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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Friday 20 July 2001
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Friday 20 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 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the rental income is for Archway Tower N19; what the expenditure by public sources was in the last 12 months; and how much capital expenditure there has been on the building in each of the last three years. |
| (5362) | |
| 2 | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cases investigated and rejected by (a) the local government and (b) the parliamentary ombudsmen that have subsequently gone to judicial review have been successful and found in the complainant's favour; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6210) | |
| 3 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list for each of the units dealing with cross-cutting issues based in his Department and for each financial year for which figures are available (a) the number of staff employed, (b) the annual cost of their operations, (c) the cost of capital works to provide premises for their work and (d) their capital and revenue budgets for the current financial year and future years for which the figures are available. |
| (5896) | |
| 4 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to recommend revision to his Department's guidance to senior managers on better quality services; what assessment he has made of the operation of this guidance to date; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6236) | |
| 5 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd July, Official Report, column 124W, if he will list the title, cost and client for each of the projects included in the expenditure totals already given. |
| (6234) | |
| 6 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd July, Official Report, column 124W, if the results of projects carried out for clients other than his own Department were published in full. |
| (6235) | |
| 7 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the purpose and responsibilities are of the People's Panel; for what reasons its future is under review; when the review will be completed; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6238) | |
| 8 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people responded to the feedback survey in the Government's last annual report. |
| (5836) | |
| 9 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the purposes and membership of the Government task forces and reviews (a) which report to his Department and (b) to which his Department (i) appoints members and (ii) provides administrative support, indicating in each case the date on which their first meeting took place; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6239) | |
| 10 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister in his Department oversees the work of each unit run from his Department; which Minister leads on projects arising out of their work; and what their remit and responsibilities are. |
| (6240) | |
| 11 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make a statement on the implementation of the report of the Social Exclusion Unit on Truancy and School Exclusions published in May 1998. |
| (5895) | |
| 12 | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the (a) subject, (b) responsible department and (c) date of each regulatory impact assessment on which his Department has been consulted since the publication of the Modernising Government White Paper. |
| (6237) | |
| 13 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6427) | |
| 14 | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received concerning the impact of pop concerts on activities at Speakers' Corner. |
| (6061) | |
| 15 | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects a new Chief Executive to be appointed to English Heritage. |
| (6062) | |
| 16 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the role played by Lord Levy in facilitating sponsoring arrangements for the Millennium Dome. |
| (5476) | |
| 17 N | Mr Tony Banks (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what species and number of animals have been culled under licence in each of the Royal Parks during the last three years. |
| (5899) | |
| 18 N | Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge & Chryston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many films were refused British certification in (a) 2001, (b) 2000, (c) 1999 and (d) 1998. |
| (5557) | |
| 19 N | Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge & Chryston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what was the average time taken by her Department to make a decision on British certification once a film had been submitted in each of the last four years. |
| (5558) | |
| 20 N | Mr Tom Clarke (Coatbridge & Chryston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many films received British certification in (a) 2001, (b) 2000, (c) 1999 and (d) 1998. |
| (5556) | |
| 21 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to reform the system of allocating funds from her Department between regions. |
| (6053) | |
| 22 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the disposal of the contents of the Dome; and if she will indicate the sum raised. |
| (4969) | |
| 23 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how souvenir items for sale to visitors at the Dome were disposed of following the closure of the Dome; and for what value. |
| (4970) | |
| 24 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action her Department is taking to combat gambling by young people; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6373) | |
| 25 N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to monitor the award of the new independent television news contract and to ensure continued plurality of news sources. |
| (5462) | |
| 26 | Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she will respond to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee's report on the staging of international sporting events. |
| (6015) | |
| 27 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by her Department and its predecessors in each of the last 10 years; what her estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5793) | |
| 28 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5794) | |
| 29 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what criteria will be used to select the next group of sports action zones; and how many will be designated in the next (a) 12 and (b) 24 months. |
| (6299) | |
| 30 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress is being made to ensure that community groups and local authorities in disadvantaged areas receive an increased share of Lottery funding. |
| (6298) | |
| 31 | Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what further measures she intends to take to prevent the sale of alcohol in licensed premises to those already intoxicated. |
| (6229) | |
| 32 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, by what date all households in Essex will be able to receive digital television by (a) cable and (b) terrestrial distribution systems; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6338) | |
| 33 | Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has for the relocation of the statue of Sir Walter Raleigh from Raleigh Green, Whitehall. |
| (5950) | |
| 34 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list the top 10 companies to which her Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6426) | |
| 35 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total value of (i) government assistance and (ii) Lottery assistance since 1997 has been in cash and real terms to (a) opera companies, (b) ballet companies, (c) classical orchestras and (d) popular music groups; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6307) | |
| 36 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what specific assistance she has given to the promotion and development of popular music initiatives; what specific schemes she has put in place to promote entry into the music industry for young artists; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6308) | |
| 37 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total value of assistance provided by the Government to the (a) English FA bid for the 1996 European Championships, (b) UK bids for the Olympic Games since 1997, (c) UK bids for the Commonwealth Games since 1997, (d) English FA bid for the World Cup since 1997 and (e) Scottish FA bid for the 2008 European Championships is in (i) cash and (ii) real terms; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6309) | |
| 38 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the UK was approached to join the Netherlands-led consortium for the procurement of precision guided missiles from the USA; and what the response was and the reasons for it. |
| (5926) | |
| 39 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many precision guided missiles the UK is proposing to procure from the USA; and at what cost. |
| (5925) | |
| 40 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's policy is for recovering costs for services provided by the Defence Diversification Agency. |
| (5930) | |
| 41 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what expenditure has been incurred by his Department on evaluating the likely cost and impact of any National Missile Defense facilities located in the UK. |
| (5916) | |
| 42 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel from Colombia have been (a) attached to and (b) trained by UK military establishments in each of the past five years. |
| (5921) | |
| 43 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what NATO policy is with regard to precision guided missile availability; and how many such missiles he anticipates being available to NATO via its member countries (a) including the USA and (b) excluding the USA, in each of the next two years. |
| (5927) | |
| 44 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which UK military officials were present during the recent National Missile Defense tests held by the United States of America. |
| (5917) | |
| 45 | Mr Quentin Davies (Grantham & Stamford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the in service date of the Meteor missile is; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6200) | |
| 46 | Mr Quentin Davies (Grantham & Stamford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proceeds have been derived from the sale of the Upholder submarines to Canada. |
| (6201) | |
| 47 | Mr Quentin Davies (Grantham & Stamford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of each of the Trafalgar Class submarines was. |
| (6203) | |
| 48 | Mr Quentin Davies (Grantham & Stamford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the UK's participation in the down select stage of the Joint Strike Fighter programme. |
| (6202) | |
| 49 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the entitlement of widows and widowers to keep their armed forces pension following re-marriage. |
| (5460) | |
| 50 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if a member of the AAIB was present when the engines of RAF Chinook ZD576 were strip examined at Textron Lycoming's Stratford Connecticut plant. |
| (6289) | |
| 51 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the engineering member of the RAF Board of Inquiry into RAF Chinook ZD576 completed the Manager's Course for Chinook Mk2. |
| (6287) | |
| 52 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the after flight servicing certificate for ZD576 for 1st June 1994 and the before flight servicing certificate for ZD576 for 2nd June 1994. |
| (6288) | |
| 53 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many defence contracts are out to tender; what timescale is placed on each contract; and what is the estimated value of each contract. |
| (6205) | |
| 54 | Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department was consulted on the proposals for off-shore wind farms at Cleveleys, Lancashire; and what comments it made. |
| (6052) | |
| 55 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the software for the full mission simulator at Middle Wallop will be certified; and when he expects the Army Air Corps helicopter pilots will be training on the FMS. |
| (6104) | |
| 56 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what were the refurbishment costs for the four Upholder class submarines prior to their leasing to the Canadian Government. |
| (6105) | |
| 57 N | Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on his Department's approach to company accreditation, registration and certfication in relation to the potential sale to companies of his Department's redundant sites. |
| (5553) | |
| 58 N | Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if it is his Department's policy to sell his Department's redundant sites to unregistered companies. |
| (5554) | |
| 59 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department in each of the last 10 years; what his estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make statement. |
| (5795) | |
| 60 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5796) | |
| 61 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will outline the commitment he proposes making from UK forces, broken down by service and composition of units, to the proposed European Rapid Reaction Force. |
| (5701) | |
| 62 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will state for the most recent year the number of (a) civilian, including agency staff and (b) service personnel based in (i) each region or nation of the UK and (ii) on service overseas broken down by location; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5704) | |
| 63 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide a breakdown by nation and region of the UK of the total value of current MoD armaments contracts. |
| (5703) | |
| 64 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if RAF units based in Moray will be part of a UK commitment to the European Rapid Reaction Force; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5702) | |
| 65 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans the Government has to regain ownership from Annington Homes of former Ministry of Defence residential accommodation which is rented to provide housing for military personnel; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6326) | |
| 66 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6425) | |
| 67 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate she has made of the shortage of teachers for the next academic year in (a) England and (b) the Billericay and district constituency. |
| (6222) | |
| 68 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the shortage of school places for the next academic year in (a) England and (b) Billericay. |
| (6218) | |
| 69 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to relate teaching pay initiative monies in further education to performance indicators. |
| (5684) | |
| 70 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of staff posts have been filled by (a) the Learning and Skills Council and (b) local LSCs. |
| (5679) | |
| 71 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when the LSC will publish its funding allocation framework. |
| (5681) | |
| 72 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what studies he has conducted into the comparative burden of administration and regulatory compliance by (a) further and (b) higher education; and what action he is taking to alleviate these burdens. |
