Order Book Part 1

House of Commons

Session 2002 - 03
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Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 10 February 2003

Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Monday 10 February 2003, of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

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

MONDAY 10th FEBRUARY

1   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what is intended by his statement that We will work with partners in the Tees Valley who are tackling the issue of market failure, in the implementation of the Tees Valley Housing Strategy in the document Sustainable Communities in the North East.

(97213)

2   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, in what way the announcements in the document sustainable communities in the north east support housing renewal in Redcar and Cleveland.

(97214)

3   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will announce a housing market renewal Pathfinder project in the Tees Valley.

(97216)

4   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what financial assistance the Department will give to the implementation of the Tees Valley Housing Strategy.

(97215)

5   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what extra resources the Department will make available in 2003-04 for housing renewal in (a) Redcar and Cleveland and (b) Teesside.

(97217)

6   Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether mortgage brokers registered under the Mortgage Code Complaints Board will be permitted to give advice on the Right to Buy Scheme under the proposed changes implemented by the Deputy Prime Minister; and whether other financial institutions registered with the Financial Services Authority will be able to give similar advice.

(97396)

7   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the reasons for the reduction in the grant for 2003-04 to Gloucestershire County Council; what notice he gave to that authority of the change; and what discussions he plans to have with Gloucestershire County Council on the implications of the reduction of its grant.

(97281)

8   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what powers district monitoring officers have in respect of suspending parish councillors from their duties.

(97200)

9   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the relevant qualifications are of Mr Angus Andrew for holding the post of Chairman of the Adjudication Panel for England.

(97228)

10   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what guidance he gives to local authorities to reclaim council tax through (a) an attachment to earnings for those people who refuse to pay their council tax and (b) an attachment to pensions for those pensioners who refuse to pay their council tax; and what discussions he has had with the Department of Work and Pensions regarding the attachment to pensions for those pensioners who refuse to pay council tax.

(97415)

11
N   Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the ways in which the proposals in his statement to the House on 5th February on Social Housing will enable Preston City Council to respond to its backlog of social housing refurbishment.

(96749)

12   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost to public funds of entertainment at Dorneywood was in each of the last 10 years.

(97398)

13
N   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether inspectors of the Audit Commission are given training in the effect of the Human Rights Act 1998 upon their role, with particular reference to Article 6 of the ECHR.

(96672)

14   Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which district and city councils in Gloucestershire have awarded disabled facilities grants; and how much was spent by each in each year since 1998.

(97245)

15   Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he intends to raise the £25,000 ceiling on disabled facilities grants; and if he will make a statement.

(97246)

16   Mr George Osborne (Tatton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what central Government funding the North West Regional Assembly received in each year from 1998 to 2003.

(97199)

17   Mr George Osborne (Tatton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the role of existing regional assemblies in the Government's soundings exercise on the future of elected regional government; and what (a) guidance he has issued to and (b) requirements he has placed upon regional assemblies to maintain their impartiality in the exercise.

(97198)

18   Mr George Osborne (Tatton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the North West Regional Assembly's Sandings enquiry into the view of the public in the North West on elected regional government has received central Goverment funding.

(97227)

19   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will place the evaluations for Capital Modernisation Fund projects in his Department since 1998 in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97032)

20   Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what has been the annual budget of (a) SEEDA, (b) SEERA and (c) GOSE in each year since their inception.

(97408)

21   Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what has been the ratio of population to (a) housing units and (b) bedspaces in each county of England in each year since 1997.

(97407)

22   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her Answer of 9th January, Official Report, column 51W, on Capita, if she will set out his reasons for having no further dealings with Capita since February 2002.

(97331)

23
N   Mr Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place in the Library a copy of Sir Alan Borg's report on the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

(96949)

24   Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what impact assessment she has made of the effect of the proposals in the Licensing and Entertainment Bill on not for profit sports clubs.

(97405)

25   Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the likely additional cost on the voluntary sports club sector of being required to (a) obtain licences for club entertainment and (b) comply with the annual inspection fees as proposed in the Licensing and Entertainment Bill.

(97403)

26   Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the projected fees are for (a) a premises licence and (b) a club licensing certificate under the proposed Licensing and Entertainment Bill; and what the expected scale of charges is.

(97406)

27   Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to assist voluntary sports clubs to meet with the costs imposed by the proposals within the Licensing and Entertainment Bill.

(97401)

28   Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons she will require clubs to apply for licences for club entertainment under the proposed Licensing and Entertainment Bill; and how many clubs will be required to obtain such a licence.

(97404)

29   Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the costs for existing licence holders of initial registration under the new licensing system as proposed in the Licensing and Entertainment Bill.

(97402)

30   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much direct government funding was given to youth athletics in Wales in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.

(97107)

31   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place the evaluations for each Capital Modernisation Fund projects in her Department since 1998 in the Library; and if she will make a statement.

(97029)

32
N   Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make representations to the USA Secretary of Defence about the use of amphetamines by US military personnel in joint military operations with British armed forces.

(96752)

33
N   Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what consultations he has had with United States officials concerning the prevention of friendly fire casualties in joint US/British military operations; and if he will make a statement.

(96825)

34
N   Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the use of amphetamines and other stimulants by British armed forces.

(96751)

35
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the budgetary provision for 2002-03 for expenditure on Gulf War veterans' illnesses research projects is, excluding current and planned MoD research into depleted uranium munitions; and what percentage of the departmental budget this represents.

(96986)

36
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's budgetary provision for expenditure on MoD research into depleted uranium munitions was in 2003-03; and what percentage of the departmental budget this represented.

(96984)

37
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the expenditure was in each year since 1997 on research into Gulf War veterans' illnesses, excluding sums spent on research by his Department into depleted uranium munitions; and what percentage of the annual departmental budget this represented in each case.

(96978)

38
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the budgetary provision for expenditure on MoD research into depleted uranium munitions in 2003-04 is; and what percentage of the departmental budget for 2003-04 this represents.

(96979)

39
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the budgetary provision for the year 2004 for expenditure on Gulf War veterans' illnesses research projects is, excluding current and planned MoD research into depleted uranium munitions; and what percentage of the departmental budget this will represent.

(96985)

40
N   Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding his Department is providing for the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas; when this will be provided; what other support the MoD is providing for the National Memorial; and if he will make a statement.

(96652)

41
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what evidence there is of attacks by remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan since the end of the recent war; and if he will make a statement.

(96980)

42
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) Lwara and (b) other US positions on the Afghan-Pakistan border have been (i) abandoned and (ii) occupied by al-Qaeda fighters.

(96982)

43   Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if it will be possible to adapt either of the two new aircraft carriers so as to make them interoperable with the Rafale aircraft.

(97328)

44   Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the firms bidding for the CVF project are estimated to have spent on their participation in the competition.

(97330)

45   Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 29th January, Official Report, column 859W, on human centrifuge, which company, other than AMST, is bidding for the High G RAF human centrifuge project.

(97325)

46   Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the proposed Anglo-French co-operation on the CVF aircraft carrier project.

(97326)

47   Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the UK's military projects involving Anglo-French collaboration since 1980, and set out their current status.

(97327)

48   Mr George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether industrial co-operation between France and the United Kingdom on the CVF project will have an impact on his Department's contractual arrangements with (a) BAE Systems and (b) Thales UK.

(97329)

49   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what Royal Navy vessels have been visited by Chilean Government officials or Chilean armed forces personnel in the past year.

(97193)

50   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to award a contract for the Wheeled Support Vehicles programme; and what delays there have been to the originally forecast in-service date.

(97188)

51   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to make an announcement on the winner of the Watchkeeper competition; and for what reasons there has been a delay in the down select decision.

(97191)

52   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to award a contract for the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme; and what delays there have been to the originally forecast in-service date.

