WEDNESDAY 23rd OCTOBER
| 1 | Mr Keith Bradley (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what action he has taken to implement the recommendations relevant to his Department of the Social Exclusion Unit report Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners. |
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| 2 | Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when decisions will be made as to which and when non-strategic sites will be transferred from English Partnerships to local authorities. |
| | (76774)
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| 3 | Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when decisions will be made as to whether claw-back of development value from local authorities will be waived in respect of (a) sites to be transferred from English Partnerships to local authorities, (b) sites already transferred and (c) strategic sites. |
| | (76775)
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N | Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many key workers have received financial support through the Starter Homes Initiative in rural settlements; and how much has been spent by region in (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03 to date. |
| | (76251)
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| 5 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of provisions to alter the voting majority relating to the proposed business improvement districts outlined in the draft Local Government Bill. |
| | (76829)
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| 6 | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when PPG7 was last redrafted; when he expects to publish the new draft of PPG7; and why a redraft of PPG7 is needed. |
| | (76666)
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| 7 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to carry out a public examination of the conclusions of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Regional Growth Study. |
| | (76840)
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| 8 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he has taken to advertise the conclusions of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Regional Growth Study. |
| | (76839)
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| 9 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has for public consultation about the recommendations of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Regional Growth Study. |
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| 10 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, on which occasions a police authority budget has been capped since 1984. |
| | (76627)
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| 11 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to revise the Widdecombe Rules on political activity of local government officers. |
| | (76625)
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| 12 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what he estimates the cost of the inquiry into housing sales by Westminster City Council will be to the Office of the District Auditor; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76861)
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| 13 | Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how the costs on the District Auditor's Office inquiry into the sale of dwellings by Westminster Council will be distributed; how much other local authorities will be charged to cover the costs; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76860)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the average Band D council tax was in (a) Suffolk, (b) Newcastle and (c) England for (i) 1996-97, (ii) 1997-98, (iii) 1998-99, (iv) 1999-00, (v) 2000-01, (vi) 2001-02 and (vii) 2002-03. |
| | (75038)
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| 15 | Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what changes have been made to the agreements made at the beginning of the programme between New Opportunity Fund and Sport England for the Playing Fields and Community Green Spaces Programme. |
| | (76663)
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| 16 | Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what targets for numbers of schemes and finance to be allocated have been agreed between the New Opportunity Fund and Sport England for the Playing Fields and Community Green Spaces Programme, with the purpose of (a) preserving playing fields and open spaces, (b) purchasing new playing fields, (c) bringing disused playing fields back into use and (d) improving the condition of playing fields. |
| | (76660)
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| 17 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value of the contracts for the two studies awarded to Logistica and BAE Systems for the C41STAR is; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76794)
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| 18 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what share of the contract to modify the next generation of Tactical Tomahawk missiles will be paid by the UK; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76793)
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| 19 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the contract for the Photo Reconnaissance Imagery Strike Module Improved Data Modem by Qinetiq for the RAF's Jaguar Fleet is worth; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76796)
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| 20 | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving armed forces personnel under 25 years of age have (a) attempted and (b) committed suicide in each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| | (76624)
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| 21 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 1st July, Official Report, column 37W, on RAF training, whether the cost effectiveness has been assessed of transferring the duties of the Joint Elementary Flying Training School at RAF Church Fenton to the university air squadrons. |
| | (76578)
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| 22 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 1st July, Official Report, column 37W, on RAF training, how many qualified flying instructors and ground instructors there are in the university air squadrons. |
| | (76576)
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| 23 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 1st July, Official Report, column 37W, on RAF training, how many additional instructors will be required to meet the tasks transferred from RAF Church Fenton. |
| | (76575)
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| 24 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer on 1st July, Official Report, column 37W, on RAF training, how many staff at RAF Church Fenton will be subject to Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) legislation as a result of transferring the Joint Elementary Training School tasks to the university air squadrons. |
| | (76577)
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| 25 | Mr Keith Bradley (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action she has taken to implement the recommendations relevant to her Department in the Social Exclusion Unit report Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners. |
| | (76808)
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| 26 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the funding available to those over 19 completing a modern apprenticeship in (a) England and (b) Wales. |
| | (76832)
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| 27 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost will be of ensuring that no student is financially disadvantaged by the A-level regrading. |
| | (76782)
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| 28 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils were excluded from (a) primary schools, (b) city technology colleges, (c) other secondary schools and (d) special schools in each year since 1988; how many of these exclusions were taken to appeal; and how many of these exclusions were successfully overturned by an appeals panel. |
