MONDAY 7th APRIL
| 1 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
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| 2 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the annual report of his Department will be published. |
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| 3 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
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| 4 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in 2002-03. |
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| 5 | Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in Leeds West he estimates are eligible for (a) the child tax credit and (b) the working tax credit; and how many people he estimates will take up these credits in 2003-04. |
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| 6 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
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| 7 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer when the annual report of his Department will be published. |
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| 8 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
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| 9 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
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N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy to bring the level of VAT on recombinant blood products in line with that in other European countries. |
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N | Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what rates of economic activity were recorded in each of the last five years in (a) the UK and (b) each region, broken down by (i) age and (ii) sex. |
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N | Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the percentage of pensioners in the population of each parliamentary constituency. |
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| 13 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the annual report of the Department will be published. |
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| 14 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of her Department. |
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N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether it is her policy that common areas in (a) sheltered accommodation, (b) residential homes and (c) day centres should be subject to licensing when used by a one person singing entertainer. |
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| 16 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to develop the regionalisation of Sport England. |
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| 17 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list the top 15 tourist attractions in Lancashire and the attendance figures for each attraction in each of the last six years. |
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| 18 | Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received about the postage costs incurred by families who send parcels to relatives and friends serving in Iraq. |
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| 19 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the 2002 annual report of the Department will be published. |
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| 20 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
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| 21 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108078)
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| 22 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
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| 23 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the provenance of the missile which hit the al-Nassar market in the Shula area of Baghdad. |
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N | Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving members of the armed forces in the Gulf have had training in Arabic. |
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N | Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library the material circulated by coalition forces to the civilian population in Southern Iraq. |
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N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Coalition services personnel have been injured in operations in Iraq, broken down by country; and if he will make a statement. |
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N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the status of (a) military and (b) civilian personnel captured by UK forces in the Gulf; and whether they will all enjoy the protection of the Geneva Convention. |
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N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the daily handling capacity of each of the ports in Southern Iraq is; what the estimated daily required (a) military supplies and (b) humanitarian supplies are; and if he will make a statement. |
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N | Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the role of NATO in post-conflict operations in Iraq. |
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| 30 | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what evidence British troops have found since the start of the war of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. |
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| 31 | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cluster bombs have been used by British forces in Iraq since the start of the war. |
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| 32 | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assurances the Government has received from the United States that any irregular Iraqi troops will be treated according to the Geneva Convention. |
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| 33 | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which international conventions apply to the use of depleted uranium shells; and whether the UK is a signatory. |
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| 34 | Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what guidelines have been issued to United Kingdom military personnel and medical auxiliaries in respect of protection measures to be taken when approaching Iraqi tanks destroyed by depleted uranium munitions; and what post operational health checks are planned for United Kingdom military and medical auxiliaries who may be exposed to the inhalation or ingestion of depleted uranium dust in the battlefields during the invasion of Iraq. |
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N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the order of battle for the Iraq theatre of war. |
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| 36 | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British personnel are participating in the EUFOR as part of Operation Concordia in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. |
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| 37 | Mr Richard Spring (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which countries' personnel are participating in the EUFOR as part of Operation Concordia in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; and how many personnel are involved. |
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| 38 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of aid to Iraq he estimates will arrive via Umm Qasr in April. |
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| 39 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the US and UK forces are responding to the need for electricity supplies to be restored in Basra in order that sewage treatment and water pumping can resume. |
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| 40 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures his Department has taken to safeguard the impartiality and independence of aid agencies delivering aid in Iraq. |
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| 41 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of food aid to Iraq the US and UK military aim to import via Umm Qasr. |
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| 42 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the facilities for contacting families and friends in the UK for reservists are the same as for regular armed forces serving in the Gulf. |
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| 43 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been budgeted for Friend/Foe Identification in the Defence budget since 1991; and what proportion of the budget has been spent on this purpose. |
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| 44 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to send additional British troops to the Gulf. |
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| 45 | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British (a) tanks, (b) armoured personnel carriers, (c) land vehicles and (d) aircraft have been lost in the Iraq War. |