(97187)

53   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether all the RAF's Tornado GR4s are capable of supporting Operation Southern Watch duties; and if he will make a statement.

(97194)

54   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on delays to the MRAV programme; and for what reasons he plans to procure fewer vehicles than was originally envisaged.

(97189)

55   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the results of the Ministry of Defence's Stockpile Planning Guidance study.

(97196)

56   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the Technology Readiness Assessment of each of the candidate unmanned air vehicles for Watchkeeper; with which allied armed forces each of the candidate UAVs for Watchkeeper will be interoperable; which weapons are cleared for use from each of the candidate UAVs for Watchkeeper; how many of these have been used in combat; and if he will list the countries of origin of the candidate UAVs for Watchkeeper.

(97192)

57   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which RAF units will be participating in Operation Telic; and if he will make a statement.

(97195)

58   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many SA80 L86A2 weapons will be withdrawn from operational service following the introduction into service of the new light machine gun; and if he will make a statement.

(97190)

59   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people there were in the UK (a) Army, (b) Navy and (c) Airforce in each year from 1996-97 to 2003-04 (planned).

(97346)

60   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action is proposed as a result of the report Gendered Bodies, Personnel Policies and the Culture of the British Army.

(97343)

61
N   Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is with regard to nuclear retaliation by the UK or its allies in the event of the use of chemical or biological weapons in an attack by Iraq on (a) UK territory, (b) the territories of other states with which the UK has mutual defence commitments and (c) British and other forces engaged in military action against Iraq.

(95962)

62   Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many rounds of depleted uranium ammunition are due to be fired during the current testing programme at Dundrennan firing range; over what period of time this firing will take place; what calibre of ammunition the DU rounds will be; what environmental safeguards have been projected and been implemented for this kind of testing; and if he will make a statement.

(97046)

63   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place the evaluations for Capital Modernisation Fund projects in his Department since 1998 in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97033)

64   Angela Watkinson (Upminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the study undertaken for the Ministry of Defence to identify sexism in the army; who undertook the survey; what methodology was used; how many people were consulted and of what gender; and for what purpose the results of the survey will be used.

(97175)

65
N   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when young people of Redcar and Cleveland Borough will be able to apply for education maintenance allowances.

(96915)

66   Mrs Anne Campbell (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research he has conducted on the proportion of appropriately qualified students who proceed to higher education by social class; and if he will place the results in the Library.

(97110)

67   Mrs Anne Campbell (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research he has conducted into the factors determining the choice of degree course by students; and if he will place the results in the Library.

(97109)

68   Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the work of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

(97088)

69   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on his national behaviour and attendance strategy.

(97152)

70   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of pupils achieved five or more A*-G grades in each year from 1995 to 2001.

(97155)

71   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the (a) criterion-referenced examination marking procedure and (b) norm-referenced examination marking procedure.

(97151)

72   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of pupils attained (a) Level 5 and above and (b) Level 6 and above in Key Stage 3 Science in each year from 1999-2001.

(97157)

73   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on plans to extend and develop the Beacon schools initiative.

(97150)

74   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of pupils achieved one A*-G grade in each year from 1995 to 2001.

(97156)

75   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the position in which the United Kingdom came in the OECD PISA 2001 survey in mathematics.

(97001)

76   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the effectiveness of support staff in National Curriculum teaching.

(97153)

77   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how the (a) content and (b) academic standard of his proposed English style Baccalaureat will compare with those of (i) the German Abilus and (ii) the French Baccalaureat.

(97332)

78   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the national standard of teaching at Key Stage 4.

(97154)

79
N   Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what security guidelines he issues to local education authorities with regard to primary schools.

(96646)

80
N   Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his policy is on location of primary schools adjacent to (a) prisons, (b) probation centres, (c) magistrates' courts, (d) military bases and (e) drugs and alcohol clinics day centres.

(96648)

81
N   Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what advice he gives local education authorities about security considerations applying to the locations of primary schools.

(96647)

82
N   Mr Ivan Henderson (Harwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding has been allocated to the Harwich constituency under the Surestart scheme.

(96912)

83   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how he will ensure students will not be excluded from universities who charge higher tuition fees.

(97414)

84   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students applied to attend university in each of the last three years in (a) Lancashire and (b) the UK.

(97411)

85   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what measures he is taking to reduce the burden of debt on graduates.

(97413)

86   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to increase the threshold on eligibility to apply for university grants.

(97410)

87   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the number of students able to claim grants for university in (a) Lancashire and (b) Chorley for the next three years.

(97409)

88   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimates he has made of the number of students applying to attend university in each of the next three years.

(97412)

89   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what mechanism he has established to ensure that funding for deprivation via local education authorities reaches children for whom it is intended.

(96999)

90   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list the deprivation indices for shire counties.

(96997)

91   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of educational maintenance allowances is channelled through local education authorities.

(96996)

92   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what criteria he uses to define deprivation for the purposes of the education funding formula; and how they differ from the deprivation criteria used by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

(96998)

93
N   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will publish his costings that underlie his estimate that the administration costs for a graduate tax would be in the region of £ 1 billion.

(96671)

94   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there were in Suffolk in each year since 1997.

(97387)

95   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the skill shortages experienced by employers in Suffolk.

(97384)

96   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will place the evaluations for the Capital Modernisation Fund projects relating to (a) national IT strategy, (b) space for sports and arts, (c) school laboratories for the 21st century, (d) wired-up communities, (e) university for industry on-line, (f) new technology institutes, (g) cybrarian, (h) 6th form rationalisation, (i) specialist schools, (j) computers for teachers phase II, (k) HE student support service, (l) SEN communication aids, (m) E-registration, (n) schools management system, (o) ICT for children in care curriculum online, (p) school security from learning to earning, (q) playground renovation and (r) centres of vocational excellence in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97022)

97
N   Mr A.J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the burning of carcasses of cattle over five years old on the Hemscott Hill site precludes its use for animal grazing this year; and if she will publish the risk assessment carried out into the site by Dr Kirkup, the Regional Director of Public Health.

(95274)

98   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the legislation from the EU on Minimum Air Quality is expected to take effect; and how DEFRA is preparing for this.

(97035)

99
N   Mr Ivan Henderson (Harwich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding was allocated to the Harwich constituency under the market towns initiative in 2001.

(96913)

100   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action the Government has taken to limit the maximum journey time for livestock throughout Europe.

(97136)

101   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action the Government is taking to end the use of (a) veal crates and (b) battery cages across Europe.

(97131)

102   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to ban the trade in birds and animals taken from the wild except for scientific and conservation reasons.

(97124)

103   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the development of dog registration and education programmes for responsible pet ownership.

(97134)

104   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms have been put in place to ensure the effective registration of livestock hauliers and the inspection of their operations in relation to the welfare of the livestock.

(97125)

105   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the Government's policies on commercial whaling and the proposal for a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary.

(97132)

106   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what investigations have been undertaken by her Department into the production of smokies using imported contaminated carcasses of goats and sheep; and what action the Government has taken to address this issue.

(97126)

107   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures have been introduced by the Government to improve the welfare of animals, with particular reference to enforcement measures.

(97129)

108   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made by the Government since 1997 in strengthening the legislative protection afforded to sites of special scientific interest.

(97135)

109   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the reclassification of animals as sentient beings under European law and its implications for the welfare of animals.

(97128)

110   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Government has made since 1997 in the creation of new national parks and marine nature reserves.

(97133)

111
N   Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what evaluation she has made of the impact on the nursery tree production sector of the introduction of a single closing date for the Woodland Grant Scheme for new planting.

(96824)

112
N   Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the expenditure in England of the Woodland Grant Scheme was in (a) 2000, (b) 2001 and (c) 2002 calendar years.

(96827)

113
N   Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applicants there were for the Woodland Grant Scheme round for which the closing date was 31st October 2002.