| | (76777)
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| 29 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidance has been sent by her Department to school exclusion appeals panels since 1998. |
| | (76786)
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| 30 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers have been the subject of (a) physical assaults, (b) verbal assaults and (c) other threatening behaviour from (i) children and (ii) parents in each year since 1988. |
| | (76776)
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| 31 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimates she has made of the cost of this year's A-level regrading to her Department. |
| | (76783)
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| 32 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what powers she has to overturn the decision (a) to exclude a pupil and (b) to reinstate an excluded pupil; and what effect legislation enacted since 1997 has had on the powers of her office. |
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| 33 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which universities have had to make provision for extra students following the results of the regrading of A-levels. |
| | (76780)
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| 34 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what meetings (a) she and (b) her ministers have had with UK universities between 1st September 2001 and 17th October 2002. |
| | (76785)
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| 35 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the schools that have had at least one of their students' overall grades changed following the recent regrading. |
| | (76781)
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| 36 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether she intends to make public the submissions to the Tomlinson inquiry. |
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| 37 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the circular documents that were sent by her Department to (a) primary schools, (b) city technology colleges, (c) other secondary schools and (d) special schools between (i) 1st September and 30th September and (ii) 1st September 2001 and 31st August 2002. |
| | (76779)
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| 38 | Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 19th September, Official Report, column 111W, on physical education, what research was undertaken to enforce the joint Public Service Agreement with her Department and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in respect of sport in schools; and if she will place such research in the Library. |
| | (76803)
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| 39 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) pupils, (b) teachers and (c) support staff there were in each school in the Portsmouth South constituency at the end of the 2001-02 academic year; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (76789)
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| 40 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost of the delay to the completion of the checks on newly qualified teachers by the Criminal Records Bureau has been; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (76804)
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| 41 | Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of lone parents exclusively (a) use registered childcare services and (b) rely on informal childcare in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) the North East and (iii) the UK. |
| | (76623)
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| 42 | Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what investment is being made to enable disadvantaged families in Battersea to benefit from Sure Start style services available to those in the existing Sure Start catchment area in Battersea. |
| | (76609)
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| 43 | Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when she will introduce children's centres to the most disadvantaged areas in England; and what plans she has to open children's centres for disadvantaged families in Battersea. |
| | (76610)
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| 44 | Mr Francis Maude (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children have been excluded from (a) state primary and (b) state secondary schools in West Sussex at each of the key stages, in each year since 1997. |
| | (76872)
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45
N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how she will change the education funding formula to provide a more even funding system for pupils in rural and inner city schools. |
| | (75886)
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N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to improve the basic allowance per pupil in the worst-funded education authorities, with specific reference to Shropshire. |
| | (75890)
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N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps she is taking to secure more even distribution of funding for pupils and schools in rural and inner city areas. |
| | (75888)
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N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps she will take to ensure that current proposals for funding in schools will not accelerate increased spending for inner city pupils over those students in rural areas. |
| | (75887)
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49
N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps she is taking to reduce the funding gap between education authorities in urban and rural areas. |
| | (75891)
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50
N | Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will consider Option 5, put forward by the F40 Group, to secure a more even distribution of funding for pupils between rural and inner city schools. |
| | (75889)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress there has been in (a) establishing the European Job Mobility website agreed at the Barcelona Council in March 2002 and (b) developing a Europe-wide Internet portal aimed at providing access to information on job and learning opportunities. |
| | (75724)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress there has been in establishing the European Job Mobility web-site agreed at the Barcelona Council in March 2002. |
| | (75726)
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| 53 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 19th September, Official Report, column 121W, on mental health, if Ofsted's draft framework for inspection requires an inspection of schools' ability to promote pupils' mental health and detect and handle pupils' mental health problems. |
| | (76581)
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| 54 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers returning to teaching this academic year have claimed the returner bonus. |
| | (76587)
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| 55 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what definition of key workers her Department is using in the Starter Homes Initiative. |
| | (76589)
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| 56 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 19th September, Official Report, column 121W, on mental health, if schools (a) are obliged to promote the mental health of their pupils, (b) have a mechanism for detecting mental health problems and (c) have regular contact with the local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. |
| | (76579)
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| 57 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list each target set for schools in England and Wales for each year from 1997-98 to 2001-02, stating whether the target set was achieved and where the target was not met what actions were taken by the Department for Education and Skills. |
| | (76583)
