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| Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Friday 26 October 2001
Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Friday 26 October, of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. |
| Notes: * Indicates a Question for Oral Answer. + Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled. [N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered. [R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared. |
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| 1 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what are the approved AVC providers under the Civil Service Pension Scheme; how many outstanding contracts there are with each provider; when these AVC providers were first selected; when that selection was reviewed; and what was the source of the professional advice as to that selection and renewal. |
| (10921) | |
| 2 | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many special advisers employed by the Government participate directly with Civil Service press and public relations staff in the planning and implementation of press and media announcements. |
| (10961) | |
| 3 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason guidance to officials in his Department on drafting replies to Parliamentary Questions requires them to offer commentary on the motivation of the honourable Member asking the question; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10971) | |
| 4 N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on Wembley Stadium. |
| (10539) | |
| 5 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support she plans to give to Scotland's bid to host the 2008 European Football Championships. |
| (10751) | |
| 6 | Mr Gareth R. Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support is provided through (a) Sport England, (b) UK Sport and (c) other Government funding sources to develop football at the grassroots. |
| (10987) | |
| 7 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what sources of funding are available to enable young people with special educational needs to participate in international sporting events. |
| (10542) | |
| 8 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much she forecasts will be spent in the current year by her Department as a direct result of measures associated with the war on terrorism. |
| (10619) | |
| 9 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what dates (a) she and (b) other ministers in her Department have visited the Millennium Dome since 8th June. |
| (10621) | |
| 10 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many parliamentary written questions regarding the Millennium Dome have been tabled since 1st May 1997; and how many answers to such questions have been subject to commericial confidentiality. |
| (10620) | |
| 11 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases of computer (a) hacking, (b) fraud and (c) theft his Department recorded in 2000 and 2001; and on how many occasions in 2000 and 2001 computer systems in his Department have been illegally accessed by computer hackers within and outside his Department. |
| (10975) | |
| 12 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will urge his American counterpart to stop U.S. forces from using cluster bombs over Afghanistan. |
| (10788) | |
| 13 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures he has put in place to protect his Department's and armed services personnel from mail that may be contaminated with chemical or biological weapons. |
| (10601) | |
| 14 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the fully trained and operational requirement is for (a) RAF pilots to fly Sea Harriers and (b) Fleet Air Arm pilots to fly Harrier GR7; and how many there are at present in each case. |
| (10598) | |
| 15 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the sum provided was for the Defence Logistics Organisation at the start of the current financial year; and what the latest projected outturn figure is. |
| (10602) | |
| 16 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) trained strength and (b) trained requirement is of the (i) Army, (ii) Naval Service and (iii) Royal Air Force. |
| (10599) | |
| 17 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on the technology readiness and risk assessment programme; and when he expects studies to be complete. |
| (10600) | |
| 18 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the development of the Technology Readiness and Risk Assessment Programme; and if he will place a copy of an unclassified version in the Library. |
| (10969) | |
| 19 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions the Government has undertaken with NATO member states about the integration of NATO missile defence research with US plans to deploy a missile defence system. |
| (10967) | |
| 20 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions the Government has undertaken with the United States regarding the possible use of Type 45 frigates as part of the USA's plan to develop a missile defence to protect the US and its allies. |
| (10966) | |
| 21 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what joint US-UK research projects are under development in support of the US missile defence plans; and if he will place an unclassified list of the projects in the Library. |
| (10968) | |
| 22 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government is intending to participate in the US's expressed plan to develop a missile defence to protect the US and its allies. |
| (10965) | |
| 23 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former servicemen who served in the Gulf are in receipt of war pensions; and if he will indicate the rank of the pensioner and the number in receipt of pensions who were injured by enemy action. |
| (7101) | |
| 24 | Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received from business in the Vale of Glamorgan on the Defence Aviation Repair Agency's unsuccessful attempt to relocate its fixed wing aircraft repair business from RAF St. Athan to Cardiff International Airport. |
| (10766) | |
| 25 | Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the consultants' report on the re-location of the fixed wing aircraft repair business of the Defence Aviation Repair Agency from RAF St. Athan to Cardiff International Airport. |
| (10765) | |
| 26 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 23rd October, Official Report, column 4W, on the Apache Helicopter Programme, (a) how many personnel are being trained in the US, (b) what training is being provided and (c) what the cost is to the defence budget. |
| (10483) | |
| 27 N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will identify the components which make up the Future Rapid Effects System. |
| (10225) | |
| 28 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 24th October, Official Report, column 242W, on US Domestic Preparedness Programme, what aspects of US homeland security he plans to implement in the United Kingdom. |
| (10964) | |
| 29 | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if disciplinary action over drug-taking is exercised consistently between the three services. |
| (10703) | |
| 30 | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel have been tested under the compulsory drug testing programme in the last year in each of the three services; and how many have tested positive in each case. |
| (10701) | |
| 31 | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what disciplinary action was taken by each of the three services in the last year in respect of service personnel who tested positive under the compulsory drug testing programme. |
| (10702) | |
| 32 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will invite the Porton Down Veterans' Support Group to the next meeting of the Veterans' Forum. |
| (10902) | |
| 33 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of (a) post-A level and (b) vocational school leavers in the constituency of Chelmsford West in (i) July 2001, (ii) July 2000 and (iii) July 1999 went onto: (A) university, (B) employment (C) unemployment and (D) government sponsored training programmes. |
| (9732) | |
| 34 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many applicants were accepted for a place at the Anglia Polytechnic University at the beginning of the current academic year and in each of the previous three academic years for (a) full-time courses and (b) part-time courses. |
| (9733) | |
| 35 | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions she has had in 2001 on the shortage of IT staff in higher education institutions; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10925) | |