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| 46 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when the 2002 annual report of his Department will be published. |
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| 47 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
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| 48 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments in each year since 1997-98. |
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| 49 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments in each year since 1997-98. |
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| 50 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what powers are available to (a) local authorities and (b) the police to tackle problems of anti-social behaviour in private properties. |
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| 51 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what powers are available to (a) local authorities and (b) the police to remove cars abandoned on private land or property. |
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| 52 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what powers are available to (a) local authorities and (b) the police to require landlords to improve derelict (i) commercial and (ii) other property. |
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| 53 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment of the liveability of the plans for the growth areas in the Sustainable Communities-Communities plan (a) has been carried out and (b) is planned to be carried out; and if he will make a statement. |
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| 54 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the inter-departmental Ministerial team set up to deliver cross-government working on liveability after the Urban summit. |
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| 55 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what definition of the term liveability his Department uses. |
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| 56 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to involve local Agenda 21 groups with liveability policies. |
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| 57 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress has been made by the Community Enablers Scheme for direct community action to improve local liveability. |
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| 58 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with representatives of the voluntary sector with regard to the liveability agenda. |
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| 59 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much of the funding given to Groundwork to work with local authorities and communities to deliver environmental regeneration has been allocated; and if he will make a statement. |
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| 60 | Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what (a) guidance, (b) memoranda, (c) reports and (d) consultations his Department has (i) published and (ii) prepared on liveability. |
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| 61 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the reasons for the divergence amongst local authorities in the percentage of total revenue expenditure raised through Council Tax. |
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| 62 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which local authorities raised 50 per cent. of their total revenue expenditure through Council Tax in 2001-02. |
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| 63 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish a report, following elections to parish and town councils in May 2003, on the number of uncontested elections; and if he will make a statement on the implications of an uncontested election upon an application to become a Quality Parish Council.[R] |
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| 64 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the time scale by which newly elected parish and town councillors must meet the requirements of the new Code of Practice.[R] |
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| 65 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the total cost has been to public funds of the millennium dome project. |
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| 66 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the (a) county council, (b) local authority and (c) police council tax contribution, as applicable, for each local authority in England in (i) 2003-04 and (ii) 1996-97; and what the percentage change has been since 1996-97. |
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| 67 | Mr William Hague (Richmond (Yorks)): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will publish a model code of conduct for employees of local authorities under section 82 of Part III of the Local Government Act 2000; and if he will make a statement. |
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| 68 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he intends to publish the results of the consultation on housing capital. |
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N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will publish the review of the Draft national and regional guidelines for aggregates provision in England 2001-2016. |
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N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to reduce the required mineral land bank for Berkshire for the period between 2001 and 2016. |
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N | Mr David Rendel (Newbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the review of the draft national and regional guidelines for aggregates provision in England 2001-2016 on or before 18th April. |
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| 72 | Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimates he has made of the cost of council tax collection and enforcement in each local authority in Suffolk. |
| | (108018)
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| 73 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107895)
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| 74 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when the annual report of her Department will be published. |
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| 75 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108082)
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| 76 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many individuals were seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in 2002-03. |
| | (108081)
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| 77 | Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children have benefited from (a) a Homestart and (b) a Surestart programme in the last three years, broken down by local authority. |
| | (107820)
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| 78 | Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the benefits of Surestart programmes; what reviews of outcomes have taken place; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107818)
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| 79 | Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how long Surestart programmes for children last. |
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| 80 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to hold a further round of bids for PFI Capital expenditure for (a) rebuilding and (b) redeveloping schools. |
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N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the value of leaflets on drugs and young people's health provided by the organisation Connexions; what public funding for that organisation is provided by his Department; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107572)
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| 82 | Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding from the National Grid for Learning has been granted to the Stoke-on-Trent local education authority in each year since 1999-2000. |
| | (107979)
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| 83 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of her Department. |
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| 84 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the annual report of her Department will be published. |
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| 85 | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to prevent the unlawful culling of magpies. |
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| 86 | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of (a) the risk to human health and (b) costs of (i) direct incineration and (ii) rendering followed by incineration of carcasses under the over thirty month scheme. |
| | (107814)
