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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 15 April 2002

For Written and Oral Questions for answer from Tuesday 16 April 2002 see Part 2 of this Paper.

Notes:
* Indicates a Question for Oral Answer.
+ Indicates a Question not included in the random selection process but accepted because the quota for that day had not been filled.
[N] Indicates a Question for Written Answer on a named day, i.e. the Member has indicated under S.O. No. 22(4) the day on which he wishes the Question to be answered.
[R] Indicates that a relevant interest has been declared.
 


 

MONDAY 15th APRIL

1  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Advocate General, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50401)

2  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, column 58W, regarding the cost of refurbishing Ministerial private offices, what has been the total cost of the work associated with the relocation of buildings for operational purposes over the last four years.

 (50549)

3  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 26th February, Official Report, column 1265W, regarding paid leave for staff to undertake union duties, if the two officers of Cabinet Office agencies who spent part of their time undertaking union duties on an ad hoc basis are required to obtain in advance line management approval for such time off.

 (50343)

4  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 25th March, regarding publicity expenditure, how many additional staff have been recruited as a result of the additional £326,000 advertising expenditure between 1998-99 and 2000-01, in which posts; and at what cost to public funds.

 (50551)

5  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50406)

6  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50314)

7  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 26th February, Official Report, column 1265W, regarding paid leave for staff to undertake union duties, how many days have been spent on union duties by the two officers of Cabinet Office agencies who undertake union duties on an ad hoc basis.

 (50414)

8  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 821W, regarding the use of external consultants, if he will list each of the projects, and the purpose for which external consultants were used, in each of the last four years.

 (50392)

9  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50298)

10  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 6th March, Official Report, column 421W, on rail travel, if staff below Band B2 are permitted to travel first class; and if line management approval is required beforehand to do so.

 (50546)

11  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50291)

12  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what percentage of the consultation documents published by Government departments or their agencies in 2001 were made available on the Internet.

 (49949)

13  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many of its consultation documents published in 2001 in electronic or printed form the Cabinet Office has monitored and evaluated in accordance with its Code of Practice on Written Consultations.

 (49952)

14  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which consultation documents published by Government departments and their agencies in 2001 did not carry the consultation criteria as recommended in the Cabinet Office Code of Practice on Written Consultations.

 (49954)

15  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which consultation documents published by the Cabinet Office in 2001 were not made available as paper copies.

 (49951)

16  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, in respect of which of its consultation documents published in 2001 in electronic or printed form the Cabinet Office allowed less than the recommended minimum 12 weeks' consultation period; and what explanation for this departure from the Code of Practice on Written Consultations was given.

 (49950)

17  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which mechanisms the Cabinet Office uses for monitoring and evaluating the quality of its consultation documents in electronic and printed form.

 (49953)

18  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many complaints the Cabinet Office has received about its 2001 consultations in electronic or printed form.

 (49947)

19  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if the Cabinet Office has published the results of all its 2001 written consultations in electronic or printed form.

 (49948)

20  Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which Government departments and agencies have appointed designated consultation co-ordinators in accordance with the Cabinet Office Code of Practice on Written Consultations.

 (49955)

21  
N  
Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many civil servants have member status of key institutions which are represented on the Engineering Technology Board.

 (49299)

22  
N  
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what action the Government's e-envoy is taking to ensure that all government on-line services are accessible through simple touch-screen terminals in strategic locations.

 (49796)

23  
N  
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what action he is taking to co-ordinate the use of post offices as one-stop shops for Government services.

 (49797)

24  
N  
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he is taking to co-locate government services in locations accessible to (a) parents of young children, (b) old people and (c) those without access to a private motor car.

 (49798)

25  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50279)

26  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her Answer of 8th March, Official Report, columns 374-6W, on statutory instruments, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of each of the statutory instruments listed.

 (50325)

27  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her Answer of 22nd March, Official Report, column 575W, regarding creche facilities, how many places were taken up in 2001-02 at the four central London sites to which she refers.

 (50427)

28  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which of the services of her Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50324)

29  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50307)

30  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her Answer of 25th March, regarding replies to parliamentary and public correspondence, what percentage of letters (a) from honourable Members and (b) from members of the public were answered in 2001-02 within 18 working days.

 (50550)

31  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50403)

32  
N  
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth, Sutton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to maintain diversity in the ownership and provision of digital television services.

 (49794)

33  Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she had with Camelot on the new National Lottery logo; and if she will make a statement.

 (49929)

34  Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the value of transitions through coin-in coin-out machines in unlicensed premises.

 (50011)

35  
N  
Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what special traffic arrangements were made for the Lord Chancellor's guests attending his most recent official breakfast, with special reference to obeying traffic lights and parking in bus lanes.

 (48795)

36  
N  
Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her Answer of 28th February, Official Report, column 1539W, on National Lottery funding for football and rugby stadiums, if she will break down the 2001 National Lottery expenditure on Rugby League stadiums by (a) type of work undertaken and (b) venue.

 (48647)

37  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50315)

38  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50286)

39  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 25th March, Official Report, column 557W, regarding creche facilities provided by his Department, how much money was contributed in (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02 to the costs of childcare schemes by (i) the Ministry of Defence and (ii) the Civil Service Modernisation Fund.

 (50341)

40  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50412)

41  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50301)

42  Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial support the Turkish Government will receive in respect of their leadership of ISAF; what proportion of this cost will be borne by the UK Government; and which government Department will bear the cost.

 (50052)

43  
N  
Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the policy of the Government is on liability for death and injury caused by unexploded ordnance left behind after British military exercises in Kenya; and if he will make a statement.

 (49795)

44  
N  
Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21st March, Official Report, column 450W to the honourable Member for Leyton and Wanstead, when he will place a letter in the Library detailing his Department's contracts for which Israeli companies are bidding as (a) prime contractors and (b) teaming partners; and in the case of the latter, with which companies they are teamed.

 (49793)

45  Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what subsistence payments are payable to servicemen and women carrying out duties in the United Kingdom away from their base.

 (50040)

46  Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received concerning the exclusion of retired officers from eligibility for the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal; and if he will make a statement.

 (50019)

47  Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many combined cadet forces and single service cadet detatchments there are in(a) maintained schools and (b) independent schools.

 (50524)

48  Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cadets there are in (a) maintained schools and (b) independent school detachments.

 (50523)

49  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of British Armed Forces' Personnel who have been exposed to depleted uranium.

 (50540)

50  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Gulf War veterans (a) are suffering and (b) have suffered from renal cancers.

 (50538)

51  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Gulf War veterans (a) are suffering and (b) have suffered from scarring to the (i) kidneys and (ii) liver.

 (50539)

52  
N  
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements are available for war widows who (a) are unable to obtain a bank account and (b) do not wish to open a bank account to receive their pensions.

 (48988)

53  
N  
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons Mrs M. K. Tushingham, a constituent whose details have been supplied, has been told that she may no longer receive her RAF widows pension via an order book at a post office.

 (48989)

54  
N  
Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the circumstances in which RAF widows can receive their war pensions other than into a bank account.

 (48987)

55  Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has for a Sector Skills Council for the oil and gas industry.

 (50016)

56  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 25th January, Official Report, column 1131W, regarding the estimated cost of buildings refurbishment carried out by her Department, for what reason the cost in 2000-01 rose from the figures for 1998-99.

 (50336)

57  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 25th February, Official Report, columns 722-3W, on statutory instruments, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of each of the statutory instruments listed in the document placed in the Library.

 (50017)

58  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 3rd December 2001, Official Report, column 68W, regarding planned funding of further and higher education, if the planned cash increases of £268 million and £298 million for 2002-03 and 2003-04 will all be spent in the years for which they were allocated.

 (50416)

59  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50283)

60  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50418)

61  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50302)

62  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 3rd December 2001, Official Report, column 68W, regarding planned funding of further and higher education, if the planned cash increase of £412 million in 2001-02 was all spent.

 (50415)

63  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 3rd December 2001, Official Report, column 68W, regarding unit spending per student, what the percentage change in unit of funding per student was in 2000-01; and what she expects it to be in 2001-02.

 (50428)

64  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 3rd December 2001, Official Report, column 81W, regarding end year flexibility, if the remaining sum was spent in 2001-02.

 (50333)

65  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which of the services of her Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50320)

66  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of rural (a) primary and (b) secondary schools are located (i) within 5 km, (b) 5 to 10 km, (c) 10 to 15 km and (d) more than 15 km from the nearest settlement with under 3000 people.

 (46457)

67  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of school children travelled by (a) foot, (b) bus, (c) car, (d) bicycle, (e) train and (f) other form of transport to rural (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in (A) 1999, (B) 2000 and (C) 2001.

 (46458)

68  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of selective schools by category are located (a) within five, (b) five to 10, (c) 10 to 15 and (d) more than 15 kilometres from settlements with under 3,000 people.

 (46508)

69  Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to review the Government's policies on student financial support.

 (50544)

70  Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there are at schools in the London Borough of Wandsworth in (a) junior and (b) secondary schools.

 (50543)

71  Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools in each of the Inner London boroughs have school playing fields; and if she will list them.

 (50542)

72  Valerie Davey (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many contracts her Department has with ICT suppliers; how many ICT suppliers have contracts with her Department, and what the names of these ICT suppliers are.

 (49930)

73  Valerie Davey (Bristol West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 19th March, Official Report, column 257W, on IT contracts, whether the competition being run by BECTa to accredit ICT suppliers for schools will take into account the ease for schools of changing between those suppliers.

