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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Wednesday 21 April 2004
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 21 April 2004
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 21 April 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 Wednesday 21 April of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Wednesday 21 April see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 1
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what targets have been set for each local authority in England for the number of child care places which will be supported by the child care element in working tax credit for this current financial year. | | (166521) | 2
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what targets have been set centrally for the number of child care places which will be supported by the child care element of working tax credit in England and Wales for this current financial year. | | (166522) | 3
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many prosecutions the Inland Revenue has attempted to bring under the Finance Act 2000 for income tax evasion; what the value was of the revenue the Inland Revenue has attempted to recoup; how many attempted prosecutions have been successful; and how much has been recouped by the Treasury as a result. | | (167510) | 4
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how much revenue has been lost by the Exchequer as a result of the shadow economy in each year since 1997. | | (167511) | 5
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax returns have been issued to trustees of pension schemes who carry no tax liability or refund in each tax year since 1997. | | (167584) | 6
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many PAYE scheme notices were sent out by the Inland Revenue to companies it had been notified were dormant and would file nil returns in each tax year since 1997. | | (167585) | 7
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of penalty notices following the 31st January deadline for filing tax returns were sent out by 7th February. | | (167586) | 8
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many notices of coding sent out in January to March for the 2004-05 tax year included car and fuel benefits attributable to the company car scheme which ceased in 2002-03. | | (167587) | 9
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) correct and (b) incorrect notices of coding for those on PAYE were issued for the 2004-05 tax year in (i) January, (ii) February and (iii) March. | | (167588) | 10
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many job vacancies there were in Manchester Gorton in (a) 1997 and (b) 2003. | | (167471) | 11
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many senior citizens in Manchester Gorton qualified for the 10 pence rate of income tax in each year since its introduction. | | (167472) | 12
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in Manchester Gorton have received child tax credit. | | (167473) | 13
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses in Manchester Gorton have benefited from the 100 per cent. tax exemption for the purchase of computer and internet equipment. | | (167474) | 14
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of unemployment was in each year since 1997 in Manchester Gorton. | | (167475) | 15
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) change and (b) percentage change was in full-time permanent jobs in Manchester, Gorton from 1997 to 31st December 2003. | | (167476) | 16
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new jobs have been created in Manchester, Gorton since 1997. | | (167477) | 17
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were employed in tourism-related jobs in Manchester, Gorton on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (167478) | 18
N | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department had with the Department of Trade and Industry concerning off-shoring of UK jobs. | | (166856) | 19
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the towns and cities which have been assessed by Sir Michael Lyons for possible relocation of civil servants from London which have been short-listed; how many locations will be selected; when he will make an announcement; and if he will make a statement. | | (167282) | 20
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether charitable and voluntary organisations in receipt of sponsorship money raised by participants in the London Marathon on 18th April will be required to pay value added tax; and if he will make a statement. | | (167283) | 21
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to ensure that sea bass (a) served at functions at which he is the host and (b) used in Treasury catering outlets is sourced from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers. | | (167545) | 22
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the life expectancy at age 65 of (a) a man and (b) a woman (i) 30 years ago, (ii) now and (iii) in 30 years' time. | | (167279) | 23
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the value of gilts maturing in each year from now on. | | (167337) | 24
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will conduct a review of the (a) investigation and (b) recovery of over-payments of (i) child and (ii) working tax credits by the Inland Revenue; and if he will make provision for claimants to appeal against (A) over-payment decisions and (B) recovery actions. | | (167058) | Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs 25
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will place in the Library the public parts of the transcripts of Special Immigration Appeals Commission hearings relating to appeals against detention under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (167090) | 26
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what discussions he has had with the legal professions concerning the future of the QC system. | | (167092) | 27
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will name all honourable Members who, since 1st August 2003, have been sent a standard departmental reply concerning the 1911 Census returns in which the Department has advised them that the period of closure in Great Britain is normally 100 years; and if he will list the decennial population Census for (a) England and Wales, (b) Scotland and (c) the whole of Ireland which have been released after less than 100 years of closure to public inspection.
| | (167310) | 28
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what proportion of the legal aid budget was spent on asylum and immigration cases in each of the last five years. | | (167074) | 29
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, on how many occasions legal aid has been withdrawn because of fraudulent applications in each of the last three years. | | (167075) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 30
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much money from the New Opportunities Fund was allocated to Manchester, Gorton in each year since 1997. | | (167344) | 31
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much money has been spent on the digitisation of content in libraries in Manchester, Gorton since 1997. | | (167345) | 32
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the work of regional development agencies in developing tourism in Manchester, Gorton. | | (167346) | 33
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many proposed new visual arts facilities her Department has been advised of since 1st January 1998; in which cities and towns they are located; and how much public funding was given in each case. | | (167286) | 34
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what measures she has taken to check projections of visitor number attendances at the new visual arts facilities against the actual figures; and if she will make a statement. | | (167287) | 35
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to make bodies which distribute arts (a) capital and (b) revenue funding more democratically accountable to the regional community in which they operate. | | (167288) | 36
N | Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assistance is being provided by Sport England to secure the re-opening of Buckmore Park Scout Centre in the constituency of Chatham and Aylesford. | | (166423) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 37
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will instruct the Medical Assessment Programme to test for (a) squalene anti-bodies and (b) mycroplasmal infection in servicemen who served in the first Gulf War. | | (167548) | 38
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has discussed testing for (a) squalene anti-bodies and (b) mycroplasmal infection with the combined medical services. | | (167549) | 39
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons UK servicemen who served in the first Gulf War have not been tested for (a) squalene anti-bodies and (b) mycroplasmal infection. | | (167550) | 40
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the work of Dr Garth Nicolson of the Institute of Molecular Medicine on the use of a six to 12 month course of antibiotics in treating those with mycroplasmal organisms following service in the first Gulf War. | | (167554) | 41
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which officials involved in the preparation of Fire Study 2000 have also been involved with (a) the preparation of the Public Sector Comparator and (b) the evaluation of bids for the Airfield Support Services Project. | | (167250) | 42
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on ensuring that the Airfield Support Services Project solution is compatible with the modernisation agenda for fire services. | | (167251) | 43
N | Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many roll-on roll-off ferries his Department has commissioned since 1997; and how many are in service. | | (166855) | 44
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his Department's policy to source sea bass used in catering outlets (a) in the Armed Services and (b) for which his Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers.
| | (167543) | 45
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements are being made governing the responsibility for prisoners currently detained by the occupation forces in Iraq when powers of sovereignty are returned to Iraq on 1st July. | | (167376) | 46
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements exist for the sharing of information between United States military forces and (a) British forces and (b) the United Kingdom diplomatic representation to the Coalition Provisional Authority respectively, in respect of Iraqi civilians (i) killed and (ii) injured by military activities by US forces in Iraq. | | (167403) | 47
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what attempts have been made to ascertain the number of Iraqi civilians (a) killed and (b) injured by British forces in Iraq since 1st May 2003. | | (167421) | 48
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) resource and (b) capital expenditure was vired from RfR 1 to RfR 2 in the most recent financial year for which figures are available, in (i) cash and (ii) resource terms. | | (167047) | 49
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the second hand equipment sold to each country in the last year for which records are available. | | (167069) | 50
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was paid by the Defence Bills Agency to contractors in 2003-04. | | (167070) | 51
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what rules journalists working with British forces abroad in conflict areas must abide; and if he will make a statement. | | (167072) | 52
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the procurement of an infantry anti-structure weapon system; and if he will make a statement. | | (167231) | 53
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many consultants were employed in the Defence Medical Services in each of the last five years. | | (167232) | 54
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make representations to the UN to replace on the Memorial Wall in the UN Memorial Cemetary, Pusan, Korea, and in official documents, the words No Known Grave with the words Buried at Sea at Latitude 36 Degrees, 2 Minutes North, Longitude 129 Degrees, 42 Minutes East, in respect of the service men who were killed on HMS Jamaica on 8th July 1950 and buried at sea; and if he will reply to the honourable Member for Castle Point's constituent Mr Anthony Legg's letter of 4th March on this matter. | | (167274) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 55
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library correspondence between his Department and the European Commission regarding the European Commission's preliminary investigations into the alleged undeserved subsidisation of BT's business rates by the Valuation Office Agency, including his Department's response. | | (167269) | 56
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many local authorities had complaints upheld against them for the breach of rules on confidentiality in 2003-04.