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| 87 | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to whom tallow was sold by her Department and its non-departmental public bodies in (a) 2002 and (b) 2003; and for what purposes it was sold. |
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| 88 | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how often meat and bone meal storage facilities for material produced under the over thirty month scheme are inspected; when the last inspection for each facility took place; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (107812)
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| 89 | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to have signed contracts for the current tender exercise for the incineration of tallow arising from carcasses culled under the over thirty month scheme; and for what reason the signing of contracts has been delayed. |
| | (107815)
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| 90 | Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how old the oldest meat and bone meal produced as a result of the over thirty month scheme is which is stored by her Department and its non-departmental public bodies. |
| | (107813)
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| 91 | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to channel production-linked farm subsidies into rural development schemes. |
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| 92 | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is her policy that the Animal By-Products Regulations will result in a ban on the burial of horses on private land. |
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| 93 | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 1st April, Official Report, column 644W, on fur farming, whether the compensation scheme for fur farmers is in conformity with the Human Rights Act 1998. |
| | (108035)
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| 94 | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she will take to investigate the treatment of the deer in the League Against Cruel Sports sanctuary, Barnsdown on Exmoor. |
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| 95 | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 1st April, Official Report, column 641W, on conservation boards, what steps conservation boards could take to avoid paying VAT. |
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| 96 | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she advises under the Animal By-Products Regulations to householders who find a (a) deer, (b) badger and (c) fox carcass in the garden. |
| | (107915)
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| 97 | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she recommends horse owners who have opted under the horse passport scheme not to put their horse into the human food chain should dispose of their carcasses. |
| | (107916)
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| 98 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the objective of the review by the Environment Agency of regulations governing emissions from power stations is to ensure that the most efficient power stations and those fitted with flue gas desulphurisation plant are used to the maximum. |
| | (107983)
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| 99 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the timescale is for the review by the Environment Agency of the regulations governing emissions from power stations; and from when the new regulations are likely to apply. |
| | (107982)
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| 100 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the amount by which sulphur dioxide emissions could be reduced if coal fired power stations fitted with flue gas desulphurisation plant were used to the maximum load factor with consequential lower load factors at unabated plant. |
| | (107984)
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| 101 | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether all Slaughter Premium Scheme claims for 2002 have now been (a) settled and (b) paid. |
| | (108036)
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| 102 | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that all payments due under the Slaughter Payments Scheme in respect of 2001 are cleared and that all disputes over such payments are settled. |
| | (108037)
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| 103 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will next meet EU partners to discuss the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy. |
| | (107957)
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| 104 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made with the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy. |
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| 105 | Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) glass alcohol bottles and (b) plastic alcohol bottles were recycled in the latest twelve months for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (108016)
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| 106 | Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received to encourage increased use of plastic bottles in bars and clubs from (a) the police, (b) environmental agencies and (c) other interested parties; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (108015)
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| 107 | Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what evidence she has collated on the practicality of recycling (a) plastic and (b) glass alcohol bottles; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (108017)
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| 108 | Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has held with her ministerial colleagues on promoting the use of plastic alcohol bottles in bars and clubs; and if she will make a statement. |
| | (108014)
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| 109 | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to publish the results of her Department's review of its Bird Registration Scheme. |
| | (107933)
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N | Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she and her officials have (a) telephoned and (b) written to the Royal Society during 2003 concerning publication of The Farm Scale Evaluations with GM Crops; and what was discussed. |
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| 111 | Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received that the regime in Burma is building a nuclear reactor; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107923)
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N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made since representations by his Department in February 1999 to the Canadian Government in ensuring that the numbers of seals killed each year does not threaten the sustainability of the species. |
| | (107678)
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N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the impact of the annual Canadian slaughter of seal pups on the wild population; whether he has raised this issue with the Canadian authorities; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107681)
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| 114 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the annual report of the Department will be published. |
| | (107873)
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| 115 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107905)
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| 116 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108105)
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| 117 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108104)
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| 118 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 25th March, Official Report, column 120W, on Iraq, whether he received a copy of (a) the full declaration and (b) the declaration as circulated to non-Security Council members. |
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| 119 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he plans to have with fellow European Union ministers on the request by the Government of Taiwan ROC to be granted observer status in the World Health Organisation; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107949)
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| 120 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much opium (a) was produced by Afghanistan in (i) 2001 and (ii) 2002, (b) has been produced this year and (c) is predicted for 2004 on present trends. |
| | (108012)
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| 121 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd April, Official Report, column 741W, what the response of the US Government has been to his request for formal consular access to Guantanamo Bay. |
| | (108057)
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122
N | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the recruitment by Northbridge Services Group of mercenaries to operate in the Ivory Coast; and if he will make a statement on the activities of this company in connection with the Ivory Coast. |
| | (107530)
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| 123 | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the principle of a US-controlled government in post-war Iraq. |
| | (107835)
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| 124 | Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with Iraqi opposition groups about the nature of a post-war Iraq government. |
| | (107823)
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| 125 | Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many visas have been issued to Iraqi directors of UK (a) banks and (b) companies to come from Iraq to London on business in the last three years. |
| | (107974)
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| 126 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 17th March, Official Report, column 550W, on Iraq, what steps he is taking to protect the Kurds of Northern Iraq from an advance by the Turkish army which has mobilised in Northern Iraq. |
| | (107999)
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| 127 | Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on the participation of pro-independence Kurdish political parties and pro-Iranian Islamic fundamentalist parties in elections in post-war Iraq. |
| | (107971)
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| 128 | Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the statement the United Kingdom Ambassador to the United Nations made to the Security Council when UNSC Resolution 1441 was debated on 8th November 2002; and if he will summarise Ambassador Greenstock's comments on the non-automaticity of the Resolution. |
| | (108056)
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| 129 | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the second tranche of smallpox vaccines to be ordered by his Department are to undergo clinical trials; whether any of the manufacturers bidding for the contract have offered to supply vaccines that have undergone clinical trials; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (108000)
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| 130 | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many smallpox vaccines he expects to procure through (a) the first and (b) the second tranche of the order; when he expects to take delivery of both tranches of the vaccine; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (108002)
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| 131 | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether IDT was invited to submit a bid for the second tranche of smallpox vaccines to be procured by his Department; why no direct invitation was made to IDT to submit a bid for the first tranche; and if he will make a statement on the relative merits and demerits of (a) the Lister strain and (b) the New York Board of Health strain of smallpox vaccine. |
| | (108001)
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| 132 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will allocate funding for a vaccine to counter severe acute respiratory syndrome. |
| | (107930)
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| 133 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the 2002 annual report of the Department will be published. |
| | (107872)
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| 134 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths in the United Kingdom have resulted from severe acute respiratory syndrome. |
| | (107928)
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| 135 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the epidemiology of the virus which produces severe acute respiratory syndrome. |
| | (107929)
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| 136 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice his Department issues to people who suspect that they have been infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome. |
| | (107932)
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| 137 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107906)
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| 138 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to overhaul the infectious disease services and to create new isolation units and hospitals for victims of such diseases. |
| | (107931)
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| 139 | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve training on the recognition and treatment of endometriosis; and where centres of excellence in endometriosis will be located. |
| | (107891)
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| 140 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from NGOs, in each case listing (a) from which organisation and (b) dates of secondments in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108102)
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| 141 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from the private sector, in each case listing (a) from which organisation and (b) dates of secondments in 2002-03. |
| | (108101)
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| 142 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108103)
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| 143 | Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in developing a sustainable development strategy for health. |
| | (107821)
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| 144 | Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many occupational therapists have been recruited in the last three years; and if he will make a statement on the work of his Department in encouraging applications. |
| | (107912)
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| 145 | Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) language and (b) speech therapists are employed in the NHS. |
| | (107822)
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| 146 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether community health councils will take new complaints from individuals through the NHS complaints procedure; what arrangements he has in place to assist individuals with such complaints until the new arrangements are in place; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (108070)
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| 147 | Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the financial allocation is to the primary care trusts in (a) Redbridge and (b) Waltham Forest; how this compares to the allocation to the three PCTs which previously covered the area; what the overall per capita funding is for the population in each PCT; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (108071)
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| 148 | Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many reported assaults against hospital staff at NHS hospitals there have been in the Greater London area during the last 12 months. |
| | (107950)
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| 149 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral Answer of 18th March given by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health to the honourable Member for Hendon, Official Report, column 739, on mental health (Barnet), what effect the reprovision of the acute in-patient service at Barnet will have regarding meeting the Government's targets on mental health single sex hospital accommodation. |
| | (107839)
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| 150 | Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the temporary ward at Edgware hospital meets the Government's criteria for single sex accommodation for mental health patients. |
| | (107838)
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| 151 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors there are per 100 beds in each of the Lancashire NHS trusts. |
| | (107955)
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| 152 | Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the inquiry into SSRI drugs will recommence; and what measures will be taken to ensure the impartiality of the investigating committee. |
| | (108010)
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153
N | Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason Kellogg Brown and Root was selected to lead the national IT programme; and what experience they have in major IT projects. |
| | (107798)
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| 154 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many haemophilia patients there are in England. |
| | (107960)
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| 155 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many suppliers of recombinant clotting factor for haemophilia patients there are in the UK. |
| | (107961)
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| 156 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing staff at St Mary's Hospital, London have worked on extended 14 hour shifts in the last six months; and how many have worked on extended 14 hour shifts more than three times in a row. |