 (50033)

74  Chris Mole (Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action she intends to take in co-operation with the Department of Health to rationalise student finance for trainee doctors.

 (49907)

75  Richard Ottaway (Croydon South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant her Answer of 25th February, Official Report, column 726W, if she will list the allowances which are available to (a) secondary school teachers and (b) further education lecturers.

 (50037)

76  Richard Ottaway (Croydon South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the differential between upper pay scales in further and secondary education in the last three years for which records are available.

 (50038)

77  
N  
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what responsibility her Department had to put the learndirect database into a form in which it could be used to accredit ILA providers; and when, and what, action has been taken to give effect to that responsibility.

 (49881)

78  
N  
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, at what target groups the ILA scheme was aimed; and what steps were taken by her Department to ensure the scheme assisted those target groups.

 (49882)

79  
N  
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the ILA providers against whom complaints which remain unresolved were (a) received by Capita and (b) passed to her Department, showing the number of complaints.

 (49880)

80  
N  
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the ILA providers who were (a) deregistered because of failure to register between June and August 2001 and (b) deregistered (i) temporarily or (ii) permanently for non-compliance with the scheme's rules.

 (49879)

81  Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she has received a copy of the memorandum dated 26th March from the European Commission concerning imports of swietenia macrophylla from Brazil; and if she will make a statement.

 (50457)

82  Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information she has received concerning action taken by Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in relation to trade in Brazilian mahogany since 19th October 2001; and if she will make a statement.

 (50456)

83  Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if computer systems in the Rural Payments Agency are capable of handling payments in euros; and if she will make a statement.

 (50458)

84  Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if big leaf mahogany (swietenia macrophylla) is classified as an endangered species; and what measures she is taking to ensure that illegally logged mahogany is not used in the United Kingdom.

 (50459)

85  Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to seize Brazilian mahogany imported since 19th October 2001.

 (50462)

86  Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was notified of the Brazilian Environment Agency's ban on trade in swietenia macrophylla.

 (50460)

87  Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many reports of swietenia macrophylla there have been since 19th October 2001; and what the volume of imports was on each occasion since that date.

 (50461)

88  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the results of her Department's surveys on board UK pair trawlers to establish how many dolphins were killed per 100 net hauls; and if she will make a statement.

 (49282)

89  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the extent to which EU Directive 1999/74/EC was implemented by 1st January; and what formal action has been taken by the European Commission in respect of this matter by 1st January.

 (49279)

90  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she intends to ban the beak trimming of birds kept in battery cages; and if she will make a statement.

 (49281)

91  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to encourage producers to move laying hens out of small cages before the final phase-out date of 2012; and if she will make a statement on her policy in respect of the keeping of birds in modified cages in the long-term.

 (49280)

92  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how often in the last three years, and for what purpose, her Department has applied the special urgency provisions in paragraph 22 of circular 18/84 (Development by government departments).

 (48946)

93  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 25th January, Official Report, column 1161W, on refurbishment, what her estimate is of the cost of buildings refurbishment carried out by her Department in 2001-02.

 (50393)

94  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 25th March, Official Report, column 730W, regarding people employed by her Department under the New Deal for Young People, what discussions she has had with ministers in the departments of Trade and Industry and International Development regarding central collection of statistics on the destinations of New Deal participants.

 (50426)

95  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 829W, on newspaper advertising, how many advertisements have been placed in each of the publications listed since 8th June 2001; and what the (a) purpose and (b) result of each advertisement was.

 (49927)

96  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 26th February, Official Report, column 1191W, on industrial action, what assessment she has made of the effect of the lost days on the service provided by her Department to the public.

 (50553)

97  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 29th January, Official Report, column 240W, regarding the estimated cost and value of empty properties, if all surplus empty properties have been sold within the three year guideline set down by HM Treasury.

 (50335)

98  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50419)

99  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 29th January, Official Report, column 240W, how many surplus properties have been sold in each year since 1997-98; and what is the sum of the proceeds to public funds resulting from the sales.

 (50334)

100  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 25th January, Official Report, column 1161W, on refurbishment carried out by her Department, what her estimate is of the cost of refurbishment carried out as part of landlord lease obligations in each of the last four years.

 (50394)

101  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50282)

102  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which of the services of her Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50322)

103  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 25th January, Official Report, column 1161W, on refurbishment, for what reason the cost in 2000-01 increased by £655,000 over the previous year.

 (50397)

104  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50304)

105  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Countryside Agency's 'The Pub's the Hub' campaign; and if she will make a statement.

 (46453)

106  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8th January, Official Report, column 764W, what information she collates on rural pubs; and if she will make it available.

 (46505)

107  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she proposes to modify the voluntary status of the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme 2002 to comply the mandatory status of the EU Trading Scheme when the latter comes into force in 2005.

 (48981)

108  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she intends the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme 2002 will relate to the Clean Development Mechanism in the Kyoto Protocol.

 (48982)

109  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she intends that the use of sinks and forest sequestratian will be allowed as part of the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme 2002.

 (48983)

110  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the rules her Department has drawn up to ensure that the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme 2002 delivers emission reductions additional to those required by regulation will be published.

 (48976)

111  Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 3rd April, Official Report, column 1027W, on packaging waste, when the percentage levels of (a) business packaging waste recovery and (b) business packaging recycling in the United Kingdom in 2001 will be published.

 (49904)

112  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will state the baselines for the average emissions in (a) 1998, (b) 1999 and (c) 2000 for each of the direct participants of the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme 2002.

 (48977)

113  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what pecuniary incentives offered to those companies volunteering to place an absolute cap on their emissions under the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (a) since its inception and (b) for its duration.

 (48978)

114  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish (a) the base year emissions of the participants in the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme 2002, (b) their respective targets and (c) the reductions that they are committed to already, as a result of (i) legislation and (ii) public voluntary commitments.

 (48979)

115  
N  
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which of the direct participants of the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme 2002 fall under (a) integrated pollution control and (b) the flare consents regime for offshore installations; and what reduction in emissions for these companies is stipulated by the conditions set in their IPC authorisations and flare consents.

 (48980)

116  
N  
Mr Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she made to the European Union prior to its passing of the Welfare of Laying Hens Directive.

 (48956)

117  Matthew Green (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to carry out a full public consultation on changes to the Welfare of Laying Hens Directive.

 (50344)

118  
N  
Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what sources of EU funding are available for flood relief and prevention measures from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund; what the total is of such funds for which the UK is eligible in 2001-02; and what the total is of such funds which her Department has (a) applied for and (b) been allocated in 2001-02.

 (48984)

119  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures the Government is introducing to encourage the production of energy crops.

 (50453)

120  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to change the legislation permitting visitors to the United Kingdom to bring their own meat for personal consumption.

 (50451)

121  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's calculations are of the tonnage of illegal meat imported to the UK in each of the last three years.

 (50450)

122  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimates she has received of the change in energy efficiency since 1997 of (a) processing in the industrial sector, (b) heating and lighting in the industrial sector, (c) heating and lighting in the commercial sector, (d) business machinery and information control technology in the commercial sector and (e) heating and lighting in the domestic sector; and if she will make a statement.

 (50445)

123  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the external organisations set up by her as part of the Government's strategy to combat climate change, indicating (a) their remits and (b) their sources of funding.

 (50446)

124  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures her Department has taken since 1997 to encourage energy efficiency in (a) the domestic sector, (b) the commercial sector, (c) the industrial sector and (d) the public sector; and how much government financial support has been made available.

 (50433)

125  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what are the latest estimates she has received of changes in total carbon dioxide emissions in the UK in (a) 2010 and (b) 2015; and if she will make a statement.

 (50432)

126  
N  
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will reply to the letter dated 3rd December 2001 from the honourable Member for Leominster on behalf of constituents Mr and Mrs Pledge about liquid petroleum gas.

 (48975)

127  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the potential effect on inward investment were the UK to cease to grant non-domicile status to UK taxpayers; and what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) reviewed in respect of this matter.

 (49291)

128  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many forward contracts have been agreed by the Inland Revenue to allow taxpayers to negotiate a fixed regular payment of tax in place of the submission of an annual return in each year from 1997 to date; how many such agreements are in place; when such an agreement was first made; under what circumstances such agreements are made; and what the annual income is to the Inland Revenue from such agreements.

 (49292)

129  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many UK residents enjoyed non-domicile status for tax purposes in (a) 2001, (b) 2000, (c) 1999, (d) 1998, (e) 1997 and (f) 1987.

 (49286)

130  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) audits and (b) investigations have been conducted by the Inland Revenue of taxpayers with a gross annual income of (a) £15,000 or less, (b)  £15,001 to £25,000, (c)  £25,001 to £50,000, (d)  £50,001 to £100,000, (e)  £100,001 to £200,000, (f)  £200,001 to £500,000, (g)  £500,001 to £1,000,000 and (h)   more than £1,000,000, for the most recent available accounting period.

 (49297)

131  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many UK taxpayers who make fixed regular payment in lieu of the submission of an annual return enjoy non-domicile status.

 (49293)

132  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions since 1992 the Inland Revenue has (a) rejected and (b) approved an application by a UK resident to be given non-domicile status.

 (49289)

133  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many UK taxpayers have enjoyed non-domicile status for (a) more than five years, (b) more than 10 years and (c) more than 20 years; and for each category, what percentage of those enjoying non-domicile status this constitutes.