| | (167595) | 57
N | Mike Gapes (Ilford South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on planning and regeneration policy in areas of high population density. | | (166260) | 58
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the impact of a Public Service Comparator solution to the Ministry of Defence Airfield Support Services Project on the commercial viability of the Fire Service College at Moreton in Marsh; and if he will make a statement. | | (167252) | 59
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions his Department has held with the Ministry of Defence on ensuring that the modernisation agenda for fire services is an integral part of the solution for the Airfield Support Services Project. | | (167253) | 60
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effect of the change in the level of council funding for housing on the residents of Manchester, Gorton since 1997. | | (167463) | 61
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Starter Homes Initiative on the residents of Manchester, Gorton. | | (167464) | 62
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he intends to cap the council tax rise imposed by Herefordshire Council; and if he will make a statement. | | (167293) | 63
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether his Department includes fire authority, police authority and parish council precepts in calculations determining the level of increase in council tax bills; and if he will make a statement. | | (167294) | 64
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the average council tax bill for a Band D property in Herefordshire was last year; what it is expected to be in the forthcoming year; what percentage change this represents; and if he will make a statement. | | (167295) | 65
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he plans to consult (a) the Association of Fire Consultants, (b) the Passive Fire Protection Confederation and (c) the Active Fire Industry Confederation about European Commission proposals to amend the law on fire safety and construction products. | | (167223) | 66
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the Government's policy on European Commission proposals to make the use of a CE mark mandatory for construction products. | | (167224) | 67
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he last used a train in connection with his ministerial duties. | | (167422) | 68
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make it his Department's policy to source all sea bass used in catering outlets for which his Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers.
| | (167540) | 69
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much aid has been received by the Eastern Region from EU sources in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a) aid category and (b) area receiving aid. | | (167077) | 70
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he has received from English Heritage on development in the Thames Gateway; and if he will make a statement. | | (167221) | 71
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which local authorities raised the level of council tax by less than three per cent. when setting the rate for 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (167235) | 72
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which local authorities raised the level of council tax by 10 per cent. or more when setting the rate for 2004-05. | | (167236) | 73
| Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he last met representatives of Scottish Power plc; who was present; and what was on the agenda for discussion. | | (167338) | 74
| Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on progress with stakeholders on potential arrangements for local government re-organisation. | | (167340) | 75
| Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he proposes that the proposed temporary borrowing powers for cash management purposes for possible regional assemblies will be guaranteed by central Government. | | (167341) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 76
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what mechanisms he will put in place to ensure that the additional £669 million to fund one children's centre in each of the country's 20 per cent. most disadvantaged wards by 2008, will be used specifically for that purpose; and if he will make a statement. | | (167255) | 77
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many places providing wraparound care linked to early education have been provided since 2000. | | (167555) | 78
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average age for identification of special needs has been in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) local education authority and (b) ethnic group. | | (167556) | 79
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many new teachers entered full time teaching in each year since 1990. | | (167557) | 80
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by parliamentary constituency. | | (167558) | 81
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list each consultation that his Department has held in each year since 1997; and what the cost was of these consultations. | | (167559) | 82
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list the circular documents that were sent by (a) the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, (b) Ofsted and (c) his Department to (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools between 1st January 2003 and 31st December 2003; and how many pages each document contained. | | (167560) | 83
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding each formerly grant maintained school has received in each year since 1995. | | (167561) | 84
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools Capita has entered as part of the Fresh Start scheme in each year since 1997; and how much funding they received for this. | | (167562) | 85
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many registered teachers were recorded as working in a non-teaching capacity in each year since 1997. | | (167563) | 86
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many registered teachers worked for local education authorities in a non-teaching capacity in each year since 1997. | | (167564) | 87
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children played truant at least once from (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by parliamentary constituency. | | (167565) | 88
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of 11-year-olds achieved level 4 at Key Stage 2 in England in (a) literacy, (b) numeracy and (c) science in each year since 1997, broken down by parliamentary constituency. | | (167566) | 89
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of pupils in England have achieved five GCSEs A*-C including (a) mathematics, (b) English and (c) mathematics and English in each year since 1997, broken down by parliamentary constituency. | | (167567) | 90
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of pupils in England achieved grades A*-C at GCSE in (a) mathematics, (b) English and (c) mathematics and English in each year since 1997. | | (167568) | 91
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there were in each subject in (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) special and (d) all schools in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority; and if he will express these figures as percentages of all teachers. | | (167569) | 92
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many bodies receive some or all of their funding from his Department; what amount of funding was received by each body in each year since 1997; and who the chief executive is of each body. | | (167570) | 93
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding has been received by the General Teaching Council from his Department in each year since its creation. | | (167571) | 94
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many vacant (a) teacher and (b) deputy head teacher posts there were in (i) primary, (ii) secondary and (iii) special schools in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority. | | (167572) | 95
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many vacant (a) head teacher, (b) deputy head teacher and (c) teacher posts there were in (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (iii) special and (iv) all schools, expressed as a percentage of the total number of each, in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority. | | (167573) | 96
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many vacant head teacher posts there were in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) special schools in each year since 1997, broken down by parliamentary constituency. | | (167574) | 97
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding has been allocated for (a) marketing, (b) consultants, (c) advertising, (d) administration and (e) buildings for (i) the University for Industry, (ii) the learning and skills councils and (iii) the Connexions service, broken down by (A) centrally and (B) locally-allocated funds, in each year since 1997. | | (167575) | 98
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many local education authorities have been taken over by an improvement team in each year since 1997. | | (167576) | 99
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many people have qualified as (a) teachers and (b) advanced skills teachers in each year since 1997. | | (167577) | 100
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much capital funding for schools has come from (a) private and (b) public sources in each year since 1997. | | (167578) | 101
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools of a religious nature there are, broken down by (a) local education authority and (b) religious affiliation. | | (167579) | 102
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Church of England schools there are, broken down by local education authority. | | (167580) | 103
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of students achieved five GCSEs (A*-C) and one GCSE or more (A*-G) broken down by (a) specialist schools, (b) grammar schools, (c) faith schools, (d) maintained schools and (e) independent schools, in each year since 1997. | | (167581) | 104
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many study centres have been built in conjunction with leading football clubs since 1997. | | (167582) | 105
| Mr Tim Collins (Westmorland & Lonsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many free standing sixth form colleges have opened since 1997. | | (167583) | 106
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the standard spending assessment funding was per child in (a) England and (b) the North Somerset Local Education Authority in each year since 1997. | | (167530) | 107
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money has been allocated to Manchester Gorton from the Capital Modernisation Fund. | | (167432) | 108
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many women in Manchester Gorton have visited an information and communications technology training centre in order to learn skills to return to work. | | (167433) | 109
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many people in Manchester Gorton have received a computer to assist in seeking employment or retraining. | | (167434) | 110
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money has been allocated to schools in Manchester Gorton for information and communications technologies since 2001. | | (167435) | 111
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many childcare places have been created in Manchester Gorton since 1997. | | (167436) | 112
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many residents of Manchester Gorton have undertaken apprenticeships in each of the last five years. | | (167437) | 113