| 36 | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average starting pay for higher education lecturers was in each year of the last 10 years. |
| (10913) | |
| 37 | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many IT teaching posts in higher education were unfilled in 2000. |
| (10912) | |
| 38 | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent studies she has carried out into the shortage of IT staff in higher education; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10911) | |
| 39 | Mrs Anne Campbell (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many UK online centres in each constituency are to be funded by level 3 Capital Modernisation Fund. |
| (10757) | |
| 40 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the schools in England where the percentage of students achieving fewer than five grades A to C was less than 25 per cent. in 2001; and for each school, (a) the percentage change in performance compared with 2000 and (b) the local education authority in which the school was situated. |
| (10937) | |
| 41 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of students achieved five A to C grades at GCSE in each local education authority in England in (a) 2000 and (b) 2001; and what the percentage change in performance was in each case. |
| (10936) | |
| 42 | David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers there were in training in each year since 1st May 1997. |
| (10727) | |
| 43 | David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what provision she will make to ensure the recruitment of 600 new teachers in the East Riding of Yorkshire; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10731) | |
| 44 | David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many foreign nationals were employed as (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the (i) 2000-01 academic year and (ii) previous four academic years. |
| (10728) | |
| 45 | David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the class sizes of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools were in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 31st March in each year since 1996. |
| (10729) | |
| 46 | David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the shortfall in the number of supply teachers is in the East Riding of Yorkshire (a) for the current academic year and (b) for each year since 1996. |
| (10726) | |
| 47 | David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary teacher vacancies there were in the East Riding of Yorkshire on 31st March in each year since 1996. |
| (10730) | |
| 48 | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what consultation has been carried out with the parents of pupils in special schools on the policy of inclusion and the future of those schools; and what the results of that consultation were. |
| (10962) | |
| 49 | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much she forecasts will be spent in the current financial year by her Department as a direct result of measures associated with the current action against terrorism. |
| (10951) | |
| 50 | Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what provision is made for disability issues and education in the legislation governing residential special schools. |
| (10710) | |
| 51 | Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if her Department allows dual registration with her Department and the Department of Health for residential special schools. |
| (10708) | |
| 52 | Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what qualification route for care staff working in residential special schools is recommended by her Department. |
| (10706) | |
| 53 | Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what legislation governs residential special schools opening 52 weeks a year. |
| (10709) | |
| 54 | Mr David Lepper (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many former employees of local authorities transferred to OFSTED on 1st September; how many of those who transferred are (a) women and (b) men; and when it is expected that OFSTED will have in place a childcare strategy for its employees. |
| (10725) | |
| 55 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will publish the (a) terms of reference, (b) names of participating groups or individuals and (c) the timescale of the proposed review of student support arrangements; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10954) | |
| 56 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent representations she has received about the relaxation of guidelines over branding of teaching materials and activities by corporate sponsors. |
| (10952) | |
| 57 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what average length of time it takes schools to raise the necessary sponsorship to gain specialist status. |
| (10953) | |
| 58 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his Answer of 17th October, Official Report, column 1231W, on specialist schools, what proportion of the applicants who gained sponsorship arranged through the Technology Colleges Trust had such sponsorship make up 50 per cent. or more of the total sponsorship needed to gain specialist status. |
| (11052) | |
| 59 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his Answer of 17th October, Official Report, column 1231W, on specialist schools, what proportion of the applicants who gained sponsorship arranged through the Technology Colleges Trust were applicants for (a) arts, (b) technology, (c) language college and (d) sports status. |
| (11053) | |
| 60 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many consultation exercises by her Department are in progress. |
| (10612) | |
| 61 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from the Environment Agency regarding the funds available for work on flood defences. |
| (10606) | |
| 62 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the insurance industry regarding flood cover on (a) private and (b) commercial properties. |
| (10617) | |
| 63 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the annual cost of maintaining her Department's web site is. |
| (10611) | |
| 64 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what basis she was convinced that the information concerning tests to establish the presence of BSE in sheep, presented to her Department by the Laboratory of the Government Chemist on 17th October would leak; who she was convinced would leak the information; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10607) | |
| 65 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures she is taking to eliminate scrapie from the national sheep flock; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10609) | |
| 66 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the annual grant to the Environment Agency for flood defence work has been in each of the last four years in (a) current and (b) real terms; what the projected figures for the remainder of the planning period are; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10605) | |
| 67 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many press officers are employed in her Department; and at what cost to public funds. |
| (10608) | |
| 68 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish all correspondence (a) between her Department and (i) the Institute of Animal Health, (ii) the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, (iii) the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, (iv) the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, (v) the Food Standards Agency and (vi) the Department of Health, and (b) beween those agencies which are the responsibility of her Department, regarding tests to establish whether BSE was present in sheep in the early 1990s. |
| (10594) | |
| 69 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent measures she has taken, and what further measures she plans to take, to preserve cod stocks. |
| (10616) | |
| 70 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many checks were made, and on what date, into whether samples of brain matter collected in the 1990s and investigated by the Institute of Animal Health in relation to BSE in sheep contained bovine material. |
| (10596) | |
| 71 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list those agencies or laboratories which have conducted scientific research on behalf of her Department in the past year which are not accredited by the UK Accreditation Service. |
| (10610) | |
| 72 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants are employed in each area of her Department's responsibilities, and at what grades; and what the equivalent figures for the same responsibilities were prior to the establishment of DEFRA. |