| | (107966)
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| 157 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the underspend was on last year's budget for recombinant clotting factor for haemophilia patients in West Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust. |
| | (107959)
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| 158 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget is for 2003-04 to provide recombinant clotting factor for haemophilia patients. |
| | (107962)
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| 159 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what factors are preventing targets for the required amount of recombinant clotting factor for haemophilia patients being met. |
| | (107964)
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160
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of nurses leaving the NHS; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107683)
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161
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses leaving the NHS have been subsequently re-employed by the NHS through agencies, in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107684)
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162
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the qualifications requirements for people becoming nurses in the NHS; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107686)
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163
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many student nurses entered the NHS in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107685)
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164
N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of patients waited over four hours in accident and emergency departments in each West Sussex hospital in each of the last four years. |
| | (107593)
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165
N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each hospital trust in West Sussex spent on agency recruitment in (a) nurses and (b) doctors in (i) the last 12 months and (ii) for the previous five years. |
| | (107592)
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166
N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dental practices are taking on new NHS patients in (a) the constituency of Mid Sussex and (b) West Sussex. |
| | (107591)
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| 167 | Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the local authorities that (a) had and (b) did not have health overview and scrutiny committees working by 1st April. |
| | (108011)
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| 168 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107911)
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| 169 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the annual report of the Department will be published. |
| | (107867)
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| 170 | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mothers in prisons in England and Wales have responsibility for babies (a) under nine months old and (b) under 18 months old and are not in mother and baby units; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107805)
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| 171 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from the private sector, in each case listing (a) from which organisation and (b) dates of secondments in (i) 2001-02 and (ii) 2002-03. |
| | (108099)
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| 172 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from NGOs in each case listing (a) from which organisation and (b) dates of secondments in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108100)
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| 173 | Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's guidelines state that asylum seekers housed in cluster areas must be three miles or less from (a) a main post office and (b) a main rail station. |
| | (108008)
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174
N | Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 31st March, Official Report, column 572W, on asylum seekers, which district council wards fall within the Taunton and Bridgwater cluster; and what the total population is of the area covered by the wards. |
| | (107574)
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| 175 | Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants' files officials at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate were unable to locate in 2002. |
| | (107827)
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| 176 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to be able to deport failed asylum seekers from (a) Northern Iraq and (b) the rest of Iraq. |
| | (108022)
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| 177 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers from Iraq in each of the last three years (a) have had their applications refused and exhausted all their appeal options, (b) have left the UK, (c) are receiving hard cases support and (d) are receiving no support; and if he will make a statement on Government policy concerning future support of failed asylum seekers from Iraq. |
| | (108021)
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| 178 | Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Patrick Stanley. |
| | (107837)
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| 179 | 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 27th February from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Amanat Ullah. |
| | (107826)
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| 180 | 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 25th February from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms Ismail Hussein. |
| | (107825)
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| 181 | 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 24th February from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Lawrence Wendel Gordon. |
| | (107824)
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| 182 | Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter dated 24th February, from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Abdul Rahman Silavipour. |
| | (107836)
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| 183 | Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received in favour of increasing the use of plastic bottles in bars and clubs from (a) the police, (b) environmental agencies and (c) other interested parties; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (108059)
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| 184 | Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has held with representatives of (a) the British Beer and Pub Association and (b) other organisations to promote the use of plastic bottles; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (108058)
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| 185 | Mr Peter Pike (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions (a) he has had and (b) his officials have had with other departments on promoting the use of plastic bottles in bars and clubs; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (108060)
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| 186 | Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safety checks are required by British holiday companies which run holiday clubs for children (a) abroad and (b) in the UK; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107936)
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| 187 | Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions have taken place on the Asylum Seekers Dispersal Programme (a) by his Department and (b) by NASS with Stoke-on-Trent City Council. |
| | (107980)
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188
N | Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd March, Official Report, column 825W, on a case decision, for what reason Mr Xhevat Murtezi, ref M1010576 and ML/LAB 19953, has not yet received notification of a decision; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107381)
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| 189 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women known to be working in the sex industry who have (i) reported being raped and (ii) been murdered in the United Kingdom in each of the last five years. |
| | (108051)
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| 190 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghans with (a) exceptional leave to remain in Britain and (b) awaiting a decision on an asylum application on appeal have received a resettlement grant in each month since August 2002. |
| | (108049)
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| 191 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of women who have been trafficked for sexual exploitation have returned to their home countries in the last three years. |
| | (108052)
