have been outstanding with her Department for (i) more than one week, (ii) two to four weeks, (iii) four to six weeks and (iv) more than six weeks. |
| (5177) | |
| 124 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the price and availability of (a) fodder and (b) grazing for livestock (i) nationally and (ii) on the Isle of Wight. |
| (5176) | |
| 125 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the seven banks referred to by the Managing Director of the FSA on 8th March in connection with weaknesses in money laundering prevention are fully compliant. |
| (5296) | |
| 126 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that the FSA produces an interim report on Equitable Life by 20th July. |
| (4999) | |
| 127 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the results of discussions between the FSA, the law enforcement agencies and the banks following money laundering allegations in the case of the Abacha family. |
| (5295) | |
| 128 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what action he is taking to ensure that the FSA exercises its consumer protection responsibilities on behalf of Equitable Life policy holders. |
| (5000) | |
| 129 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of income tax was taken from taxpayers paying tax at the 40 per cent. rate in each of the years 1997 to 2001. |
| (5622) | |
| 130 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of the total tax take was accounted for by (a) income tax, (b) VAT and (c) other taxes for (i) 1996, (ii) 1997, (iii) 1998, (iv) 1999 and (v) 2000. |
| (5623) | |
| 131 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of income taxpayers paid tax at each of the bands for (a) 1996, (b) 1997, (c) 1998, (d) 1999 and (e) 2000. |
| (5624) | |
| 132 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the healthy life expectancy at age 65 years for (a) men and (b) women in (i) England and (ii) Great Britain. |
| (5217) | |
| 133 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of teenage parents was not in education, employment or training in England and Wales in January to July 2001. |
| (5232) | |
| 134 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the conception rate was for under 18 year olds per thousand women aged 15 to 17 in (a) 1998, (b) 1999 and (c) 2000. |
| (5235) | |
| 135 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of people of working age were living in households where no one worked in the spring quarter of 2001. |
| (5234) | |
| 136 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the mortality rate per 100,000 adults of working age from suicide and undetermined injury in England was in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999 and (d) 2000. |
| (5223) | |
| 137 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the sources of official data produced by (a) the Office for National Statistics and (b) other central and devolved Government agencies for (i) economic development, (ii) manufacturing industry and (iii) financial assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises in the Scottish Borders area between 1991 and 2001. |
| (5091) | |
| 138 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the sources of official data produced by (a) the Office for National Statistics and (b) other central and devolved Government agencies for unemployment in the travel-to-work areas in the Scottish Borders area between 1991 and 2001. |
| (5092) | |
| 139 N | Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will list in the Official Report sources of official data produced by (a) the Office for National Statistics and (b) other central and devolved Government agencies for (i) demographic changes, (ii) neighbourhood poverty in postcode areas and (iii) agriculture in the Scottish Borders area between 1991 and 2001. |
| (5093) | |
| 140 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to introduce a pesticide tax; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5776) | |
| 141 N | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his planned level of spending on public services will be over the next three years. |
| (3322) | |
| 142 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much additional CHP has been installed as a result of the concessions given to CHP under the Climate Change Levy. |
| (5182) | |
| 143 | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the amount of revenue which will accrue to the Exchequer from VAT, national insurance contributions, income tax, and tax on constructors' fees arising from the construction of the Scottish Parliament; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5395) | |
| 144 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of his Department's progress towards achieving more openness in the operations of the international financial institutions; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5399) | |
| 145 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what aggregate measure of performance has been developed to monitor electronic publishing of material hitherto published on paper by his Department; and if he will publish the results of this measure for the last three financial years. |
| (5401) | |
| 146 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of holding the Government's foreign currency reserves over the past three financial years. |
| (5397) | |
| 147 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of households facing marginal deduction rates in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2000-01, (c) 1999-2000 and (d) 1998-99 over (i) 70 per cent., (ii) 60 per cent. and (iii) 50 per cent.; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5400) | |
| 148 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the percentage of countries eligible for additional relief under the HIPC iniative that reached their decision points by 1st January 2001; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5402) | |
| 149 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the profit his Department has made from the Bank of England's investment of the reserves in the last 12 months (a) net of management charges and (b) gross of management charges; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5398) | |
| 150 N | Mr John Taylor (Solihull): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Minister of Health's powers to control and direct the Registrar General in the performance of his duties under the Census Act 1920 were rescinded; who now holds those powers; and what amendments have been made to section 2(2) of the Act to reflect the change of ministerial control. |
| (4994) | |
| 151 N | Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of China regarding the treatment of Falun Gong members and their families. |
| (4858) | |
| 152 N | Mr Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to review the policy of critical engagement with the Chinese Government. |
| (4857) | |
| 153 N | Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received regarding (a) the seven Israeli soldiers and (b) the Israeli civilian, Elchanan Tenenboim, held captive by Hizbollah; and what plans he has to take steps to assist in bringing about their release. |
| (5188) | |
| 154 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how long a person who applied for entry clearance for settlement in (a) April, (b) May and (c) June at (i) each of the posts in the Indian subcontinent, (ii) Lagos, (iii) Abuja, (iv) Accra, (v) Moscow, (vi) Bangkok and (vii) Manila had to wait for interview; and how long a person applying in July may expect to wait. |
| (5405) | |
| 155 | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list, for each British post abroad which operates a pre-sift system for people applying for visit visas, how many people (a) were advised to withdraw their applications and (b) followed that advice, in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2001 for the latest date for which figures are available. |
| (5406) | |
| 156 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he is taking to secure the release of Ian Stillman; and if he will make a statement. |
| (4100) | |
| 157 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received regarding the imprisonment of Ian Stillman; and if he will make a statement. |
| (4101) | |
| 158 N | Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the United Kingdom submitted its 2000 return to the UN Register of Conventional Arms; and if copies of the return will be placed in the Library. |
| (5358) | |
| 159 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much has been spent by his Department on producing documents in the 'Your Britain, Your Europe . . .', series. |
| (4375) | |
| 160 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which of the documents in the 'Your Britain, Your Europe . . .', series has been checked for compliance with COI rules on public information. |
| (4376) | |
| 161 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to what extent the Rural Development Plan referred to in his Department's document, 'Your Britain, Your Europe, Your Wales' is funded by the EU. |
| (4323) | |
| 162 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reason BBC World Service broadcasts are no longer available via short wave in North America; and what percentage of the North American land mass is now within broadcast range of the World Service. |
| (5102) | |
| 163 N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what was the average length of time it took the UK Central Council to register nurses from overseas over the last six months for which figures are available, broken down by country. |
| (4188) | |
| 164 N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what procedure recruitment agencies achieve recognition by an NHS trust; and what steps he takes to monitor their performance. |
| (4189) | |
| 165 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out the timetable for commencement of section 49 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 for each group affected by the provision. |
| (4924) | |
| 166 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned into (a) waiting times and (b) the standard of provision of disability equipment services since the publication of the Audit Commission's report 'Fully Equipped'. |
| (5210) | |
| 167 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 11th July, Official Report, on anti-psychotic medication, what work his Department has undertaken to explain the trend in prescribing; what were the key findings; and if he will set out prescription numbers (a) by region and (b) by ages (i) under 16, (ii) 16 to 25, (iii) 26 to 35, (iv) 36 to 45, (v) 46 to 55, (vi) 56 to 65, (vii) 66 to 75 and (viii) over 75. |
| (5292) | |
| 168 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 12th July, Official Report, column 590W, concerning care homes, if he will place a copy of the interim report in the Library; and if he will list the research projects and their purpose and reporting dates. |
| (5366) | |
| 169 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements will be made to monitor the adequacy of the money allocated for free nursing care from October to April and to allocate additional funds in the event of a shortfall of allocation to actual expenditure. |
