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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 17 May 2004

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


 

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 17 May 2004
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 17 May 2004


This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 17 May 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 Monday 17 May of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 17 May see Part 2 of this paper.


Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office
1
N
Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date the International Committee of the Red Cross report on the treatment by Coalition forces of prisoners of war and other persons protected by the Geneva conventions during arrest, internment and interrogation in Iraq was received by the Office.
(173900)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
2
John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to implement Recommendation 6.2 of the Lambert Review of Business University collaboration; and if he will make a statement.
(174184)
3
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) his and (b) his officials' involvement was in informal and oral approaches made to GEC over the purchase of Govan shipyard in 1999.
[R] (174262)
4
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's involvement was in approving the GEC-BAE merger in 1999.
[R] (174263)
5
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what briefings his Department gave in 1999 on the GEC interest in the Govan shipyard.
[R] (174264)
6
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date his Department received the minutes of the meeting between Mr George Simpson of GEC and the Prime Minister to discuss the merger of BAE and GEC.
[R] (174265)
7
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on which dates in 1999 he met Mr George Simpson of GEC; if he will publish minutes of the meetings; and if he will list the attendees at those meetings.
(174295)
8
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what communications (a) he and (b) his representatives and advisers had with GEC in 1999 over (i) the proposed merger of BAE-GEC and (ii) Govan shipyard; and if he will publish the communications.
(174296)
9
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what communications (a) he and (b) his representatives and advisers had with Kvaerner, their representatives and advisers over the proposed closure of the Govan shipyard in 1999; and if he will publish the communications.
(174297)
10
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings took place between (a) Mr Ed Miliband and (b) Treasury officials and Mr Martin Sixsmith in 1999; and what the dates of the meetings were.
(174298)
11
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what briefings he gave in 1999 on the GEC interest in the Govan shipyard; and what the dates of the briefings were.
(174299)
12
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings Treasury officials had with the taskforce chaired by Sir Gavin Laird set up by the Government to look for potential buyers for the Govan shipyard in 1999; and what the dates of the meetings were.
(174300)
13
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings his Department had with Sir Gavin Laird to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard in 1999; and on what dates.
(174301)
14
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings (a) his Department and (b) its representatives and advisers had with the management of Govan/Kvaerner to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard in 1999.
(174302)
15
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role (a) he and (b) his representatives, and advisers had in the negotiations over the future of Govan in 1999.
(174303)
16
Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the cancellation of debt in the world's poorest countries.
(173930)
17
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many girls aged 18 years and under, broken down by age, have (a) become pregnant and (b) had an abortion in each of the last three years.
(172866)
18
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will abandon the implementation of fuel tax increases in September; and if he will make a statement.
(173060)
19
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the impact on the economy of an increase in the price of oil of $10 a barrel above base case assumptions lasting for a year with particular reference to (a) GDP growth, (b) export growth, (c) inflation, (d) unemployment and (e) the fiscal deficit.
(174109)
20
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what reports he has received on delays, for administrative reasons, in the registration of births; what the latest average time (a) in London and (b) in the UK for a birth being registered is; and if he will make a statement.
(174181)
21
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many senior citizens in (a) Leyton and Wanstead constituency, (b) the London Borough of Redbridge area and (c) the London Borough of Waltham Forest area qualified for the 10 pence rate of income tax in each year since its introduction.
(174187)
22
Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will revise the tax treatment of losses made by farmers on holdings of production quotas so as to allow losses to be written off against trading profits rather than capital transaction profits; and if he will make a statement.
(173913)
23
Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to give the same VAT tax privileges to university museums as those that apply to other museums
(174335)
24
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of the climate change levy on the construction industry.
(174252)
25
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his French counterpart on EU negotiations with the World Trade Organisation on the removal of export subsidies; and if he will make a statement.
(174268)
26
Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, from what date staff were employed by the Inland Revenue's e-Government programme; how many staff are assigned to the programme; and when planning began for the programme.
(174019)
27
Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when a decision was made to proceed with the Inland Revenue's e-Government programme; and what consultation took place before the decision to proceed with the programme.
(174027)
28
Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many management consultants have been employed on the Inland Revenue e-Government programme; from what dates they were employed; and what the cost to the Inland Revenue of the consultants has been to date.
(174028)
29
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects of granting mandatory rate relief to all sports and leisure facilities in line with that granted to community amateur sports clubs.
(174051)
30
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects of (a) lowering the minimum threshold for private finance initiatives (PFI) projects below £20 million in the case of sport and leisure facilities and (b) increasing PFI credits to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in order to enable more PFI projects for sport and leisure facilities.
(174053)
31
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in Liverpool, West Derby have received child tax credits.
(173671)
32
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of unemployment was in Liverpool, West Derby constituency in each year since 1989.
(173672)
33
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many job vacancies there were in Liverpool, West Derby constituency in (a) 1989, (b) 1997 and (c) 2003.
(173673)
34
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many senior citizens in Liverpool, West Derby constituency qualified for the 10 pence rate of income tax in each year since its introduction.
(173674)
35
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the progress of the review of the tonnage tax.
(173675)
Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs
36
N
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many personal injury cases were commenced (a) in the High Court and (b) in the county court in each of the last 10 years; and in relation to (b) how many were (i) in the fast track and (ii) in the multi-track since their introduction; and if he will make a statement on trends in the volume of personal injury litigation.
(173564)
37
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve collection rates of fines.
(174010)
38
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will set targets for percentage collection rates of fines imposed by the courts for (a) the current year and (b) each of the next two years.
(174011)
39
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what protection there is in the draft Mental Incapacity Bill for a person who lacks mental capacity because they have been heavily sedated.
(174216)
40
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, columns 382-3W, on the Mental Incapacity Bill, what legal protection there is for those aged 16 or under if they lack mental capacity and are not covered by the draft Mental Incapacity Bill.
(174333)
41
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what representation community legal services partnerships have on local strategic partnerships; and if he will liaise with appropriate Ministerial colleagues to promote such representation.
(173953)
42
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the workings of community legal services partnerships, with particular reference to (a) research into patterns of need, supply and capacity, (b) priorities for service development and the deployment of resources, (c) disseminating good and best practice and (d) publicising services which are available.
(173954)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
43
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the effects of Government expenditure policy on community sports since 1994.
(173478)
44
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much money from the New Opportunities Fund was allocated to Ynys Môn in each year since 1997.
(174071)
45
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with representatives of the private sector on the contribution it can make to investing in local authority leisure facilities.
(174055)
46
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with the private sector on the contribution it can make to raising participation in sport and physical activity to 70 per cent.
(174056)
47
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the target increase in participation in sport and physical activity between now and 2020 is expected to come through membership of private gym facilities.
(174057)
48
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's assessment is of the impact of trusts on provision of local authority leisure facilities; and if she will make a statement.
(174058)
49
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's policy is on ensuring that operators of public sector leisure facilities which have been contracted out invest in the long-term future of the facility.
(174059)
50
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what standards the Government sets for the acceptable standard of sports and leisure facilities offered by a local authority.
(174060)
51
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the cost of bringing local authority leisure facilities up to what Sport England considers (a) a good and (b) an acceptable standard.
(174061)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence
52
N
Mr A.J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the savings projected from the transfer of functions from RAF Boulmer to RAF Scampton are assumed to derive from savings in (a) personnel costs, (b) maintenance and infrastucture running costs and (c) depreciation and capital charges.
(172987)
53
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advice the department received from the Office of Fair Trading on the GEC-BAE merger in 1999.
(174209)
54
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advice the Secretary of State received from (a) his officials and (b) other Departments on the Office of Fair Trading report on the GEC-BAE merger.
(174210)
55
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whom (a) within the Department and (b) outside the Department the Secretary of State, his representatives and advisers consulted on the Office of Fair Trading report regarding the merger of BAE-GEC.