 (49287)

134  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the estimated annual loss to the exchequer arising from (a) tax avoidance and (b) tax evasion in offshore jurisdictions.

 (49296)

135  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the potential income tax revenue lost in each of the last five years as a result of the granting of non-domicile status to some UK taxpayers; and what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) reviewed in respect of this matter.

 (49290)

136  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the estimated total of UK assets invested in off-shore jurisdictions.

 (49295)

137  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the estimated annual total cost of non-compliance with Inland Revenue laws and rules in each of the last five years.

 (49294)

138  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many UK taxpayers with non-domicile status were (a) born in the United Kingdom and (b) carry British passports; and for each category what percentage of those enjoying non-domicile status this constitutes.

 (49288)

139  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Amusement Machine Licence Duty (Medium-Prize Machines) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50167)

140  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insurance (Fees) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50147)

141  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Climate Change Levy (General) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50179)

142  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Tax Credits Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50128)

143  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Tax Credit Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50117)

144  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 Regulated Activities Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50124)

145  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Capital Gains Tax (Annual Exempt Amount) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50119)

146  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Climate Change Levy (Registration and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50163)

147  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Aircraft Operators (Accounts and Records) (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50180)

148  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Consideration for Fuel provided for Private Use) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50154)

149  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Air Passenger Duty (Designated Region of the United Kingdom) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50150)

150  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the National Savings Bank (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50143)

151  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Social Security Contributions (Amendment No. 3) (Northern Ireland) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50122)

152  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Passenger Vehicles) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50153)

153  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Recognition Requirements for Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses )Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50162)

154  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Finance Act 1989, Section 178(1) (Appointed Day) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50132)

155  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Inheritance Tax (Indexation) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50158)

156  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Income Tax (Indexation) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50159)

157  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Personal Equity Plan (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50139)

158  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Retirement Benefits Schemes (Indexation of Earnings Cap) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50118)

159  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Markets and Insolvency (Settlement Finality) (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50160)

160  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Business Gifts of Small Value) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50155)

161  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Lottery Duty (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50169)

162  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Capital Allowances (Corresponding Northern Ireland Grants) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50149)

163  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services Act 1986 (Exemption) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50165)

164  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Electronic Communications) (Incentive) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50182)

165  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Fees) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50146)

166  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Protective Helmets) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50156)

167  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (Modification of Section 10(7)) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50137)

168  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Excise Duty (Payments in Case of Error or Delay) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50173)

169  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, column 10W, on departmental events, if he will list the press conferences which have taken place on departmental premises in each of the last five years; and what was the purpose of each of them.

 (50547)

170  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50311)

171  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (Modification of Section 10(7)) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50136)

172  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Building Societies (General Charge and Fees) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50145)

173  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Gaming Duty (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50177)

174  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Individual Savings Account (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50141)

175  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating and National Insurance Funds) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50126)

176  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Tax Credit Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50115)

177  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Investment by Devolved Administrations) (Public-Private Partnership Business) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50151)

178  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Cider and Perry (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50176)

179  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50171)

180  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Credit Unions) (Fees) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50144)

181  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Taxes (Interest Rate) (Amendment No.1) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50133)

182  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) (Change of Name) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50140)

183  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50135)

184  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses) (The London Stock Exchange) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50130)

185  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Finance Act 2001 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provision) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50172)

186  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services Act 1986 (Electricity Industry Exemption) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50121)

187  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Air Passenger Duty (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50181)

188  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Aggregates Levy (Registration and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50168)

189  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (Definition of Unit Trust Scheme and Open-ended Investment Company) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50138)

190  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Income Tax (Cash Equivalents of Car Fuel Benefits) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50120)

191  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Tax Credit Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50129)

192  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Credit Unions (Increase in Limits on Deposits by Persons Too Young to be Members and of Periods for the Repayment of Loans) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50148)

193  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commencement No. 1) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50125)

194  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 862W, on PFI, what were the changing requirements which accounted for the difference in cost between preferred bidder stage and the final contract price.

 (50327)

195  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Collective Investment Schemes) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50164)

196  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Freeing of Funds) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50134)

197  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Investment Trusts (Approval of Accounting Methods for Creditor Relationships) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50127)

198  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50404)

199  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50278)

200  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Tobacco Products Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50178)

201  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Social Security (Contributions Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50116)

202  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the General Betting Duty Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50174)

203  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Excise Duty Points (Duty Suspended Movements of Excise Goods) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50175)

204  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50123)

205  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50157)

206  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Vehicles Designed or Adapted for Handicapped Persons) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50152)

207  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50294)

208  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50184)

209  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50170)

210  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50183)

211  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Prescribed Markets and Qualifying Investments) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50161)

212  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Promotion of Collective Investment Schemes) (Exemptions) Order; and if he will make a statement.

 (50166)

213  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Friendly Societies (General Charge and Fees) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50142)

214  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the Taxes (Interest Rate) (Amendment No.2) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

 (50131)

215  Valerie Davey (Bristol West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what information was gathered from the Office of Government Commerce e-tendering pilot scheme for a system for use across government, with particular reference to the Department for Education and Skills.

 (49928)

216  
N  
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many employers have been detected paying less than national minimum wage in the last three months; and what action has been taken.

 (45041)

217  Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what advice his Department has received from potential bidders for Railtrack about the amount of time likely to be required to end the administration.

 (49956)

218  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of beer and wine personally imported into the UK was imported in quantities exceeding the maximum indicative limit in 2001.

 (50043)

219  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what rate of duty pass-on he assumes to retail prices for each increase of 1p in beer duty.

 (50045)

220  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of lorries and containers were randomly searched by Customs for contraband such as beer in 2001; and what assessment he has made of the outcome of those searches.

 (50044)

221  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the impact of each 1p change in UK duty on the volume of smuggled beer.

 (50047)

222  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the Treasury Model of the economy shows to be the consequences of changes in the rate of beer duty on (a) the wider economy and (b) net revenues.

 (50046)

223  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the loss of revenue from other taxes on the hospitality industry consequent on each 1p rise in beer duty.

 (50048)

224  
N  
Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to increase the take-up of working families tax credit; and if he will make a statement about take-up targets and measures for the proposed (a) integrated child credit and (b) working tax credit.

 (48641)

225  Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received from (a) the quarry industry and (b) brick-makers concerning the introduction of the aggregates levy; and if he will make a statement.

 (50020)

226  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what tonnage of illegal meat has been confiscated by UK Customs over the last 10 years.

 (50452)

227  
N  
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to review the eligibility for the child care tax credit.

 (45034)

228  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue has been raised in the first full year of the Climate Change Levy; and how this revenue has been allocated.

 (50449)

229  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had at EU level on the proposed EU energy tax; and if he will make a statement.

 (50443)

230  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions have been held with the multi-lateral creditors regarding multi-lateral debt relief for Afghanistan.

 (48769)

231  Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to public sector pension schemes of the House of Lords' ruling in February 2001 on the pension rights of part-time workers.

 (50035)

232  
N  
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what actions his Department has taken in relation to Zimbabwe since the inauguration of Robert Mugabe as President in March.

 (48786)

233  Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last requested the Spanish Government to produce evidence of smuggling between Gibraltar and Spain; what evidence was supplied by the Spanish authorities; and what assessment he made of the Spanish evidence.

 (49984)

234  
N  
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the leaders of countries bordering Zimbabwe since the elections in that country last month; and what the results of those talks were.

 (48785)

235  
N  
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those individuals who have had sanctions imposed on them by the European Union and the United States as a result of political violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe.

 (48790)

236  
N  
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which individuals in Zimbabwe have bank accounts which have been frozen by the European Union and the United States, broken down by (a) the size of those assets frozen and (b) the country in which those assets were held.

 (48789)

237  
N  
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the occasions on which those individuals against whom targeted sanction have been imposed by the European Union have visited the EU since the 2000 parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe, broken down by (a) country visited and (b) the date of those visits.

 (48788)

238  
N  
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received concerning (a) food shortages, (b) politically motivated murders, (c) suppression of the media and (d) political intimidation and oppression in Zimbabwe since the elections.

 (48787)

239  
N  
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the individuals who have had applications to visit the European Union turned down by member states and of the EU since the Union imposed targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe.

 (48791)

240  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50295)

241  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50288)

242  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50410)

243  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50317)

244  Mr Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans are in place to ensure that a public discussion takes place on the Convention on the Future of Europe.

 (50032)

245  
N  
Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what changes have been made to the advice given to travellers to Israel since the outbreak of recent fighting; and what further changes to this advice are planned.

 (49040)

246  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he sought advice from HM ambassadors to (a) the Irish Republic and (b) Kazakhstan in connection with the takeover of Sidex by LNM/Ispat.

 (50455)

247  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 Nepal.

 (50440)

248  Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on progress towards peace in Sri Lanka.

 (50439)

249  Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance is being given to the Afghan interim administration in halting the drugs trade.

 (50514)

250  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authorities to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention and the UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 governing wartime and occupation.

 (48951)

251  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli Government to uphold the terms of the Geneva Convention with reference to (a) attacking civilian populations and (b) destroying objects indispensable to their survival.

 (48950)

252  
N  
David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions in the last two years applications for visitors' entry clearances have been given on the basis of the constituency honourable Members where the sponsor resides giving their word that the person would leave the UK at the end of the time permitted.