| (4923) | |
| 170 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expenditure figures were for the Oxfordshire health authority for the years 1997 to 2000; and what the planned spending is in 2000 to 2004. |
| (5620) | |
| 171 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) in-patients and (b) out-patients were treated in the Oxfordshire Health authority area in (i) 1996, (ii) 1997, (iii) 1998, (iv) 1999 and (v) 2000. |
| (5619) | |
| 172 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated shortage of doctors and nurses at St George's Hospital, Tooting is. |
| (5416) | |
| 173 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting list times are for (a) knee and (b) hip operations. |
| (5746) | |
| 174 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of those aged over 16 years smoked in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001. |
| (5225) | |
| 175 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of admissions to hospital of children per 1,000 children under 16 that were the result of an unintentional injury resulting in a hospital stay of longer than three days was in 1999-2000. |
| (5237) | |
| 176 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people aged 65 years and over receive community-based services. |
| (5218) | |
| 177 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of children aged under 18 years registered during 1999-2000 on the Child Protection Register had previously been registered. |
| (5233) | |
| 178 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with tuberculosis in Buckingham in each year since 1990; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5648) | |
| 179 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the funding of hospices in Buckingham. |
| (5643) | |
| 180 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practioners ceased working in (a) England and (b) Buckingham in each year since 1980. |
| (5641) | |
| 181 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS consultants there were in (a) England and (b) Buckingham in each year since 1980. |
| (5642) | |
| 182 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing vacancies there are in the NHS in Buckingham. |
| (5640) | |
| 183 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations have been cancelled in Buckingham, in each quarter in 2000 and 2001, as a result of hospital beds being occupied by (a) delayed discharge patients who were awaiting social services funding or assessment or (b) delayed discharge patients who had fully funded social services packages arranged. |
| (5638) | |
| 184 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many acute hospital beds were unavailable in Buckingham to incoming patients in each quarter in 2000 and 2001 as a result of their occupation by (a) delayed discharge patients who were awaiting social services funding and (b) delayed discharge patients who had fully funded social services packages arranged. |
| (5635) | |
| 185 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing and residential care (a) homes and (b) beds have closed in Buckingham in each year since 1997. |
| (5637) | |
| 186 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) general, (b) acute, (c) mental illness, (d) learning disabilities, (e) maternity and (f) geriatric NHS hospital beds there were at the Wycombe Hospital in each year from 1997 to date; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5647) | |
| 187 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of children aged (a) one to two, (b) two to three and (c) three to four years have been given MMR innoculations in Buckingham. |
| (5645) | |
| 188 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS patients contracted hospital-acquired infections in (a) 2000 and (b) 2001 in Buckingham. |
| (5646) | |
| 189 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practioners there were in (a) England and (b) Buckingham in each year since 1980. |
| (5639) | |
| 190 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the availability of the BCG vaccine in schools in Buckingham. |
| (5649) | |
| 191 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the future of Wycombe Hospital's accident and emergency department. |
| (5634) | |
| 192 | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultants left the NHS in (a) England and (b) Buckingham in each year since 1980. |
| (5644) | |
| 193 N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the recognition of health visitors as specialist nurses. |
| (4929) | |
| 194 N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the representation of private chiropodists on the NPC, indicating if private chiropodists will be allowed to select their own representative. |
| (4925) | |
| 195 N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the competency tests proposed for private chiropodists; and for what reason those tests will not be applied to all chiropodists. |
| (4926) | |
| 196 | Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the use of bed strap restraints in nursing homes. |
| (5538) | |
| 197 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new cases of heterosexually-acquired HIV have occurred in each quarter since March 1997. |
| (5379) | |
| 198 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of children who (a) died and (b) were injured as a result of treatment with drugs not licensed for the treatment of children in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5274) | |
| 199 | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list health authorities in England in order of the highest number of (a) cancelled operations and (b) patients not readmitted within one month following the cancellation of an operation. |
| (5882) | |
| 200 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the need for research to establish the safety and efficacy of all drugs used in the treatment of children. |
| (5276) | |
| 201 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS clerical staff have transferred to the private sector under the terms of contracts negotiated between private sector companies and the NHS in the past five years. |
| (4937) | |
| 202 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of drugs being used for the treatment of children which are not licensed for that purpose. |
| (5278) | |
| 203 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that pharmaceutical companies in the United Kingdom provide clear dosage information for children and adults on all drugs they produce; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5275) | |
| 204 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will publish the Integrated Sexual Health Strategy. |
| (5380) | |
| 205 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of medicines used for treatment of children do not have a dosage approved by the Medicines Control Agency; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5277) | |
| 206 N | Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will reply to the Third Report of the Health Committee, Session 2000-01, HC 307. |
| (4991) | |
| 207 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether reducing the number of transplant centres in the United Kingdom is expected to lead to a reduction in the number of retrieval teams available. |
| (4516) | |
| 208 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the study relating to the number of transplant units undertaken by Finnamore Management Consultants for the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group will be made available for public study. |
| (4518) | |
| 209 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group studied comparisons of success rates between transplant centres, contrasting percentage survival rates with the number of transplants performed in each centre each year. |
| (4512) | |
| 210 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group compared waiting times for pre-transplant assessment between transplant centres with the number of transplants performed in each centre each year. |
| (4513) | |
| 211 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group assessed existing figures on after-care services provided by centres in relation to the number of transplants performed in each centre each year. |
| (4514) | |
| 212 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group examined best practice in other countries with regard to transplants. |
| (4515) | |
| 213 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what financial savings would be made by reducing the number of heart and lung transplant centres to (a) four and (b) five. |
| (4517) | |
| 214 N | Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what policies are being put in place to increase the level of transplants and organ donation, per head of population. |
| (4519) | |
| 215 N | Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what machinery is used for reviewing the panel of members of the public accepted as eligible for membership of health trusts and boards; and if he will make a statement. |
| (4917) | |
| 216 | Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce (a) a national textphone number and (b) interactive e-mail to the NHS Direct service. |
| (5617) | |
| 217 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the level of funding available to Worcestershire Social Services Department. |
| (5748) | |
| 218 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce the level of bed blocking in Worcestershire. |
| (5749) | |
| 219 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the recruitment and retention of nurses in the NHS; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5392) | |
| 220 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received concerning the Draft Order on the Nursing and Midwifery Council; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5518) | |
| 221 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing vacancies are there in the NHS in Cumbria |
| (5744) | |
| 222 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing and residential care (a) homes and (b) beds have closed in Cumbria in each year since 1997. |
| (5764) | |
| 223 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations have been cancelled in Cumbria in each quarter in 2000 and 2001 as a result of hospital beds being occupied by (a) delayed discharge patients who were awaiting social services funding or assessment and (b) delayed discharge patients who had fully funded social services packages arranged. |
| (5743) | |
| 224 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS patients contracted hospital-acquired infections in (a) 2000 and (b) 2001 in Cumbria. |
| (5741) | |
| 225 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in each quarter in 2000 and 2001, how many hospital beds were unavailable in Cumbria to incoming patients as a result of their occupation by (a) delayed discharge patients who were awaiting social services funding and (b) delayed discharge patients who had fully funded social services packages arranged. |
| (5742) | |
| 226 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the annual cost of the NHS Counter Fraud Service since its inception. |
