Order Book Part 1

House of Commons

Session 2002 - 03
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The Order Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 3 June 2003

Here you can browse the Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 3 June 2003, of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

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

TUESDAY 3rd JUNE

1   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116085)

2   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what action his Department is taking to increase confidence in government departments in moving to open source operating systems and programmes.

(116658)

3   Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, from which employment sectors outside appointments to the senior civil service were recruited in the last two years.

(116829)

4   Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what evidence he has collated on the type of (a) school and (b) university attended by those recruited to the senior civil service in the last two years.

(116830)

5   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer in which (a) occupations and (b) sectors employees who benefit from the tax and national insurance contributions exemptions for employer-supported childcare are found; and what the average size of the employer organisation is.

(116014)

6   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to public funds of the proposed tax and national insurance contributions exemptions for employer-supported childcare.

(116016)

7   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to Government of the proposal to extend tax and national insurance contributions exemption to all forms of employer-supported formal childcare as outlined in the consultation document, Employer Supported Childcare: Improving the Tax and National Insurance Exemptions.

(116000)

8   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many employees he estimates will benefit from the proposal to extend tax and national insurance contributions exemption to all forms of employer-supported childcare and will pay (a) less than £50 a week and (b) £50 per week or more in respect of such childcare.

(116001)

9   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the UK is preparing to link the European Commission's forthcoming proposals to modify the rules on taxation of energy products and the agreement on community-wide emissions trading as part of its approach towards achieving carbon savings and energy conservation.

(116337)

10   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many sudden unexpected deaths from epilepsy there were in (a) Leeds West, (b) City of Leeds and (c) West Yorkshire in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

(116183)

11   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116080)

12   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on Government plans to ease the tax burden on foster carers.

(116806)

13   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue was raised from uniform business rates in (a) the London Borough of Havering and (b) each London Borough in each of the last five years.

(116576)

14   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how much in revenue collected from uniform business rates was distributed to the London Borough of Havering within the Revenue Support Grant in 2002-03.

(116575)

15   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what action he has taken to ensure that individuals who are entitled to receive working families tax credit, child tax credit and minimum income guarantee or pensioners tax credit apply for these benefits.

(116288)

16   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made to determine the number of eligible individuals who have failed to apply for (a) working tax credit, (b) minimum income guarantee and (c) child tax credit within the Crosby constituency.

(116280)

17   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals have benefited from (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit in the Crosby constituency.

(116281)

18   Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what measures were put in place to prepare small and medium sized businesses for increases in national insurance contributions.

(116574)

19   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 377W, on Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, whether he will make a detailed proposal for a donor-funded technical assistance facility to provide advice to HIPC countries facing litigation at the forthcoming G8 summit in Evian.

(116111)

20   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 377W, on heavily indebted poor countries, what plans he has to convene a conference to discuss with creditors the value of participating in debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries.

(116059)

21   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 377W, on Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, what steps have been taken by (a) the IMF and (b) the World Bank since the G7 Kananaskis summit to encourage creditors to take part in the HIPC Initiative.

(116109)

22   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 377W, on Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, whether the World Bank has drawn up a timetable to investigate options for assisting with HIPC-to-HIPC debt.

(116110)

23   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will introduce tax incentives for creditors taking part in the HIPC initiative.

(116005)

24   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 377W, on Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, what the implementation status is of each of the commitments from the G7 Kananaskis summit.

(116108)

25   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 377W, what plans he has to amend legislation governing litigation against heavily indebted poor countries.

(116112)

26   Matthew Green (Ludlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent changes have been made to the Port Inspection System to combat the illegal import of meat.

(116218)

27   Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what consultation there was with organisations representing blind and visually handicapped people about measures to differentiate paper currency notes of different values.

(116452)

28   Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals have benefited from (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit in the Blackpool North and Fleetwood constituency.

(116453)

29   Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to designate new enterprise zones; and if he will make a statement.

(116173)

30   Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the change in the number of public sector workers in each year from 2003-04 to 2005-06, broken down by (a) department and (b) region.

(115933)

31   Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average weekly earnings (a) including and (b) excluding overtime are for full-time workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) Great Britain for (A) all manual, (B) all non-manual, (C) all workers, (D) male manual, (E) male non-manual, (F) all male workers, (G) female manual, (H) female non-manual and (I) all female workers.

(116060)

32   Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) Great Britain earn (i) including and (ii) excluding overtime less than (A) £280.00 per week, (B) £210.00 per week and (C) £158.76 per week in the categories (1) male manual, (2) male non-manual, (3) all male workers, (4) female manual, (5) female non-manual, (6) all female workers, (7) all manual, (8) all non-manual and (9) all workers.

(116061)

33   Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost was of paying travel and subsistence allowances to Customs officers serving in the South East Region Enforcement Team in (a) 1999, (b) 2001 and (c) 2002; and what estimate he has made of the cost of paying travel and subsistance allowances to Customs officers serving in the South East Region Enforcement Team in (i) 2003, (ii) 2004 and (iii) 2005.

(116731)

34
N   Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the script used by advisers at the tax credit helpline for responding to callers who have asked for their tax credits to be paid into a Post Office card account.

(115676)

35   Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer when he intends to reply to the letter dated 11th April from the honourable Member for Banff and Buchan regarding his constituent Mr A. Geddes of Rosehearty.

(116478)

36   Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the capacity of the construction industry to meet the Government's PPP requirements in the current financial year; and if he will make a statement.

(115951)

37   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how many HM Customs and Excise personnel are (a) employed to provide advice and assistance to the Afghan Transitional Administration and (b) employed to gather intelligence and assist in the interdiction of heroin along transit routes from Afghanistan to the UK.

(116420)

38   Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of household income is spent on running a car by those in the lowest income decile.

(116274)

39   Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how much has been spent since last autumn on advertising and publicity for (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit in (i) English, (ii) Welsh and (iii) other languages.

(116824)

40   Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what his latest estimate is of the numbers of outstanding claims for (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit; and how many of these were submitted before 4th April.

(116826)

41   Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what advertising and publicity in Welsh there has been since last autumn to alert people to their entitlement to (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit, and to encourage them to claim.

(116825)

42   Hywel Williams (Caernarfon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what information has been provided to the public since last autumn through the Inland Revenue's Welsh language helpline; what the cost was; what information has been provided through the helpline specifically on working tax and child tax credit; and what proportion of expenditure this represented.

(116827)

43   Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to review the Government's decision not to rejoin the World Tourism Organisation.

(116129)

44   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what provisions of the Licensing Bill will apply to individual musicians performing in pubs; and if she will make a statement.

(115928)

45   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) measures she has taken and (b) resources she has committed to promote the (i) writing, (ii) reading and (iii) archiving of poetry in each of the last five years.

(116021)

46   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116092)

47   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what projects the Department supported in the Crosby constituency and Merseyside in (a) 2000, (b) 2001, (c) 2002 and (d) 2003.

(116286)

48   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what actions she has taken to encourage school children in the Sefton LEA area to participate in sport.

(116284)

49   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what actions she has taken to encourage adults in Crosby constituency to participate in sport and regular exercise.

(116283)

50   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what actions she has taken to protect sports fields and play facilities in the Crosby constituency.

(116285)

51   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on her Department's policy towards funding youth orchestras in Sefton.

(116282)

52   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) clauses and (b) schedules were (i) fully debated, (ii) partly debated and (iii) not debated during the Committee Stage of the Licensing Bill.

(116750)

53
N   Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of (a) current and (b) projected use of voice recognition in the production of closed caption television subtitles; and if she will make a statement.

(116247)

54
N   Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment has been made by her Department of the (a) literacy and (b) other benefits of the provision of closed caption television subtitles for viewers for whom English is their second language; and if she will make a statement.

(116248)

55   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which she is responsible.

(116393)

56   Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the need for an Olympic size swimming pool for the North East of England; and if she will make a statement.

(116582)

57   Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the effects of a successful London Olympic bid on the levels of sports lottery funding available for projects in the North East.

(116579)

58
N   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when football clubs will be paid the money due by the end of April to fund centres of excellence and academies for youth players; what the reasons are for the time taken to make the payments; what arrangements have been made to ensure that future payments are paid on time; and if she will make a statement.

(115764)

59   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflict; and if she will make a statement.

(116321)

60   Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has identified all the land needed for an Olympic Games bid.

(116137)

61   Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's estimate is of the cost of acquiring sites needed for a London Olympic Games bid.

(116138)

62   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by her Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116670)

63   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what targets her Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how she intends to achieve these targets.

(116645)

64   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116094)

65   Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial assistance his Department is providing in this financial year to the (a) Sea Cadet Association, (b) Air Training Corps, (c) Combined Cadet Force and (d) Army Cadets; and if he will make a statement.

(116638)

66   Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 20th May, Official Report, column 678W, on Trafalgar Day, by what means local sea cadet groups can obtain money his Department provides to the SCA.

(116745)

67   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the (a) role and (b) action of army logistics units in Iraq.

(116664)

68   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in which campaigns Territorial Army units have served since 1990; and what proportion of reservists (a) is committed and (b) was committed in (i) 1990 and (ii) 1997.

(116665)

69   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements are made for debriefing Territorial Army personnel returning from Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

(116666)

70   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have applied to become members of the Territorial Army in each of the last 12 months; how many of the applicants were rejected, broken down by gender; and what the primary reasons for rejection were in each case.

(116667)

71   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of (a) Territorial Army and (b) regular army personnel were sent to serve in Iraq.

(116668)

72   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the role played by the TA training facility at Chilwell in briefing and preparing TA personnel for service in Iraq.

(116607)

73   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the role of Altcar training camp in the training of Territorial Army staff dispatched to Iraq.

(116662)

74   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the role of RAF Woodvale in the training of RAF recruits.

(116663)

75
N   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he has taken to apply the Part Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (NI) 2000 to part-time Royal Irish Regiment soldiers.

(115998)

76   Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the war pensioners, suffering from a wholly psychiatric illness, who lost incapacity benefit during the three years to 31st August 2002 appealed against the ending of their benefit; how many lost their appeal; and what the average change in net annual income was for each individual affected.

(116589)

77
N   Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the (a) quantity, (b) quality and (c) source of non-UK produced eggs used in catering facilities on the defence estate.

(115761)

78   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 38W, on depleted uranium, whether his Department will disseminate this information to Iraqis.

(116217)

79   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he has taken with non-governmental organisations to develop a strategy to deal with public awareness of the localised dangers caused by depleted uranium used in munitions in Iraq.

(115994)

80   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his response of 12th May, Official Report, column 38W, on depleted uranium, whether his Department will make (a) radio and (b) television public announcements in Iraq to alert the Iraqi people to the safety precautions needed with depleted uranium.

(116214)

81   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 38W, on depleted uranium, when his Department plans to publish information on the depleted uranium it has fired in its area of operation in Iraq.

(116216)

82   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 38W, on depleted uranium, if his Department will work with the Department of Defense in the United States of America to draw up a combined report on depleted uranium that has been fired by allied forces in Iraq.

(116215)

83   Matthew Green (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what practices have been in place in the last 10 years to inform war widows of their right to backdate their war widows pension.

(116064)

84   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what factors underlay the decision to halt the production phase of the Nimrod programme; what assessment he has made of the effect on jobs of halting the production phase; what plans he has to meet BAe Systems and the trade unions involved to discuss the effects of halting the production phase; and if he will make a statement.

(116882)

85   Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding programmes are operated by his Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been over the last three years.

(116490)

86   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the function of the Territorial Army following the present military conflict in the Gulf; what assessment he has made of the future needs and role for the Territorial Army; what assessment he has made of the future role for the Territorial Army unit in Chorley; and what assessment he has made of the future role of the Territorial Army barracks in Chorley .

(116396)

87   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received from the United States regarding the disappearance of Mr Nerac and Mr Osman.

(116228)

88
N   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the size and nature of military forces required to restore peace and security in the Congo; and if he will make a statement.

(116230)

89   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action the Military Police in the Basra region has taken to investigate the whereabouts of Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman; and if he will make a statement.

(116225)

90   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold an investigation into the shooting incident during which Mr Nerac and Mr Osman disappeared; and what requests he has received to do so.

(116227)

91
N   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions have taken place at NATO regarding the situation in the Congo region.

(116232)

92
N   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions took place between the EU defence ministers on Monday 19th May concerning the situation in the Congo; and what conclusions were reached.

(116231)

93   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Royal Military Police will provide on the ground assistance in the search for the missing ITN crew members Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman.

(116226)

94
N   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with (a) the UN, (b) the US, (c) the EU and (d) France regarding the situation in the Congo north-eastern Ituri province; and what requests he has received for military assistance concerning this matter.

(116229)

95
N   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) secondments and (b) advisers have been attached to his forces in Iraq to assist with or advise on United States peace keeping operations; and if he will make a statement.

(116233)

96   Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the latest reports he has received on missing cameraman Fred Nerac and local translator Hussein Osman.

(116224)

97   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for International Development and (b) the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance regarding the restitution of the refuse collection system in Baghdad.

(116258)

98   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his US counterparts about (a) their intention to repeal the 1993 legislation banning the research, development and production of nuclear weapons and (b) the statement at the second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2003 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that the US was reducing reliance on nuclear weapons.

(116837)

99   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his estimate is of the cost of the clearance of unexploded ordnance left after military action by British forces in Iraq.

(116260)

100   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on chartering transport aircraft in each month since October 2001; and if he will make a statement.

(116143)

101   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on proposed changes to death in service benefits.

(116144)

102   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many death benefits for (a) single servicemen, (b) married servicemen and (c) servicemen with unmarried partners in a substantial relationship have been paid since 1997; what the cost was for each category; and if he will make a statement.

(116145)

103
N   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for North Norfolk of 16th May, Official Report, column 442W, on Antonovs, in which locations chartered Antonovs were used in (a) 2001, (b) 2002 and (c) 2003; what the total cost of chartering the Antonovs has been since October 2001; how many Antonovs are under charter; and if he will make a statement.

(116052)

104   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to (a) suspend and (b) terminate the use of manning control points; and if he will make a statement.

(116147)

105   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many soldiers (a) returning from Iraq and (b) currently serving in Iraq will face manning control points in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(116146)

106
N   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 16th May, Official Report, column 454W, on non-precision weapons, how many (a) 540lb free fall bombs, (b) 1,000lb free fall bombs and (c) RBL 755 cluster bombs were dropped by UK forces in urban areas in (i) Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom and (ii) Iraq during Operation Telic; whether, during post mission target assessments, 540lb and 1,000lb free fall bombs and RBL 755 cluster bombs are considered to have hit their target if they fall within the radius of their average accuracy; and if he will make a statement.

(116051)

107   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, at what level his Department was represented on the Tasking and Co-ordinating Group in October 1987; which officers of which Army units attended; and how many times this body met between April and December 1987.

(116363)

108   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the organisations which have had primacy of intelligence gathering operations in Northern Ireland since 1973.