 (48798)

253  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what has been the total cost to public funds since 1st May 1997 from the work carried out, including consultation processes, on the future configuration of the ambulance service serving Sussex.

 (49278)

254  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Lewes of 11th March, Official Report, column 823W, on vaccines, what response she has received from (a) Glaxo Smith Kline and (b) the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control; and if she will place a copy of replies received in the Library.

 (49883)

255  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50409)

256  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 26th February, Official Report, column 1082W, regarding the square footage of the property that has been empty since July 2000, if the Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre in Birmingham is occupied and functioning.

 (50332)

257  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50296)

258  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50289)

259  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50312)

260  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 6th February, Official Report, column 1046W, regarding the cost and value of empty properties, if the property that has been empty since July 2000 is now occupied and being used by the National Health Service.

 (50337)

261  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 924W, on the running costs of his Ministers' private offices, for what reason those costs rose between 1997-98 and 2001-01.

 (50340)

262  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many post-operative home visits were made to patients in settlements with under 3000 people in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.

 (46452)

263  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients traveled by (a) bus, (b) train, (c) private transport and (d) other forms of transport to their (i) GP, (ii) dental and (iii) hospital appointment in (A) 1991, (B) 2000 and (C) 2001.

 (46455)

264  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many community hospitals there were in settlements with under 3000 people in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.

 (46456)

265  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing homes were located (a) within five, (b) five to 10, (c) 10 to 15 and (d) more than 15 kilometres from settlements with under 3,000 people in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2001.

 (46506)

266  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) general practitioners and (b) dentists were located (i) within five, (ii) five to 10, (iii) 10 to 15 and (iv) more than 15 kilometres from settlements with under 3,000 people in (A) 1999, (B) 2000 and (C) 2001.

 (46507)

267  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure the availability of sufficient residential and nursing home places for the elderly.

 (49924)

268  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the eligibility criteria for people with dementia towards help in meeting their costs should they require residential care; and if he will make a statement.

 (49925)

269  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the number of carers; and if he will make a statement.

 (49919)

270  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of support available to carers; and if he will make a statement.

 (49920)

271  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the number of children acting as carers; and if he will make a statement.

 (49917)

272  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support is available to young people acting as carers; and if he will make a statement.

 (49918)

273  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the numbers of people with myotonic dystrophy; and if he will make a statement.

 (49921)

274  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of research into the (a) causes and (b) treatment of myotonic dystrophy.

 (49922)

275  John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to promote wider use of conciliation in handling complaints against the NHS.

 (49941)

276  Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he plans to meet patient representatives of senior ophthalmologists to discuss the implications of preliminary NICE guidance on the use of photodynamic therapy to treat age-related macular degeneration.

 (49937)

277  Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance to intends to issue to health authorities regarding patients currently being treated on the NHS with photodynamic therapy; and if he will make a statement.

 (49936)

278  Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the preliminary NICE guidance on the use of photodynamic therapy to detect age-related macular degeneration, and if he will make a statement.

 (49935)

279  
N  
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he received Professor Temple's report on the modernisation of the Senior House Officer grade; and when he will publish it.

 (49788)

280  Mr Mark Hendrick (Preston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects NHS trusts in Lancashire to provide digital hearing aids; and if he will make a statement.

 (50541)

281  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the names and areas of residence of those people who formed the interviewing panel for the appointment of non-executive directors of the Warrington PCT.

 (48962)

282  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) local and (b) national bodies on the failure of the Warrington PCT to appoint a chief executive; and if he will make a statement.

 (48957)

283  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 17th January, if he will make a statement on whether the board membership of the Warrington PCT is considered to reflect the geographical area it serves.

 (48963)

284  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people from the (a) Warrington North and (b) Warrington South constituency applied for positions as non-executive directors of the Warrington PCT; and what percentage of applicants from each constituency were (i) interviewed and (ii) appointed.

 (48960)

285  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the number of applications for posts as non-executive directors of the Warrington PCT which were not acknowledged.

 (48961)

286  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Warrington PCT is taking to tackle health inequalities in Warrington; and if he will make a statement.

 (48959)

287  
N  
Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with board members of the Warrington PCT on their priorities for action; and if he will make a statement.

 (48958)

288  Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of X-ray plates exposed in the NHS in each of the last five years.

 (49987)

289  Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost to the NHS is of providing a patient with (a) a hearing test and (b) a digital hearing aid; and if he will make a statement.

 (49961)

290  
N  
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will reply to correspondence dated 26th November 2001, from the honourable Member for Leominster on behalf of a constituent, Mr Andrew P. Shaw, transferred from the Home Office in January.

 (48964)

291  
N  
Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 27th February, Official Report, column 1415W, on asylum seekers, what evaluation he has made of the protocols put in place by West Sussex Social Services Department and Sussex Police for tackling unaccompanied asylum seeking children in danger of being victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation; and what recommendations he has made for other local authorities to adopt these protocols.

 (48646)

292  Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has of the number of vehicles clamped in the last full year for which figures are available; what was the (a) total number and (b) monetary amount of fines levied; what proportion and what amount of the fines levied were collected; and if he will make a statement.

 (49908)

293  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many MI5 files have been destroyed in each year from 1997 to date; and if all those destroyed were classified as red.

 (49283)

294  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria have been applied to decide which M15 files should be subject to destruction; and what is the minimum period a file is no longer classified as (a) green and (b) amber before destruction is authorised.

 (49284)

295  Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what regulations govern private clamping companies.

 (49910)

296  Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the largest fine that could be imposed in respect of an uncollected vehicle, which had been towed away after it had been clamped, in each of the last five years.

 (49909)

297  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many files held by M15 have been destroyed subsequent to an application being made by the subject of a file for access under the Data Protection Act 1998.

 (49285)

298  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in relation to land vacated by Ministry of Defence Logistics at Bicester, what consultations have taken place with the providers of local services as to the extra demands that will be placed upon them by using this site as an accommodation centre for asylum seekers; if he will specify the organisations consulted; and if he will place copies of correspondence with the bodies concerned in the Library.

 (48944)

299  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the running of accommodation centres for asylum seekers will be contracted out to the private sector.

 (48941)

300  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether residents of accommodation centres for asylum seekers will be able to go to and fro as they wish.

 (48939)

301  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what sum his Department will transfer from its budget to the Ministry of Defence in respect of land vacated by the Ministry of Defence logistics at Bicester if such land is used by his Department as an accommodation centre for asylum seekers; and by whom, and how, such sums have been calculated.

 (48949)

302  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 7th February to the honourable Member for Mid Worcestershire, Official Report, column 1134W, on asylum accommodaton centres, for what reasons his Department is looking for sites for accommodation centres for asylum seekers beyond the South East of England.

 (48953)

303  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 11th February to the honourable Member for Mid Worcestershire, Official Report, column 57W, on asylum accommodation centres, what further sites his Department has identified through procurement competition as possible sites for accommodation centres for asylum seekers; and if he will specify the sites and the criteria used in their selection.

 (48952)

304  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in relation to land vacated by the Ministry of Defence logistics at Bicester, what consultations have taken place in the provision of local services as to the suitability of such a site for an accommodation centre for asylum seekers; if he will specify the organisations consulted; and if he will place copies of correspondence with the bodies concerned in the Library.

 (48945)

305  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 7th February to the honourable Member for Mid Worcestershire, Official Report, column 1134W, on asylum accommodation centres, what his definition is of the South East of England.

 (48954)

306  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people he expects to be employed at each accommodation centre for asylum seekers; and what estimate he has made of the salary costs of each centre.

 (48942)

307  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in relation to land vacated by Ministry of Defence Logistics at Bicester, what consultations (a) have taken and (b) will take place with members of the local community; and how consultation has been or will be carried out in respect of the proposal to establish an accommodation centre for asylum seekers on this land.

 (48943)

308  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in respect of the establishment of accommodation centres for asylum seekers, if there will be compensation payable to householders living nearby whose property may be reduced in value as a consequence of the setting up of such accommodation centres.

 (48935)

309  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who will be responsible for the administration and management of each accommodation centre for asylum seekers.

 (48940)

310  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often in the last three years, and for what purpose, his Department has applied the special urgency provisions in paragraph 22 of circular 18/84 (Development by government departments).

 (48948)

311  Mr Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue was generated through the sale of radio frequencies used by emergency services.

 (50508)

312  Mr Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to ensure that all vehicles and control rooms are refitted by 2004-05 in the (a) police forces and (b) fire services.

 (50507)

313  Mr Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is (a) the cost to date and (b) the projected cost of refitting vehicles and control rooms in the (i) police forces and (ii) fire services.

 (50506)

314  Mr Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the revenue generated by the sale of radio frequencies used by emergency services in the UK has been allocated for reinvestment into the refitting of vehicles and control rooms in the (a) police forces and (b) fire services.

 (50511)

315  Mr Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated to (a) the police forces and (b) the fire services to ensure that all vehicles and control rooms are refitted by 2004-05.

 (50509)

316  Mr Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for (a) fund allocation and (b) the refitting of control rooms and vehicles for (i) the police forces and (ii) the fire services.

 (50510)

317  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, columns 42-5W, on statutory instruments, what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of each of the statutory instruments listed.

 (50014)

318  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50292)

319  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 25th March, Official Report, column 595W, regarding the experience corps initiative, if the initiative has been launched.

 (50399)

320  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50413)

321  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50285)

322  Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the Government's response to the Halliday Report on sentencing.