| (5740) | |
| 227 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her reply of 15th May, Official Report, columns 567-68W, on the National School Fruit Scheme, which pesticides have been withdrawn since the advice from the Chief Medical Officer about pesticide residues and the peeling of fruit and vegetables was issued; and what changes have prompted a review of the advice. |
| (5294) | |
| 228 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her Answer of 15th May, Official Report, columns 567-68W, on the National School Fruit Scheme, when he will consult the Advisory Committee on Pesticides about the revision of the current advice from the Chief Medical Officer about pesticide residues and the peeling of fruit and vegetables. |
| (5297) | |
| 229 | Mr Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting times for operations in each hospital trust in Bedfordshire are; and what the equivalent figures were in May 1997. |
| (5864) | |
| 230 | Mr Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) hospital medical staff, (b) consultants and (c) nursing and midwifery staff were employed at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital in each year since1996. |
| (5866) | |
| 231 | Mr Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to compensate victims of the hepatitis C, who became infected as a result of NHS treatment |
| (5867) | |
| 232 | Mr Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioner vacancies there are in (a) Leighton Buzzard, (b) Dunstable and (c) Houghton Regis. |
| (5865) | |
| 233 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the health implications of the trialling of Aventis T25 maize. |
| (5653) | |
| 234 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Advisory Committee for Novel Foods discussed the Aventis study entitled the Effect of Glufosinate-Resistant Corn on the Growth of Male Broiler Chickens; and if he will place the minutes of this meeting in the Library. |
| (5654) | |
| 235 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will hold an open public investigation into the health implications of the currently approved trials of Aventis T25 maize. |
| (5652) | |
| 236 | Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding was allocated by his Department between 1996 and 2001 for research into benign prostatic hyperplasia. |
| (5879) | |
| 237 | Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding was allocated by his Department between 1996 and 2001 for research into prostate cancer. |
| (5880) | |
| 238 | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on performance related pay increases agreed for executive directors of the Worcestershire Health Authority in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000 and (c) 2000-01. |
| (5495) | |
| 239 | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has issued to health authorities about NICE recommendations for ending the allocation of resources by post code. |
| (5769) | |
| 240 | Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list by health authority the average number of hours per week consultants spend working in the NHS at the latest date for which figures are available. |
| (5426) | |
| 241 N | Hugh Bayley (City of York): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the authorised police establishment was at the end of 1979; what the number of police officers in post was on 1st May 1997 for each police authority in England; and if he will calculate the percentage difference in these figures for each authority. |
| (4921) | |
| 242 | Mr David Borrow (South Ribble): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the evaluation of the pilot project into the provision of cleansing tablets in prisons to reduce transmission of HIV and hepatitis viruses will be made available. |
| (5529) | |
| 243 | Mr David Borrow (South Ribble): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the pilot project on the provision of cleansing tablets in prisons to reduce transmission of HIV and hepatitis viruses will be expanded throughout the country. |
| (5527) | |
| 244 | Mr David Borrow (South Ribble): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the prisons in England and Wales that distributed condoms to inmates in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (5526) | |
| 245 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for West Chelmsford of 23rd April concerning his constituent Mr M. Turner of Great Leighs, Chelmsford. |
| (4998) | |
| 246 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many special constables were recruited in the Thames Valley force; and how many special constables left the force, in each year from 1996 to 2000. |
| (5759) | |
| 247 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the level of recorded crime was in the North Oxfordshire area of the Thames Valley in each year from 1996 to 2000. |
| (5757) | |
| 248 | Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many special constables there were in the Thames Valley Police Force in (a) 1996, (b) 1997, (c) 1998, (d) 1999 and (e) 2000. |
| (5758) | |
| 249 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on occupational health in the police force. |
| (5411) | |
| 250 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serving police officers there are in the London Borough of Wandsworth (a) in total and (b) broken down by (i) rank and (ii) gender. |
| (5412) | |
| 251 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of people aged 16 to 24 years reported that they had used illegal drugs during the (a) past year and (b) past month in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2001. |
| (5226) | |
| 252 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his estimate is of the proportion of people under 25 reporting use of illegal drugs (a) in the last month and (b) in the last 12 months in each year since 1997. |
| (5884) | |
| 253 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his estimate is of the levels of repeat offending amongst drug misusing offenders in each year since 1997. |
| (5888) | |
| 254 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of people under 25 who were using heroin in 1998, and in each subsequent year to date. |
| (5760) | |
| 255 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the extent of access to drugs amongst five to 16 year olds in each year since 1997. |
| (5762) | |
| 256 N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the policy of the Charity Commission in respect of an application to establish a new charity which replicates the scope and remit of an existing charity. |
| (4927) | |
| 257 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on the shackling of asylum detainees attending hospitals for medical treatment. |
| (5382) | |
| 258 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish the Government's response to the Sexual Offences Review. |
| (5381) | |
| 259 N | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish a list of those who have responded to the consultation on the Sexual Offences Review; and how many responses he has received to the consultation. |
| (5378) | |
| 260 N | Mr Michael Howard (Folkestone & Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants have been apprehended at the Channel Tunnel terminal at Cheriton this year; and how many of them have applied for asylum. |
| (5280) | |
| 261 N | Mr Michael Howard (Folkestone & Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in completing the security arrangements at the Coquelles terminal of the Channel Tunnel. |
| (5291) | |
| 262 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received concerning the working conditions of police inspectors and chief inspectors; what measures he plans to introduce to address the concerns raised; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5203) | |
| 263 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many life sentence prisoners are being held in prisons in England (a) whose last place of residence before sentence was in Wales or (b) who have requested a transfer to prison in Wales. |
| (5200) | |
| 264 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many life sentence prisoners are being held in prisons in Wales (a) whose last place of residence before sentence was in England and (b) who have requested a transfer to prison in England. |
| (5201) | |
| 265 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date he will have established a full timetable for ending the use of prisons for detaining asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5121) | |
| 266 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which prisons hold asylum seekers; and in each case, how many and since which month. |
| (5191) | |
| 267 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date he expects (a) to have completed his assessment of the fieldwork on the asylum vouchers review and (b) to make a announcement of his conclusions from the review; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5115) | |
| 268 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he is taking to ensure that asylum seekers who have been victims of torture are not detained in prisons; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5116) | |
| 269 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to extend to special constables the same entitlements to free travel on London Transport as applies to regular officers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5108) | |
| 270 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to implement Part III of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 relating to routine hearings to review the detention of asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5119) | |
| 271 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for incitement to racial hatred in each of the last five years (i) in each Police Service area and (ii) in total; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5120) | |
| 272 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which provisions of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 are yet to come into force; what the planned timetable is for their introduction; what orders remain to be brought forward relating to the Act; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5107) | |
| 273 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to change the names of criminal court orders. |
| (5209) | |
| 274 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) were imprisoned and (b) received a non-custodial sentence for fine default in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; how many fine defaults followed non-payment of a television licence fee; what was the average length of prison sentence in each year for fine default; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5114) | |
| 275 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of and timetable for the planned programme of capital works are at HMP Swansea; when it will be completed; and what plans exist to bring the remainder of the prison buildings back into prison service use. |
| (5202) | |