(174211)
56
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list officials within his Department who were consulted on the Office of Fair Trading report regarding the merger of BAE-GEC in 1999.
(174212)
57
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the meetings that took place between Mr Ed Miliband and his officials in 1999 to discuss (a) the GEC-BAE merger and (b) Govan shipyard.
(174213)
58
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what briefings the Secretary of State (a) gave and (b) received in 1999 on the GEC interest in the Govan shipyard.
(174214)
59
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the Secretary of State received the minutes of the meeting between Mr George Simpson of GEC and the Prime Minister to discuss the merger of BAE and GEC in1999.
(174215)
60
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the dates on which he met Mr George Simpson of GEC in 1999; if he will publish the minutes of the meetings; and if he will list the attendees at those meetings.
[R] (174217)
61
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the communications between himself, his representatives and advisers and GEC in 1999 over (a) the proposed merger of BAE-GEC and (b) Govan shipyard.
[R] (174218)
62
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the communications between himself, his representatives and advisers and Kvaerner, their representatives and advisers over the proposed closure of the Govan shipyard in 1999.
[R] (174219)
63
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list dates of meetings between departmental officials and Mr Martin Sixsmith of GEC in 1999.
[R] (174220)
64
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the briefings given by his Department in 1999 on the GEC interest in the Govan shipyard.
[R] (174221)
65
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the meetings his Department had with the taskforce chaired by Sir Gavin Laird set up by the Government to look for potential buyers for the Govan shipyard in 1999.
[R] (174222)
66
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the meetings held with Sir Gavin Laird to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard in 1999.
[R] (174223)
67
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the meetings held with the management of Govan/Kvaerner to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard in 1999.
[R] (174224)
68
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role he played in the negotiations over the future of Govan shipyard in 1999.
[R] (174225)
69
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role he played in the informal and oral approaches made to GEC over the purchase of Govan in 1999.
[R] (174226)
70
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role his Department played in approving the GEC-BAE merger in 1999.
[R] (174227)
71
N
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many persons captured by UK forces in Iraq and subsequently transferred to US control are being held by the United States (a) inside and (b) outside Iraq; and if he will make a statement on the UK's obligations towards such persons.
(172697)
72
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reports he has received about the death of civilians in Amarah, Iraq as a consequence of a UK armed forces helicopter strike; if he will investigate whether (a) this strike and (b) air strikes generally in areas where civilians live are a proportionate or proper response to a local disturbance including that involving the firing of guns by Iraqi militiamen; and if he will make a statement.
(174180)
73
Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how often the cases of Iraqi prisoners being held in United Kingdom-run prisons in Iraq are reviewed; and by whom.
(173997)
74
Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Iraqi (a) men and (b) women are held in United Kingdom-run prisoners in Iraq; and how many have been charged with a specific offence.
(173998)
75
Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the age of the (a) youngest and (b) oldest Iraqi (i) man and (ii) woman being held in United Kingdom-run prisons in Iraq is.
(173999)
76
Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list independent observer groups which have visited United Kingdom-run prisons in Iraq holding Iraqi prisoners during the last 12 months.
(174000)
77
Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many private companies are involved in the running of United Kingdom prisons in Iraq; and what the role of each is.
(174001)
78
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the practice of informed consent for the administering of vaccines became standard practice.
(174191)
79
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research his Department (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the simultaneous administration of anthrax and pertussis vaccine following the letter from Dr Metters of 21st December 1990; and if he will make a statement.
(174196)
80
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the letter from the Under-Secretary of State of 1st December 2003, under what guidelines vaccines were administered that did not have a product licence at that time.
(174197)
81
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans will be put in place to commemorate in the UK the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War.
(173787)
82
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether veterans of the Falklands War will be eligible for grants under the Heroe's Return scheme to enable them to return to the Falkland Islands to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the War.
(173788)
83
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether funding will be provided for a visit in 2007 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War as it was for the 2002 Pilgrimage to the Falkland Islands by the South Atlantic Association.
(173789)
84
N
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the Ministry of Defence will sponsor a commemoration in the UK of the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands.
(173790)
85
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 31st March, Official Report, columns 1480-1W, on Iraq, what the total cost was of all surveys conducted over the last 12 months; what further surveys have been conducted since those disclosed to the honourable Member for North Norfolk subsequent to the Answer; and if he will place copies of each in the Library.
(174334)
86
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, why his Department does not keep figures for the current number of (a) service and (b) civilian personnel based at (i) RAF Leeming, (ii) RAF Linton on Ouse, (iii) AAC Dishforth and (iv) Alanbrooke Barracks; and whether his Department has figures for the current number of (A) service and (B) civilian personnel at other defence establishments in the United Kingdom.
(173935)
87
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the role and performance of the Defence Analytical Services Agency.
(173936)
88
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on progress on the Type 45 destroyer programme.
(174251)
89
Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any members of the British armed forces have (a) received training and (b) been involved in providing training at the United States army training school at Fort Benning in Georgia for the interviewing of detainees.
(174014)
90
N
Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates the International Committee of the Red Cross approached the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq regarding the treatment of prisoners of war by Coalition forces in Iraq.
(173901)
Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister
91
Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he expects to receive the final business case covering the Pathfinder scheme for Swarcliffe.
(173934)
92
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether road maintenance expenditure as set out in figure 5a, page 49 of the Department for Transport Annual Report is met from the Revenue Support Grant administered by his office.
(174175)
93
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the amount spent by local authorities on road maintenance in the last financial year for which figures are available.
(174176)
94
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his estimate is of the total number of properties owned by (a) registered social landlords and (b) each of the 20 largest registered social landlords.
(174283)
95
Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will reply to the letter to him from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 5th April, with regard to Ms Catherine Thompson.
(174148)
96
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will take steps to amend Tree Preservation Order legislation so that dying and dead ancient trees are eligible for protection.
(173957)
97
N
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what funds and on what basis are paid to Pathfinder housing renewal programmes; how this changes the finance available for (a) registered social landlords and (b) finance councils; and what the effects are of such changes in each region.
(173559)
98
N
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his estimate is of the average monthly rent and charges falling on the average property in (a) housing associations and (b) council housing in Yorkshire and Humberside.
(173560)
99
N
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his estimate is of the costs of repair and renovation of social housing over the next 10 years under (a) council ownership, (b) registered social landlord ownership and (c) arm's length management organisation ownership.
(173561)
100
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many people work in his Community Housing Task Force; what their average salary is; and how many are (a) civil servants and (b) consultants.
(174099)
101
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether his officials vet the promises made by housing associations on transfer proposals; whether offer documents are standardised; and how his officials ensure delivery of the promises.
(174100)
102
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether civil servants in his Department are allowed to (a) campaign for large scale voluntary transfer proposals and (b) advise councils on how to win tenant support in ballots.
(174101)
103
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what percentage of tenants eligible to vote, voted (a) for and (b) against transfer in this year's ballots on (i) large-scale voluntary transfers and (ii) arm's length management organisations.
(174102)
104
Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the Community Housing Task Force supplies (a) templates and (b) drafts of offer documents to housing associations; and how they advise councils on housing privatisation proposals.
(174146)
105
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the saving to local authorities of contracting out leisure services to the private sector.
(174052)
106
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he made of adjusting planning guidance on sports and leisure facilities to take account of the Government's targets to raise participation.
(174054)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills
107
Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the spending was per pupil (a) in the primary sector and (b) in the secondary sector for schools in the Elmet constituency in each year since 1996.
(173931)
108
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on secondary transfer in Barnet, with reference to children whose birthdays fall close to 31st August.
(173927)
109
N
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many times he has exercised his powers under section 56 of the Education Act 2002 to (a) close schools and (b) appoint additional governors.
(173781)
110
N
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many times he has exercised his powers under section 58 of the Education Act 2002 to appoint interim executive members to a specially constituted governing body.
(173782)
111
N
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many times he has used the power under section 71 of the Education Act 2002 to direct a local education authority to exercise its powers to secure provision for an additional number of pupils.