(96867)

114
N   Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the difficulties with the 31st October deadline were for applicants for the Woodland Grant Scheme referred to by the Forestry Commission in its circular to interested parties dated 16th December 2002.

(96862)

115
N   Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received concerning the introduction of a single closing date for the next round of the Woodland Grant Scheme for new planting.

(96828)

116   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessments she has made on the impact of changes in duty for biodiesel on British agriculture.

(97392)

117   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding has been given to the Bury St Edmunds constituency under the market towns initiative.

(97386)

118   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many village halls have been in operation every year since 1997 in (a) the East of England, (b) Suffolk and (c) the constituency of Bury St Edmunds.

(97388)

119   Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to apply the producer responsibility principle to the publishers of free newspapers.

(97098)

120   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place the evaluations for Capital Modernisation Fund projects in her Department and undertaken by the Forestry Commission since 1998 in the Library; and if she will make a statement.

(97030)

121   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer whether Customs and Excise in Northern Ireland has received any additional Government funding since 1st April 2002.

(97009)

122   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how much aggregates tax revenue has been collected in Northern Ireland to date against that which would have been expected; and what is the estimated cost to date of implementing the tax in Northern Ireland.

(97014)

123   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what research Customs and Excise have carried out into the amount of illegally imported aggregate from the Republic of Ireland.

(97007)

124   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how he proposes to remove the incentive for people (a) to import aggregate from the Republic of Ireland, (b) to open up unauthorised extraction operations and (c) to sell aggregate without paying aggregate tax.

(97010)

125   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many tonnes of imported aggregate have been declared in tax returns to date.

(97006)

126   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) detections of evasion of payment of aggregates tax and (b) prosecutions there have been.

(97008)

127   Ms Karen Buck (Regent's Park & Kensington North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the official statistics published in the past five years by the Office of National Statistics which have been amended, stating the reasons in each case.

(97197)

128   Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the Answer of 4th February, Official Report, column 181W, on Israel, if he will list the imports where verification enquiries are being made by Customs and Excise.

(97261)

129   Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what enquiries are being made by HM Customs and Excise to ascertain whether goods are on sale in British supermarkets which have been imported to the EU under preference according to the EU-Israel Association Agreement but which originate in settlements in the Occupied Territories.

(97077)

130   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 15th January, Official Report, columns 661-662W, on Capita, if he will give the (a) start and finish date, (b) value, (c) evaluation mechanism for successful delivery and (d) penalty charges for failure to deliver for each contract; whether penalty charges have been incurred; what the service level agreements were; what the contract numbers were; and if he will make a statement.

(97334)

131
N   Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 14th January, Official Report, column 514W, on home insurance, when the FSA will be consulting on the disclosure of fees charged by mortgage providers for switching insurance taken out as a condition of the mortgage; and if he will ask the FSA to consult additionally on whether these fees should be abolished.

(96826)

132   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has received the French parliamentary report The City of London, Gibraltar and the Crown Dependencies: offshore centres, sanctuaries for dirty money; and if he will make a statement.

(97081)

133
N   Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent estimate he has made of the cost of bank charges to retailers for credit and debit card transactions.

(96651)

134   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many customs officials have been (a) investigated and (b) interviewed regarding their participation in Duty Diversion Fraud for each year from 1994 to 2002.

(97367)

135   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the estimated total loss in excise duty due to diversion fraud including frauds not actually investigated is for each year from 1993 to 2002.

(97397)

136   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many accompanying administrative documents AADs for duty-suspended excise goods were in circulation in each year from 1998 to 2002; how many were outstanding in each year from 1998 to 2002; and how many undischarged AADs there are against which assessments have been raised.

(97341)

137   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many convictions were secured in cases relating to diversion fraud between 1993 and 2002; and how many of these convictions are considered unsafe because of non-disclosure of relevant material at trial by Customs Officers.

(97368)

138
N   Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions officials from his Department have had with the Financial Services Authority concerning the professional indemnity insurance requirements of independent financial advisers beyond June 2003.

(96866)

139   Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of all taxes on income paid by households and business was accounted for by corporation tax in 1998.

(97249)

140   Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the effect of a 2 per cent. reduction in the rate of corporation tax would be on tax revenue.

(97248)

141   Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to (a) review, (b) revise and (c) replace the Barnett Formula for the allocation of public expenditure to (i) Wales, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Northern Ireland.

(97247)

142   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received regarding changes to the level of duty on biodiesel fuel.

(97394)

143   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 4th February, Official Report, column 185W, on tobacco smuggling, what the costs of the research undertaken for (a) the 2000 report on tobacco smuggling and (b) the 2002 reports were; and if he will make a statement.

(97251)

144   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the target market share of smuggled cigarettes was in financial years (a) 2003-04 and (b) 2004-05; and if he will make a statement.

(97026)

145   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place the evaluations for the Capital Modernisation Fund projects relating to (a) Inland Revenue E-business gateway, (b) Inland Revenue unified reference validation, (c) Customs and Excise port surveillance, (d) Customs and Excise anti drug surveillance radar, (e) Customs and Excise scanners and (f) Office of National Statistics PAT 18: Better Information" in the Library.

(97020)

146   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, column 29W, on the euro, for what reason he was unable to state who is undertaking the background studies; and if he will make a statement.

(97264)

147   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which people elected at the last national elections in Burma are political prisoners in Burma; and what information he has collated regarding the location of each prisoner.

(97120)

148   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information he has collated about the number of British tourists who visited Burma in each of the past two financial years.

(97252)

149   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which people elected at the last elections in Burma are under house arrest there.

(97119)

150
N   Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consultations the UK Government had with other EU member states prior to granting an export control licence for the sale of the Alenia Marconi Systems radar system to the Government of Sudan; and which EU member state the UK Government had to notify subsequent to the application for an export control licence being approved.

(96645)

151   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 9th January, Official Report, column 351W, on Capita, if he will give the (a) start and finish date, (b) value, (c) evaluation mechanism for successful delivery and (d) penalty charges for failure to deliver for each contract; whether penalty charges have been incurred; what the service level agreements were; what the contract numbers were; and if he will make a statement.

(97339)

152   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to update his Department's Table of 1998 of Draft Resolutions in the United Nations Security Council that have been vetoed by members.

(97083)

153   Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy that people born in the UK but living in Zimbabwe may have their passport stamped born in UK.

(97173)

154
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish a revised version of the UK Dossier on Iraq of September 2002.

(96950)

155
N   Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether al-Qaida radio stations operate from inside Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.

(96983)

156   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with non governmental organisations and international aid organisations regarding building relationships with Kyrgyzstan; and if he will make a statement.

(97163)

157   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Kyrgyzstan Government to establish relations; and if he will make a statement.

(91762)

158   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions the European Union has had regarding developing relations with Kyrgyzstan; and if he will make a statement.

(97164)

159
N   Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UN inspectors were present in Iraq in each year between 1991 and 1998; and which (a) weapons of mass destruction, (b) their precursors and (c) missile delivery systems were destroyed in each of those years.

(96750)

160
N   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the resolutions passed by the (a) United Nations General Assembly and (b) United Nations Security Council in respect of Israel, which Israel to date has not complied with; and if he will make a statement on efforts made to ensure Israeli compliance.

(96991)

161
N   Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which European capital cities the Minister for Europe has visited since his appointment; and which European capital cities he plans to visit over the next three months.

(96580)

162
N   Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the Minister for Europe next intends to visit (a) Brussels, (b) Strasbourg and (c) Luxembourg; and how many visits the Minister has made to those cities since his appointment.

(96581)

163   Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the risk to international security from North Korea; and what action his Department is undertaking to re-introduce international inspectors to the country.

