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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Friday 6 February 2004
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Friday 6 February 2004
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Friday 6 February of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Friday 6 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Friday 6 February see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 1
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what research has been carried out since 1997 into the reasons civil servants leave the Civil Service; and if he will make a statement. | | (153704) | 2
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost of recruitment of
civil servants was for each financial year from 1996 to the present, broken down by Department. | | (153705) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 3
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the definition of income in the family expenditure survey includes capital gains. | | (153616) | 4
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what amount EDS has been liable in penalties to the Inland Revenue in each year since 1998-99; and if he will make a statement. | | (153766) | 5
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Right honourable Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in the last 10 days regarding future higher education spending; and what the outcome was of those discussions. | | (153695) | 6
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on his plans for higher education spending in the forthcoming Public Spending Review. | | (153696) | 7
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the size of the surplus on the National Insurance fund has been in each of the last 20 years; and how much of this surplus was borrowed by the Government, and at what rate of interest, in each of those years. | | (153407) | 8
N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 30th January, Official Report, column 570W, and in connection with the 28th Report of the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 1999-2000, HC 431, Inland Revenue/EDS Strategic Partnership, Re-tendering the contract in 2004, Paragraph 54, and Minutes of Evidence (HC 431-i) Questions 14 and 40, who the board member responsible for Mr. John Yard's division on 12th April 2000 was; on what date he commenced planning for retendering the Inland Revenue's information technology service; and on what date it was decided that a market-making exercise would be held prior to retendering that contract. | | (153408) | 9
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money was raised from income tax in (a) the North West and (b) Lancashire in the last year for which figures are available. | | (153879) | 10
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a summary of responses received to the consultation paper Economic instruments to improve household energy efficiency: consultation document on specific measures. | | (153763) | 11
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy not to collect national insurance contributions from individuals who will reach state pension age during the course of a financial year where those individuals will be unable to accrue any additional rights to contributory benefits in respect of those contributions. | | (153409) | Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs 12
| Vera Baird (Redcar):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, when the Lord Chancellor's joint working party on the appointment of QCs and judges will next meet. | | (153690) | 13
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 18th December 2003, Official Report, column 1112W, on the 1911 Census, how many applications were approved in each year from 1999 to 2003, under the provisions of section 5 (1) of the Public Records Act 1958, to reduce previously determined periods of closure on departmental records. | | (153979) | 14
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what proportion of (a) magistrates and (b) judges are from an ethnic minority group. | | (153711) | 15
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what proposals he has for changes in the role and responsibilities of the Lord Chief Justice; and if he will make a statement. | | (153781) | 16
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure local authorities are fully acquainted with the guidance, Privacy and Data Sharing: The Way forward for Public Services, published by his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (153772) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 17
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will discuss with Sport England the use of Rivington in the Chorley constituency for (a) cycling, (b) road racing, (c) mountain biking and (d) individual time trials as part of the 2012 Olympic Games bid. | | (153854) | 18
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total sales of National Lottery tickets in (a) Chorley and (b) Lancashire were in each of the past five years. | | (153855) | 19
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what initiatives her Department has undertaken to encourage communities to become involved in graffiti prevention. | | (153823) | 20
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what programmes her Department has set up to encourage the reform of repeat offenders. | | (153824) | 21
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in her Department have been (a) investigated, (b) suspended, (c) dismissed, (d) prosecuted and (e) convicted for involvement in benefit fraud in each of the last six years; and what amounts were involved in each case. | | (153868) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 22
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the individuals and organisations to whom (a) his Department, (b) its executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies for which his Department is responsible sent a copy of the consultation document, The Armed Forces Pensions Scheme Review. | | (153850) | 23
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the individuals and organisations to whom (a) his Department, (b) its executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies for which his Department is responsible sent a copy of the consultation document, A New Chapter to the Strategic Defence Review: the role of the reserves in home defence and security. | | (153851) | 24
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the individuals and organisations to whom (a) his Department, (b) its executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies for which his Department is responsible sent a copy of the consultation document, The Future of the Defence Diversification Agency. | | (153852) | 25
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to discuss the supply of military and security equipment between Israel and the UK with the Israeli Defence Minister during his forthcoming visit to the UK; and if he will make a statement. | | (153692) | 26
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what issues he plans to discuss with the Israeli Defence Minister during his forthcoming visit to the UK. | | (153693) | 27
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a written statement to the House following the forthcoming visit of the Israeli Defence Minister concerning the issues he discussed with him and the outcome of those discussions. | | (153694) | 28
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the York University study estimating the impact on UK employment of the Government's promotion of export sales of defence equipment. | | (153764) | 29
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the increase in UK employment attributable to the Government's promotion of export sales of defence equipment. | | (153765) | 30
| Mrs Patsy Calton (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have been posted to new locations in each of the last five years; and how many service families were required to move house within the UK and abroad in each year. | | (153829) | 31
| Mrs Patsy Calton (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has been made of the availability of (a) general practitioner services and (b) NHS dental services to families of armed forces personnel located in the UK. | | (153830) | 32
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the proposals for reform of (a) the pension scheme and (b) the compensation scheme in the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill are (i) individually cost-neutral and (ii) cost-neutral combined; and if he will make a statement. | | (153875) | 33
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the estimate produced by the Royal British Legion of the likely number of cases that would fail under the provisions of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill under (a) the proposed balance of probability test, (b) the proposed time limits for compensation claims and (c) both. | | (153876) | 34
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many claims under the Armed Forces compensation scheme were successful in each of the last five years; what estimate he has made of the number of likely successful cases per year under the proposed new scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (153877) | 35
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on how the new tariff-based compensation scheme will (a) assess compensation for (i) injuries and (ii) financial losses consequent on injury and (b) be administered, with particular reference to appeal arrangements. | | (153881) | 36
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what types of injury case will receive (a) less and (b) more compensation under the new scheme proposed in the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill; and if he will make a statement. | | (153882) | 37
N | Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 29th January, to the honourable Member for North Cornwall, Official Report, column 505W, on Sea King helicopters, if he will place copies of the Board of Inquiry report in the Library. | | (153398) | 38
N | Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Answer of 28th January, Official Report, column 367W, on Bugaled Breizh, if he will give the locations of the other military vessels from other nations involved in the international exercise at the time of the sinking of the Bugaled Breizh. | | (153399) | 39
N | Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he will reply to the Questions tabled by the honourable Member for Norwich North on 8th December 2003, refs 143594-6. | | (153241) | 40
| Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the projected number of orders for naval vessels to be placed over the next 10 years. | | (153789) | 41
| Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Government's policy is on placing of orders for naval vessels in overseas shipyards. | | (153790) | 42
| Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the Rand Report on capacity in the UK shipbuilding industry. | | (153792) | 43
| Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many medals have been awarded for service in the Suez Canal Zone 1951 to 1954; how many are still to be awarded to (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force personnel; and what the timescale is for completing the presentation of outstanding awards. | | (153786) | 44
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British service personnel (a) have committed suicide in Iraq or since returning to the UK from Iraq and (b) have been returned to the UK from Iraq early because of mental stress. | | (153691) | 45
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he intends to publish the study into helicopter noise at RAF Shawbury which began in summer 2002, carried out by the Centre of Aviation Medicine. | | (153954) | 46
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he intends to publish the report on military aviation noise conducted by the Department's Directorate of Safety Environment and Fire Policy. | | (153967) | 47
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research his Department has (a) published and (b) commissioned into helicopter noise. | | (153968) | 48
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Apache helicopters are in use at RAF Shawbury. | | (153969) | 49
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Apache helicopters are in storage at RAF Shawbury; and what their value is. | | (153970) | 50
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for how long Apache helicopters have been in storage at RAF Shawbury. | | (153971) | 51
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Apache helicopters at RAF Shawbury have been paid for. | | (153972) | 52
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the training facilities for Apache helicopter pilots to be available. | | (153973) | 53
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons training equipment is not available to train Apache helicopter pilots. | | (153975) | 54
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects there to be sufficient trained helicopter pilots available to enable the helicopters at RAF Shawbury to be put into front line service. | | (153976) | 55
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much it costs to train a pilot to fly Apache helicopters; and how long the training takes. | | (153977) | 56
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his latest estimate is of civilian deaths arising from attacks by insurgents in the British zone in Southern Iraq since the official cessation of hostilities. | | (153872) | 57
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reports he has received of politically motivated killings within the British zone in Southern Iraq perpetrated by political groups represented within the Iraqi Governing Council. | | (153873) | 58
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps have been taken to (a) post warnings on and (b) seal tanks and armoured personnel carriers destroyed by depleted uranium weapons in southern Iraq. | | (153874) | 59
N | Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the suitability of RAF Machrihanish for storing radioactive waste. | | (153406) | 60
| Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) establishment and (b) current strength is of each medical specialty in the Defence Medical Services. | | (153883) | 61
| Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans the Royal College of Defence Medicine has for the Selly Oak hospital site in Birmingham. | | (153884) | 62
| Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what accommodation for personnel exists at the Royal College of Defence Medicine; and what plans he has for future accommodation. | | (153885) | 63
| Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future accommodation of nursing staff accommodated at (a) Keogh Barracks, Aldershot and (b) Fort Blockhouse, Gosport. | | (153886) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 64
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will give local authorities powers to determine the suitability of sites for mobile telephone transmitters. | | (153810) | 65
| Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which brown field sites in Northumberland are on English Partnerships' Register. | | (153812) | 66
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with the London Borough of Islington on a housing development strategy that would ensure an increase in the number of properties for rent by the council and housing associations; and if he will make a statement. | | (153942) | 67
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of (a) council owned housing and (b) housing association properties in each London borough meet the Decent Homes Standard; and what estimate he has made of the cost of meeting the standard by the target date of 2010 for each borough. | | (153944) | 68
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of objections to the methods of consultation used by Islington Council on an arm's length management organisation; and if he will make a statement. | | (153945) | 69
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he has received concerning the proportion of social housing to be included in new developments in Greater London; and if he will make a statement. | | (153947) | 70
| Ross Cranston (Dudley North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to take steps to make it compulsory for care homes for the elderly to be installed with sprinklers; and if he will make a statement. | | (153595) | 71
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether Barnet Council is meeting the terms of his Department's grant for neighbourhood wardens for Grahame Park; and if he will make a statement. | | (153840) | 72
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many phone masts there are in (a) the UK, (b) Lancashire and (c) Chorley; and how many are shared between operators in each of those areas. | | (153718) | 73
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the funding of Supporting People in Lancashire. | | (153719) | 74
| Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to require planning permission for reinstatement of windows which overlook other premises. | | (153741) | 75
| Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the proportion of local authority employees to adult population was in each (a) unitary authority, (b) metropolitan authority and (c) shire county on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (153601) | 76
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what action the Government has taken to promote safety at home for elderly people. | | (153816) | 77
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many (a) council houses and flats and (b) social housing units were built in each of the last 25 years. | | (153596) | 78
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many (a) empty houses and (b) homeless people there are in each local authority area, listed in descending order according to the number of empty houses. | | (153597) | 79
| Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much money from Government (a) grants and (b) contracts, Ordnance Survey has used to support its commercial aerial activities. | | (153755) | 80
| Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much money Ordnance Survey has received in the last four financial years in Government (a) grants and (b) mapping contracts; and whether Ordnance Survey had to compete for the contracts. | | (153756) | 81
| Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, for what reason Ordnance Survey rejected Getmapping's bid for the Millennium Map to be adopted as the Imagery Layer in Digital National Framework in November 2001. | | (153757) | 82
| Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the Pan Government Agreement for Central Government to use Ordnance Survey data was open to fair and transparent competition. | | (153758) | 83
| Mr Jonathan Sayeed (Mid Bedfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many sales Ordnance Survey made of the Millennium Map during the period of its contract as a re-seller of the map. | | (153759) | 84
| Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, in circumstances when unauthorised developments by travellers and gypsies are permitted by planning inspectors or the Secretary of State because of the traveller and gypsy status of the inhabitants, what requirements his Department places on those inhabitants to maintain a traveller or gypsy lifestyle; and what this lifestyle must consist of. | | (153723) | 85
| Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether utility companies are permitted to provide services to unauthorised traveller and gypsy developments (a) at any time and (b) in circumstances when the local authority is challenging the development in the courts. | | (153724) | 86
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps his Department takes to encourage local authorities to remove graffiti. | | (153760) | 87
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what new programmes for urban renewal include programmes to remove graffiti. | | (153761) | 88
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what strategies his Department has developed to encourage the removal of graffiti from (a) public and (b) private buildings. | | (153762) | 89
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the results of the annual return supplied by local authorities on homeless applications by single person female applicants. | | (153669) | 90
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, for what reasons greenfield green belt land has been included within the boundary of the area of the Thurrock Urban Development Corporation. | | (153857) | 91
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what new settlements are proposed within the Thurrock Urban Development Corporation area pursuant to paragraph 24 of Sustainable Communities: an Urban Development Corporation for Thurrock. | | (153858) | 92
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many planning applications to local authorities for drug treatment services were (a) made and (b) approved in the last year for which figures are available. | | (153710) | 93
| Claire Ward (Watford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress is being made on the introduction of a seller's pack for house buyers. | | (153604) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 94
| Mrs Patsy Calton (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many former students have outstanding loan accounts; how many of these are being repaid; how many are not being repaid because of the low income of the borrower; and what factors, apart from income, are taken into account when repayment is demanded. | | (153825) | 95
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list the new schools to be built in (a) Bassetlaw, (b) Birmingham, Northfield, (c) Birmingham, Perry Barr, (d) Blaydon, (e) Blyth Valley, (f) Bootle, (g) Bradford West, (h) Braintree, (i) Burton, (j) Coventry North West, (k) Coventry South, (l) Dover, (m) Ealing North, (n) Eltham, (o) Feltham and Heston, (p) Forest of Dean, (q) Gateshead East and Washington West, (r) Hammersmith and Fulham, (s) Hendon, (t) Hornsey and Wood Green, (u) Ilford North, (v) Kettering, (w) Knowsley South, (x) Lancaster and Wyre, (y) Leeds North East, (z) Leeds West, (aa) Leicester East, (bb) Lewisham, Deptford, (cc) Liverpool, Riverside, (dd) Loughborough, (ee) Manchester, Withington, (ff) Milton Keynes North East, (gg) Northampton South, (hh) North West Leicestershire, (ii) Reading East, (jj) Reading West, (kk) Rugby and Kenilworth, (ll) Sheffield, Attercliffe, (mm) Sheffield, Hillsborough, (nn) Sittingbourne and Sheppey, (oo) Stevenage, (pp) Stockton North, (qq) Stoke-on-Trent, (rr) Stourbridge, (ss) Thurrock, (tt) Tyne Bridge, (uu) Wallasey, (vv) Wansbeck, (ww) Waveney, (xx) West Lancashire, (yy) Wirral West, (zz) Wolverhampton North East and (aaa) Wolverhampton South East; and when the decision was taken to build them. | | (153776) | 96
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what criteria need to be met for a new faith school to open within the state sector. | | (153270) | 97
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary faith schools there are, broken down by denomination. | | (153271) | 98
| Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on education provision for (a) children and (b) adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities. | | (153785) | 99
N | Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his Answer of 30th January, Official Report, columns 579-80W, under which section of the Code of Practice on Access to Information he declined to provide the information requested; and whether Jenny Gray is a full-time employee of his Department. | | (153588) | 100
| Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of 18-year-olds entered full-time higher education in (a) North East Lincolnshire and (b) North Lincolnshire in each year since 1990. | | (153598) | 101
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many undergraduate students in Wales have declared themselves bankrupt in each year since 1992; and if he will make a statement. | | (153716) | 102
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations he has received from (a) parents and (b) other involved parties about the secondary schools and sixth form review in Gloucestershire; and if he will make a statement. | | (153401) | 103
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions he has had with representatives of grammar schools in Gloucestershire following the county's education review; and if he will make a statement. | | (153402) | 104
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the total education budget is in Gloucestershire in 2003-04; what percentage of that budget is spent in schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (153403) | 105
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children in Gloucestershire (a) are statemented, (b) receive special educational needs support in mainstream schools and (c) attend special schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (153404) | 106
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the total cost is of providing special needs education in (a) mainstream and (b) special schools in Gloucestershire in 2003-04; what percentage this forms of the total education budget; and if he will make a statement. | | (153405) | 107
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his policy is on giving a social and moral context to sex advice offered to under 16-year-olds. | | (153667) | 108
N | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what definition he uses of what constitutes basic living costs for the average student. | | (153400) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 109
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to mark World Environment Day on 5th June; and if she will make a statement. | | (153743) | 110
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage the use of bio-degradable plastic bags. | | (153745) | 111
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the change in the red squirrel population over the last five years; and if she will make a statement. | | (153746) | 112
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Suffolk Coastal, of 29th January, Official Report, column 494W, on US vessels, what discussions took place with (a) the US authorities and (b) the US Marine Administration before the departure of the vessels; what requests were made; what replies to these requests were received; and if she will make a statement. | | (153328) | 113
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the Carbon Trust budget for the last financial year has been allocated for projects in (i) Scotland, (ii) England, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland; what proportion remains unallocated; what funds have been allocated to hydrogen demonstration and innovation projects; and what proportion of funds have been allocated to small and medium enterprises. | | (153937) | 114
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to commission independent research into the environmental effects of growing GM maize using pesticides other than atrazine. | | (153892) | 115
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Committee report on co-existence and liability; and if she will make a statement. | | (153893) | 116
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the maximum level of GM material in seed for planting to ensure a harvested crop does not contain more than the 0.9 per cent. threshold of GM material required under EU regulations for produce to be classified GM-free. | | (153894) | 117
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the economic (a) benefits and (b) disbenefits to UK farmers of growing GM maize. | | (153895) | 118
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to commission independent research on (a) gene transfer and (b) co-existence in relation to GM crops. | | (153896) | 119
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the spread of bovine TB in (a) the North West and (b) each county in the North West. | | (153887) | 120
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the benefit to small farms in Lancashire of the revised Common Agricultural Policy. | | (153888) | 121
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what grounds landfill sites can be closed. | | (153889) | 122
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the spend of her Department is on the promotion of English (a) beef and (b) lamb in the current financial year. | | (153890) | 123
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether domestic cats are susceptible to infection by M. bovis bacillus; whether any such infections have been recorded; and whether the infection can be transferred to man. | | (153919) | 124
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures are taken by her Department to ensure that guidelines on testing badgers for M. bovis infection before release by animal hospitals are properly observed. | | (153923) | 125
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of whether infection of M. bovis bacillus between infectious female badgers and their offspring leads to an increase over time in the incidence of infection within a social group. | | (153924) | 126