(173783)
112
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his Answer of 13th May, ref 171718, if he will make it his policy to publish data for 16 to 18 year olds participating in education, training and employment by ethnic group.
(174336)
113
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what (a) financial assistance and (b) grants his Department offers students undertaking postgraduate degrees in social sciences.
(174131)
114
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average expenditure per postgraduate student was in (a) the UK, (b) the US and (c) the OECD in the last year for which figures are available.
(174132)
115
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action he is taking to widen participation in postgraduate study of social sciences.
(174133)
116
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of state-funded PhD students studied social sciences in the last year for which figures are available.
(174134)
117
Mrs Jackie Lawrence (Preseli Pembrokeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average level of tuition fees charged for a taught postgraduate degree was in the UK last year; and what level of Government funded assistance was offered to students undertaking postgraduate degrees in the UK last year.
(174135)
118
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what criteria OFSTED applies with regard to inspecting school sports and physical activities.
(174062)
119
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what remit OFSTED has to inspect the quality and quantity of school sports and physical activities.
(174063)
120
Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what financial incentives will be available to (a) apprentices and (b) employers providing (i) young apprenticeships, (ii) apprenticeships and (iii) advanced apprenticeships; what the cost to the public purse will be of incentives to (A) apprentices and (B) employers in the next three years; and whether those costs will be met from his Department's existing budgets.
(174037)
121
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the timescale is for making a decision on the funding mechanisms for adult and community learning provision for non-accredited learning programmes.
(173928)
122
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what monitoring of (a) geographical distribution of funding and (b) equal opportunity the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) carries out in order to ensure that it provides potential students with equal and fair acess to LSC-funded provision.
(174034)
123
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when he will announce his decision on the funding arrangements and provision for non-accredited learning programmes under the Adult and Community Learning scheme.
(174035)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
124
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the Environment Agency does not use the integrated pollution prevention and control licensing regime as a revenue stream.
(174089)
125
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that charges for integrated pollution prevention and control licences are set at a reasonable level; and if she will make a statement.
(174095)
126
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received about the proposed integrated pollution prevention and control licences governing ammonia levels and odour; and if she will make a statement.
(174096)
127
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the grounds for the ban on the import of queen bees from Hawaii.
(174128)
128
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what evaluation her Department has made of the (a) health, (b) disease and (c) animal welfare grounds for restricting the import of queen bees from (i) Hawaii and (ii) Australia; and if she will make a statement.
(174129)
129
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that the difference in systems being adopted for single farm payments in England, Scotland and Wales does not lead to excessive trading in milk quotas and a reduction in dairy output in England; and if she will make a statement.
(174136)
130
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will extend the 2010 deadline for the ban on beak trimming if no solution to the problem of cannabalism is found.
(174200)
131
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Office of Fair Trading continues to monitor the economic relationships between food producers and supermarkets; and if she will make a statement.
(174201)
132
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received about the impact the cost of egg stamping is likely to have on small-scale egg producers; and if she will make a statement.
(174202)
133
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the regulations governing incinerators used for on-farm disposal of chickens, with particular reference to (a) how often they will be inspected and (b) the cost to farmers of carrying out inspections.
(174203)
134
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from small-scale producers of chickens requesting their exemption from the ban on on-farm disposal; and if she will make a statement.
(174204)
135
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects the Fallen Stock Company to be up and running; and if she will make a statement.
(174205)
136
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the contribution made by hunt kennels to the disposal of farm animal carcases.
(174206)
137
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government will set a timetable for coming to a conclusion about the issue of TB in badgers; and if she will make a statement.
(174207)
138
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on the regulation of prices paid to farmers by supermarkets.
(174208)
139
N
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she will take during 2004 (a) to increase awareness of the dangers of global climate change and (b) to promote education about ways in which (i) citizens, (ii) businesses, (iii) public services and (iv) the media can help the Government to reach its target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
(171228)
140
N
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will request the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Subsidiary Bodies to undertake an exploratory study of contraction and convergence as a potential basis for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
(171229)
141
N
Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to protect the Anton Dohrn and Rosemary Bank Seamounts.
(166924)
142
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the decision of Barnet Council to terminate its LA21 partnership scheme.
(173929)
143
N
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many horse passports had been issued by the issuing authorities by 1st May; how many applications received are awaiting issue; how many she expects to be issued by 30th June; and what percentage of the horse-owning population she expects to comply.
(173101)
144
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many male dairy calves have been (a) shot and (b) disposed of on UK farms in each of the last three years as being without financial value.
(174138)
145
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were employed, in full time equivalents, in the United Kingdom farming industry in each of the last three years; and what contribution was made by the farming industry to the United Kingdom economy as a percentage of GDP in that period.
(174192)
146
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many instances of sudden oak death have been detected in the South East of England; and at what locations.
(174193)
147
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the air quality rates were in (a) Portsmouth, (b) Southampton and (c) rural Hampshire in each of the last three years.
(174194)
148
Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) assessment and (b) economic analyses have been conducted of the economic impact on English farmers of differing farm payment schemes under Common Agricultural Policy reform in England, Wales and Scotland; and if she will make a statement.
(174080)
149
Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what initial consideration the Government is giving to agricultural support and subsidies for farmers beyond 2012; and if she will make a statement.
(174081)
150
Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the extra costs, beyond the cost of the test itself, to farmers of using a TB test; and if she will make a statement.
(174082)
151
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department is taking to ensure that ancient trees are identified for inclusion in biodiversity action plans.
(173941)
152
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department is taking to ensure that ancient trees are fully identified and mapped for the purposes of inclusion in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.
(173942)
153
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will create a new designation of historic tree to protect ancient and historic trees from destruction.
(173943)
154
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what strategies her Department (a) applies and (b) intends to apply for the protection of ancient and historic trees.
(173944)
155
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she intends to take to extend full protection to the water vole under section 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended).
(173945)
156
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department (a) has taken and (b) proposes to take to allow the EU's Natura 2000 designation to be extended to include sites with ancient trees.
(173956)
157
N
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will make a statement on the consultation carried out by her Department on reform of the sugar regime.
(173487)
158
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the report on foot and mouth disease at the Waugh's Farm by Mr Jim Dring was (a) first received by her Ministers; and (b) first received by her.
(173994)
159
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the single farm payment scheme on farmers in (a) Loughborough and (b) Leicestershire.
(174050)
160
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what basis she relies for refusing to answer questions relating to the responsibilities of the Environment Agency in respect to (a) public safety and (b) contamination from reaching the closed Two Tree Island landfill site into the Thames Estuary; and if she will make a statement.
(174127)
161
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) short term and (b) long term solutions she plans to protect the (i) public and (ii) environment from leachate from the closed Two Tree Island landfill site.
(174228)
162
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the results of the Environment Agency investigations into leachate from the closed Two Tree Island landfill site.
(174229)
163
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made towards implementing the European Union Landfill Directive; and if she will make a statement.
(174230)
164
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what waste recycling levels were achieved by each European Union country in the last year for which records exist for each country.
(174231)
165
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she is taking to promote the minimising of packaging and the prevention of waste creation by (a) producers, (b) distributors and retailers and (c) consumers; and if she will make a statement.
(174232)
166
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities (a) met and (b) failed to meet the local authority recycling target.
(174233)
167
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action (a) has been taken and (b) is being considered against local authorities that fail to reach the waste recycling targets.
(174234)
168
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities bid for funds under the waste management recycling challenge in each round; and which have been successful.
(174235)
169
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the landfill site on Two Tree Island was closed.
(174236)
170
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what elements of possible contamination are leaching from the closed Two Three Island landfill site; and in what volumes.
(174237)
171
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will measure contamination in Leachate emanating from the closed Two Tree Island landfill site, after prolonged heavy rainfall.
(174238)
172
N
Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many litres of liquid milk were imported into the UK from EU countries in each of the last five years, broken down by country of origin.