(97089)

164   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place the evaluations for Capital Modernisation Fund projects in his Department since 1998 in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97034)

165   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many sexual assault referral centres in the UK the Department funds (a) alone and (b) jointly with another agency, at premises other than at hospitals.

(97123)

166   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Department's policy is on locating future sexual assault referral centres at (a) hospitals and (b) separate premises.

(97121)

167   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether GP practice nurses are given training to deal with domestic violence victims.

(97122)

168   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 5th February, Official Report, column 225W, on international nurse recruitment, how many overseas nurse recruitment agencies have been invited to sign the international nurse code of conduct.

(97271)

169   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 17th December 2002, Official Report, column 794W, on the international advice line, how many calls were received on 08458 50588 in (a) December 2002 and (b) January 2003.

(97342)

170   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of how consultant (a) neurologists and (b) specialist nurses in post have coped with implementing the prescription plus monitoring scheme for beta interferons; and whether further resources will be made available to facilitate the scheme.

(97146)

171   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the incidence of inappropriate neuroleptic prescribing in nursing and residential homes; and if he will make a statement.

(97209)

172   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of the postponement of Criminal Record Bureau checks on domiciliary care staff and the implications it has for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults List; and what systems have been put in place to ensure vulnerable adults are protected from harm or abuse in their own home.

(97208)

173   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the response to his consultation into delayed discharge; and what aspects of the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc) Bill were altered to take into consideration the views of those who submitted their views to the consultation.

(97144)

174   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the standard letter that was sent to care homes who failed to pass on the free nursing care payment onto residents; and how many have been sent.

(97143)

175   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what date everyone with MS who is eligible for beta interferons will have received these drugs under the prescription plus monitoring scheme; and how many people potentially eligible for the drug have received it.

(97145)

176   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to lay the Statutory Instrument that amends the regulations to extend the time limit for staff who were employed in care homes immediately before April 2002 for obtaining checks from the Criminal Records Bureau.

(97212)

177   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many bids he has received from local authorities to become pilot projects for children trusts.

(97139)

178   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many adverse drug reactions were reported by nurses to the electronic yellow card scheme in January.

(97138)

179   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out the way in which (a) NCCHTA, (b) TAG, (c) TAR, (d) universities, (e) his Department, (f) NICE and (g) the joint working group work together to decide which drugs NICE should appraise; and if he will make a statement.

(97140)

180   Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) monitoring and (b) research has been conducted by or for his Department on long waiting times for genito-urinary medicine services.

(97149)

181   Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the investment by his Department on GUM clinics; and how the investment will be spent.

(97148)

182   Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting times were in GUM clinics for patients referred by general practitioners in the latest period for which figures are available.

(97147)

183   Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds in (a) Sunderland Royal Hospital, (b) Hartlepool General Hospital and (c) Ryhope Hospital are accepted by EMI patients who could be cared for in the community; and if he will make a statement.

(97161)

184   Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were carried out in each of the last five years by private healthcare companies using National Health Service facilities.

(97186)

185   Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what total revenue was generated in each of the last five years from the use of National Health Service facilities by private healthcare companies.

(97169)

186   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on prescribing practice for Viagra.

(97097)

187   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the proposal to include the Social Services Inspectorate within the Council for Health Improvement.

(97041)

188   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what help is available to diagnose and prevent people suffering from multiple clinical symptoms.

(97044)

189   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to organise a further round of funding of the building capacity grant.

(97043)

190   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on his decision to abolish the Department for Health and Social Care; and what he plans to replace it with.

(97040)

191   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list Chief Executives of health bodies who have left their posts over the last 24 months; if he will give the reason in each case; and what financial package arrangements were made in each case.

(97096)

192   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures are being put in place to reimburse local authorities who may be subject to the impact of delayed discharges legislation.

(97042)

193   Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the Government's campaign to tackle effectively prostate cancer; and if he will make a statement.

(97137)

194   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evaluation he has made of the Heart Choice Scheme; and if he will make a statement.

(97317)

195   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the London pilot scheme extending patient choice to cataract patients.

(97315)

196   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patient care advisers work at each heart surgery centre in England.

(97310)

197   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has put in place to extend the London pilot scheme on patient choice for (a) cataract patients, (b) ENT patients and (c) general surgery throughout England.

(97316)

198   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what qualifications are required for a person wishing to become a patient care adviser for the Heart Choice Scheme.

(97311)

199   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have (a) been eligible and (b) applied for treatment elsewhere under the Heart Choice Scheme.

(97313)

200   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure there will be a smooth transition between the abolition of community health councils and their replacement.

(97400)

201   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have received treatment (a) abroad and (b) in the independent sector as part of the Heart Choice Scheme.

(97314)

202   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have been treated in a hospital that is not their home centre under the Heart Choice Scheme.

(97312)

203   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is a requirement for NHS hospitals to employ an independent patient care adviser to advise patients on the Heart Choice Scheme.

(97309)

204   Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action is being taken to encourage low income groups to increase their consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables.

(97324)

205   Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Government is making in increasing the average daily consumption of fruit and vegetables from three to five portions a day.

(87323)

206   Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice is given to the public on improving diet.

(97322)

207   Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money was spent on average in each of the last five years on research into (a) the prevention of cancer and (b) the link between diet and cancer in the UK.

(97321)

208   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money his Department has spent on public health programmes targeted at encouraging the consumption of fruit and vegetables in each of the past 10 years.

(97104)

209   Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the money allocated for palliative care in the cancer plan.

(97084)

210   Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 2nd December from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Z Daugavietis.

(97085)

211   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of the deregulation of pharmacy contracts on smaller, non-supermarket pharmacies.

(97399)

212   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to (a) earmark, (b) hypothecate and (c) ring-fence funding for NHS Trusts.

(97395)

213   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice he has sought on asystolic donor transplant operations and elective ventilation procedures.

(97179)

214   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence he has evaluated on the impact of the availability of choice of immunosuppressive agents on short and long-term outcomes for renal patients; what plans he has to allow the National Service Framework on Renal Services to enable access to choice and tailored treatment for each patient; and if he will make a statement.

(97178)

215   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many delayed discharge patients there were in January in (a) the Suffolk West PCT area and (b) the Central Suffolk PCT area; and what percentage of those patients had been waiting over 28 days.

(97391)

216   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the National Cancer Plan money that has been allocated so far for palliative care has been received by (a) voluntary based hospices and (b) NHS hospices.

(97389)

217
N   The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of vehicles each NHS trust renewed in their vehicle fleets, broken down by volume and percentage for each trust and by category of vehicle, type of power unit, and type of fuel in each of the last five years.

(96594)

218
N   The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made with renewal of NHS trusts' vehicle fleets on a lower emission basis, broken down by volume and percentage for each category of vehicle, type of power unit and/or type of fuel, in each of the last three years.

(96593)

219   Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will instigate an inquiry into the staffing and funding of speech therapy in (a) special schools and (b) mainstream schools.

(97182)

220   Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is taking to (a) train and (b) recruit more speech therapists.

(97183)

221   Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of shortages of speech therapists in Essex; and if he will make a statement.

(97181)

222   Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he plans to ensure that primary care trusts provide speech therapy to meet children's statmented needs.

(97180)

223   Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many basic grade social work vacancies there have been in field work teams dealing with child protection work in each local authority area in each year since 1997.

(97090)

224   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current average waiting time is in England for operations on children to remove tonsils.

(97105)

225   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place the evaluations for the Capital Modernisation Fund projects relating to (a) modernising coronary heart disease, (b) A & E and primary modernisation, (c) action on cataracts, (d) meningitis vaccinations, (e) decontamination and (f) NHS LIFT PPPs in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97023)

226   Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the impact of community support officers on the level of crime in the pilot areas.