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of 11-year old pupils in Manchester Gorton reached level four in (a) mathematics and (b) English in each of the last seven years. | | (167438) | 114
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of 15- and 16-year olds in Manchester Gorton achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C or GNVQ equivalent in each of the last seven years. | | (167439) | 115
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public funding has been spent on higher education in Manchester Gorton in each of the last seven years. | | (167440) | 116
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public funding has been spent on computers for schools in Manchester Gorton in each of the last seven years. | | (167441) | 117
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Capital Modernisation Fund computer-learning centres have been established in Manchester Gorton. | | (167442) | 118
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) teachers and (b) families in Manchester Gorton have benefited from the Computers Within Reach programme. | | (167443) | 119
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children in Manchester Gorton were taught in classes of more than 30 on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (167444) | 120
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding each school in Manchester Gorton has received from the New Deal for Schools. | | (167445) | 121
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children in Manchester Gorton have benefited from the Excellence in Cities programme; and what the per pupil spending was in each year since the programme's inception. | | (167446) | 122
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools in Manchester Gorton deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. | | (167447) | 123
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of pupils in Manchester Gorton reached the (a) mathematics and (b) English standard in each of the last seven years. | | (167448) | 124
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public funding was spent per pupil in Manchester Gorton in each of the last seven years. | | (167449) | 125
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) free nursery and (b) pre-school places were available for (i) three and (ii) four year olds in Manchester Gorton in each of the last seven years. | | (167450) | 126
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) Sure Start centres and (b) early excellence centres have been created in Manchester Gorton. | | (167451) | 127
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many new nurseries have been established in Manchester Gorton since 1997. | | (167452) | 128
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children in Manchester Gorton have benefited from the National Childcare Strategy. | | (167453) | 129
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public funding has been spent on repairing schools in Manchester Gorton in each year since 1997. | | (167454) | 130
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects on schools of changes since 1997 in the level of investment in school sports in Manchester, Gorton. | | (167455) | 131
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money has been invested in sustainable school sports in Manchester, Gorton. | | (167456) | 132
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what public funding has been spent on adult (a) literacy and (b) numeracy in Manchester, Gorton in each of the last five years. | | (167457) | 133
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teacher vacancies there were in Manchester, Gorton on the latest date for which figures are available; and what steps he is taking to reduce them. | | (167458) | 134
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teaching assistants there were in schools in Manchester, Gorton (a) in each of the last seven years and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (167459) | 135
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidelines his Department issues on disciplinary action schools should take against teachers who develop inappropriate relationships with pupils outside of school hours.
| | (167217) | 136
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidelines his Department issues on investigations schools should conduct into allegations of impropriety against a teacher.
| | (167218) | 137
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on his policies on the prevention of inappropriate relationships between teachers and pupils.
| | (167219) | 138
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children were placed in residential care by each local authority in the last year for which figures are available. | | (167135) | 139
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of whether there is a correlation between teenage sex education (a) advice progammes and (b) clinics and the prevalence of (i) sexually transmitted diseases and (ii) teenage pregnancy rates; and if he will make a statement. | | (167064) | 140
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress has been made on improving the (a) efficiency, (b) speed and (c) effectiveness of the Child Adoption Service; and if he will make a statement. | | (167203) | 141
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will estimate for each English university the net benefit from tuition fees if (a) the maximum fee is charged to all students, (b) the maximum fee is charged to 50 per cent. of students and (c) the maximum fee is charged to 25 per cent. of students. | | (166853) | 142
| Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many local learning and skills councils there are in (a) the North West Region, (b) the North East Region and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber Region; and how many board members there are on each council. | | (167339) | 143
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the provision of specialist courses in universities and colleges. | | (167589) | 144
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many specialist textile and clothing education courses are available in universities and colleges; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of such courses. | | (167590) | 145
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many students enrolled on specialist textile and clothing education courses in universities and colleges in each of the last 15 years for which figures are available. | | (167591) | 146
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make it his policy to ensure the maintenance of textile teaching and research at the University of Manchester; and if he will make a statement. | | (167592) | 147
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make it his policy that the Children's Commissioner for England should have powers equivalent to those of the children's commissioners for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. | | (167055) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 148
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures her Department has in place effectively to monitor imports of (a) human food and (b) animal feed from (i) EU member states and (ii) EU accession states in respect of their compliance with EU regulations on labelling and traceability. | | (167417) | 149
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what efforts her Department has made to ensure that EU accession states have the required technical capacity and advice to ensure their compliance with (a) testing, (b) labelling and (c) traceability of GM crops and foods under EU regulations. | | (167418) | 150
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with (a) the EC and (b) her counterparts in the 10 EU accession states to seek a timetable for the compliance of the accession states with regulations (EC) 1829/2003 and (EC) 1830/2003 on the labelling and traceability of genetically modified crops. | | (167419) | 151
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what efforts her Department is making to ensure that (a) EU member states and (b) EU accession states comply with EU rules on genetically modified crops, including regulations (i) (EC) No. 1829/2003 and (ii) (EC) No. 1830/2003 under directive 2001/18/EC on traceability and labelling.
| | (167420) | 152
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many homes in Manchester, Gorton have benefited from the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme.
| | (167538) | 153
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where and when she announced that she intends to delay submission of the UK's National Allocation Plan to the European Commission; and on what grounds. | | (167524) | 154
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect on fly-tipping of (a) the Landfill Directive and (b) the most recent rise in landfill tax. | | (167515) | 155
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make representations to the European Union to issue a protected geographical indication for the Colchester native oyster. | | (167290) | 156
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the volume of sea bass landings in the United Kingdom was in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) market and (b) port.
| | (167131) | 157
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the value of sea bass landings within the United Kingdom was for each of the last five years, broken down by market.
| | (167132) | 158
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment is made of the sea bass catch in relation to (a) size, (b) maturity and (c) reproductive state; and whether this information influences decisions by the Department on closure of fisheries. | | (167133) | 159
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her Department's policy to source sea bass used in catering outlets for which her Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers.
| | (167539) | 160
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what area of land is used to grow tobacco in each EU (a) member state and (b) accession country; how much subsidy was given for tobacco growing in each EU member state in 2003-04; and how much will be given to each EU member state in 2004-05. | | (167068) | 161
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the EU ban on the use of antimicrobial growth promoters in animal feeds; and if she will make a statement. | | (167071) | 162
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on the lease of sea bed for fish farming. | | (167201) | 163
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve the welfare of animals exported from the UK; and if she will make a statement. | | (167237) | 164
N | Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will withdraw her request to the French competent authority for a variation in the conditions attached to the Part C consent for Chardon LL fodder maize. | | (166421) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 165
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Colombia on tackling organised crime. | | (167593) | 166
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will meet representatives of the Maldivian Democratic Party. | | (167275) | 167
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Maldivian nationals are being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | | (167276) | 168
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of President Gayoom's support for the Ba'athist Party of Iraq. | | (167277) | 169
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to whom the Coalition will hand over powers in Iraq on 30th June; and how members of the successor authority will be chosen.
| | (167211) | 170
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what powers will be handed over by the Coalition in Iraq on 30th June; and what powers will be retained.
