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Official Vehicles

John Barrett: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what percentage
 
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of official vehicles used by the Department are run on (a) petrol, (b) diesel, (c) liquid petroleum gas and (d) compressed natural gas. [172772]

Mr. Lammy: The Government as a whole have signed up to various targets for improving the performance of their own vehicle fleet, details of which, together with reports on each Department's progress towards these targets are available at www.sustainable-development.gov.uk

The Government Car Service provides my Departments" ministerial vehicles. Detailed information on the breakdown of GCS vehicle fleet is being provided separately.

The percentage of official vehicles used by my Department that run on the above fuel types are as follows:
2003–04

	Number	Percentage
Cars
Petrol	22	4.09
Diesel	499	92.75
LPG(22)	17	3.16
Natural gas	0	0
Total	538	100
Vans (<3.5t)
Petrol	0	0
Diesel	1	100
LPG/natural gas(22)	0	0
Total	1	100
Heavy vehicles (<3.5t)
Petrol	0	0
Diesel	0	0
LPG/natural gas(22)	0	0
Total	0	100

⁽²²⁾ LPG—Dual Fuel (unleaded petrol and liquid petroleum gas) vehicles.

Parliamentary Questions

John Thurso: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs (1) how many (a) ordinary written and (b) named day questions his Department received in (i) 2002–03 and (ii) this parliamentary session up to the most recent date for   which figures are available, broken down by month; [170760]

(2) what proportion of (a) ordinary written questions to his Department were answered within five sitting days of tabling and (b) questions for a named day received a substantive answer on that day in (i) 2002–03 and (ii)   the current parliamentary session up to the most recent date for which figures are available, broken down by month. [170761]

Mr. Lammy: For the 2002–03 parliamentary session, my Department had 696 Commons ordinary written questions of which 383 were answered within five sittings days and 98 named day questions of which 65 were answered on the specified date.

For the current parliamentary session (2003–04) my Department has had 436 Commons ordinary written questions, of which 301 were answered within five sitting days and 70 named day questions of which 34 were answered on the specified date.
 
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Figures are not available for my Department's parliamentary questions broken down by month as our records are not held in this manner.

My Department endeavours to answer all parliamentary questions within the parliamentary deadlines whenever possible. In addition, I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House to the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) on 3 March 2004, Official Report, column 907W.

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many statutory reviews under section 101 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 have resulted in the High Court issuing a certificate of no merit under section 101(3)(d) in each month since April 2003. [175823]

Mr. Lammy: The Administrative Court Office does not keep a record of the number of cases in which a certificate of no merit is issued. To ascertain this information each court file would have to be individually inspected to check the decision of the judge. These figures could not be obtained without incurring disproportionate costs.

However, I am able to offer information from the Legal Services Commission (LSC). They have received 5 certificates of no merit for statutory review from the Administrative Court under section 101(3)(d) since April 2003.

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many applications to the Legal Services Commission for certificates of public funding for statutory review under section 101 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 have been (a) granted and (b) refused each month since April 2003. [175824]

Mr. Lammy: The Legal Services Commission did not receive any applications for statutory review until July 2003, but the number granted between July 2003 and March 2004 are set out in the following table:

2003	Month certificates granted
July	1
August	2
September	23
October	37
November	33
December	30
January	49
February	24
March	64

The Legal Services Commission is unable to provide figures for the number of applications refused because its systems do not record refusal data broken down by category of case.

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many
 
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statutory reviews under section 101 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 have been heard by the High Court in each month since April 2003; and how many of these were determined in favour of the applicant. [175825]

Mr. Lammy: The Administrative Court received the first applications for statutory review in May 2003. Statutory reviews under section 101 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 are considered on paper only; there are no hearings. The figures from May 2003 until April 2004 of statutory review applications received and granted are as follows:

Month/year	Applications received	Applications granted
May 2003	2	1
June 2003	3	0
July 2003	2	0
August 2003	9	0
September 2003	65	10
October 2003	84	26
November 2003	95	14
December 2003	117	15
January 2004	118	8
February 2004	130	40
March 2004	203	25
April 2004	116	36
Total	944	175

WORK AND PENSIONS

Jobseeker's Allowance (Liverpool, Walton)

Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Liverpool, Walton were receiving jobseeker's allowance in each year from its inception to 2003. [166967]

Mr. Pond: The information is in the table.
Jobseeker's allowance (JSA) claimants in Liverpool, Walton

	Number
1997	5,661
1998	4,863
1999	4,513
2000	4,092
2001	3,730
2002	3,502
2003	3,317
2004	2,983

Notes:
1. Figures given are the claimant count in March for each year.
2. Figures are not seasonally adjusted and do not include clerical cases.
3. Jobseeker's allowance was introduced in October 1996.
Source:
100 per cent. count, Jobcentre Plus computer systems.

Benefit Claims

John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were claiming key benefits in (a) the Edinburgh, West constituency and (b) the City of Edinburgh local authority area in each year since 1995. [166671]

 
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Mr. Pond: The information is in the following tables.
Number of claimants of key benefits in Edinburgh West parliamentary constituency by client group Thousand

As at November	Working Age	Over State Pension Age
1995	6.3	NA
1996	6.0	NA
1997	5.5	NA
1998	5.1	NA
1999	5.3	15.4
2000	4.9	15.7
2001	4.9	15.8
2002	4.6	16.0
2003	5.0	15.8

Number of claimants of key benefits in City of Edinburgh local authority by client group Thousand

As at November	Working Age	Over State Pension age
1995	47.7	NA
1996	45.9	NA
1997	41.9	NA
1998	41.4	NA
1999	40.4	76.9
2000	38.9	76.2
2001	37.5	76.3
2002	37.2	75.8
2003	37.9	75.7

Notes:
1. Figures are taken from a five per cent sample and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
2. Figures are in thousands and rounded to the nearest hundred.
3. Working Age Key Benefits are Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Benefit and Disability Living Allowance.
4. Pension Age Key Benefits are State Pension, Incapacity Benefit, Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) /Pension Credit and Severe Disablement Allowance.
5. Pension Credit replaced MIG from 6 October 2003.
6. Parliamentary constituencies and local authorities have been allocated using the relevant ONS postcode directory.
7. Parliamentary constituency and local authority breakdowns were not available prior to Nov 1999 for claimants over State Pension age.
Source:
IAD Information Centre.




 
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