 (49939)

323  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) independent custody visitors' groups and (b) lay observers' panels published annual reports in the last year; and if he will make a statement.

 (49980)

324  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners have been diagnosed as having a learning difficulty (a) while in prison and (b) prior to sentencing in the last 12 months.

 (49973)

325  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision is made to house young people leaving prison who are not able to return to the family home; and if he will make a statement.

 (49982)

326  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to improve links between prisons and voluntary sector organisations.

 (49979)

327  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the reason underlying the reduction in the key performance target for staff sickness, as published in the Prison Service Corporate Plan 2001-02 between 2000-01 and 2001-02.

 (49968)

328  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young people sent to prison in 2001 aged under 18 were held more than (a) 50 miles from home and (b) 100 miles from home.

 (49983)

329  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which prisons do not allow lay prison visitors access; and if he will make a statement.

 (49978)

330  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young people serving detention and training orders of eight months or more have been released early, broken down by institution in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

 (49977)

331  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent research he has commissioned into the work of prison visitors and voluntary associates.

 (49985)

332  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what offending behaviour programmes are available in each of the prisons holding juveniles; and what the programmes involve.

 (49975)

333  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young people aged under 18 have been released from prison with no fixed abode in each year since 1998; and from which prisons.

 (49981)

334  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of prisoners in UK prisons under 35 years old have also served time in young offenders prison.

 (49970)

335  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many detention and training orders were imposed in each month in 2001, broken down by age and length of order.

 (49969)

336  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children aged 18 were released on temporary licence during 2001, broken down by the purpose of the licence.

 (49976)

337  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of (a) prisoners and (b) re-offending prisoners in UK prisons were excluded from school while of school age.

 (49971)

338  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the key performance target is for the improvement of prisoners' basic literacy and numeracy skills in the financial year 2001-02.

 (49990)

339  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Prison Service's policy is on the evaluation and accreditation of psychological interventions for prisoners; and under what circumstances unevaluated projects are allowed to continue.

 (49989)

340  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications were made by juvenile prisoners to see the board of visitors in 2001, broken down by institution.

 (49974)

341  Mrs Annette L. Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what educational facilities are provided in each HM Prison in the UK to (a) diagnose and (b) treat prisoners who suffer from specific (i) psychological and (ii) educational disabilities, with particular reference to dyslexia and autism.

 (49972)

342  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his estimate is of the number of (a) residential and (b) nursing home places available to the elderly in each of the last three years.

 (49923)

343  Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy that adults working with vulnerable adults are police checked prior to commencing employment in this sector; and if he will make a statement.

 (49926)

344  Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his statement of 25th February, Official Report, column 441, on the Yarl's Wood fire, whether fatalities have been discovered since 25th February.

 (50018)

345  John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time for determination of applications for indefinite leave to remain in the UK on the basis of marriage was in the last 12 months.

 (49943)

346  
N  
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assaults by prisoners on (a) staff, (b) prisoners and (c) other people took place in prisons and resulted in a positive disciplinary adjudication in (i) 1996-97, (ii) 2000-01 and (iii) the period since 1st April 2001; how many prisoners and what percentage of the average prison population during each relevant period this represented; and if he will make a statement.

 (48801)

347  Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the contract to carry out forced removals of asylum seekers whose applications have been refused.

 (49966)

348  Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers from Zimbabwe have been turned back at point of entry since 15th January.

 (49967)

349  Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the measures introduced by road hauliers to check for on-board illegal immigrants prior to cross-Channel ferry embarkation to the United Kingdom.

 (49934)

350  Mr Oliver Letwin (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal entrants were detained when entering the UK by truck through Dover in each quarter of 2001.

 (49933)

351  Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the current average time taken to process a written application for a visa under the au pair scheme in the last 12 months.

 (50034)

352  Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Immigration and Nationality Directorate received the application from Mrs F. N. M., a Jamaican national living in Aylesbury, for leave to remain in the United Kingdom as the wife of a person with indefinite leave to remain (ref M1005958); when he intends to notify the applicant of his decision; and if he will make a statement.

 (50039)

353  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the number of recorded offences for (a) begging, (b) breaching an anti-social behaviour order, (c) vagrancy, (d) noise, (e) drunkenness, (f) drunkenness with aggravation, (g) aggravated vehicle taking, (h) rowdy and disorderly group behaviour in public and (i) driving while having a breath/urine/blood alcohol concentration in excess of the prescribed limit, broken down by police force area, in each year since 1997.

 (49787)

354  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the potential use of illegal meat imports as a vehicle for bio-terrorism.

 (50441)

355  Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the hunger strike by asylum seekers at Dungavel detention centre.

 (50513)

356  Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children are detained at his Department's Dungavel centre; how many of that number have special needs as a result of disability or health problems; and what level of education and healthcare is provided for these children.

 (50438)

357  Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his assessment of the management of the Dungavel detention centre in Scotland.

 (50436)

358  Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what medical care is available to asylum seekers detained at the Dungavel centre.

 (50437)

359  David Wright (Telford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals, by club, who purport to support English Nationwide and Premier League football teams are classified as football hooligans within Home Office categories.

 (49931)

360  David Wright (Telford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance he gives on policing Football League games in England.

 (49932)

361  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50420)

362  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which of the services of her Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50321)

363  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50305)

364  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50281)

365  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 887W, on correspondence, for what reasons 13 per cent. of letters from honourable Members and 10 per cent. of letters from members of the public were not answered within the target period.

 (50342)

366  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 888W, on creche facilities, what the costs are of the holiday playschemes at East Kilbride and London.

 (50423)

367  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 872W, on the New Deal, how many people employed on the scheme in each of the last four years have subsequently found subsidised employment for more than 13 weeks.

 (50424)

368  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 872W, on the New Deal for Young People, how many people have been employed by her Department under the scheme in each of the last four years.

 (50425)

369  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 6th March, Official Report, column 341W, on catering services, for what reason there were increases from 1999 to 2000 of £44,767\18 and £6,935\57 in the costs of in-house canteen services and catering services, respectively.

 (50512)

370  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much overseas aid has been provided by her Department to Egypt in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

 (48777)

371  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to increase the provision of overseas aid to Egypt; and if she will make a statement.

 (48778)

372  Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects in the West Bank and Gaza have received financial support from her Department during the last five years.

 (49912)

373  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has made to the Government of Israel regarding the obstruction of humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

 (48969)

374  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of UK aid to the occupied territories; and how she intends to increase the effectiveness of her Department's spending in the occupied territories.

 (48972)

375  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on her assessment of the security of UK aid workers in each country in the Middle East.

 (48973)

376  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the humanitarian situation within Palestinian refugee camps; what assistance her Department provides to the refugee camps; and if she intends to increase aid to the refugee camps.

 (48966)

377  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much UK aid to Israel and the Palestinian territories has been obstructed by (a) Israel and (b) Palestinians during the recent violence in the Middle East.

 (48967)

378  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to what extent the humanitarian needs of the Palestinians have increased during the recent violence between Israel and the Palestinians; and if she intends to change her aid policy to Palestinian territories.

 (48965)

379  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assurances she has received from the Government of Israel regarding the safety of UK aid workers in the occupied territories.

 (48970)

380  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when she last had discussions with the Palestinian Authority regarding the humanitarian consquences of terrorist attacks on Israel; and when she next intends to do so.

 (48968)

381  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what guidance she issues to UK air workers in Israel and the occupied territories.

 (48971)

382  
N  
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she has made an assessment of the water shortage problems in the Palestinian refugee camps.

 (48974)

383  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment has been made of the recent damage to the water supply pipelines in (a) Ramallah, (b) Qalqilya, (c) Bethlehem, (d) Tulkarm and (e) Nablus.

 (48800)

384  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the money committed to the reconstruction of Afghanistan over the next two years in Tokyo has been contributed to UN agencies working on the ground in Afghanistan, broken down by (a) agency and (b) amount.

 (48760)

385  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the Andhra Pradesh Government on ensuring that the impact on food security for the population of Andhra Pradesh of strategies developed under the Government's Vision 2020 strategy is taken into account; and if she will make a statement.

 (48764)

386  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the multi-lateral institutions regarding the development of a PRSP for Afghanistan.

 (48794)

387  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the money committed to the reconstruction of Afghanistan over the next two years at Tokyo will be invested in the long-term funding of a civilian police force and judicial system.

 (48762)

388  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the Andhra Pradesh Government on ensuring that the poorest citizens of Andhra Pradesh benefit from the strategies developed under the Government's Vision 2020 strategy; and if she will make a statement.

 (48767)

389  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment has been made of the damage to the emergency water and sanitation programme in the West Bank by recent Israeli action; and what is the (a) estimated cost of this damage and (b) estimated number of beneficiaries affected.

 (48773)

390  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the money committed to the reconstruction of Afghanistan over the next two years at Tokyo will be invested in (a) police training programmes and (b) demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration of ex-combatants programmes.

 (48761)

391  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the Andhra Pradesh Government regarding the consolidation of farms and the impact of the reduction in number of farms on the population of Andhra Pradesh; and if she will make a statement.

 (48765)

392  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the Andhra Pradesh Government on ensuring that the environmental impact of strategies developed under the Government's Vision 2020 strategy are taken into account; and if she will make a statement.

 (48763)

393  
N  
Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations have been made to the Israeli Government to allow entry of relief consignments and facilitate their transport into the Occupied Territories.