| | (167216) | 171
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the US Central Intelligence Agency comments on the 10th September 2002 draft of the UK Government's Dossier, Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, included comments on the claim that Iraq sought to procure uranium from Africa. | | (167278) | 172
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK citizens are in prison in the Dominican Republic. | | (167284) | 173
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of the Dominican Republic to seek the release from prison of Miss Marianne Telfer, of Colchester; and if he will make a statement. | | (167285) | 174
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is intended that the political administration that takes over the governance of Iraq on 1st July will be empowered to ensure the removal of foreign troops on Iraqi territory. | | (167368) | 175
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterparts in respect of the killing of Abdel-Aziz Al-Rantissi in Gaza City on 17th April as a result of a missile fired by an Israeli military helicopter. | | (167369) | 176
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations have been made to the Israeli Government in respect of concluding arrangements for the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes. | | (167374) | 177
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what protection is offered to British journalists reporting the military activities in Fallujah in Iraq.
| | (167375) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 178
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS of agency nurses was in 2002-03 in (a) each strategic health authority and (b) each NHS trust | | (167393) | 179
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 7th April, Ref 162425, on Patient Experience, if he will set out how the money for the Patient Experience project was spent. | | (167398) | 180
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action his Department is taking to cut the cost of pressure ulcers in the NHS. | | (167404) | 181
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS trusts are using NHS Professionals; and if he will make a statement. | | (167405) | 182
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures his Department is taking to persuade manufacturers of potassium chloride solution to redesign packaging to avoid adverse incidents in hospital; and if he will make a statement. | | (167406) | 183
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of companies in England he estimates have an occupational health department; and if he will make a statement. | | (167407) | 184
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospitals were on (a) red alert and (b) amber alert status in the last month; and if he will make a statement. | | (167408) | 185
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to appeal to all teenagers not vaccinated against mumps to be immunised. | | (167409) | 186
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on encouraging businesses to invest in occupational health services; and if he will make a statement. | | (167410) | 187
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the review of community infection control nurses announced in 2002. | | (167411) | 188
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts for independent sector treatment centres have so far been signed in the NHS in England. | | (167412) | 189
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the maintenance backlog cost of general practitioner surgeries in the NHS in (a) England, (b) each strategic health authority and (c) each primary care trust in each year since 1997. | | (167413) | 190
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance has been produced by his Department on inoculation against mumps for people who did not receive the MMR vaccine as children. | | (167414) | 191
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on the introduction of single rooms in NHS hospitals in England. | | (167415) | 192
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost of the patient environment and assessment team inspections of hospital food and cleanliness was in each year since the inspections began. | | (167423) | 193
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many whole time equivalent NHS plan group general practitioners per 100,000 population there were in (a) each region, (b) each strategic health authority and (c) each primary care trust in (i) 2002 and (ii) 2003. | | (167424) | 194
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the maintenance backlog to reach estate code condition B was in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each strategic health authority in each year since 1997. | | (167425) | 195
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts in England have equipment libraries. | | (167426) | 196
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards the target of all NHS trusts using NHS Professionals by April 2005; and if he will make a statement. | | (167427) | 197
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of teenagers in England who (a) are not innoculated against mumps and (b) have had only one of the two necessary doses. | | (167428) | 198
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's projected timetable is for introducing independent sector treatment centres into the NHS in England. | | (167429) | 199
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many independent sector treatment centres are in the process of construction in England. | | (167430) | 200
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many surgical site infections there were in the NHS in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each NHS trust in each year since 1997. | | (167431) | 201
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12th March, Official Report, columns 1822-3W, on MRSA, what the assurance scores on infection control are for NHS trusts in England. | | (167533) | 202
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 12th February, Official Report, column 1684W, on the Cancer Survey, when he expects to publish the analysis.
| | (167534) | 203
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 7th April, refs 163515 to 163518 on public bodies, what he estimates the staff and administration costs have been to his Department of those bodies referred to which are still in existence. | | (167547) | 204
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money was spent by the Weston Area Health NHS Trust on agency nurses in each year since 1997. | | (167525) | 205
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) residential care beds and (b) nursing beds have been lost since 1997 in (i) the South West Region, (ii) the area served by the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority and (iii) the area served by the Weston Primary Care Trust. | | (167527) | 206
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were cancelled by the Weston Area Health NHS Trust in each year since 1997. | | (167528) | 207
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes there have been to NHS waiting list times for the residents of Weston-super-Mare in the last seven years. | | (167529) | 208
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average delayed hospital discharge time was for (a) England and (b) the Weston Area Health NHS Trust in each year since 1997. | | (167532) | 209
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce a monthly instalment scheme for the prescription prepayment certificate.
| | (167597) | 210
| Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what year and in which area health authority each of the fatal suspected adverse reactions associated with the use of Mifegyne were reported; what age the women whose deaths gave rise to the reports of fatal suspected adverse reactions associated with the use of Mifegyne were; and what the post mortems concluded was the cause of death in each case. | | (167257) | 211
| Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many girls aged (a) under 14 and (b) under 16 have been given the Norplant contraceptive injection in each of the last five years for which statistics are available. | | (167258) | 212
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) girls and (b) boys under 16 suffered from a sexually transmitted disease in Taunton Deane in each year since 1997. | | (167551) | 213
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many girls under (a) 16 and (b) 17 were (i) registered as pregnant and (ii) gave birth in Taunton Deane in each year since 1997. | | (167552) | 214
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) boys and (b) girls under 16 have been issued with contraceptives in Taunton Deane in each year since 1997. | | (167553) | 215
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been allocated for liquid-based cytology in 2004-05. | | (167460) | 216
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in setting up a rapid review process for new procedures and products claiming to prevent or control healthcare-associated infection as announced in Winning Ways. | | (167461) | 217
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the first procedures and products to be reviewed under Winning Ways; and how recommendations will be implemented. | | (167462) | 218
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the use made of the £1.2 million funding for liquid-based cytology in 2003-04. | | (167490) | 219
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the effect on residents of Manchester, Gorton of the Health Development Agency.
| | (167377) | 220
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much public funding has been spent on (a) heart disease and (b) cancer care in Manchester, Gorton in each of the last five years.
| | (167378) | 221
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of women in Manchester, Gorton with suspected breast cancer saw a specialist within two weeks in each of the last five years.
| | (167379) | 222
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much public funding has been spent on health in Manchester, Gorton in each of the last seven years.
| | (167380) | 223
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many senior citizens in Manchester, Gorton have access to free eye tests.
| | (167381) | 224
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residents in Manchester, Gorton aged over 60 years have benefited from the abolition of charges for eye tests.
| | (167382) | 225
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) doctors and (b) nurses there were in Manchester, Gorton in each of the last seven years.
| | (167383) | 226
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) therapists and (b) scientists were located in Manchester, Gorton in each of the last seven years.
| | (167384) | 227
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes there have been to NHS waiting list times in the last seven years for the residents of
Manchester, Gorton.
| | (167385) | 228
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what percentage of suspected cancer patients in Manchester, Gorton saw an NHS consultant within two weeks in each of the last seven years. | | (167386) | 229
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on NHS waiting times for heart surgery in Manchester, Gorton. | | (167387) | 230
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residents in Manchester, Gorton awaiting heart surgery have had the option of choosing an alternative hospital for quicker treatment in the last 12 months. | | (167388) | 231
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the levels of elective admissions to the NHS in Manchester, Gorton in the past five years. | | (167389) | 232
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many rapid access chest pain clinics there are in Manchester, Gorton. | | (167390) | 233
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether there is a diagnostic and treatment centre in Manchester, Gorton. | | (167391) | 234
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Manchester Gorton are receiving drug treatment. | | (167465) | 235
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Patient Forums in representing the interests of patients following the abolition of community health councils; and if he will make a statement. | | (167291) | 236
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to source sea bass used in catering outlets for which his Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers.