(172935)
173
N
Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what dates the Dairy Supply Chain Forum met in the last year to discuss farmgate milk prices; what representations she has received regarding the price of milk received by farmers; what steps she is taking to increase the percentage that farmers receive; and if she will make a statement.
(172988)
174
N
Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to announce her decision on the designation of the New Forest as a National Park.
(173482)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
175
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on behalf of how many British citizens in prison outside the United Kingdom he has discussed their cases since 1st January; and if he will make a statement.
(174121)
176
N
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which member of the Government was first informed of the International Committee of the Red Cross Report on the treatment by coalition forces of prisoners of war in Iraq and its contents; and when this was.
(173424)
177
N
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral Answers of 11th May, on Iraq, when the International Committee of the Red Cross Report was received at the Foreign Office; and what action was taken.
(173426)
178
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what dates in the last two years (a) his Department and (b) UK diplomatic posts abroad have given advice to law enforcement agencies about pursuing investigations in foreign jurisdictions; and which jurisdictions that advice concerned.
(174006)
179
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, column 837W, on bribery, how many reports of concerns of bribery registered by UK companies about foreign competitors have been made by his Department to foreign governments since February 2002.
(174267)
180
N
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions have taken place between the UK Government and (a) other European governments and (b) institutions of the European Union regarding the application of the European Convention on Human Rights in Iraq; what the results were; and if he will make a statement.
(171553)
181
N
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what areas of Iraq are under the effective control of the UK.
(171554)
182
N
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what areas of Iraq are under the jurisdiction of the UK for the purposes of (a) section 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights, (b) the Geneva Convention and (c) UN Security Council Resolution 1511; and if he will make a statement.
(171555)
183
N
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the implications of the Loizidou case, concerning Turkey's acts in Northern Cyprus, in relation to the applicability of the European Convention on Human Rights to the actions of UK personnel in Iraq.
(171556)
184
N
Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether UK officials are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights wherever they discharge their duties; and if he will make a statement.
(171557)
185
N
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what guidance he has issued to British embassies and high commissions in respect of encouraging international dialogue about the future of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
(171230)
186
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, from what source of funds the money for bounties for the capture of wanted individuals in Iraq comes; and if he will make a statement.
(174189)
187
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether a decision has been taken to hand over (a) Saddam Hussein and (b) other prominent members of the former regime in Iraq to the jurisdiction of the forthcoming Iraq administration; and if he will make a statement.
(174266)
188
Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Turkish Government on the (a) health and (b) prison conditions under which Mr Abdullah Ocalan is being held by the Turkish authorities.
(173996)
189
N
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will mount an independent investigation with the UN and EU into the role of, and support for, the Janjaweed militias operating in the Darfur region of the Sudan, with specific reference to human rights abuses.
(173488)
190
N
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with representatives of (a) the Sudanese Liberation Army and (b) the Justice and Equality Movement about bringing peace to Darfur, Sudan.
(173784)
191
N
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he raised (a) the issue of the search for peace in Darfur, (b) human rights abuses and the implementation of Sharia Law and (c) the future of Dr al-Tarubi in discussions with the Foreign Minister of the Sudan, during his recent visit to Landon.
(173785)
192
N
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has addressed the concerns of the UN Human Rights Commission following its recent session on the Sudan; and what work he is undertaking with the EU to highlight human rights abuses (a) in Darfur and (b) elsewhere in the Sudan.
(173786)
193
N
Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the report of the United Nations Human Rights Commission following its recent session in Sudan was available to the meeting of the UN session on the human rights situation in Sudan.
(173907)
194
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has provided a copy of the handbook, A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management, launched by him on 11th November 2002 to the Coaliton Provisional Authority.
(174331)
195
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 11th May, Official Report, column 199W, on Iraq, how many Iraqis are being consulted through the process being led by UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi; and what the UK Government's policy is on his recommendations on (a) the structure and personnel of the Interim Government and (b) the best method of selecting delegates to the planned National Conference.
(174103)
196
Mr Calum MacDonald (Western Isles):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the Council of Europe's recent report on implementation of the European Charter on minority and lesser-used languages; and whether the Government will be publishing a response.
(174186)
197
N
Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nominees are serving in the Iraq Survey Group.
(173427)
198
Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) his United States counterpart and (b) the United States Secretary of Defense in respect of the use by the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq of private contractors to (i) conduct interviews and (ii) otherwise manage detainees.
(174013)
199
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ensure that any new plan for the Cyprus problem will not impose a financial burden on the Greek Cypriots that they find unacceptable.
(174137)
200
Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether funds generated from oil assets in Iraq are ring-fenced for that country's domestic use; and if he will make a statement.
(174018)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Health
201
Mr David Amess (Southend West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when work on Fossetts Farm for the new NHS treatment centre will begin; and if he will make a statement.
(174149)
202
Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action his Department is taking to develop chronic disease management clinics.
(174023)
203
Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what disease areas are being considered for chronic disease management clinics; and what plans he has to include dermatology as one of those disease areas.
(174024)
204
Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what timescale has been set for the establishment of chronic disease management clinics.
(174025)
205
N
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) under 12, (b) 12, (c) 13, (d) 14, (e) 15, (f) 16, (g) 17 and (h) 18 years have suffered from each sexually transmitted infection in each of the last three years.
(172865)
206
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is proposing to take to ensure that Infleximab/Remicade is made available on the NHS for all patients requiring this treatement.
(174141)
207
Mr David Cameron (Witney):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) Cherwell Vale Primary Care Trust and (b) other primary care trusts are operating in line with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines on the prescription by consultant rheumatologists of Infleximab/Remicade.
(174142)
208
Frank Cook (Stockton North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department will publish details of his proposals on chronic disease management clinics.
(174015)
209
Frank Cook (Stockton North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to set up chronic disease management clinics for inflammatory skin disease.
(174016)
210
Frank Cook (Stockton North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding the Government will make available for chronic disease management clinics.
(174017)
211
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were suffering from HIV/Aids on the latest date for which figures are available, broken down by age group.
(173479)
212
N
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many personal injury cases have resulted in repayment of NHS costs to the NHS in each of the last five years; what the total amount recovered was; what the categories of cases are from which recovery is expected; what the maximum amounts recoverable for each kind of treatment are; and if he will make a statement on (a) the trend in recovery of NHS costs and (b) his future plans for the recoupment scheme.
[R] (173562)
213
Julia Drown (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission an economic analysis of the benefits of breastfeeding to (a) the NHS and (b) the UK economy.
(173946)
214
Julia Drown (South Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make recommendations in support of World Health Organisation findings that infants should continue to be breastfed up to two years of age and beyond.
(173947)
215
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research he plans to commission into the incidence of pre-cancerous skin lesions in England.
(174122)
216
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has funded into the incidence of skin cancers in England in the last five years.
(174123)
217
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the two week wait rule on the management of suspected skin cancers.
(174124)
218
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the impact of the two week wait rule on dermatology waiting times.
(174125)
219
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the impact on waiting times for secondary dermatology care is of treating actinic keratosis in secondary rather than primary care.
(174126)
220
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to conduct an audit of the two week wait rule of suspected cancer referrals.
(174160)
221
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what opportunities patients' groups will have for input into plans for chronic disease management clinics.
(173920)
222
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will publish exemplars for chronic disease management clinics.
(173921)
223
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria he is using to select exemplars for chronic disease management clinics.
(173922)
224
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what he is doing to encourage the development of skin clinics in primary care comparable to those provided for asthma and diabetes.
(173923)
225
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce quality measures for dermatology into the general practitioner contract.
(173924)
226
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to include skin diseases in the Department of Health's range of recognised chronic conditions.
(173925)
227
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is taking to encourage more practice nurses to undertake dermatology training.
(173926)
228
N
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England have (a) died and (b) been injured by hanging themselves from a ligature point in the suspended ceiling of an acute mental health unit between 1st September 2001 and 18th March 2004.