| (10618) | |
| 73 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures she is taking to achieve faster results from tests to establish whether sheep have been infected with BSE. |
| (10615) | |
| 74 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she first learnt of Professor Bostock's concerns about the possible contamination of samples of sheeps' brains on which tests were being conducted for evidence of BSE. |
| (10595) | |
| 75 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she received from the National Farmers' Union regarding the choice of Lord Haskins to conduct a study of rural recovery, prior to his appointment. |
| (10613) | |
| 76 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to publish a bill to enable the Government to take powers to ensure the removal, from the national sheep flock, of genotypes of sheep susceptible to scrapie; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10597) | |
| 77 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received from the Food Standards Agency regarding the adequacy of food import controls; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10614) | |
| 78 N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will give details of all work commissioned or undertaken by (a) the Government and (b) its agencies into BSE in sheep since May 1997, stating, in each case (i) which organisations have been involved in which tasks and (ii) what costs or payments have been incurred. |
| (10603) | |
| 79 | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the additional annual investment that would be required to ensure all flood defences in England and Wales are classified by the National Audit Office as being at least in good condition. |
| (11007) | |
| 80 | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total expenditure in England and Wales on flood defence has been for each financial year since 1990; and what the projected expenditure on flood defence is for each of the next five years. |
| (11006) | |
| 81 | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the implications in England and Wales of the European Water Framework Directive; and if she will make a statement. |
| (11008) | |
| 82 | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the economic and flood defence benefits of sustainable urban drainage. |
| (11009) | |
| 83 | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to undertake a review of responsibility for flood defence management and funding; and if she will make a statement. |
| (11010) | |
| 84 | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to publish the findings of her review of flood and coastal defence funding. |
| (11011) | |
| 85 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much land was planted into forest in the UK during 2000. |
| (10943) | |
| 86 | Julia Drown (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the joint public statement made on 30th July by the French and German Agriculture Ministers on the future direction of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if she will place an English version of the statement in the Library. |
| (10772) | |
| 87 | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what reports on local food production and sale she has received; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10831) | |
| 88 | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the results of the recent work undertaken by the Institute for Animal Health on cattle brains which were tested in error. |
| (10829) | |
| 89 | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the places of origin of cattle tested in error during the recent work undertaken by the Institute for Animal Health. |
| (10828) | |
| 90 | Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she is taking to speed up the process of the collection of cattle and assist farmers with welfare problems in Exmoor. |
| (10778) | |
| 91 | Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will increase the budget of the Environment Agency in Somerset. |
| (10776) | |
| 92 | Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on (a) flood defence in England and Wales and (b) how managed retreat will affect Somerset. |
| (10767) | |
| 93 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact the Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy proposed by the Environment Agency will have on seasonal flooding. |
| (10734) | |
| 94 N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she is considering in relation to the traceability of sheep; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10295) | |
| 95 N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what importance she attaches to traceability with regard to prevention of outbreaks of contagious disease in animals; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10297) | |
| 96 N | Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consultation she has had with the livestock auction industry in relation to the traceability of sheep; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10296) | |
| 97 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice he has received since 7th October concerning additional risk premia that PPP partners might seek. |
| (10770) | |
| 98 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received since 7th October about the operation of public private partnerships; and if he will publish them. |
| (10769) | |
| 99 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received since 7th October from (a) actual and (b) potential PPP partners concerning modifications of standard contractual arrangements. |
| (10771) | |
| 100 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answers of 15th October, Official Report, columns 854W-856W, if he will distinguish between total managed expenditure for 1999-2000 in United Kingdom department programmes comparable with programmes covered by the Barnett Formula in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and total managed expenditure in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in programmes not compared for the purposes of the Barnett Formula. |
| (11012) | |
| 101 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department was involved in the discussions between Railtrack and the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions after 1st July on Project Rainbow and related matters. |
| (10916) | |
| 102 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 15th October, Official Report, column 838W, what is the degree of convergence already achieved between expenditure by the devolved administrations and their predecessor departments, covered by the Barnett Formula comparable to UK department programmes since 1996-97; and what changes there have been in the composition of those comparable programmes since 1996-97. |
| (11050) | |
| 103 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the granting of requests for debt write-offs by national and local government and wholly-owned companies of the Government; how many such debt write-offs have been agreed since 1996-97; and which Minister gave approval to such write-offs in each case. |
| (10926) | |
| 104 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Joint Treasury/Bank of England/FSA Standing Committee met in 2001; who the Treasury representative on the committee was; what the titles are of the papers submitted by the Treasury representative; and if he will make a statement on the present work and future programme of the Joint Committee. |
| (10919) | |
| 105 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Financial Stability Forum met in 2001; who were the Treasury representatives; what issues were raised at the forum; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10920) | |
| 106 N | Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the average length of time taken by the contracted-out employment group of the National Insurance Contribution Office to provide figures for contracted out schemes to buy members back into the state system in the last five years; how many cases have taken longer than the average time; and what the length of period involved was. |
| (10411) | |
| 107 | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his written Answer of 23rd October, Official Report, column 203W, on pensions policies, if he has asked Lord Penrose to investigate. |
| (11049) | |
| 108 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the revenues the Government will receive from the aggregates tax in the next financial year. |
| (10994) | |