| | (167542) | 237
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many neurosurgical trainees who were awarded their Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training more than six months ago have not yet received a consultant appointment, excluding locum consultancies. | | (167059) | 238
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many neurosurgical consultants are expected to retire in each of the next five years. | | (167060) | 239
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on matching the number of consultant vacancies to the number of qualified trainees. | | (167061) | 240
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultancy posts were filled in the last 12 months with non-British trained specialists in cases where British trained specialists had applied. | | (167062) | 241
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new neurosurgical consultancy posts are predicted for each of the next five years. | | (167065) | 242
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the latest average time between the award of a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training and appointment as a consultant for neurosurgical trainees is. | | (167066) | 243
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many neurosurgical registrars are due to obtain a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in each six month period over the next three years. | | [R] (167067) | 244
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new cases of new variant CJD were reported in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (167073) | 245
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is taking to ensure the adequacy of training of health (a) professionals and (b) other workers originating from the EU accession countries, who wish to work in the NHS; and if he will make a statement. | | (167202) | 246
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the waiting times for hip replacements on the NHS are in each hospital in Essex. | | (167204) | 247
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on his plans for (a) research into and (b) treatment of Parkinson's disease. | | (167227) | 248
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on his plans for (a) research into and (b) treatment of motor neurone disease. | | (167228) | 249
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that (a) adult and (b) children's hospices receive a fixed proportion of public funding. | | (167229) | 250
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice he is making available to patients who have been waiting for surgical procedures on the NHS for six months or more on how they can use the Patient Choice Scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (167230) | 251
N | Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social services departments do not have an intervenor service for deafblind children. | | (166854) | 252
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of teenage conception in the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority was in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. | | (167394) | 253
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of incidence of each sexually transmitted disease was in teenagers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. | | (167395) | 254
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the £12 million announced on 26th December 2003 for palliative care will be available to hospices. | | (167052) | 255
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money has been spent paying the private sector to treat NHS patients in (a) England and (b) the area covered by Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust in (i) 2001-02, (ii) 2002-03 and (iii) 2003-04. | | (167056) | 256
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the impact of the Government's campaign to reduce heart disease in Batley and Spen. | | (167057) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 257
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many warrants have been authorised for the interception of telephone conversations, e-mails and postal mail in each of the last 10 years. | | (167078) | 258
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether authority has been given for Dr Harold Shipman's body to be disposed of. | | (167254) | 259
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that the collecting of DNA and fingerprint data from individuals arrested but not charged with an offence does not lead to (a) a disproportionately high number of samples of black and ethnic minority citizens and (b) a disproportionately low sample of other races being kept. | | (167256) | 260
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what change there has been in police numbers in (a) the Avon and Somerset Police Authority and (b) Weston-super-Mare in each year since 1997. | | (167504) | 261
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average police-to-population ratio was in (a) England and (b) the Avon and Somerset Police Authority in each year since 1997. | | (167505) | 262
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the proposed new powers of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency on client confidentiality in relation to the work of tax advisers and accountants. | | (167513) | 263
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes there have been to the levels of recorded crime, broken down by offence, within Weston-super-Mare in each year since 1997. | | (167531) | 264
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost was to the Prison Service for each prison constructed under the Private Finance Initiative in each year of operation. | | (167360) | 265
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the construction costs were for each prison built under the Private Finance Initiative. | | (167361) | 266
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the saving that has been made by the Prison Service through building prisons through the Private Finance Initiative compared to alternative methods of financing such construction; and if he will make a statement. | | (167362) | 267
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessments of (a) Private Finance Initiative and (b) market testing have been carried out by the Prison Service since January 2000; who carried out the work; and what the main findings were. | | (167363) | 268
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the most recent assessment was made of the cost of a privately built, publicly run prison; what the outcome was; and if he will make a statement. | | (167364) | 269
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the work of the Sentencing Guidelines Council will contribute to the stabilisation of the prison population. | | (167365) | 270
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost of administering a (a) community rehabilitation order, (b) community punishment order, (c) community punishment and rehabilitation order, (d) curfew order, (e) drug treatment and testing order and (f) attendance centre order for (i) an adult and (ii) a juvenile was in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (167366) | 271
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost of administering (a) a supervision order (juvenile), (b) an action plan order (juvenile), (c) a referral order (juvenile), (d) a reparation order (juvenile), (e) a parenting order (juvenile), (f) an intensive supervision and surveillance order (juvenile), (g) a probation order with accreditated programme condition, (h) a place in an approved hostel, (i) a dispersal prison, (j) a category B prison, (k) a category C prison and (l) an open prison was in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (167367) | 272
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment the Government has made of the level of harassment of suppliers and customers of businesses regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. | | (167399) | 273
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government takes to tackle intimidation of workers and firms providing services to companies and universities carrying out research on animals. | | (167400) | 274
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Operation Cohort in the National Crime Squad is to close. | | (167401) | 275
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to commission an evaluation of the efficacy of animal experimentation. | | (167249) | 276
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter to him from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 19th February, with regard to Wajid Shamsul Hasan. | | (167260) | 277
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter to him from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 8th March, with regard to Mohammed Riaz. | | (167262) | 278
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter to him from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 8th March, with regard to Miss Tornish. | | (167263) | 279
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to reply to the letter to him from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 8th March, with regard to Mr Abdul Hussain Talash. | | (167264) | 280
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the percentage change in full-time police officers in Manchester Gorton has been since 1997. | | (167466) | 281
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the percentage change in (a) overall recorded crime, (b) recorded violent crime, (c) burglaries and (d) vehicle thefts in Manchester Gorton has been since 1997. | | (167467) | 282
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers preventing racial harassment have been introduced since 1997; and how many times these powers have been used in Manchester Gorton. | | (167468) | 283
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much public funding has been spent on CCTV security cameras in Manchester Gorton since 1997. | | (167469) | 284
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what public funds were spent on tackling drugs misuse in Manchester Gorton in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 2003-04. | | (167470) | 285
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he will ensure that the National Offender Management Service reduces the prison population. | | (167516) | 286
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how individual probation services will be held to account so that they reduce re-offending. | | (167517) | 287
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how individual prisons will be held to account in order to reduce the re-offending of discharged prisoners. | | (167518) | 288
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he will measure the impact of the prison regime on the subsequent re-offending of discharged prisoners. | | (167519) | 289
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he will measure the impact of different prison regimes on individual prisoners in respect of re-offending. | | (167520) | 290
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he will measure the impact of (a) prison regimes and (b) probation work with individual offenders, if those offenders (i) move prisons and (ii) move probation areas. | | (167521) | 291
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he will measure the impact on re-offending if convicted individuals have more than one supervisor. | | (167522) | 292
| John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Home Office Questions were tabled between 6th January and 31st March; and how many remain unanswered. | | (167523) | 293
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role his Department envisages for the Racial Equality Strategy for Northern Ireland in the creation of a wider UK National Action Plan against Racism; and if he will make a statement. | | (167335) | 294
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his Department's policy to source sea bass used in catering outlets for which his Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers.