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| 58 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to allow parents who opt to educate their children at home to access government-sponsored National Curriculum materials. |
| | (76591)
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| 59 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the initial total cost was including production, printing, marking and moderation of (a) KS1 SATS, (b) KS2 SATS, (c) KS3 SATS, (d) GCSE, (e) AS, (f) A level and (g) A2 for all schools in England and Wales for each of the years from 1997-98 to 2001-02. |
| | (76582)
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| 60 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recommendations of the Pay Review Report of January 2002 her Department adopted in calculating teacher pay scales. |
| | (76588)
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| 61 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of the total education budget in 2001-02 was taken up by (a) assessment of students, (b) assessment of teachers and schools through inspection and (c) assessment of teacher training through inspection. |
| | (76597)
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| 62 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans she has to commission a mathematics working group to look at the problem of recruitment of mathematics teachers. |
| | (76590)
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| 63 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 19th September, Official Report, column 121W, on mental health if (a) BEST teams members will receive training in children's mental health and (b) BEST teams will contain mental health specialists. |
| | (76580)
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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 impact of the US National Organic Programme on UK organic (a) exports and (b) standards. |
| | (76253)
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N | Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received in relation to the US National Organic Programme; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (76254)
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N | Mr Colin Breed (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the US Department of Agriculture over the US National Organic Programme and its implementation. |
| | (76252)
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| 67 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the consequences for the Government's policy on bio-fuels of the collapse of ARBRE Energy. |
| | (76842)
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| 68 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money is owed to her Department by ARBRE Energy. |
| | (76846)
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| 69 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of farmers who were assigned grants made by her Department to ARBRE Energy in respect of the Eggborough Power Station and (b) the impact on those farm businesses of moves by her Department to recover grants paid. |
| | (76845)
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| 70 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much in outstanding claims against her Department is owed in respect of clean-up operations on farms affected by foot and mouth disease. |
| | (76841)
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| 71 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money her Department has paid in grants, and under which schemes, to ARBRE Energy in respect of the wood-burning power station at Eggborough, Selby. |
| | (76843)
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| 72 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is towards the recovery of grants paid to ARBRE Energy in respect of the Eggborough power station. |
| | (76844)
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73
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the Government's position on the place of modulation in the European Commission's proposals for the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy. |
| | (75247)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the Government's policy on the European Commission's proposals in the Common Agricultural Policy's mid-term review to cap subsidies for individual farms. |
| | (75251)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government aims to achieve real budgetary savings in the CAP as part of the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy. |
| | (75246)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she expects on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy as a result of the mid-term review; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (75248)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Government's policy is on subsidised agricultural exports from the European Union with regard to mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy. |
| | (75250)
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| 78 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to answer the letter of 5th August from Mr Malcolm Bull of Ringwood. |
| | (76740)
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| 79 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under the Common Agricultural Policy dairy regime, what overall annual level of payments has been made to dairy processing and exporting companies in the UK over the last 10 years, broken down by type of (a) subsidy, (b) company and (c) product. |
| | (76614)
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| 80 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many complaints his Department has received in each of the last five years relating to VAT inspection. |
| | (76831)
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81
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress has been made towards improving the productivity performance of the UK economy; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75732)
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82
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if his Department has completed the study of the experience of the United States as a monetary union, which was referred to in the HM Treasury Paper issued on 6th September, entitled, The Treasury's Approach to the Preliminary and Technical Work; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75733)
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N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into the Royal Mint. |
| | (75252)
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84
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to privatise the Royal Mint. |
| | (75253)
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85
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to put out to tender the Treasury contract for United Kingdom coinage; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75987)
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| 86 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a list of local authorities in England and Wales ranked by the difference between the Office of National Statistics mid-2000 Population Estimates and the 2001 census (a) in absolute terms and (b) as a percentage. |
| | (76619)
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| 87 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent representations he has received concerning the change in the number of final salary pension schemes; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76686)
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| 88 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent discussions he has had with employers about their plans to continue final salary pension schemes; what recent representations he has received concerning the abolition of final salary pension schemes by solvent employers; and what recent representations he has received concerning the possibility of companies becoming insolvent who access pension funds for purposes other than paying pensions. |
| | (76895)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the proportion and the sums of this year's EU budget that will be spent on (a) the CAP, (b) the CFP and (c) structural operations; and if he will provide an estimate of these for the next two years. |
