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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Tuesday 7 September 2004
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Tuesday 7 September 2004
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Tuesday 7 September 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 Tuesday 7 September of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Tuesday 7 September see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 1
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the report produced by the Strategy Unit about the impact of interventions on the drug supply chain from international production to distribution within the UK cost; and whether it was funded using public money. | | (187545) | 2
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will withdraw payment for an initial period of absence from working through illness in the Civil Service and public sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (186537) | 3
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many projects undertaken by the Strategy Unit since its creation have had a direct impact on (a) the Bridgwater parliamentary constituency and (b) the South West; and what assessment he has made of their effect on those areas. | | (186539) | 4
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average number of working days lost per employee through illness was in his Department in each of the last five years; and what targets for days lost were set for each year. | | (186599) | 5
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make a statement on his Department's role in projects to be funded following the announcement relating to civil contingencies in the Spending Review. | | (186673) | 6
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what action he is taking in response to the commments made by the Parliamentary Ombudsman regarding delays by his Department in responding to complaints under the code of practice on access to Government information in her review of departmental performance against requirements of the Memorandum of Understanding published on 30th June; and if he will make a statement. | | (186611) | 7
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts the Cabinet Office had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186612) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 8
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will outline his plans for a financial inclusion fund referred to at paragraph 5.28 of the 2004 Spending Review; whether it will cover Leeds West; where it will be piloted; what support the fund will provide to credit unions; and if he will make a statement. | | (186777) | 9
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has made to (a) the International Monetary Fund, (b) the World Bank and (c) the G8 regarding further topping up of highly indebted poor countries debt relief in the event of further oil price or other price shocks. | | (186785) | 10
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to public funds of absenteeism within the public sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (186339) | 11
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the financial services industry of complying with Financial Services Authority regulations since 1997. | | (186353) | 12
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of tax relief on the production of British films was in each of the last five years broken down by scheme. | | (187141) | 13
| Virginia Bottomley (South West Surrey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many children (a) under two, (b) under five and (c) aged five to 16 years there were in (i) South West Surrey constituency, (ii) Waverley Borough Council, (iii) Surrey county and (iv) England in (A) 1997 and (B) the latest available year; and what the estimate is for (1) 2007 and (2) 2012. | | (187288) | 14
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people aged over 65 years have been in work in Northampton South in each year since 1997. | | (186463) | 15
| Jean Corston (Bristol East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for each of the years 1996 to 2004, what the estimated expenditure was for all children and per child, in current and in real terms, on (a) family credit, (b) working families tax credit, (c) child benefit, (d) children's allowance, (e) child maintenance premium for parents with care on income support and (f) in total; and if he will express the total expenditure on children as a percentage of gross domestic product. | | (187122) | 16
| Jean Corston (Bristol East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, following Chart 3.3 in his Department's Child Poverty Review for July 2004, what the total expenditure was in real terms and total expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product on (a) child benefit, (b) tax credits and (c) other income-related benefits for children in (i) 1997, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2004 (estimated); and what the respective amounts were for each for the first, sixth and tenth decile groups. | | (187123) | 17
| Jean Corston (Bristol East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for (a) economically active and (b) non-economically active households with children what the total expenditure was on children for (i) child benefit, (ii) tax credits and (c) other income related benefits for children in (A) 1997, (B) 2000; and what the estimated figures are for 2004. | | (187124) | 18
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the change in numbers in employment was in each industrial sector in (a) 2002, (b) 2003 and (c) 2004, broken down by (i) sector, (ii) private sector and (iii) self-employment in each (A) region and (B) county. | | (186832) | 19
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what level of costs for insurance is included in PFI/PPP schemes agreed in the last two years; what review of insurance costs has been undertaken; and what conclusions have been reached. | | (186845) | 20