(173481)
229
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) monitoring, (b) evaluation and (c) review of the new system of charges for home care he is carrying out.
(173950)
230
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the time taken for Criminal Records Bureau checks to be completed in respect of social care workers; and what representations he has received about problems caused by delays in this regard.
(173951)
231
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the recent TV advertising campaign in respect of social care careers.
(173952)
232
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether a chest x-ray is mandatory at a port of entry for immigration in the United Kingdom where it is clinically indicated.
(174002)
233
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether there is a national standard for clinical performance in ambulance services.
(174098)
234
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funds will be made available to (a) strategic health authorities and (b) primary care trusts to cover the costs of (i) training clinical staff to use new IT systems as part of the National Programme for IT rollout and (ii) covering for clinical staff while they are training.
(174104)
235
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses have (a) entered and (b) completed training since 1997; and how many of those have (i) been recruited into the National Health Service and (ii) are still working in the National Health Service.
(174105)
236
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of staff time required to input data into the databases for the National Programme for Information Technology.
(174106)
237
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of implementing the National Programme for IT in strategic health authorities.
(174107)
238
Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place to review cases to ensure that individuals are not incorrectly charged for personal health care.
(173912)
239
Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to each local authority in England of nursing and residential home placements was in the latest period for which figures are available.
(173937)
240
Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individuals were placed in nursing and residential homes by each local authority in England in each of the last six years.
(173938)
241
Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many individuals are in nursing and residential placements in each local authority in England.
(173939)
242
Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the criteria are for initiating an investigation into cases of individuals incorrectly charged for personal health care.
(173940)
243
Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases are being investigated of individuals who may have been incorrectly charged for personal health care in each local authority in England in each of the last six years.
(174036)
244
Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the schemes for which his Department and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are co-funders, how much was invested by each Department; and what the overall cost of each programme was.
(174064)
245
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2nd March, Official Report, column 865W, on pension schemes, on what grounds the NHS Pensions Agency may refuse to accept a pension transfer into their scheme; and if he will make a statement.
(173906)
246
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulance drivers have been recorded as speeding by speed cameras while answering 999 calls in (a) 2001, (b) 2002 and (c) 2003; what the total cost has been to ambulance trusts; and if he will make a statement.
(173021)
247
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received in respect of ambulance drivers recorded as speeding by speed cameras when answering 999 calls; and if he will make a statement.
(173022)
Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
248
N
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd April, Official Report, column 592W, on Guantanamo Bay, whether MI5 officers at Guantanamo Bay raised with (a) his Department and (b) the US authorities the interrogation methods deployed by the US.
(173485)
249
Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the last five years have sought asylum from (a) Zimbabwe and (b) Afghanistan; how many have been refused; and how many have been returned.
(174246)
250
Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his latest estimate is of the number of asylum seekers who have failed the appeal process (a) in the UK and (b) in Leeds.
(174247)
251
Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his latest estimate is of the number of asylum seekers who have failed the appeal process and are ineligible for National Asylum Support Service, Government or local authority financial support in (a) the UK and (b) Leeds.
(174248)
252
Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what instructions and guidance have been given to officials on the number of days asylum seekers who have failed the appeal process must spend on the streets before they qualify for hard case support; and if he will make a statement.
(174249)
253
Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what practical means, with particular reference to air transport, has been arranged for failed asylum seekers to return to (a) Iraq and (b) Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement.
(174250)
254
Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the last five years have sought asylum from Iraq; and how many have been refused.
(174337)
255
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) legislative and (b) administrative arrangements need to be made by the United Kingdom Government in order to meet its obligations under the UN Convention Against Corruption; and when the Government intends to ratify the UN Convention.
(174003)
256
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mutual legal assistance requests have been made to other jurisdictions with respect to allegations of overseas bribery; to which jurisdictions; and on what dates.
(174029)
257
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the National Crime Squad has (a) been involved in investigations and (b) conducted investigations of its own into bribery of foreign public officials.
(174030)
258
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allegations of overseas bribery are on the national register held by the National Criminal Intelligence Service; and what action is being taken on each.
(174031)
259
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures the National Criminal Intelligence Service employs to grade allegations of overseas bribery held on the national register; and how many allegations in each grade are held on the NCIS register.
(174032)
260
N
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's plans are to tackle child sex tourism.
(172797)
261
N
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to publish the draft Bill on corporate manslaughter; and if he will make a statement on the reasons for the delay in its publication.
(173565)
262
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 10th May to Question reference 169812, what the reasons are for the delay in making progress with appeals over the exercise of his powers concerning removal of nationality and indefinite leave to remain.
(174144)
263
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of legal costs for the future expected hearings relating to (a) detention under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and (b) deprivation of nationality under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, in respect of Treasury Solicitor and Counsel fees; and if he will make a statement.
(174145)
264
N
Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many organisations applied for funding from the Commission for Racial Equality under the Getting Results Scheme; how many applications were successful; when the Commission for Racial Equality and the Home Office agreed which organisations whould receive funds; and for what reasons organisations whose applications were unsuccessful were not informed until 10th May.
(173778)
265
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answers of 4th May, Official Report, column 1398W, and 12th May to Question reference 171914, on driving licences, if he will obtain from the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency an estimate of the number of people who have five points or more on their driving licence.
(173995)
266
Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 10th May, reference 169445, how many people lost their driving licence under section 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (penalty points system) in each year since 1990.
(174120)
267
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether car park operators are to be licensed by the Security Industry Authority; and if he will make a statement.
(174162)
268
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Security Industry Authority plans to set up a system (a) to license individual wheel clampers and (b) to license the land on which they may clamp.
(174163)
269
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the towing away of vehicles will be brought into the licensing remit of the Security Industry Authority.
(174164)
270
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Security Industry Authority's licensing system for wheel clamping will be backed up by a mandatory code of practice relating to (a) size of fines, (b) warning signs, (c) uniforms and (d) methods of payment.
(174165)
271
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) budget and (b) staffing levels of the Security Industry Authority are.
(174177)
272
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the work the Security Industry Authority has carried out since 1st April 2003.
(174178)
273
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many licences for wheel clampers on private land have been issued since 1st April 2003.
(174179)
274
Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for closure of church yards have been refused in the past five years.
(174282)
275
Mr Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter to him from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 5th April, with regard to Iqbal Hussain.
(174147)
276
Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the purposes for which cultivation of cannabis seeds is licensed by his Department.
(174242)
277
Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to require purchasers of cannabis seeds only to cultivate such seeds for lawful, licensable purposes; and if he will make a statement.
(174243)
278
Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will describe the licensing regime for the cultivation of cannabis seeds.
(174244)
279
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures are followed in relation to highly sensitive documents leaving Home Office premises; and what guidance is issued on this matter to Home Office staff.
(173949)
280
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many community support officers are operating in the North Wales police force.
(174066)
281
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the cost of policing in North Wales was paid for from (a) central Government funds, (b) local council tax and (c) other sources in each year since 1996-97.
(174068)
282
N
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officer hours were spent by each police force in England and Wales in combating and solving each category of crimes.
(173566)
283
N
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours were worked by police officers in the latest year for which figures are available in each police force in England and Wales.
(173567)
284
N
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the costs of early retirement of police officers for each force in England and Wales in 2003-04.
(173568)
285
N
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours were spent by police officers (a) on patrol, (b) on reactive policing, (c) in offices and (d) attending court for each police force in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available.
(173569)
286
N
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civilians were employed by each police force in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available; and in what roles they were employed.
(173570)
287
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on returning failed asylum seekers to Iraq.
(174079)
288
N
Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department is funding into the use of (a) peer to peer file-sharing technology, (b) Freenet and (c) other new technologies for the dissemination of child pornography.
(173904)
289
N
Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the honourable Member for Rochford and Southend East's letter to his Department of 26th September 2003, relating to Mr Ronald Douglas Hall, ref H1091318/4 and PO 731213; and for what reasons the letter was dealt with in the manner it has been.