| | (75731)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the contribution of an average UK family to the EU budget in (a) 2001 and (b) 2002; and what estimate he has made of the contribution of an average UK family to the EU budget in (i) 2003 and (ii) 2004. |
| | (75730)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the (a) contributions and (b) receipts between each European Union member state and the European Community for (i) 2001 and (ii) 2002; and if he will give his estimates for the figures for the contributions and receipts for (A) 2003 and (B) 2004. |
| | (75845)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on e-procurement in government purchasing. |
| | (75728)
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| 93 | Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the on-line tax self-assessment material is not available in Welsh; and what proportion of this is available in Welsh in another form. |
| | (76747)
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| 94 | Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he has taken to ensure that the on-line tax self assessment service complies with the requirements of the Welsh Language Board. |
| | (76744)
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| 95 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the marginal rate of tax at which all contributors' pension contributions could be allowed if (a) all contributions were to be allowed at a single rate and (b) the cost were the same as that of the present system of tax reliefs. |
| | (76787)
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| 96 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made with the clearance of landmines in Angola. |
| | (76743)
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| 97 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his Department's involvement in the peace process in Sudan. |
| | (76606)
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| 98 | Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent changes there have been to European Union sanctions against Zimbabwe. |
| | (76676)
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| 99 | Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent changes there have been to the United Nations sanctions against (a) Somalia and (b) Angola (UNITA). |
| | (76677)
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| 100 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what methods of issuing travel warnings to British citizens are regularly employed in addition to notices on the Foreign and Commmonwealth Office website; and what change there has been in the use of each other method of issuing travel warnings to British citizens since the advent of the FCO website. |
| | (76691)
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| 101 | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the numbers of hits on the section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website dealing with travel warnings in relation to the numbers of British citizens visiting countries about which travel warnings have been issued. |
| | (76690)
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N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy on the Charter of Fundamental Rights is; how the Government plans to take that policy forward; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75039)
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| 103 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Government of Vietnam regarding the persecution of Christians in that country. |
| | (76612)
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| 104 | Mr Keith Bradley (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he has taken to implement the recommendations relevant to his Department in the Social Exclusion Unit report Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners. |
| | (76809)
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105
N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out for each of the last five years the amount of expenditure on preventative measures to tackle the misuse of (a) alcohol, (b) tobacco, (c) cannabis, (d) ecstasy, (e) amphetamines, (f) LSD, (g) heroin, (h) cocaine and (i) crack cocaine. |
| | (75736)
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N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out what measures his Department have taken to (a) inform and (b) train (i) GPs, (ii) nurses, (iii) social workers, (iv) teachers, (v) parents and (vi) children on the symptoms of ADD and ADHD. |
| | (75740)
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N | Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimates he has made of the number of children suffering from (a) ADD and (b) ADHD; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75735)
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108
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care home staff are awaiting clearance from the Criminal Record Bureau; how many care homes staff have awaited clearance for each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75571)
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109
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff have been employed in care homes before the Criminal Record Bureau checks have been completed; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75572)
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| 110 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent further consideration he has given to making recombinant clotting factors available to all haemophilia patients in England. |
| | (76827)
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| 111 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of research conducted by the Institute of Animal Health indicating that variant CJD might be transferable via blood products. |
| | (76828)
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| 112 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make available to the House the findings of his Department's inquiry relating to Lord Owen's period as a minister at the Department in relation to blood products used for transfusion. |
| | (76822)
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| 113 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to allow more representatives from the professional advisory committees onto the Health Professionals Council; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76795)
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| 114 | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many private patients received treatment in (a) England and (b) each NHS region in each of the last six years as (i) in-patients and (ii) day cases, in NHS pay beds. |
| | (76607)
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| 115 | Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West & Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many out-patient consultations with private patients were held in NHS hospitals in each NHS region in each of the last six years. |
| | (76608)
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116
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list, for each English health authority and trust, the number of patients who have been waiting for more than six months to see a consultant, after having been referred by a consultant; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75846)
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117
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the length of the waiting lists for neurophysiology treatment in English hospitals. |
| | (75734)
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118
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were waiting more than (a) six months and (b) 12 months as (i) in-patients and (ii) out-patients in England as at (A) 31st March 1997 and (B) the latest date for which information is available; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75847)
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| 119 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the social and psychological effects on patients of compulsory treatment for (a) 72 hours, (b) 28 days and (c) a longer period. |