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her best estimate is of the staff time costs in replacing stolen, lost and damaged traps used in the operational Krebs triplets areas. | | (153925) | 127
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of whether there are (a) physiological and (b) neurological differences between rabbits and moles, and badgers, which would affect their response to poisoning by fumigants, in terms of the distress and pain caused. | | (153926) | 128
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of the size of the badger population in Great Britain as reported by the National Badger Survey. | | (153953) | 129
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the (a) proportion of adult badgers in Great Britain currently infected with M. bovis vacillus and (b) proportion of those that are infective. | | (153955) | 130
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the criteria are for designating an animal species in the United Kingdom as (a) an endangered and (b) a protected species. | | (153956) | 131
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under what circumstances an animal previously categorised in the United Kingdom as endangered or protected is deregistered or otherwise removed from the list; and what conditions must be met for statutory protection to be removed. | | (153957) | 132
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the minimum size of the badger population in the United Kingdom necessary to ensure its continued survival. | | (153958) | 133
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the optimum size of the badger population in the United Kingdom. | | (153959) | 134
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the maximum size of badger population which can be sustained in the United Kingdom. | | (153960) | 135
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the natural predators of the badger are, other than man; and what effect they exert on the United Kingdom badger population. | | (153961) | 136
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what grounds legal protection has been afforded to badgers. | | (153962) | 137
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the limiting factors are on the size of the badger population in the United Kingdom in the absence of predation and intervention by man. | | (153963) | 138
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what specific characteristics are exhibited by badger groups under population stress. | | (153964) | 139
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the effects of over-population are on the health of badger populations. | | (153965) | 140
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the preferred foods of adult badgers are; and on what foods they rely when their preferred foods are in short supply. | | (153966) | 141
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the change in the badger population in Great Britain since the last National Badger Survey. | | (153974) | 142
| Mr Owen Paterson (North Shropshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to what diseases, other than tuberculosis, badgers are susceptible. | | (153978) | 143
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list applications for licences to import transgenic fish made in the last three years. | | (153870) | 144
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much Government funding has been provided for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in each year since 1996 at current prices. | | (153871) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 145
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how his Department (a) encourages and (b) assists UK businesses to export. | | (153866) | 146
| Mr Harold Best (Leeds North West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Botswana regarding the forced resettlement of the Kalahari Bushmen. | | (153770) | 147
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to visit Ukraine. | | (153780) | 148
| Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the EU to negotiate with (a) Ukraine and (b) Russia in relation to loss of markets arising from accession of the 10 new member states. | | (153791) | 149
N | Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the progress of discussions between NATO and the EU regarding a European Security and Defence Policy mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | | (153324) | 150
N | Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken in relation to the European Council's decision to begin the improvement of the preparation of European Union operations having recourse to NATO assets and capabilities; when such steps were taken; what further steps are envisaged; and if he will make a statement. | | (153325) | 151
N | Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps have been taken in relation to the establishment of a cell with civil and military components in line with the European Council's decision of 12th December 2003; what future steps are planned; when he expects such a cell to be completed and operational; and if he will make a statement. | | (153326) | 152
N | Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he expects to take in order to implement the recommendations of the Solana paper adopted at the European Council of 12th December 2003; what changes he expects to make to the UK security posture; and if he will make a statement. | | (153327) | 153
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the income expected this year is from fishing licences in the British Indian Ocean Territories; and what it was in each of the past five years. | | (153941) | 154
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Iraqi Governing Council regarding Sharia law in Iraq. | | (153703) | 155
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will reconcile paragraph 14 of A Further Response of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to the Ninth Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee's Session 2002-03 (Cm 6123) with Appendix 13 of the Hutton Report. | | (153747) | 156
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether individuals will be able to put themselves forward as prospective expert witnesses to the Butler Inquiry into weapons of mass destruction intelligence. | | (153779) | 157
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the evidential basis was for the comment by the Minister for State, the honourable Member for North Warwickshire, on Newsnight on 3rd February that Iraq is the only country to use weapons of mass destruction. | | (153927) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 158
| Ms Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Camborne):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department provided in 2003-04 for people affected by Down's Syndrome, including research into Down's Syndrome, broken down by (a) budget heading and (b) area of research. | | (153688) | 159
| Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the future demand for anaesthetists in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Strategic Health Authority area following the introduction of the European Working Time Directive; and if he will make a statement on meeting the demand. | | (153811) | 160
| Mrs Patsy Calton (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made by strategic health authorities of (a) the facilities available for drug maintenance and withdrawal, (b) the availability of licensed prescribers for heroin addicts and (c) the incidence of heroin use. | | (153880) | 161
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department made of the impact of the drug cisapride before its withdrawal in the United Kingdom. | | (153754) | 162
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the new hospitals to be built in (a) Bassetlaw, (b) Birmingham, Northfield, (c) Birmingham, Perry Barr, (d) Blaydon, (e) Blyth Valley, (f) Bootle, (g) Bradford West, (h) Braintree, (i) Burton, (j) Coventry North West, (k) Coventry South, (l) Dover, (m) Ealing North, (n) Eltham, (o) Feltham and Heston, (p) Forest of Dean, (q) Gateshead East and Washington West, (r) Hammersmith and Fulham, (s) Hendon, (t) Hornsey and Wood Green, (u) Ilford North, (v) Kettering, (w) Knowsley South, (x) Lancaster and Wyre, (y) Leeds North East, (z) Leeds West, (aa) Leicester East, (bb) Lewisham, Deptford, (cc) Liverpool, Riverside, (dd) Loughborough, (ee) Manchester, Withington, (ff) Milton Keynes North East, (gg) Northampton South, (hh) North West Leicestershire, (ii) Reading East, (jj) Reading West, (kk) Rugby and Kenilworth, (ll) Sheffield, Attercliffe, (mm) Sheffield, Hillsborough, (nn) Sittingbourne and Sheppey, (oo) Stevenage, (pp) Stockton North, (qq) Stoke-on-Trent, (rr) Stourbridge, (ss) Thurrock, (tt) Tyne Bridge, (uu) Wallasey, (vv) Wansbeck, (ww) Waveney, (xx) West Lancashire, (yy) Wirral West, (zz) Wolverhampton North East and (aaa) Wolverhampton South East; and when the decision was taken to build them. | | (153778) | 163
| Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) yellow and (b) red cards have been issued by (i) Barnsley Hospital, (ii) Doncaster Royal Infirmary and (iii) all South Yorkshire hospitals in each of the last three years. | | (153717) | 164
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice his Department has (a) given to and (b) received from the UK delegates attending European Commission regulatory standing and management committees on GM seed. | | (153891) | 165
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what precautions are in force to protect people from the risk of transmission of transmissible spongiform encepthalopathies through surgical instruments. | | (153859) | 166