| 276 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average recorded reoffending rate was following (a) a community rehabilitation order with conditions, (b) a community rehabilitation order without conditions, (c) a community rehabilitation order with a condition of attendance at an accredited programme, (d) a community punishment order and (e) a community punishment and rehabilitation order on the most recent date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5208) | |
| 277 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many life sentence prisoners are (a) held in prisons in England who were sentenced in Wales and (b) held in prisons in Wales who were sentenced in England. |
| (5199) | |
| 278 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which provisions of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 are yet to come into force; what the planned timetable is for their introduction; what orders remain to be brought forward relating to the Act; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5111) | |
| 279 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 are yet to come into force; what the planned timetable is for their introduction; what orders remain to be brought forward relating to the Act; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5112) | |
| 280 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his estimate is of the additional Probation Service staff that need to be recruited in order to deliver the accredited programme strategy and the recommendations contained in Making Punishments Work; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5214) | |
| 281 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many life sentence prisoners are held in prisons in (a) England and (b) Wales. |
| (5198) | |
| 282 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the percentage of the Prison Service estate which will be privately managed by 2005; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5104) | |
| 283 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for bringing into force Part III of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 relating to routine hearings to review the detention of asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5206) | |
| 284 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions private prison operators have been (a) fined and (b) had payments withheld for breaking contract conditions; if he will provide details of each default notice issued, indicating the dates and amounts concerned; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5106) | |
| 285 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received concerning the accuracy of records held on the Police National Computer and its use in relation to issuing new criminal record checks; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5118) | |
| 286 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the basis is on which financial penalties imposed on contractors of privately managed prisons are calculated; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5105) | |
| 287 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff, in each grade, were employed in (a) Greater London, (b) Humberside, (c) Northamptonshire, (d) West Yorkshire, (e) Merseyside, (f) South Western, (g) Kent and (h) South Wales Probation Service on 31st March; what the average caseload was in each of those services; how many staff were absent for more than four weeks in each service in the year ended 31st March; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5213) | |
| 288 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total expenditure was on education in prisons in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; what was the real terms change in each year; what was the total amount per prisoner based on average prison population figures in each year; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5117) | |
| 289 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to increase the regional structure of the National Asylum Support Service; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5207) | |
| 290 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if guidance notes accompanying statement of evidence forms are distributed to asylum seekers in their own language; how many translated guidance notes have been published, and in what languages; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5205) | |
| 291 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former Home Office officials and Prison Service staff have taken paid employment with private companies involved in the operation, management and building of private prisons in each of the last 10 years; how many of those employees were formerly responsible for overseeing, managing and inspecting contracts for private prisons; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5103) | |
| 292 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if asylum seekers arriving at Heathrow are informed of their entitlement to receive legal advice before being interviewed substantively; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5204) | |
| 293 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the backlog of unprocessed passport applications was at the end of each month since 1st January. |
| (4940) | |
| 294 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is providing the Passport Service's out-sourced call service mentioned in paragraph 2.11 of the Services Corporate and Business Plan 2001-2006. |
| (4945) | |
| 295 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints were received from customers in 2000-01 about inaccuracies in the passport received. |
| (4949) | |
| 296 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the uses and purpose will be of the passport card referred to in paragraph 2.13 of the Passport Service's Corporate and Business Plan 2001-2006. |
| (4948) | |
| 297 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what legislative changes he is planning to allow the Passport Service greater access to other databases. |
| (4961) | |
| 298 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the incidence of intenal fraud within the Passport Service. |
| (4950) | |
| 299 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the original budgeted estimate was for the cost of moving the headquarters and London Regional Office of the UK Passport Agency; what the current estimated outturn is; and if he will make a statement. |
| (4963) | |
| 300 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what work he has commissioned into (a) the incidence of passport fraud and (b) possible new measures to combat such fraud. |
| (4944) | |
| 301 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he plans to take to recover the deficit which the Passport Service is set to incur in the financial year 2001-02. |
| (4953) | |
| 302 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his estimate is of the percentage increase in the revenue of the Passport Service between 2001-02 and 2002-03; what proportion of that forecast increase is attributable to an assumed increase in fees; and if he will make a statement. |
| (4955) | |
| 303 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his working estimate is of the demand for (a) basic, (b) standard and (c) enhanced disclosures for the first two years of the operation of the Criminal Records Bureau. |
| (4956) | |
| 304 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Code of Practice for Registered Bodies drawn up by the Criminal Records Bureau. |
| (4958) | |
| 305 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision he has made to cope with the expected demand in the summer of 2001 from people whose passports were exceptionally extended for two years in 1999. |
| (4941) | |
| 306 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government is making to create a single national address database; what the expected timescale is for the implementation of this project; and what its purpose is. |
| (4942) | |
| 307 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to introduce a passport card; and in which year he intends to introduce it. |
| (4947) | |
| 308 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports were scrapped prior to issue in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99, (c) 1999-2000 and (d) 2000-01. |
| (4951) | |
| 309 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what international agreement would be needed to allow the introduction of a passport card. |
| (4952) | |
| 310 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to recover the costs of the emergency measures introduced by the Passport Service in 1999. |
| (4954) | |
| 311 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) new passports and (b) renewals there have been in each month since 1st January. |
| (4939) | |
| 312 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for (a) a new passport application and (b) a renewal in each month of 2001 to date. |
| (4946) | |
| 313 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to amend the law to allow the Criminal Records Bureau access to sources of criminal records now denied to it. |
| (4957) | |
| 314 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered bodies have been registered with the Criminal Records Bureau; and how many applications has been received but not yet registered. |
| (4959) | |
| 315 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Criminal Records Bureau will commence the issue of (a) enhanced, (b) standard and (c) basic disclosures. |
| (4960) | |
| 316 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which (a) private sector and (b) public sector databases the Passport Service is seeking access. |
| (4962) | |
| 317 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fraudulent applications for passports were detected in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99, (c) 1999-2000 and (d) 2000-01. |
| (4943) | |
| 318 | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he last received a report on policing in North Wales from the Chief Constable of North Wales Police. |
| (5616) | |
| 319 N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to a letter from the honourable Member for Woking dated 11th May, ref. S1058709, re Mohammed Sfenjeh. |
| (4919) | |
| 320 N | Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to letters from the honourable Member for Woking dated 30th April and 4th and 6th July, ref. V1006539, re Mrs Verney, formerly Egorova. |
| (4918) | |
| 321 N | Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what orders have been laid under section 84(4)(d) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. |
| (4990) | |
| 322 | Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners in each prison establishment are held (a) two to a cell in a single cell and (b) three to a cell in a double cell. |
| (5409) | |
| 323 | Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what key performance indicators have been set by or for the police in respect of child protection. |
| (5410) | |
| 324 | Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will investigate the action taken by his Department on matters relating to a forged passport reported under the reference HQ/PC/01620000675 on 23rd December 2000. |
| (5636) | |
| 325 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the rates of sickness absence in the Prison Service were in each of the last four years. |