(97005)

227   Peter Bradley (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to receive advice on the medicinal benefits and side-effects of cannabis; and when he will make a decision as to whether, and when, how and to whom, it will be legally available for therapeutic purposes.

(97174)

228
N   Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for West Chelmsford of (a) 13th November 2002, reference 22406/2 and (b) 26th September 2002, reference 19999/2; and if he will make a statement on the reasons for the delay in replying.

(96152)

229   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what date the Carter Report has set for the restoration of checks against the Protection of Vulnerable Adults List.

(97207)

230   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place a copy of the (a) enhanced, (b) basic disclosure and (c) standard forms and the (i) old and (ii) new explanatory notes for Criminal Records Bureau checks in the Library.

(97210)

231   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the (a) milestones and (b) targets that have been set by the Carter Inquiry into the postponement of Criminal Record Bureau checks; and when they are expected to be achieved.

(97211)

232   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 29th January, Official Report, column 911W, on the Criminal Records Bureau, how much was paid to each organisation who conducted research for the Department; and if he will place a copy of each of the evaluations in the Library.

(97225)

233   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Criminal Record Bureau plans to launch an advisory service to employers about the availability of checks in a variety of countries; how much the contract is valued at; when the contract will expire; how many people are employed in the service; how much his Department is investing in the service; and if he will make a statement.

(97141)

234   Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been made in respect of individuals in (a) Hertsmere, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) the United Kingdom in each year since the orders came into being.

(97002)

235   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent reports he has received about the trend in respect of credit card fraud; what he estimates its most recent annual level in the UK was; which new forms of such fraud are giving the authorities most cause for concern; what proposals and advice he is planning to help tackle the problem; and if he will make a statement.

(97172)

236   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the comments of the Surveillance Commissioner in his Annual Report (HC 68), on what obligations are on public authorities when seeking access to communications data; and if he will make a statement.

(97067)

237   Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the budget of the County Durham Police was spent on pension funds in (a) 2000, (b) 2001 and (c) 2002 and is projected to be spent in 2003.

(97159)

238   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the recent report on Ashfield Young Offenders' Institution.

(97036)

239   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what sanctions he has imposed on Recruit as a result of the Ashfield Report; and what plans he has to encourage them to reform their recruitment policies.

(97039)

240   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with Recruit regarding (a) their record at Ashfield and (b) other prison contracts they are responsible for.

(97037)

241   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list those prisons which cater for young offenders; and how many (a) young offenders and (b) other prisoners are held in each prison.

(97038)

242   Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 9th January, Official Report, column 310W, on Crime Reduction Partnerships, if he will list the location of the public area CCTV schemes funded through the Crime Reduction Programme Closed Circuit Television, and the grant made to each scheme.

(97262)

243   Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 14th January, Official Report, column 585W, on Retail Industry Crime, how many small retail businesses have (a) applied for and (b) received a grant from the Government to improve security on their property; and if he will list those consulted in the preparation of the new survey of crime affecting retail and manufacturing business.

(97263)

244   Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers with HIV/AIDS have been refused support as a result of not claiming asylum on arrival at UK ports of entry since 8th January.

(97093)

245   Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure that asylum claimants are made aware of the consequences of a failure to claim asylum at ports of entry immediately on arrival in the UK.

(97094)

246   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of crime in the Portsmouth South constituency was deemed to be drug-related in the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

(97280)

247   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) antisocial behaviour orders, (b) parenting orders and (c) curfew orders have been issued in the City of Portsmouth South in the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

(97278)

248
N   Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been refused support by NASS on the basis of not having made their claim as soon as is reasonably practicable after arriving in the UK on each day since 8th January.

(96863)

249   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the outcome of discussions between his Department, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Cabinet Office to address the issue of support for victims of domestic violence who are subject to immigration control.

(97320)

250   Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 4th November from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms Mansoureli Bozorovia.

(97086)

251   Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 18th November from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr A Z Majid.

(97087)

252   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reasons the honourable Member for Yeovil has yet to receive a reply to his letter of 1st December 2002 to the Chief Executive of the Immigration and Nationality department in relation to the Home Office Reference S1153646; and if he will make a statement.

(97363)

253   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the rights of prison officers to undertake industrial action; and whether the Government plans to review these rights.

(97127)

254   John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the banning of the use of wild caught primates in experiments.

(97130)

255   Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on inserting compulsory disclosure of membership of the Freemasons in the contracts of new police recruits.

(97185)

256   Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to publish the Explanatory Notes for the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.

(97184)

257
N   Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the (a) young offenders and (b) remand inmates housed at Ashfield are from Wales; to which young offenders institutions they will go; and how far those institutions are from Wales.

(96911)

258   Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful prosecutions there have been under the Road Traffic Act 1991 c40 section 3 in each year since 1991.

(97168)

259   Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) fathers and (b) mothers are in prison who are aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18 to 21, (iii) 21 to 31, and (iv) 31 to 41.

(97268)

260   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the conviction rates were for each police force in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.

(97108)

261   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place the evaluations for the Capital Modernisation Fund projects relating to (a) crime reduction, (b) national police radio programme (PSRCP), (c) IT integration in criminal justice system, (d) DNA databases, (e) active communities prison pressures, (f) national strategy on police information systems, (g) government technical assistance centre, (h) video recording police interviews, (i) DNA database population, (j) video-links: modernising the court process, (k) post-release support hostel for prisoners after drug treatment, (l) electronic chipping" of goods, (m) Project Lion, (n) firearms forensic database, (o) secure units for juvenile offenders, (p) security for small business, (q) detecting concealed people, (r) prison capacity and juvenile accommodation and (s) counter-terrorism in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97024)

262
N   Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants for asylum, broken down by country of origin, have had their applications refused since 22nd October 2001; and how many are known (a) to have left the United Kingdom and (b) to have remained within the United Kingdom.

(96406)

263
N   Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas for temporary stays in the United Kingdom (a) were issued and (b) have expired since 29th October 2001; and of the latter (i) how many holders are known to have left the country and (ii) how many holders are known not to have left the country (A) because of applications for asylum, (B) for other lawful reasons and (C) for other unlawful reasons.

(96407)

264   Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum in this country have been received from (a) single Afghan males, (b) Afghan females and (c) Afghan families since November 2001.

(97226)

265   Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what permission was granted by NASS to Accommodata to move into the Coniston Hotel on 5th February to begin preparations to receive asylum seekers.

(97003)

266   Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Accommodata has been given permission by NASS to refurbish the Coniston Hotel.

(97004)

267   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to his Answer of 13th January, Official Report, column 459W, on Capita, if he will give the (a) start and finish date, (b) value, (c) evaluation mechanism for successful delivery and (d) penalty charges for failure to deliver for each contract; whether penalty charges have been incurred; what the service level agreements were; what the contract numbers were; and if he will make a statement.

(97336)

268   Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made in respect of developing air links with St Helena; and if she will make a statement.

(97160)

269   Ann McKechin (Glasgow, Maryhill): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library information received by her Department from the third report of the UN Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the DRC; and if she will request copies of all material collected in relation to allegations made in the report which she has found to be (a) inaccurate and (b) unsubstantiated.

(97099)

270   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent meetings she has had with non-governmental organisations and international aid organisations regarding Kyrgyzstan; and if she will make a statement.

(97167)

271   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in (a) the United States of America, (b) the European Union and (c) Russia to encourage them to give aid to Kyrgyzstan; and if she will make a statement.

(97166)

272   Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK aid budget was given to Kyrgyzstan in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

(97165)

273   Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of reports from Zimbabwe that maize earmarked for starving Zimbabweans is unaccounted for; what representations she (a) has made and (b) plans to make to the World Food Programme on this matter; what assessment she has made of the impact this will have on the people of Zimbabwe; and if she will make a statement.