(116869)

109   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what instructions he has given to his Department's officials on limitations on the disclosure of documents requested by (a) the investigation team of His Honour Judge Corey and (b) the Inquiry team of Mr Justice Barry.

(116868)

110   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to send the letter promised on 28th April in response to Parliamentary Questions tabled by the honourable Member for Hull North on 11th April concerning the prisoner of war camp at Umm Qasr.

(116372)

111   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, Official Report, column 786W, on reserve forces, what form the follow-up work with reservists will take.

(116386)

112   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on health screening for Reservists following their return from the Gulf to civilian life.

(116357)

113   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21st May, Official Report, column 785W, on reserve forces, what is being done to remedy the shortfall of reservists; what assesment he has made of the reasons for the difference in the level of shortfall in the three services; and if he will break down the shortfall by (a) rank and (b) branch.

(116487)

114   Mr John Randall (Uxbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact on military flights at Northolt of a third runway at Heathrow.

(115980)

115
N   Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what British resources have been devoted to investigating deaths by friendly fire during the Iraq conflict, broken down by number of people investigating and their service.

(115792)

116
N   Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what co-operation has taken place between the United Kingdom and the United States of America on investigations into deaths by friendly fire during the Iraq conflict.

(115791)

117
N   Hugh Robertson (Faversham & Mid Kent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to publish the results of investigations into deaths by friendly fire during the Iraq conflict.

(115793)

118
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to purchase the German Rheinmetall W and M modular propellant charge system.

(115959)

119
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the planned in-service date is for the first Royal Artillery AS90 regiment to be fully modernised and trained.

(115482)

120
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the security of supply for propellants for the British armed forces.

(115484)

121
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the SOMCHEM-designed modular charge system has not met the performance specification.

(115486)

122
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which current programmes undertaken by RO Defence for his Department are (a) subject to delay and (b) undergoing a Ministry of Defence investment appraisal.

(115960)

123
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to re-establish a UK-based propellant facility.

(115958)

124
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the Ministry of Defence's overseas propellant suppliers.

(115483)

125
N   Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) financial and (b) operational consequences are of failure of the SOMCHEM-designed modular charge system to meet the performance specification.

(115485)

126   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much opium has been (a) impounded and (b) destroyed by ISAF forces in Afghanistan in each month since January 2002.

(116418)

127   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many arrests have been made in Iraq of suspected al Qaeda (a) operatives and (b) sympathisers since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

(116401)

128   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what instructions have been given to British forces in Afghanistan (a) to impound and (b) to destroy (i) opium and (ii) heroin.

(116419)

129   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what resources the Government will provide in response to the UN Secretary-General's call for the deployment of a rapid reaction force to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(116412)

130   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial resources his Department has allocated specifically to reducing opium production in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.

(116811)

131   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contribution will be made by the UK to the multi-national rapid reaction force to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(116411)

132   Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps have been taken to remove and make safe depleted uranium weapons employed in the recent conflict with Iraq.

(116039)

133   Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has been made of post-war health and environmental issues arising as a result of the employment of depleted uranium weapons in the recent conflict with Iraq.

(116040)

134   Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to what extent the recent conflict with Iraq has affected efforts to make safe and remove the remains of depleted uranium weapons employed in that region during the first Gulf War.

(116041)

135   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116650)

136   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by his Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116673)

137   Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on contract negotiations at RAF Church Fenton; and when he expects the negotiations to end.

(116749)

138   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has been made of the value of hovercraft to amphibious and other military operations; how many are in service with the armed forces; if there are plans to increase numbers; and if he will make a statement.

(116239)

139   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations have been made by (a) private developers and (b) British forces representatives about the military use of hovercraft; and what discussions have taken place with manufacturing companies in the United States and United Kingdom regarding the development of hovercraft.

(116242)

140   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent research has been undertaken in developing the hovercraft; and what finance was allocated to this research.

(116241)

141   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when hovercraft were last used in military operations by British forces and in what way; and if he will make a statement on hovercraft capability.

(116240)

142   Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will review the Standard Spending Assessment of Rossendale Borough Council and other local authorities within whose areas there are a proportionately large number of walls, bridges, roads and culverts requiring repair and where the ownership cannot be established.

(116127)

143   Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what council tax business rates relief is available to homes providing residential or nursing care for the elderly.

(116128)

144   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116082)

145   Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg & Goole): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what aid and assistance is available for the (a) sale and (b) development of brownfield sites for domestic housing.

(116297)

146
N   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd May, Official Report, column 986W, what criteria will apply in determining whether the South West Regional Assembly will receive the full £600,000 or a lesser sum.

(116809)

147
N   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 19th May, Official Report, column 626W, on the High Hedges (No. 2) Bill, if the guidance will be published by 13th June.

(116810)

148   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what percentage of buildings owned by Sefton Metropolitan authority are accessible by people with physical disabilities.

(116619)

149   Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what remit relating to sustainable development is (a) required and (b) undertaken by his Department's (i) executive agencies, (ii) advisory non-departmental bodies, (iii) executive non-departmental bodies, (iv) tribunals, (v) public corporations and (vi) other bodies.

(116846)

150   Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many affordable housing units in (a) rural districts and (b) extreme rural districts in England were (i) sold under right to buy and (ii) newly built in 2002; and what the net change was.

(116845)

151   Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether his Department's procurement policy includes timber used on and in the construction of departmental building projects; and if he will make a statement.

(116849)

152   Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the departmental strategy for sustainable development has been published; and if he will make a statement on what steps are (a) being taken and (b) planned to take forward the strategy.

(116848)

153   Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment is made (a) of the environmental impact and (b) against sustainable development criteria of bids made for (i) grants and (ii) contracts awarded by his Department; who makes such assessments; and whether these assessments are published.

(116847)

154   Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what building regulations concerning sprinkler systems are (a) in place and (b) planned for (i) houses of multiple occupation, (ii) care homes, (iii) hospitals, (iv) council offices, (v) listed buildings and (vi) domestic properties.

(116850)

155   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many asylum seekers are housed by the local authorities in (a) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (b) Hull; and how many were housed by each in each month of the last two quarters for which figures are available.

(116772)

156   Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the running costs of the Millennium Dome were in each of the last six months.

(115999)

157   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which he is responsible.

(116391)

158
N   Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether cabinets of local authorities have responsibilities for staffing matters; and if he will make a statement.

(116135)

159   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will continue the funding arrangement beyond March 2004 to enable the experimental Community Street Wardens Scheme in Colchester to be established on a permanent basis; and if he will make a statement.

(116314)

160   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans his Department has to provide accommodation for traveller communities whilst ensuring that settled communities are not deprived of essential services.

(115934)

161   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps his Department is planning to take to co-ordinate his recently announced housing plans for Milton Keynes and Multi-modal Study Paper with the emerging district-based community housing plans.

(115936)

162   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps his Department is planning to take to ensure that the proposed Regional Housing Board housing allocations include environmental, social and financial provisions to deliver the transport, education and health infrastructure to serve the increased population that will result from these proposals.

(115935)

163   Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many new dwellings per hectare are proposed for the South East.

(116223)

164   Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what percentage of proposed new homes in the South East will be built on (a) brown field sites and (b) green belt.

(116222)

165
N   Paddy Tipping (Sherwood): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the average council tax was for each local authority in England in 2003-04.

(115481)

166   Angela Watkinson (Upminster): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost of maintaining the Millennium Dome has been since its closure; and what plans he has for its future use.

(116485)

167
N   Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he will distribute Queen's Golden Jubilee Medals to retained firefighters in Essex as soon as they are available.

(115674)

168
N   Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his policy is towards the distribution of Queen's Golden Jubilee Medals to firefighters (a) who are participating in industrial action and (b) who are not participating in industrial action.

(115675)

169   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116642)

170
N   Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent communications he has received from East Sussex County Council regarding the need for a replacement school at Wivelsfield; and if he will make a statement.

(115794)

171   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many adults are illiterate; and what percentage of adults this represents.

(116011)

172   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils in each year group (a) had access to and (b) took up musical instrument lessons at schools in the Leeds West constituency in the latest year for which figures are available.

(116186)

173   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what provisions are available for assisting talented musicians from Leeds West in state schools to achieve excellence as musicians.

(116185)

174   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) peripatetic and (b) staff musical instrument teachers work in state schools in Leeds; how many full-time equivalent staff there are; and what the average number of hours worked per week was in the latest period for which figures are available.

(116184)

175   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of state-educated pupils in the Leeds West constituency (a) had access to and (b) took up musical instrument lessons at schools in the latest year for which figures are available.

(116187)

176   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) nurseries, (b) playgroups, (c) childminders, (d) out of school clubs and (e) holiday schemes there were in (i) Leeds Metropolitan District and (ii) the Leeds West constituency for each year since 1990.

(116020)

177   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of state-educated pupils in (a) Leeds West constituency and (b) Leeds Metropolitan district receive free school meals.

(116189)

178   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116079)

179
N   Mr David Chaytor (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Treasury relating to the tax-exempt status of educational benefits received through employee development schemes; and if he will make a statement.

(115118)

180   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussion he has had with the London Borough of Wandsworth on education funding for the borough for the year 2003-04; and if he will make a statement.

(116713)

181   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many school children are permanently excluded from schools in the Greater London area.

(116707)

182   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent representations he has received from London local authorities on education formula spending shares and the addition of the Standard Fund Grant; and if he will make a statement.

(116578)

183
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the future of the Standards Fund for Teaching Assistants and School Support Staff.

(115560)

184
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the impact of the discontinuation of major Standards Funds.

(115562)

185
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what additional resources are available to relieve the shortages of funding for education services in Coventry City Council.

(116150)

186
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to alter the boundaries in the School Standards Grant.

(115563)

187
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the consultation that took place prior to the proposal for the withdrawal of the Standards Fund for Teaching Assistants and School Support Staff; and which organisations were consulted prior to the proposal.

(115561)

188   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps he has taken to encourage young women to take up physics A level.

(116616)

189   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when he will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Crosby concerning Ursuline School, Blundellsands, Liverpool.

(116881)

190   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many vacancies there are in secondary schools for (a) physics, (b) chemistry, (c) mathematics and (d) IT teachers at (i) GCSE and (ii) A level; and what recent steps he has taken to attract people into teaching science and technology-related subjects.

(116617)

191   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding has been received by Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council to support educational services for children and people with learning difficulties, disabilities and other special educational needs in the current financial year.

(116279)

192   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many companies have been established from (a) Liverpool University, (b) John Moores University, (c) Liverpool Hope and (d) Edge Hill University college in each year since 1997; what percentage of those companies were estalished by women; and how many survived (i) one year, (ii) two years and (ii) more than two years.

(116615)

193   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions he has held with the Institution of Physics on the involvement of women in physics.

(116618)

194
N   Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the (a) quantity, (b) quality and (c) source of non-UK produced eggs used in school catering.

(115759)

195   Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on schools to which chicken adulterated with beef protein has been supplied.

(116851)

196   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on his Department's strategy for promoting research and development in schools of the future, as set out in the Excellence in Schools White Paper.

(116114)

197   Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what innovative approaches to pupil grouping, as set out in the Excellence in Schools White Paper, have been developed since 1997.

(116115)

198
N   Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many excluded children have received education through (a) pupil referral units, (b) home tuition, (c) emotional and behavioural disorder day units, (d) emotional and behavioural disorder residential units and (e) other provision for excluded children in each year since 1995.

(116632)

199
N   Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much it cost to educate excluded children through (a) pupil referral units, (b) home tuition, (c) emotional and behavioural disorder day units, (d) emotional and behavioural disorder residential units and (e) other provision for excluded children in each year since 1995.

(116635)

200
N   Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much has been spent on educating excluded children in each year since 1995.

(116631)

201
N   Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of excluded children in pupil referral units were regularly truanting in each year since 1995.

(116633)

202
N   Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children have been excluded from mainstream education in each year since 1995.

(116634)

203   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the funding of higher education after the introduction of top-up fees.

(116586)

204   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the future of A levels; and what assessment he has made of the implications of the A level results of 2002.

(116069)

205   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on (a) plans for merger and (b) recent closures of further and higher education institutions, with particular reference to proposals that affect Hampshire.

(116348)

206   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research he has commissioned on the effects of introducing further education allowance to support 19-30 year olds in returning to education.

(116585)

207
N   Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding programmes are operated by his Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been over the last three years.

(116495)

208   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which he is responsible.

(116392)

209   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools have signed a Microsoft Schools Agreement contract.

(116660)

210   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action his Department is taking to increase the confidence of schools in the use of open source software.

(116659)

211
N   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of three year olds have access to early years education in North Shropshire.

(116339)

212
N   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of three year olds have access to early years education in (a) rural areas and (b) urban areas.

(116338)

213
N   Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement about the OFSTED report into the Tewkesbury After-Hours Club.

(116134)

214   Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which (a) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and (b) dyslexia projects received funding from the (i) Special Educational Needs Small Programme Fund and (ii) Training and Development Fund; and how much each project received.

(116904)

215   Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of PPP contracts for educational provision in England in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

(115949)

216   Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many PPP bids were received to provide schools in Northamptonshire in the recent bid process; and if he will make a statement.

(115950)

217   Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether he (a) sought and (b) obtained agreement to pupils being photographed for publicity purposes on the occasion of his announcement on pupil testing on 20th May from (i) their parents, (ii) the school governors, (iii) the head teacher and (iv) the local education authority.

(116234)

218   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116644)

219   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by his Department's (a) executive agencies; (b) advisory non-departmental bodies; (c) executive non-departmental bodies; (d) tribunals; (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116669)

220   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the compatibility of the new EU emissions trading scheme with the Energy Efficiency Commitment introduced in April 2002.

(116172)

221   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made by her Department towards meeting the target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent. by 2050; and what representations she has received.

(116180)

222   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received concerning progress being made towards the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 12 per cent. by 2012.

(116181)

223   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the distance is between the waste disposal and landfill site operated by Harry Sanders Ltd at Ingram Works in Leeds and the closest domestic property.

(116326)

224   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many modifications to waste management site licences since 1997 have been regularisation of existing practices at waste disposal and landfill sites.

(116332)

225   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Environment Agency's agreed amount of waste tonnage per year processed under site management licences is in (a) Leeds Metropolitan District and (b) West Yorkshire.

(116325)

226   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the addresses of waste disposal and recycling sites in the United Kingdom licensed by the Environment Agency to accept bonded asbestos.

(116207)

227   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what effect the charge on the disposal of cars no longer licensed has had on the number of abandoned cars.

(115930)

228   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the operator pollution risk appraisal score of each of the licensed (a) waste disposal and (b) landfill sites in (i) the Leeds Metropolitan District area and (ii) the Yorkshire and Humberside area was in each year since 1990.

(116205)

229   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how asbestos at waste disposal sites is classified; and if she will make a statement.