| 109 N | Mr Michael Howard (Folkestone & Hythe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide a breakdown of the costs which he forecasts will arise over the current financial year as a direct result of the war on terrorism for each government department directly affected. |
| (10294) | |
| 110 | Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the uptake has been of the advance payable tax credit for clearing and developing brownfield sites; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10973) | |
| 111 N | Mr Gerry Steinberg (City of Durham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue lost each year to the Treasury because of illegally imported alcohol; and what plans he has to reduce the loss. |
| (10410) | |
| 112 | Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Inland Revenue will measure compliance costs to business as referred to in Cm 407; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10972) | |
| 113 | Mr Gareth R. Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate how much tax revenue was generated from football in the last 12 months. |
| (10988) | |
| 114 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the USA on the subject of Sudan. |
| (10682) | |
| 115 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the situation in The Moluccas. |
| (10684) | |
| 116 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information he has collated on how many Sudanese are refugees in neighbouring countries; and how many are refugees in camps in those countries. |
| (10681) | |
| 117 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Sudanese Government on the cases of the human rights activitists Ghazi Suleiman and Ali Mahmoud currently detained by that government. |
| (10679) | |
| 118 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish evidence he has received that links the Sudanese Government to the East African Embassy bombings. |
| (10683) | |
| 119 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the access of non government organisations to the Sudan. |
| (10680) | |
| 120 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had with the Sudanese Government on the imposition of Shari'a law in largely Christian areas. |
| (10678) | |
| 121 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to clarify the approach of the United Nations towards The Moluccas. |
| (10685) | |
| 122 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met representatives of the Kenya-based peace secretariat to discuss a peace deal in the Sudan. |
| (10691) | |
| 123 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Sudanese Government to encourage it to co-operate with the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
| (10693) | |
| 124 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the Government's policies towards the Sudan; and what plans he has to help encourage the Sudanese Government towards the restoration of political parties there. |
| (10690) | |
| 125 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the inter-religious conflict that has erupted in the Jos area of Nigeria. |
| (10687) | |
| 126 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Sudanese Government on (a) female genital mutilation, (b) slavery, (c) people trafficking, (d) child labour and (e) torture. |
| (10694) | |
| 127 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last discussed the human rights record of Sudan with the Sudanese Government. |
| (10692) | |
| 128 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent contact he has had with representatives of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army or the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement. |
| (10689) | |
| 129 N | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Nigerian Government on the imposition of Shari'a law in parts of the country. |
| (10686) | |
| 130 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the draft text of the Biological Weapons Protocol; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10779) | |
| 131 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the presidential election held in The Gambia on 18th October; and if he will make a statement on relations with The Gambia. |
| (10978) | |
| 132 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what advice he is offering to schools who have arranged visits for pupils to Egypt and neighbouring countries. |
| (10977) | |
| 133 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the impact of excluding Gibraltar from the European Single Sky Agreement. |
| (10976) | |
| 134 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will make a decision on the appeal for admittance made by Selim Ferhan Onal. |
| (10538) | |
| 135 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the situation in Sierra Leone. |
| (10750) | |
| 136 | Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will make a statement regarding the objectives and criteria for evaluation of the UK/China human rights dialogue. |
| (10763) | |
| 137 | Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what issues the Government intends to raise with China regarding Tibet in the UK/China dialogue on 19th November. |
| (10762) | |
| 138 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of computer (a) hacking (b) fraud and (c) theft his Department has recorded in 2000 and 2001; and on how many occasions in 2000 and 2001 computer systems in his Department have been illegally accessed by computer hackers (i) within and (ii) outside his Department. |
| (11000) | |
| 139 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what work his Department has undertaken to explain the trends in prescribing of (a) atypical and (b) traditional anti-psychotic medication within the NHS; what the key findings are; and if he will set out the number of prescription items dispensed within the NHS in England for anti-psychotic drugs in each of the last five years for each regional and health authority for the age groups (i) 0 to 15 years, (ii) 16 to 59 years and (iii) 60 years and over. |
| (10998) | |
| 140 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd October, Official Report, column 28W, on continuing care, if he will set out for each of the last five years (a) the total number of people in each year newly meeting the eligibility criteria for continuing NHS health care and (b) the total number of people meeting the eligibility criteria. |
| (11051) | |
| 141 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how (a) the extra accident and emergency nurses and (b) the elective operations to be placed in the private sector will be distributed, broken down by health authority. |
| (10927) | |
| 142 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what are the approved AVC providers under the NHS pension scheme; how many outstanding AVC contracts there are with these providers; when these AVC providers were first selected and when that selection was reviewed; and what was the source of the professional advice as to that selection and renewal. |
| (10922) | |
| 143 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what powers health authorities have to ensure that payments to nursing home owners in respect of assessed nursing care needs are passed on in full to the relevant clients; and what monitoring of such payments he requires to be carried out. |
| (10939) | |
| 144 | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the gross expenditure of the Prescription Pricing Authority was in relation to the monitoring of prescriptions in the last 12 months. |
| (10781) | |
| 145 N | Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much he forecasts will be spent in the current financial year by his Department as a direct result of measures associated with terrorism. |
| (10234) | |
| 146 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects each of the 12 hospital developments, announced on 15th February, to be completed. |
| (10790) | |
| 147 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidance has been given to (a) regional dental boards and (b) dentists regarding dental treatment for asylum seekers. |
| (10949) | |
| 148 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidance has been issued to regional and local health authorities and trusts regarding dental treatment for asylum seekers. |
| (10948) | |
| 149 | Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if residential special schools have to be registered with his Department. |
| (10707) | |
| 150 | Mr David Lepper (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the provision by NHS trusts of recombinant clotting factors to haemophiliac patients. |
| (10733) | |