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research has been undertaken to establish whether an increase in sporadic CJD is connected to BSE contaminated meat. | | (153860) | 167
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the countries from which the NHS purchases plasma and blood products; and in which of these countries there have been cases of (a) CJD, (b) vCJD and (c) BSE. | | (153861) | 168
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Blood Transfusion Committee has completed its contingency logistics plan on how to deal with possible blood shortages resulting from measures taken to reduce the risk of transmission of vCJD by blood transfusion; and when it will be published. | | (153862) | 169
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ban foreign nationals who have received blood in countries with confirmed cases of BSE from donating blood in the UK. | | (153863) | 170
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Blood and Tissues for Transplantation has decided whether to ban recipients of blood from donating blood; and when the decision will be made public. | | (153864) | 171
| Mr Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his statement on developments in variant CJD of 17th December 2003, Official Report, columns 1571-85, what steps he is taking to encourage the NHS to move towards the greater use of alternatives to blood in non-emergency medical cases. | | (153878) | 172
| Stephen Hesford (Wirral West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to publish a white paper on public health; and if he will make a statement. | | (153689) | 173
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expected expenditure is on redundancies arising from the restructuring and change programme. | | (153676) | 174
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated total cost is of the Department of Health reorganisation and change process; and whether this figure includes monies to address (a) planning, (b) evaluation, (c) retraining and (d) relocation. | | (153677) | 175
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money will be spent on (a) external consultants and (b) the process of transferring service provision to other Government departments, arm's length bodies and local health authorities as part of the Department's change programme. | | (153678) | 176
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expected social costs are of the restructuring proposed for the Department of Health in relation to (a) redundancies, (b) relocation of staff and (c) the impact of these issues on areas of high unemployment. | | (153679) | 177
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expected impact is of the departmental change programme on the provision of benefit and welfare services to the public. | | (153680) | 178
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Department has conducted an impact assessment as outlined in the Race Relations (Amendement) Act 2000, prior to the significant departmental changes that may affect the Department's staff. | | (153681) | 179
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the specific objectives are of the departmental change programme; and how the Department has consulted (a) staff, (b) other Government departments and agencies and (c) external agencies and partners about this matter. | | (153682) | 180
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what analysis has been carried out to demonstrate that the restructuring programme for the Department will provide (a) better value for money and (b) better accountability. | | (153683) | 181
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what health programmes and services will be affected by the reorganisation and staff cuts within the Department. | | (153684) | 182
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current resources allocations are for (a) social care, (b) preventive health and education and (c) public health; and how they will change as a result of the departmental reorganisation. | | (153685) | 183
| Mr David Hinchliffe (Wakefield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the reorganisation of the Department will improve the response time to (a) Parliamentary questions and (b) ministerial correspondence. | | (153687) | 184
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what rules govern recruitment by the Department of people appointed to run trust franchises before their contract has expired. | | (153272) | 185
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many trust franchise managers have terminated their contract before its expiry; and what action has been taken against them in each case. | | (153273) | 186
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, under what circumstances a franchise manager appointed to run a zero star trust may terminate his three year contract to manage that trust (a) without a penalty and (b) with a penalty; and what penalty can be applied by (i) the trust and (ii) the Department. | | (153274) | 187
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) general and (b) acute hospital beds there were in (i) Chorley and (ii) Preston in each of the last three years. | | (153849) | 188
| Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on health provision for (a) children and (b) adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities. | | (153784) | 189
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to issue guidelines on the treatment of osteoporosis. | | (153943) | 190
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the need for regulation of private ambulance services to reflect practice in the NHS. | | (153748) | 191
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the training requirements are for (a) paramedics and (b) ambulance technicians in (i) the NHS and (ii) private ambulance services. | | (153749) | 192
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the procedure is for transferring general practitioner held records when a patient moves practices. | | (153750) | 193
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what investigation he has made of delays in transferring general practitioner records when a patient moves. | | (153794) | 194
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been paid by each local authority in fines for delayed discharge. | | (153813) | 195
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures have been taken to promote (a) physical fitness and (b) healthy eating amongst the elderly. | | (153814) | 196
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve services for people with osteoporosis in the South West. | | (153815) | 197
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the availability of care packages for maintaining elderly people in their own homes. | | (153820) | 198
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in reducing avoidable winter deaths in the elderly. | | (153821) | 199
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on progress towards meeting the NHS plan target for the electronic transmission of prescriptions. | | (153822) | 200
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many departmental staff will be transferred to departmental arm's length bodies under the Change Programme. | | (153697) | 201
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total reduction in numbers of departmental staff will be under the Change Programme. | | (153698) | 202
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether compliance with the European Working Time Directive for doctors in training will become a Commission for Health Improvement performance indicator. | | (153699) | 203
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurse practitioners he estimates are required to ensure compliance in England with the European Working Time Directive. | | (153706) | 204
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which of the European Working Time Directive pilot sites have a full complement of (a) senior specialist nurses and (b) nurse practitioners to cover doctors in training. | | (153707) | 205
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the vacancy rate is for the nursing grades that cover nurse practitioners for each strategic health authority in England. | | (153708) | 206
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses of an appropriate grade work as nurse practitioners to cover doctors in training in the NHS. | | (153709) | 207
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of whether hospitals are changing junior doctors' hours of work statistics to ensure that they conform to the (a) New Deal and (b) European Working Time Directive. | | [R] (153734) | 208
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individuals each local authority in England funded to undergo residential drug rehabilitation in the last year for which figures are available. | | (153712) | 209
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money each local authority in England and Wales spent on residential drug rehabilitation places in the last year for which figures are available. | | (153713) | 210
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in reducing the number of analogue hearing aids used by NHS patients in (a) North West Leicestershire and (b) the East Midlands since January 2002. | | (153721) | 211
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress is being made in the provision of NHS digital hearing aids in (a) North West Leicestershire and (b) the East Midlands. | | (153722) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 212
N | Vera Baird (Redcar):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the grant of bail for those charged with aggravated burglary at domestic premises; and if he will make it his policy to seek a reduction in the grant of bail for such offences. | | (153329) | 213