(173102)
290
N
Mr Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports have been lost or mislaid by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate since 31st January; and if he will make a statement.
(173023)
Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development
291
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he will publish the outcome of the rolling programme of efficiency reviews referred to on page 190 of the Departmental Report 2004.
(174112)
292
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the Department's high-risk bilateral projects, referred to on page 189 of the 2004 Departmental Report, which are evaluated as (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful.
(174113)
293
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he will publish the evidence base referred to on page 189 of the 2004 Departmental Report that aims to underpin pro-poor UK/EU trade negotiating positions.
(174114)
294
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will publish the influencing strategy on trading opportunities for developing countries referred to on page 189 of the 2004 Departmental Report.
(174115)
295
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the Department's medium-risk bilateral projects referred to on page 190 of the 2004 Departmental Report which have been evaluated as successful.
(174116)
296
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the Department's low-risk bilateral projects referred to on page 190 of the 2004 Departmental Report that have not been evaluated as successful.
(174117)
297
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he will publish his assessment of the reasons for the decline referred to on page 190 of the 2004 Departmental Report on the number of low-risk Departmental projects evaluated as successful.
(174118)
298
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he will publish his strategy referred to on page 190 of the 2004 Departmental Report for improving project scoring of the Department's low-risk bilateral projects.
(174119)
299
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons the Service Delivery Agreement target to provide 100 per cent. capacity to receive and process electronic applications from UK offices by 2003 has not been met.
(174139)
300
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons the Service Delivery Agreement target to have 3.3 per cent. of senior Civil Service posts filled with staff with disabilities has not been met.
(174140)
301
Colin Burgon (Elmet):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid and assistance his Department is giving to the Iraqi people.
(173932)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
302
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will provide resources to introduce pilot residents parking permit schemes in Northern Ireland.
(174090)
303
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the role played by local community activists during the 2003 marching season; and what plans he has to provide support for local community activists during the 2004 marching season.
(174091)
304
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans are in place for the development of tourist facilities and attractions at the Titanic Quarter in Belfast by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board; and if he will make a statement.
(174092)
305
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the decision was taken by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to develop two separate integrated sites for public sector housing; what criteria were used; whether further sites have been identified by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for integrated communities; and if he will make a statement.
(174093)
306
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his assessment is of the Police Service of Northern Ireland security assessment relating to Portadown recently received by the Parades Commission; and if he will make a statement on his assessment of security over the forthcoming marching season.
(174094)
307
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the impact the low corporation tax rates in operation in the Republic of Ireland has on manufacturing industries in Northern Ireland.
(174198)
308
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which airports in Northern Ireland receive financial aid from (a) Her Majesty's Government, (b) the European Union and (c) other public sources; what the total cost of that support was during the most recent financial year for which information is available; and how much that support represented per passenger.
(174199)
309
N
David Burnside (South Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of revenues received by (a) the Provisional IRA, (b) the official IRA, (c) the Irish National Liberation Army, (d) the Ulster Defence Association, (e) the Ulster Volunteer Force and (f) the Loyalist Volunteer Force from illegal dealing and trading in drugs in the last five years.
(173480)
310
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what information he has received about the extent and trend of racial attacks in Northern Ireland; what action is being taken with regard to them; and if he will make a statement.
(174188)
311
Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many Pre-School Education Advisory Group (PEAG) places were allocated to each (a) private playschool and (b) state nursery unit in the Dundonald area in 2004-05; how many applications were received on behalf of children living in the Dundonald area seeking a pre-school place for their final pre-school year, at each pre-school facility; how many children living in the Dundonald area failed to obtain a PEAG place for their final pre-school year; and how many PEAG places were awarded to pre-school facilities in Dundonald for children under the age of three in 2004-05.
(174007)
312
Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether a company which successfully bids for inclusion in an education-related public private partnership scheme retains the right (a) to put the contract on the market at any stage, (b) to sell the contract at a profit and (c) to keep the profit from the sale of the contract without a requirement to provide guarantees that the scheme will be completed to the specifications to which they initially signed up; and whether revenue generated through weekend and evening openings of buildings constructed under such a scheme is required to be invested in the school or its pupils.
(174008)
313
Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times the principal private public partnerships officer with the South Eastern Education and Library Board (SEELB) met the Chief Executive of the SEELB over the past year to brief him on the development of negotiations in relation to the private public partnership scheme involving Comber High School and Bangor Academy; what matters were discussed on each occasion; and for what reasons the Chief Executive of the SEELB did not inform staff in March that jobs would be transferred from the Board to the preferred bidder in January 2006.
(174009)
314
Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of vetting arrangements for individuals from the Republic of Ireland who wish to work with children in Northern Ireland.
(173903)
Questions to the Prime Minister
315
N
Mr Michael Ancram (Devizes):To ask the Prime Minister, when the International Committee of the Red Cross Report on the treatment by coalition forces of prisoners of war in Iraq was received in Number 10 Downing Street; and what action was taken.
(173425)
316
N
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 28th April, Official Report, column 1087W, on Government buildings (party use), for what reasons he has not identified the amount of income received.
(173484)
317
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what meetings (a) he and (b) his officials held with the management of Govan/Kvaerner to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard.
[R] (174254)
318
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what (a) his and (b) his officials' involvement was in the negotiations over the future of Govan shipyard.
[R] (174255)
319
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what role he played in informal and oral approaches made to GEC over the purchase of Govan shipyard.
[R] (174256)
320
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what (a) his, (b) his officials and (c) his advisers involvement was in approving the GEC-BAE merger.
[R] (174257)
321
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what advice he received from the Ministry of Defence on the GEC-BAE merger.
[R] (174258)
322
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what meetings took place between Mr Ed Miliband and his officials in 1999 to discuss the (a) GEC-BAE merger and (b) Govan shipyard.
[R] (174259)
323
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what advice he received in 1999 on the GEC interest in the Govan shipyard.
[R] (174260)
324
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, when he was first informed of the GEC interest in the Govan shipyard.
[R] (174261)
325
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, on which dates in 1999 he met Mr George Simpson of GEC; if he will publish minutes of the meetings; and if he will list the attendees at those meetings.
(174311)
326
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what communications (a) he and (b) his representatives and advisers had with GEC in 1999 over (i) the proposed merger of BAE-GEC and (ii) Govan shipyard; and if he will publish the communications.
(174312)
327
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what communications (a) he and (b) his representatives and advisers had with Kvaerner, their representatives and advisers over the proposed closure of the Govan shipyard in 1999.
(174313)
328
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what the name was of the taskforce chaired by Sir Gavin Laird set up by the Government to look for potential buyers for the Govan shipyard; who was on the taskforce; what its terms of reference were; and when it was disbanded.
(174314)
329
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Prime Minister, what meetings (a) he and (b) his officials held with Sir Gavin Laird to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard.
(174315)
330
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 385W, on Iraq, what enquiries are made by the Coalition Provisional Authority into methods employed by Coalition forces in gathering information important to the CPA's aim.
(174327)
331
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 385W, on Iraq, whether the three UK military personnel who worked in Abu Ghraib prison between January and April were under the command of (a) British and (b) US authorities during that time; and to which authority they reported.
(174328)
332
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 385W, on Iraq, whether the employment of civilian contractors and interpreters in Abu Ghraib prison was (a) known to and (b) sanctioned by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
(174329)
333
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate):To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 385W, on Iraq, whether the three UK military personnel were working in the military intelligence section of Abu Ghraib prison.
(174330)
334
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate):To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has read the Amnesty International report, Iraq - Killings of Civilians in Basra and al-Amaia, published on 11th May; and what response he has made to it.
(174332)
335
N
Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Prime Minister, on what date the International Committee of the Red Cross report on the treatment by Coalition forces of prisoners of war and other persons protected by the Geneva conventions during arrest, internment and interrogation in Iraq was received by his Office.