| (5680) | |
| 73 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on progress with the Learning and Skills Council and local LSCs. |
| (5678) | |
| 74 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many further education colleges to date have (a) cleared arrangements for incentive payments under the teaching pay initiative and (b) made such payments to their lecturers. |
| (5685) | |
| 75 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what arrangements have been made to secure financial accountability by the further education sector to the Learning and Skills Council. |
| (5682) | |
| 76 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proposals she has for amendments in the testing regime in advanced vocational qualifications with a view to reducing their intrusiveness and achieving a broad parity with their academic counterparts. |
| (5687) | |
| 77 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what studies she has conducted into the implications of phasing out GNVQ Foundation on intermediate qualifications in favour of vocational GCSEs for participation in education post-16,with particular reference to young people with a predominantly vocational aptitude. |
| (5677) | |
| 78 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on developments in the Connexions Service. |
| (5676) | |
| 79 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to encourage improvements in the pay and status of non-lecturer staff in the further education sector. |
| (5686) | |
| 80 N | Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what studies she has conducted into fringe imports between (a) areas piloting educational maintenance allowances and (b) those outside into providers of post-16 education. |
| (5683) | |
| 81 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the benefits of aligning the levies for the CITB and the ECITB. |
| (5843) | |
| 82 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of the CITB levy raised is spent on training provision within tool hire companies. |
| (5846) | |
| 83 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations she has received from companies paying the levy regarding the forthcoming review of the CITB levy. |
| (5847) | |
| 84 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations she has received from tool hire companies regarding the CITB requiring them to pay the CITB levy. |
| (5844) | |
| 85 N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will review the operation of the CITB levy in order to identify if there are operations which are required to pay the levy but do not qualify for benefits. |
| (5845) | |
| 86 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list all acting and dance schools approved by her Department for grant purposes; if she will list all those applying for this status; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5907) | |
| 87 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what help she plans to give from public funds to the charity Bullying Online. |
| (5958) | |
| 88 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on differences in performance at GCSE between state secondary schools (a) with and (b) without a sixth form. |
| (6095) | |
| 89 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the supply of (a) teachers and (b) school places for the next academic year in Henley. |
| (6093) | |
| 90 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by her Department in each of the last 10 years; what her estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5722) | |
| 91 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what targets for a reduction in (a) primary and (b) secondary school class sizes she has set for each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5690) | |
| 92 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers in England have applied for performance-related pay; how many of these received such a payment; what percentage of eligible teachers this constitutes; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5826) | |
| 93 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5723) | |
| 94 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the total cost of performance-related pay is for each of the years (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02; what the cost of assessing teachers' entitlement to performance-related pay was; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5827) | |
| 95 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what target she has set for the share of national income which is spent on education for each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5689) | |
| 96 | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions she has had with the National Union of Teachers about teacher recruitment and retention; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6318) | |
| 97 N | Mr Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on delays in funding projects for Excellence in Cities City Learning Centres Phase 3; and if she will provide details of the progress made. |
| (5674) | |
| 98 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when her Department will next publish figures for (a) teacher vacancies and (b) admission appeals. |
| (5821) | |
| 99 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will set out the salary levels for personal advisers/mentors under the Connexions Scheme. |
| (5824) | |
| 100 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many people appointed as advisers and in other capacities under the Connexions scheme, are qualified teachers; and of these how many were teaching immediately before their appointment to Connexions. |
| (5822) | |
| 101 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what work her Department has undertaken on the formula for top-slicing funding from LEAs to fund school sixth forms under the new arrangements to be introduced in 2002-03 for funding sixth forms through the Learning and Skills Council. |
| (5819) | |
| 102 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools have seen a fall in the number of pupils in their sixth forms in each of the last three years; and if she will list those schools. |
| (5823) | |
| 103 N | Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will publish the guidance given by her Department to LEAs on the passporting of funds from the Learning and Skills Council to schools with sixth forms. |
| (5820) | |
| 104 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the timescale is for the review of the education maintenance allowance scheme; and if she will amend the financial assessment process to ensure that it is based on a household's actual income. |
| (6300) | |
| 105 N | Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to collect statistics on the number of children and young people who receive fixed term exclusions from schools. |
| (5027) | |
| 106 N | Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidance her Department provides to schools and local education authorities concerning temporary and permanent exclusion policies. |
| (5019) | |
| 107 N | Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidelines have been issued to schools and local education authorities concerning the rights of children and young people to participate in decisions that affect them, as defined by Article 12 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. |
| (5020) | |
| 108 N | Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidance documents are available to schools and local education Authorities concerning pupil participation in the management of schools. |
| (5021) | |
| 109 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students from the UK were educated at Welsh universities in the last five years. |
| (6404) | |
| 110 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, from whom she has received recent representations about the General Teaching Council's Code of Practice; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6290) | |
| 111 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps she has taken to appoint a permanent Chief Inspector of Schools. |
| (6284) | |
| 112 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the graduation style certificate proposed by her Department at the end of June; and what the cost implications are. |
| (6285) | |
| 113 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which secondary schools in Essex have applied for specialist status; and what awards have been made to date. |
| (6337) | |
| 114 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the condition of the school buildings in the Colchester constituency; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6335) | |
| 115 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there were in (a) Essex and (b) the Colchester constituency in each year from 1997 to 2001 in (i) infant schools, (ii) junior and primary schools and (iii) secondary schools. |
| (6336) | |
| 116 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers have taken early retirement from maintained schools in England in each year since 1997, (a) for health reasons and (b) for other reasons. |
| (5904) | |
| 117 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers were employed in maintained schools in England in each year since 1997, (a) in absolute terms, (b) expressed as full-time equivalents and (c) per hundred pupils in maintained schools. |
| (5903) | |
| 118 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers from maintained schools in England have left the profession for each year since 1997. |
| (5948) | |
| 119 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the top 10 companies to which her Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6424) | |
| 120 N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations she has received about uncompetitive practices operating within the provision of agency supply teachers to maintained schools. |
| (5453) | |
| 121 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials previously employed by MAFF were not transferred to her Department. |
| (5698) | |
| 122 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has in respect of the Government's policy for legislation on hunting. |
| (5697) | |
| 123 N | Mr Tony Banks (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animals were killed under licences issued by her Department, broken down by species, in each of the last three years. |
| (5901) | |
| 124 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what initiatives the Government plans to encourage local authorities to raise waste recycling targets. |
| (6212) | |
| 125 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial assistance will be given to Essex County Council to help fund waste recycling initiatives. |
| (6211) | |
| 126 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what initiatives the Government has to make the public more aware of the importance of waste recycling. |
| (6215) | |
| 127 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to introduce a moratorium on new municipal incinerators; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6214) | |
| 128 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures the Government plans to introduce to facilitate the tracking of dioxins in ash mixtures. |
| (5850) | |
| 129 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria the Environment Agency applies in deciding to apply the legally binding sanctions available to them to locate the final destinations of construction materials containing dioxins from toxic fly-ash. |
| (5853) | |
| 130 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the report into the dioxin levels in building materials will be published; if she will place the report in the Library; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5851) | |
| 131 N | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to legislate for a 30 per cent. improvement in the energy efficiency of the Government Estate. |
| (5669) | |
| 132 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what penalties exist for those who allow materials intended for pet food to infiltrate the human food chain. |
| (6199) | |
| 133 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what controls are in place to prevent contaminated materials from getting into pet food during manufacturing, with particular reference to materials imported from abroad. |
| (6197) | |
| 134 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what controls exist to prevent materials intended for pet food from entering the human food chain. |
| (6198) | |
| 135 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers she has to require North West Water to stop flooding in people's homes through faults in sewage systems. |
| (6064) | |
| 136 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what help will be provided to farmers affected by foot and mouth disease to enable them to return to farming. |
| (6206) | |
| 137 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers she has to require water companies to compensate people whose homes are damaged as a consequence of sewage flooding. |
| (6065) | |
| 138 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): 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 disease in South Lancashire. |
| (6207) | |
| 139 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will provide financial help to assist farmers with feeding animals over the winter period on farms affected by foot and mouth disease. |
| (6208) | |
| 140 | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will extend the Market Towns Initiative to Chorley. |
| (6209) | |
| 141 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government has taken to address the impact on animal welfare of farmers being unable to sell this year's light lamb crop as a result of the continuation of the export ban. |
| (6340) | |
| 142 N | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department is making in repealing the limit on the number of people able to participate in shooting and stalking activities on land outside foot and mouth disease-infected sites. |
| (5670) | |
| 143 N | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the money generated annually from country shooting her Department estimates will be lost this year as a result of foot and mouth disease restrictions. |
| (5671) | |
| 144 N | Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made in establishing a compensation scheme for those affected adversely by the growing of GM crops. |
| (5551) | |
| 145 N | Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many acres of land are set aside for farm scale evaluations of GM crops in (a) Pembrokeshire, (b) Wales and (c) the United Kingdom. |
| (5552) | |
| 146 N | Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers she has to intervene when disposal guidelines are not adhered to in relation to land used in farm scale evaluations of GM crops. |
| (5549) | |
| 147 N | Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli, Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what post trial procedures are in place to (a) ensure destruction of the root system, (b) ensure the soil is free from GMOs, and (c) monitor levels of GMOs in other crops in relation to land used in farm scale evaluations of GM crops. |
| (5550) | |
| 148 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by her Department in each of the last 10 years; what her estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5734) | |