N | Vera Baird (Redcar):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in custodial sentencing for those convicted of aggravated burglary of domestic premises; and what his policy is on custodial sentencing for such offences. | | (153330) | 214
N | Vera Baird (Redcar):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the results of his Department's review of sexual assault referral centres will be made public. | | (153331) | 215
N | Vera Baird (Redcar):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the results of the pilot schemes giving community support officers the right to detain people for 30 minutes will be published. | | (153332) | 216
| Mr Harold Best (Leeds North West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long DNA samples are held by the Forensic Science Service. | | (153767) | 217
| Mr Harold Best (Leeds North West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the storage of DNA samples by the Forensic Science Service. | | (153768) | 218
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who were qualified doctors have applied to work in the UK as doctors in each of the last five years; how many applications were (a) accepted and (b) rejected; and how many rejections were overturned on appeal. | | (153617) | 219
N | Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used to decide which sex offenders from outside the city are sent to Peterborough Bail Hostel. | | (153237) | 220
N | Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrangements are made to protect vulnerable young residents of bail hostels from residents who are known sex offenders. | | (153238) | 221
N | Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what records are kept of the number of sex offenders resident in bail hostels. | | (153239) | 222
N | Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sex offenders there were in Peterborough Bail Hostel in the last month for which figures are available; what percentage of the hostel's inmates this represented; and what the average percentage of sex offenders in bail hostels in England was in the last month for which figures are available. | | (153240) | 223
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what monitoring of returned unsuccessful asylum applicants is undertaken by UK representatives in (a) Congo, (b) Ivory Coast and (c) Cameroon; and if he will make a statement on his assessment of the safety of those individuals. | | (153940) | 224
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unsuccessful asylum applicants have been returned to (a) Somalia and (b) Somaliland in the past year; and what monitoring of the safety of the situation there he has undertaken. | | (153946) | 225
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cars were reported stolen in the year for which recent figures are available in the (a) Lancashire Police Authority, (b) Greater London Police Authority and (c) Warwickshire Police Authority areas. | | (153618) | 226
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mentally ill prisoners are being held in the segregation unit at Camp Hill Prison; and if he will take steps to have them transferred to suitable accommodation. | | (153735) | 227
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many modular temporary units have been erected in prisons in the past five years; and how many prisoners they house, broken down by prison. | | (153736) | 228
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the visits room at Camp Hill Prison will be refurbished. | | (153737) | 229
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to increase the hours of purposeful activity for prisoners at Camp Hill Prison. | | (153738) | 230
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of staff on sick leave at Camp Hill Prison. | | (153739) | 231
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the meeting at which the decision was taken that an advertisement campaign to reiterate the illegality of cannabis should be launched was held; and if he will publish the minutes. | | (153948) | 232
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which agencies were asked to bid for the advertisement campaign to reiterate the illegality of cannabis; and what prices they quoted. | | (153949) | 233
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what methods he is using to measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign to reiterate the illegality of cannabis. | | (153950) | 234
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria he used to decide that an advertising campaign to reiterate the illegality of cannabis was necessary. | | (153951) | 235
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what grounds he will not publish the case he is making to the Treasury to close smaller prisons and build larger prisons. | | (153952) | 236
| Mr Tom Harris (Glasgow Cathcart):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were resident in Glasgow in the last year for which figures are available. | | (153730) | 237
| Mr Tom Harris (Glasgow Cathcart):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers resident in Glasgow were granted refugee status in the last year for which figures are available; and what proportion of all applications this represents. | | (153733) | 238
| Mr Tom Harris (Glasgow Cathcart):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of applications for refugee status were successful in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (153752) | 239
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Government criteria there are for (a) siting of police cells, (b) the number of police cells and (c) conditions of police cells. | | (153771) | 240
| Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what processes are available to public servants to raise concerns about serious wrongdoings by other public servants if they have reason to believe that their disclosure is in the public interest. | | (153740) | 241
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on recent staff turnover at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, with particular reference to caseworkers dealing with asylum applications. | | (153700) | 242
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training is available to Immigration and Nationality Directorate caseworkers before they begin work processing asylum applications. | | (153701) | 243
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures his Department is taking to minimise disruption to asylum applications resulting from turnover of Immigration and Nationality Directorate caseworkers. | | (153702) | 244
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to combat the fear of crime among elderly people. | | (153817) | 245
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what penalties are available to magistrates when considering the punishment of those who graffiti. | | (153605) | 246
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what programmes his Department funds aimed at diverting those who graffiti to productive activities. | | (153606) | 247
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those who graffitied were repeat offenders in 2003; and whether common profiles for repeat offenders have been created. | | (153607) | 248
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will propose legislative provisions for magistrates to impose sentences on those who graffiti public and private buildings which involve cleaning up graffiti. | | (153608) | 249
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London concerning graffiti in London. | | (153609) | 250
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will introduce the option for magistrates to impose community service orders for those who graffiti. | | (153610) | 251
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether anti-social behaviour orders can be imposed on those convicted of graffiti-related offences. | | (153611) | 252
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been convicted of offences involving graffiti in each of the past 10 years. | | (153612) | 253
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to tackle graffiti in urban areas. | | (153613) | 254
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many motorists were banned from driving for a period as a result of being caught by (a) speed and (b) red light cameras in (i) 1997, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2002. | | (153668) | 255
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places are available in residential drug treatment services in England; and how many were available in each of the previous five years. | | (153714) | 256
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drug offenders (a) in prison and (b) in the community received treatment for drug problems in 2002-03. | | (153715) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 257
| Mr Harold Best (Leeds North West):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the decision to reject the funding application from Action for Southern Africa. | | (153769) | Questions to the Leader of the House 258
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Leader of the House, how many meetings he has had in his capacity as Leader of the House in the past eight months. | | (153624) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 259
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the percentage increases to the regional rate in Northern Ireland were in each of the past five years. | | (153844) | 260
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost of maintaining the prison population in Northern Ireland was in the past three years; and what the average cost per prisoner was in each of those years. | | (153845) | 261