| | (76688)
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| 120 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received concerning the Mental Health Bill; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76687)
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| 121 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 15th October, Official Report, column 814W, on elective surgery abroad, if he will list (a) the foreign hospitals that have been visited by lead commissioners and (b) the hospitals that have been found unsatisfactory by lead commissioners. |
| | (76620)
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| 122 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 15th October, Official Report, column 813W, on elective surgery abroad, if he will list the foreign hospitals in which elective surgery has taken place on contract for the NHS. |
| | (76618)
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| 123 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 15th October, Official Report, column 813W, on elective surgery abroad, if he will define reasonable access in paragraph three of his Answer. |
| | (76622)
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| 124 | Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 15th October, Official Report, column 813W, on elective surgery abroad, what cost has been incurred by lead commissioners in assessing hospitals abroad. |
| | (76621)
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| 125 | Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, why the remuneration package of the previous Chief Executive of Merseyside regional ambulance service, Mr Todhunter, was not published in the MRAS 2001-02 annual report; and what his remuneration package was, including payments related to his termination of employment. |
| | (76689)
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| 126 | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the drug Seroxat. |
| | (76741)
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| 127 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for post-surgery radiotherapy in (a) Southampton Hospital and (b) the nearest three units which provide similar services has been in the last year for which figures are available; what clinical guidance is on such waiting times; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76742)
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| 128 | Mr Keith Bradley (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he has taken to implement the recommendations relevant to his Department in the Social Exclusion Unit report Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners. |
| | (76807)
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129
N | Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to ask the Home Secretary how much he has paid in non-domestic rates for each asylum detention centre in each of the last four years; and how much he will pay in 2002-03. |
| | (76545)
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130
N | Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to ask the Home Secretary if he will list each key performance indicator in the contract for the Dungavel asylum detention centre and the number of performance penalty points incurred for each key performance indicator by the operators of the detention centre in each year since it began operation. |
| | (76543)
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131
N | Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to ask the Home Secretary what the cost to his Department has been of monitoring private finance initiative contracts for each asylum detention centre in each of the last five years. |
| | (76544)
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| 132 | Mr Michael Jabez Foster (Hastings & Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to target support in the fight against drugs on specific communities. |
| | (76675)
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| 133 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will instruct the Immigration and Nationality Department Board to answer the letters of the honourable Member for Ashford of 11th June, 30th July and 11th September on the subject of the Mutabarruku family. |
| | (76739)
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| 134 | Mr Damian Green (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the recent performance of the Immigration and Nationality Department Board in answering letters from (a) honourable Members and (b) the public. |
| | (76738)
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| 135 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of delays in the National Firearms Certificate Holders Register database has been; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76791)
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| 136 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been trafficked into the UK and forced into prostitution in each of the last five years; from what countries the children came; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76798)
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| 137 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been given to agencies to provide support and assistance to victims of trafficking in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76792)
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| 138 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been trafficked into the UK in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76797)
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| 139 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants who were suspected victims of trafficking have been deported from the UK in each of the last five years; from which countries they came; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76788)
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| 140 | Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of crime prevention partnerships in reducing crime in the Portsmouth South constituency; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (76790)
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| 141 | Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of prison overcrowding on the treatment of remand prisoners. |
| | (76628)
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142
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he is taking to tackle the problem of persistent re-offending; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75738)
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143
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of notifiable offences is committed by persistent re-offenders; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75739)
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144
N | Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people now in prison have committed (a) 10+, (b) 25+, (c) 50+, (d) 100+, (e) 200+ and (f) 1,000+ previous notifiable offences; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (75737)
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| 145 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average penalty imposed following conviction for breach of an anti-social behaviour order has been in cases where the offender was fined. |
| | (76684)
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| 146 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions have been brought for breach of an anti-social behaviour order; and how many have resulted in a conviction. |
| | (76682)
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| 147 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of those who sought asylum in the United Kingdom in 2001 (a) entered the country on valid travel documents and claimed asylum immediately, (b) entered the country on valid travel documents and claimed asylum after any permission to stay expired and (c) entered the country illegally. |
| | (76626)
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| 148 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average prison sentence imposed following conviction for breach of an anti-social behaviour order has been, where the offender was sentenced to immediate imprisonment. |