| (5503) | |
| 326 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is responsible for the allocation of places between appointing authorities to police authorities to ensure political proportionality of local authority members. |
| (5096) | |
| 327 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what records he keeps of the number of prisoners with psychiatric problems in each prison. |
| (5501) | |
| 328 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what rules underpin the appointment of local authority members to police authorities covering more than one county to ensure political proportionality. |
| (5095) | |
| 329 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed on governor grades as a percentage of the total number of prison officers in each prison. |
| (5504) | |
| 330 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional discretion in the conduct of their duties has been devolved to prison governors over the last four years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5505) | |
| 331 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he is taking to insure that Christian and church-based social action initiatives are treated equitably in the allocation of Government funding. |
| (5098) | |
| 332 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the rules governing political proportionality of local authority appointees to police authorities apply to the number of (a) appointees of each political party from each appointing authority and (b) councillors of each party in the police authority's area, in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Police Authority; and how they applied before 7th June. |
| (5097) | |
| 333 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the prisons which have been reprofiled in the last four years; and what change there was in the number of jobs recommended in each reprofiling exercise. |
| (5502) | |
| 334 | Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made to meet his Department's targets to provide services electronically. |
| (5418) | |
| 335 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what duties the police officers and the patrol car used for the photo opportunity to announce his appointment as Home Secretary were withdrawn from; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5777) | |
| 336 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on plans to change the status of plain clothed police officers to uniformed officers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5786) | |
| 337 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to review the legal status of the hallucinogen Salvia divinorum. |
| (5783) | |
| 338 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes involving the use of firearms occurred in (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1999-2000 and (d) 2000-01; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5781) | |
| 339 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many days off sick were taken by police officers in (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1999-2000 and (d) 2000-01; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5788) | |
| 340 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice he received from the duty officer at Belgravia police station about the availability of police resources for the photo opportunity to announce his appointment as Home Secretary; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5778) | |
| 341 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list, for the period between the commencement of the home detention curfew scheme and 30th June inclusive (a) the number of prisoners released on the scheme, (b) the number of prisoners convicted of each offence who were released on the scheme, with a breakdown of the offences committed, including offences committed by prisoners normally classified under the categories (i) other homicide and attempted homicide, (ii) other violence against the person, (iii) drug offences, (iv) assaults and (v) other offences, including a breakdown of the prisoners normally classified in the sub-category of other offences called other offences, (c) the average sentence (A) received and (B) served, and the average period spent on the scheme, in respect of each offence, (d) the number of prisoners released on the scheme, with a breakdown of the offences committed, who (1) breached the conditions of the curfew, (2) disappeared and were recaptured, (3) disappeared and remain unlawfully at large and (4) had their licences revoked with reasons, (e) the specific offences committed by prisoners released on the scheme while on the scheme, including offences committed, by prisoners who committed more than one offence and (f) the specific offences committed by prisoners released on the scheme who committed a further offence while on the scheme that was similar in character to that for which they were originally convicted, including offences committed by prisoners who committed more than one offence; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5789) | |
| 342 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the manpower available to the Metropolitan Police SO19 specialist firearms unit. |
| (5784) | |
| 343 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimates he has made of the number of illegally held firearms in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5787) | |
| 344 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reform the asylum dispersal system. |
| (5785) | |
| 345 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on reforms to police working conditions. |
| (5780) | |
| 346 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his plans to allow civilians to carry out policing and detection tasks. |
| (5782) | |
| 347 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reform police pension arrangements; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5779) | |
| 348 | Mr David Borrow (South Ribble): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the membership of the Commission on TRIPS. |
| (5525) | |
| 349 | Mr David Borrow (South Ribble): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the meetings of the Commission on TRIPS. |
| (5528) | |
| 350 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on her Department's assistance to Mongolia. |
| (5751) | |
| 351 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has received in relation to the CAFOD It's Time for Justice Campaign; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5515) | |
| 352 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions she has had with her EU counterparts on reducing tariffs on (a) agriculture and (b) textiles in the context of WTO organisations. |
| (5517) | |
| 353 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what targets have been set by her Department to reach global free trade by 2020. |
| (5516) | |
| 354 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what contributions the Government has made to the implementation of the Vision 2020 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh; and if she will make a statement. |
| (4936) | |
| 355 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the economic, social and environmental impact of implementing Vision 2020 in Andhra Pradesh. |
| (4935) | |
| 356 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will provide a sectoral breakdown of the funding provided by the United Kingdom Government to the Government of Andhra Pradesh in (a) the past three years and (b) the next three years. |
| (4933) | |
| 357 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps have been taken to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most marginalized in Andhra Pradesh have been included in the design and implementation of Vision 2020; and what financial costs have been incurred by the United Kingdom Government as a result of these steps. |
| (4934) | |
| 358 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to increase funding for genetically-modified-related development projects; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5407) | |
| 359 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list (a) the name and (b) the amount spent in each of the last four years on genetically modified related development projects. |
| (5408) | |
| 360 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what guidance he has issued on the composition of juries in areas with high proportions of ethnic minorities; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5650) | |
| 361 N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, which provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are yet to come into force; what the planned timetable is for their introduction; what orders remains to be brought forward relating to the Act; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5113) | |
| 362 N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when the letter that her predecessor undertook to write to the Right honourable Member for Tonbridge and Malling at the conclusion of his Adjournment Debate on Child Abduction on 3rd May will be sent. |
| (4102) | |
| 363 N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if she will place a copy of the Government's response to the EU Commission's working document, Mutual Recognition of Decisions on Parental Responsibility, when made, in the Library. |
| (4103) | |
| 364 N | Mr John Taylor (Solihull): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, which Minister in the Lord Chancellor's Department has responsibility for the execution of the Public Records Act 1958 and for decisions about the opening of the 1911 Census records to public inspection. |
| (4995) | |
| 365 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what measures are taken to make sure that people apply to be magistrates who declare themselves politically do not face discrimination. |
| (5535) | |
| 366 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what action the Lord Chancellor's Department takes to make sure political balance among magistrates is maintained. |
| (5534) | |
| 367 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people applied to be magistrates in St Helens and Knowsley in 2000. |
| (5533) | |
| 368 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what the current political balance of magistrates is in courts in St Helens and Knowsley. |
| (5532) | |
| 369 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what action the Lord Chancellor takes to monitor the (a) political balance of magistrates' court and (b) residential areas from which magistrates are recruited. |
| (5537) | |
| 370 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if the Lord Chancellor will make it a requirement for all people to declare their political allegiance in order to maintain the political balance in the magistrates' courts system. |
| (5536) | |
| 371 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many magistrates are in post in the St Helens and Knowsley Court Service. |
| (5531) | |
| 372 | Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what the establishment figure is for magistrates in St Helens and Knowsley. |