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what actions have been taken by the Assets Recovery Agency against (a) Republican and (b) Loyalist paramilitary groups. | | (153846) | 262
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what resources have been made available in Northern Ireland to assist the implementation of the Warm Homes Scheme in the past three years. | | (153847) | 263
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the crime clear-up rate in each of the district command units of the Police in Northern Ireland was in the past two years. | | (153848) | 264
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many agreed behaviour contracts (ABCs) have been issued in Northern Ireland since their introduction; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of ABCs in tackling anti-social behaviour. | | (153853) | 265
| Ian Lucas (Wrexham):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many cases from ethnic minority backgrounds were identified by the Housing Executive as homeless on the grounds of intimidation in 2003; and in which geographical areas they were re-housed. | | (153600) | 266
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was paid in levy by bookmakers in Northern Ireland to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years; how much of that levy in each year was transferred to Horse Racing Ireland; and how much Horse Racing Ireland spent in each year in Northern Ireland. | | (153625) | 267
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the determination of the application for planning permission, reference number P/2000/2176 was; when it was made; and when it was communicated to the applicant. | | (153626) | 268
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his policy is on removing rate relief on manufacturing industries. | | (153831) | 269
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much revenue he estimates will be generated by the removal of rate relief on manufacturing industries. | | (153832) | 270
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people were employed in manufacturing in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and how many people he estimates will be employed in manufacturing in each of the next five years. | | (153833) | 271
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the risks to the health and safety of the local community on the lower Ravenhill Road, Belfast arising from the continued operation of the Tennants Textile Colours plant; what restrictions have been placed on future developments in the area; and if he will make a statement. | | (153834) | 272
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the timetable is for the Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland. | | (153835) | 273
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the initial public response to the consumer line recently launched by Trading Standards. | | (153836) | 274
| Mr David Trimble (Upper Bann):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps are being taken by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Industry and its agencies to ensure Northern Ireland's manufacturing industries are not disadvantaged by the enlargement of the European Union, with particular reference to the accession of low-wage economies in Eastern Europe. | | (153839) | Questions to the Prime Minister 275
| Mr Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make 21st October 2005 a National Public Holiday. | | (153828) | 276
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, what efforts have been made by the Government to interview (a) Scott Ritter, (b) Hans Von Sponeck, (c) Denis Halliday and (d) Tun Myat in relation to Iraqi military capabilities and intentions. | | (153751) | 277
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, what arrangements he has put in place to monitor evidence presented to the United States Administration's inquiry into the intelligence on Iraq's military programme. | | (153897) | 278
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd February, Official Report, column 729, what the original intelligence to which he refers was that the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee relied upon in respect of his acceptance of the proposals made in his e-mail of 19th September 2002; and whether he had been informed of the contents of this intelligence when he authorised his former director of communications to press for changes in the Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier. | | (153918) | 279
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, whether changes were made to the content of the Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier between the version signed off by John Scarlett on 20th September 2002 and the version sent to the printer for publication; on what day the final version was delivered to the printer; and on what day the printing was done. | | (153928) | 280
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, what response he made to the queries posed by the Right honourable Member for Dewsbury in her comments on the draft Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier in September 2002; and if he will place a copy in the Library. | | (153929) | 281
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Prime Minister, what the source was of the 45-minute claim about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction; and whether this intelligence information was shared with allied intelligence services, including those of the United States, between its receipt by the United Kingdom and its use in the Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier. | | (153980) | 282
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the occasions in the last 12 months when (a) he and (b) his staff have made (i) written and (ii) oral representations to the BBC about news and current affairs coverage. | | (153268) | 283
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the occasions in the last 12 months when (a) he and (b) his staff have made representations to broadcasters other than the BBC about news and current affairs coverage. | | (153269) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 284
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, in which years each of the 1851 to 1901 decennial censuses of population for Scotland were released for public inspection; and if he will make a statement on the timetable for release of the 1911 census records for Scotland. | | (153936) | Questions to the Solicitor General 285
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Solicitor General, whether investigations into the criminal cases in which a parent has been convicted of murdering a child will include an assessment of whether (a) cisapride and (b) other drugs contributed to the deaths. | | (153753) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 286
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the environmental impact of the Baku to Ceyhan pipepline; and if she will make a statement. | | (153744) | 287
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how her Department (a) encourages and (b) assists UK businesses to export. | | (153865) | 288
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, for what reason no hard copy of the consultation paper on proposals for intermediate level radioactive waste substitution had reached either the Vote Office or the Library four days after its official release. | | (153234) | 289
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list those persons and organisations who have been sent copies of the consultation paper on intermediate level radioactive waste substitution. | | (153235) | 290
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether she had been informed of the financial arrangements between BNFL and NAC International when she commissioned from the latter the consultation paper on proposals for intermediate level radioactive waste substitution. | | (153236) | 291
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations she has received from British business on the possible effects of the collapse of the euro area stability and growth pact. | | (153622) | 292
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations she has received from mobile phone users on the privacy of the data on them stored by network operators. | | (153623) | 293
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will ensure that a full investigation is conducted into proposed improvements to (a) IPSTREAM and (b) DATASTREAM. | | (153627) | 294
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the non-disclosed conclusions of the report of her investigation into the power cuts that affected (a) areas of London and Kent on 28th August 2003 and (b) the West Midlands on 5th September 2003. | | (153920) | 295
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has in place to ensure that the power cuts that affected (a) areas of London and Kent on 28th August 2003 and (b) the West Midlands on 5th September 2003 will not re-occur. | | (153921) | 296
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to secure the continuity of the electricity supply. | | (153922) | 297
| Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) call centres and (b) call centre jobs there are in (i) South Yorkshire and (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber. | | (153720) | 298
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on roll-out of broadband in (a) Lancashire and (b) Chorley; and how (i) urban and (ii) rural businesses will benefit. | | (153842) | 299
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many companies have benefited from the Small Business Loan Scheme in (a) the North West, (b) Lancashire and (c) Chorley in each of the last three years. | | (153843) | 300
| Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on recent developments on vessel eligibility for the Compensation Scheme for Former Icelandic Water Trawlermen. | | (153599) | 301
| Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures have been introduced since 1997 to improve employment rights for part-time workers. | | (153603) | 302
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the potential cost of prohibiting employees from working longer than an average 48 hours per week to (a) small businesses and (b) the UK economy as a whole. | | (153916) | 303
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the number of working hours that would be lost per year by (a) all employees, (b) male employees and (c) female employees if legislation were passed to prevent them from working longer than an average 48 hours per week. | | (153917) | 304
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many patent applications are pending which relate to transgenic fish. | | (153869) | 305
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the potential impact upon an individual's rights under UK data protection legislation arising from the move of call centres and data processing off-shore. | | (153731) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 306
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when speed cameras were first introduced in Southend; and what the total number of speed cameras introduced was in each year since that date. | | (153808) | 307
| Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when speed cameras were first introduced (a) in Prittlewell Chase and (b) on the A127 within the boundaries of Southend; and how many have been introduced since this date. | | (153809) | 308
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the major transport infrastructure projects within the responsibility of his Department to be built in (a) Aberdeen Central, (b) Alyn and Deeside, (c) Ayr, (d) Bassetlaw, (e) Birmingham, Northfield, (f) Birmingham, Perry Barr, (g) Blaydon, (h) Blyth Valley, (i) Bootle, (j) Bradford West, (k) Braintree, (l) Burton, (m) Cardiff West, (n) Clwyd South, (o) Conwy, (p) Coventry North West, (q) Coventry South, (r) Clydebank and Milngavie, (s) Cynon Valley, (t) Dover, (u) Ealing North, (v) Eltham, (w) Feltham and Heston, (x) Forest of Dean, (y) Gateshead East and Washington West, (z) Glasgow, Govan, (aa) Glasgow, Maryhill, (bb) Hammersmith and Fulham, (cc) Hendon, (dd) Hornsey and Wood Green, (ee) Ilford North, (ff) Kettering, (gg) Knowsley South, (hh) Lancaster and Wyre, (ii) Leeds North East, (jj) Leeds West, (kk) Leicester East, (ll) Lewisham, Deptford, (mm) Liverpool, Riverside, (nn) Loughborough, (oo) Manchester, Withington, (pp) Milton Keynes North East, (qq) Monmouth, (rr) Northampton South, (ss) North West Leicestershire, (tt) Ochil, (uu) Reading East, (vv) Reading West, (ww) Rugby and Kenilworth, (xx) Sheffield, Attercliffe, (yy) Sheffield, Hillsborough, (zz) Sittingbourne and Sheppey, (aaa) Stevenage, (bbb) Stockton North, (ccc) Stoke-on-Trent, (ddd) Stourbridge, (eee) Thurrock, (fff) Tyne Bridge, (ggg) Wallasey, (hhh) Wansbeck, (iii) Waveney, (jjj) West Lancashire, (kkk) Wirral West, (lll) Wolverhampton North East and (mmm) Wolverhampton South East; and when the decision was taken to build them. | | (153777) | 309
| Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate real terms cost inflation for road improvement projects for each year since 1997. | | (153782) | 310
| Mr Nigel Jones (Cheltenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the cost of upgrading Junction 10 of the M5 to allow northbound and southbound traffic to join and leave the motorway. | | (153783) | 311
| John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) untaxed, (b) uninsured and (c) uninsured and untaxed cars there are in the UK. | | (153938) | 312
| John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were killed or seriously injured in accidents involving uninsured cars in the last year for which figures are available. | | (153939) | 313
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow Shettleston):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on progress between the European Commission and the United States Administration on liberalisation of transatlantic air services. | | (153795) | 314
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) Network Rail and (b) rail operators protect their (i) stations, (ii) tracks and (iii) rolling stock from graffiti. | | (153614) | 315
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will co-ordinate a programme of cleaning graffiti from tracks, stations and rolling stock. | | (153615) | 316
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what special safety inspections are made, and with what regularity, on the aircraft of airlines that are allowed to use UK airports but are banned on safety grounds from using some other European airports. | | (153666) | 317
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many re-fuelling sites are available in the UK for (a) liquefied petroleum gas and (b) compressed natural gas. | | (153670) | 318
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the comparative motor vehicle exhaust emission statistics are for (a) liquefied petroleum gas, (b) compressed natural gas, (c) petrol and (d) diesel. | | (153671) | 319
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of international trends in the use of liquefied petroleum gas for road vehicles; and if he will make a statement. | | (153672) | 320
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people are employed in the UK in the road vehicle liquefied petroleum gas industry. | | (153673) | 321
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles in the UK have been converted to run on liquefied petroleum gas; and how many have been converted with the aid of a PowerShift grant. | | (153674) | 322
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor about the impact of fuel taxation measures on (a) liquefied petroleum gas conversions, (b) environmental damage and (c) public health. | | (153675) | 323
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on data sharing on aircraft safety with other European countries; and what his policy is on the proposed EU Directive on this. | | (153686) | 324
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to promote the exclusion from congestion charging schemes of liquefied petroleum gas powered road vehicles. | | (153729) | 325
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to protect passenger interests from leasing contracts for train rolling stock that provide comparatively poor value for money. | | (153732) | 326
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff in his Department have been (a) investigated, (b) suspended, (c) dismissed, (d) prosecuted and (e) convicted for involvement in benefit fraud in each of the last six years; and what amounts were involved in each case. | | (153867) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 327
N | Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are employed by (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible. | | (153233) | 328
| Ross Cranston (Dudley North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims under the Vaccine Damage Payment Act 1979 were made in each year since 2000; and how many were successful. | | (153856) | 329
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when Child Support Agency cases initiated before March 2003 will be transferred to the new system; and if he will make a statement. | | (153619) | 330
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether all Child Support Agency cases will be transferred to the new system at the same time; and if he will make a statement. | | (153620) | 331
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have received winter fuel payments in (a) the North West, (b) Lancashire and (c) Chorley in each of the last three years; and what the value of such payment was in each case. | | (153841) | 332
| Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures have been introduced since 1997 to improve pension rights for part-time workers. | | (153602) | 333
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what action is being taken to ensure that elderly people receive the benefits to which they are entitled. | | (153819) | 334
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what obligations are placed on actuaries or trustees who are winding-up pension schemes to pay the guaranteed minimum pension. | | (153787) | 335
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what protection is afforded to workers who have lost their pension rights after their employer became insolvent under clause 8 of the EU Insolvency Directive. | | (153930) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 336
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Answer of 29th January, Official Report, column 496W, on ivory, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the increase in ivory imports in 2003. | | [Transferred] (153333) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 337
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to tackle abuse of the elderly. | | [Transferred] (153818) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 338
| Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the effects of low frequency noise from wind turbines on human health; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (153742) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 339
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of pensioners were eligible for council tax benefit in (a) 1997 and (b) 2003. | | [Transferred] (153788) | 340
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which local authorities do not actively promote the take-up of council tax benefit for elderly people. | | [Transferred] (153793) |
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