| | (76683)
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| 149 | Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letters of 17th June and 9th September to the honourable Member for Tunbridge Wells regarding Yuriy Urchenko, a constituent. |
| | (76664)
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| 150 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions his Department has had with groups representing parents who have been abused by their children. |
| | (76888)
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| 151 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the policy pursued by his Department towards parents abused by their own children. |
| | (76889)
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| 152 | Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded delivery items addressed to Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon are missing; and when he will reply to a letter from the honourable Member for Rochford and Southend East relating to Mr and Mrs Ajaz Khan dated 1st September reference 18156/2. |
| | (76611)
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| 153 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what duties local schools will have to admit children living in accommodation centres. |
| | (76584)
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| 154 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to set out in law the role of the LEA in the delivery of education in accommodation centres. |
| | (76586)
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| 155 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the teaching unions on his proposals to educate some children who are seeking asylum in accommodation centres. |
| | (76585)
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| 156 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made towards the reintegration of Angolan refugees returning to their country of origin from neighbouring countries. |
| | (76758)
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| 157 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she had made of the success of efforts to provide agricultural assistance in Angola before September. |
| | (76763)
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| 158 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what evidence has been collected over the last 12 months on instances of petty corruption in development projects funded by her Department. |
| | (76754)
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| 159 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to tackle low public sector wages in developing countries. |
| | (76749)
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| 160 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many unexploded landmines are estimated to remain in Angola. |
| | (76760)
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| 161 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what evidence has been collated by the Government relating to whether the Norms for the Resettlement of Displaced Populations in Anglola are being effectively followed; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (76759)
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| 162 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what correspondence she has had with civil society in Angola to ensure the adherence to human rights within the country. |
| | (76756)
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| 163 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what impact she estimates landmines within farmland have had on food production in Angola. |
| | (76761)
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| 164 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many Departmental staff have been seconded to multilateral aid organisations for the purpose of improving aid effectiveness in the last five years. |
| | (76766)
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| 165 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the role of local media in combating corruption in developing countries; and what steps she is taking to support local media in developing countries. |
| | (76771)
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| 166 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the levels of spending by the Government of Angola on basic social services since the end of the civil war; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (76757)
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| 167 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what consideration is given to anti-corruption strategies in the formulation of poverty reduction strategy papers. |
| | (76772)
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| 168 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which developing countries are in receipt of support from her Department in the development of parliamentary commissioners for the investigation of corruption. |
| | (76751)
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| 169 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department has provided to (a) the Government of Angola and (b) NGOs for the clearance of landmines in Angola. |
| | (76762)
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| 170 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action is being taken to improve the local banking systems in developing countries. |
| | (76773)
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| 171 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action she is taking to reform the tax and revenue collection systems of developing countries. |
| | (76768)
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| 172 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action she is taking to tackle money laundering in developing countries. |
| | (76767)
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| 173 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what efforts are being made to improve the quality of data collection in the measurement of aid effectiveness. |
| | (76764)
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| 174 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to make the (a) reporting and (b) recording of corrupt practice in development programmes easier. |
| | (76769)
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| 175 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the estimated impact of the level of public sector wages on the potential for corruption in developing countries. |
| | (76750)
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| 176 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the projects in which her Department has undertaken joint evaluations of aid effectiveness with other major donors over the last 12 months. |
| | (76765)
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| 177 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department provides to developing countries for the strengthening of criminal justice systems. |
| | (76752)
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| 178 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the progress being made towards the rebuilding of Angola's transport infrastructure. |
| | (76755)
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| 179 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which anti-corruption commissions are in receipt of financial assistance from the Government. |
| | (76770)
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| 180 | John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what precautionary steps are taken to reduce the potential for petty corruption in development projects funded by her Department. |
| | (76753)
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| 181 | Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will press for expansion of the number of countries involved in the Education For All fast track scheme to include all those demonstrating progress in education provision. |
| | (76679)
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| 182 | Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of overseas aid is spent on (a) basic healthcare and (b) education.