 (48793)

394  Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what his duties are in relation to Royal issues.

 (49938)

395  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50309)

396  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50280)

397  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50293)

398  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50421)

399  Mr John McWilliam (Blaydon): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, under what circumstances the Land Registry is permitted to change the registered boundaries of land registered with it in the absence of supporting records or court decisions.

 (50015)

400  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what plans he has to initiate an inquiry into the problems associated with the 1901 on-line census.

 (50442)

401  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what contingency plans exist in the Public Records Office to keep the 1901 census on-line in the event of financial failure at QinetiQ.

 (50532)

402  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, which company was used to measure the capacity and size of system needed to manage the number of visitors to the 1901 on-line census.

 (50535)

403  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what criteria were used to evaluate the ability of QinetiQ to deliver the 1901 on-line census.

 (50537)

404  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what evaluation was done to assess the use of the 1901 on-line census; and if rationing of initial access occurred.

 (50536)

405  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what steps are being taken to rectify the problems associated with the 1901 on-line census.

 (50534)

406  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what criteria will be used to assess the viability of companies who will be awarded contracts for the 1891 Census On-line.

 (50533)

407  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many private finance initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50390)

408  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50405)

409  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, column 579W, on job advertisements, what the outcome was of the advertisements placed in each case; and how many more have joined his Department's payroll as a result.

 (50554)

410  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, column 60W, regarding the costs of in-house canteen and other catering services provided by his Department, for what reasons there (a) was an increase from 1998-99 to 1999-2000 in in-house canteen and other catering expenditure and (b) is an estimated decrease from
2000-01 to 2001-02.

 (50555)

411  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50299)

412  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, column 57W, regarding the cost of empty properties, if his Department has owned properties in the last four years that have been empty.

 (50548)

413  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50308)

414  
N  
David Burnside (South Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the present status of the Provisional IRA ceasefire in relation to the theft of intelligence information from PSNI Special Branch at Castlereagh police station.

 (48766)

415  
N  
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) action he took and (b) press statements he issued to mark the fourth anniversary of the Belfast Agreement.

 (49039)

416  
N  
Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the (a) length of employment within a police establishment and (b) security vetting of the former chef who was recently arrested in the United States in relation to the breach of national security at Castlereagh police station.

 (48986)

417  The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many mobile phone related crimes were reported in Belfast from March 2001 to March 2002.

 (49901)

418  The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many incidents of (a) theft, (b) robbery and (c) shoplifting in Belfast city centre were reported over the period March 2001 to March 2002.

 (49899)

419  The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on recent action in Belfast to implement strategies in place in UK city centres on combating crime, with special reference to theft in Belfast city centre.

 (49898)

420  The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of people arrested in Belfast between (a) July and December 2001 and (b) January and March 2002 were known or suspected users of illegal substances.

 (49902)

421  The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of those arrested for offences related to mobile phones from March 2001 to March 2002 were aged (a) under 18, (b) between 18 to 25 and (c) over 25 years.

 (49900)

422  
N  
Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask the President of the Council, what representations he has received on the exemption of honourable Members from the proposed congestion charge for vehicles entering Central London.

 (48799)

423  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if his policy permits the employment of special advisors who have non-domicile tax status.

 (49276)

424  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, what was the value of hospitality provided to him by the Egyptian Government on his recent visit to Egypt; what charities in Egypt were the recipients of his charitable donations; and what was the value of those donations.

 (49275)

425  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement the rules which apply to the pursuit of outside interests by special advisers and the accountability thereof.

 (49885)

426  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list those persons who accompanied him on his recent trip to Texas other than Ministers, civil servants, journalists and special advisers; and in each case, specify whose costs were met in whole or part from public funds.

 (48955)

427  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will review the rules relating to the allowable financial interests of specialist advisers.

 (49274)

428  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will take steps to ensure members of the House of Lords who (a) hold ministerial office and (b) are employed as special advisers agree to give evidence to select committees of the House.

 (49886)

429  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, what factors led him to conclude that it was appropriate to accept free tickets for the internal aeroplane flight he made from Cairo to Sharm-el-Sheikh.

 (49277)

430  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Prime Minister, on what date he was informed of the commercial arrangements between Lord Levy and Westfield.

 (48985)

431  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Prime Minister, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Office; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50408)

432  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, which foreign Heads of State and Government have informed Her Majesty's Government of personal donations to UK charities following visits to the United Kingdom and discussions with the Prime Minister since 1997.

 (48768)

433  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, if the provision of free travel and accommodation by the Egyptian President to the UK Prime Minister is a reciprocal arrangement.

 (48782)

434  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, if he sought advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before accepting the offer of travel and accommodation from the Egyptian Government.

 (48774)

435  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will include in the Ministerial Code of Conduct a requirement for Ministers to publish the value of gifts in kind provided by overseas governments.

 (48771)

436  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, which foreign Heads of State have accepted free travel and accommodation within the United Kingdom from the UK Government since May 1997.

 (48776)

437  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, whether his Chief of Staff arranged the travel and accommodation details of his visit to Egypt in December 2001.

 (48781)

438  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, what the value was of the facilities provided to him and his family by the Egyptian Government in December 2001, broken down by (a) cost of hotel accommodation, (b) cost of travel and (c) cost of exclusive access to tourist sites.

 (48770)

439  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will refer the subject of travel and accommodation allowances for the Prime Minister to the (a) Senior Salaries Review Board and (b) Committee on Standards in Public Life.

 (48775)

440  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, if he discussed (a) human rights in Egypt, (b) progress towards democracy in Egypt and (c) the state of social inequality in Egypt with President Mubarak in December 2001.

 (48779)

441  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, when his meeting with the President of Egypt in December 2001 was arranged.

 (48772)

442  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, if he discussed (a) UK and (b) EU overseas aid programmes to Egypt during his meeting with President Mubarak in December 2001.

 (48780)

443  
N  
Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask the Prime Minister, on how many occasions since 1997 he has accepted free travel and accommodation from overseas governments.

 (48783)

444  
N  
Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Prime Minister, what assurances he has given to the Prime Minister of New Zealand about the length of time that young citizens of that country can work in the UK before returning home.

 (49298)

445  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Prime Minister, what initiatives he has taken since January 2001 to persuade British companies to invest in Romania; and how many letters he has written for this purpose which were published in the United Kingdom.

 (50463)

446  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if she will list by local authority the level of (a) rent and (b) council tax arrears in each year since 1993 in Scotland.

 (50331)

447  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50402)

448  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50306)

449  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many private finance initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50391)

450  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to her Answer of 7th March, Official Report, column 512W, on statutory instruments, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of each of the statutory instruments listed.

 (50400)

451  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which of the services of her Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50323)

452  Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps she will take to protect Clydesdale Bank staff whose jobs are threatened by plans to cut the European workforce of National Australia Bank

 (50515)

453  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to her Answer of 11th February, Official Report, column 1112W, on mobile phones, how many staff of the Crown Prosecution Service were provided with mobile telephones and other associated equipment in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000, (c) 2000-01 and (d) 2001-02.

 (50552)

454  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, how many private finance initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50559)

455  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50556)

456  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, which of the services of her Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50318)

457  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50422)

458  Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much has been paid to date to each of the top 10 claims handlers involved in the compensation claims for (a) chronic bronchitis and emphysema and (b) vibration white finger of former coalminers.

 (50526)

459  Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much has been paid to claimants through each of the top 10 claims handlers involved in the compensation claims for (a) chronic bronchitis and emphysema and (b) vibration white finger of former coalminers.

 (50525)

460  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50090)

461  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 793W, on publicity expenditure, how much money her Department has spent on advertising since May 1997.

 (50396)

462  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50269)

463  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Commencement No. 8) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50204)

464  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Utilities Act 2000 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50255)

465  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commemcement No.2) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50091)

466  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50101)

467  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Commission (Register) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50094)

468  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Competition Act 1998 (Section 11 Exemption) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50107)

469  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 (Electronic Communications) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50110)

470  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Gas (Connection Charges) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50256)

471  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Midlands Electricity Plc) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50236)

472  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Dismissal Procedures Agreement Designation (Electrical Contracting Industry) Order 1991 Revocation Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50264)

473  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Verizon Global Solutions UK Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50113)

474  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which of the services of her Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50319)

475  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Conservation of Habits) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50263)

476  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50238)

477  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Patents (Amendment) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50271)

478  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50266)

479  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity from Non-Fossil Fuel Sources (Locational Flexibility) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50243)

480  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Fossil Fuel Levy (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50252)

481  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Nextlink UK Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50194)

482  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity Act 1989 (Commencement No. 3) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50250)

483  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Tribunals (Increase of Maximum Deposit) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50099)

484  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity from Non-Fossil Fuel Sources Saving Arrangements (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50254)

485  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the ACAS Arbitration Scheme (England and Wales) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50206)

486  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Limited Liability Partnerships Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50217)

487  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Merger Report (Interview SA and Bass Plc) (Interim Provision) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50096)

488  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Utilities Act 2000 (Transitional Provisons) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50089)

489  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Fibreway Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50191)

490  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Competition Act 1998 (Public Transport Ticketing Schemes Block Exemption); and if she will make a statement.