| 149 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5735) | |
| 150 N | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the progress of the Pennine Bridleway in Cumbria. |
| (5566) | |
| 151 N | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what studies are being (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned by the Environment Agency in making a determination on the applications submitted by Rolls Royce Marine Power Operations Ltd in so far as they relate to disposal of waste at Hilts Quarry, Crich. |
| (5806) | |
| 152 N | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what procedures have been put in place to ensure that sample results from Crich, Derbyshire, given to Rolls Royce are made available to the Environment Agency and that abnormal results are investigated. |
| (5807) | |
| 153 N | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what evidence the Environment Agency determined the high reading of Cobalt 60 in samples of surface water in Crich, Derbyshire, in the third quarter of 1999 was a false reading. |
| (5809) | |
| 154 N | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information is available to the Environment Agency on the nature of the materials (a) stored at Hilts Quarry, Crich, after disposal since the 1960s from Rolls Royce Marine Power Operations Ltd, Derby and (b) deposited at Hilts Quarry in weekly disposals from RRMPOL. |
| (5804) | |
| 155 N | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what procedures are in place to ensure that the Environment Agency can distinguish between leachates from the Hilts Quarry site, Crich and the Roe's Lane landfill site in conducting investigations into applications by Rolls Royce. |
| (5805) | |
| 156 N | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria the Environment Agency is applying in determining whether the disposal of Rolls Royce waste at Hilts Quarry, Crich, Derbyshire, should continue. |
| (5808) | |
| 157 N | Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action will be taken to ensure the safety of the existing site in the event of a decision by the Environment Agency to end the disposal of Rolls Royce waste at Hilts Quarry, Crich. |
| (5803) | |
| 158 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 26th March on behalf of his constituent Mrs Hall. |
| (5936) | |
| 159 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to impound olive oil that is suspected of being contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. |
| (6055) | |
| 160 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if interest will be paid on payments outstanding following the 21 day window for slaughter under the Livestock Welfare Disposal Scheme. |
| (6056) | |
| 161 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the steps she intends to take to speed up payments made under the Livestock Welfare Disposal Scheme. |
| (6057) | |
| 162 | Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what part the UK Government intends to play to meet the Royal Commission Report on Environmental Pollution recommendations of a global 60 per cent. reduction in carbon dioxide by 2050. |
| (6228) | |
| 163 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers have yet to receive compensation for the slaughter of their animals resulting from the foot and mouth disease crisis in (a) the UK and (b) Wales. |
| (6408) | |
| 164 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has held with the Rural Affairs Secretary at the National Assembly concerning the likely trend in lamb prices during the autumn. |
| (6316) | |
| 165 | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to represent non-farming and conservation interests on her Department's Policy Commission on Food and Farming. |
| (6002) | |
| 166 | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to seek to increase the numbers of farmland birds. |
| (6001) | |
| 167 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment the Government has made of the occurrence of fly-tipping; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6292) | |
| 168 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on specifically requiring county councils to include incineration in their waste plans. |
| (6330) | |
| 169 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with local authorities on the exclusion of incineration from local waste plans; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5470) | |
| 170 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will change her policy to allow county councils to specifically exclude incineration in their waste plans. |
| (5469) | |
| 171 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when a water bill, including provision to protect wetland habitats, will be introduced; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5465) | |
| 172 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of which breeds of birds depend on wetlands for survival in the United Kingdom. |
| (5466) | |
| 173 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the landfill tax receipts to be collected in each of the next five years. |
| (5471) | |
| 174 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the RSPB on the future of wetlands. |
| (5467) | |
| 175 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which breeds of birds are at risk from threats to wetland areas. |
| (5468) | |
| 176 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to review the livestock movement restrictions; what is the timetable of such a review; and if she will monitor the applicability of the full range of movement restrictions to the Isle of Wight. |
| (6383) | |
| 177 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the top 10 companies to which her Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6423) | |
| 178 | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with EU partners on ensuring common standards for organic produce; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5949) | |
| 179 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what powers the Government has to stop monopolistic practices by supermarkets in respect of farmers. |
| (6244) | |
| 180 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to increase the price of milk. |
| (6245) | |
| 181 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate the Government has made of the financial value of country sports in the last financial year. |
| (6243) | |
| 182 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the level of bureaucracy for farmers. |
| (6246) | |
| 183 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of Britain's abattoirs she estimates will close due to the foot and mouth crisis. |
| (6247) | |
| 184 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria she will use in deciding when the foot and mouth outbreak is over. |
| (6249) | |
| 185 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much foot and mouth has cost the rural economy to date. |
| (6248) | |
| 186 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance is issued by her Department and the Food Standards Agency on food-labelling and anaphylactic reaction. |
| (6394) | |
| 187 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the level of compensation awarded to sufferers of anaphylactic reaction resulting from food-mislabelling; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6429) | |
| 188 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to tighten regulation on food-labelling to ensure greater accuracy of content information in order to reduce instances of anaphylactic reaction amongst consumers. |
| (6428) | |
| 189 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the discovery of bags containing census forms outside St Hilda's East Community Centre, London. |
| (5559) | |
| 190 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what increase there has been in the number of ISA holders who are (a) standard rate taxpayers and (b) higher rate taxpayers, over PEP holders, since the introduction of ISAs. |
| (6368) | |
| 191 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of annual employee pension contribution entitlement was used in the last financial year for which there is complete data by (a) standard rate taxpayers and (b) higher rate taxpayers. |
| (6367) | |
| 192 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) men and (b) women over the age of 100 there are in the United Kingdom. |
| (6384) | |
| 193 | Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to voluntary sports clubs of the Climate Change Levy. |
| (6014) | |
| 194 | Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on his plans to assist voluntary sports clubs with their business rates. |
| (6016) | |
| 195 | Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for the licensed trade of the Climate Change Levy. |
| (6432) | |
| 196 N | Mr David Heath (Somerton & Frome): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the application of VAT to ophthalmic dispensing. |
| (5797) | |
| 197 | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate was for the receipt of corporation tax in each of (a) April, (b) May and (c) June; and what the receipts of corporation tax were in (i) April, (ii) May and (iii) June. |
| (6196) | |
| 198 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what additional revenue he raised in 2000-01 from property and land transactions in (a) the UK and (b) the Henley constituency as a result of the increases in stamp duty in the March 2000 Budget. |
| (6090) | |
| 199 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to announce the results of the comprehensive spending review for financial years 2003-04 to 2006-07. |
| (5832) | |
| 200 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department in each of the last 10 years; what his estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5728) | |
| 201 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5729) | |
| 202 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish a list of deprived areas which will qualify for stamp duty reductions announced in the Budget. |
| (5941) | |
| 203 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on his proposals for using tax credits for neighbourhood renewal in deprived areas. |
| (5940) | |
| 204 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the dates of publication and cost of each Departmental annual report published (a) in paper form and (b) on the world wide web since 1998; what plans he has for the publication of future annual reports (i) in paper form and (ii) on the world wide web; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5894) | |
| 205 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussion she has had with the administration of the National Assembly concerning job losses in manufacturing in Wales since June 2000. |
| (6410) | |
| 206 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has held with the First Secretary of the National Assembly, concerning the use of the Objective 1 status of West Wales and the Valleys to introduce measures to maximise the benefits available during the duration of the European programme. |
| (6306) | |
| 207 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many sustainable full-time jobs were created by the Objective 1 programme during the 2000-01 financial year in each UK Objective 1 region. |
| (6402) | |
| 208 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of whisky duty levels on employment in the Scotch whisky sector; and if he will make it his policy to bring duties on whisky into line with duties on other types of alcohol; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5699) | |
| 209 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of trends in sales of whisky in the (a) UK and (b) overseas over the last five years; and what assessment he has made of the impact of levels of whisky duties on these trends. |
| (5700) | |
| 210 | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to reduce the stamp duty payable on commercial property transactions. |
| (6003) | |
| 211 | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to charge VAT on the wages of house managers in retirement homes. |
| (6000) | |
| 212 | Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to develop the securitisation of the institutional property market. |
| (5999) | |
| 213 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what additional revenue he raised in 2000-01 from property and land transactions in (a) the London Borough of Havering and (b) the Romford constituency as a result of the increases in stamp duty in the March 2000 Budget. |
| (6291) | |
| 214 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review his policy on the permanent seizure of a vehicle used for the illegal importation of goods when the vehicle owner is unaware of such a use; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5828) | |
| 215 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in what circumstances property used for the illegal importation of goods will be returned to its owner when the owner was found to be unaware of that use and is innocent of wrongdoing. |
| (5829) | |
| 216 N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to enable property belonging to a third party, which has been used without their knowledge for illegal importation of goods, to be restored to its rightful owner. |
| (5664) | |
| 217 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 16th July, Official Report, column 24W, on efficiency measures, what progress his Department's has made in the previous three financial years in applying the European Foundation for Quality Management's business excellence model to measuring the outputs of his Department. |
| (6431) | |
| 218 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6417) | |
| 219 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the achievements which have resulted from the policy of constructive engagement with the Chinese Government in respect of advances in human rights. |
| (5696) | |
| 220 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions HM Government's Ambassador to Indonesia held with the Indonesian authorities during his visit to the site of British Petroleum's Tangguh project in Bintani Bay, West Papua in June; what are the (a) statutory and (b) other requirements for the Indonesian security forces to provide security for the project; what arrangements will be made to secure the project; what access local people will have to independent information about the likely impact of the project; and what proportion of the project's revenue will be returned to local communities. |
| (6391) | |
| 221 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information he has collated about the number of (a) political prisoners and (b) other persons subject to arbitrary detention in prison in West Papua; and what representations he has made to the Indonesian authorities concerning their release. |
| (6390) | |
| 222 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to inform the House on future occasions in which the UK's veto at the United Nations Security Council is used. |
| (5928) | |
| 223 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received about the causes of the bombing on 19th June of a football pitch at Tal A'far in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5018) | |
| 224 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many holds on applications for imports to Iraq in the sanctions committee of the United Nations Security Council were lifted after (a) zero to three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to nine months, (d) nine to 12 months and (e) more than one year. |