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research is being conducted into the size of (a) secured and (b) unsecured loan repayments in different (i) socio-economic and (ii) income groups. | | (186861) | 21
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if, pursuant to his reply of 20th July, Official Report, column 187W, what the (a) increase in the public expenditure programmes used as the comparator spend for the purposes of the Barnett Formula for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland between 2000-01 and 2003-04, (b) actual increases in the Barnett Formula allocations to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland between 2000-01 and 2003-04 and (c) increase in public spending between 2000-01 and 2003-04 in the North East for programmes used as comparator programmes for Barnett Formula assessments were. | | (186864) | 22
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the revenue from residential stamp duty was in (a) 1996-97, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03 and (d) 2003-04; and what the projected revenue is for 2004-05. | | (186950) | 23
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the implications of the Spending Review for public sector jobs in Gloucestershire. | | (186313) | 24
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to change the personal tax allowance for those of pensionable age. | | (186582) | 25
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to create a structure to remedy the position in the case of the Names who were victims of fraud in the PA Spiral case (Thomas LJ in Sphere Drake v EIU & SCB); and if he will make a statement. | | (186574) | 26
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the change in population arising from changes in (a) net indigenous population and (b) net immigration in each decade to 2050, broken down by region. | | (187335) | 27
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) gross and (b) net revenue has been raised to date by the repeal under the Finance Act 1998 of section 26 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984. | | (187474) | 28
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the operation of the Climate Change Levy, with particular reference to its effect on the Government's waste hierachy. | | (186984) | 29
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications of his Spending Review for the (a) speed and (b) quantum of future increases in the rate of landfill tax. | | (186985) | 30
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the fiscal implications of introducing variable charges for the collection of domestic household waste. | | (187277) | 31
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in the Bridgwater constituency aged between 16 and 24 years are both economically inactive and not in further or higher education. | | (186501) | 32
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the removal of advanced dividend tax credit on levels of household saving. | | (186542) | 33
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of reducing the maximum investment limits on Individual Savings Accounts on household saving. | | (186543) | 34
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to increase the level of household saving; and if he will make a statement. | | (186544) | 35
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to relocate Civil Service staff to the South West of England. | | (186547) | 36
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what efforts he is making to improve public understanding of financial products and services; and if he will make a statement. | | (186627) | 37
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans (a) he and (b) the Financial Services Authority has for further regulation of with-profits fund schemes offered by insurance companies; and if he will make a statement. | | (186628) | 38
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the consultation by the Financial Services Authority on Treating With-Profits Customers Fairly, CP 207, will conclude; when the results will be published; and if he will make a statement. | | (186629) | 39
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research has been undertaken into the impact on mutual insurers of the proposals contained in the consultation on Treating With-Profits Customers Fairly; and if he will make a statement. | | (186630) | 40
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evaluation has taken place of the impact of the Savings Gateway pilot on levels of savings amongst low-income consumers; and if he will make a statement. | | (186631) | 41
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research has been undertaken into the impact of changes in house prices on the level of consumer expenditure; and if he will make a statement. | | (186632) | 42
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what action he is proposing to inprove the working of the UK mortgage market following the Miles Review; and if he will make a statement. | | (186633) | 43
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to public funds was of tax relief for individuals on pension contributions in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (186634) | 44
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates he has made of the impact on public funds in tax relief of the introduction of the £1.4 million limit on pension savings; and if he will make a statement. | | (186635) | 45
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates he has made of the cost to public funds in tax relief of introducing a limit on pension savings of (a) £1.3 million, (b) £1 million, (c) £750,000, (d) £500,000 and (e) an amount reflecting a pension just above benefit levels; and if he will make a statement. | | (186636) | 46
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what arrangements are in place for the review of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and if he will make a statement. | | (186637) | 47