| (5530) | |
| 373 N | Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many bodies subject to the open government code of practice have indicated that they could not fully implement the freedom of Information Act 2000 by July 2002. |
| (5086) | |
| 374 N | Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when he expects to announce a timetable for implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. |
| (5088) | |
| 375 N | Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if the Information Commissioner has indicated that she would be unable to discharge her responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to bodies subject to the open government code of practice by July 2002. |
| (5087) | |
| 376 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will appoint a Cabinet champion for children; and if he will establish an inter-ministerial group on children. |
| (4922) | |
| 377 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Prime Minister, how many representations he has received calling for suspension of the marketing consent for the Aventis genetically modified maize, known as T25. |
| (5651) | |
| 378 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures the Government will take to ensure that the new electricity trading arrangements do not penalise CHP and renewable generators. |
| (5773) | |
| 379 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many CHP plants that have been given section 10 consent in the last two years are under construction; and what installed capacity these represent. |
| (5774) | |
| 380 N | Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many compensation claims by former miners living in the (a) Leigh constituency and (b) Wigan Metropolitan Authority have yet to be settled. |
| (4524) | |
| 381 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the level of the social network payment was in the year to 31st March; what plans she has to vary that level; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5403) | |
| 382 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to continue the social network payment; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5404) | |
| 383 N | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action she proposes to take to ensure that the new market arrangements in the electricity industry do not (a) act to increase carbon emissions and (b) deter new investment in CHP and renewables. |
| (5290) | |
| 384 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on her use of the partnership agreement between the unions and his Department in regard to the review of contacts at her Department's Patent Office. |
| (5871) | |
| 385 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if consultants have been employed to undertake a pay and grading exercise in the Insolvency Service. |
| (5870) | |
| 386 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps she is taking to ensure that external bids are subject to competition from benchmarking against a detailed in-house bid in relation to the current contract held by W. S. Atkins and Hays in her Department's Patent Office when the contract is reviewed. |
| (5872) | |
| 387 N | Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what meetings she has had with the Small Business Council since 1997; and what response she has made to the recommendations contained in the SBC's first annual report. |
| (5367) | |
| 388 | Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the development of clean coal technologies in assisting the Government in achieving its Kyoto environmental targets. |
| (5546) | |
| 389 | Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what incentives are provided by her Department to assist in the development of clean coal technologies; and if she is intending to review the existing arrangements. |
| (5545) | |
| 390 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent representations she has received on the proposal for the Lackenby to Shipton overhead transmission line; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5431) | |
| 391 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will assess trends in energy provision supplied on a local level. |
| (5432) | |
| 392 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will take steps to ensure that no further work will continue on the Lackenby to Shipton overhead transmission line until foot and mouth has been eradicated. |
| (5429) | |
| 393 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent representations she has received in relation to the CAFOD It's Time for Justice" campaign; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5509) | |
| 394 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what targets have been set by her Department to reach global free trade by 2020. |
| (5510) | |
| 395 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent discussions she has had with her European Union counterparts on reducing tariffs on (a) agriculture and (b) textiles in the context of World Trade Organisation negotiations. |
| (5511) | |
| 396 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent representations she has received in respect of the granting of wayleaves to facilitate the construction of the Lackenby to Shipton overhead transmission line; and what steps are being taken to ensure that landowners will be able to reach a negotiated agreement before construction of the line commences. |
| (5428) | |
| 397 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will take steps to ensure that the NGC respects the legal entry onto farmland in connection with the Lackenby to Shipton overhead transmission line. |
| (5427) | |
| 398 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of evidence suggesting a potential link between pylons and skin cancer. |
| (5430) | |
| 399 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many CHP plants that have been given section 30 consent in the last two years are now under construction; and what installed capacity these represent. |
| (5183) | |
| 400 N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures the Government will take to ensure that the new electricity trading arrangements do not penalise CHP and renewable generators. |
| (5184) | |
| 401 | Mr Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the contracts his Department has had with the National Institute of Agriculture and Botany in connection with GM crops or foods. |
| (5655) | |
| 402 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, for how many jobs in the North West membership of the single market is crucial according to her Department's document, 'Your Britain, Your Europe, Your North West'. |
| (4325) | |
| 403 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many women have been helped to enter the construction industry in the North West by EU funding. |
| (4374) | |
| 404 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much of the cost of remodelling the Arndale Centre and the new Exchange Square in Manchester has been met from EU funding. |
| (4373) | |
| 405 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how EU structural funding has helped over 50,000 small and medium sized enterprises, according to her Department's document, 'Your Britain, Your Europe, Your North West'. |
| (4326) | |
| 406 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the definition is of trading links contained in her Department's document, 'Your Britain, Your Europe, Your North West'. |
| (4324) | |
| 407 | Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment her Department has made of the total number of former miners in Merseyside potentially eligible for the compensation schemes for (a) vibration white finger and (b) respiratory diseases. |
| (5446) | |
| 408 | Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many respiratory specialists work on the medical assessment process for compensating former miners. |
| (5447) | |
| 409 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the potential liability to public funds resulting from litigation by Legacy plc over the withdrawal of preferred bidder status in relation to the Dome sale. |
| (5130) | |
| 410 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what disscussions he has had with (a) the Wellcome Trust, (b) Grosvenor Estates, (c) Quintain and (d) the BBC regarding the future of the Dome. |
| (5125) | |
| 411 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many customers waited more than 10 minutes to purchase tickets for London Underground journeys broken down by station in each year since 1994-95. |
| (5013) | |
| 412 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many London Underground trains were delayed due to passenger illness in each month since 1994-95 broken down by line. |
| (5006) | |
| 413 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many (a) escalators and (b) escalator faults in London Underground stations there were in each year since 1994-95 broken down by line. |
| (5008) | |
| 414 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what proportion of the first year of public private partnership funding of London Underground will be spent on (a) stations, (b) escalators, (c) signals and points and (d) track improvements. |
| (5007) | |
| 415 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what was the average number of train drivers working on London Underground each week day broken down by line in each of the last five years. |
| (5004) | |
| 416 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many violent incidents against London Underground staff by passengers there were in each financial year since 1994-95 broken down by each line of the London Underground. |
| (5003) | |
| 417 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many trains per hour in (a) peak time and (b) other times Westinghouse Signals were contracted to provide on the Jubilee Line of London Underground. |
| (5010) | |
| 418 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he compiles comparisons between the performances of the metro systems of major international cities. |
| (5094) | |
| 419 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what is the average length of time London Underground staff stayed working for London Underground, broken down by (a) station staff, (b) train drivers, (c) managerial staff and (d) signals and points operators, for each line of the London Underground in each of the last five years. |
| (5001) | |
| 420 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many trains ran per hour in (a) peak time and (b) other times in each year since 1994-95 broken down by line. |
| (5009) | |
| 421 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the mean distance between train failures on the London Underground in each year since 1994-95 broken down by line. |
| (5014) | |
| 422 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the performance targets set out for the shadow running by the infraco companies in preparation for the partial privatisation of London Underground. |
| (5016) | |
| 423 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on performance figures for the shadow running by the infraco companies in preparation for the partial privatisation of London Underground. |