| (5929) | |
| 225 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what evaluation has been undertaken by his Department of the effects of tourism in the Antarctic. |
| (5908) | |
| 226 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consultations his Department has had with oil companies concerning oil exploration and railway construction in Tibet. |
| (5914) | |
| 227 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what UK representation will be at (a) the UN Human Rights conference in Geneva in July/August, (b) the UN conference on repression in South Africa in August/September and (c) the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva in March/April 2002. |
| (5920) | |
| 228 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions have been held with representatives of the Chagos Islands since their visit to the UK. |
| (5919) | |
| 229 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will announce the establishment of a Secretariat for the Antarctic Environmental Protocol; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5910) | |
| 230 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations have been made to the Government of Colombia concerning Human Rights abuses and land ownership; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5924) | |
| 231 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what has been the UK financial contribution to Plan Colombia; and what is planned for in the current year. |
| (5923) | |
| 232 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what visits to the Chagos Islands have been made by UK officials in the last year; and what visits are planned in the current year. |
| (5918) | |
| 233 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the total UK diplomatic and military presence is in Colombia for the latest available date |
| (5922) | |
| 234 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations have been received from human rights groups concerning the Internal Security Act's operation in Malaysia. |
| (5915) | |
| 235 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Zimbabwean High Commission in London regarding acts of violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe. |
| (5998) | |
| 236 | Andy King (Rugby & Kenilworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received from Laos about the persecution of Christians there; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6395) | |
| 237 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5731) | |
| 238 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department in each of the last 10 years; what his estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5730) | |
| 239 N | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many decisions by entry clearance officers refusing entry to visitors from the Indian Sub-Continent were overturned following the exercise of ministerial discretion by an FCO minister between November 1999 and April 2001; and how many of those visitors have returned. |
| (5857) | |
| 240 N | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 27th June, Official Report, column 87W, on entry clearance, what guidance he has given about the exceptional circumstances required for the use of Ministerial discretion to overturn an entry clearance officer's decision and about the factors used in deciding whether the entry clearance officer made a correct decision under the rules; and if he will place a copy of the guidelines in the Library. |
| (5856) | |
| 241 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the Government will advocate lifting the economic sanctions imposed upon Iraq. |
| (6403) | |
| 242 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what notification he has received of meetings during the Belgian Presidency of the EU where the Belgian delegation will be led by ministers from the Flemish or Walloon governments; if he will provide details of the subject matters of these meetings; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5800) | |
| 243 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if it is his intention for a UK delegation to EU meetings during the Belgian presidency to be led by Scottish Executive ministers. |
| (5799) | |
| 244 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has for promoting Scottish trade, tourism and inward investment; if he will list the events or activities he has specifically arranged for the next six months in (a) the UK, (b) Europe and (c) the rest of the world for such promotion; and if he will list the documents his Department has produced, and the events his Department has organised over the last three years, which specifically and exclusively promote Scottish trade, tourism and inward investment. |
| (5817) | |
| 245 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions have been held between Scottish Executive and Her Majesty's Government regarding UK support for the proposals in the agreement of the constitutional regions, with particular reference to the proposal for direct access for the Scottish Executive to the European Court of Justice; what his policy is in respect of the agreement; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5802) | |
| 246 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will set out the mechanism by which it is agreed with the Scottish Executive who will lead the UK delegation to EU Council of Ministers meetings; if it is the presumption in all cases that UK delegations are led by the UK Government; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5801) | |
| 247 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in respect of each year since 1999, how many delegations to European Union meetings have (a) included Scottish Executive ministers and (b) been led by a Scottish Executive minister; if he will list the subject matter and location of each meeting; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5798) | |
| 248 | Mr Michael Trend (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Azerbaijan concerning freedom of assembly and political expression in Azerbaijan. |
| (6011) | |
| 249 | Mr Michael Trend (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he had made to the Government of Sri Lanka concerning the suspension of the Sri Lankan Parliament; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6008) | |
| 250 | Mr Michael Trend (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will ask the Commonwealth to send observers to the forthcoming referendum in Sri Lanka. |
| (6009) | |
| 251 | Mr Michael Trend (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to send election observers to oversee the forthcoming referendum in Sri Lanka. |
| (6010) | |
| 252 | Mr Michael Trend (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. |
| (6012) | |
| 253 | Mr Michael Trend (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to (a) the President and (b) Foreign Office of Azerbaijan about the attempts to seize the headquarters of the National Independence Party of Azerbaijan. |
| (6013) | |
| 254 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6421) | |
| 255 N | John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors and district nurses were employed in NHS hospital and community health services in each of the last three years for which figures are available. |
| (5834) | |
| 256 N | John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of health visitors and district nurses employed in NHS hospital and community health services are aged (a) over 50 and (b) over 55 years. |
| (5833) | |
| 257 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which health authorities inoculated children with Wellcome's Trivax vaccines that came from (a) batch 3741 and (b) batch 3732; how many children were so vaccinated; how many adverse reactions were reported in respect of each batch, including fatalities; if he will take steps to trace those who have been inoculated with vaccines from these batches; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5695) | |
| 258 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money his Department has paid in compensation to families whose children are believed to have been damaged as a consequence of inoculation with Wellcome's Trivax vaccines from (a) batch 3741 and (b) batch 3732. |
| (5694) | |
| 259 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing vacancies there are in the NHS in South Essex. |
| (6225) | |
| 260 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS patients contracted hospital-acquired infections in (a) 2000 and (b) 2001 in South Essex. |
| (6224) | |
| 261 | Mr David Borrow (South Ribble): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what disciplinary action has been taken over the statement of the Chairman of the National Blood Authority concerning gay men who consider blood donation. |
| (5994) | |
| 262 N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors he is taking into account in deciding on the timing of the publication of the report from York Health Economics Consortium on the NHS complaints procedure. |
| (5464) | |
| 263 N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the main findings are of the report from York Health Economics Consortium on the NHS complaints procedure. |
| (5463) | |
| 264 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost to the NHS has been of claims made against it by patients for negligence, broken down by (a) amount of compensation paid to patients and (b) total amount paid to lawyers for both the NHS and claimants in legal costs, in each of the last 10 years. |
| (5025) | |
| 265 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost has been to the NHS of operating its complaints procedures in each of the last 10 years. |
| (5023) | |
| 266 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost to the NHS has been of (a) fraud, (b) theft and (c) other dishonest activities committed by NHS employees, including clinicians, management and support staff, in each of the last 10 years. |
| (5024) | |
| 267 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the number of nurses required to undertake the registered nurse care contribution assessment for free nursing care; and when training materials and courses will be available. |
| (5966) | |
| 268 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list health authorities in England in order of the highest number of patients aged 75 years and over admitted for emergency treatment. |
| (5810) | |
| 269 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list health authorities in England in order of the highest percentage of over-75s whose discharge from hospital is delayed awaiting a care home placement. |
| (5812) | |
| 270 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the time required to complete all the registered nurse assessments necessary to determine the level of registered nursing input for self-funding and state-funded clients in nursing homes. |
| (5965) | |
| 271 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the number of self-funding residents in nursing homes who are (a) not registered, (b) registered locally and (c) registered in another health authority; and if he will publish this information by health authority. |
| (5461) | |
| 272 N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many, in respect of each social services department in England, how many (a) state and (b) private places there are in (i) nursing homes, and (ii) residential homes; and what is the total care home places for older people. |
| (5811) | |
| 273 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals in the NHS provide pancreatic cancer operations; and how long the average waiting times are in each. |
| (5455) | |
| 274 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the record and policy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool on the treatment of pancreatic cancer. |
| (5457) | |
| 275 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many formal complaints were made by (a) patients, (b) families of patients and (c) general practitioners against the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2001 to date. |
| (5456) | |
| 276 N | Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review pancreatic cancer services in the North West of England; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5454) | |
| 277 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to (a) public funds and (b) the private sources was of the re-building of the Whittington Hospital; and what his estimate of repayment costs is. |
| (5271) | |
| 278 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding has been made centrally available for the purchase of communication aids for sufferers of cerebral palsy and similar conditions; what proportion of this funding has been allocated to each of the local health authorities; and when such funding will be made available. |
| (6233) | |
| 279 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of GNP in (a) Ireland, (b) France, (c) Germany, (d) Spain, (e) Italy, (f) Sweden, (g) Luxembourg, (h) Austria, (i) Belgium, (j) Denmark, (k) Finland, (l) Greece, (m) the Netherlands and (n) Portugal is spent on healthcare services. |
| (6303) | |
| 280 N | Mrs Janet Dean (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the remuneration paid to hospital practitioners to ensure that it is sufficient to fund the necessary locum cover for the general practitioner. |
| (5931) | |
| 281 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will give the latest data on the number of households receiving more than 10 contact hours of intensive home care and over five visits during a survey week per thousand head of population aged 65 and over. |
| (5852) | |
| 282 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13th July, Official Report, column 674W, on nurses, what information his Department has on the number of agency nurses working in the NHS in each of the (a) past 12 months and (b) past four years; and if he will place this information in the Library. |
| (5892) | |
| 283 N | Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that patients participating in the UK trials for the drug STI-571, who receive proven benefits from the drug during the trial, will continue to have STI-571 made available to them, pending the appraisal of the drug by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. |
| (5667) | |
| 284 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what has been the effect of the Red Card scheme in reducing incidents of violence in hospitals. |
| (6302) | |
| 285 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cardiac surgical operations have been carried out at the Papworth Hospital on patients from Norfolk in each of the last five years. |
| (5962) | |
| 286 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cardiac surgical operations have been carried out at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in each of the last five years. |
| (5961) | |
| 287 | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) part-time and (b) full-time cardiac surgeons have been in post at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in each of the last five years. |
| (5963) | |
| 288 N | 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 emergency re-admissions within 28 days of discharge. |
| (5818) | |
