TUESDAY 22nd OCTOBER
1
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he expects to publish a review of London housing strategy. |
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2
N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress has been made by the Affordable Housing Unit towards its remit to work with partners and stakeholders to increase significantly the supply of affordable housing in high demand areas. |
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3
N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when (a) he and (b) other ministers from his Department have attended meetings of the Affordable Housing Unit. |
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4
N | Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when the Affordable Housing Unit will make a progress report on its remit to work with partners and stakeholders to increase significantly the supply of affordable housing in high demand areas. |
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5
N | Mr Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent on Lottery tickets, broken down by constituency, since 1999. |
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6
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussion he has had with the Indonesian military forces during the past year; and if he will make a statement. |
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| 7 | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the possibility of France joining in the United Kingdom aircraft carrier programme will be a factor to be taken into account in the decision to award the contract. |
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| 8 | Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions ministers and officials have had with the French Government about French participation in the United Kingdom aircraft carrier programme. |
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9
N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the equipment and systems procured for Watchkeeper will conform to the proposed NATO STANAG 4586. |
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10
N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the successful bidders for the Assessment Phase of Watchkeeper will be announced. |
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11
N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what annual targets he sets for the establishment strength of the Armed Forces with specific targets for different age brackets; and if he will make a statement. |
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12
N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) the Royal Air Force were aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18 to 19, (iii) 20 to 24, (iv) 25 to 29, (v) 30 to 34, (vi) 35 to 39, (vii) 40 to 44, (viii) 45 to 49 and (ix) 50 years and over on 1st April each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. |
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13
N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department (a) has and (b) has had a policy of trying to alter the number of members of the Armed Forces within specific age groups; and if he will make a statement. |
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14
N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recruitment and retention targets his Department sets for specific age brackets within the Armed Forces; and if he will make a statement. |
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15
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what has been the average pay rise for civil servants in his Department over each of the last five years; and what pay rises have been approved for each of the years (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05 and (d) 2005-06; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75716)
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16
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what preparatory work has been carried out within his Department to facilitate the deployment of the UK armed forces in the event of a war with Iraq; and if he will make a statement. |
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17
N | David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures he takes to ensure that the Iraqi regime is not able to purchase indirectly British arms from the arms fair in Oman; and if he will make a statement. |
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18
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Trafford which have been awarded Beacon status. |
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19
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the grammar schools which have been awarded Beacon status, giving the local authority area in each case. |
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20
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what her estimate of the drop-out rate at each English university for the last year for which figures are available is; and if she will make a statement. |
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21
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will estimate for the latest year for which information is available the total amount not devolved by each local education authority to its schools; and if she will estimate in each case the amount of money spent by the LEA on its staff and other overheads and administration costs. |
| | (76160)
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22
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer to the honourable Member for the Isle of Wight of 15th October, Official Report, column 218, (a) whether there is an upper limit on the number of AS-levels which may be accrued by an individual, (b) how much marginally easier an AS-Level may be than the old A-Level standard, (c) whether it is her policy that the current A-Level is of equivalent standard to the old A-Level standard, (d) whether UCAS points may be aggregated such that two AS-levels are equivalent to one A-Level and (e) whether a pupil will by obtaining six AS-Levels at grade C achieve the equivalent of three A-levels at grade C. |
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| 23 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list for each initiative funded through the Standards Fund the (a) budget for 2001-02, (b) outturn for 2001-02 and (c) budget for 2002-03. |
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| 24 | Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when section 63 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 will be implemented; what the legal and financial implications of this will be for local authorities; what incentive it will provide for them to ensure that their rights of way networks are kept fully open; and if she will make a statement. |
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25
N | NMalcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the outcome of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development with particular regard to (a) the multinational targets agreed during the Summit and (b) the targets the European Union sought to negotiate at Johannesburg and to which the EU remains committed. |
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26
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many CAP payments made were below 5,000 euros in the last year for which information is available; and what percentage this represents of the total payments made. |
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27
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many CAP payments made were about 300,000 euros in the last year for which information is available; and what percentage this represents of the total payments made. |
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28
N | Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 16th July, Official Report, column 138W, on the National Access Database, when the results of the feasibility study into the National Access Database being conducted by the Countryside Agency will be published. |
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29