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192
N | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions his Department has had with Gosport Borough Council concerning the possible use of the Daedalus site as an accommodation centre for political asylum claimants. |
| | (107682)
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| 193 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when the annual report of his Department will be published. |
| | (107881)
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| 194 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of her Department. |
| | (107897)
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| 195 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many civil servants have been seconded from her Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108080)
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| 196 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many individuals have been seconded to her Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in each year since 2000. |
| | (108079)
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| 197 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what money she has set aside from her Department's 2003-04 budget for the humanitarian crisis in (a) Southern Africa, (b) Ethiopia and (c) Afghanistan. |
| | (108019)
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| 198 | Mr Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what contribution her Department has made to date to the World Food Programme appeals for (a) Southern Africa and (b) Ethiopia. |
| | (108020)
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| 199 | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her written statement of 1st April, Official Report, column 51WS, on Afghanistan, and with reference to the Afghanistan Development Forum in March, what steps her Department are taking to encourage the fulfilment of pledges made in Tokyo and reiterated in Oslo in December 2002. |
| | (107841)
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| 200 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a statement on the operation of the Oil for Food programme. |
| | (107939)
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| 201 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the Treasury on reimbursement of sums drawn from DFID's contingency reserve for Iraq this year. |
| | (107941)
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| 202 | Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans are in place to ensure early access for UN agencies and international aid agencies into Basra. |
| | (107940)
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| 203 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's assessment is of the change in opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan in the last 12 months. |
| | (108048)
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| 204 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department has received regarding an outbreak of diarrhoea in Basra. |
| | (108039)
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| 205 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which aid agencies have refused to accept funding for their work in Iraq. |
| | (108050)
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| 206 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many tonnes of food have been imported into Iraq via Umm Qasr. |
| | (108044)
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| 207 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the World Food Programme regarding the mass distribution of food in Northern Iraq. |
| | (108041)
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| 208 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what financial resources she has allocated to the refugee camps on the border between Guinea and Liberia. |
| | (108038)
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| 209 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with Stevedoring USA on the running of the port Umm Qasr. |
| | (108040)
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| 210 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment her Department has made of the situation of the poorest families in Northern Iraq. |
| | (108043)
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| 211 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funds her Department has allocated to Guatemala in each year since 1997. |
| | (108046)
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| 212 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the government of Guatemala regarding street children. |
| | (108047)
|
| 213 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with international aid agencies to undertake urgent humanitarian relief work in Northern Iraq. |
| | (108042)
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| 214 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, when the annual report of the Department will be published. |
| | (107875)
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| 215 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of the Department. |
| | (107903)
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| 216 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107898)
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| 217 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the annual report of his Department will be published. |
| | (107880)
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| 218 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from the private sector, in each case listing (a) from which organisation and (b) dates of secondments in 2002-03. |
| | (108074)
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| 219 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from NGOs, in each case listing (a) from which organisation and (b) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108075)
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| 220 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108076)
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221
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to increase the number of new homes being built by the public sector in Northern Ireland. |
| | (107437)
|
222
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made by the inter-departmental working group to develop a strategy for the support of people with learning disabilities in Northern Ireland. |
| | (107439)
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223
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in bringing forward new legislation on special educational needs and disability in Northern Ireland. |
| | (107440)
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224
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Irish Government about the decision of the Garda Commissioner to refuse permission to the Police Service of Northern Ireland to question two senior Garda officers concerning the investigation into the Omagh bombing. |
| | (107436)
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225
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to tackle the growing levels of homelessness in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107438)
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| 226 | Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the methods of disposal of fallen stock on farms in Northern Ireland. |
| | (107919)
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| 227 | Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on progress made in Northern Ireland to eradicate bovine TB. |
| | (107935)
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| 228 | Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if it is his policy to extend the Mobile Homes Act 1983 is to be extended to Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107918)
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| 229 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the President of the Council, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107902)
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| 230 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the President of the Council, when the annual report of his Department will be published. |
| | (107876)
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231
N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral Answer of 2nd April, Official Report, column 918, what the evidential basis was for his statement that the damage done to the holy sites at Najaf were perpetrated by forces of the Iraqi regime and not by the allied air forces of the 1991 Gulf War. |
| | (107532)
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| 232 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when the 2002 annual report of the Department will be published. |
| | (107874)
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| 233 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of her Department. |
| | (107904)