|
| | (766680)
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| 183 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the banning of Oxfam and Save the Children from distributing the World Food Programme food by the Zimbabwean Government; and what discussions her Department has had with (a) Oxfam and (b) Save the Children following the ban. |
| | (76906)
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| 184 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on humanitarian aid flights to Sudan. |
| | (76902)
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| 185 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has with the Government of Zambia regarding their policy on GM food aid. |
| | (76890)
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| 186 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of sector-wide approaches in improving the healthcare systems of poor countries. |
| | (76898)
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| 187 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how her Department's budget for improving healthcare in Malawi is spent. |
| | (76894)
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| 188 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on her Department's approach to healthcare in Malawi. |
| | (76896)
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| 189 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's strategy is for a demining programme in Angola. |
| | (76876)
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| 190 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of levels of political violence against ethnic minorities in Sudan; and what steps her Department has taken in response. |
| | (76901)
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| 191 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights. |
| | (76891)
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| 192 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on (a) her Department's support for clinical services and (b) levels of maternal mortality in Malawi. |
| | (76893)
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| 193 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money her Department has given to the UN World Food Programme in Zimbabwe. |
| | (76903)
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| 194 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of (a) the obstruction of food aid and (b) human rights abuses committed by the Zimbabwe Government against the Zimbabwean people; and what her Department's strategy is for dealing with the obstruction of food aid by President Mugabe. |
| | (76904)
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| 195 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the peace process in Sudan and the assistance provided by the British Government to that process. |
| | (76900)
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| 196 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the peace process in Burundi and the assistance provided by the British Government to that process. |
| | (76899)
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| 197 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what anti-corruption measures her Department supports in Angola. |
| | (76880)
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| 198 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent disussions her Department has had with colleagues in (a) the UNHCR and (b) other parts of the United Nations about the humanitarian situation in Angola. |
| | (76873)
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| 199 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) assessment her Department has made of safeguards against and (b) discussions she has had with the UNHCR regarding the sexual exploitation of women in refugee camps. |
| | (76907)
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| 200 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the money that the IMF has found missing from Angolan Government finances. |
| | (76877)
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| 201 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which UN agencies which her Department supports are working in Angola; and what financial commitment her Department has made to these programmes. |
| | (76886)
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| 202 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the (a) political manipulation of food aid and (b) selective starvation being carried out in Zimbabwe by its Government. |
| | (76887)
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| 203 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid will be provided to the Government of the Ivory Coast in this financial year. |
| | (76892)
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| 204 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions her Department has had with the World Food Programme on their recommendations for the establishment of a reception and transit centre for refugees returning to Angola. |
| | (76883)
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| 205 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the humanitarian relief programme in Angola since April. |
| | (76882)
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| 206 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions her Department has had with the Government of Angola about the humanitarian situation. |
| | (76885)
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| 207 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's strategy is for providing humanitarian relief to the people of Angola. |
| | (76874)
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| 208 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has given to aid the humanitarian situation in Angola in the last 12 months. |
| | (76884)
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| 209 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment her Department has made of the landmine problem in Angola. |
| | (76875)
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| 210 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's strategy is for supporting agriculture in Angola. |
| | (76881)
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| 211 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the investigation by the IMF into money missing from Angolan Government finances. |
| | (76878)
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| 212 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what structures are in place to audit UK aid money provided to Angola. |
| | (76879)
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| 213 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what systems are used to audit the effectiveness of sector-wide approaches to donor funding; and if she will publish reports she has commissioned into the effectiveness of sector-wide approaches. |
| | (76897)
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214
N | Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will review the decision to site the new wastewater treatment works at Donaghadee, with particular reference to the requirements of the relevant EU directives. |
| | (75984)
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215
N | Stephen Hesford (Wirral West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what measures to combat electoral fraud will be in place in time for the scheduled Northern Ireland Assembly election on 1st May 2003. |
| | (74273)
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| 216 | James Purnell (Stalybridge & Hyde): To ask the President of the Council, when he plans to publish the Government's response to the Procedure Committee Report on Parliamentary Questions HC622. |
| | (76748)
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| 217 | Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Solicitor General, on how many occasions the CPS has (a) prosecuted and (b) declined to prosecute an offender for breach of an anti-social behaviour order in 2002. |
| | (76681)
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218
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the approved defence exports to (a) India and (b) Pakistan in each of the last three years. |
| | (76335)
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| 219 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the two regulations summits took place between the Small Business Service and business representative organisations; and if she will list the organisations that attended. |
| | (76835)
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| 220 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many small businesses applied for assistance through the Development Fund for Rural Renewal in November 2001; and what the total value is of funds that have been allocated. |
| | (76836)
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| 221 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many of the regional venture capital funds have been established. |
| | (76825)
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| 222 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress is being made by the Small Business Service in identifying a possible system for assisting small firms affected by disaster, as outlined in the Government's response to the Small Business Council's second annual report. |
| | (76823)
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| 223 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action she will take to ensure that small businesses are aware of their employees' rights; and if she will make a statement on recent related research by her Department. |
| | (76830)