| | (167541) | 295
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many detention and training orders have been made in each year since their introduction; and if he will make a statement. | | (167076) | 296
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will publish the Charities Bill. | | (167048) | 297
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many homophobic incidents were recorded in (a) 2002-03 and (b) 2003-04 by each of the (i) police divisions in West Yorkshire and (ii) police forces in England and Wales. | | (167049) | 298
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many racially aggravated incidents were recorded in (a) 2002-03 and (b) 2003-04 by each of the (i) police divisions in West Yorkshire and (ii) police forces in England and Wales. | | (167050) | 299
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces in England operate sickness reduction schemes; and what change has been recorded in sickness levels since their introduction. | | (167051) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 300
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to promote the human rights of the indigenous people of Chaco in Bolivia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167079) | 301
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to defend human rights in Colombia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167080) | 302
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to strengthen institutional support for human rights in Mexico; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167081) | 303
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to provide a landmine expert to Sudan; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167082) | 304
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled Participation Management of National Resources in Berau in Indonesia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167083) | 305
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, on rehabilitation and reconstruction in Afghanistan; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167084) | 306
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled Second Recovery Programme in Afghanistan; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167085) | 307
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167086) | 308
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to reinforce civil society in Guatemala; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167087) | 309
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to reinforce democracy in Venezuela; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167088) | 310
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to reinforce the judicial system in Colombia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167089) | 311
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to undertake a landmine technical survey in the Inhambane and Maputo provinces of Mozambique; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167093) | 312
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to undertake a landmine impact survey; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167094) | 313
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 effort, financed by EU Development Assistance, to deliver micro-projects in Malawi; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167095) | 314
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to provide (a) reconstruction at Sona and (b) medical assistance in the Congo; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167096) | 315
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to help displaced communities to return home to Djbouti; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167097) | 316
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to reintegrate Ethiopians displaced from Eritrea; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167098) | 317
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to clear mines in Eritrea; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167099) | 318
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to support refugees and internally displaced people in Eritrea; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167100) | 319
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to provide emergency demobilisation and reintegration support in Eritrea; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167101) | 320
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to deliver micro projects in (a) the Central African Republic and (b) Angola; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167102) | 321
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to deliver micro projects in Togo; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167103) | 322
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance on the reintegration of ex-combatants in rural areas of Guinea Bissau; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167104) | 323
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to improve healthcare provision in the Congo; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167105) | 324
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project financed by EU development assistance to deliver micro projects in the Congo; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167106) | 325
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to provide complementary support to the rehabilitation programme in Burundi; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167107) | 326
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to provide emergency support to the peace process in Angola; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167108) | 327
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to support displaced people in (a) Eastern and Southern Africa and (b) the Indian Ocean; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167109) | 328
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 projects, financed by EU development assistance, entitled Education-Environmental Capacity Development Programme in (a) Ghana, (b) Namibia, (c) South Africa, (d) Mozambique and (e) Angola; and what assessment he has made of the projects. | | (167110) | 329
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to reduce rural poverty and manage forest sustainability through development of non-timber products and community institutions in Ethiopia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167111) | 330
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to deliver community-based fisheries management and coral reef restoration in (a) the Caribbean and (b) the Pacific; and what assessment he has made of the projects. | | (167112) | 331
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to deliver sustainable forest management in Kenya; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167113) | 332
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to provide infrastructure technical assistance in Sempoa; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167114) | 333
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to provide sanitation in St. Pierre; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167115) | 334
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to deliver micro-projects, linking relief, rehabilitation and development in the Dominican Republic; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167116) | 335
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled Bugesera/Karenge drinking water supply in Rwanda; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167117) | 336
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled Karasburg Sanitation in Namibia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167118) | 337
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to provide (a) community based natural resource management and (b) carbon management in Mozambique; and what assessment he has made of the projects. | | (167119) | 338
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled Beira Sanitation in Mozambique; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167120) | 339
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to undertake social forestry in Malawi; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167121) | 340
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance,to provide water supply for six towns in Lesotho; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167122) | 341
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 projects, financed by EU Development Assistance, to manage natural resources in semi-arid regions in (a) Kenya and (b) Somalia; and what assessment he has made of the projects. | | (167123) | 342
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to use a new wildlife management method in Gabon; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167124) | 343
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to manage protected forest areas through Government NGO and civil society partnerships in Cameroon; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167125) | 344
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to improve rural water distribution in Burkina Faso; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167126) | 345
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to deliver a solid waste programme in the Dominican Republic; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167127) | 346
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to provide sustainable forest management in Tanzania; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167128) | 347
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to deliver a water sector support programme in South Africa; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167129) | 348
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, on education reform in El Salvador; and what assessment he has made of the project.
| | (167136) | 349
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 projects, financed by EU Development Assistance, on ecology in Brazil; and what assessment he has made of the projects. | | (167137) | 350
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to strengthen the capacity of citizens in Colombia to exercise their rights; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167138) | 351
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, on human rights in Guatemala; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167139) | 352
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, on re-unification in Peru; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167140) | 353
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, on the defence and promotion of the rights of the indigenuous people and those of African origin in Nicaragua; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167141) | 354
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to counter discrimination on grounds of ethnicity in Guatemala; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167142) | 355
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to strengthen organisational processes in 120 communities in Colombia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167143) | 356
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to counter racial discrimination in Paraguay; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167144) | 357
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 projects, financed by EU Development Assistance, to rehabilitate victims of torture in (a) Argentina, (b) Chile and (c) Peru; and what assessment he has made of the projects. | | (167145) | 358
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to prevent torture in Peru; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167146) | 359
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to provide an electoral observation mission in Ecuador; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167147) | 360
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, to create a code of ethics and of education in Ecuador; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167148) | 361
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, on public engagement in the electoral process in Columbia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167149) | 362
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 micro projects, financed by EU development assistance, in (a) Columbia, (b) Guatemala and (c) Mexico; and what assessment he has made of the projects. | | (167150) | 363
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, on the reform and modernisation of public administration in Honduras; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167151) | 364
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, on the modernisation of the administration of justice in Mexico; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167152) | 365
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, on the development of commerce and promotion of investment in Bolivia; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167153) | 366
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, on academic co-operation in Latin America; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167154) | 367
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, on rural development in Nicaragua; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167155) | 368
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU development assistance, on help for small rural producers in Panama; and what assessment he has made of the project. | | (167156) | 369
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to (a) provide education in South Sudan on the banning of landmines, (b) train refugees in Tanzania in self-reliance and (c) secure demobilisation and reintegration in (i) the Great Lakes and (ii) Eritrea; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167157) | 370
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to (a) support the Office of the Attorney General and (b) provide the rapid reaction mechanism to (i) Afghanistan, (ii) Indonesia, (iii) Nepal, (iv) Sri Lanka and (v) Cambodia; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167158) | 371
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled (a) Asia-Urbs (increase), (b) ASEAN-IPR (increase), (c) Asia-Europe Foundation Phase II, (d) Asia Invest II and (e) IT and C for Asia (increase); and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167159) | 372
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled (a) framework contract/studies for Asia, (b) medicinal plants in Bhutan and (c) APRIS institutional strengthening; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167160) | 373
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, to (a) support the SME Development fund in Vietnam, (b) provide multilateral trade assistance to Cambodia and (c) provide support to the process of government reform in Pakistan; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167161) | 374
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled (a) WTO II (support to China's integration) in China and (b) small project facility in (i) Indonesia and (ii) the Philippines; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167162) | 375
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled (a) Vietnamese Government Interpreters Training Programme in Vietnam, (b) European TA programme for Vietnam (ETU2) and (c) labour market facility in Vietnam; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167163) | 376
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, (a) to provide multilateral trade assistance to Laos, (b) on renewable energy in Nepal, (c) to develop rural towns in Bangladesh and (d) to provide support for community health services in Indonesia; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167164) | 377
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled (a) SEDF-Enterprise development in Bangladesh, (b) Reproductive Health/UNFPA II in Asia and (c) Drugs-Reach Out II in Pakistan; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167165) | 378
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, entitled (a) Northern Pakistan Education Programme, (b) Support for Basic Education in Laos and (c) SMILING (Support to NGOs in Bangladesh); and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167166) | 379
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, (a) to provide assistance for street children in Vietnam, (b) to support healthcare reform in Thailand and (c) to deliver an HIV/AIDS project within the UN joint plan of action in Burma; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167167) | 380
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 project, financed by EU Development Assistance, (a) to provide support to the education sector in Cambodia and (b) to provide European studies in China; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167168) | 381
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's involvement was in the 2002 micro-projects, financed by EU Development Assistance, in (a) Zimbabwe and (b) Tanzania; and what assessment he has made of each project. | | (167169) | 382
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the non-governmental organisations involved in the delivery of EU Development Assistance projects in (a) Angola, (b) Burundi, (c) the Congo, (d) Eritrea, (e) Ethiopia, (f) Kenya, (g) Madagascar, (h) Malawi, (i) Mozambique, (j) Namibia, (k) Rwanda, (l) Somalia, (m) South Africa, (n) Sudan, (o) Tanzania, (p) Uganda, (q) Zambia and (r) Zimbabwe. | | (167191) | 383
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the non-governmental organisations involved in the delivery of 2002 EU Development Assistance projects in (a) Benin, (b) Burkina Faso, (c) Cape Verde, (d) Cote d'lvoire, (e) Guinea, (f) Guinea Bissau, (g) Liberia, (h) Mali, (i) Mauritania, (j) Niger, (k) Nigeria, (l) Senegal, (m) Sierra Leone, (n) the Gambia and (o) Togo. | | (167192) | 384
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of (a) current and (b) projected trends in the availability, measured in hectares per person, of farmland in Pakistan. | | (167205) | 385
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the implications for global development assistance of current UN projections for world population in (a) 2100 and (b) 2150. | | (167206) | 386
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assumptions about population inform his Department's country plan for Ethiopia. | | (167207) | 387
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of (a) current and (b) projected trends in the availability of fresh water in Pakistan. | | (167208) | 388
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking through (a) bilateral programmes, (b) EU development assistance programmes and (c) other programmes to increase the percentage of women of reproductive age in Africa who use contraceptives.