| 151 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the annual cost of giving individual injections in place of the MMR vaccine; what the time interval required between such individual injections would be; and what estimate he has made of the vulnerability of children to particular diseases within the time gaps. |
| (7109) | |
| 152 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many representations he has received from (a) members of the medical profession and (b) members of the public about the policy of the NHS in providing MMR as opposed to individual injections. |
| (7110) | |
| 153 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Care, with specific reference to the provision of free personal care; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10535) | |
| 154 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the timetable of his review of funding for student nurses. |
| (10935) | |
| 155 | Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on (a) the outstanding legal questions relating to the treatment of NHS patients abroad, (b) when he anticipates those legal questions will be resolved and (c) how patients will be selected for treatment abroad. |
| (10704) | |
| 156 | Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on (a) orthopaedic waiting lists in Leeds and (b) what action will be taken to reduce these in the short term. |
| (10705) | |
| 157 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of the population have joined the National Organ Register. |
| (10759) | |
| 158 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients died in each year from 1995 to 2000 whilst on the waiting list for (a) heart, (b) heart and lung, (c) lung and (d) liver transplants. |
| (10960) | |
| 159 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organ transplants were carried out in the last five years for which figures are available. |
| (10760) | |
| 160 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are awaiting a (a) kidney transplant, (b) heart transplant, (c) heart and lung transplant, (d) lung transplant and (e) liver transplant; and if he will make a statement on the shortfall in organs available for transplant. |
| (10959) | |
| 161 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what work has been done on the recommendation from the Chief Medical Officer for a review of the legislation on organ donation; and when he is planning to begin consultations. |
| (10958) | |
| 162 N | Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what types of data are included within the code of practice which his Department is drawing up for data retention by communications service providers. |
| (10420) | |
| 163 N | Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has in respect of the retention of communications data by communication service providers; and whether this will be (a) voluntary or (b) mandatory. |
| (10421) | |
| 164 N | Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the John Horrocks data retention report commissioned by his Department will be published. |
| (10419) | |
| 165 | Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 23rd October, Official Report, column 865, whether targets for rehabilitation are published for each prison; if he will list those for Nottingham Prison; and if he will make a statement on progress made (a) at Nottingham Prison and (b) in the UK. |
| (10970) | |
| 166 N | Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how soon he would be able to bring forward legislation to legalise cannabis following a recommendation to that effect arising from current trials. |
| (10541) | |
| 167 N | Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to receive the findings of phase three of the clinical trials of the therapeutic properties of cannabis. |
| (10540) | |
| 168 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims by (a) families, (b) unaccompanied minors and (c) all persons were rejected on the grounds of non-compliance (i) as an initial decision and (ii) as a final decision, as a percentage of all decisions, for each of the last six months. |
| (10749) | |
| 169 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the percentage of applications for asylum refused on non-compliance grounds at the initial decision stage by country of origin in the last six months. |
| (10724) | |
| 170 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to collect data on the number of asylum seekers who have their asylum applications rejected on the grounds of non-compliance, broken down by the reason for non-compliance. |
| (10722) | |
| 171 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) families, (b) single persons and (c) persons of all categories including dependants, received voucher-only support in each of the last six months for which data exists. |
| (10721) | |
| 172 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of initial refusals of applications for asylum on the grounds of non-compliance were upheld on appeal for each of the last six months for which data exists. |
| (10723) | |
| 173 N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) actual and (b) funded police officers there are in the county of Essex for the latest available date; and what were the same figures on 1st May 1997. |
| (9734) | |
| 174 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of computer (a) hacking, (b) fraud and (c) theft his Department recorded in 2000 and 2001; and on how many occasions in 2000 and 2001 computer systems in his Department have been illegally accessed by computer hackers (i) within and (ii) outside his Department. |
| (11002) | |
| 175 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were awaiting an award decision at the end of each quarter; what was the average time it took to process an award; how many people were awaiting an appeal decision on their award at the end of each quarter; and what was the average time it took to process an appeal for an award from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for each quarter from the start of 1998-99 to quarter 2 of 2001-02, broken down by those (a) over and (b) under 60. |
| (10997) | |
| 176 | Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints have been received by the Charity Commissioners and from how many complainants; how many have been fully or partially upheld; how many complaints relating to the Charity Commission have been received by the Independent Complaints Reviewer and from how many complainants; how many have been fully or partially upheld; and if the present pilot complaints procedures are to continue. |
| (10963) | |
| 177 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to improve the pay and conditions of Metropolitan Police civilian security staff at the Houses of Parliament; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10782) | |
| 178 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days in 2001 the Home Office computer system has incorrectly issued permissions for exceptional leave to remain; and how many such permissions were issued. |
| (10941) | |
| 179 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child curfew orders have been issued in the Greater London area in the last 12 months under the provisions of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. |
| (10944) | |
| 180 | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what facilities he has to conduct independent investigations into the National Asylum Support Services monitoring of the contracts it has awarded in relation to accommodation and support for asylum seekers. |
| (10824) | |
| 181 | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints were submitted to the National Asylum Support Service in its recent investigation into management and support service at Landmark and Inn on the Park in Everton, Liverpool. |
| (10989) | |
| 182 | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will publish the results of his Department's recent investigation into management and support services at Landmark and Inn on the Park in Everton, Liverpool. |
| (10974) | |
| 183 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money per (a) individual and (b) family was allocated to Barnsley Metropolitan District Council in respect of (i) council housing for asylum seekers and (ii) financial support for asylum seekers in the last 12 months. |
| (10947) | |
| 184 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council are funded by the Government. |
| (10942) | |
| 185 N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the responses received to the consultation paper on Road Traffic Penalties. |
| (10293) | |
| 186 N | Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will respond to the fax from the honourable Member for Poole of 11th September on Leonilla Beck (Ref 16407/1). |