(173902)
336
N
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library a consolidated list of recipients of honours since 1997.
(173174)
337
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester):To ask the Prime Minister, how many complaints have been made by civil servants to the Civil Service Commissioners regarding the conduct of (a) special advisers and (b) unpaid advisers in each year since 1996-97.
(174190)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland
338
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, on which dates in 1999 the former Secretary of State met Mr George Simpson of GEC; if he will publish minutes of the meetings; and if he will list the attendees at those meetings.
(174304)
339
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what communications (a) the former Secretary of State and (b) his representatives and advisers had in 1999 with GEC over (a) the proposed merger of BAE-GEC and (b) Govan shipyard; and if he will publish the communications.
(174305)
340
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what (a) meetings and (b) communications the (i) former Secretary of State and (ii) his representatives and advisers had with Kvaerner, their representatives and advisers over the proposed closure of the Govan shipyard in 1999; on what dates meetings were held; and if he will publish the communications.
(174306)
341
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings his Department held with management of Govan/Kvaerner to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard in 1999.
(174307)
342
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what his Department's involvement was in the negotiations over the future of Govan shipyard in 1999.
(174308)
343
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the involvement was of (a) the former Secretary of State and (b) his representatives and advisers in informal and oral approaches made to GEC over the purchase of Govan shipyard in 1999.
(174309)
344
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, who chaired the press briefing on 16th April at the Scottish Office at which it was suggested that GEC would be transferring some of its shipbuilding work to Govan from Barrow-in-Furness.
(174310)
345
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what briefings the former Secretary of State (a) gave and (b) received in 1999 on the GEC interest in the Govan shipyard.
(174316)
346
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, on what date the former Secretary of State received the minutes of the meeting between Mr George Simpson of GEC and the Prime Minister to discuss the merger of BAE and GEC.
(174317)
347
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the (a) minutes and (b) list of attendees of the press briefing on 16th April at the Scottish Office at which it was suggested that GEC would be transferring some of its shipbuilding work to Govan from Barrow-in-Furness.
(174318)
348
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings the former Secretary of State held at (a) Dover House and (b) elsewhere to discuss (i) the future of the Govan shipyard and (ii) the BAE-GEC merger; and on what dates.
(174319)
349
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will publish the (a) minutes and (b) list of attendees of meetings held by the former Secretary of State at Dover House or elsewhere to discuss (i) the future of Govan shipyard and (ii) BAE-GEC merger.
(174320)
350
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings (a) the former Secretary of State and (b) his advisers, representatives and officials had with the taskforce chaired by Sir Gavin Laird set up by the Government to look for potential buyers for the Govan shipyard in 1999.
(174321)
351
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings were held by the former Secretary of State with Sir Gavin Laird to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard in 1999; and what the dates were of the meetings.
(174322)
352
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what meetings took place between Mr Ed Miliband and his officials in 1999 to discuss the (a) GEC-BAE merger and (b) Govan shipyard; and what the dates were of the meetings.
(174323)
353
Mr Gordon Prentice (Pendle):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what representations he has received from the Scottish Executive concerning the transfer of additional competences to Holyrood on transport matters.
(174049)
Questions to the Solicitor General
354
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to her Answer of 10th May, Official Report, column 1W, which were the other two countries referred to in her Answer of 2nd February to the honourable Member for Ceridigion, Official Report, column 613W.
(174241)
355
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to her Answer of 29th March, Official Report, column 1145W, on overseas bribery, how many cases of overseas bribery were referred to CPS Casework Directorate (a) between November 1997 and February 2002 and (b) since 14th February 2002.
(174284)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
356
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on which dates in 1999 the former Secretary of State met Mr George Simpson of GEC; if she will publish minutes of the meetings; and if she will list the attendees at those meetings.
(174285)
357
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what communications (a) the former Secretary of State, (b) his representatives and (c) his advisers had with GEC in 1999 over (i) the proposed merger of BAE-GEC and (ii) Govan shipyard; and if she will publish the communications.
(174286)
358
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what meetings and communications (a) the former Secretary of State, (b) his representatives and (c) his advisers had with Kvaerner, their representatives or advisers over the proposed closure of the Govan shipyard in 1999; and what advice the former Secretary of State received from (i) his officials and (ii) other departments on the Office of Fair Trading report on the GEC-BAE merger.
(174287)
359
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, who (a) within her Department and (b) outside her Department the former Secretary of State consulted on the advice received from the Office of Fair Trading regarding the merger of BAE-GEC.
(174288)
360
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what meetings took place between her Department and the taskforce chaired by Sir Gavin Laird set up by the Government to look for potential buyers for the Govan shipyard in 1999; and on what date.
(174290)
361
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what meetings took place between the former Secretary of State and with Sir Gavin Laird to discuss the future of the Govan shipyard in 1999; and on what date.
(174291)
362
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the involvement was of the former Secretary of State in the negotiations over the future of Govan shipyard in 1999.
(174292)
363
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the involvement was of the former Secretary of State in informal and oral approaches made to GEC over the purchase of Govan in 1999.
(174293)
364
Mr Crispin Blunt (Reigate):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what meetings took place between Mr Ed Miliband and (a) the former Secretary of State and (b) his advisers, representatives and officials in 1999 to discuss the (i) GEC-BAE merger and (ii) Govan shipyard.
(174294)
365
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many allegations of overseas bribery and corruption were received by her Department since the date that would not incur disproportionate costs.
(174004)
366
Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the primary use is of each of the facilities B1 to B100 at BNFL's Sellafield site; whether their status is (a) operational, (b) closed pending clean-up, (c) cleaned-up pending decommissioning, (d) decommissioned, (e) demolished and (f) other; and for those which are planned to be decommissioned, what estimated timescale has been provided by BNFL for their decommissioning.
(174005)
367
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the current strategic reserve of (a) crude oil and (b) oil products is in the UK.
(174108)
368
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the current position on UK stocks of (a) crude oil and (b) main oil products in relation to average daily consumption.
(174111)
369
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the pay gap between men and women employed by her Department and its agencies in (a) Southampton, (b) Eastleigh, (c) Winchester and (d) Romsey constituencies.
(171643)
370
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what schemes and initiatives her Department is undertaking in each constituency in Hampshire to promote a better work-life balance.
(171644)
371
N
Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much was spent on each Priority Area for Economic Regeneration in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03 and (c) 2003-04 by (i) her Department and (ii) the relevant regional development agency; and how much is budgeted to be spent in (A) 2004-05 and (B) 2005-06.
(173780)
372
Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she last discussed the question of deprived wards with reference to the application of the urban reinvention programme by Post Office Ltd.; and what interpretation the Post Office uses of the term deprived ward; and if she will make a statement.
(173919)
373
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on steps she has taken to encourage small businesses to take up research and development grants in the United Kingdom.
(174065)
374
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many registered businesses were registered for VAT in (a) the UK, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) England in each year since 1996-97.
(174067)
375
Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how close to the market the research is in which the European Research Council will be involved.
(174130)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
376
N
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether radioactive materials may be legally transported (a) on passenger ferries and (b) through the Channel Tunnel.
(173476)
377
N
Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to minimise the movement of radioactive material.
(173477)
378
N
Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the occasions on which his Department has asked regional assemblies to choose between alternative road schemes, broken down by region; and on what date assembly meetings were held to consider such alternatives.
(173483)
379
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the money spent in each county in England and Wales over the last year on roads by (a) the Highways Agency and (b) local authorities.
(174161)
380
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many conferences for attendees other than Driving Standards Agency employees the DSA has organised each year since 1997; and how much each conference cost.
(174166)
381
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the £263 million cited in paragraph 5.14 on page 52 of his Department's Annual Report 2004 comes through the Rural Bus Subsidy Grant and Rural and Urban Bus Challenge.