(116206)

230   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidelines the Environment Agency uses to determine acceptable distances between (a) waste disposal and (b) landfill sites and neighbouring housing.

(116200)

231   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a licence to operate a hazardous waste site includes permission (a) to store and (b) to process asbestos waste.

(116201)

232   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what materials are classified as hazardous waste for the purposes of licensing waste disposal and landfill sites.

(116202)

233   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate the Environment Agency has made of the amount of waste tonnage being disposed of weekly at the waste disposal and landfill site operated by Harry Sanders Ltd at Ingram Works in Leeds.

(116328)

234   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the registered licensed waste disposal and landfill sites in the Leeds Metropolitan District area.

(116333)

235   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the waste sites and their addresses in the Leeds Metropolitan District, indicating those which have submitted hazardous waste landfill conditioning plans to the Environment Agency.

(116019)

236   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Environment Agency's agreed amount of tonnage per year is for waste processed under the site management licence at the waste disposal and landfill site operated by Harry Sanders Ltd at Ingram Works in Leeds.

(116327)

237   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were fined by the Environment Agency or its predecessor regulatory authority for dumping bonded asbestos illegally in each year since 1990.

(116208)

238   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what monitoring of bonded asbestos at waste disposal sites other than operator pollution risk appraisals is carried out by the Environment Agency.

(116209)

239   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Environment Agency's agreed tonnage of bonded waste asbestos held at licensed waste disposal sites is in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) Leeds Metropolitan District.

(116210)

240   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications for modifications to waste management licences were received by the Environment Agency or its predecessor regulatory authority in each year since 1990.

(116199)

241   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many breach of condition notices the Environment Agency has served on the waste disposal and landfill site operated by Harry Sanders Ltd at Ingram Works in Leeds in each year since the Environment Agency was established.

(116204)

242   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average operator pollution risk appraisal score for waste disposal and landfill sites was in England in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

(116334)

243   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under what conditions bonded asbestos may be held at licensed waste disposal sites; and if she will make a statement.

(116198)

244   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the prosecutions brought by the Environment Agency or by predecessor regulatory authorities for breaking the conditions of (a) management site licences and (b) management site licences for bonded asbestos since 1990, broken down by (i) address of site and (ii) type of waste; and which prosecutions were successful.

(116211)

245   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the difference between special waste and hazardous waste is for the purpose of licensing waste disposal sites.

(116329)

246   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the operator pollution risk appraisal score of the waste disposal and landfill site operated by Harry Sanders Ltd at Ingram Works in Leeds was in each year since 1990; and if she will make a statement.

(116330)

247   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what modifications to waste management licences have been (a) applied for and (b) authorised by the Environment Agency or its predecessor regulatory body in each year since 1990, broken down by waste site.

(116331)

248   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions have been brought by the Environment Agency for breaking conditions of management site licences in each year since the Agency was established; and how many were successful.

(116203)

249   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the sites licensed by the Environment Agency to hold bonded asbestos in (a) Leeds and (b) West Yorkshire.

(116196)

250   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list for each licensed waste disposal site in West Yorkshire with management conditions for holding bonded asbestos the distance between the site and the nearest residential property.

(116197)

251   Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with officers from the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority regarding their soil improver product; and what assessment she has made of whether the soil improver product will meet the requirements of the Animal By-products Order.

(116025)

252   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116078)

253
N   Colin Burgon (Elmet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps can be taken by the Environment Agency in an emergency situation to speed up the process of granting a licence to extract water from a river.

(115678)

254
N   Colin Burgon (Elmet): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licences have been granted by the Environment Agency to extract water from rivers in 2003; what average length of time it has taken to grant a licence to extract water from a river; what the average length of time a licence for which issued; and how many such licences have been granted covering the River Aire in the Elmet constituency in 2003.

(115677)

255   Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg & Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the government policy on (a) licensing the commercial production of GM crops, (b) the importation of GM foods and farm crops and (c) the patenting of genetic resources for food and farming.

(116298)

256   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what types of birds and what size of population are supported in the bird reserve in Seaforth Docks; and if she will make a statement.

(116610)

257   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the development of the rural economy in Sefton.

(116612)

258   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the condition of the flood defence measures on the Sefton coastline from Formby pinewoods to Seaforth Docks.

(116608)

259   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the condition and management of the SSSI sites between Formby pinewoods and Seaforth Docks.

(116609)

260   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the incidence was of bovine tuberculosis in (a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) England in the last five years for which figures are available.

(116762)

261   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people in (a) Haltemprice and Howden and (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire are awaiting IACS payments; and what the average waiting time for payment was in the last year for which figures are available.

(116761)

262   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cattle were slaughtered in the last five years in (a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) England and Wales as part of the campaign against tuberculosis.

(116792)

263   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what help is available to those organisations which wish to develop local food chains.

(116439)

264   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice she gives to local authorities which wish to encourage local food chains by including local sourcing as part of their best value contracting.

(116440)

265   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on funding arrangements for the implementing of (a) the rights of way legislation and (b) the vital villages policy.

(116442)

266   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what help and advice is available in the south west region for farmers who wish to diversify their activities; and what financial assistance is in place to support these activities.

(116441)

267   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department uses bodies other than the United Kingdom Accreditation Service for the accreditation of certification bodies operating in the organic food sector.

(116756)

268   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the amount councils have spent in each of the last 10 years on removing chewing gum from pavements.

(116003)

269   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the chewing gum industry to assess the feasibility of changing ingredients in gum so they are less likely to stick to pavements.

(116004)

270   Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many beef carcasses from Brazil were tested for disease in each of the last 10 years, broken down by type of disease; and what proportion were found to pose a health risk.

(116856)

271   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the date-based export scheme; and what plans she has to amend the scheme.

(116584)

272   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of protection against terrorist action in the (a) food production and (b) food distribution industries.

(116276)

273   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total amount of subsidy received by the British farming industry was in each of the last three years; from which budgets this money comes; what steps she is taking to monitor these costs; and if she will make a statement.

(116916)

274   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with HM Customs and Excise regarding intelligence on illegal meat imports.

(116075)

275   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research her Department has commissioned on the effectiveness of the regulations on livestock traceability; and what plans she has to amend them.

(116583)

276   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will introduce (a) rate relief and (b) other incentives to stores supplying local produce.

(116349)

277   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which she is responsible.

(116389)

278   Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to pay the proposed single farm payments in respect of all IACS-registered land, regardless of whether the farming activity being carried out during the reference period qualified for subsidy.

(116488)

279   Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the European Commission's proposals for decoupling in the unsupported crops sector.

(116486)

280   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures she has taken to promote English wine.

(116466)

281   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who the (a) Chairman and (b) members are of the Commission on Radioactive Waste Management; and when it will start work.

(116123)

282   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how often the countries which belong to the OSPAR Commission have met since July 1998 on matters within its auspices; what subjects they discussed; and what issues or matters were implemented.

(116124)

283
N   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps have been taken by the countries forming the OSPAR Commission to agree a baseline from which to measure whether reductions in radioactive discharges have taken place.

(116125)

284   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she will take to ensure that the UK Strategy for Radioactive Discharges meets the commitments signed up to at the OSPAR Commission in July 1998.

(116118)

285   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Commission on Radioactive Waste Management will undertake a review of the options for the long-term management of radioactive waste to provide recommendations to Government on the best approach; what organisations and communities they will consult; and what the anticipated date is for the completion of this review.

(116121)

286   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans will be put in place to reduce and eliminate the discharges of technetium-99 from the Sellafield re-processing plant.

(116122)

287
N   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the terms of reference are of the Commission on Radioactive Waste Management: and if she will make a statement.

(116120)

288   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action will be taken to ensure that the Government meets the commitments of the OSPAR Commission proposals of July 1998 in advance of the meeting in Bremen in June.

(116119)

289   Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cases of bovine TB there have been in Cumbria in each of the last five years.

(116174)

290   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to help reduce the rate of biodiversity loss throughout the world.

(116046)

291   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the environmental impact of proposals to expand airport capacity in the South East.

(116322)

292   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to make waste minimisation and recycling mandatory for the commercial sectors to achieve a reduction in overall commercial waste levels.

(115940)

293   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department plans to take against those local authorities who fail to meet their recycling targets and continue to export waste out of their area of responsibility for landfill; and if she will make a statement.

(115947)

294   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is planning to take to enable local suthorities to refuse to dispose of waste that has been imported from other authorities to be landfilled within their areas of responsibility; and if she will make a statement.

(115945)

295   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what incentives she will provide to encourage the London and South East waste collection and waste disposal authorities to act in partnership to develop joint waste management strategies to minimise waste and increase recycling; and if she will make a statement.

(115944)

296   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what incentives her Department is providing to local authorities to (a) offer effective and sustained educational resources for waste minimisation and recycling and (b) reduce the amount of waste that is exported to rural Bedfordshire.

(115946)

297   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken by her Department to ensure that authorities in London and the South East act responsibly in their waste strategies to (a) minimise waste at source, (b) rapidly increase recycling and (c) reduce the need for waste to be exported; and if she will make a statement.

(115948)

298   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken by her Department to encourage the commercial sector to minimise waste and increase recycling rates.

(115943)

299   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to set (a) commercial waste reduction and (b) commercial waste recycling targets for (i) local authorities and (ii) industrial sectors.

(115941)

300   Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures her Department is planning to assist local authorities to encourage the commercial sector to (a) minimise commercial waste at source, (b) increase recycling and (c) achieve a reduction in commercial waste levels.

(115942)

301   Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures she intends to take to increase sewerage disposal in the South East.

(116219)

302   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had in 2003 with the chairman of the Food Standards Agency on the promotion of organic food; and if she will make a statement on the implementation of the organic action plan.

(116797)

303   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made at the WTO on new agreements on agriculture.

(116036)

304   Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that fallen stock will be collected within 24 hours of death under the proposed national fallen stock scheme; what penalty will apply for collection after 24 hours; and to whom that penalty will apply.

(116591)

305   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what targets her Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how she intends to achieve these targets.

(116654)

306   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by her Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116678)

307
N   Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 13th May, Official Report, column 161W, on export licences, which Minister from his Department contacted the UK Embassy in Washington in July 2002 for advice on the US sanctions on Iran regarding the sale of aircraft; and what advice was sought.

(116296)

308
N   Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 13th May, Official Report, column 161W, on export licences, from which United States agencies the British Embassy sought advice on a possible sale of British aircraft to Iran; what reply was received; and to whom advice was passed outside his Department.

(116295)

309   Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the forced evacuation of Gana and Trivi bushmen from their land because of diamond mining in Botswana; and if he will make a statement.

(116067)

310   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116089)

311   Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what notification the Government received from the Indonesian Government of its intention to deploy (a) Hawk aircraft and (b) other equipment built in and exported from the UK, in Aceh.

(116498)

312   Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the activities of the Indonesian armed forces in Aceh are consistent with assurances he has received from the Indonesian authorities.

(116497)

313   Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the Indonesian Government's adherence to its assurances that no British military equipment will be used in counter-insurgency operations in Indonesia.

(116500)

314   Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Indonesian Government's assurances that equipment will not be used to infringe human rights in Aceh or elsewhere extend to equipment other than armoured personnel carriers.

(116499)

315   Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what efforts the UK Government has made to resolve the dispute over the legality of the travel ban imposed upon Mr Jonathan Brown, a constituent, by the Omani Government in August 2000.

(116310)

316   Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps the UK Government has taken to secure the return to the UK from Oman of Mr Jonathan Brown, a constituent; and if he will make a statement.

(116313)

317   Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the UK Government and its embassy in Oman took to ensure that the travel ban imposed on Mr Jonathan Brown, a constituent, by the Omani Government, on 21st August 2000, was legal and properly served.

(116312)

318   Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what basis the Government, via its embassy in Oman, issued the warning that limited the right of travel of Mr Jonathan Brown, a constituent, as a condition of returning his passport.

(116311)

319   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK citizens have been killed in road accidents in (a) Italy and (b) Germany in each of the last five years.

(116871)

320   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral Answer of 6th May, Official Report, column 528, on Nigeria, what response he has received to his latest representations to the Nigerian Government.

(116705)

321   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people have died in the Congo in each of the last 10 years, broken down by gender; what percentage of the population this represented in each year; and what recent discussions he has had with the UN about the conflict.

(116743)

322   Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding programmes are operated by his Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been over the last three years.

(116491)

323   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 16th May, Official Report, column 497W, what information he has on the facilities provided by other diplomatic missions for people to get a message about their health and safety to relatives in the UK.

(116139)

324   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of Palestinian refugees in Iraq being evicted from their homes because they have no money to pay rent previously waived; and if he will make a statement.

(116259)

325   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 6th May, Official Report, column 562-3W, on Iraq, what discussions took place on options for a new judicial system (a) amongst the members of the Coalition and (b) amongst members of the UN Security Council prior to the commencement of military action.

(116289)

326
N   Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, column 7W, on the Democratic Republic of Congo, whether he has received the further information requested from the UN Expert Panel.

(116213)

327
N   Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when a decision will be made on whether to provide British troops for a United Nations military force tasked with restoring peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(116471)

328   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what lessons for the seizure of enemy documents in future campaigns have been drawn from the seizure by unauthorised personnel of Iraqi government documents.

(116597)

329   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department made before the Gulf conflict of the importance of capturing Iraqi government documents in relation to the discovery of Iraqi (i) weapons of mass destruction and (ii) links with terrorist groups.

(116599)

330   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has been given access to Iraqi documents seized by supporters of the Iraqi National Congress.

(116602)

331   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the seizure of documents from the offices within coalition-occupied territory of (a) the Mukhabarat, (b) the Special Security Organisation and (c) the Ba'ath Party by supporters of the Iraqi National Congress; and if he will make a statement.

(116601)

332   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Coalition's arrangements to seize Iraqi government documents.

(116598)

333   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date documents from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry were first seized by Coalition forces.

(116604)

334   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) role and (b) activities of al-Jazeera in supporting the former regime in Iraq, following the seizure of Iraqi documents by the Iraqi National Congress.

(116603)

335   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to secure copies of Iraqi government documents seized by (a) British and (b) foreign journalists after the fall of Baghdad.

(116600)

336   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reason access to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad had not been sealed by Coalition forces by 22nd April.

(116605)

337   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he held with his US counterparts (a) before and (b) during the Gulf conflict on the desirability of seizing Iraqi government documents; and on what dates he held such discussions.

(116606)

338   Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Iraqi Government documents seized in Iraq have been removed (a) to the United Kingdom and (b) to the United States; and what arrangements are in place for Coalition members to share their contents.

(116596)

339   Mr Michael Moore (Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what status will be accorded to the accession states of the European Union at the forthcoming intergovernmental conference in terms of (a) negotiation rights and (b) voting rights; and if he will make a statement.

(116062)

340   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the United Kingdom plans to repatriate powers in the new constitution for the EU.