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| 224 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what new powers, responsibilities and resources the Small Business Council has been given in their recently extended remit to lessen the impact of regulations on small businesses. |
| | (76838)
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| 225 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the results of pilot schemes relating to the effectiveness of SME supply chain structures will be published. |
| | (76826)
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| 226 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the cost has been of establishing the Business Link U; and whether all Small Business Service and Business Link staff will be required to undertake training through this arrangement. |
| | (76834)
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| 227 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the outcomes of the regulation summits held between the Small Business Service and key stakeholders, including the list of potential projects which it was agreed would be considered in greater detail. |
| | (76833)
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| 228 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on her Department's plans to hold a Small Business Week in 2002. |
| | (76824)
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| 229 | Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what goods on the Military List have recently been approved for export to Iraq. |
| | (76678)
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230
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of the world's e-commerce is estimated to be conducted in (a) Britain and (b) the European Union. |
| | (75729)
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| 231 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to propose legislation to regulate the use of aggressive telemarketing techniques. |
| | (76613)
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| 232 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will place in the Library a copy of the EC legal appraisal of the competence of the proposed Agency Workers draft Directive to cover pay; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (76662)
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| 233 | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what procedures she has put in place to ascertain the views of the health service in Scotland on the possible impact of GATS. |
| | (76659)
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234
N | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the occasions on which credit licences issued by the Office of Fair Trading under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 were (a) approved, (b) revoked and (c) refused within Scotland, broken down by area. |
| | (76541)
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| 235 | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with the Scottish Executive on the impact of GATS on health services in Scotland. |
| | (76658)
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| 236 | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with (a) the Scottish Executive and (b) principals and vice chancellors of Scottish universities on the impact of GATS on universities and other institutes of higher education in Scotland. |
| | (76670)
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237
N | Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many credit licences were (a) revoked and (b) refused in each of the last five years. |
| | (76542)
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| 238 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are in place to ensure that ferry workers on British-registered ferries are legally entitled to employment rights. |
| | (76594)
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| 239 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are in place to ensure that British ferry companies pay their national insurance contributions for the workers on their ships. |
| | (76593)
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| 240 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are in place to ensure that British ferry companies implement the European Working Time Directive. |
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| 241 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if British seamen on British-registered ferries employed through (a) Singapore and (b) Bermuda retain employment rights under British employment law. |
| | (76592)
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| 242 | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are in place to ensure that British ferry companies enforce equal pay and conditions for all workers on their ships. |
| | (76595)
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| 243 | Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many accidents occurred between January and June on the A21 (a) Lamberhurst to Flimwell and (b) Tonbridge to Pembury. |
| | (76665)
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| 244 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many copies of the Department's consultation paper on Future Development of Air Transport in the UK: South East have been issued with the figure of £15,000 instead of £1,500 in paragraph 19.19; and what measures have been taken to inform those in possession of the erroneous publication of this mistake. |
| | (76810)
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| 245 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what (a) national and (b) regional transport and traffic studies have been undertaken since 1997 which include the Isle of Wight. |
| | (76746)
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| 246 | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, for what reason the Isle of Wight was excluded from the terms of reference of the South Coast Corridor multi-modal study. |
| | (76745)
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| 247 | Mr Keith Bradley (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what action he has taken to implement the recommendations relevant to his Department in the Social Exclusion Unit report Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners. |
| | (76806)
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248
N | Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the benefit claims forms that referred claimants to the Citizens Advice Bureaux Service for assistance and advice in their completion as at 30th September; what percentage of documents issued referred benefits claimants to Citizens Advice Bureaux (a) in 2001 and (b) up to 30th September; and what discussions the Government has had with the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux in respect of the inclusion of such references to advice. |
| | (76540)
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249
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on progress made to date on the target to halve unemployment among 18 to 24 year-olds by 2010 throughout the European Union set at the European Council's meeting at Lisbon. |
| | (75249)
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| 250 | Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list his Department's employment agencies operating in Stoke on Trent. |
| | (76661)
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| 251 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the reference rent scheme was introduced; and how many private sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit have been affected by it in each year since it was introduced. |
| | (76801)
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| 252 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of private tenants in receipt of housing benefit have their eligible rent capped by the reference rent system (a) in Great Britain and (b) in each of the smallest geographical units for which figures are available. |
| | (76800)
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| 253 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are receiving housing benefit in respect of private sector tenancies (a) in Great Britain and (b) in each of the smallest geographical units for which figures are available. |
| | (76799)
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| 254 | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many private sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit whose eligible rent is capped by the reference rent are (a) pensioners, (b) couples with children, (c) childless couples, (d) lone parents and (e) other single people. |
| | (76802)
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| 255 | Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Cabinet Office, how many staff are employed within the Cabinet Office; and how many work within the Civil Contingencies Secretariat. |
| | (76821)
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256
N | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Cabinet Office, if he will make a statement on the level of electronic access to the main public services. |
| | (75727)
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257
N | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what compensation his Department will offer to (a) staff, (b) private care homes, (c) voluntary organisations and (d) local authorities for the delays in Criminal Record Bureau checks; and if he will make a statement. |
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| 258 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the MDC and (b) the UN over investigations by the UN Commission on Human Rights into human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. |
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