| 289 N | 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 patients waiting for (a) an out-patient and (b) an in-patient appointment, indicating numbers of patients awaiting treatment, for (i) general surgery, (ii) urology, (iii) trauma and orthopaedics (iv) ear, nose and throat, (v) ophthalmology, (vi) oral surgery, (vii) cardiothoracic surgery, (viii) general medicine, (ix) cardiology, (x) thoracic medicine, (xi) infectious diseases, (xii) medical oncology, (xiii) geriatric medicine, (xiv) gynaecology and (xv) clinical oncology. |
| (5815) | |
| 290 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): 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 Oxfordshire. |
| (6100) | |
| 291 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing and residential care (a) homes and (b) beds have closed in Oxfordshire in each year since 1997. |
| (6099) | |
| 292 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out his targets for reducing inpatient and outpatient waiting lists and waiting times for each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5709) | |
| 293 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his target is for the number of (a) nurses and (b) doctors in the NHS for each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5688) | |
| 294 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if it is his policy to increase expenditure on health services up to the European Union average as a percentage of gross domestic product; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5708) | |
| 295 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5725) | |
| 296 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department in each of the last 10 years; what his estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions are for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5724) | |
| 297 N | Mr Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on plans for a national alcohol strategy. |
| (5565) | |
| 298 N | David Maclean (Penrith & The Border): 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 Cumbria since May 1997. |
| (5825) | |
| 299 | Mr Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port & Neston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total value was of inhaled medicines for asthmatics purchased by his Department in each of the last three years. |
| (6433) | |
| 300 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish details of (a) the tender process and (b) the costs of the recent foster carers advertising campaign. |
| (5837) | |
| 301 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what instructions he has issued to NHS trusts and authorities on the use of central funding for anti-dementia drugs. |
| (5838) | |
| 302 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding has been allocated to health trusts and authorities for the provision of anti-dementia drugs approved by NICE. |
| (5835) | |
| 303 N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many responses his Department had to the recent foster carers campaign. |
| (5839) | |
| 304 N | Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which European states have established (a) a Children's Ombudsman and (b) a similar post. |
| (5022) | |
| 305 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what response the Department of Health has made to the RNID report, Audiology in Crisis. |
| (6409) | |
| 306 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussion he has had with his counterpart at the National Assembly for Wales, concerning the development of a national strategy to deal with arthritis in Wales. |
| (6430) | |
| 307 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with his counterpart at the National Assembly concerning increasing the number of audiologists working within the NHS in Wales. |
| (6411) | |
| 308 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures her Department plans to combat the problems facing audiology within the NHS. |
| (6401) | |
| 309 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to recruit more biomedical scientists to the NHS, and increase staff retention. |
| (6396) | |
| 310 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with his counterpart at the National Assembly for Wales regarding the non-inclusion of biomedical scientists on the NHS Pay Review Body. |
| (6406) | |
| 311 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what drugs are available for treating Alzheimer's disease on the NHS. |
| (6407) | |
| 312 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the availability of the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis in schools in Romford. |
| (6279) | |
| 313 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with tuberculosis in London in each year since 1990; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6280) | |
| 314 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing and residential care (a) homes and (b) beds have closed in Essex in each year since 1997. |
| (6332) | |
| 315 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioners (a) there were and (b) ceased working in (i) Essex and (ii) Colchester in each year since 1980. |
| (6333) | |
| 316 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) in-patients and (b) out-patients were treated in the North Essex Health Authority area in each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| (6334) | |
| 317 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce the level of bed blocking in Essex. |
| (6329) | |
| 318 N | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will announce a timetable for the national roll out of the 20 universal neonatal hearing screening pilots. |
| (5814) | |
| 319 N | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) screening and (b) non-screening pilot schemes his Department has established since May 1997; and how many have now been completed and (i) rolled out nationally, (ii) given a timetable for national roll out and (iii) placed under review subject to further consideration of their findings. |
| (5813) | |
| 320 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group has given to the travel and transportation needs of patients following heart transplantation for follow up care in the first 12 months following surgery. |
| (4377) | |
| 321 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what international models relating to the population size were considered by the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group in reaching their recommendations on transplant centres in England and Wales. |
| (4378) | |
| 322 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions there have been between the NSCAG and their Scottish colleagues on the new transplant centre in Glasgow. |
| (4379) | |
| 323 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors underlay the recommendations by NSCAG about transplant centres in England and Wales. |
| (4380) | |
| 324 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, upon what evidence NSCAG based its recommendation concerning the number of transplants individual surgeons should perform each year. |
| (4381) | |
| 325 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate NSCAG has made of patient outcome if a transplant unit performs (a) 40 and (b) 50 transplants per annum. |
| (4382) | |
| 326 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment NSCAG and the Royal College of Surgeons has made of the levels of skills required to perform (a) heart transplant operations, (b) heart valve operations and (c) lung transplants. |
| (4383) | |
| 327 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment NSCAG has made of the number of people in a unit needed to perform a given number of operations; and what factors underlay the assumptions involved. |
| (4384) | |
| 328 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate has been made of the number of heart and lung transplants that could be undertaken per annum by five national centres. |
| (4385) | |
| 329 N | Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will undertake a review of organ retrieval boundaries to reflect population size and ensure equal access. |
| (4386) | |
| 330 N | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the projected costs of the inquiry into elective surgery at Kidderminster Hospital. |
| (3760) | |
| 331 N | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost of the visit to the USA by representatives of the Worcestershire Health Authority to study ambulatory care. |
| (3761) | |
| 332 N | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures he is taking to increase the number of non-political appointments to health authority and primary care trust boards. |
| (5665) | |
| 333 N | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to involve honourable Members in the process of appointing members of boards of (a) health authorities and (b) primary care trusts. |
| (5666) | |
| 334 | Mr Gareth R. Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is taking to tackle problems faced by people with anorexia nervosa. |
| (5992) | |
| 335 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6419) | |
| 336 | Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason there is no centre for the provision of digital hearing aids in the South East of England. |
| (6058) | |
| 337 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish data on the incidence of cancer in the Avon area using the same criteria as those used by Dr Chris Busby in his investigation of the links between cancer and proximity to Oldbury nuclear power station. |
| (5893) | |
| 338 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to increase the provision of long-term care for the elderly in Leominster. |
| (6242) | |
| 339 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the costs levied on care homes as a result of the introduction of (a) the national minimum wage and (b) the passing of the Care Standards Act 2000. |
| (6005) | |
| 340 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on (a) the level of bed-blocking and (b) the expected levels of bed-blocking following the introduction of new care standards in 2002. |
| (6006) | |
| 341 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of support funding is made available by his Department to care homeowners; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6004) | |
| 342 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for each year since 1980, how many civilians have been shot by police; of those how many were (a) fatally wounded and (b) armed; how many officers were charged in connection with each incident; and how many successful prosecutions ensued in each case. |
| (5480) | |
| 343 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the primates which, according to Table 2 of the Home Office statistics on the use of animals in scientific procedures for 1999, came from outside the European Union how many were captive-bred; from which countries captive-bred primates were imported; and how many were ill or injured on arrival, indicating the illness or injury in each case and how many became ill or injured during quarantine for reasons unrelated to the scientific procedures, indicating the illness or injury in each case. |
| (5710) | |
| 344 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason no decision has yet been taken in respect of the instigation of disciplinary proceedings against Sussex Police officers involved in the policing operation that involved the fatal shooting of James Ashley. |
| (5474) | |
| 345 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the primates destined for UK laboratories but not used in scientific procedures how many primates captive-bred outside the EU were found dead on arrival in the UK in 1999 and 2000; how many primates wild-caught outside the EU were found dead on arrival in the UK in 1999 and 2000; how many primates captive-bred outside the EU (a) died and (b) became ill in quarantine in 1999 and 2000; and how many primates wild-caught outside the EU died or became ill in quarantine in 1999 and 2000, indicating the circumstances in each case. |
| (5712) | |
| 346 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information is available to him to determine the percentage of a police constable's time spent on average (a) on patrol, (b) undertaking duties within a police establishment, (c) off sick, (d) on leave and (e) otherwise engaged, for the last year for which figures are avaialable. |
| (5484) | |
| 347 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the disciplinary hearing involving the Deputy Chief Constable of Sussex Police in respect of his involvement in the policing operation that involved the fatal shooting of James Ashley is not due to commence until 7th January 2002. |
| (5473) | |
| 348 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the primates which, according to Table 2 of the Home Office statistics on the use of animals in scientific procedures for 1999, how many were wild-caught; from which countries were wild-caught primates imported; how many were ill or injured on arrival, indicating the illness or injury in each case; and how many became ill or injured during quarantine for reasons unrelated to the scientific procedures indicating the illness or injury in each case. |
| (5711) | |
| 349 N | Mr Tony Banks (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the police charges paid by each London professional football club in seasons 1999-2000 and 2000-01. |
| (5902) | |
| 350 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received from Essex Police regarding his proposals to reform police pay and conditions. |
| (6220) | |
| 351 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to create a national register of drug dealers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6219) | |
| 352 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police stations in Essex have (a) closed and (b) restricted their opening hours in each year since 1997. |
| (6223) | |
| 353 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the projected number of serving constables is in the Essex police force for (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03. |
| (6213) | |
| 354 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many serving constables there were in the Essex police force (a) in 1997 and (b) on the most recent date for which figures are available. |
| (6226) | |
| 355 N | Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many telephone lines are available at Manchester Strangeways Prison for individuals to phone about prison visits; what percentage of callers get through first time; and what percentage of callers fail to get through after five attempts. |
| (4966) | |
| 356 N | Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what targets are set for the length of time taken by Her Majesty's prison governors to reply to letters from (a) honourable Members and (b) the public; and if the Governor of HMP Strangeways has met these targets. |
| (4964) | |
| 357 N | Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to require criminals to clear away litter and grafitti as reparation for their offences. |
| (5451) | |
| 358 | Mrs Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of (a) the adequacy and (b) the equal availability of education and training facilities for inmates in Her Majesty's prisons. |
| (6204) | |
| 359 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines have been issued to police forces on the criteria used in determining cases to be reviewed because of new evidence becoming available, with particular reference to DNA proofing techniques; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5564) | |
| 360 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is his estimate of the cost of the asylum voucher system; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5906) | |