(97078)

274
N   The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made in renewal of the Commonwealth Development Corporation's vehicle fleet on a lower emission basis, broken down by (a) volume and (b) percentage for each category of vehicle and (c) type of power unit and/or type of fuel, in each of the past three years.

(96976)

275
N   The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, at what annual rate the Commonwealth Development Corporation renews its vehicle fleet, broken down by volume and percentage for each category of vehicle, type of power unit, and type of fuel.

(96977)

276
N   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations she has made to the Government of Botswana regarding their policy of relocating San Bushmen of the Kalahari.

(96158)

277
N   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what conditions were imposed on Botswana with regard to the receipt of aid from the EU for the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR); and what assessment her Department has made of these conditions.

(96159)

278
N   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid the EU has provided to support the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in each of the last five years.

(96160)

279
N   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what importance her Department accords the rights of indigenous peoples in Botswana in developing her Department's aid programmes for Botswana.

(96161)

280   Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, (a) when and (b) how the local consultation in Dorset on modernising the civil and family courts will take place.

(97223)

281   Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when he will launch the consultation on Modernising the Civil and Family Courts.

(97218)

282   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many outstanding items of casework there were at the Public Guardianship Office in the last four quarters.

(97142)

283   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if she will place the evaluations for Capital Modernisation Fund projects in the Lord Chancellor's Department since 1998 in the Library; and if she will make a statement.

(97031)

284   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will identify the automatic traffic monitoring sites situated along the A29 route.

(97011)

285   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what measures he has put in place to assess the impact of the aggregates tax on companies in Northern Ireland.

(97013)

286   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will commission a new survey for traffic volume in Moy village.

(97012)

287   Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Cunninghame South): To ask the President of the Council, what progress has been made in the last three years in replacing (a) his and (b) his predecessor's ministerial car on a lower emission basis; and what type of (i) power unit and (ii) fuel each car used by him and his predecessor in the course of his ministerial duties used.

(97016)

288   Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Cunninghame South): To ask the President of the Council, at what annual rate he or his predecessor has replaced his ministerial car in the course of the last three years.

(97018)

289   Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his announcement in Le Touquet, how his plan for France and the United Kingdom to have one aircraft carrier permanently available will work in practice.

(97177)

290   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, how many parents or carers of children killed or non-accidentally injured whilst in their care were prosecuted for neglect under section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 for their role in the death or injury in (a) 2001 and (b) 2002.

(97114)

291   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions were (a) not commenced and (b) discontinued pre-trial of parents or carers of children killed or non-accidentally injured whilst in their care, in (i) 2001 and (ii) 2002 because it was not clear which of the parties was guilty of the assault or killing.

(97115)

292   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, what the CPS policy is on prosecuting a carer or parent where a child is killed or non-accidentally injured whilst in the care of a small group of carers of parents.

(97116)

293   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, how many parents or carers were (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted in connection with the (i) killing and (ii) non-accidental injury of children in their care in (A) 2001 and (B) 2002.

(97117)

294   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, how many convicted parents or carers of children killed or non-accidentally injured whilst in their care were the subject of unduly lenient sentence appeals in (a) 2001 and (b) 2002.

(97112)

295   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, in how many cases in (a) 2001 and (b) 2002 in which one parent or carer was convicted of neglect for their role in the non-accidental injury or death of children in their care, the other parent was convicted of murder, manslaughter or an assault offence.

(97113)

296   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, what advice the CPS gives to police about charging parents or carers in whose care children have been killed or non-accidentally injured if is is unclear which of them was responsible for the injury or death.

(97111)

297   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Solicitor General, how many children were (a) killed and (b) non-accidentally injured whilst in the care of their parents or carers in (i) 2001 and (ii) 2002.

(97118)

298   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Solicitor General, how many cases of person assisted suicide the Crown Prosecution Service has taken up over the last five years.

(97045)

299
N   Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Solicitor General, why the Attorney General is represented at the Metropolitan Police internal disciplinary hearing of John Redgrave.

(96914)

300   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the value of imports of timber from Burma was in the past two financial years; and which companies imported the timber.

(97220)

301   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which British companies have investments in Burma.

(97221)

302   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which UK banks have provided loans to the (a) regime in and (b) state owned industries in Burma, in the past two financial years.

(97266)

303   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the value of UK investment in Burma, including transfers via dependent territories, was in each of the past two financial years.

(97219)

304   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 9th January, Official Report, column 6W, on Capita, if he will give the (a) start and finish date, (b) value, (c) evaluation mechanism for successful delivery and (d) penalty charges for failure to deliver for each contract; whether penalty charges have been incurred; what the service level agreements were; what the contract numbers were; and if he will make a statement.

(97338)

305
N   Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps have been taken to implement the Cruickshank report recommendations for regulating the charges on small businesses for credit and debit card transactions.

(96650)

306
N   Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to establish a payments regulator within the Office of Fair Trading.

(96649)

307
N   Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the level of take up of broadband is in (a) the UK and (b) other G7 countries is, as a percentage of the population.

(96753)

308
N   Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total volume was of UK e-commerce transactions in (a) 2000, (b) 2001 and (c) 2002.

(96754)

309   Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the value is of the contract recently awarded to Aon Health Services for carrying out health assessments for compensation for services under the Government's vibration white finger compensation scheme.

(97095)

310   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the legal status is of the Memorandum of Understanding between her and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service.

(97201)

311   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the United Kingdom Accreditation Service is (a) a non-profit-distributing and (b) a non-profit making company.

(97203)

312   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps her Department takes to ensure that the United Kingdom Accreditation Service polices use of the national accreditation marks which feature the Royal Crown.

(97204)

313   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what financial support her Department provides to the United Kingdom Accreditation Service; and for what purpose.

(97205)

314   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what she is doing to encourage conformity assessment bodies to seek accreditation from the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, pursuant to Article 2 of the Memorandum of Understanding between her and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, including those upon whose services the Government relies for (a) procurement and (b) regulatory purposes.

(97202)

315   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the financial loss to post offices in Portsmouth South as a result of the change in the payment of benefits from over-the-counter to direct bank transfer; and if she will make a statement.

(97273)

316   Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what she estimates will be the effect on the Waterloo area of the closure of the Waterloo Road Post Office.

(97333)

317   Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many people and what percentage of the workforce in Pendle (a) were employed in manufacturing industry in 1977 and (b) are employed in manufacturing.

(97369)

318   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on responsibility for the appointment of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.

(97385)

319
N   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much has been paid to consultants engaged by her Department to assess the financial situation of British Energy; and if she will list the consultants engaged to conduct this work since September 2002.

(96989)

320
N   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which chemicals with potential military and civil dual-use capabilities the United Kingdom has licensed for sale to Israel; and what steps have been taken to ensure these chemicals have not been put to military use.

(96987)

321
N   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the risk of terrorists (a) intercepting and (b) stealing plutonium in transit by sea from Sellafield to (i) Japan, (ii) European Union member states and (iii) Switzerland.

(96988)

322   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many planning consents are being sought for (a) offshore and (b) land-based wind farm projects in (i) England, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Northern Ireland; and if she will list the locations.

(97068)

323   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate she has made of the contribution to be made by (a) off-shore and (b) land-based wind farm projects over the next ten years as a percentage of overall electricity generation.

(97070)

324   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) off-shore and (b) land-based wind farm projects are under construction; and what the expected completion dates are.

(97069)

325   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will place the evaluations for the Capital Modernisation Fund projects relating to (a) MIT/Cambridge, (b) venture capital, (c) small business service (SBS) Gateway, (d) getting SMEs on-line, (e) internet access to the employment tribunals, (f) incubators, (g) novel recycling, (h) UK Oil Portal, (i) NACAB IT System, (j) renewable energy and (k) business.gov in the Library; and if she will make a statement.

(97027)

326   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) rural and (b) urban post offices have closed in each of the last 12 months (i) in total and (ii) broken down by region.