| (5015) | |
| 424 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many London Underground trains were delayed more than 10 minutes in each year since 1994-95 broken down by line. |
| (5012) | |
| 425 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the companies used by London Underground Limited to (a) install, (b) maintain and (c) replace London Underground signals, line by line, in the last five years. |
| (5011) | |
| 426 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many work days were lost due to stress induced illness in London Underground staff broken down by (a) station staff, (b) train drivers, (c) managerial staff and (d) signal/points operators in each financial year since 1994-95 for each line of the London Underground. |
| (5002) | |
| 427 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many driver working hours are needed to run the current level of trains on London Underground each week day, broken down by line. |
| (5005) | |
| 428 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if the recommendations in Multi-Modal Studies are designed to be consistent with the sustainability framework for that region. |
| (5772) | |
| 429 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 13th July, Official Report, column 655W, on London Transport, if he will indicate the actual amount invested by the private sector in each of the contracts named, and the anticipated rate of return for each one. |
| (5763) | |
| 430 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many people were sleeping rough in England in (a) April, (b) May and (c) June. |
| (5228) | |
| 431 N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how much total UK transport capital exenditure is projected to rise in real terms by 2011 as a share of GDP. |
| (5109) | |
| 432 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has to extend planning controls to mobile phone masts less than 45 feet in height. |
| (5450) | |
| 433 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has to restrict the granting of planning permission for mobile phone masts close to hospitals. |
| (5449) | |
| 434 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what (a) meetings he has had with and (b) requests for meetings he has received from, representatives of mobile phone companies to discuss planning matters since 7th June. |
| (5448) | |
| 435 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the improvements made to services by First North Western Trains on the Blackpool to Manchester line. |
| (5792) | |
| 436 N | Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what guidelines have been issued to licensing authorities about the use of private hire vehicles which use autogas. |
| (4522) | |
| 437 N | Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what steps the Government is taking to encourage the use of autogas in motor vehicles. |
| (4521) | |
| 438 N | Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what guidance the Government has issued on the safety of converting vehicles to use autogas. |
| (4523) | |
| 439 N | Mr Eric Joyce (Falkirk West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what share of national income is projected to be taken up by public investment in transport in 2011-12 and what change this represents, in real terms, from the level in 1991-92. |
| (5110) | |
| 440 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what powers he has in respect of complaints from the public about access to public records held by local authorities relevant to conveyancing transactions being obstructed. |
| (5541) | |
| 441 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received regarding local authorities obstructing personal searches of property and other public records relating to conveyancing transactions. |
| (5539) | |
| 442 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what guidance he gives to local authorities regarding access to registers by the public under the Town and Country Planning Act 1999. |
| (5540) | |
| 443 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he expects (a) the M5 at Whittington and (b) the A46 at Harvington to be resurfaced with low noise surfaces; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5775) | |
| 444 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received on her Department's commissioning of a report on slot auctioning from Dot Econ; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5433) | |
| 445 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received from United Kingdom airlines on the proposed introduction of a monetised slot auctioning or transfer system. |
| (5434) | |
| 446 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will commission a report projecting the likely bidding behaviour of airlines based on consultation with United Kingdom and overseas carriers and assessing the benefits for consumers of an auctioning system. |
| (5394) | |
| 447 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received on the decision-making procedures for constructing bypasses under the 10 year transport plan. |
| (5512) | |
| 448 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many UK airlines have indicated to his Department their support of the introduction for a monetised slot auctioning or transfer system; how many have indicated opposition; and how many proposed new entrants to Heathrow or Gatwick have indicated their support. |
| (5393) | |
| 449 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement about the procedures for reaching decisions on the construction of bypasses made under the 10 year transport plan. |
| (5513) | |
| 450 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, to whom the regional planning authority is accountable for reaching its decisions on the contruction of by-passes under the 10 Year Transport Plan. |
| (5514) | |
| 451 | Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port & Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he intends to make public the responses to the consultation document, The Future of Aviation. |
| (5425) | |
| 452 | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many recommendations of the Urban Task Force report entitled 'Towards an Urban Renaissance' have been implemented since it was published. |
| (5499) | |
| 453 | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what research his Department has commissioned into the spatial and economic impact of Stansted Airport's growth since 1997. |
| (5496) | |
| 454 | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has to reform the system of public inquiries into significant transport projects; and what research his Department has commissioned into such reform. |
| (5497) | |
| 455 | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on his plans for implementing the Urban White Paper. |
| (5498) | |
| 456 | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what research his Department has commissioned on the development prospects of the M11 motorway corridor since 1997. |
| (5500) | |
| 457 | Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on his policy on the upgrading of the A30 and A303. |
| (5492) | |
| 458 | Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on his policy on the upgrading of the A35 in East Devon. |
| (5493) | |
| 459 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Leyton and Wanstead, of 13th July, Official Report, column 655W, on London Transport, if he will list the net present value of payments due under the contract of each project; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5443) | |
| 460 N | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the planning authorities that have refused applications to build waste burning incinerators in urban areas in the last three years. |
| (4520) | |
| 461 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what criteria are applied in designating principal roads and principal destinations. |
| (5521) | |
| 462 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received on the inclusion of those parts of Cleveland south of the River Tees in (a) a Yorkshire (b) a northern and (c) a north eastern region. |
| (5082) | |
| 463 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, for what reason Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are included in the Government's South East region. |
| (5100) | |
| 464 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what requests he has received that Wessex should not be partitioned between the South East and South West regions. |
| (5079) | |
| 465 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what criteria are applied in defining the Government's standard regions for England. |
| (5101) | |
| 466 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he last reviewed the designation of principal (a) roads and (b) destinations on the Isle of Wight. |
| (5524) | |
| 467 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what considerations he has given to the creation of a Wessex (a) region and (b) regional assembly. |
| (5080) | |
| 468 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the principal destinations which have no railway station. |
| (5523) | |
| 469 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received about including Cumberland and Westmoreland in regions based on (a) Newcastle and (b) Manchester. |
| (5081) | |
| 470 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the harbour authorities in England; and how many members each authority has. |
| (5520) | |
| 471 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received on the inclusion of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire in (a) a Yorkshire region and (b) an East Midlands region. |
| (5083) | |
| 472 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the Government purposes for which, at 31st May 1997, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight were included with (a) Dorset and Wiltshire, (b) Sussex and Surrey and (c) Berkshire, with or without other counties in each case. |
| (5099) | |
| 473 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how much public money was spent on ferry subsidies in each of the last three years. |
| (3335) | |
| 474 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the principal roads on which tolls are levied. |
| (5522) | |
| 475 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what requests he has received that Cornwall should not be included in a region which includes Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. |
| (5078) | |
| 476 N | Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when it is intended that the proposed changes to the general funding formula for local government will take effect. |
| (4582) | |
| 477 N | Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when it is intended that the proposed changes to the education funding formula for local government will take effect. |
| (4581) | |
| 478 | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people were in receipt of the disability working allowance in September 1999. |
| (5445) | |
| 479 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what work (a) is being and (b) has been carried out by his Department to develop a method of collecting information on (i) the number of people claiming incapacity benefit who are re-tested and (ii) the frequency with which they are re-tested. |