(116160)

341   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what constitutes an action contrary to the interests of the Union, in the CFSP Article 3 of the draft EU constitution.

(116166)

342   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the current draft of the EU constitution will require amendment to the European Communities Act 1972 if it is accepted by member states.

(116169)

343   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the main unresolved issues are in the Convention on the Future of Europe.

(116162)

344   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on surrendering vetos over policy areas in the proposed European constitution.

(116159)

345   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the proposed EU constitutional structure in the draft constitution is federal.

(116157)

346   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who would settle a dispute over powers between the EU and the United Kingdom under the proposed draft constitution.

(116164)

347   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the retention of the phrase, ever closer Union, in the draft EU constitution.

(116167)

348   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to make reform to the fishing settlement a condition for accepting a new EU constitution.

(116161)

349   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the United Kingdom negotiating objectives are when discussing the draft European constitution.

(116158)

350   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the United Kingdom Parliament would need EU approval before legislating in areas of EU competence under the present draft constitution for the EU.

(116163)

351   Mr John Redwood (Wokingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his interpretation is of the statement that the Member States shall support the Union's external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity, in the EU treaties and draft constitution.

(116165)

352
N   Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Ethio-Eritrea Border Commission about the drawing of the border near Badme; and if he will make a statement.

(116136)

353   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the outcome was of the work commissioned on long-term strategic priorities for British foreign policy; and if he will place a copy of the report in the library.

(116798)

354   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what period after accession countries joining the European Union will be allowed derogations on matters within EU policy.

(116795)

355
N   Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the risk to international security posed by North Korea; and what progress is being made in re-introducing arms inspectors to the country.

(116177)

356   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the ethnic violence in Kirkuk.

(116414)

357   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of (a) boys and (b) girls are receiving education in Afghanistan.

(116400)

358   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of the United States concerning the representation of women on the interim administration for Iraq.

(116035)

359   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much opium has been (a) impounded and (b) destroyed by the Afghan Transitional Administration in each month since January 2002.

(116417)

360   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action has been taken to ensure the deployment of UN human rights monitors in Iraq.

(116037)

361   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on what remit relating to sustainable development is (a) required and (b) undertaken by his Department's (i) executive agencies, (ii) advisory non-departmental bodies, (iii) executive non-departmental bodies, (iv) tribunals, (v) public corporations and (vi) other bodies.

(116641)

362   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116655)

363   Tony Worthington (Clydebank & Milngavie): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether, in negotiating a bilateral treaty for impunity from the International Criminal Court for American nationals, he has sought assurances from the United States that an American suspected of war crimes would be prosecuted in the United States for the full range of war crimes specified in the Rome Statute; and if he will make a statement.

(116908)

364   Tony Worthington (Clydebank & Milngavie): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on application of Article 16 of the Rome Statute; and if he will make a statement.

(116910)

365   Tony Worthington (Clydebank & Milngavie): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which states have signed bilateral impunity agreements following Resolution 1422 of the United Nations Security Council; and how many have ratified them.

(116909)

366   Tony Worthington (Clydebank & Milngavie): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action the Security Council took, in passing Resolution 1422, to determine whether there was a threat to international peace and security that justified taking powers under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.

(116913)

367   Tony Worthington (Clydebank & Milngavie): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what implications Resolution 1422 of the Security Council has for compliance with other international agreements, with particular reference to the Convention against Torture and the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

(116912)

368   Tony Worthington (Clydebank & Milngavie): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what threat to international peace and security existed when he invoked Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter and supported Resolution 1422 of the Security Council.

(116911)

369
N   Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what changes there have been in the priorities for promoting trade at UK embassies and high commissions since 1997.

(115970)

370
N   Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether ministerial authority was given for the deposit placed on a replacement residence for the Consul General in San Francisco.

(116098)

371
N   Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his Department's staff at each (a) embassy and (b) high commission have responsibilities which are primarily the promotion of trade with the UK.

(115969)

372
N   Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much of the Department's budget was spent in the latest 12 months for which figures are available on the promotion overseas of trade with the UK; and if he will break down spending in each (a) embassy and (b) high commission.

(115968)

373
N   Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the value of the Consul-General's house in San Francisco; and what economic calculations he used to make his assessment.

(115971)

374   Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what annual salaries are paid to the senior officers of the primary care trusts serving East Lancashire.

(116131)

375   Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget is of the LIFT scheme in East Lancashire in (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04 and (c) 2004-05; and whether this funding is time-limited.

(116130)

376   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the suspension guidelines for waiting lists for NHS trust hospital operations.

(116013)

377   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the population of Leeds West constituency was registered with an NHS dentist in each of the last five years.

(116182)

378   Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much government funding is provided to groups working to help sufferers of endometriosis.

(116362)

379   Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been provided for research into endometriosis in each of the last 10 years.

(116366)

380   Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the level of funding of endometriosis services by health authority area over each of the past 10 years.

(116365)

381   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116090)

382   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, Official Report, columns 855-6W, on long-term care, how much his Department has allocated to publicise the need for individuals to assess whether they or a relative failed to be given continuing care between 1996 and 2003, as set out in HC399.

(116857)

383   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what targets his Department has set under phase II of the Better Hospital Food Programme for the (a) quality and (b) availability of drinks at ward level; and how improvements will be monitored.

(116862)

384   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, Official Report, column 852W, on continuing care, what additional information was required from strategic health authorities following the deadline for reviewing existing continuing care criteria; and if he will make a statement.

(116860)

385   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, Official Report, column 852W, on continuing care, whether the formula he is using to estimate the number of people who were refused continuing care uses local information about the nursing home population.

(116859)

386   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional resources his Department has given to (a) strategic health authorities, (b) primary care trusts and (c) NHS trusts to implement phase II of the Better Hospital Food Programme.

(116861)

387   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department will assess the way the NHS buys its food to ensure that NHS trusts are getting the right kind of quality for the very best price, as set out in phase II of the Better Hospital Food Programme.

(116864)

388   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what targets his Department has set under phase II of the Better Hospital Food Programme for food and drinks services (a) for children and young adults and (b) in accident and emergency departments; and how improvements will be monitored.

(116863)

389   Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many osteoporosis (a) units and (b) nurses there are; and if he will make a statement.

(116637)

390   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on Government plans to oblige children who are being fostered to attend school.

(116802)

391   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of excluded school children who were fostered in the last year for which figures are available.

(116801)

392   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on Government plans to (a) professionalise and (b) remunerate foster carers.

(116805)

393
N   Mr Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff in hospital accident and emergency departments in the East Midlands region have been issued with the newly designed protective suit for use in response to nuclear, biological or chemical attack by terrorists; and how many of those staff have so far received specialist training in the response to such incidents.

(116437)

394
N   Mr Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulance service staff in the East Midland Region have been issued with the newly designed protective suit for use in response to nuclear, biological or chemical attack by terrorists; and how many of these staff have so far received specialist training in the response to such incidents.

(116482)

395
N   Mr Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much additional central funding has been allocated this year to the health and ambulance authorities in Nottinghamshire to provide improved personal protective equipment, including respirators and mobile decontamination units to be used in response to nuclear, biological or chemical terrorist attack; and how many staff have been given specialist training in (a) the use of such equipment and (b) the response to such attacks.

(116481)

396   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding is available in this financial year to develop further pharmacy schemes for the supply of emergency contraception; how the programme will be taken forward; and if he will make a statement.

(116746)

397   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 14th April, Official Report, column 620W, on primary care trusts, what the population was of each of the old primary care trusts in Redbridge and Waltham Forest; and what the population is of each of the new trusts.

(116747)

398   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prison doctors are employed full-time in prisons in England and Wales.

(116710)

399   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on progress with fitting digital hearing aids for analogue hearing aid users within first wave sites of the hearing aids modernisation project.

(116685)

400   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether first wave sites involved in the digital hearing aids modernisation project started fitting digital hearing aids to new patients before dealing with existing patients.

(116684)

401   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what directions he has issued to hospital trusts involved in the first and second waves of the hearing aids modernisation project on ensuring audiology patients have access to digital hearing aids.

(116688)

402   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on using age as a criterion for access to digital hearing aids under the hearing aids modernisation project.

(116687)

403   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the age profile of hearing aid users who have been using analogue hearing aids for more than three years.

(116686)

404   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under 18 are being treated by adult mental health services in the Mersey Care NHS Trust area.

(116287)

405   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding per capita is being spent by (a) South Sefton Primary Care Trust and (b) Southport and Formby Primary Care Trust on services for people with mental health difficulties in the current financial year; and what the average spending per capita is of Primary Care Trusts in England.

(116278)

406   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many delayed discharges of patients there were in the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in the last quarter for which figures are available; and what the figures were for the preceding four quarters.

(116768)

407   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients admitted to accident and emergency departments waited more than 12 hours before being treated in each of the last two quarters for which figures are available; and what the average waiting time for patients waiting more than 12 hours is.

(116735)

408   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds were available in the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in the last quarter for which figures are available; and how many were available in the preceding four quarters.

(116765)

409   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients admitted to accident and emergency departments in Hull and East Yorkshire waited longer than 12 hours prior to admission, transfer or discharge, in the last quarter for which figures are available; and how many there were in the preceding four quarters.

(116764)

410   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people waited over 12 months for an operation in Hull and the East Riding in the last quarter for which figures are available; and what the figures were for the preceding four quarters.

(116734)

411   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for an out-patient appointment in England in the last five quarters for which figures are available.

(116791)

412   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what methods are used to calculate patient waiting times at the Acute Assessment Unit at Hull Royal Infirmary.

(116736)

413   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what models of mutuality in health the Government is investigating; and what expertise he has sought from abroad with regard to this mode of delivery.

(116447)

414   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list investigations undertaken by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on (a) medicines and (b) good practice procedures.

(116445)

415   Mr David Drew (Stroud): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department is undertaking into the links between allergies and asthma.

(116446)

416   Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the size is of the waiting list for childhood dyspraxia in each trust in England.

(116113)

417
N   Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of conditionally registered osteopaths awaiting confirmation of full registration on 9th May.

(115758)

418
N   Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the (a) quantity, (b) quality and (c) source of non-UK produced eggs used by hospital catering services.

(115760)

419   Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Food Standards Agency is taking to improve the polymerase chain reaction testing regime.

(116854)

420   Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on (a) polymerase chain reaction and (b) other DNA-identification tests in each of the last 10 years.

(116853)

421   Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many food samples were subjected to polymerase chain reaction tests by the Food Standards Agency in each year since the Agency was established; and what proportion of those tests identified DNA from products other than the food sample tested, broken down by category.

(116855)

422   Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on hospitals to which chicken adulterated with beef protein has been supplied.

(116852)

423
N   Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the admission of students to medical schools can be restricted on the grounds of their views on (a) abortion and (b) euthanasia; and if he will make a statement.

(115763)

424   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which trusts were rejected in the recent assessment of those eligible to proceed with an application for foundation status.

(116877)

425   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, Official Report, column 861W, on the Working Time Directive, by how much he expects the number of doctors on an individual rota on call to have to increase to implement the 2004 requirements.

(116902)

426   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been removed from NHS waiting lists in each of the past three years.

(116879)

427   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase the number of rapid access chest pain clinics.

(116896)

428   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to support NHS trusts in implementing the National Service Framework for diabetes.

(116899)

429   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the use by NHS trusts of new funding approaches for the development of premises under public private partnerships outside present PFI arrangements.

(116895)

430   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the most recent quarter's statistics on accident and emergency waiting times will be available.

(116878)

431   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on major screening programmes for diabetes in the NHS; and how they will be funded.

(116900)

432   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on discussions he has had with the European Commission on the proposed 16-week rule.

(116898)

433   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS operations were cancelled in (a) March and (b) February.

(116876)

434   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on introducing a no-fault clinical negligence compensation system.

(116893)

435   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the sale of chewing tobacco.

(116887)

436   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who will have (a) ownership and (b) control of a patient record when electronic patient records are introduced.

(116874)

437   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government plans to recommend a maximum number of additives in a product.

(116892)

438   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each NHS trust spent on agency (a) doctors and (b) nurses in each of the past five years.

(116890)

439   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which agency produces the Communicable Disease Report; how frequently it is issued; and to how many NHS organisations it is distributed.

(116884)

440   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the scope of the local exercise pilots, due to begin in September.

(116889)

441   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many assaults on hospital staff in 2002-03 were linked to attempts to enforce no-smoking policies.

(116875)

442   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ensure food products contain (a) the name and (b) the number of additives in the list of ingredients.

(116888)

443   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to inform parents of additives in children's food; and what publicity material has been issued.

(116891)

444   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses there were per head of population in each region in each year since 1996.

(116894)

445   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding he is making available for retinal cameras in the NHS; and how many cameras this sum will fund.

(116901)

446   Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many UK nationals have benefited from reduced rates when attending the Peto Institute since the payment by the UK Government to the Institute in 1991.

(116335)

447   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd May, Official Report, column 966-7W, on dentistry, what research he has commissioned on the long term effects of people being unable to access non-urgent oral health services; and if he will make a statement.

(116914)

448   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the new Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection.

(116071)

449   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the contribution of hospices to the work of the NHS.

(116070)

450   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd May, Official Report, column 966-7W, on dentistry, how many residents within (a) Portsmouth, (b) Fareham and Gosport and (c) Southampton City primary care trusts have been unable to register with an NHS dentist in the last year; and what assessment he has made of the likely timescale for all residents within the Portsmouth PCT area having access to an NHS dentist.

(116915)

451
N   Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding programmes are operated by his Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been over the last three years.

(116496)

452
N   Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were registered with NHS dentists in Hampshire in each year from 1997 to 2002.

(115554)

453
N   Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent guidance has been issued to local authorities to assist them to perform their health scrutiny role.

(115937)

454
N   Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists treated NHS patients in Hampshire in each year from 1997 to 2002.

(115555)

455
N   Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on plans to establish further dental access centres in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.

(115553)

456   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on funding given to hospices through the NHS; how much funding from the NHS will be given to children's hospices in 2003-04; and how much funding from the NHS will be given to (a) Derian House and (b) Catherine's Hospice in 2003-04.

(116397)

457   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which he is responsible.

(116394)

458   Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of spending on child and adolescent mental health services was in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2002-03.

(116451)

459   Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget is of the LIFT scheme in North West Lancashire in (a) 2003-04 and (b) 2004-05; and whether this funding is time-limited.

(116448)

460   Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding per capita is being spent by (a) Blackpool Primary Care Trust and (b) Wyre Primary Care Trust on services for adults with mental health problems in the current financial year; and what the average spending per capita is of primary care trusts in England.

(116450)

461   Mrs Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of funding per capita is being spent by (a) Blackpool Primary Care Trust and (b) Wyre Primary Care Trust on child and adolescent mental health services in 2003-04; and what the average spending per capita is of primary care trusts in England.

(116449)

462
N   Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many digital hearing aids he estimates will be fitted as part of the Modernising Hearing Aid Services project each year (a) during the build-up to full implementation of the project and (b) when the project is fully operational.