| (10298) | |
| 187 N | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Chairman of the Information Select Committee,if he will make arrangements for the Al Jazeerah television channel to be available on television monitors in honourable Members' offices; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10422) | |
| 188 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the extent of poverty and malnutrition in Tajikistan; and what aid has been offered to Tajikistan by the United Kingdom (a) directly and (b) through the programmes of the EU and United Nations. |
| (10923) | |
| 189 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department gave to the Independent Electoral Commission in The Gambia (a) prior to and (b) during the presidential election held on 18th October. |
| (10979) | |
| 190 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance she will give to the Independent Electoral Commission in The Gambia prior to its 2002 parliamentary elections. |
| (10980) | |
| 191 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will review her programme of assistance to The Gambia following the presidential election held on 18th October. |
| (10981) | |
| 192 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what measures she is taking to ensure that water and sanitation issues are considered by the World Summit on Sustainable Development; and if she will make a statement. |
| (10934) | |
| 193 N | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will increase funds for her Department's HIV/AIDS program in China. |
| (10590) | |
| 194 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many cases of computer (a) hacking, (b) fraud and (c) theft his Department has recorded in 2000 and 2001; and on how many occasions in 2000 and 2001 computer systems in his Department have been illegally accessed by computer hackers (i) within and (ii) outside his Department. |
| (11003) | |
| 195 N | Mr Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many magistrates in the Leeds district currently serve on the present petty sessional area benches; and for each of those PSA benches how many reside in the areas served by those benches. |
| (10292) | |
| 196 N | Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what has been the total cost to public funds to date of (a) legal aid and (b) government legal costs in the extradition cases of (i) Ibrahim Hussein Abdul Hadi Eidarous, (ii) Khalid A. Fawwaz and Adil Muhammad, (iii) Abdul al-Majid Bari and (iv) Rachid Rausda. |
| (10482) | |
| 197 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many trials in magistrates' courts in England and Wales were rescheduled from the original date between January and July. |
| (10955) | |
| 198 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many magistrates' court trials scheduled to be heard on a particular day in England and Wales between January and July had to be rescheduled because the prosecution police witness failed to attend. |
| (10956) | |
| 199 | Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many trials were heard by magistrates' courts in England and Wales between January and July. |
| (10957) | |
| 200 | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the case involving John Tinnelly and Sons Ltd and the National Security Certificate (Section 42 of the Fair Employment (NI) Act) will be finalised and resolved; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10768) | |
| 201 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what additional resources have been allocated to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission to support the consultation process they are undertaking on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. |
| (7102) | |
| 202 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many bids have been received from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for resources to support the consultation process on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland; and if these have been granted. |
| (7103) | |
| 203 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how his Department intends to support the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in providing financial resources for it to run a consultation process on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. |
| (7104) | |
| 204 N | Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how his Department intends to respond to the consultation process on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland as it relates to proposed criminal justice and security rights. |
| (7105) | |
| 205 N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the President of the Council, what percentage of (a) House of Commons staff and officers and (b) honourable Members' staff are in receipt of working families tax credit. |
| (10627) | |
| 206 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when (a) she and (b) the Minister of State next plan to visit BAe Systems shipyards on the Clyde. |
| (10752) | |
| 207 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many cases of computer (a) hacking, (b) fraud and (c) theft her Department has recorded in 2000 and 2001; and on how many occasions in 2000 and 2001 computer systems in her Department have been illegally accessed by computer hackers (i) within and (ii) outside her Department. |
| (10999) | |
| 208 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what her policy is on the export of cluster bombs; how many licences for the export of cluster bombs are in force; and to which countries. |
| (10918) | |
| 209 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the value and country of destination of exports under the military list in categories (a) ML4a (b) P5030, (c) ML7, (d) ML7d, (e) ML7e and (f) ML7f from 1997 to 2000 inclusive. |
| (10917) | |
| 210 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the operation of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements. |
| (10992) | |
| 211 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the impact of the sanctions proposed for firms that fail to comply with the Information and Consultation Directive. |
| (11004) | |
| 212 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of trends in foreign direct investment in Scotland, Wales and the English regions in the last 12 months. |
| (10986) | |
| 213 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the European Parliament amendments to the draft Information and Consultation Directive which were passed on 23rd October and the Government's policy in respect of the draft Directive as amended. |
| (10996) | |
| 214 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the impact of the climate change levy on British industry. |
| (10990) | |
| 215 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations she has received regarding the impact of new regulations on British manufacturing in the last 12 months. |
| (11005) | |
| 216 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the changes to the Information and Consultation Directive which were agreed in the European Parliament on 23rd October on the regulatory burden on small business in the UK. |
| (10985) | |
| 217 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the factors responsible for the changes in competitiveness of British manufacturing in the last three years. |
| (10993) | |
| 218 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures she has taken to support the competitiveness of British manufacturing since 7th June. |
| (10991) | |
| 219 | Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will provide an estimate of foreign direct investment for each region of the United Kingdom for each year since 1997, and the forecast for each region for 2001. |
| (10995) | |
| 220 | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to change consumer protection legislation relating to the purchase of motor insurance policies following the provisional liquidation of Sussex Insurance Services. |
| (10830) | |
| 221 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she will make a decision on granting export licence application 27282, submitted on 10th September, by P. W Allen & Company, Tewkesbury. |
| (10593) | |
| 222 | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many claims made under the Icelandic Trawlermen's Compensation Scheme which have been refused at appeal have been taken to the independent adjudicator; and how many have been successful. |
| (10783) | |
| 223 | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many claims under the Icelandic Trawlermen's Compensation Scheme from those who have continued to fish after 1979 have been paid. |