| 361 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent information he has collated on (a) police shootings and (b) the results of PCA inquiries into police shootings, and if he will make a statement. |
| (5909) | |
| 362 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to complete the review of the voucher system for asylum seekers. |
| (5911) | |
| 363 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women were sent to prison by courts in England and Wales during each of the last three years. |
| (6371) | |
| 364 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussion she has had with the Romanian Government on its policy concerning the welfare and protection of children. |
| (6232) | |
| 365 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were refused visitors visas by British High Commission offices in (a) Pakistan, (b) India and (c) Sri Lanka during the last 12 months. |
| (6372) | |
| 366 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people aged 60 years or over reported, in the most recent national crime survey, that their lives are greatly affected by fear of crime. |
| (5957) | |
| 367 | Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence he has collated on the likely effect of community sentences on rates of re-offending; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6054) | |
| 368 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to bring forward legislation relating to the rights of victims of crime; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6101) | |
| 369 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision the Government has made for long-term police housing in rural areas; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6098) | |
| 370 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many working hours were lost by Thames Valley Police due to sick leave in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (6103) | |
| 371 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many constables are available for ordinary duty in Henley; and how many there were in 1997. |
| (6102) | |
| 372 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5733) | |
| 373 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department in each of the last 10 years; what his estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions are for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5732) | |
| 374 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what targets he has set for the total size of the police force in England for each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5691) | |
| 375 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it is his policy to introduce a quota for the number of asylum seekers accepted into the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5673) | |
| 376 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the cost to West Yorkshire Police of payments to other police forces for assistance in policing the recent disorders in Bradford; what plans he has to pay an additional grant to the West Yorkshire Police; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5967) | |
| 377 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with (a) Euro-Tunnel and (b) the French authorities regarding illegal immigration through the Channel Tunnel; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5840) | |
| 378 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his assessment is of the average additional cost of supporting an asylum seeker if the EC draft directive laying down minimum standards in the reception of applicants for asylum in member states were implemented. |
| (6060) | |
| 379 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on Home Office policies to improve community relations in areas which have suffered from recent disturbances. |
| (5672) | |
| 380 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants were detected after passing through the Channel Tunnel in the past two years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5841) | |
| 381 N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the French authorities regarding the removal of immigration officials from the ports of Dieppe and Cherbourg; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5842) | |
| 382 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) principal applicants and (b) dependants would gain the right to take paid employment in the United Kingdom if the EEC draft directive laying down minimum standards on the reception of applicants for asylum in member states were implemented. |
| (6059) | |
| 383 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued in Sussex; and how many have led to subsequent court proceedings. |
| (5937) | |
| 384 N | Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answers of 11th July, Official Report 534-7W on Commonwealth visitors, how many (a) Jamaican, (b) Barbadian, (c) Guyanese, (d) Canadian and (e) Australian visitors in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2001 to the latest available date were (1) refused entry to the UK and (2) admitted with less than the maximum period of six months' leave; and how many people, from each country, admitted for less than six months, applied for extensions to stay as visitors. |
| (5897) | |
| 385 | Mr Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury & Atcham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will evaluate the effectiveness of using police resources to stop car drivers on West Bourne Terrace off the A40M on 16th July, to undertake a census; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5996) | |
| 386 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average weekly accommodation cost is being paid through NASS and other agencies, to accommodate (a) refugees and (b) asylum seekers who have settled in Peterborough in the past 12 months. |
| (5933) | |
| 387 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) refugees and (b) asylum seekers have settled in Peterborough in the last 12 months; and at what cost to public funds. |
| (5934) | |
| 388 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much central government grant has been given to (i) the Peterborough City Council and (ii) other public bodies, indicating the bodies concerned, to cover the cost of (a) refugees and (b) asylum seekers who have settled in Peterborough in the past 12 months. |
| (5932) | |
| 389 N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Right honourable Member for North West Cambridgeshire will receive a reply to his letter of 30th May on behalf of his constituent Mrs Murray. |
| (5935) | |
| 390 | Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many petrol station bilking incidents in each of the last five years in which police were involved occurred in (a) England and (b) Luton. |
| (6387) | |
| 391 | Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many petrol station bilking incidents where police were involved led to prosecutions in (a) England and (b) Luton; and in each of the last five years in what percentage of such incidents police attended. |
| (6388) | |
| 392 | Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will estimate the cost of police involvement in bilking at petrol stations in each of the past five years in (a) England and (b) Wales. |
| (6385) | |
| 393 | Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he will bring forward to reduce the incidence of under-age drinking and associated nuisance in public places. |
| (6231) | |
| 394 | Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he will take to enable the police to deal more effectively with alcohol-related violence and disorderly behaviour. |
| (6230) | |
| 395 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he intends implementing to combat the rise in street robberies in the year ending March 2001. |
| (6405) | |
| 396 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was to the Metropolitan Police of escorting wide loads in each year since 1997. |
| (6283) | |
| 397 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been housed in cluster areas in Essex by the National Asylum Support Service in the last 12 months; and what support is being provided to community groups and public services in these areas. |
| (6282) | |
| 398 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received about the voucher support system for asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6281) | |
| 399 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, has many people have been (a) killed, (b) seriously injured and (c) slightly injured in road crashes caused by drivers using mobile telephones in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6327) | |
| 400 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to introduce an offence of driving while using a mobile telephone; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6328) | |
| 401 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who will sit on the committee which will consider applications by towns which wish to be granted city status to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen's accession to the Throne. |
| (6339) | |
| 402 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to publish criteria for towns wishing to apply for city status to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen's accession to the throne; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6322) | |
| 403 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will invite applications for city status to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen's accession to the throne. |
| (6323) | |
| 404 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the announcement will be made on which town has been granted city status to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen's accession to the throne. |
| (6320) | |
| 405 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to eliminate unlawful imports of contraband cigarettes and alcohol through air and sea ports in Essex and Suffolk. |
| (6324) | |
| 406 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if applications by those towns which applied unsuccessfully for city status to commemorate the Third Millennium will be considered as applications for city status to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen's accession to the throne. |
| (6321) | |
| 407 N | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the further advice of Sir William Stewart on the potential health risks of specific frequency ranges for the emergency radio Airwave system; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5385) | |
| 408 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6420) | |
| 409 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the management of the Prison Service facilities for juveniles and young adults. |
| (6376) | |
| 410 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on conditions at Feltham B Young Offenders Institution. |
| (6378) | |
| 411 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 25th June, Official Report column 43W, on the home detention curfew scheme, if he will make a statement on the circumstances of the third rape committed by a prisoner whilst on home detention curfew. |
| (6319) | |
| 412 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the effect on the level of police paperwork of the requirement to record all stops; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6375) | |
| 413 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the requirement on the police to record the ethnicity of all suspects stopped by the police will be implemented; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6370) | |
| 414 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has held with the Chief Inspector of Prisons with regard to the management of Feltham B Young Offenders Institution; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6379) | |
| 415 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times he has met the Chief Inspector of Prisons since his appointment as Secretary of State. |
| (6382) | |
| 416 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many average hours of purposeful activity there were at Feltham B Young Offenders' Institute in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6377) | |
| 417 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times he has met Ms Ann Owers to discuss the Prison Service; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6381) | |
| 418 | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the role of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. |
| (6380) | |
| 419 | Mr Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of United Kingdom development aid is given to (a) overseas governments, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) individuals. |
| (5964) | |
| 420 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the size of her aid budget was for each year since 1997, in current prices. |
| (5960) | |
| 421 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her policy is on the debt repayment of developing countries. |
| (5959) | |
| 422 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by her Department in each of the last four years; what her estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5716) | |
| 423 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last four years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5717) | |
| 424 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the top 10 companies to which her Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6414) | |
| 425 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will introduce legislation so that greater protection is given to unmarried partners following the break-up of a relationship and in particular so that they have additional rights in the apportioning of property if that person's name is not formally registered in joint ownership of that property. |
| (5562) | |
| 426 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people applied to be magistrates in the North Essex area in each of the last three years for which figures are available. |
| (6331) | |
| 427 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list the top 10 companies to which the Lord Chancellor's Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6412) | |
| 428 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department in each of the last 10 years; what his estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5720) | |
| 429 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5721) | |
| 430 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6415) | |
| 431 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the President of the Council, if he will bring forward proposals to enable back bench honourable Members to have greater influence in the selection of members of select committees. |
| (5830) | |
| 432 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the President of the Council, what plans he has to introduce measures to increase the powers and enhance the status of select committees. |
| (5831) | |
| 433 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if all papers under his control relating to the Hinduja brothers were made available to Sir Anthony Hammond as part of his inquiry. |
| (5477) | |
| 434 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will reopen the Hammond Inquiry into the application for passports by the Hinduja brothers. |
| (5482) | |