| (5211) | |
| 480 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which disability organisations have been consulted by his Department about the development of a method to collect information on (a) the number of people claiming incapacity benefit who are re-tested and (b) the frequency with which they are re-tested. |
| (5212) | |
| 481 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much housing benefit was paid by each London borough in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (5414) | |
| 482 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in the London Borough of Wandsworth are in receipt of a severe disablement allowance. |
| (5413) | |
| 483 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working aged people had been living in families in receipt of income support or income-based JSA for two years or more in 2001. |
| (5236) | |
| 484 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of pensioners in 1999-2000 were living in households with incomes below (a) 40 per cent. of mean household income before housing costs, (ii) 50 per cent. of mean household income before housing costs, (iii) 60 per cent. of mean household income before housing costs, (iv) 40 per cent. of mean household income after housing costs, (v) 50 per cent. of mean household income after housing costs, (vi) 60 per cent. of mean household income after housing costs, (vii) 50 per cent. of median household income before housing costs, (viii) 60 per cent. of median household income before housing costs, (ix) 70 per cent. of median household income before housing costs, (x) 50 per cent. of median household income after housing costs, (xi) 60 per cent. of median household income after housing costs and (xii) 70 per cent. of median household income after housing costs in each case taking mean and median household income to be 1996-97 values held constant in real terms. |
| (5229) | |
| 485 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of working age adults lived in households with an income below (a) 40 per cent. of the mean before housing costs, (b) 50 per cent. of the mean before housing costs, (c) 60 per cent. of the mean before housing costs, (d) 40 per cent. of the mean after housing costs, (e) 50 per cent. of the mean after housing costs, (f) 60 per cent. of the mean after housing costs, (g) 50 per cent. of the median before housing costs, (h) 60 per cent. of the median before housing costs, (i) 70 per cent. of the median before housing costs, (j) 50 per cent. of the median after housing costs, (k) 60 per cent. of the median after housing costs and (l) 70 per cent. of the median after housing costs in 1999-2000. |
| (5231) | |
| 486 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of working-age adults lived in households with incomes (a) below 60 per cent. and (b) below 70 per cent. of the median household income in at least three out of the last four years. |
| (5227) | |
| 487 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of working age (a) men and (b) women were contributing to a non-state pension in (i) 1999-2000 and (ii) 2000-01. |
| (5224) | |
| 488 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of working age adults lived in households with an income below 40 per cent. of the mean before housing costs, (b) 50 per cent. of the mean before housing costs, (c) 60 per cent. of the mean before housing costs, (d) 40 per cent. of the mean after housing costs, (e) 50 per cent. of the mean after housing costs, (f) 60 per cent. of the mean after housing costs, (g) 50 per cent, of the median before housing costs, (h) 60 per cent. of the median before housing costs, (i) 70 per cent. of the median before housing costs, (j) 50 per cent. of the median after housing costs, (k) 60 per cent. of the median after housing costs and (l) 70 per cent. of the median after housing costs in each case using 1996-97 mean and median income held constant in real terms in 1999-2000. |
| (5230) | |
| 489 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of people aged 60 years or over live in a home that falls below the standard of decency set out in the English House Condition Survey. |
| (5216) | |
| 490 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of pensioners in 1999-2000 were living in households with incomes below (a) 40 per cent. of mean household income before, (b) 50 per cent. of mean household income before, (c) 60 per cent. of mean household income before, (d) 40 per cent. of mean household income after, (e) 50 per cent. of mean household income after, (f) 60 per cent. of mean household income after, (g) 50 per cent. of median household income before, (h) 60 per cent. of median household income before, (i) 70 per cent. of median household income before, (j) 50 per cent. of median household income after, (k) 60 per cent. of median household income after and (l) 70 per cent. of median household income after housing costs. |
| (5219) | |
| 491 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was contributed to non-state pensions in (a) 1999 and (b) 2000 adjusted in each cash to 1997 price terms. |
| (5222) | |
| 492 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the 20 parliamentary constituencies with the (a) highest economic inactivity rate, (b) highest unemployment rate, (c) highest proportion of people of working age claiming incapacity benefit and (d) lowest employment rate, indicating the rates in each case. |
| (5215) | |
| 493 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of pensioners have had incomes (a) below 60 per cent. and (b) below 70 per cent. of median household incomes, in at least three out of the last four years. |
| (5221) | |
| 494 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of (a) people, (b) men and (c) women of working age have contributed to a non-state pension in at least three out of the last four years. |
| (5220) | |
| 495 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many press releases were issued by his Department (a) in total, (b) on the minimum income guarantee, (c) on benefit fraud, (d) on the winter fuel payment, (e) on stakeholder pensions and (f) on the Child Support Agency in (i) 1997, (ii) 1998, (iii) 1999, (iv) 2000 and (v) 2001 to date; and what the estimated total cost was of issuing press releases in each year. |
| (5883) | |
| 496 N | Mr Eric Forth (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to tackle tobacco and alcohol smuggling. |
| [Question Unstarred] (3325) | |
| 497 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of young people left local authority care with one or more GCSE at grade A* to G for the year for which he has the most recent data. |
| [Transferred] (5239) | |
| 498 | Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the levels of applications for performing arts courses and the funding available to such students; and if she will make a statement. |
| [Transferred] (5752) | |
| 499 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects the Gambling Review, chaired by Sir Alan Budd, to report. |
| [Transferred] (5878) | |
| 500 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of drug-related deaths that occurred in each year since 1997. |
| [Transferred] (5761) | |
| 501 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of the level of participation of problem drug users in drug treatment programmes in each year since 1997. |
| [Transferred] (5886) | |
| 502 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Solicitor General, if she will make a statement on the handling by the criminal justice system of Mr Christian Sweeting who was arrested on 16th April. |
| [Transferred] (5506) | |
| 503 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what progress he has made in reviewing changes to anti-Catholic terms contained in the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Bill of Rights 1688. |
| [Transferred] (5890) | |
| 504 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that the Treason Felony Act 1848 is used to prosecute those contravening it. |
| [Transferred] (5889) | |
| 505 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how much is expended by the Government on the maintenance of transport links between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| [Transferred] (5543) | |
| 506 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how much was expended by the Government in each of the three years prior to the introduction of devolution for Scotland and Wales on the maintenance of transport links between Great Britain and offshore islands. |
| [Transferred] (5544) | |
| 507 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the responsibilities of Government for the maintenance of transport links between Great Britain and (a) Northern Ireland and (b) offshore islands. |
| [Transferred] (5542) | |
| 508 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the real terms difference between the education spending in 2001-02 by North Somerset Council and the education SSA for the same authority in 2001-02 is, expressed as (a) cash and (b) a percentage. |
| [Transferred] (5875) | |
| 509 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the 2001-02 Education SSA for North Somerset Council would be if the real terms percentage increase were the same as the English national average. |
| [Transferred] (5874) | |
| 510 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much farming land is in set-aside land in the UK. |
| [Transferred] (5415) | |
| 511 | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the disabled person's tax credit will interact with the proposed employment tax credit and integrated child credit. |
| [Transferred] (5419) | |
| 512 | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the level of take-up of the disabled person's tax credit; and what measures have been implemented by the Government to ensure that disabled people in work receive the support to which they are entitled. |
| [Transferred] (5421) | |
| 513 | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many disabled people would be entitled to payment of the disabled person's tax credit if the rules governing receipt of an eligible disability benefit were the same as those of the disability working allowance. |
| [Transferred] (5423) | |
| 514 | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many disabled people were in receipt of the disabled person's tax credit in June. |
| [Transferred] (5424) | |
| 515 | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what age-limits will be applied to the employment tax credit when it is introduced. |
| [Transferred] (5420) | |
| 516 | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the number of disabled people who would be entitled to the disabled person's tax credit if it was subject to the same taper as the disability working allowance. |
| [Transferred] (5422) | |
| 517 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what her most recent estimate is of the average salary of graduates in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) Wales upon leaving education. |
| [Transferred] (5887) | |
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