| (10786) | |
| 224 | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many claims made under the Icelandic Trawlermen's Compensation Scheme have been refused; how many have been subsequently appealed; and how many appeals have been successful. |
| (10784) | |
| 225 N | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures she is taking to protect postal workers from exposure to material contaminated with biological or chemical agents. |
| (10299) | |
| 226 | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total amount paid so far is under the Icelandic Trawlermen's Compensation Scheme. |
| (10787) | |
| 227 | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what is the average length of time taken to settle claims made under the Icelandic Trawlermen's Compensation Scheme. |
| (10785) | |
| 228 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if the level of cycle carriage on trains of a minimum of six cycles is specified in railway franchise agreements; and if they will be in future. |
| (10907) | |
| 229 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what safety improvements have been suggested by Railtrack and the Highways Agency following the incidences of vehicles on the track at (a) Selby on 28th February, (b) Bletchley in Buckinghamshire on 24th August and (c) Wilsford in Lincolnshire on 30th August; what action has been taken as a result; and if he will make a statement on the funding of the improvements. |
| (10904) | |
| 230 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what arrangements exist between Railtrack and the Highways Agency to co-ordinate provisions to prevent road vehicles getting on to railway tracks. |
| (10910) | |
| 231 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if the vulnerability of the sites of the incidences of vehicles on the track at (a) Selby on 28th February, (b) Bletchley in Buckinghamshire on 24th August and (c) Wilsford in Lincolnshire on 30th August (i) had been identified by Railtrack prior to the accident and (ii) had been subjected to a risk assessment. |
| (10905) | |
| 232 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how (a) the Highways Authority and (b) Railtrack establish the vulnerability of locations from which vehicles might accidentally gain access to railway tracks. |
| (10903) | |
| 233 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what measures are in place to ensure that the existing level of capacity for cycle carriage on trains is retained when rolling stock is refurbished or replaced. |
| (10908) | |
| 234 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what (a) guidance the Strategic Rail Authority has issued and (b) standards it has set for the provision of facilities for bicycles (i) on board new rolling stock and (ii) at stations; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10909) | |
| 235 | Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list income and expenditure under the parking places revenue accounts of each local authority in London for the years (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000 and (e) 2000-01. |
| (10720) | |
| 236 N | Mr Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will take steps to control aircraft noise at night from East Midlands Airport by designating the airport under section 80 for the purposes of section 78 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 in line with the request from North West Leicestershire District Council. |
| (10481) | |
| 237 N | Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has to amend the rules covering borrowing against public assets; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10408) | |
| 238 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans and programmes there were for (a) the upgrade of the East Coast mainline and (b) for upgrades and extensions of rail lines in the North East of England as at 1st October. |
| (10924) | |
| 239 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how local authorities are compensated for properties exempted from council tax on the grounds that they consist of student households; and what his estimate is of (a) the numbers of such properties and (b) the council tax revenue lost in 2000-01 for each local authority in England. |
| (10940) | |
| 240 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many line closures there were of more than one day on each of the lines of the London Underground network since 1st January. |
| (10945) | |
| 241 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what changes in expenditure by the South East England Regional Assembly on (a) regional intelligence, (b) communications and (c) publications there have been for the 2001-02 financial year. |
| (10777) | |
| 242 | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what steps he is taking to control expenditure by the South East England Regional Assembly. |
| (10775) | |
| 243 | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what meetings his Department has held with financial institutions since the Railtrack administration announcement. |
| (10764) | |
| 244 | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, with which institutions holding Railtrack bonds his Department has held discussions since the administration order; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10761) | |
| 245 | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 23rd October, Official Report, column 192W, what practical changes will be required in the UK rail network as a result of Directive 2001/16/EC. |
| (10950) | |
| 246 N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the annual gross cost of the Driving Instructors Agency is; and what the income generated by the Agency in test fees and other income was in the latest year for which figures are available. |
| (10604) | |
| 247 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if the Rough Sleepers Unit will compile information about the number of hotel places in major centres of population. |
| (10780) | |
| 248 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he expects to announce a decision on implementing two way access to the M5 at junction 10; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10982) | |
| 249 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the impact of GCHQ's New Accommodation Project on traffic in Cheltenham; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10984) | |
| 250 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on his policy towards rerouting traffic away from the A40 through Cheltenham; and if he will make statement. |
| (10983) | |
| 251 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has to review the capping of the discount available to residents wanting to buy their homes; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10537) | |
| 252 | Mr Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans the Government has to ensure everyone has access to local parks. |
| (10774) | |
| 253 N | Mr John Taylor (Solihull): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the timetable for (a) publication and (b) implementation of the Boundary Commission proposals for England and Wales. |
| (10418) | |
| 254 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has to grant local authorities greater powers to specify quotas of affordable housing for key workers; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10732) | |
| 255 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will estimate (a) the number of council houses sold in South Gloucestershire in each of the last 10 years and (b) the number of new social rented houses built in South Gloucestershire over the same period. |
| (10476) | |
| 256 N | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what discussion has taken place with business about the proposed EU Physical Agents (Vibration) Directive; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10300) | |
| 257 N | Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the Government's policy is towards the EU Physical Agents (Vibration) Directive; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10301) | |
| 258 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he will publish details of plans to sell the Millennium Dome. |
| (10626) | |
| 259 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what non-financial requirements will be made of the purchaser of the Millennium Dome. |
| (10624) | |
| 260 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what his estimate is of the value of the Millennium Dome and site. |
| (10623) | |
| 261 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what criteria have been established to determine the success of bids to buy the Millennium Dome. |