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value is of tax credit overpayments not recovered because the Inland Revenue accept that the overpayment arose because of a mistake by the Inland Revenue and the person could reasonably have thought their award was right. | | (187842) | 48
| Mr Francis Maude (Horsham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value is of compensation awarded for tax credit errors made by the Inland Revenue. | | (187844) | 49
N | Sir Brian Mawhinney (North West Cambridgeshire):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much, and what proportion, of inheritance tax revenues in fiscal year 2003-04 was derived from (a) primary homes, (b) other homes, (c) financial assets, (d) land, (e) art and similar assets, (f) investments overseas, (g) individual savings and trusts, (h) life insurance and (i) other sources, broken down by main categories. | | (186963) | 50
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Minister at HM Treasury will be responsible for the proposed HM Revenue and Customs organisation. | | (187239) | 51
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the gross domestic product per head was for each of the last 25 years at current prices. | | (187117) | 52
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what national productivity growth rates were in each of the last 25 years. | | (187129) | 53
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what action he plans to take in response to increasing oil prices. | | (187511) | 54
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes in revenues the Treasury expects as a result of rising oil prices. | | (187512) | 55
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will raise the oil exploration expenditure supplement. | | (187513) | 56
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion, and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187319) | 57
| Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many working tax credit back-dated payment claims were outstanding on (a) 1st January and (b) 1st June by more than 6 weeks; and if he will make a statement. | | (186322) | 58
| Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to ensure software upgrades to the working tax credit system are installed; what impact he expects the upgrades to have on the outstanding back-dated payment claims; and if he will make a statement. | | (186326) | 59
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what action he is taking in response to the comments made by the Parliamentary Ombudsman regarding delays by his Department in responding to complaints under the Code of Practice on access to Government information in her review of departmental performance against requirements of the Memorandum of Understanding published on 30th June; and if he will make a statement. | | (186661) | 60
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186662) | 61
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the latest available figures are for the cost of (a) a Grade 5 civil servant and (b) a Grade 7 civil servant for his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (187086) | 62
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what media outlets are used for the recruitment of each level of staff in his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (187087) | 63
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how vacancies are publicised within his Department; how non-fast streamers are recruited to work in his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (187088) | 64
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Treasury spent on recruitment in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (187089) | 65
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people the Treasury recruited in each of the last three years. | | (187090) | 66
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average length of service is for (a) a Grade 5 civil servant and (b) a Grade 7 civil servant in his Department; and if he will make a statement. | | (187091) | 67
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) set retirement age applying to all or most personnel and (b) maximum age beyond which applications for employment will not be considered is in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies. | | (186372) | 68
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reasons were for the delay by the Chief Executive of Inland Revenue in answering the letter to him from the honourable Member for the Isle of Wight dated 23rd April concerning tax credit. | | (187507) | 69
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) average and (b) upper decile delay by the Inland Revenue is in answering letters about tax credits from (i) honourable Members and (ii) members of the public. | | (187508) | 70
| Angela Watkinson (Upminster):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to carry forward into the new regime existing Inland Revenue rules allowing schemes to pay a bereavement benefit of up to £2,500 on the death of a pensioner at any age to cover funeral costs; and whether there will be transitional protection arrangements. | | (186729) | 71
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 5th July, Official Report, column 602W, on people of retirement age, how many people above state pension age were in employment for the same period in each year since 1992. | | (186770) | 72
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the effects would be on the incomes of households in each quintile of the income distribution of raising the personal income tax allowance to £10,000 per annum. | | (186783) | 73
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assumptions about the level of employer contributions to self-administered pension schemes informed his forecasts for non-North Sea corporation tax revenues in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07, (d) 2007-08 and (e) 2008-09 as set out in Table C9 of the Budget 2004 Red Book. | | (186784) | 74