(115462)

463
N   Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take measures to increase the number of centres which provide for the diagnosing and treating of autistic children who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease; and if he will make a statement.

(115463)

464
N   Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for clinicians and patients of medical defence organisations making their indemnity available on a discretionary basis; and if he will make a statement.

(115899)

465
N   Mr Andrew Hunter (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take measures to ensure that commercial providers of clinical indemnity to UK doctors and dentists are required to provide indemnity on an insured and regulated basis.

(115900)

466   Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what form of annual appraisal is undertaken of the performance of the regional commissioners of the NHS Appointments Commission.

(116581)

467   Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the term of office of the Northern and Yorkshire commissioner of the NHS Appointments Commission is due for renewal; and what the process is for consulting on reappointment.

(116580)

468   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the difference in revenue implications for an NHS trust that accesses public capital through the Department and strategic health authorities and a foundation trust that accesses capital via loans they will be expected to repay.

(116290)

469   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional capital will be available to the NHS when NHS foundation trusts are able to access capital from both the public and private sectors.

(116291)

470   Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve the provision of NHS dentistry in Herefordshire; and if he will make a statement.

(116883)

471   Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance has been given on the use of manual lymphatic drainage in the treatment of lymphoedema.

(116738)

472   Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak of 29th April, Official Report, column 341W, on lymphoedema, what guidance (a) NICE and (b) other NHS advisory bodies give for the treatment of non-cancer related lymphoedema.

(116737)

473   Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people completed their training as a physiotherapist in each of the last three years.

(116741)

474   Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is given to GPs on the treatment of non-cancer related lymphoedema.

(116740)

475   Mr Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if manual lymphatic drainage is included in the training of physiotherapists.

(116739)

476   Mr Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research he has commissioned into best practice in preventing MRSA, with particular reference to overseas examples.

(116436)

477   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the results of star ratings for hospital trusts.

(116456)

478
N   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of the implementation of recommendations in the Laming Report for each local authority in England.

(116469)

479   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which authorities operate direct payment schemes; and when each started to do so.

(116458)

480
N   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the introduction of the common European health insurance card from June 2004.

(116467)

481
N   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many routine operations were cancelled by each hospital trust in the week of star rating assessments at the end of March.

(116470)

482   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes have been made to the forms of the bid for Inventures agreed in September 2002 by the preferred bidder consortium.

(116459)

483   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many accident and emergency departments performed better than average for waiting times during the monitoring week at the end of March 2003 compared to the previous 51 weeks; and which they were.

(116454)

484   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what allowance is made for local population ages when assessing hospital performances for in-patient death rates.

(116455)

485
N   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the implications are for (a) British NHS patients and (b) European patients using the NHS of the introduction of the common European health insurance card from June 2004.

(116468)

486   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospital trusts have appealed against their provisional star rating assessments.

(116457)

487
N   Mr John MacDougall (Central Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence he has assessed of cancer rates among people who live or work within a (a) five-mile radius and (b) 10-mile radius of telecommunications masts in the UK.

(115939)

488   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of A and E patients were admitted, transferred or discharged in less than four hours in (a) England, (b) Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby and (c) Scunthorpe District General Hospital in the last year for which figures are available.

(116152)

489
N   John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on a chair of a council health scrutiny committee who is paid for this role also being a paid member of a health trust that he or she is scrutinising.

(116720)

490   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of the proposal for amending European legislation on ingredients in foodstuffs on (a) coeliac patients, (b) those at risk of anaphylaxis, (c) those with special dieting requirements and (d) diabetics.

(116360)

491   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received for (a) industry bodies, (b) consumers and parent organisations, (c) honourable members and (d) others, about the proposal for amending EU Directive 2000/13/EC on ingredients present in foodstuffs.

(116358)

492   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has undertaken an assessment of the labelling changes for foodstuffs on the UK market, and other implications of the European proposal for amending Directive 2000/13/EC on derived ingredients.

(116361)

493   Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken by (a) his Department and (b) the Food Standards Agency to ensure that proposed amendments to European food labelling legislation do not require the labelling of products as containing wheat or egg if the only such presence is a derivative of the original substance which no longer contains the established allergenic component.

(116359)

494   Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many entrants were recruited on to the NHS Management Training Scheme in each of the last six years, broken down by (a) the number and percentage of university graduates, (b) the number and percentage who are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, (c) the number and percentage with HND or an equivalent qualification and (d) region.

(115983)

495   Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-service professionals from nursing and other clinical or health-related backgrounds were recruited on to the NHS Management Training Scheme in each of the last six years; and, within these totals, (a) how many and what percentage were graduates, (b) how many and what percentage were non-graduates and (c) how many and what percentage hold a nationally recognised managerial qualification.

(115981)

496   Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the overall costs were of the NHS Management Training Scheme in each of the last six years.

(115982)

497
N   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of children of school age are registered with an NHS dentist in (a) North Shropshire, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England.

(116341)

498   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase detection rates for (a) cancer of the bowel and (b) cancer of the colon.

(116344)

499   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the detection rate is for (a) cancer of the bowel, (b) cancer of the colon and (c) all other cancers.

(116343)

500
N   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of pregnant women received free dental treatment on the NHS in the North Shropshire constituency in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

(116340)

501   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in England received the MMR vaccine in each of the last five years.

(116345)

502
N   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) availability and (b) effectiveness of treatment for drug addicts in Shropshire.

(116342)

503   Mr Kerry Pollard (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on NHS trusts suing employees following legal action in which the trust accepted liability for the actions of those employees; if he will require NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts not to take such action; and if he will make a statement on the position of the National Health Service Litigation Authority with regard to this.

(116840)

504   Mr Kerry Pollard (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what redress there is for patients who believe they have been mistreated as a witness in an NHS disciplinary inquiry into the conduct of a doctor against whom they have made a complaint.

(116821)

505   Mr Kerry Pollard (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether NHS foundation trusts will be required to accept vicarious liability for the actions of all their employees for the purposes of insurance.

(116839)

506
N   Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to issue guidance for setting up local authority health OSC committees.

(116744)

507   Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on diagnosis of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

(116903)

508
N   Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what investigations his Department is undertaking concerning the use of the drug seroxat.

(116176)

509
N   Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in introducing optomap to diabetic retinopathy screening procedures.

(116179)

510
N   Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out the reasons which led to his Department issuing instructions to discontinue elective ventilation.

(115673)

511   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses from Malawi are working in the UK.

(116408)

512   Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost to the NHS is of hip operations carried out on British patients in hospitals in (a) France and (b) Germany.

(116682)

513   Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list those countries where NHS patients have been sent for treatment in the last five years.

(116683)

514   Angela Watkinson (Upminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the number of reported cases of tuberculosis in (a) London and (b) the London Borough of Havering in each of the past five years.

(116484)

515   Angela Watkinson (Upminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the availability of treatment for drug dependence in people with severe personality and psychotic disorders in London.

(116501)

516   Angela Watkinson (Upminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the cost of treatment for drug dependency and drug related illnesses in London in each of the past five years.

(116483)

517   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by his Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116675)

518   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116651)

519   Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on ambulatory oxygen services.

(116636)

520   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders are in force in Leeds.

(116188)

521   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding is available for the establishment of police station shops in local shopping centre precincts; and if he will make a statement.

(116017)

522   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many National Asylum Support Service private rented landlord houses there are in (a) Leeds and (b) the Leeds West constituency; and what his estimate is of the total number of asylum seekers housed in (i) Leeds and (ii) Leeds West.

(116009)

523   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the prisons in which the drug subutex is prescribed for heroin addicts; and if he will make a statement.

(116007)

524   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116095)

525
N   Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas without restriction were granted in each of the last six months for which figures are available.

(116058)

526
N   Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many in-country work permits were granted in each of the last six months for which figures are available; how many of these were allocated each month to (a) students and (b) people who had recently completed educational courses in the UK; how many were allocated each month to visa nationals; and how many were granted exceptionally to visa nationals.

(116057)

527
N   Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to classify khat as a class A drug; and if he will make a statement.

(115296)

528   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether flight attendants are required to have Criminal Records Bureau checks; and if he will make a statement.

(116380)

529   Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of (a) offenders, (b) adult offenders, (c) young male offenders and (d) female offenders who completed community sentences in the most recent year for which figures are available were reconvicted for a standard list offence within two years.

(116006)

530
N   Mr Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of the Nottinghamshire police service have received specialist training at the Police National CBRN training centre to improve their potential response to a nuclear, biological or chemical terrorist attack.

(116480)

531
N   Mr Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of the emergency services in the East Midlands Region have been supplied with full protective equipment including respirators for use in responding to a nuclear, biological or chemical terrorist attack.

(116479)

532   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many community support officers there will be in each London borough under the second funding round in 2003-04; how many were allocated to each London borough in the first round; and if he will make a statement.

(116748)

533
N   Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will establish a resettlement system for citizens of Iraq in the United Kingdom in process of applying for asylum or leave to remain.

(116252)

534
N   Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when a resettlement grant system was set up for Afghanistan; and how many Afghan citizens resident in the United Kingdom have benefitted from the grant.

(116254)

535   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many annual Board of Visitors reports he has received from London prisons for 2002-03.

(116708)

536   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what services there are at Heathrow Airport for unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

(116709)

537   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young people under the age of 18 were serving custodial sentences in England and Wales on 1st May.

(116711)

538   Ross Cranston (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answers of 16th December 2002, Official Report, column 624W and 28th January, Official Report, column 754W, when he expects to place the findings of the exercise on crime and disorder reduction partnerships and their implications for nuisance and noise associated with fireworks in the Library; and if he will make a statement.

(116262)

539   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the chance of becoming a victim of crime in Merseyside was in each year since 1995.

(116473)

540   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the crime trends on Merseyside since 1995; which criminal activity has declined most in Merseyside since 1995; and what estimate he has made of the reasons for that decline.

(116472)

541   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total number of crimes recorded per head of population was in Merseyside in each year since 2000.

(116474)

542   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers per head of population were in post in Merseyside in each year since 1995.

(116475)

543   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the impact of community support officers in the Sefton authority area; how many officers have been appointed; and what their primary duties are.

(116476)

544   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were committed by juvenile offenders in (a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) the Humberside Police Authority area in each of the last two quarters for which figures are available; and how many cautions were issued.

(116769)

545   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrestees in (a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) the Humberside Police Authority area tested positive for category A and B drugs in each of the last two quarters for which figures are available.

(116773)

546   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers there were in (a) Hull and (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire in each month in the last two quarters for which figures are available; how long each application took to process; and how many applications were successful.

(116771)

547   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued in the last two quarters in (a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) the Humberside Police Authority area.

(116770)

548   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the population of each prison in Haltemprice and Howden was in the last quarter for which figures are available; and what the figures were for the preceding four quarters.

(116733)

549
N   Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when a decision about the application for naturalisation by Mr S. Al Assadi, ref A1078595, will be made.

(116613)

550   Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual budget is of Work Permits UK; how many staff it employs; how much it will spend this year on marketing its services within the UK; and how many work permits it is empowered to issue each year.

(116885)

551   Matthew Green (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with Tier One work permits renewed their visa in each year from 1997 to 2002.

(116065)

552   Jane Griffiths (Reading East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support his Department provides to Victim Support Berkshire; and if he will make a statement.

(116336)

553   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; and what plans he has to amend it.

(116074)

554   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many licences have been granted for experiments involving animals sponsored by government departments since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(116351)

555   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will amend the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to prevent the duplication of experiments.

(116350)

556
N   Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding programmes are operated by his Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been over the last three years.

(116494)

557
N   Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer given to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East, 9th May, Official Report, column 641W, if he will make a statement on the results of research carried out by the Home Office into the proportion of crimes that are drug-related.

(115938)

558   Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received from the Firearms Consultative Committee on Clauses 42 to 44 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Bill; and if he will place a copy in the Library.

(115972)

559   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which he is responsible.

(116387)

560   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what incentives are given to private operators of prisons to reduce the rate of recidivism of the inmates they are responsible for.

(116257)

561   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 1st May, Official Report, column 524W, on DNA profiles, what estimate he has made of the number of people without previous convictions who will be affected by his policy of permitting the retention of DNA information from people who are arrested and then released without charge in the first year of operation of the new policy.

(116277)

562   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 1st May, Official Report, column 523W, if he will make a statement on the systems that are in place to track and monitor failed asylum seekers.

(116680)

563
N   Norman Lamb (North Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 645W, on Nadhmi Auchi, for what reasons he did not issue his authority to proceed in the extradition case of Mr Auchi until 18th March.

(116236)

564   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which constabularies operate quotas for the minimum number of people fined for traffic offences; and if he will make a statement.

(116461)

565   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many motorists were issued with fixed penalty notices by each constabulary in England and Wales in (a) 1997 and (b) 2002.

(116462)

566   Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the crime detection rate for each police division in Wales was in the last year for which figures are available.

(116872)

567   Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of community support officers in assisting police forces.

(116863)

568   Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many responses to the entitlement card consultation were received via the Stand website; and how many were (a) in favour and (b) against.

(116170)

569   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers and civilian support staff additional to the complement on 1st May 1997 have been appointed to Humberside police in each year since that date.

(116594)

570   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been (a) applied for and (b) issued by North Lincolnshire Council in each year since their introduction.

(116156)

571   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been (a) applied for and (b) issued by Humberside police in each year since their introduction.

(116155)

572   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been (a) applied for and (b) issued by North East Lincolnshire council in each year since their introduction.

(116154)

573   Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what way faith communities were consulted on the membership of his Department's Working Group which is reviewing the Government's Interface with Faith Communities.

(115973)

574   Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) membership and (b) terms of reference are of his Department's Review Steering Group to whom his Department's Working Group which is reviewing the Government's Interface with Faith Communities will report.

(115977)

575   Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) women and (b) men there are amongst the faith community members of his Department's Working Group which is reviewing the Government's Interface with Faith Communities.

(115975)

576   Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which Sikh organisations a questionnaire has been sent by his Department's Working Group reviewing the Government's Interface with Faith Communities; and what criteria were used to select the organisations.

(115979)

577   Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average age is of the faith community members of his Department's Working Group which is reviewing the Government's Interface with Faith Communities.

(115974)

578   Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the Gurdwara councils formally consulted as part of the mapping exercise by his Department's Working Group which is reviewing the Government's Interface with Faith Communities; and what criteria were used to select the councils.

(115978)

579   Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria have been established for use by his Department's Working Group which is reviewing the Government's Interface with Faith Communities, to assess which organisations will represent faith communities in consultations with different Government departments.

(115976)

580   Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions there have been in each of the last 10 years for breaches of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

(116352)

581   Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the proposed Charities Bill.

(116820)

582   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who have been deported from the UK in each of the last three years have returned to the UK within (a) one month and (b) one year.