| (10625) | |
| 262 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the costs of the Millennium Dome since the closure of the Millennium Experience. |
| (10622) | |
| 263 N | Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, on what date (a) he, (b) other ministers and (c) officials in his Department, first spoke to (a) representatives of Legacy plc, (b) representatives of the Wellcome Trust, (c) the Duke of Westminster or his colleagues and (d) any other party to discuss the acquisition of the Millennium Dome, following the failure of the Nomura deal. |
| (10688) | |
| 264 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of computer (a) hacking, (b) fraud and (c) theft his Department has recorded in 2000 and 2001; and on how many occasions in 2000 and 2001 computer systems in his Department have been illegally accessed by computer hackers (i) within and (ii) outside his Department. |
| (11001) | |
| 265 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the entitlement of self-funded residents of nursing and care homes to receive attendance allowance; and if he will estimate how many self-funded residents of nursing and care homes are receiving attendance allowance in each nation of the United Kingdom. |
| (10915) | |
| 266 | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to better publicise the time limit for making applications for widows' payments. |
| (10825) | |
| 267 | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints have been made to the Child Support Agency in each of the last five years by honourable Members on behalf of their constituents. |
| (10826) | |
| 268 | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has for relaxing the time limit for applications for widows' payments in circumstances where the applicant may be unable to make the application within the normal time limit because of ill health; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10827) | |
| 269 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to introduce legislation to continue invalid care allowance for up to eight weeks after the death of the person being cared for; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10536) | |
| 270 N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the level of housing benefit payable to under-18 year olds; and if he will make a statement. |
| (10534) | |
| 271 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the extent of benefit fraud in (a) Scotland and (b) the United Kingdom on an annual basis. |
| (10754) | |
| 272 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the total annual amount of unclaimed benefit, broken down by individual benefits, in (a) Scotland and (b) the United Kingdom. |
| (10755) | |
| 273 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if an incapacity benefit claimant taking part in the New Deal for Disabled People in a pilot area for the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulation 2001 will (a) see the same personal adviser and (b) attend the same venue, for a work focussed interview. |
| (10477) | |
| 274 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the target group for stakeholder pensions is as set out in the 1998 Green Paper, Partnership for Pensions. |
| (10592) | |
| 275 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which categories of incapacity benefit recipients will be automatically exempt from work-focused interviews. |
| (10409) | |
| 276 N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if Jobcentre Plus offices will be set targets for reducing the number of people dependent on incapacity benefit. |
| (10478) | |
| 277 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures he intends to take to combat fraudulent benefit claims from people who spend the majority of the year abroad, once compulsory automated credit transfer is introduced. |
| (10414) | |
| 278 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been successfully prosecuted for benefit fraud in the last year for which figures are available, broken down into those prosecuted (a) for the first time, (b) for the second time and (c) for the third or subsequent time. |
| (10413) | |
| 279 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what checks are undertaken on benefit claimants who arrive in the UK from abroad to establish if they have been found guilty of benefit fraud in the country they have left. |
| (10479) | |
| 280 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to increase the staff of the Child Support Agency whilst the new assessment procedures are implemented. |
| (10417) | |
| 281 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit recipients, who did not receive their benefit via automated credit transfer when their current claim began, have voluntarily opted to be paid this way in the last year for which records are available, broken down into recipients of each benefit. |
| (10416) | |
| 282 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if all benefit recipients will be able to choose their frequency of payment once automated credit transfer becomes compulsory; and which payment options will be offered. |
| (10415) | |
| 283 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many suspected cases of (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit fraud there were in the financial year 2000-01; how many of these led to a prosecution; and how many of these prosecutions were successful. |
| (10412) | |
| 284 N | Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if private fraud investigators contracted by local authorities have the same access to Department of Works and Pensions staff as in-house local authority fraud investigators. |
| (10480) | |
| 285 N | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with (a) other UK government departments and (b) her EU counterparts regarding the effect of coffee prices on developing countries; and if she will make a statement. |
| [Transferred] (10591) | |
| 286 N | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the EU's Everything But Arms policy on those countries not classified as least developed. |
| [Transferred] (10533) | |
| 287 | Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overseas PhD students in science disciplines are in the UK on work permits. |
| [Transferred] (10914) | |
| 288 | Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if the vulnerability of the sites of the incidences of vehicles on the track at (a) Selby on 28th February, (b) Bletchley in Buckinghamshire on 24th August and (c) Wilsford in Lincolnshire on 30th August (i) had been identified by the Highways Authority prior to the accident and (ii) had been subjected to a risk assessment. |
| [Transferred] (10906) | |
| 289 | Mr Nigel Beard (Bexleyheath & Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made in establishing the Universal Bank; and which commercial banks are collaborating with the scheme and in what way. |
| [Transferred] (10756) | |
| 290 | Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what criteria were assessed when deciding to sign the European Single Sky Agreement; and if he will make a statement. |
| [Transferred] (11068) | |
| 291 | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the proposal by the European Commission for a single consolidated tax base; and what plans he has to discuss these proposals with his EU counterparts. |
| [Transferred] (10758) | |
| 292 | Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many deaths there were in (a) absolute numbers and (b) per capita of the whole population; and what the five year survival rate was of sufferers of colorectal cancers in each region and nation of the UK in (i) 1998, (ii)1999 and (iii) 2000. |
| [Transferred] (10938) | |
| 293 | Brian White (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Prime Minister, when he plans to publish the next annual report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner; and if it will be available electronically. |
| [Transferred] (10773) | |
| 294 | Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what further measures he plans to take to regulate the security industry. |
| [Transferred] (10753) | |
| 295 | Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list, in descending order, the GDP per head of each (a) county council, (b) unitary and (c) metropolitan area by (i) actual amount and (ii) percentage of the area with the highest GDP in the last year for which figures are available. |
| [Transferred] (10789) | |
| 296 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) men and (b) women are paid the national minimum wage in the UK. |
| [Transferred] (10946) | |
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