 (50095)

491  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50260)

492  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Telecommunications (Licence Modifications) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50198)

493  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Williams Communications UK Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50187)

494  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity (Unmetered Supply) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50259)

495  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Supply, sale and Export of Petroleum and Petroleum Products) (Revocation) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50104)

496  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Batteries and Accumulators (Containing Dangerous Substances) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50197)

497  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Registered Designs Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50231)

498  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (First Mark Carrier (UK) Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50195)

499  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Fossil Fuel Levy (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50277)

500  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Partnerships (Unrestricted Size) No. 17 Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50199)

501  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Offshore Combustion Installations (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50214)

502  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Companies (Disqualification Orders) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50216)

503  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50274)

504  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvent Companies (Reports on Conduct of Directors) (Amendment) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50226)

505  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50234)

506  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Dual-Use Items (Export Control) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50273)

507  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50205)

508  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Limited Liability Partnerships (Fees) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50092)

509  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50225)

510  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Maternity and Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50237)

511  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50209)

512  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity from Non-Fossil Fuel Sources (Scotland) Saving Arrangements Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50249)

513  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Company and Business Names (Chamber of Commerce Etc.) Act 1999 (Commencement) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50098)

514  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Scotland); and if she will make a statement.

 (50208)

515  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the external organisations set up by her as part of the Government's strategy to combat climate change indicating (a) their remits and (b) their sources of funding.

 (50447)

516  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Utilities Act 2000 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50261)

517  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50211)

518  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Post Office Company (Nomination and Appointed Day) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50201)

519  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50246)

520  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50200)

521  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Carrier 1 UK Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50186)

522  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Stop Now Orders (E C Directive) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50270)

523  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity (Class Exemptions) from the Requirement for a Licence Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50253)

524  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (SSE Telecommunications Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50241)

525  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Sprintlink UK Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50235)

526  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50227)

527  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications to Local Enactments No. 1); and if she will make a statement.

 (50088)

528  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Limited Liability Partnerships (Welsh Language Forums) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50108)

529  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Determination of Turnover for Penalties) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50210)

530  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Export of Goods (Control) (Amendment No.2) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50106)

531  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Foreign Package Holidays (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50196)

532  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50284)

533  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50103)

534  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Broadnet UK Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50185)

535  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (GTS Network (Ireland) Ltd) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50193)

536  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Merger (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50202)

537  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Rgulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50207)

538  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone Company Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50192)

539  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50268)

540  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity Act 1989 (Requirement of Consent for Offshore Wind and Water Driven Generating Stations) (England and Wales) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50245)

541  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50203)

542  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50212)

543  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Companies (Unregistered Companies) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50100)

544  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Measuring Equipment (Cold-Water Meters) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50275)

545  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in her Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50417)

546  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50303)

547  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Units of Measurement Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50102)

548  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50229)

549  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (-E Tel) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50244)

550  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Sub-Post Office Start-Up Capital Subsidy Scheme Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50112)

551  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Wireless Telegraphy (Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Licences) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50105)

552  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Partnership (Unrestricted Size) No.16 Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50272)

553  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50111)

554  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Energis Local Access Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50189)

555  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvent Companies (Reports on Conduct of Directors) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50221)

556  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50219)

557  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Telecommunications Meters (Approval Fees) (BABT) (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50188)

558  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Limited Liability Partnership (Fees) (No.2) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50215)

559  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc.) (Modification) (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50220)

560  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvency Act 2000 (Commencement No. 2) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50265)

561  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50276)

562  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Disclosure of Information) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50251)

563  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvent Partnerships (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50222)

564  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Eigernet Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50239)

565  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Alpha Telecom Communications Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50242)

566  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the GAS (Applications for Licences and Extensions and Restrictions of Licences) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50248)

567  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50257)

568  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Utilities Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Amendment Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50262)

569  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Electricity (Applications for Licences and Extensions and Restrictions of Licences) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50247)

570  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvency Fees (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50228)

571  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the EC Competition Law (Articles 84 and 85) Enforcement Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50109)

572  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Utilities Act 2000 (Transitional Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50258)

573  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Commencement No. 8) (Amendment) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50267)

574  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50232)

575  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Company and Business Names (Amendment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50097)

576  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Universal (Access UK Limited) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50114)

577  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Registered Designs (Fees) (Amendment) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50233)

578  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Part-time Workers (Prevention of less Favourable Treatment) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50213)

579  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Public Telecommunication System Designation (ntl Group Ltd) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50190)

580  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insurers (Winding Up) (Scotland) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50230)

581  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvent Companies (Disqualification of Unfit Directors) Proceedings (Amendment) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50224)

582  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Companies (EU Political Expenditure) Exemption Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50093)

583  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Insolvency Act 2000 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order; and if she will make a statement.

 (50223)

584  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Limited Liability Partnerships (Forms) Regulations; and if she will make a statement.

 (50218)

585  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules; and if she will make a statement.

 (50240)

586  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her Answer of 26th February, Official Report, column 117W, regarding the cost of rail travel by Department staff, how many staff undertook the first class rail journeys in 2001.

 (50326)

587  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 795W, on departmental events, how many such events have taken place on departmental premises in each of the last four years; and at what cost to public funds.

 (50395)

588  
N  
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what advice will be given to customers of post offices which are expected to be closed in the restructuring of Post Office Counters networks in respect of where they will be able to receive post office counter services; and if she will make a statement.

 (48796)

589  
N  
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the post offices which are expected to be closed in the restructuring of Post Office Counters networks stating in each case (a) the number of redundancies expected in each case, (b) the cost to her Department of redundancy payments and (c) the expected savings to her Department from the closures broken down by (i) region and (ii) constituency; and if she will make a statement.

 (48797)

590  John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether her Department has had talks with the Dutch postal company TPG in the past year.

 (49945)

591  John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many agency workers have been involved in delivering mail for the Royal Mail in the past year.

 (49946)

592  John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many cases of missing contents from post were recorded by the Royal Mail in the last year; of these, how many were investigated; and how many prosecutions were instigated.

 (49944)

593  Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the national minimum wage.

 (49988)

594  Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many SMEs are operating in Barnsley East and Mexborough.

 (49986)

595  Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps she is taking to control the activities of businesses which represent themselves as public agencies enforcing the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998.

 (49903)

596  Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with highway authorities to ensure that contractors accessing pylons under construction are not endangering road bridges over railways.

 (50031)

597  Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether she sought advice from HM ambassadors to (a) the Irish Republic and (b) Kazakhstan in connection with the takeover of Sidex by LNM/Ispat.

 (50454)

598  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had at EU level on the proposed EU energy tax; and if she will make a statement.

 (50444)

599  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures her Department has taken since 1997 to encourage energy efficiency in (a) the domestic sector, (b) the commercial sector, (c) the industrial sector and (d) the public sector; and how much government financial support has been made available.

 (50435)

600  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate her Department has made of the cost in (a) discounted terms and (b) undiscounted terms of making radioactive waste safe, prior to a long-term solution being found at the BNFL owned Sellafield site and other BNFL owned sites.

 (50430)

601  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list companies and organisations taking part in the United Kingdom's greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme.

 (50431)

602  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much direct government funding has been made available to the renewables sector in the last financial year and the following year for (a) research and development, (b) capital investment and (c) revenue support; and to which projects it will be allocated.

 (50434)

603  Mr Bill Tynan (Hamilton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what her Department is doing to encourage UK builders to apply for a construction Quality Mark.

 (50012)

604  Mr Bill Tynan (Hamilton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what her Department is doing to make the public aware of the construction Quality Mark.

 (50013)

605  
N  
Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, whether the Planning Minister was informed of the financial arrangement in place between Lord Levy and Westfield when he agreed to meet the latter.

 (49884)

606  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what matters he takes into consideration when deciding whether to rely on written representations or to institute a non-statutory public inquiry when determining a referral to his Department pursuant to the arrangements set out in Part IV of the memorandum attached to DOE circular 18/84.

 (48937)

607  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how often in the last three years, and for what purpose, his Department has applied the special urgency provisions in paragraph 22 of Circular 18/84 (Development by government departments).

 (48947)

608  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in the last three years, how many developments have been referred for his determination pursuant to the arrangements set out in Part IV of the memorandum attached to DOE circular 18/84; and in respect of these referrals, how many he has decided (a) pursuant to written representations and (b) following a non-statutory public inquiry.

 (48938)

609  
N  
Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when instituting a non-statutory public inquiry pursuant to the arrangements set out in Part IV of the memorandum attached to DOE circular 18/84, what format he would expect such an inquiry to take; and if he would expect providers of local services and members of the local community to be able to give evidence.

 (48936)

610  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50290)

611  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50313)

612  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, column 84W, regarding rent and council tax arrears in England and Wales, for what reason his Department does not provide information on council tax arrears by local authority in England.

 (50329)

613  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50297)

614  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50407)

615  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 983W, on target times for correspondence, in what proportion of cases in 2001-02 letters from (a) honourable Members and (b) members of the public were answered within 15 working days.

 (50339)

616  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 4th March, Official Report, column 84W, regarding equipment leasing arrangements, what the total cost has been of equipment leasing arrangements entered into by his Department in the last four years.

 (50328)

617  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 9848W, on the New Deal for Young People, what information he collates on the subsequent destinations of people who were employed by his Department under the scheme.

 (50338)

618  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 984W, regarding creche facilities, when the review of childcare provision in his Department will be concluded; and when its recommendations will be announced.

 (50398)

619  Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans the Government has for the role of the London Development Agency in promoting a model of economic growth that would discourage further in-migration from (a) the regions of the UK and (b) overseas into London.