| 435 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, for what reasons responsibilities relating to animal experimentation have been retained by the Home Office. |
| (5692) | |
| 436 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will made a statement on his meeting with the Hinduja brothers on 24th February 1998. |
| (5478) | |
| 437 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library copies of (a) the letter to him dated 25th February 1998 from the Hinduja brothers and (b) the Minutes from Jonathan Powell to the Right honourable Member for Hartlepool relating to the conversation between the Prime Minister and the Hindujas on 24th February 1998. |
| (5479) | |
| 438 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, on what date (a) he and (b) another minister last received a communication from one of the Hinduja brothers. |
| (5475) | |
| 439 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Prime Minister, which Minister and which government department holds overall responsibility for the operation of the Departmental Central Index. |
| (5026) | |
| 440 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the future of the mixed oxide plutonium fuels plant at Sellafield is considered as part of the energy review. |
| (6250) | |
| 441 N | Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): To ask the Prime Minister, if his Chief of Staff wrote to the Right honourable Member for Hartlepool in order to communicate an offer of sponsorship for the Millennium Dome from the Hinduja Foundation. |
| (5560) | |
| 442 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Prime Minister, how many persons elevated to the peerage since 1st May 1997 were resident at the time of their elevation in each region of (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland. |
| (5905) | |
| 443 N | Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the Prime Minister, what was contained in Cabinet Document H(67)20 dated 7th March 1967, relating to the transfer of Cleave Camp, near Bude in North Cornwall, from the Ministry of Defence to the Ministry of Public Building and Works; and for what reason it was removed from the file and destroyed on 5th March 1997. |
| (5017) | |
| 444 | Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Solicitor General, if she will estimate the cost of the legal services in prosecution of bilking at petrol stations in each of the last five years for (a) England and (b) Luton. |
| (6386) | |
| 445 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Solicitor General, if she will list the top 10 companies to which her Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6413) | |
| 446 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he will list the actions taken to help provide banking facilities for Huntingdon Life Sciences; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5693) | |
| 447 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many post offices have (a) opened and (b) reopened in each of the last 20 years. |
| (5481) | |
| 448 N | Mr Tony Banks (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when he expects to receive his Department's report on the alleged share dealings by the Editor of the Daily Mirror; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5900) | |
| 449 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to reduce the level of regulation for small businesses. |
| (6221) | |
| 450 N | Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much public money is set aside to provide support packages for industries in difficulty. |
| (5452) | |
| 451 | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the draft secondary legislation relating to the Draft Export and Non-Proliferation Bill will be published. |
| (6389) | |
| 452 N | Mr Tony Colman (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans the Government has to double combined heat and power by 2010 and to publish its own CHP strategy. |
| (5668) | |
| 453 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what reports she has received of job losses proposed by Royal Mail in London. |
| (5384) | |
| 454 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with BNFL over proposals to build new reactors at sites on which BNFL currently operates nuclear power plants. |
| (6251) | |
| 455 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which nuclear experts are to be (a) seconded and (b) invited to participate in the energy review being carried out by the Energy Minister for the Performance and Innovation Unit; and on what basis they were selected. |
| (6254) | |
| 456 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will provide a breakdown of the monies to be paid to the Japanese authorities, as a result of the agreement reached in July 2000, in respect of the return of the improperly exported mixed oxide plutonium fuel; what change there has been to the costs since the agreement; and when the return shipment of the mixed oxide fuel will commence. |
| (6253) | |
| 457 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what evaluation has been made of the robustness of security arrangements in place to protect the Sellafield nuclear power plant from attack or other illegal intrusion; and what plans she has to increase security arrangements for plutonium stored at Sellafield. |
| (6252) | |
| 458 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) plans and (b) targets she has to increase the operational efficiency of her Department. |
| (6341) | |
| 459 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the impact of the climate change levy on productivity in the manufacturing sector. |
| (6343) | |
| 460 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on her plans for reforming consumers' rights. |
| (6344) | |
| 461 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many sub-post offices closed in the first quarter of the current financial year. |
| (6345) | |
| 462 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what her target is for the current financial year for reducing the tax and regulatory compliance costs of small businesses. |
| (6342) | |
| 463 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5727) | |
| 464 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by her Department in each of the last 10 years; what her estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5726) | |
| 465 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the directors of RDAs who have announced their resignations or intention to leave since their inception. |
| (5938) | |
| 466 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what grants have been made from central government or its agencies for urban regeneration in Bradford and Oldham since May 1997. |
| (5939) | |
| 467 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many fishermen have received compensation from the Government's Compensation Scheme for former Icelandic trawlermen; how much money has been paid out; what the average payment was; how many claims are still outstanding; how many successful claimants went inshore mackerel fishing after fishing in Icelandic waters; how many of the claims outstanding are those where the fishermen went inshore mackerel fishing after fishing in Icelandic waters; and what estimate she has made of the time when all the claims will have been concluded. |
| (5190) | |
| 468 | Margaret Moran (Luton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with petrol companies on their contributions to the cost of prevention of bilking at petrol stations. |
| (6301) | |
| 469 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with the Halifax, Nationwide, Alliance and Leicester and Euronet Worldwide banks about making the universal banking system free of charge in rural areas. |
| (6398) | |
| 470 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much money her Department has allocated to the National Assembly for Wales since 1st July 1999 for the development of the renewable energy industry. |
| (6399) | |
| 471 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with her colleagues in the National Assembly concerning the future development of the renewable energy industry in Wales. |
| (6400) | |
| 472 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has for promoting Scottish trade, tourism and inward investment; if she will list the events or activities she has specifically arranged for the next six months in (a) the UK, (b) Europe and (c) the rest of the world for such promotion; and if she will list the documents her Department has produced, and the events her Department has organised over the last three years which specifically and exclusively promote Scottish trade, tourism and inward investment. |
| (5707) | |
| 473 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what information she has requested from Icelandic authorities to verify claims for compensation made by UK former Icelandic water trawlersmen; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5706) | |
| 474 N | Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will provide a breakdown by constituency of the number of (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful claims by former Icelandic waters trawlermen; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5705) | |
| 475 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many employment tribunal claims were reported in each year since 1997. |
| (6276) | |
| 476 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the impact of third generation licensing costs on growth and employment in the UK telecoms sector. |
| (6278) | |
| 477 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what was the cost to the private sector of new employment regulations introduced since May 1997. |
| (6277) | |
| 478 N | John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment her Department has made of the Generic Wave Energy Device, ETSU proposal number 254/1; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5855) | |
| 479 N | John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the proposals (a) received and (b) approved under the New and Renewable Energy Programme Number 354 Water Technologies, indicating how many did not use oscillating water columns. |
| (5854) | |
| 480 N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the compensation payments for (a) chronic bronchitis and emphysema and (b) vibration white finger made to recipients in Nottinghamshire. |
| (5898) | |
| 481 N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what powers she has to investigate competition in ferry fares and services to the Isle of Wight; what plans she has to use such powers; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5555) | |
| 482 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the top 10 companies to which her Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work to in the last 12 months. |
| (6416) | |
| 483 | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, at what time the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate were informed of the accident at Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station on 5th July. |
| (5952) | |
| 484 | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what enforcement action has been taken under the relevant legislation in respect of Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station; and on what dates. |
| (5953) | |
| 485 | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what enforcement notices have been issued in respect of Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station; for what reasons; and what timescales have been attached to them. |
| (5951) | |
| 486 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what financial assistance she has given to the expansion of the UK telecommunications network in each year since 1997; and what proportion of the UK broken down by nation and region, has access to (a) ISDN, (b) ASDL and (c) broadband connection. |
| (6310) | |
| 487 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will place in the Library a map showing the geographical extent of access to (a) ISDN, (b) ASDL and (c) broadband; what steps she proposes to ensure increased access for small businesses in rural areas to these connections; and what proportion of businesses in each nation and region of the UK (i) have and (ii) do not have access to (A) ISDN, (B) ASDL and (C) broadband connections. |
| (6311) | |
| 488 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the Government's targets for the proportion of electricity to be produced by nuclear power in the next (a) 10 years and (b) 20 years; and if she will make a statement. |
| (6312) | |
| 489 N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what mechanisms exist to ensure the recommendations of the South-Coast Multi-Modal Study are implemented, where implementation falls to (a) private rail companies and (b) county councils. |
| (5483) | |
| 490 N | Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he expects to publish the revised Local Transport notes on Shared Use Facilities for Pedestrians and Cyclists. |
| (4967) | |
| 491 N | Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what targets were set for Ordnance Survey in the financial year 2000-01; and for each, how far they were achieved. |
| (4965) | |
| 492 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what was the expenditure allocated to London Underground for achieving each individual key performance indicator; and what the actual expenditure was for each key performance indicator broken down by infraco. |
| (5849) | |
| 493 N | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, for each of the last three years what key performance indicators, subdivided by infracos, were used for safety critical maintenance and renewal work on LUL infrastructure; and to what extent London Underground and each infraco have complied with these key performance indicators. |
| (5848) | |
| 494 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what his estimate is of the annual rate of repayment to private financiers of the PPP he has proposed for each of the London Underground projects. |
| (5913) | |
| 495 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what recent examination he has made of the sale of capital assets by the London Borough of Islington; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5363) | |
| 496 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what has been the cost to date of consultants' evaluation of the PPP plans for the London Underground undertaken by his Department. |
| (5912) | |
| 497 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will review the effectiveness of section 106 agreements. |
| (5472) | |
| 498 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the proposed EU directives on noise levels, with particular reference to traffic noise. |
| (5458) | |
| 499 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on proposals to alleviate noise from the M5 at Upton St Leonards. |
| (5459) | |
| 500 N | Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he will answer the question on the Highways Agency tabled for Answer on 26th June by the Member for Crewe and Nantwich. |
| (5675) | |
| 501 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received from parish councils in East Sussex regarding the number of new houses planned to be built in the county. |
| (5995) | |
| 502 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will review the number of houses to be built in East Sussex following the latest planning guidance on building and council policy. |
| (5997) | |
| 503 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many homeless people were accepted into bed and breakfast accommodation in (a) South Oxfordshire and (b) England in each of the last five years. |