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child tax credit award letters have been sent out by the Inland Revenue; how many people have received tax credit award letters; and what the average number of award letters is per person receiving child tax credit. | | (186786) | 75
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total amount of (a) income and (b) council tax paid by pensioners was in the latest year for which figures are available; and what the average payment was per pensioner who pays each tax. | | (187351) | 76
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what resources the Government has provided to reduce child poverty in (a) St Helens and (b) the UK, broken down by region, since 1997. | | (186812) | 77
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of (a) how many and (b) what percentage of children lived in one parent households in (i) St Helens and (ii) the UK, broken down by region, in each year since 1997. | | (186821) | 78
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of (a) how many and (b) what percentage of children grew up in jobless households in (i) St Helens and (ii) the UK, broken down by region, in each year since 1997. | | (186822) | 79
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to reduce child poverty; and if he will make a statement. | | (186839) | 80
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information the Government has collated on the percentage of people over the age of 50 who have been made redundant in each year since 1997 (a) nationally, (b) by region and (c) in St Helens. | | (186875) | 81
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates the Government has made of the percentage of women in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in (i) St Helens and (ii) the UK, broken down by region, in each year since 1997. | | (186926) | 82
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of the (a) female workforce aged between 50 and 60 and (b) male workforce aged between 50 and 65 have been in employment in each year since 1997, broken down by region. | | (186929) | 83
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of how many (a) men and (b) women over the age of 50 were defined as long-term unemployed in each year since 1997. | | (186930) | 84
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of the percentage of those working who will not survive to reach state pension age. | | (186936) | 85
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of the percentage of people aged 50 to 65 who were (a) registered as unemployed and (b) economically inactive in (i) St Helens and (ii) the UK, broken down by region, in each year since 1997. | | (186940) | 86
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of the percentage of men and women over the age of 50 who were defined as long-term unemployed in each year since 1997, broken down by region. | | (186945) | 87
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the percentage of the population over the age of 65 has changed in each year since 1975. | | (186946) | Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs 88
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will make a statement on the arrangements for access to government premises for (a) physically disabled persons and (b) allergy sufferers, with particular reference to latex allergy. | | (186959) | 89
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the (a) professional staff turnover, (b) sickness absence rate and (c) number of clients not attending was in each family court service area in 2003-04. | | (186948) | 90
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will propose changes to the law on compensation for asbestos injury victims bringing claims against uninsured defendants to enable them to receive interim payments; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186484) | 91
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to propose changes to the legal principle of volenti non fit injuria in cases involving sport or outdoor pursuits; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186485) | 92
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will list the outstanding reports from the Law Commission recommending legislation in relation to which no Bill has been put before Parliament; and if he will make a statement. | | (186489) | 93
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to review the indemnity principle in relation to costs in personal injury cases; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186492) | 94
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to review the quantum of general damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenity in personal injury claims in line with the Law Commission's recommendations; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186493) | 95
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to review the level of bereavement damages; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186494) | 96
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to review the discount rate for damages in personal injury cases; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186495) | 97
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will make a statement on progress with the proposed reforms of court dress. | | (186587) | 98
| Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to take steps to give grandparents a legal presumption of contact with grandchildren that can be enforced by the courts, save where a child's safety would be at risk. | | (187009) | 99
| Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what assessment he has made of the impact of high property values in the South East on the eligibility of people of low income who are home owners for civil legal aid. | | (187010) | 100
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans his Department has to bring forward plans to circumscribe the powers of the House of Lords. | | (186550) | 101
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what progress his Department is making in locating a site for the proposed new Supreme Court. | | (186551) | 102