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| 234 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many individuals have been seconded to her Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments in (A) 2001-02 and (B) 2002-03. |
| | (108097)
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| 235 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many civil servants have been seconded from her Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments in each year since 1990-2000. |
| | (108098)
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| 236 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, when the annual report of her Department will be published. |
| | (107886)
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| 237 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of her Department. |
| | (107892)
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238
N | Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): To ask the Solicitor General, when she will reply to the Question from the honourable Member for Cynon Valley of 24th February on a meeting on the prosecution of leading members of the Iraqi regime. |
| | (107573)
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| 239 | Mr James Plaskitt (Warwick & Leamington): To ask the Solicitor General, when a decision will be made on whether to bring charges in relation to the assisted suicide of Mr Reginald Crew in Switzerland. |
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| 240 | Mr James Plaskitt (Warwick & Leamington): To ask the Solicitor General, what plans the DPP has to institute proceedings under section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961 against (a) organisations providing information on overseas assisted suicide organisations and (b) publishers or distributors of self-deliverance manuals; and what criterias he applies in the latter cases. |
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241
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the animal welfare implications of the trade in products containing dog and cat fur. |
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242
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer of 20th March, Official Report, columns 1068-9, on animal welfare, if she will ban the import of products containing dog or cat fur. |
| | (107687)
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243
N | Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will press for EU action to prohibit the import of seal products where these have been obtained through the clubbing to death of seals. |
| | (107680)
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| 244 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the annual report of her Department will be published. |
| | (107884)
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| 245 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of her Department. |
| | (107893)
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| 246 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many individuals have been seconded to her Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108091)
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| 247 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many civil servants have been seconded from her Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108092)
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| 248 | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total cost of running the Insolvency Service's disqualified directors hotline has been in each year from 1998. |
| | (107830)
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| 249 | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on how many occasions directors of insolvent companies have been disqualified under section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 in each year since 1986. |
| | (107831)
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| 250 | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many calls have been made to the Insolvency Service directors hotline in each year since its inception. |
| | (107829)
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| 251 | Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many disqualified directors have been prosecuted following cases being lodged with the Insolvency Service disqualified directors hotline in each year since 1998; and how many of these prosecutions proved successful. |
| | (107828)
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252
N | Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many post offices there are in each parliamentary constituency; and how many of them transact more than 40 per cent. of their work from paying benefits and pensions. |
| | (107044)
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253
N | Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) post offices and (b) sub-post offices there were in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) each region in March (A) 1999, (B) 2000, (C) 2001 and (D) 2002. |
| | (107045)
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| 254 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what priority she will give to encouraging the running of power stations fitted with flue gas desulphurisation plant in preference to cheaper, unabated plant. |
| | (107985)
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| 255 | Mr Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much coal fired generation capacity she estimates will be taken out of the system by (a) 2008 and (b) 2015. |
| | (107981)
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| 256 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, in what ways, in addition to the internet, the draft for consultation on the changes to specification for Standards for Registration as a Professional Engineering Technician was distributed. |
| | (107967)
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| 257 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the extent to which the proposals for changes to the UK Standards for Registration as a Professional Engineering Technician meet the recommendations of the Deering Report. |
| | (107969)
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| 258 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what criteria were used in deciding on the proposals for changes to the UK Standards for Registration as a Professional Engineering Technician. |
| | (107968)
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| 259 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how far the proposed UK Standards for Registration as a Professional Engineering Technician will be compatible with those in other EU countries. |
| | (107965)
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| 260 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations she has received from the engineering profession on changes to the UK Standards for Registration as a Professional Engineering Technician. |
| | (107970)
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| 261 | Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent discussions she has had with the Engineering Council on the changes in the UK Standards for Registration as a Professional Engineering Technician. |
| | (107963)
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| 262 | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions her Department has had with UK broadband industry regarding proposed changes to the legislative framework regulating street works. |
| | (107808)
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| 263 | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions have taken place with the Department of Transport with reference to proposed street works legislation. |
| | (107809)
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| 264 | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make it her policy to undertake a full regulatory impact assessment on UK broadband development of the effects of proposed Department of Transport street works legislation before it is introduced to Parliament. |
| | (107807)
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| 265 | Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to review the applicaton of (a) British Summer Time and (b) Greenwich Mean Time. |
| | (108007)
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266
N | Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of the UK (a) electricity and (b) gas supply originated in Wales in the last three years. |
| | (107536)
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267
N | Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of the United Kingdom oil supply was refined within Wales in the last three years; and how much this represented per head of population. |
| | (107535)
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| 268 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107907)
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| 269 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the annual report of the Department will be published. |
| | (107871)
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| 270 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in (A) 2001-02 and (B) 2002-03. |