| | (167209) | 389
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the number of new jobs that need to be created annually in the developing world if the Millennium Development Goal to eradicate extreme poverty is to be achieved.
| | (167210) | 390
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 per cent. by 2015.
| | (167212) | 391
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the non-governmental organisations involved in the delivery of the 2002 EU development assistance projects to (a) Cuba, (b) the Dominican Republic and (c) Haiti.
| | (167213) | 392
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of reducing infant mortality by 66 per cent. by 2015.
| | (167214) | 393
| Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the non-governmental organisations involved in the delivery of the 2002 EU development assistance projects to (a) Cameroon, (b) the Central African Republic, (c) Chad and (d) São Tomé and Principe.
| | (167215) | 394
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much grant-in-aid the United Kingdom gave to the Maldives in each year since 1997. | | (167273) | 395
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the delivery of aid to (a) Falluja and (b) Najaf in Iraq in April. | | (167373) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 396
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much Lottery funding has been allocated to (a) the Gaelic Athletic Association and (b) all other sporting organisations in Northern Ireland since the introduction of the Lottery. | | (167397) | Questions to the Prime Minister 397
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Prime Minister, whether the issue of (a) arms supplies to the IRA by Libya and (b) compensation for victims of terrorism in Northern Ireland arising from arms shipments from Libya to the IRA was raised during his meeting with Colonel Gaddafi. | | (167396) | 398
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to ensure that sea bass served at functions at which he is the host is sourced from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers. | | (167546) | 399
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make a statement in the House on a referendum on the EU constitution. | | (167220) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 400
| Mr George Foulkes (Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make a statement on the supply of steel within Scotland for Scottish manufacturing industries. | | (167187) | 401
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make it his policy to source all sea bass used in catering outlets for which his Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers.
| | (167536) | Questions to the Solicitor General 402
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Solicitor General, what the average total cost was of employing each grade of Crown Prosecutor, including pension and holiday provision, and other benefits associated with such employment, in each financial year since 1st May 1997 for which figures are available.
| | (167302) | 403
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Solicitor General, what the annual leave allowance is for each grade of Crown Prosecutor. | | (167303) | 404
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Solicitor General, how many Crown Prosecutors have been recruited in each Crown Prosecution Service in each financial year since 1st May 1997 for which figures are available, broken down by grade.
| | (167304) | 405
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Solicitor General, what arrangements are made for each grade of Crown Prosecutor to qualify for high court advocacy rights; and how much time has been spent on average by each qualified
Crown Prosecutor on higher courts advocacy during each financial year since 1st May 1997 for which figures are available.
| | (167305) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 406
N | Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list law companies who have not responded to the request to repay amounts overcharged to miners and their widows in respect of processing miner's compensation claims; and if she will make a statement. | | (166422) | 407
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the timetable for the Export Credits Guarantee Department becoming a capitalised trading fund. | | (167265) | 408
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate has been made of the cost of the Export Credit Guarantee Department becoming a capitalised trading fund, broken down by (a) the source of the funding and (b) how the money is to be allocated; and if she will make a statement. | | (167266) | 409
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will publish research carried out or commissioned by her Department which compares the level of (a) secured and (b) unsecured debt in the UK with other countries. | | (167267) | 410
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, for what reasons her Department has undertaken a review of apparent disparities between the Valuation Office Agency's calculation method of business rates for BT in comparison with other telecom companies; when she will publish her Department's findings; whom is being consulted; and if she will make a statement. | | (167268) | 411
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer of 25th March to the honourable Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak, Official Report, columns 962-3W, on employment rights booklets, at which of the three meetings of the practitioner group in June, July and October 2002 the members of the group were asked for their views on reducing the number of departmental employment rights advice booklets and leaflets in hard copy. | | (167281) | 412
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the terms of reference for the Low Pay Commission's Report of 2004; why the monitoring of enforcement and compliance with regard to the National Minimum Wage was not included as in previous years; and whether such matters will be included in the Low Pay Commission remit in the future.
| | (167301) | 413
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate she has made of the number of public limited companies which failed to disclose details of their payment records in annual accounts as required by company law in the last year for which figures are available; and what steps she is taking to tackle this. | | (167506) | 414
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the newspaper distribution network. | | (167512) | 415
| Mr George Foulkes (Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the supply of steel in the UK for manufacturing industries. | | (167188) | 416
| Patrick Hall (Bedford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the rationale of the statement made by the Minister for Energy, E Commerce and Postal Services on 5th February concerning the Post Office Urban Reinvention Network was intended to apply as far as possible to the Area Plan proposals for the Bedford and Kempston parliamentary constituency which were subject to public consultation until 17th February. | | (167270) | 417
| Patrick Hall (Bedford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the statement made by the Minister for Energy, E Commerce and Postal Services on 5th February concerning the Post Office Urban Reinvention Network came into force with immediate effect. | | (167271) | 418
| Patrick Hall (Bedford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the process leading to the decisions Post Office Ltd has made concerning the closure of sub post offices are covered by the Government Code of Practice on the release of official information. | | (167272) | 419
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, for what reason the new academic fellowship scheme says in section 3.9 of the scheme document that a guarantee of a permanent position is an absolute condition of the award, and also insists in section 3.5 that those who have been promised a permanent position are considered to have achieved the aims of the scheme already and are not eligible.