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many motorists fined for speeding as a result of evidence provided by cameras (a) had not paid the fine after six months and (b) had the fine written off as uncollectable in each of the last five years. | | (187002) | 103
| Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what representations he has made to the Council of Ministers at the Council of Europe concerning the implementation of European Court rulings in relation to the bundle of Article 2 cases including McKerr, Shanaghan, Jordan, Kelly et al, McShane and Finucane; if he will place in the Library his 14th June observations concerning Memorandum CM/Inf (2004) 14 published by the Council of Ministers; and what the obstacles are to full implementation of the rulings of the court. | | (187541) | 104
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the backlog of Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service reports is; and how many children are involved in those cases. | | (186991) | 105
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service officers are in post; and how many posts are vacant. | | (186992) | 106
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many reports were drafted by (a) the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service and (b) predecessor bodies in each of the last five years. | | (186993) | 107
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the average length of time taken to draft a Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service report has been. | | (186999) | 108
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many people were registered for a permanent postal vote in the Bury St Edmunds constituency in each year since 1997. | | (187209) | 109
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what action his Department is taking to deal with delays experienced by applicants under the Code of Practice on access to Government information. | | (186608) | 110
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many contracts the Department has had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186610) | 111
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to encourage (a) young and (b) first-time voters to vote at the next General Election. | | (186873) | 112
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what provisions are in place to increase awareness amongst the judiciary of the behaviour patterns of people who have communication-related disabilities, including autism and Aspergers' Syndrome, in relation to sentencing for communication-related offences, with particular reference to (a) section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 and (b) the offence of being drunk and disorderly. | | (186920) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 113
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will estimate the National Lottery-derived balances held by (a) lottery funds, (b) each arts council and (c) each national sports body as at 1st April (i) 2002, (ii) 2003 and (iii) 2004. | | (186836) | 114
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public swimming pools there are in Coventry South. | | (187302) | 115
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has held with (a) the Department of Transport, (b) transport authorities, (c) public transport user groups and (d) companies operating public transport services on ensuring that public transport services are able to respond to the increased demand for late night services arising from increased use of late licences resulting from powers granted to licensing authorities under the Licensing Act 2003. | | (187157) | 116
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has held with owners of category D gaming machines in relation to the proposed ban on them in the Government's response to the Joint Select Committee on Gambling, broken down by (a) mini-cab offices, (b) fish and chip shops, (c) kebab shops, (d) other take-away food outlets and (e) others; and if she will make a statement. | | (187181) | 117
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessments her Department has made of the likely impact of the ban on category D gaming machines proposed in the Government's response to the Joint Select Committee on Gambling on (a) mini-cab companies, (b) fish and chip shops, (c) kebab shops, (d) other take-away food outlets and (e) others; and if she will make a statement. | | (187182) | 118
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to improve accessibility to (a) sports and (b) arts for older people. | | (186450) | 119
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what definition the Government uses of the term lower priority Olympic sports. | | (186376) | 120
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to meet the governing bodies of shooting in the near future. | | (186922) | 121
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action she has taken to ensure that access to public swimming pools in London increases. | | (186923) | 122
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what action she (a) can and (b) will take to increase the number of swimming pools in London. | | (186924) | 123
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) public lidos and (b) swimming pools have closed in London since 1997. | | (186925) | 124
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total reserves in the Sports Lottery Fund are. | | (186931) | 125
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the budget for the English Institute of Sport is for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07. | | (186932) | 126
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff are employed at each English Institute of Sport Hub. | | (186933) | 127
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has held with the London 2012 Olympics bid team on the venue for shooting events. | | (186934) | 128
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she last met representatives of the governing bodies of shooting to discuss the impact of recent legislation on the sport. | | (186935) | 129