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on his assessment of how the monetary transmission mechanism of the UK economy differs from that of the euro area. |
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30
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer which staff within Her Majesty's Treasury will carry out the assessment of the five economic tests for membership of the euro; and if he will make a statement. |
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31
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if his Department has completed the preliminary technical work relating to the five economic tests for the euro; and if he will make a statement. |
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32
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer when Her Majesty's Treasury published the correction note to Cm 5570; for what reason it was necessary to make changes to the original document; what action has been taken to avoid such errors in future; and if he will make a statement. |
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33
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on progress in reforming the European Union Growth and Stability Pact. |
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34
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans to start the assessment of the five economic tests for euro membership; and if he will make a statement. |
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35
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what visits have been made to West Papua and Aceh by representatives of the UK Embassy in Indonesia; what groups they met; and what contact they had with the Indonesian military. |
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36
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent meetings have taken place with representatives of (a) Freeport Mine and (b) BP and UK diplomatic representatives in Indonesia; and what the nature of the discussions was. |
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37
N | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many women have been recruited into the diplomatic service in each of the last five years for which figures are available, broken down by grade. |
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38
N | Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list by career grade (a) the total number and (b) the percentage of women employed in the diplomatic service in each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
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39
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received on the implementation of section 49 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 regarding the effect on entitlement to free continuing care. |
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40
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many councils have reviewed their eligibility criteria for adult social care to ensure they do not discriminate on the basis of age as part of the milestones set out in the National Service Framework for Older People. |
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41
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) specialist multi-disciplinary teams and (b) interfaces for care for older people throughout hospitals have been identified as part of the milestones set out in the National Service Framework for Older People. |
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42
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many microbiologists were employed by the NHS; and what the vacancy rate for microbiologists was in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) region and (b) trust. |
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43
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what extra funding he is allocating to ensure that the proportion of children aged 10 to 17 years and looked after continuously for at least a year who have received a final warning or conviction are reduced by one third; and how many children received a final warning or conviction for each of the last four years. |
| | (75711)
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44
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department plans to hold strategic health authorities to account for the performance of the NHS within their area as set out in paragraph 7.2 of the document, Improvement, Expansion and Reform: The Next Three Years. |
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| 45 | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 16th October, Official Report, column 872W, on the older people's taskforce, if he will set out the reasons for each of the former members of the task force being replaced with new appointees. |
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46
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many strategic and operational plans, including initial action to address identifed age discrimination, he (a) has received and (b) expects to receive as part of the milestones set out in the National Service Framework for Older People. |
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47
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is undertaking to ensure that the Working Time Directive is implemented for all NHS and social care staff. |
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48
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what target he has set to reduce emergency readmissions into hospital. |
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49
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what baseline his Department will use to demonstrate that organisations have secured a 1 per cent. increase in cost efficiency and 1 per cent. increase in quality equivalent to 1 per cent. of its budget, as set out in paragraph 8.4 of, Improvement, Expansion and Reform: The Next Three Years. |
| | (75714)
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50
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the intermediate care joint investment plans have been agreed, as set out in the National Service Framework for Older People milestones. |
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51
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the annual cost of under-nutrition to the NHS. |
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52
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consultation his Department has undertaken with housing and social services to ensure that the Better Care, Higher Standards charter is working, as set out in the milestones of the National Service Framework for Older People; and what areas of the charter have been found to have shortcomings. |
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53
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which general hospitals have (a) submitted and (b) not submitted plans to introduce a specialised stroke unit by 2004 as part of the milestones set out in the National Service Framework for Older People. |
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54
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been (a) allocated and (b) spent on the Integrated Care Records Service in each of the last four years; and what the proposed budget is for the next three years. |
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55
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out the budget of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services over each of the last three years; and what the budget for CAMHS will be for each of the next three years. |
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56
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many re-assessments of entitlement to free continuing care his Department predicts as a result of implementation of section 49 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 regarding the effect on entitlement to free continuing care. |
| | (76212)
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57
N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Lancashire and South Cumbria Strategic Health Authority received details of the proposed further distribution of additional CT scanners for their area of responsibility. |
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58
N | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has made to commence a programme of mass vaccination against smallpox. |
| | (75245)
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59
N | Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the most recent assessment of the risk of a bioterrorist attack against the UK. |
| | (75191)
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60
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cells there are in Chelmsford Prison; how many are (a) single occupancy cells and (b) two person occupancy cells; how many prisoners are currently occupying single cells on their own; and how many are sharing a single cell with (i) one and (ii) two or more persons. |
| | (75569)
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61
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the maximum number of places for prisoners in Chelmsford Prison is; how many prisoners there are in Chelmsford Prison; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75568)
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62
N | Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of asylum seekers making in-country applications have applied having been in the country (a) less than one month, (b) from one to three months, (c) from three to six months, (d) from six months to one year and (e) more than one year in the last three years. |
| | (76539)
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N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans there are to expand the UK and EU lists on proscribed terrorist organisations; what criteria must be met in order for someone to be added to the list; how often the list is reviewed; when the list was last updated; what discussions he has had with the (a) US Administration and (b) governments in South East Asia and Australia regarding the proscription of terrorist groups. |
| | (76167)
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64
N | Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the figures for burglary and violence against the person were for (a) April, (b) September and (c) in four week periods in the intervening months, for each of the 10 force areas in the Street Crime Initiative; and what the figures were for the corresponding period last year. |
| | (76168)
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65
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there are in (a) West Somerset and (b) South Somerset (i) in absolute terms, (ii) per head of population and (iii) per notifiable offence; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75842)
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66
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for the Isle of Wight of 19th September, Official Report, column 40W, on what date a copy of the reply of the Chief Charity Commissioner was placed in the Library. |
| | (76537)
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67
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will set out the allocation of development money allocated to the reconstruction of Afghanistan (a) in 2001-02, and (b) for each of the next three years; and if she will set out the total amount that has been spent for (i) 2001-02 and (ii) 2002-03. |
| | (75708)
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68
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the UK Online for Business strategy is and the role played by Smart South West in promoting it; and if she will make a statement on the nature of Smart South West's relationship with business in the region. |
| | (74935)
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69
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much of the annual budget of Smart South West is publicly funded; how many officials are employed; and if she will make a statement as to the nature and purpose of their work. |
| | (74937)
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70
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement about the role of her Department's broadband regional strategy; how many staff are employed by her Department to promote broadband; and what progress has been made in extending broadband to rural areas. |
| | (74934)
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71
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many officials are employed by the South West Regional Development Agency on ICT and related issues. |
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72
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the contract between the South West Regional Development Agency and Smart South West. |
| | (74938)
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73
N | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what discussions his Department has had with the Lighthouse Board over the possible closure of the Stromness Lighthouse Depot; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75722)
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74
N | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if the Department will publish the advice it gave the lighthouse authorities regarding maintenance of their depots. |
| | (75721)
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75
N | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, on what date (a) his Department and (b) the Marine Coastguard Agency were first contacted over the proposed closure of the Stromness Lighthouse Depot. |
| | (75723)
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| 76 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what research has been commissioned on the effect of foliage in central reservations of motorways on driver psychology. |
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| 77 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what plans he has for planting foliage in central reservations of 10 metres or more on motorways. |
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| 78 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, whether he has commissioned research into the effect of planting foliage on the central reservations of motorways in other countries on (a) safety, (b) the environment and (c) tourism. |
| | (76571)
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79
N | Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when he expects to announce plans to take forward the Midlands to the North West Multi- Modal Study findings. |
| | (75982)
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80
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average administrative cost was of delivering housing benefit for each London borough in each of the last three years; how many outstanding applications there are; and how many complaints were recorded. |
| | (76328)
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81
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made by his Department of the performance of contractors in delivering housing benefit; and if he will publish it. |
| | (76329)
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82
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average level of rent paid through housing benefit to private sector tenants in Islington was in each of the past three years; and what the average rent charged to the tenants concerned was. |
| | (76330)
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83
N | Mr Malcolm Savidge (Aberdeen North): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if she will make a statement on government policies designed to raise the living standards of Scottish pensioners. |
| | [Question Unstarred] (73576)
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84
N | Mr Malcolm Savidge (Aberdeen North): To ask the Advocate General, what devolution issues have been raised with her since 10th July under the Scotland Act 1998. |
| | [Question Unstarred] (73600)
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85
N | Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): To ask the Advocate General, what steps she is taking to seek clarification of the law in relation to undue delay in trial contrary to Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. |
| | [Question Unstarred] (73601)
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