(97100)

327   Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, from what time in the morning aircraft are permitted to fly into Heathrow over the Palace of Westminster.

(97075)

328   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the existing rail freight links between the North of England and the Continent.

(97272)

329   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 15th January, Official Report, column 622W, on Capita, if he will give the (a) start and finish date, (b) value, (c) evaluation mechanism for successful delivery and (d) penalty charges for failure to deliver for each contract; whether penalty charges have been incurred; what the service level agreements were; what the contract numbers were; and if he will make a statement.

(97335)

330   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 6th February, ref 95029, by what means he intends to obtain information about experiences gained from road user charging schemes in London and Durham.

(97383)

331   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 6th February, ref 95029, if he will establish a dedicated hotline so that the public can inform his Department of their experiences gained from road user charging schemes in London and Durham.

(97382)

332   Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what recent meetings he has had with English Nature; what was discussed; and if he will place a copy of the minutes in the Library.

(97267)

333   Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the amount of freight he expects to travel by road rather than rail as a result of the withdrawal of (a) freight facilities grants and (b) track access grants.

(97340)

334   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many road traffic accidents have been recorded on the A14 between Stowmarket and Bury St Edmunds in (a) 2000-01 (b) 2001-02 and (c) 2002-February 2003.

(97393)

335   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) his Department and (b) local authorities of damage done to UK roads by overweight vehicles in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2001.

(97072)

336   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many accidents there were on UK roads where overweight vehicles were a factor in the accident in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.

(97073)

337   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many vehicles qualified for 25-year road tax exemption discs in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.

(97074)

338   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, how many vehicles were found to be overweight at weigh-bridges in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001; and how many prosecutions were pursued against individuals and companies relating to such vehicles in each of those years.

(97071)

339   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will place the evaluations for the Capital Modernisation Fund projects relating to (a) London Underground, (b) priority bus routes, (c) rural transport, (d) networking of DSA test centres, (e) automatic number plate readers, (f) DLR City airport extension, (g) Transport Police communications, (h) VI motion sensors, (i) automated traffic management and (j) home zones in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97025)

340
N   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will establish an inquiry into leaks to media concerning the question of further devolution of powers with regard to tuition fees and maintenance grants to the National Assembly for Wales.

(96992)

341
N   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he has established whether the press were in possession of information on the question of further devolution of powers with regard to tuition fees and maintenance grants to the National Assembly for Wales in advance of contacting his Press Office.

(96990)

342   Mr John Cummings (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners draw their retirement pensions at (a) post offices, (b) banks and (c) at building societies in the Easington constituency.

(97158)

343   Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the closure of the IFI/Richardsons Plant in Belfast on home workers based outside Northern Ireland.

(97206)

344
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of the Department's claim packs refer claimants to Citizens Advice Bureaux.

(96374)

345   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners received winter fuel payments in the financial year 2001-02 in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) England and (d) Northern Ireland; and what the total payment was in each.

(97265)

346   Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Government will review benefit and pension entitlement with regard to the relationship between the lower earnings threshold and National Insurance contributions.

(97076)

347   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have migrated from over-the-counter benefit payments to direct bank transfer in Portsmouth South; and if he will make a statement.

(97274)

348   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of benefit fraud in Portsmouth South; and if he will make a statement.

(97275)

349   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of children in poverty in Portsmouth South in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(97276)

350   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners collect benefits from post offices in Portsmouth South; and if he will make a statement.

(97277)

351   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many CSA cases were referred to the Independent Case Examiner in Portsmouth South in each year since 1997; what the average time taken to determine each case was; how many complaints were upheld; and if he will make a statement.

(97279)

352   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the cost of raising the basic state pension to the level of the minimum income guarantee; and if he will make a statement.

(97359)

353   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate, for each major benefit and pension, how much of the expenditure of his Department is received by each decile within the UK income distribution; and if he will make a statement.

(97355)

354   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the real growth of planned total expenditure by his Department for each year from 2002-03 to 2005-06; and if he will make a statement.

(97351)

355   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the proportion of (a) children and (b) pensioners living in households in the bottom two deciles of income distribution.

(97349)

356   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the annual cost of increasing the basic state pension by the rate of average earnings growth for each of the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement.

(97364)

357   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons disability living allowance spending has increased from 1995-96 to 2003-04 (planned); and if he will make a statement.

(97361)

358   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the change in real spending on the winter heating allowance between 2000-01 and 2003-04 (planned); and if he will make a statement.

(97358)

359   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the amount of benefit fraud in each year from 1990-91 to 2002-03 (estimated) (a) in total and (b) broken down by (i) housing benefit, (ii) council tax benefit, (iii) disability benefit, (iv) pensions and (v) jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement.

(97354)

360   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the cost of the minimum income guarantee and pension credit for each year from 1997-98 to 2004-05 (planned).

(97365)

361   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the change in statutory maternity pay in real terms from 1995-96 to 2003-04 (planned); what his estimate is of the amount of this benefit received by each decile of the UK income distribution; and if he will make a statement.

(97360)

362   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many permanent staff worked for his Department and its agencies in each year from 1996-97 to 2003-04 (planned); what the reasons are underlying changes in staff numbers; and if he will make a statement.

(97348)

363   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff worked in the (a) Child Support Agency, (b) pensions service and administration, (c) disability benefits delivery and administration, (d) child benefit delivery and administration, (e) benefit offices, (f) job centre offices and (h) Central administration rating areas in each year from 1995-96 to 2002-03; and if he will make a statement.

(97362)

364   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the change in real spending on total administration costs for gross controlled areas for each year from 1998-99 to 2003-04 (planned); and if he will make a statement.

(97347)

365   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the amount of unclaimed winter heating allowance for each year from 1999-2000 to 2003-04; and if he will make a statement.

(97357)

366   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the current unallocated provision in his Department's total resource and capital budget for 2003-04; and if he will make a statement.

(97344)

367   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the real growth in spending by his Department between 1997 and 2002 on (a) housing benefit, (b) council tax benefit, (c) pensions, (d) disability benefits, (e) child benefits and (f) unemployment related benefits; and if he will make a statement.

(97352)

368   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the cost of increasing the basic state pension by (a) £5 per week, (b) £10 per week, (c) £15 per week, (d) £20 per week, and (e) to £100 per week, for (i) all pensioners, (ii) pensioners of age 75 and over, and (iii) pensioners of age 80 and over.

(97366)

369   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his assessment is of the reasons underlying the growth in spending on disability benefits between 1997-98 and 2003-04 (planned); and if he will make a statement.

(97353)

370   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons spending by his Department on corporate and shared services has increased between 1998-99 and 2003-04; and if he will make a statement.

(97345)

371   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department plans to spend on the Employment Development Fund in each year from 2002-03 to 2004-05; what the purpose is of this fund; and if he will make a statement.

(97350)

372   Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the administrative costs of (a) the winter fuel allowance and (b) the free TV licence for the over 75s, in each year from 1998-99 to 2003-04 (planned).

(97356)

373   Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of pensioners collected benefits from post offices in the Parliamentary constituency of Bury St Edmunds.

(97390)

374   Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the Government's plans are to introduce a standard local housing allowance to replace housing benefit; when the plan's changes will be introduced throughout the UK; and in which areas the reforms are being piloted.

(97318)

375   Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to announce the timescale for the introduction of revised arrangements for assessment by the Child Support Agency.

(97106)

376   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the change in the level of expenditure on council tax benefit if the average level of council tax (a) rose by £100 and (b) fell by £100; and if he will make a statement.

(97021)

377   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place the evaluations for Capital Modernisation Fund projects since 1998 in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(97028)

378   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to help women who were allowed to pay reduced national insurance contributions to gain a full state pension.