| (6096) | |
| 504 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the methodology changes made since 1997 to the formulae for calculating the standard spending assessment and aggregate external finance figures for Oxfordshire County Council; and if he will make an assessment of the net financial effect of these changes. |
| (6089) | |
| 505 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many written representations he has received from electors in the Henley constituency expressing support for an elected regional assembly in the South East of England. |
| (6088) | |
| 506 | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will change the method of calculation of the size of elderly population used in arriving at the standard spending assessment for local authorities. |
| (6050) | |
| 507 | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the method of calculating the size of elderly population in connection with the standard spending assessment, with special reference to resort authorities. |
| (6051) | |
| 508 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department in each of the last 10 years; what is his estimate of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5714) | |
| 509 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to Key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5715) | |
| 510 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement regarding proposed changes to compulsory purchase orders. |
| (5946) | |
| 511 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many HGV vehicles have converted to road fuel gases since May 1997. |
| (5943) | |
| 512 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the purpose was of his recent visit to India; what his itinerary was; what the cost to public funds was; and which officials accompanied him. |
| (5945) | |
| 513 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what progress has been made with replacing partnership investment programme funding ended under European state aid laws. |
| (5942) | |
| 514 N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many public transport buses have converted to road fuel gases since May 1997. |
| (5944) | |
| 515 N | 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 on the procedures for the construction of by-passes under the 10 year transport plan. |
| (5272) | |
| 516 | Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what progress has been made with the secure stations scheme in South East London. |
| (6227) | |
| 517 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what steps he (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to ensure that people with disabilities have full access to public transport. |
| (6315) | |
| 518 | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if she will call in the application for change of use of the Elizabethan Pine Shop in Church Street, Tewksbury to a fast food establishment; and if she will make a statement. |
| (5993) | |
| 519 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what is the proposed timetable for the refurbishment and replacement of trains running on the District Line of London Underground. |
| (6294) | |
| 520 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the (a) methodology changes made since 1997 to the formulae for calculating the standing spending assessment and aggregate external finance figures for the London Borough of Havering and (b) net financial effect of these changes. |
| (6293) | |
| 521 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what were the (a) punctuality and (b) reliability figures for trains running between Romford and central London in the last 12 months. |
| (6274) | |
| 522 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what recent assessment he has made of the number of, and the demand for, seats on trains travelling between Romford and central London during peak hours; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6275) | |
| 523 | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, on what date the public inquiry into the planning appeal in respect of the Victorian Jumbo water tower at Colchester is to be heard. |
| (6325) | |
| 524 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in the last 12 months. |
| (6418) | |
| 525 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans the Government has to provide more bridges over the River Wye in Herefordshire. |
| (6241) | |
| 526 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what powers he has to compel rail operators and Railtrack (a) to begin the electrification of the East Coast line between Edinburgh and Aberdeen and (b) to re-open the Borders railway. |
| (6313) | |
| 527 | Pete Wishart (North Tayside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what his policy is on (a) electrification of the East Coast main line between Edinburgh and Aberdeen and (b) re-opening the Borders railway; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6314) | |
| 528 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason unisex annuities were not adopted in the regulations introducing stakeholder pensions. |
| (6369) | |
| 529 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement clarifying the JSA rules in respect of payments of additional monies to fathers who are separated but share the care of their children. |
| (4968) | |
| 530 N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimates he has made of performance of ITNet in the delivery of housing benefit to claimants in Islington; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5361) | |
| 531 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many prosecutions by his Department there have been against landlord fraud in the Greater London area during the last 12 months. |
| (6305) | |
| 532 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women are in receipt of the state retirement pension in the UK. |
| (6304) | |
| 533 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the provision whereby widows lose their pension entitlement on re-marriage both in terms of (a) the basic state pension and (b) occupational pensions. |
| (5563) | |
| 534 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the arrangements whereby housing benefit is not available to an adult who is paying rent to a blood relative living in the same property. |
| (5561) | |
| 535 N | Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the proposed amendment to the Housing Benefit Regulations will be brought into force. |
| (5816) | |
| 536 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of pensioners in the Henley constituency eligible for the minimum income guarantee have so far claimed it. |
| (6091) | |
| 537 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to bring forward legislation to allow carers over the age of 65 years to receive new awards of invalid care allowance. |
| (6094) | |
| 538 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provision is being made in Jobcentre Plus offices for private interview facilities. |
| (6195) | |
| 539 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if an assessment of Jobpoint touch screen computer terminals has been carried out in terms of their accessibility to visually impaired people; and if disability access was a consideration when the decision was made to purchase the system. |
| (6192) | |
| 540 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what arrangements are being made to train staff at Jobcentre Plus in (a) disability awareness, (b) disability legislation and (c) support services available to disabled people. |
| (6194) | |
| 541 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what standards and targets are being set, and with what advice, to ensure disabled people's access to all Jobcentre Plus facilities. |
| (6193) | |
| 542 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures he is taking to ensure that (a) Jobcentre Plus pathfinder offices and (b) all future Jobcentre Plus facilities are fully accessible for (i) wheelchair users, (ii) people with impaired mobility, (iii) people with a hearing impairment, (iv) people with a visual impairment and (v) people with learning disabilities. |
| (6191) | |
| 543 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PFI transactions have been overseen by his Department and its predecessors in each of the last 10 years; what his estimate is of the cost savings made in each of these transactions in comparison with the public sector alternative; what are the outstanding payments to be made in relation to these transactions for each of the next 15 years; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5718) | |
| 544 | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to ensure that support to pensioners is increased in line with GDP growth; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6063) | |
| 545 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the economic penalties imposed on private sector firms in each of the last five years for failures to deliver in relation to key performance indicators in projects involving the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5719) | |
| 546 N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made in reducing the number of children in the United Kingdom living in poverty; and if he will make a statement. |
| (5713) | |
| 547 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average period of time elapses between the Child Support Agency receiving a claim and the claimant receiving their first payment. |
| (6297) | |
| 548 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were received for the (a) care and (b) mobility component of disability living allowance in each of the last five years; and what average time was taken to determine an application in each of those years. |
| (6286) | |
| 549 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for the (a) care and (b) mobility component of disability living allowance have (i) been refused and (ii) been successful during each of the last five years. |
| (6295) | |
| 550 | Mr Denis Murphy (Wansbeck): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many child support claimants have had to wait more than six months from the date their claim was submitted before their first payment is received in the last three years. |
| (6296) | |
| 551 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Romford benefit from (a) the winter fuel allowance and (b) free television licences. |
| (6272) | |
| 552 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of pensioners in the Romford constituency who are eligible for the minimum income guarantee have claimed it. |
| (6273) | |
| 553 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the top 10 companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work out in the last 12 months. |
| (6422) | |
| 554 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what level of support funding is made available by his Department to care home owners; and if he will make a statement. |
| (6392) | |
| 555 | Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the costs levied on care homes as a result of the introduction of (a) the national minimum wage and (b) the passing of the Care Standards Act 2000. |
| (6393) | |
| 556 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans the Government has to increase the power of local residents to counter-appeal against housing developments on greenbelt land. |
| [Transferred] (6216) | |
| 557 | Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, for what reason the Government does not allow local (a) residents and (b) authorities to decide on the level of local housing development in their areas. |
| [Transferred] (6217) | |
| 558 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what size of stakeholder pension savings a woman currently aged 50 years will need under the current annuities system in order to buy in 2016, at the age of 65 years, an index-linked annuity to match the pensioners' minimum income guarantee, assuming MIG continues to be linked to earnings, earnings continue to grow at their current rate and current market annuity rates apply. |
| [Transferred] (6366) | |
| 559 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will calculate the date at which a single man of 65 years retiring today relying solely on pensions savings of £100,000 buying a level single annuity at market rates can be expected to become eligible for income support if the minimum income guarantee for pensioners continues to be linked to earnings. |
| [Transferred] (6007) | |
| 560 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what size of stakeholder pension savings a woman currently of the age of 40 years will need under the current annuities system in order to buy in 2026, at the age of 65 years, an index-linked annuity to match the minimum income guarantee, assuming the MIG continues to be linked to earnings, earnings continue to grow at their current rate and current market annuity rates apply. |
| [Transferred] (6364) | |
| 561 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what size of stakeholder pension savings a woman currently of the age of 60 years will need under the current annuities system in order to buy in 2006, aged 65 years, an index-linked annuity to match the pensioners' minimum income guarantee, assuming MIG continues to be linked to earnings, earnings continue to grow at their current rate and current market annuity rates apply. |
| [Transferred] (6365) | |
| 562 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the Objective 1 project applications (a) approved and (b) refused European funding; and how much funding has been awarded to each during the past year. |
| [Transferred] (6317) | |
| 563 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the cost was of administering the Objective 1 programme within the individual Objective 1 regions in the last year. |
| [Transferred] (6397) | |
| 564 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the differences between livestock movement restrictions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
| [Transferred] (6374) | |
| 565 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effects of the foot and mouth outbreak on tourism in Henley; and if she will make a statement. |
| [Transferred] (6097) | |
| 566 | Mr Gareth R. Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action each regional development agency is taking to encourage the growth of credit unions in their region. |
| [Transferred] (5991) | |
| 567 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the employment rates are, on Labour Force Survey data, of (a) people over 50 years of age, (b) ethnic minorities, (c) lone parents and (d) those with an illness or disability, for each of the past four years. |
| [Transferred] (5954) | |
| 568 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of working age people did not have a qualification in Spring 2001 according to the Labour Force Survey. |
| [Transferred] (5955) | |
| 569 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of working age people were in work in the spring quarter of (a) 1998, (b) 1999, (c) 2000 and (d) 2001 according to Labour Force Survey data. |
| [Transferred] (5956) | |
| 570 | Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when details of the proposed Child Trust Fund and Savings Gateway will be published; and what consultation has been undertaken in respect of this. |
| [Transferred] (6092) | |
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