| | (167130) | 420
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many new businesses have started up in Manchester, Gorton since 1997. | | (167351) | 421
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps the Government has taken to help small businesses in Manchester, Gorton since 1997. | | (167352) | 422
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many workers in Manchester, Gorton have benefited from the national minimum wage. | | (167353) | 423
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many and what percentage of women in Manchester, Gorton have taken 26 weeks maternity leave since 1997. | | (167354) | 424
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the effects of the EU Social Chapter on the residents of Manchester, Gorton. | | (167355) | 425
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the effects on residents of Manchester, Gorton of new rights for night-shift workers. | | (167356) | 426
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many residents of Manchester, Gorton qualify for paid leave entitlements. | | (167357) | 427
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many residents of Manchester, Gorton have benefited from a reduction of the working week to 48 hours. | | (167358) | 428
N | Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations her Department has received as part of her review of the off-shoring of UK call centres. | | (166857) | 429
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to make regional development agencies democratically accountable to the community in which they operate. | | (167289) | 430
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make it her Department's policy to source all sea bass used in catering outlets for which her Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers. | | (167544) | 431
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent meetings (a) she and (b) the Minister for Energy have had with organisations concerned with development of the renewable energy industries. | | (167370) | 432
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent assessment she has made of the operational efficiency of Royal Mail; what action she is taking to improve the standards of delivery of domestic mail; and if she will make a statement. | | (167199) | 433
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the cost is per kilowatt hour of electricity generated by (a) offshore wind and (b) onshore wind; and if she will make a statement. | | (167200) | 434
| Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the Answer of 30th March, Official Report, column 1363, on state aid, what definition she uses of the term block exemption; and how many applications from each region were turned down by the Department of Trade and Industry and not passed on to the European Commission. | | (167402) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 435
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what changes there have been to the amount of vehicle kilometres travelled over the last five years within (a) the North Somerset local authority and (b) Weston-super-Mare. | | (167526) | 436
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage cycling in (a) the City of Gloucester and (b) the rest of Gloucestershire.
| | (167596) | 437
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average wait for a driving test is (a) at Mill Hill test centre, (b) in London and (c) in each of the other regions of the United Kingdom; what plans he has to improve delays in giving test dates; and if he will make a statement. | | (167091) | 438
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the Business Process Review of Trinity House Lighthouse Service. | | (167359) | 439
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the percentage change in (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries on the roads of Manchester, Gorton has been since 1997.
| | (167306) | 440
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of new cycle lanes have been provided using public funds in Manchester, Gorton since 1997.
| | (167307) | 441
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of priority bus lanes have been created in Manchester, Gorton since 1997.
| | (167308) | 442
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the effect of investment in railway improvements over the next 10 years upon residents of Manchester, Gorton.
| | (167309) | 443
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what form of transport he used to travel to and from London Liverpool Street railway station on 1st April to launch the new Greater Anglia Franchise. | | (167292) | 444
| Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to source all sea bass used in catering outlets for which his Department is responsible from hand-line fishermen rather than pair trawlers.
| | (167535) | 445
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were killed on unmanned (a) pedestrian and (b) vehicular railway crossings in each of the last five years. | | (167225) | 446
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) factors and (b) statistics relating to road humps his Department is planning to monitor; and when monitoring will commence. | | (167226) | 447
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many liquefied petroleum gas refuelling depots there were in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (167233) | 448
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many compressed natural gas refuelling depots there were in the UK in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (167234) | 449
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on his plans for widening the M62 between junctions 25 and 32 in West Yorkshire; what the planned timetable is for the work; and what the estimated total cost is. | | (167053) | 450
| Mr Mike Wood (Batley & Spen):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what alternatives to carriageway widening schemes are being considered to address congestion on the M62 in West Yorkshire. | | (167054) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 451
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are claiming council tax benefit; and if he will make a statement. | | (166252) | 452
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of small businesses with more than five employees that are complying with legislation to provide workers with access to a stakeholder pension. | | (167507) | 453
| Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the aims are of the (a) Modern Service Working Group and (b) Activities for Managing Life Working Group; what funding his Department has granted to each in each year since 2001; how many people each has employed in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (167416) | 454
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants for winter fuel payments were disallowed because of late application in (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03.
| | (167298) | 455
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons Mr. G. Mack of Bradenstoke, Chippenham, Wiltshire had his winter fuel payment disallowed in (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03.
| | (167299) | 456
| Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what mechanism a pensioner is informed of eligibility for winter fuel payment where, through clerical error, their details do not appear on the Electoral Register.
| | (167300) | 457
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to cease the practice in his Department of sending correspondence without a clearly identifiable signature of the sender. | | (167189) | 458
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's policy is on the signing of documents, including correspondence, in the name of a person by a third party who does not make his or her position clear. | | (167190) | 459
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to reply to the letter to him from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 8th March, with regard to Mr David Worthington. | | (167259) | 460
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to reply to the letter from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 2nd March, with regard to Mr S. West, transferred to him by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. | | (167261) | 461
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in Manchester, Gorton have benefited from the (a) New Deal for Lone Parents and (b) New Deal for Partners since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (167342) | 462
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many senior citizens in Manchester, Gorton have benefited from the winter fuel allowance since 1997. | | (167343) | 463
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on the level of long-term (a) adult and (b) youth employment in Manchester, Gorton over the last seven years. | | (167347) | 464
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone parents in Manchester, Gorton have gained work through the New Deal programme. | | (167348) | 465
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on measures introduced to improve the working conditions of disabled workers in Manchester, Gorton over the last seven years. | | (167349) | 466
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mothers in Manchester, Gorton have made use of the Sure Start maternity grant. | | (167350) | 467
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to amend the current Cosmetic Products (Safety) Regulations and Biocidal Products Regulations for toilet soaps. | | (167222) | 468
| Mr John Taylor (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects a resolution to Child Support Agency computer problems deriving from running two concurrrent systems. | | (167134) | 469
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimate is of expenditure on national insurance rebates for those who are contracted out of the state second pension (a) in 2006-07 and (b) for each of the next 10 financial years. | | (167280) | 470
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit recipients there are in each constituency in Great Britain; and how many of them collect their benefits from post offices, excluding those who use network banking arrangements. | | (167329) | 471
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in the Havant constituency have migrated from over-the-counter benefit payments to automated credit transfer in each of the last 12 months. | | (167330) | 472
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners draw their benefits at (a) post offices and (b) banks or building societies in the Havant constituency. | | (167331) | 473
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether women who have been in paid employment throughout pregnancy who changed employer during this period will be eligible via (a) statutory maternity pay and (b) maternity allowance for 90 per cent. of average weekly earnings for the first six weeks of paid leave where they have not been employed by their current employer for 26 weeks. | | (167332) | 474
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the benefits available through maternity allowance are equal to those made through statutory maternity pay for women who have been in paid employment during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement. | | (167333) | 475
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make statutory maternity pay available to women who change employer during pregnancy without taking a break; and if he will make a statement. | | (167334) | 476
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) divorced and (b) widowed people who have made a claim for state retirement pension have yet to receive it; and how long they have been waiting in each case. | | (167336) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 477
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, under what criteria a draft regulation will be referred to the Panel for Regulatory Accountability. | | [Transferred] (167508) | 478
| Brian Cotter (Weston-Super-Mare):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make a statement on the (a) role, (b) function and (c) membership of the Panel for Regulatory Accountability. | | [Transferred] (167509) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 479
N | Mr Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he is taking to help local authorities to rehouse families on the housing waiting list. | | [Question Unstarred] (166259) | 480
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the 10 (a) least and (b) most indebted local authorities are. | | [Transferred] (167063) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 481
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what co-ordination took place with the United Kingdom senior representative on the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq concerning the closure of all roads out of Iraq. | | [Transferred] (167371) | 482
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the ownership of the Iraq Central Bank. | | [Transferred] (167372) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 483
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authority social services departments abide by confidentiality guidelines.
| | [Transferred] (167594) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 484
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to regulate the (a) status, (b) prevalence and (c) activities of private security firms which wheel clamp licensed road vehicles on (i) public and (ii) private land. | | [Transferred] (167296) | 485
| Andrew George (St Ives):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timetable he has set to bring forward regulations in respect of private companies which wheel clamp licensed vehicles for enforcement purposes under the provisions of the Private Security Industry Act 2001. | | [Transferred] (167297) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 486
| Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the effect of recent trends in investment in renewable energy upon residents of Manchester, Gorton.
| | [Transferred] (167537) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 487
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the Treasury's review of rail services to be complete; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (167514) |
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