(116346)

583   Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who are married to UK citizens have been deported from the UK in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

(116347)

584   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to reduce the time taken for those detained under the Anti-Terrorism and Security Act 2001 to be brought to trial.

(116050)

585   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to reduce the risk of a terrorist attack at venues where large groups of people gather.

(116049)

586   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures he is taking to prevent incidents of terrorism in the UK.

(116438)

587   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans will be made to protect an Olympic Games held in London from terrorist attack.

(116048)

588   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reduce staff shortages in the prison service.

(116047)

589   Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Environmental Protection Agency and (b) Ministers in the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on dealing with stray dogs.

(116844)

590   Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dogs were reported stolen in each year since 1997.

(116843)

591   Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice his Department has given to police forces on dealing with stray dogs.

(116842)

592   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of Chechen origin were deported from the UK to the Russian Federation in the last 12 months for which figures are available; to which destinations they were sent; and how many were sent to each destination.

(116319)

593   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrangements he makes to check on the welfare of those of Chechen origin who are deported to the Russian Federation; what evidence he has that those of Chechen origin arrive safely in Chechnya; and if he will make a statement.

(116320)

594   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deported from the UK to the Russian Federation in the last 12 months for which figures are available; to which destinations they were sent; and how many were sent to each destination.

(116318)

595   Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on asylum seekers from Afghanistan.

(116886)

596   Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the inter-departmental group on the 3Rs to report on the recommendation, contained in the House of Lords' report on the use of animals in scientific procedures, that an adminstration centre for the 3Rs be set up.

(116190)

597   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to revise the status of refused asylum seekers from Zimbabwe who are no longer being deported; and if he will make a statement.

(116410)

598   Mr Paul Truswell (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list (a) the number of police officers, (b) the ratio of police officers to residents, (c) the amount of Government funding received, (d) the amount of Government funding per resident, (e) the precept levied on a Band D property and (f) the overall sum raised by the precept for each police authority in England in the last year for which figures are available.

(116897)

599   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by his Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116679)

600   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116656)

601   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to extend the exception to the rule of double jeopardy to offences other than those listed in schedule 4 of the Criminal Justice Bill.

(116246)

602   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures are in place to inform victims and witnesses of decisions relating to bail conditions of suspects and early release of prisoners.

(116245)

603   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proposals he has to ensure that prosecutors may appeal against bail decisions in cases where it is highly likely defendants may re-offend.

(116243)

604   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his proposals to provide the prosecution with extended rights of appeal against bail will apply to decisions taken in a Crown Court; and if he will make a statement.

(116244)

605   John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the impact the closure of Al-Haramyn aid agency will have on humanitarian efforts in Somalia.

(116715)

606   John Barrett (Edinburgh West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations he has made to the Government of Burundi regarding the priority placed on the supply of anti-retroviral drugs to HIV Aids suffers in that country.

(116716)

607   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which British non-governmental organisations are working on reconstruction in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.

(115927)

608   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many officials in the Department for International Development serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116081)

609
N   Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of child labour used in cotton picking in Uzbekistan.

(115630)

610   Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what arrangements have been made to ensure delivery of the Millennium Development Goals on water and sanitation in terms of (a) Ministerial responsibility, (b) departmental structure and (c) budget allocation.

(116841)

611   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 394W, if he will make a statement on the discussions as soon as they are concluded.

(116033)

612   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 394W, on Iraq, what assessment the Department has made of whether there is sufficient infrastructure in place in Iraq to be able to distribute the harvest.

(116032)

613   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 15th May, Official Report, columns 394-5W, on Iraq, what steps the Department will take should the food stocks run out.

(116066)

614   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Department has made of recent refugee movements in Liberia; what resources are available to them; and if he will make a statement.

(116624)

615   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Department has made of the cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo; what the Department's response has been to the appeal for funds to deal with the problem; and if he will make a statement.

(116623)

616   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Department has made of the World Food Programme report on the food situation in Co(r)te d'Ivoire.

(116628)

617   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Department has made of the recent cholera outbreaks in Mozambique; and if he will make a statement.

(116621)

618   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Department has made of the latest report by the Global HIV Prevention Working Group; and if he will make a statement.

(116194)

619   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Department has made of the humanitarian consequences of recent monsoon floods in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement.

(116622)

620   Lembit O�pik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons his Department decided to end funding for the UNESCO UK Commission at the end of March; and if he will make a statement.

(115992)

621
N   Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money promised by the Government to help re-build Afghanistan has yet to be donated; and if he will make a statement.

(116132)

622
N   Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the food aid promised by the Government to Ethiopia has been delivered; and if he will make a statement.

(116133)

623   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action the Department is taking to prevent ethnic conflict in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(116695)

624   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support the Department provides to Congolese refugees in Uganda.

(116702)

625   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate the Department has made of the number of deaths due to ethnic conflict in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(116697)

626   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the impact of the war in Iraq on the level of malnutrition amongst children under five.

(116698)

627   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when the World Bank will publish its periodical report for the Chad Cameroon Pipeline Project.

(116775)

628   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the current food shortages in (a) Tanzania and (b) the Singida region of Tanzania.

(116699)

629   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations the Department has made to the Government of Rwanda regarding the ban on the Mouvement Democratique Republicain.

(116703)

630   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid the Department is giving to Tanzania to deal with the current food shortages.

(116700)

631   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether there have been early warning system forecasts on the food shortages in Tanzania.

(116701)

632   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions the Department has had with the Governments of (a) Uganda and (b) Rwanda about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(116694)

633   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action the Department is taking to support UN Security Council Resolution 1445 on the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(116696)

634   Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which countries receive direct budget support from the Department; how much; and how much total bilateral aid each of these countries receives.

(116774)

635   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he expects a full survey of child malnutrition in Iraq to be undertaken.

(116413)

636   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the Government of Malawi regarding the treatment of AIDS patients in the Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital in Blantyre.

(116407)

637   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress is being made in Southern Sudan on the control of guinea worm.

(116402)

638   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the Malawi Government regarding the emigration of (a) doctors and (b) nurses from Malawi.

(116409)

639   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the Government of Malawi concerning prevention of HIV and AIDS in prisons.

(116404)

640   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of ethnic violence on the humanitarian aid effort in Iraq.

(116415)

641   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions he has had with the Government of Malawi concerning alternative care for AIDS patients outside acute general hospitals.

(116406)

642   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress has been made in the tendering process for the management and supply of water in Accra, Ghana; and if he will make a statement.

(116403)

643   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions the Secretary of State has had with the Government of Botswana regarding the bushmen of the Kalahari; and if he will make a statement.

(116034)

644   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the availability of retroviral drugs for pregnant women with AIDS in (a) Malawi, (b) Kenya and (c) South Africa.

(116405)

645   Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of changes in cancer rates amongst children in Southern Iraq since 1991.

(116168)

646   Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to his Answer of 15th May, Official Report, column 394W, what drugs shortages there are in Iraq; and what the Department is doing to end these shortages.

(116107)

647   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by the Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116677)

648   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what targets the Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116653)

649   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many officials in the Lord Chancellor's Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116088)

650   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if she will make a statement on progress towards achieving equal rights for transsexuals.

(116293)

651
N   Julie Morgan (Cardiff North): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what funds are available for child contact centres in Wales in 2003-04.

(116353)

652   Christine Russell (City of Chester): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what financial savings the Lord Chancellor's Department will make when the responsibility for issuing liquor licences is removed from magistrates.

(116742)

653   Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what the average length of time taken by the Public Guardianship Office to determine a case was in the last year for which figures are available.

(116140)

654   Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many staff were employed at the Public Guardianship office in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

(116142)

655   Phil Sawford (Kettering): To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many cases were handled by the Public Guardianship Office in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

(116141)

656   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many instances the Child Support Agency in Northern Ireland has recorded of (a) deliberate evasive action to prevent the Agency securing maintenance payments through (i) deduction from earnings and (ii) deduction from benefits and (b) preventing court action for enforcement through non-co-operation.

(116096)

657   Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make it his policy to ensure that regular maintenance payments are paid by non-resident parents to the Child Support Agency.

(116097)

658   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116083)

659   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much has been spent by each Northern Ireland department on opinion polls and attitudinal research in each year since 1997.

(115987)

660   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his policy is on the use of covert fixed cameras to detect speeding motorists; and whether the presence of such cameras must be notified to motorists.

(115997)

661   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will publish the material relating to attitudinal research paid for by the Northern Ireland Office in each year since 1997.

(115990)

662   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which (a) political parties, (b) organisations, (c) individuals and (d) other governments have been given access to the results of the attitudinal research carried out by the Northern Ireland Office in each year since 1997.

(115991)

663   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what representations he has made to the Government of the Irish Republic regarding the investigation into the Omagh bombing in August 1998.

(115985)

664   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which organisations were contracted to carry out (a) opinion polling and (b) research into the attitudes of voters in Northern Ireland in each year since 1997; and how much they were paid in each case.

(115988)

665   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was spent on attitudinal research in each year between 1990 and 1997 by the Northern Ireland Office.

(115989)

666   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what events are planned to mark the European Year of Disabled People in Northern Ireland.

(115984)

667   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the total costs of the special purchase of evacuated dwellings scheme were in each of the financial years since 1996.

(115996)

668   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to promote legislation to increase maximum sentences for offences where motorists kill or injure others through reckless or dangerous driving.

(115995)

669   Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) opinion polls and (b) other attitudinal research surveys have been carried out by the Northern Ireland Office since March.

(115986)

670
N   Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in making available support for an Ulster-Scots Academy.

(115762)

671
N   Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what funding programmes are operated by his Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been over the last three years.

(116492)

672   Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on respite provision for autistic children in Northern Ireland.

(116368)

673   Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the impact on Northern Ireland's economy of the UK joining the euro.

(116371)

674   Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on progress made in appointing a Judicial Oversight Commissioner for Northern Ireland.

(116370)

675   Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland about the Crime (International Co-operation) Bill.

(116369)

676
N   Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport about extending to Northern Ireland measures to improve vehicle licensing in line with those announced by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport in the Written Ministerial Statement of 22nd May, Official Report, columns 45-6WS.

(116807)

677   Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the criteria for the allocation of NHS digital hearing aids in Northern Ireland.

(116367)

678   Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the impact of the decision not to recognise the British Cycling Federation in Northern Ireland on young cyclists who wish to compete for the British team.

(116443)

679   Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what criteria have been used to decide that the Sports Council of Northern Ireland does not recognise the British Cycling Federation as the governing body for cycling within Northern Ireland.

(116444)

680   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which he is responsible.

(116395)

681   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what financial resources were allocated for feasibility and economic appraisals in respect of urban regeneration projects in the Greater Belfast Area in each of the last 10 years.

(116835)

682   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he will initiate a review into services for those who suffer from dementia in Northern Ireland.

(116381)

683   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the timescale is for completion of the consultation process for the Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland; when the results will be published; and if he will make a statement.

(116836)

684   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what financial resources were allocated to the implementation of planning enforcement cases in each of the planning divisions in each of the last five years; how many officers are employed to undertake enforcement work in each of the planning divisions in Northern Ireland; and how many there were in 1997.

(116833)

685   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many enforcement notices were issued by each of the planning divisions in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; how many were issued between 1st April and 9th May; how many are still in operation; and what the time-scale is for the act of enforcement to be implemented.

(116832)

686   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what action he will take to ensure that social security appeal tribunals which have to be re-listed are not delayed because of the non-availability of panel members; and if he will make a statement.

(116838)

687   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many applications have been received by the Belfast Regeneration Office; how long it takes to process each application on average; and how many applications have taken six months or more to process.

(116834)

688   Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what action he will take to reduce the waiting lists for brain surgery in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

(116382)

689   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what training has been given to (a) staff and (b) Commissioners at the Equality Commission on language rights, with particular reference to the rights of Irish speakers.

(116906)

690   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps are being taken to incorporate the issue of equality for Irish speakers in the guidelines of the Equality Commission.

(116907)

691   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, at what level his Department was represented on the Tasking and Co-ordinating Group in October 1987; which officers of which RUC units attended; and how many times officials attended meetings of this body between April and December 1987.

(116364)

692   Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the policy is of the Equality Commission on promoting (a) the use of the spoken Irish language in the workplace and (b) the use of written Irish in public through (i) signage and (ii) other measures.

(116905)

693   Lembit O�pik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to bring forward legislation to allow for a low-cost borrowing mechanism in the Northern Ireland energy industry.

(116823)

694   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made on boards and trusts producing costed proposals on autism services by September as indicated in the Priorities for Action document.

(115926)

695   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the longest time a patient awaiting neurosurgery admission, and deemed an emergency case, has waited in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months.

(115957)

696   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many vacancies there are for physiotherapists in the health service in Northern Ireland.

(115953)

697   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to simplify the process of negotiating contracts and funding for private care organisations involved in rehabilitation and management of debilitating illness.

(116373)

698   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what criteria are used in classifying particular neurosurgery patients as emergency cases.

(115956)

699   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what measures he plans to take to improve morale amongst members of the Ambulance Service of Northern Ireland.

(115963)

700   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to standardise the services available to sufferers of autism in different parts of Northern Ireland, with particular reference to applied behaviour analysis provision for schoolchildren.

(116374)

701   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on progress since 1st January on making digital hearing aids more widely available in Northern Ireland.

(115924)

702   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he has taken to improve relations between members of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and their senior management.

(115931)

703   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will increase the proportion of funding to the primary school sector; and if he will make a statement.

(116045)

704   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much each government department of the Northern Ireland Assembly has spent on consultations arising from section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 since 1999.

(116044)

705   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what safeguards there are to ensure the highest standards of care are practised in private care homes for the elderly.

(115954)

706   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many individuals with Asperger's syndrome have been diagnosed in Northern Ireland.

(115966)

707   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many firefighters are unable to work as a result of violent attacks by members of the community in Northern Ireland.

(115965)

708   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many members of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service are unable to work as a result of violent attacks by (a) patients and (b) other members of the community.

(115961)

709   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many violent attacks by patients, directed against paramedics, have occurred in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months.

(115964)

710   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans there are to modernise Muckamore Abbey and Stradreagh Hospitals.

(115967)

711   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his Answer of 13th May, Official Report, column 194W, on autism, whether the proposed Centre of Excellence for Autism will provide regular respite care for sufferers across the province.

(116620)

712   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times firefighters have come under attack from members of the community in each of the last five years in Northern Ireland.

(115932)

713   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what means are used to standardise services at private care homes for the elderly.

(115955)

714   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many violent attacks have been initiated by patients and directed at (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) other health care professionals in Northern Ireland over the 12 month period from 1st May 2002.

(115925)

715   Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what costs have been incurred by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety as a result of its Irish language policy; and if he plans to discontinue this practice.

(115962)

716
N   Mr Peter Robinson (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the attacks on (a) the person and (b) the property of those involved in democratic politics in Northern Ireland since 1st January, broken down by (i) the nature of the attack, (ii) the weapon or amount and type of explosive used and (iii) the judgement of the PSNI as to the organisation responsible.