 (50051)

620  Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what recent assessment the Government has made of the number of new dwellings needed in London and the South East to satisfy the need for affordable housing over the next 10 years.

 (50049)

621  
N  
Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has to reduce the incidence of rough sleeping in rural settlements with populations under 3000; and if he will make a statement.

 (46454)

622  
N  
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what rules govern meetings between Ministers and honourable Members on planning issues awaiting decision.

 (48784)

623  
N  
Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when his Department will approve interactive speed signs for general use by highways authorities.

 (48792)

624  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the status of the 100 new bypasses outlined in the 10-year Transport Plan; and if he will list the (a) start and (b) completion date for each.

 (50042)

625  Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when each of the modal studies proposed in the 10-year Transport Plan will be (a) completed and (b) published.

 (50041)

626  Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green & Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what recent representations he has received on the incidence of commercial property companies offering local authority tenants a cash incentive to exercise the right to buy their home; and if he will make a statement.

 (49915)

627  Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green & Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many council properties were sold under the right to buy in each year since 1980.

 (49913)

628  Ms Oona King (Bethnal Green & Bow): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) published on the right to buy scheme since 1st May 1997.

 (49914)

629  Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what proposals he has to reduce congestion on the northbound carriageway of the M1 Motorway at its junction with the M25.

 (49940)

630  Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what steps he is taking to encourage the provision of services facilitating the carriage of passengers or goods by rail from Scotland to the Continent by way of the Channel Tunnel, pursuant to the provisions of the Transport Act 2000.

 (49960)

631  Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the provisions of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 concerning regional passenger services are put into effect.

 (49959)

632  Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will take steps to ensure mobile telephone masts should receive positive planning permission, regardless of their height.

 (50030)

633  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when and where the recent DTLR Multi Modal Study infrastructure charging seminar took place; and who attended it.

 (49462)

634  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what is the average length of time per day, in hours per car, that cars are stationary on each road of the trunk road network.

 (50517)

635  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 982W, if he will pubish an itemised list of his engagements since 8th October 2001.

 (49887)

636  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what funding will be available to local authorities in order to help them to implement the new duties imposed on them by the Homelessness Act 2002 and the Priority Needs Order.

 (50528)

637  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the estimated tax revenues are that would be generated if the road charging proposals in the DTLR Multi Modal Study Infrastructure charging seminar summary papers were introduced.

 (49465)

638  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how much the Ten Year Transport Plan estimates will be raised in (a) congestion/road charging schemes and (b) workplace parking charge schemes over the period of the plan.

 (49464)

639  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what environmental targets have been set by the EU with regard to transport provision in the UK over the course of the 10 year plan.

 (50522)

640  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will place a copy of the railway administrators' six month progress report in the Library.

 (49458)

641  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what assessment has been made of progress towards the environmental targets set as part of the 10 year plan; and if he will place it in the Library.

 (50521)

642  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 982W, how many members of staff have been the subject of disciplinary action as a result of the internal leak inquiry.

 (49789)

643  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the estimated environmental cost is to each lcoal authority arising from meeting the house-building targets.

 (50519)

644  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what representations he has received from (a) Govia, (b) the SRA, (c) Railtrack plc and its administrators and (d) Network Rail, with respect to the SPV being developed by Govia to upgrade infrastructure around London and the south coast.

 (49459)

645  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 986W, if Ian Jones is (a) still employed by his Department, (b) still suspended on full pay and (c) the subject of disciplinary action.

 (49792)

646  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what assessment was made of congestion levels in each region when determining house-building targets; and what influence this had on the final targets.

 (50518)

647  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list the dates on which he or officials from his Department have met representatives of Railtrack shareholders since 8th October 2001.

 (49790)

648  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what new money has been made available to help combat homelessness following the publication of the report 'More than a roof'.

 (50527)

649  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, at what time the Multi Modal Study Infrastructure charging seminar summary papers were published on the DTLR website on 9th April.

 (49461)

650  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what environmental targets have been set as part of the 10 year transport plan.

 (50520)

651  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what factors underlay the decision to publish the Multi Modal Study Infrastructure charging seminar summary papers on 9th April.

 (49463)

652  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will publish the list of local authorities that (a) are planning to introduce congestion or workplace parking taxes and (b) have expressed interest in introducing such taxes.

 (49460)

653  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the average road speed is on each trunk road in the UK in (a) the rush hour, (b) non rush hour periods, (c) over the course of a week, (d) over the course of a whole week day and (e) over the course of the weekend.

 (50516)

654  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will deposit in the Library the complete versions of the DTLR Multi Modal Study Infrastructure charging seminar papers.

 (49466)

655  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will deposit copies of the responses to the Planning Green Paper in the Library.

 (49889)

656  Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what funding will be available to the National Homelessness Directorate over the next three years; and how much money will go to (a) the BBU, (b) the RSU and (c) the Hostels Inspectorate.

 (50529)

657  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list those organisations consulted by his Department prior to the agreement of a grant to Network Rail for bringing Railtrack out of administration early.

 (49791)

658  
N  
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, column 979W, if he will publish a list of the organisations and local authorities which have or are due to receive funding under the Starter Homes Initiative.

 (49888)

659  Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what the terms of reference are for the review of planning regulations relating to satellite dish installations referred to in the Government's Broadband Strategy; when the review began; and when it will report.

 (49963)

660  Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what assessment has been made of the impact of the inconsistency between planning regulations for satellite dishes and planning regulations for terrestrial television aerials on the availability of digital satellite television and broadband satellite services in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) areas where digital terrestrial television services are unavailable.

 (49965)

661  Mr Bill Olner (Nuneaton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what input the review of planning regulations relating to satellite dish installations will seek from (a) devolved institutions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and (b) regional development agencies.

 (49964)

662  Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, whether the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has sole responsibility for drafting and presentation of certificates of registry; and which office within the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has authority to draft certificates of registry.

 (49962)

663  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list by local authority the level of (a) rent and (b) council tax arrears in each year since 1993 in Wales.

 (50330)

664  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50310)

665  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50557)

666  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many private finance initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50558)

667  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost in 2001-02 was of the pay increase to staff in his Department, agencies and the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and what the cost of the forthcoming increase will be in 2002-03.

 (50411)

668  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Private Finance Initiative projects have been subject to refinancing after the contracts have been signed; and what has been the financial effect in each case.

 (50287)

669  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which of the services of his Department have not been reviewed under the Better Quality Services Initiative; and when they will be reviewed.

 (50316)

670  Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what have been the total salary costs of each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in each of the last five years.

 (50300)

671  
N  
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the policy of his Department is regarding recruitment and employment of people over 55.

 (48703)

672  
N  
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of those employed in benefit offices are over 55.

 (48705)

673  
N  
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the policy of the Benefits Office is regarding the employment and recruitment of people over 55.

 (48704)

674  
N  
Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Benefit Office employees recruited within the last 12 months have been over 55.

 (48706)

675  
N  
Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to tackle poverty among disabled people.

 (45040)

676  
N  
Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what has been the (a) budget and (b) outturn of (i) the community care grant budget and (ii) the loans budget, in (1) cash and (2) real terms in each year since 1997.

 (48642)

677  
N  
Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Social Fund loans have been (a) refused, (b) fully awarded and (c) partially awarded yearly since 1997.

 (48644)

678  
N  
Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether those entitled to disability living allowance lower rate mobility component, but not the care component, who are also in receipt of disability premium in income support, will lose the latter entitlement if no longer eligible for the lower rate mobility component; and how many people are in receipt of the disability premium in income support solely as a result of entitlement to lower rate mobility component of DLA.

 (48640)

679  
N  
Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for alignment payments from the Social Fund have been received each month since January 2001; and what proportion were (a) refused, (b) fully awarded and (c) partially awarded.

 (48643)

680  
N  
Mr Archy Kirkwood (Roxburgh & Berwickshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of applications for community care grants have been given a priority of medium or high; and how many applications regarded as of high or medium priority have been (a) fully awarded, (b) partially awarded and (c) not awarded in each year since 1997.

 (48645)

681  Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what means Employment Services assess the costs required to provide different kinds of training in allocating funds to New Deal for Young People training providers.

 (49957)

682  Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the implementation of formula funding on the general level of funds available to training providers.

 (49958)

683  Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Northavon of 29th January, Official Report, column 261W, how many households are estimated to be eligible for one or more of (a) pension credit, (b) housing benefit, (c) council tax benefit, (d) child tax credit, (e) working tax credit, (f) income support and (g) income-based jobseeker's allowance.

 (50429)

684  Mr David Willetts (Havant): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-compliant pension schemes have been named by the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority, broken down by the different types of offence.

 (50036)

685  Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Minister for Women, what progress she has made towards increasing the number of women holding public appointments.

 (50530)

686  John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he expects to publish the final version of the Planning Policy Guidance Note 17.

 [Transferred]   (49942)

687  Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects in the West Bank and Gaza have received financial support from the European Union during the last five years.

 [Transferred]   (49911)

688  Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans his Department has to put on-line the registration of births, marriages and deaths.

 [Transferred]   (50531)

689  Mr Chris Pond (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her estimate is of the public cost associated with the collision of the Sand Lite with the Thames Barrier.

 [Transferred]   (49916)

690  Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the external organisations set up by her as part of the Government's strategy to combat climate changes indicating (a) their remits and (b) their sources at funding.

 [Transferred]   (50448)



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