(174167)
382
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the targets and achievement rates referred to on page 50 of the Department of Transport Annual Report 2004; and if he will list (a) the local authorities and (b) the targets they have met.
(174168)
383
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants in his Department are employed to deal with local transport plans and annual progress reports submitted to his Department by local authorities.
(174169)
384
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the new vehicles that came into service on the railways as described on page 10 of The Department of Transport Annual Report 2004 have since been withdrawn for periods of more than three weeks.
(174170)
385
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles that have entered service on the railways have subsequently been withdrawn for periods of three weeks or more in each year since 1997.
(174171)
386
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list bus usage in terms of (a) number of passengers and (b) passenger kilometres in each year since 1997, broken down by region.
(174172)
387
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on post offices of setting up electronic vehicle licensing channels.
(174173)
388
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many harassment contact officers were employed by his Department on the last date for which figures are available.
(174174)
389
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many overseas visits have been made by management at the Driving Standards Agency in each year since 1997; and what the total cost of these visits is.
(174182)
390
Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants were employed by communication division in his Department on the last date for which figures are available.
(174326)
391
Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which of the new train operators serving London and the south east showed the greatest improvement in punctuality between the third quarter of 2003-04 and the third quarter of 2002-03; and if he will make a statement.
(173918)
392
Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on his review of the location of speed cameras.
[R] (174253)
393
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the regeneration effects of (a) proceeding and (b) not proceeding with the proposed upgrade of the Blackpool tram system.
(173914)
394
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the National Audit Office report, Improving public transport in England through light rail.
(173915)
395
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of its (a) bidding process for and (b) evaluation of light rail proposals since publication of the National Audit Office report, Improving public transport in England through light rail.
(173916)
396
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with organisations representing the disabled about the inclusion of access criteria in the assessment of the Blackpool light rail bid.
(173917)
397
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on his target to increase passenger volumes on the railway of the policy adopted by the Government and the Strategic Rail Authority's to thin rail services.
(174073)
398
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of increasing time taken by commuter rail journeys into London on modal shift.
(174074)
399
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Network Rail Volume Incentive; and if he will make a statement.
(174075)
400
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) Strategic Rail Authority's submission to the rail regulator in December 2002 that the Network Rail Volume Incentive be removed and (b) the Rail Regulators' response.
(174076)
401
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria were used by the Strategic Rail Authority in determining its policy of giving priority to long-distance services over local services when letting new railway franchises.
(174077)
402
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the economic impact of (a) regular commuter journeys on the railways and (b) long-distance non-commuter journeys.
(174078)
403
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 410W, on railways, what operational performance trajectory was set for the train operating companies between December 2003 and November 2004; and what the current performance is against that target.
(174239)
404
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 12th May, Official Report, column 410W, on railways, how many of the sites identified have (a) been put up for sale, (b) been sold and (c) are under offer.
(174240)
405
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ask Network Rail to launch an urgent inquiry into track quality between Holyhead and Chester.
(174069)
406
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Network Rail on improving line speeds on the track between Holyhead and Chester.
(174070)
407
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Highways Agency about the possibility of building a tunnel from Nettleton Bottom to the Brockworth Bypass, Gloucestershire; what advice he received from that body on this option; and if he will make a statement.
(173791)
408
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what instructions he gave to the Highways Agency with regard to further investigations regarding improving the A417 between Nettleton Bottom and the Brockworth Bypass, Gloucestershire; and if he will make a statement.
(173792)
409
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the environmental impact of (a) building a tunnel and (b) the current favoured option of the Highways Agency to improve the A417 between Nettleton Bottom and the Brockworth Bypass, Gloucestershire; and if he will make a statement.
(173793)
410
N
Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of building a tunnel from Nettleton Bottom to the Brockworth Bypass, Gloucestershire; and if he will make a statement.
(173794)
411
N
Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric cars have been in use in each of the last 10 years.
(173905)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales
412
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost of the Welsh Assembly to the public purse was estimated to be at the commencement of the project.
(174033)
Questions to the Minister for Women
413
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Minister for Women, what recent representations she has received from (a) trades unions, (b) employers and (c) other bodies concerning the pay gap between men and women in Hampshire.
(171642)
414
N
Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Minister for Women, pursuant to the Answer of 26th February, Official Report, column 486W, on equal pay, what methodology was used to conclude that the gender pay gap in the South East is the second biggest in Great Britain.
(171710)
415
Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Minister for Women, what entitlement there is for women in work to take breaks for breastfeeding; and if she will make a statement.
(173955)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
416
Mr Roger Berry (Kingswood):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his written statement of 11th May, Official Report, columns 6-7WS, on vulnerable customers (payments by cheque), at what point the (a) Pension Service, (b) Jobcentre and (c) Disability Benefits Office will accept that a vulnerable customer's payment by cheque is late or lost; and whether a vulnerable customer, if they have not received any post on the day payment is due, will be able to contact their Pension Office and receive an emergency payment that day.
(174245)
417
Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost in each of the next 10 financial years from 2006-07, net of savings in means-tested benefits and additional income tax revenues, of paying from April 2006, (a) regardless of contribution record, (b) on the current basis, a basic state pension to (i) all single people aged 80 or above at the rate of the guarantee credit for single people and (ii) all couples where one or both partners is aged 80 or above at the rate of the guarantee credit for couples, with that pension being indexed to earnings in subsequent years, and assuming that the savings credit is abolished for those aged 80 or above.
(174110)
418
Ross Cranston (Dudley North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has received the report of the Health and Safety Commission on the effectiveness of the current strategy to promote directors' responsibility for health and safety, the success of the voluntary approach and the need for further legislation; and if he will make a statement.
(174143)
419
N
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases (a) were registered with the Compensation Recovery Unit and (b) resulted in repayment of benefits to the CRU in each of the last 10 years; what the total repaid to the CRU was; and if he will make a statement.
[R] (173563)
420
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a statement on the trend in (a) average and (b) pensioner incomes as compared with (i) average and (ii) medium earnings, over the last 10 years.
(173933)
421
N
Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated cost is of compensating, on the same formula that the Pension Protection Fund will use, all those pensioners who will have lost all or part of their occupational pension prior to the commencement of the Pension Protection Fund.
(173486)
422
Mr Howard Flight (Arundel & South Downs):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will re-calculate the figures on adult disadvantages set out in the Answer of 20th March 2003, Official Report, column 911W, to include retirement on 31st December 2003.
(174026)
423
David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what state assistance is available to people without health impediments or caring responsibilities who only work between 17 and 19 hours a week.
(173948)
424
John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants for winter fuel payments in Scotland were disallowed because of late application in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03 and (c) 2003-04.
(174021)
425
John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Scotland were in receipt of (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit in (i) 2000-01 and (ii) 2001-02.
(174022)
426
John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal injury claims were made to general insurers in specific relation to employers' liability in each of the last five years, broken down by region; and what the total value of all costs and claims in relation to such claims was, broken down by region.
(174048)
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
427
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is a requirement that the cause of death be printed on death certificates in England and Wales.
[Transferred] (174072)
Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs
428
Mr Calum MacDonald (Western Isles):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether the meeting of the British-Irish Council held in November 2003 identified areas for enhanced inter-governmental cooperation in respect of indigenous, minority and lesser used languages.
[Transferred] (174185)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
429
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government Office for the South East intends to issue its decision on Bisham footpath 9, following the public inquiry which was completed on 9th November 2003.
[Transferred] (174012)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
430
Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what limitations apply to class sizes in practical subjects in post-primary schools.
[Transferred] (174097)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
431
John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will take steps to bridge the funding gap for research projects consequent on implementation of the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
[Transferred] (174183)
432
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps she is taking to encourage the development of renewable energy in China.
[Transferred] (174020)
Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
433
Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have claimed council tax benefit in (a) Portsmouth, (b) Southampton and (c) the rest of Hampshire in each of the last three years.
[Transferred] (174195)

 
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