(97269)

379   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on the changes in the proportion of New Deal for Young People leavers entering unsubsidised, sustained employment since the scheme began.

(97103)

380   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents with care would have been entitled to receive a maintenance disregard of up to £10 a week if the child support reforms had been implemented on the original planned date; and if he will estimate how much extra in income-related benefits they would have received over this period.

(97101)

381   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to backdate eligibility for the child maintenance disregard for parents with care to the original planned implementation date of the new child support computer system; and if he will make a statement.

(97102)

382   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of minimum income guarantee claimants who would cease to be eligible if the basic state pension was increased by (a) £5 per week for those below 75, (b) £10 per week for those aged 75-79 and (c) £15 per week for those aged 80 and above, with the additions for those aged over 75 and over 80 being paid in full regardless of contribution record.

(97379)

383   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost of increasing the basic state pension to the level of the minimum income guarantee for those (a) 75 and above and (b) above 80, net of savings in means-tested benefits and additional income tax revenue.

(97380)

384   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many minimum income guarantee claimants are aged (a) 75 and above and (b) 80 and above.

(97381)

385   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 13th January, Official Report, columns 367-368W, on Capita, if he will give the (a) start and finish date, (b) value, (c) evaluation mechanism for successful delivery and (d) penalty charges for failure to deliver for each contract; whether penalty charges have been incurred; what the service level agreements were; what the contract numbers were; and if he will make a statement.

(97337)

386
N   Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to improve the air quality in Gloucestershire in the areas close to the M5; and if she will make a statement.

[Transferred] (96917)

387
N   Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact on air quality in Gloucestershire of emissions from the M5; and if she will make a statement.

[Transferred] (96916)

388   Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what circumstances a member of a pension scheme can benefit from the protected rights part of the pension fund before the age of 60.

[Transferred] (97319)

389   Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the strategic importance of Gibraltar to military intervention in Iraq.

[Transferred] (97282)

390   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of illegal narcotics on UK streets he estimates originated from Burma in 2002.

[Transferred] (97224)

391   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what (a) percentage and (b) types of intercepted illegal narcotics were believed to have originated from Burma in 2002.

[Transferred] (97222)

392   Mr Paul Tyler (North Cornwall): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent representations he has received from professional bodies relating to the use of solicitors' offices as centres for money laundering.

[Transferred] (97000)

393   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what mechanism is used by Customs and Excise to ensure that companies pay aggregates tax on stone.

[Transferred] (97015)

394   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will reassess with a view to publication, the parts of the Official Report into the affairs of BCCI that were excluded from public disclosure, with particular reference to information linking BCCI with organisations now known to conduct terrorism.

[Transferred] (97082)

395   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Cabinet Office, if he will place the evaluations for Capital Modernisation Fund projects undertaken by the Cabinet Office since 1998 in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (97019)

396   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will require departments to produce (a) their own sustainable development strategies within a year and (b) annual reports showing what progress has been made in meeting sustainable development targets.

[Transferred] (97270)

397   Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Cunninghame South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it his policy to implement recommendations for low emission zones made by the National Society for Clean Air.

[Transferred] (97017)

398   Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the external costs of automotive emissions of one tonne to the atmosphere of (a) particulates, (b) fine particulates, (c) sulphur dioxide, (d) carbon dioxide, (e) benzene, (f) 1, 3 butadiene, (g) carbon monoxide and (h) oxides of nitrogen.

[Transferred] (97250)

399   Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how he intends to take account of the views of clinicians and community-based organisations working with vulnerable populations in the inquiry into imported infections.

[Transferred] (97092)

400   Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, from which key stakeholders evidence will be sought for the inquiry into imported infections.

[Transferred] (97091)

401   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since it was established; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97420)

402   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97470)

403   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97471)

404   Mr John Greenway (Ryedale): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of additional entertainment licences required because of the reform of the two in a bar rule under the Licensing and Entertainment Bill; and what assessment she has made of additional costs.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97472)

405   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) her and (b) each of the Ministers in her Department; and for each e-mail address if she will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97460)

406   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list consultations her Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97434)

407   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97448)

408   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97428)

409   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97449)

410   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97451)

411   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97450)

412   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since it was established; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97430)

413   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 5th February, on Capita (ref 89967) if she will list for each of the contracts awarded by her Department to Capita since 1997 (a) the start and finish date of contract, (b) the value of contract, (c) the evaluation mechanism for successful delivery of contract, (d) the penalty charges for failure to deliver, (e) if penalty charges have been incurred, (f) the service level agreements and (g) the contract numbers; and if she will make a statement.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97473)

414   Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, column 25W, on the public service agreement, how the savings will be measured; and if she will make a statement.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97289)

415   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) her and (b) each of the Ministers in her Department; and for each e-mail address if she will state (i) the date it became active, and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97456)

416   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by her Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97457)

417   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list consultations her Department has conducted since it was established; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97433)

418   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97468)

419   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97469)

420   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97421)

421   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) his and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active, and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97464)

422   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97422)

423   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97465)

424   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answers of 4th February, Official Report, column 225W, on nurses, ref. 90121, and nursing agencies, ref. 89359, what the reasons are for the differing indications of the level of compliance with the code of practice by nursing agencies.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97237)

425   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 5th February, Official Report, column 225W, on international nurse recruitment, in what form each agency responded to the allegations; what methods were used to verify the information given by (a) the agency and (b) the overseas nurse who instigated the complaint; and what appeals procedures are in place if one party disagrees with the findings of the Department's ruling.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97285)

426   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place a copy of the most recent Q3 delayed discharge and emergency readmission figures in the Library; what assessment he has made of the information collected; and how many times the way the information is collated has been altered in the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97079)

427   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97443)

428   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97442)

429   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97426)

430   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97436)

431   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97437)

432   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97423)

433   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) her and (b) each of the Ministers in her Department; and for each e-mail address if she will state (i) the date it became active, and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97462)

434   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by her Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97463)

435   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list consultations her Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97435)

436   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) The Lord Chancellor and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97452)

437   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97453)

438   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will list consultations the Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97431)

439   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97444)

440   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97445)

441   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97427)

442   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the President of the Council, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were bought online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97467)

443   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the President of the Council, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact him; and for each e-mail address if he will state (a) the date it became active and (b) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97466)

444   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Prime Minister, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought online and (ii) sold by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97475)

445   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Prime Minister, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact him; when it became active; and the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97474)

446   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list consultations his Office has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97419)

447   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if she will list consultations her Department has conducted since 1997; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97432)

448   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) her and (b) each of the Ministers in her Department; and for each e-mail address if she will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97454)

449   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by her Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97455)

450   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by her Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97459)

451   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) her and (b) each of the Ministers in her Department; and for each e-mail address if she will state (i) the date it became active, and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97458)

452   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by her Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97461)

453   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97440)

454   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97441)

455   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since it was established; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97425)

456   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97446)

457   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since it was established; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97429)

458   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97447)

459   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list consultations his Department has conducted since it was established; and when each consultation (a) opened and (b) closed.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97424)

460   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what e-mail address members of the public may contact (a) him and (b) each of the Ministers in his Department; and for each e-mail address if he will state (i) the date it became active and (ii) the number of e-mails received in each month since activation.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97438)

461   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) products, (b) goods and (c) services were (i) bought and (ii) sold online by his Department in each of the last five years.

[Notice originally given for Tuesday 11th February] (97439)

462   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list for each London NHS trust whether a patient care adviser has been appointed for (a) ear, nose and throat patients and (b) general surgery patients who will be eligible for the London pilot scheme extending patient choice from spring 2003.

[Notice originally given for Thursday 13th February] (97377)

463   Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional resources he has made available to NHS trusts in London to implement the London pilot scheme extending choice for patients.

[Notice originally given for Thursday 13th February] (97378)