(115898)

717   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116649)

718   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by his Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116674)

719   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the President of the Council, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116086)

720   Mr Piara S. Khabra (Ealing, Southall): To ask the President of the Council, how many written questions were tabled in the last Parliamentary session; and at what cost to public funds.

(116595)

721   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Prime Minister, when he will make a statement on what chemical or biological weapons have been found in Iraq.

(116054)

722   Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the public appointments (a) which he makes himself and (b) on which his views are sought.

(116831)

723   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116087)

724   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what targets her Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how she intends to achieve these targets.

(116647)

725   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Solicitor General, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116076)

726   John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has for the future of the Home Accident Surveillance Systems; what representations she has received regarding the future of HASS; and if she will make a statement.

(116355)

727   John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations she has received on a statutory duty for home safety; and if she will make a statement.

(116354)

728   John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate she has made of the cost to public funds of home accidents, in each of the last five years.

(116356)

729   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what resources have been allocated towards developing the production capabilities of (a) renewables and (b) alternative energy sources in each year since 1997.

(116250)

730   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations she has received concerning rural development opportunities in the UK associated with the development of alternative energy production.

(116192)

731   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what proportion of electricity has been produced in the United Kingdom by (a) nuclear, (b) fossil fuels, (c) renewables and (d) alternative energy sources in each year since 1997.

(116193)

732   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of potential employment opportunities in the United Kingdom in the production of alternative energy.

(116191)

733   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what Government assistance is available for the development of market-based production of energy using renewable sources.

(116251)

734   Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many petitions she has received under the provisions of the Insolvency Act 2000 for the winding-up of companies for operating pyramid selling schemes; how many of these petitions included claims that the companies concerned were operating unlawful schemes under the provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 and its amendments, including the Trading Schemes Act 1996; and if she will make a statement.

(116028)

735   Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the (a) place and (b) dates of the conviction were of her Department's 1987 prosecution under the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Pyramid Selling Schemes Regulations 1973; what companies were involved; what sentences were conferred; to which offences the companies and directors pleaded guilty; and if she will make a statement.

(115993)

736   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) homes and (b) businesses in Leeds have a broadband connection; whether all homes and businesses have access to a broadband connection; and if she will make a statement.

(116018)

737   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116077)

738
N   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which disability groups were consulted about the introduction of the Post Office card account.

(116384)

739
N   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the costs are of replacing the keypads for the Post Office card accounts in post offices.

(116385)

740   Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her Answer of 16th May, Official Report, column 462W, on environmental impact assessments, if she will list (a) the support schemes and (b) the criteria to which she referred for assessing the environmental impact of businesses to whom grants are awarded.

(116261)

741
N   Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what sanctions there are when spam email is being sent to create or extend email databases; and what controls there are on the means used to create email databases which are sold.

(116249)

742   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether a full-time, term-time worker in education is classified as a part-time worker, as defined in the part-time Workers' (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000.

(116691)

743   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how the hourly rate for full-time, term-time workers is calculated; and whether it is based on a full year's employment.

(116692)

744   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether a full-time, term-time worker is entitled to the same amount of annual leave and Bank holidays as colleagues who are paid for the full year.

(116690)

745
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what guidance she gave to the Competition Commission regarding the consideration of animal welfare in its recent inquiry into the supply of prescription only veterinary medicines; and whether animal welfare fell within the remit of the Competition Commission's inquiry.

(115079)

746
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the proposals not to allow veterinary surgeons to charge for prescriptions over the next three years, within the OFT proposals based on the Competition Commissions inquiry into the supply of prescription only veterinary medicines.

(115080)

747
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what organisations were consulted in the Competition Commission's inquiry into the supply of prescription only veterinary medicines.

(115081)

748
N   Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations her Department has received regarding the inconvenience and stress caused by inaccurate billing for gas and electricity provision.

(116149)

749   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the results of the Accreditation Awareness Campaign run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service from November 2000 to December 2002.

(116755)

750   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the complaint by the Chinese authorities in 2002 about the conduct of UK Accreditation Service accredited certification bodies operating in that country; and what steps UKAS took to allay those concerns.

(116754)

751   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what information she has collated on the number of precious metal items failing assay tests in the latest year for which information is available.

(116752)

752   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether she has undertaken a regulatory impact assessment of the implementation of Annex III of the draft directive on articles made of precious metal.

(116751)

753   Mr Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the (a) size and (b) value is of the conformity assessment sector in the UK with respect to (i) the number of UK Accreditation Service accredited bodies and (ii) their financial contribution to the UK economy.

(116753)

754   Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how the introduction of employment legislation covering working time and temporary workers is affecting the ability of the manufacturing industry to act flexibly.

(116572)

755   Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what incentives are being offered to encourage foreign inward investors in the UK.

(116573)

756   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will review the practice of differential charging structures for credit card cheque books as part of the review of the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

(116718)

757   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) credit card industry representative bodies, (b) consumer bodies and (c) representatives of the Financial Services Authority her Department has met to discuss the Honesty Box.

(116301)

758   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her evidence before the Quadripartite Committee on 3rd April, what assessment she has made of extraterritorial controls in the US, with specific reference to enforcement; and what her reasons are for concluding that the system does not work.

(116300)

759   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what correspondence she has had with the Fund for Peace following her evidence before the Quadripartite Committee on 3rd April.

(116303)

760   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if her Department will ban the issuing of unsolicited credit card cheque books as part of its review of the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

(116719)

761   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent representations she has received from consumer bodies about credit card cheque books.

(116002)

762   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with the credit card industry about differential charging and fee structures for the use of credit card cheque books issued to customers.

(116717)

763   Mr Barry Gardiner (Brent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to her evidence before the Quadripartite Committee on 3rd April, what assessment she has made of the report issued by the Fund for Peace on US export controls.

(116302)

764   Matthew Green (Ludlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many foreign nationals have entered Britain through intracompany transfers in each of the last five years; and how many of these were employed in the IT sector.

(116063)

765   Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, with which stakeholders her officials are discussing the Government's position on the EU draft directive on precious metals; and if she will make a statement.

(116866)

766   Kate Hoey (Vauxhall): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether (a) her ministers and (b) officials have met representatives of the (i) British Retail Consortium and (ii) Consumers' Association to discuss the EU draft directive on precious metals; and if she will make a statement.

(116828)

767   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the imminent closure of Alstom's traction production; and what discussions she (a) has had and (b) will have with officials from Alstom regarding the closure of the new build train production.

(116275)

768   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent discussions she has had with BT (a) in relation to the roll-out of broadband and (b) on ensuring that all areas receive broadband as soon as possible.

(116399)

769   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which she is responsible.

(116390)

770   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which areas within the Chorley constituency (a) have been and (b) have not been connected to broadband.

(116398)

771   Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the setting up of the medical review panel miners' compensation; and when the panel will begin its work.

(116880)

772   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the Office of Fair Trading fact-finding study into the UK liability insurance market will be published.

(116661)

773   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made in developing management standards on policies (a) to tackle bullying and (b) to improve relationships in the workplace.

(116822)

774   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps are being taken to tackle trade barriers (a) between African countries and the United Kingdom and (b) between African countries; and if she will make a statement.

(116626)

775   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans there are to increase African participation in the international standard setting bodies on trade; and if she will make a statement.

(116625)

776   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent representations she has received on the Independent Adjudication of the Compensation for Former Icelandic Water Trawlermen Scheme; and what action she is taking on those representations.

(116593)

777   Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what (a) discussions and (b) meetings her Department has had with the (i) chairman and (ii) members of the Financial Reporting Council concerning implementation of the recommendations contained in the Higgs review of the role and effectiveness of non-executive directors.

(116819)

778   Lembit O�pik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made on the recommendations contained in the Government's Near Earth Object Taskforce Report; how much money has been spent since January 2001 on implementing the recommendations contained in the Government's Near Earth Object Taskforce Report; and if she will make a statement.

(116732)

779
N   Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what her estimate is of the cost of replacing all PIN pads in Post Office branches which are not compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and if she will make a statement.

(116117)

780
N   Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the compliance of Post Office Limited with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 regarding PIN pads in Post Office branches; and if she will make a statement.

(116151)

781
N   Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with Post Office Ltd to ensure that PIN pads were in place in every post office branch by 1st April; and whether the issue of compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was discussed.

(116116)

782   Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with (a) gas companies, (b) electricity companies and (c) water companies regarding their expansion in the South East.

(116220)

783   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether BNFL requires authorisation to provide donations to the United States Nuclear Energy Institute.

(116800)

784   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many projects were subject to post-issue monitoring by the ECGD's Guarantee Management Branch after September 2001.

(116785)

785   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of projects covered by the ECGD since September 2001 have proceeded on time and within cost.

(116786)

786   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the ECGD's procedures for examining whether there is a genuine cause for concern when allegations of corruption are made include contacting investigating authorities in the home country and requiring the company to provide detailed accounts and relevant documents.

(116779)

787   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the ECGD is entitled to pass on documentation that it receives from companies to investigatory authorities.

(116780)

788   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the ECGD gave investment insurance to (a) RP Godavari Power Ltd, (b) Rolls Royce Industrial Power and (c) Rolls Royce PLC for its investment in the Godavari Power Plant India.

(116789)

789   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent by the ECGD to the companies who have been implicated in the bribery scandal in Lesotho in relation to the Lesotho Highlands Water Project requesting more information from them.

(116776)

790   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many visits to exporters and how many site visits the ECGD's Internal Audit and Assurance Department made in each of the last five years.

(116783)

791   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will place in the Library a copy of the replies by Balfour Beatty, Kier International and Sterling International to the ECGD's letter with regard to corruption allegations in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

(116777)

792   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what sources the ECGD uses to check the track-record of a company it is considering giving support to.

(116778)

793   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many times ECGD has refused cover because of evidence of corruption in the last five years.

(116784)

794   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many staff there are in the ECGD's Internal Audit and Assurance Department.

(116781)

795   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of ECGD debt is interest payments.

(116788)

796   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many companies have had their books examined by the ECGD's Internal Audit and Assurance Department in the last five years.

(116782)

797   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much agent's commission the ECGD covered on the sale of Hawk jets to South Africa; what percentage of the contract the commission represented; and where payment was made.

(116787)

798   Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, with which bodies she has had discussions on the recommendations contained in the Competition Commission Report, Veterinary Medicines: A Report on the Supply Within the United Kingdom of Prescription-only Veterinary Medicines.

(116106)

799   Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the impact on recommendation 9 of the Competition Commission report Veterinary Medicines: a Report on the Supply Within the United Kingdom of Prescription-only Veterinary Medicines of the European Commission's proposal to end the general licence classification of management products.

(116105)

800
N   Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with representatives of veterinary practices in Scotland on the impact of the recommendations contained in the Competition Commission's report Veterinary Medicines: a Report on the Supply within the United Kingdom of Prescription-only Veterinary Medicines on rural veterinary practices.

(116103)

801
N   Mr Michael Weir (Angus): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she plans to have with the Scottish Executive on the impact of the Competition Commission Report, Veterinary Medicines: a Report on the Supply Within the United Kingdom of Prescription-only Veterinary Medicines in Scotland.

(116104)

802   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by her Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116671)

803   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what targets her Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how she intends to achieve these targets.

(116646)

804   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will apply the renewables obligation to the wood panel industry.

(116267)

805
N   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when funding from her Department was first made available to the Cambridge-MIT Institute; how much funding her Department gave to the Institute in each year since funding began; what restrictions apply to the funding; what assessment she has made of the management of grants made to the Institute; what guidance she has given to the Institute on its management; and what the status is of the Department's relationship with the Institute.

(116681)

806   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many requests for assistance with tendering for business in Iraq her Department has received from UK companies.

(116270)

807   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will place a copy of (a) notes of telephone conversations and (b) copies of correspondence between her and Andrew Natsios of the United States Agency for International Development in the Library.

(116268)

808   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to increase the amount of energy crops being grown for use by electricity generators.

(116265)

809   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of her Department's contribution to assisting UK businesses who have registered interest in contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq.

(116272)

810   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent discussions she has had with (a) the Secretary of State for International Development, (b) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (c) the Prime Minister about the reconstruction of Iraq.

(116271)

811   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which companies her Department has assisted in winning contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq.

(116273)

812   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what her policy is on the import of products that would be illegal if they had been produced in the United Kingdom; what records are kept of such products; and what assessment she has made of the risk to consumers from such products.

(116714)

813   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which industries her Department has identified as the major users of wood residue in the United Kingdom.

(116266)

814   Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on recent discussions she has held with (a) the UN, (b) the EU and (c) the United States Government on the reconstruction of Iraq.

(116269)

815
N   Norman Baker (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will require an assessment to be made by the Highways Agency of noise pollution in Lewes emanating from the A27 Lewes bypass.

(115795)

816   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of extending the Leeds Supertram route from Leeds through Leeds West to Bradford Interchange; and if he will make a statement.

(115929)

817   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116091)

818   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cloned cars have been found in each police authority region in each of the last five years; and what steps his Department is taking to tackle cloned cars.

(116858)

819   Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg & Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the minimum age is for a person to be a pillion passenger on a motorcycle; what regulations relate to the safety of motorcycle pillion passengers; and what plans he has to improve the safety of motorcycle pillion passengers.

(116299)

820
N   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the financial information on tunnel operations provided in the consultation on Mersey Tunnel toll rises.

(116212)

821
N   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which road schemes promoted by the Highways Agency went to public inquiry in 2002; and in respect of which ones decisions have been announced.

(116790)

822   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd May, Official Report, column 946W, when he expects equivalent data to become available for (a) 2001 and (b) 2002.

(116794)

823
N   Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd May, Official Report, column 942W, if he will list the specialist posts for which external recruitment was required.

(116793)

824
N   Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to improve consultation with passengers groups and local authorities on proposed cuts in rail services; and if he will make a statement.

(115464)

825
N   Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what improvements are planned for Lime Street Station, Liverpool.

(115465)

826
N   Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment was made of the economic regeneration impact of the SRA's recent decision to cut cross country services to Liverpool in the 2003 summer and autumn timetable.

(115466)

827
N   Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the London-Liverpool Intercity Pendolino trains will be operational.

(115467)

828
N   Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what partnerships to fund transport which include local authorities have been established with the assistance of Partnerships UK in each of the last three years.

(116804)

829   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of drink driving laws; and what plans he has to amend them.

(116587)

830   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on changes in bus reliability, quality and passenger satisfaction since 1997.

(116072)

831   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of highway maintenance on Britain's road network in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

(116588)

832   Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made towards meeting the goals set out within the ten-year transport plan.

(116073)

833   Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish his guidance on the installation of ticket barriers at railway stations that do not have gates; and who is responsible for (a) preparing the business case for ticket barriers and (b) their purchase and installation.