| | (108089)
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| 271 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in (A) 2001-02 and (B) 2002-03. |
| | (108090)
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272
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans the Government has to refurbish the Dartford Tunnel. |
| | (107587)
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273
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the condition of the Dartford Tunnel. |
| | (107586)
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| 274 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide funding for an improvement to the junction of the A59 at the Clitheroe and Sabden junction. |
| | (107954)
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275
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he last met representatives of the Strategic Rail Authority to discuss the Central Railway project. |
| | (107797)
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276
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what meetings have taken place this year between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Central Railway plc; what further meetings are planned; and if he will make a statement. |
| | (107796)
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277
N | Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance he has given to Network Rail about the erection of telecommunication masts on railway land in areas of outstanding natural beauty. |
| | (107795)
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| 278 | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the (a) roles, (b) function and (c) staffing of the air travel health unit in his Department; and what the annual budget of the unit will be. |
| | (108009)
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279
N | Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received on the short listing of railway operating companies for the Greater Anglia franchise; and if he will take action to reinstate First Great Eastern's application. |
| | (107677)
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| 280 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107899)
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| 281 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when the annual report of his Department will be published. |
| | (107879)
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| 282 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1999-2000. |
| | (108087)
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| 283 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1999-2000. |
| | (108088)
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| 284 | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what meetings he has had regarding preparation for a possible terrorist strike in Wales. |
| | (107956)
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285
N | Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much Wales contributed to the overall UK production of (a) lamb less than 1 year, (b) fowls for table, (c) fowls in laying flock, (d) cattle and calves, (e) pigs, (f) oats, (g) dairy herd, (h) barley, (i) wheat, (j) potatoes—earlies and (k) potatoes—main crop in the last year for which figures are available. |
| | (107533)
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| 286 | Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Leeds West are in receipt of the minimum income guarantee. |
| | (107972)
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| 287 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost will be to public funds in 2003-04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. |
| | (107909)
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| 288 | Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the annual report of the Department will be published. |
| | (107869)
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| 289 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals have been seconded to his Department from (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, in each case listing (i) from which organisation and (ii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108093)
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| 290 | Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) NGOs and (c) other, broken down by (i) grade of civil servants seconded, (ii) location and (iii) dates of secondments, in each year since 1997-98. |
| | (108094)
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291
N | Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners were in receipt of the minimum income guarantee (a) in total and (b) in each parliamentary constituency for each of the last six years for which figures are available. |
| | (107431)
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| 292 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on recent progress in developing asylums to assist people who are unable or unwilling to use PIN pads but who wish to collect their pensions in person at the post office. |
| | (108110)
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| 293 | Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on the advice his Department is giving to pensioners through the Payment Modernisation Programme, with regard to those who rely upon multiple carers in order to collect their pensions. |
| | (108109)
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| 294 | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Arundel and South Downs of 17th March, Official Report, column 606W, on pensions, what the reasons were for the fall in the percentage of men aged 65 receiving both basic and additional state pension. |
| | (107934)
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295
N | Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 31st March, Official Report, column 598W, on external consultants, if he will list the 10 contracts with the largest value awarded to external consultants by his Department since it was established, giving the (a) value of the contract and (b) firm in each case. |
| | (107434)
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296
N | Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 31st March, Official Report, column 598W, on external consultants, what the total cost of external consultants was to his Department and its predecessors in each of the last four financial years for which figures are available. |
| | (107433)
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297
N | Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 31st March, Official Report, column 598W, on external consultants, what his estimate is of the cost involved in answering the honourable Member for North East Hertfordshire's question; how this was arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the reasons for the time it took to reach the conclusion that answering the question would incur significant disproportionate cost. |
| | (107435)
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298
N | Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the value of leaflets on drugs and young people's health provided by the organisation Connexions; what public funding for that organisation is provided by his Department; and if he will make a statement. |
| | [Transferred] (107571)
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| 299 | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer in relation to the written ministerial statement by the Economic Secretary on 3rd April on duty on goods imported into the European Union which originate from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories, whether the standard Israeli reply referred to, sent in response to verification requests for the origin of goods, will be taken as adequate reason to suspect that goods may have originated in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories and for the customs debt to be applied. |
| | [Transferred] (108024)
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| 300 | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of the percentage of boys aged 14 and 15 years using cannabis in each of the last five years for which figures are available. |
| | [Transferred] (108061)
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| 301 | Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what communications there have been with the US Administration about the seizure of assets of Iraqis linked to Saddam Hussein. |
| | [Transferred] (107817)
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| 302 | Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the vetting procedure required for staff employed by British firms operating children's holiday clubs abroad. |
| | [Transferred] (107937)
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| 303 | Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are required by British holiday companies to ensure staff employed to look after children in (a) hotel clubs and (b) holiday camps are properly qualified. |
| | [Transferred] (107938)
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