(116101)

834   Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what duties (a) Network Rail and (b) the Strategic Rail Authority have taken over from train operating companies which have signed new franchise extensions of less than 10 years' duration.

(116102)

835   Martin Linton (Battersea): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of installing ticket gates at stations in the London region following the renewal of train operating franchises which no longer contain commitments to improve station infrastructure.

(116053)

836   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents there have been on the A46 Laceby by-pass in each of the past 10 years; and how many resulted in fatalities.

(116592)

837   Mr Eric Martlew (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 21st May, to question Ref 113775, on the Virgin West Coast Railways franchise, when he expects the level of subsidy to be determined.

(116195)

838
N   Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to make use of hard shoulders on motorways and dual carriageways during peak traffic hours; and if he will make a statement.

(115631)

839   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the cost of the extra infrastructure to meet the volume of road and rail traffic generated by his proposals for the expansion of airport capacity in the South East.

(116309)

840   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what account will be taken of the recent downturn in the airline industry when considering future policy on airport capacity.

(116308)

841   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce a payment scheme to reward local authorites who enable the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to recover unpaid licence fees from vehicle owners; and if he will make a statement.

(116315)

842   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate how many vehicle owners do not have a licence for their vehicle; what his estimate is of the loss of revenue for the last financial year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

(116317)

843   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures are taken by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to recover unpaid licence fees from vehicle owners; and if he will make a statement.

(116316)

844   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether an assessment of the (a) environmental and (b) health impact of the expansion of an existing airport will be undertaken before that airport is identified for expansion in any forthcoming White Paper following the current consultation.

(116305)

845   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which airports were excluded from the consultation on additional capacity and for what reasons.

(116304)

846   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures have been taken to ensure that the review of airport capacity across the UK takes into account the economic development goals of each region.

(116307)

847   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research has been carried out into the capabilities to cope with increased volumes of traffic of existing road and rail infrastructure serving each airport identified for expansion in the current review of airport capacity.

(116306)

848   Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has entered into with the private sector to provide increased transport in the South East.

(116221)

849   Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to increase public transport in the South East.

(116264)

850   Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to encourage international airlines to contribute towards the World Health Organisation's funding of research into deep vein thrombosis and air travel.

(116590)

851
N   Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses he has received on his consultative document on the future of air transport in the United Kingdom; and when he expects to publish conclusions following the end of the consulting process.

(116175)

852   Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the modes of transport available to people living in socially and economically deprived areas and the effects on their work and leisure opportunities.

(116042)

853   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents occurred in the last three years for which figures are available because of (a) motorists and (b) cyclists ignoring red traffic lights.

(115922)

854   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents were caused by litter on the roads in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

(115923)

855   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to prevent sleep-related driving accidents.

(116024)

856   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists were (a) killed and (b) seriously injured in sleep-related road traffic accidents in each of the last five years.

(116022)

857   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many car registration plates were reported to police forces as having been cloned in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

(116026)

858   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide rest areas on motorways.

(115921)

859   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much rubbish was removed from motorways in England in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

(116235)

860   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has undertaken into the cloning of car registration plates.

(116023)

861   Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to prevent road traffic accidents caused by motorists and cyclists ignoring red traffic light signals.

(116027)

862   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by his Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116676)

863   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116652)

864   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the benefits of hovercraft travel; and if he will provide assistance to transport companies and allocate funds for the development of hovercraft transport routes.

(116238)

865   Mr James Wray (Glasgow, Baillieston): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions have taken place with private companies regarding reintroducing a hovercraft link across the Channel.

(116237)

866   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116084)

867
N   Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many jobs have been created by Objective One projects, broken down by constituency in Wales.

(115765)

868
N   Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the mid-term target was for job creation in each constituency in Wales of the present Objective One projects.

(115768)

869   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his Answer of 20th May, Official Report, column 722W, on terrorism, how many mobile radiation detection units are available for deployment at Welsh ports and airports; and what counter terrorism coverage is available at Welsh ports in advance of a decision on the location of new equipment.

(116799)

870   Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his Answer of 20th May, Official Report, columns 720-21W, on digital broadcasting, what the membership is of the Spectrum Planning Group; and what professional qualifications the members have.

(116796)

871   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make an assessment of the success of each official visit overseas by Ministers in his Department since 1997.

(116629)

872   Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will list each official visit in Wales he and his predecessors made since 1997, broken down by (a) constituency and (b) purpose of visit.

(116630)

873   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116643)

874   Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what circumstances single parent benefit may be paid to two parent families when one parent is absent abroad for a period of time.

(116126)

875   Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Camborne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact receiving expenses has on a councillor's application for income support; and if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on local councillors' expenses.

(116068)

876   Vera Baird (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the allocation to Work-based Learning for Adults was in (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03; and what the allocation will be in (i) 2003-04, (ii) 2004-05, (iii) 2005-06 and (iv) 2006-07.

(116015)

877   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases were dealt with by the Child Support Agency in each of the last five years in (a) Leeds Metropolitan District and (b) the Leeds West constituency.

(116010)

878   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of people aged 80 years and over in (a) Leeds Metropolitan District and (b) the Leeds West constituency who will receive the increased winter allowance of £300.

(116012)

879   Mr John Battle (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the total number of pensioners in (a) Leeds and (b) the Leeds West constituency who receive winter fuel payments.

(116008)

880   Mr John Bercow (Buckingham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in the Department serve on EU committees or working parties.

(116093)

881   Mr Bob Blizzard (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will exempt people with severe mental illness who receive disability living allowance from having to periodically reapply for benefit.

(116324)

882
N   Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 19th May, Official Report, ref 112670, what the (a) cost is and (b) how many beneficiaries there are of extending the carers premium to those with an established entitlement to carers allowance who are in receipt of a basic state pension but no other benefit that would disqualify the beneficiary by virtue of the overlapping benefit rules.

(115917)

883   Patsy Calton (Cheadle): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made in meeting his Department's targets on eliminating child poverty.

(116383)

884   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on the factors underlying the Government's decision not to make a statement on widowers' pensions to the European Court of Human Rights on 15th May.

(116294)

885   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to settle widowers' claims to benefits predating 9th April 2001.

(116808)

886   Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are involved, and what conclusions have been reached in the Job Retention and Rehabilitation pilots.

(116253)

887   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of working people in the United Kingdom who are members of private occupational pension schemes.

(116712)

888   Tom Cox (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of the working population within the Greater London area is over 50 years of age.

(116706)

889   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made with the review of term-time working; and if he will make a statement.

(116689)

890   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate how long it will take to process new applications to the Child Support Agency under the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2002.

(116577)

891   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of those on each option of the New Deal for Young People have entered sustained employment in the East Riding of Yorkshire since the scheme began; and how many entered sustained employment in the last (a) year and (b) quarter for which figures are available.

(116763)

892   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were unemployed in Haltemprice and Howden in (a) the last month for which figures are available and (b) each of the preceding 12 months.

(116767)

893
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the criteria employed by the Pension Centre based in Dundee are when referring pensioners to the Pension Service based in Newcastle; and in what percentage of cases such a referral has been made since November 2002.

(115559)

894
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff are employed at the Dundee Pension Centre, broken down (i) by (A) managerial and (B) non-managerial posts and (ii) by civil service grades.

(115557)

895
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many face-to-face meetings were requested by pensioners in Perth constituency in their dealings with the Pension Service in Dundee in each year since 1997; how many requests were granted; how many have taken place at the home of the pensioner; and what record is kept of such requests.

(115556)

896
N   Annabelle Ewing (Perth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what occasions since November 2002 staffing levels in Dundee Pension Centre have been increased to cover busy periods and by what amount.

(115558)

897
N   Mr Charles Hendry (Wealden): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding programmes are operated by his Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been over the last three years.

(116493)

898   Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 15th May to the honourable Member for Peterborough, Official Report, column 407-8W, on Disability Living Allowance, how many people are eligible for Disability Living Allowance; how much has been spent on Disability Living Allowance in each year since 1996; and if he will make a statement.

(116043)

899   Paul Holmes (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will break down by category of expenditure the total net administration costs for disability for 2003 set out in Table Five of the Annual Report of the Department, Command Paper 5921; and if he will make a statement.

(116870)

900   Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the electronic document and electronic record management systems which have been procured by the public authorities listed in Parts I to V of Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for which he is responsible.

(116388)

901   Mr Boris Johnson (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people reaching pensionable age or becoming eligible for another benefit on or after April 2005 will be offered the option of a Post Office card account; and if he will make a statement.

(115952)

902   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assumptions have been made concerning the growth in pensioners' incomes from non-state sources in the estimates of future expenditure on pension credit shown in figure A3.1 of the Pensions Green Paper; what the estimated expenditure would be if this growth were (a) half the level assumed; and (b) three-quarters the level assumed.

(116256)

903   Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of entitled pensioners aged (a) 60 to 64, (b) 65 to 69, (c) 70 to 74, (d) 75 to 79 and (e) 80 years and older claimed the minimum income guarantee in the latest year for which figures are available; and what the (i) mean and (ii) median benefit not claimed were for each age group.

(116255)

904   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many clients have been (a) advised and (b) placed by the Amesbury Jobcentre in each of the past 12 months.

(116056)

905   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish the draft Disability Bill; and what areas it will cover.

(116464)

906   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on advertising jobs in job centres for posts in licensed sex shops.

(116465)

907   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unemployment benefit (Med 3) forms have been reported lost in the last year; and what investigations have been carried out by his Department into missing unemployment benefit (Med 3) forms.

(116463)

908   Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the Health and Safety Executive to report on its investigation into the explosion at the Conoco refinery in Killingholme on 16 April 2001.

(116153)

909
N   Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office card accounts have been opened; and what targets have been set for (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005.

(116178)

910   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the administration costs for those applying for (a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit.

(116375)

911   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the workload on local authorities of reconfiguring (a) housing benefit, (b) council tax and (c) school meal application since the introduction of the new tax credit system.

(116376)

912   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to re-examine his proposals for the Vulnerable Groups Regulations in respect of assisting people to pay their water bills.

(116379)

913   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice is made available to those persons on income support when claiming (a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit.

(116477)

914   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the percentage of income a single person on jobseeker's allowance pays towards the average water bill in (a) Stoke on Trent, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England.

(116377)

915   Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to improve the access of people to eligibility under the Vulnerable Groups Regulations to help those people with paying their water bills.

(116378)

916   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the basis was for his statement on page 1 of Annex B of his Consultation Paper on Housing Benefit Sanctions and Anti-Social Behaviour regarding the relative effects of anti-social behaviour on (a) tenants in social housing and (b) people in deprived areas.

(116726)

917   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place a copy of the pension credit application form in the Library.

(116725)

918   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many national insurance accounts the (a) National Insurance Integrity Programme and (b) National Insurance Work Programme identified as inactive, broken down by category, in each year since they were established.

(116728)

919   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many prosecutions have resulted from National Identity Fraud Unit investigations in each year since it was established.

(116729)

920   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether pensioners who do not make a pension credit application using the pension credit hotline will be able to request an application form; and if he will make a statement.

(116724)

921
N   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to write to pensioners not receiving the minimum income guarantee with information on the pension credit, in priority order of those most likely to make a valid claim.

(115480)

922   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the (a) employers and (b) pension providers issuing combined pension statements to their employees and policy holders.

(116721)

923   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average number of working days lost per person in his Department and its agencies was in each of the last six years.

(116722)

924   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many national insurance accounts with false identities have been monitored by the Department in each of the last 10 years; and of those, how many cases were referred from the national insurance recording system.

(116727)

925   Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit direct mailing packs have been distributed; and of those, how many pension credit applications have been received via (a) the pension credit hotline and (b) other methods.

(116723)

926   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what targets his Department has for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets.

(116648)

927   Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what remit relating to sustainable development is required by his Department's (a) executive agencies, (b) advisory non-departmental bodies, (c) executive non-departmental bodies, (d) tribunals, (e) public corporations and (f) other bodies.

(116672)

928
N   David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy that compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is not treated as capital for the purposes of assessing the victim's entitlement to income-related benefit; and if he will make a statement.

(116038)

929   Linda Perham (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to encourage families to foster young people being looked after by local authorities.

[Transferred] (116055)

930   Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures have been taken to ensure that proposals for the expansion of airports in the South East take into account the findings of his Department's multi-modal studies for the Eastern Region.

[Transferred] (116323)

931   Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer which government departments have signed contracts with Microsoft; how much each contract is worth; how long each contract agreement is for; how many of the contracts require the signing of a non-disclosure agreement regarding the source code of programmes installed; and how much it would cost to terminate each of the contracts before the completion date.

[Transferred] (116657)

932   Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the Competition Commission inquiry into the supply of prescription only veterinary medicines; and if she will make a statement.

[Transferred] (116730)

933   Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many (a) nurses, (b) teachers and (c) social workers have benefited from the key worker initiative for affordable accommodation in West Sussex.

[Transferred] (116460)

934
N   Malcolm Bruce (Gordon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to process the visa application from Mrs Esther Anwar, the wife of a constituent; and if he will make a statement on his Department's handling of this case.

[Transferred] (116502)

935   Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department intends to send the appeal papers to the Independent Appellate Authority in the case of Mr N. A., ref KA417109, who has been refused entry clearance from HM High Commission in Islamabad.

[Transferred] (116489)

936   Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the repatriation of Afghan refugees.

[Transferred] (116627)

937   Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the opium poppy fields in Afghanistan have been destroyed; and what area this covers.

[Transferred] (116416)

938   Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which categories of people have had their brains removed from their bodies by authorities in the last 10 years; which authorities have the power to undertake removal; what guidelines apply to each authority in relation to this activity; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (116704)

939   John Cryer (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether term-time workers in education are deemed unemployed and able to claim jobseeker's allowance during unpaid holidays, for the purposes of calculation of their hourly rate.

[Transferred] (116693)

940   David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have migrated from over-the-counter post office benefit payments to direct bank transfer since 1st April in (a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) England.

[Transferred] (116766)

941
N   Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department has carried out into the impact on the health of individuals of khat; and if he will make a statement.

[Transferred] (115297)

942   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department is planning to start the consultation on an expansion of the Energy Efficiency Commitment to run from 2005 to at least 2008, as stated in the Energy White Paper of February 2003; and which organisations her Department is intending to consult.

[Transferred] (116171)

943   Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to combine household energy efficiency with (a) micro CHP, (b) small-scale renewable heat and (c) renewable power.

[Transferred] (116292)

944   Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on Government plans to assist foster carers with pension provision.

[Transferred] (116803)

945
N   John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are on incapacity benefit in (a) Bassetlaw constituency and (b) England.

[Transferred] (116614)

946   Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on (a) the development and (b) the benefits of coastal wind farms on the north west coastline.

[Transferred] (116611)

947   Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on (a) money allocated towards and (b) progress made in implementation of broadband in the Boston and Skegness area.

[Transferred] (116867)