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the closure on 14th July of the warehouse containing the Metropolitan Police Service's collection of artefacts is permanent; and if she will make a statement. | | (187475) | 130
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people (a) the National Lottery Commission, (b) the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, (c) the Film Council, (d) the Football Task Force, (e) the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, (f) Historic Royal Palaces, (g) the Millennium Commission, (h) the New Opportunities Fund, (i) the New Millennium Experience Company Ltd, (j) Resource, (k) the Spoliation Advisory Panel, (l) the Treasure Valuation Committee, (m) the Working Group on Human Remains, (n) the Craft Council, (o) the British Film Institute, (p) the National Film and Television School, (q) the Adult Education and Research Council, (r) the Gaming Board for Great Britain and (s) the Horserace Betting Levy Board employs on a (i) full-time and (ii) part-time basis. | | (187138) | 131
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total salary bill has been for (a) the National Lottery Commission, (b) the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, (c) the Film Council, (d) the Football Task Force, (e) the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, (f) Historic Royal Palaces, (g) the Millennium Commission, (h) the New Opportunities Fund, (i) the New Millennium Experience Company Ltd, (j) Resource, (k) the Spoliation Advisory Panel, (l) the Treasure Valuation Committee, (m) the Working Group on Human Remains, (n) the Craft Council, (o) the British Film Institute, (p) the National Film and Television School, (q) the Adult Education and Research Council, (r) the Gaming Board for Great Britain and (s) the Horserace Betting Levy Board in each year since its creation. | | (187139) | 132
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people who work for (a) the National Lottery Commission, (b) the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, (c) the Film Council, (d) the Football Task Force, (e) the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, (f) Historic Royal Palaces, (g) the Millennium Commission, (h) the New Opportunities Fund, (i) the New Millennium Experience Company Ltd, (j) Resource, (k) the Spoliation Advisory Panel, (l) the Treasure Valuation Committee, (m) the Working Group on Human Remains, (n) the Craft Council, (o) the British Film Institute, (p) the National Film and Television School, (q) the Adult Education and Research Council, (r) the Gaming Board for Great Britain and (s) the Horserace Betting Levy Board are entitled to a final salary pension scheme. | | (187140) | 133
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the remit is of (a) the National Lottery Commission, (b) the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, (c) the Film Council, (d) the Football Task Force, (e) the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, (f) the Millennium Commission, (g) the New Opportunities Fund, (h) the New Millennium Experience Company Ltd., (i) Resource, (j) the Spoliation Advisory Panel, (k) the Treasure Valuation Committee, (l) the Working Group on Human Remains, (m) the Craft Council, (n) the British Film Institute, (o) the National Film and Television School, (p) the Alcohol Education and Research Council, (q) the Gaming Board for Great Britain and (r) the Horserace Betting Levy Board. | | (187142) | 134
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what annual Government expenditure on (a) the National Lottery Commission, (b) the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, (c) the Film Council, (d) the Football Task Force, (e) the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, (f) the Millennium Commission, (g) the New Opportunities Fund, (h) the New Millennium Experience Company Ltd., (i) Resource, (j) the Spoliation Advisory Panel, (k) the Treasure Valuation Committee, (l) the Working Group on Human Remains, (m) the Craft Council, (n) the British Film Institute, (o) the National Film and Television School, (p) the Alcohol Education and Research Council, (q) the Gaming Board for Great Britain and (r) the Horserace Betting Levy Board was in each year since its creation. | | (187143) | 135
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people who work for (a) Culture North East, (b) the East Midlands Cultural Consortium, (c) Living east, (d) the North West Cultural Consortium, (e) the South East England Cultural Consortium, (f) the South West Regional Cultural Consortium, (g) the West Midlands Life Cultural Consortium and (h) the Yorkshire Cultural Consortium are entitled to a final salary pension scheme. | | (187145) | 136
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total salary has been for (a) Culture North East, (b) the East Midlands Cultural Consortium, (c) Living east, (d) the North West Cultural Consortium, (e) the South East England Cultural Consortium, (f) the South West Regional Cultural Consortium, (g) the West Midlands Life Cultural Consortium and (h) the Yorkshire Cultural Consortium in each year since its creation. | | (187146) | 137
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people (a) Culture North East, (b) the East Midlands Cultural Consortium, (c) Living east, (d) the North West Cultural Consortium, (e) the South East England Cultural Consortium, (f) the South West Regional Cultural Consortium, (g) the West Midlands Life Cultural Consortium and (h) the Yorkshire Cultural Consortium employs on a (i) full-time and (ii) part-time basis. | | (187147) | 138
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the Government expenditure on (a) Culture North East, (b) the East Midlands Cultural Consortium, (c) Living east, (d) the North West Cultural Consortium, (e) the South East England Cultural Consortium, (f) the South West Regional Cultural Consortium, (g) the West Midlands Life Cultural Consortium and (h) the Yorkshire Cultural Consortium was in each year since its creation. | | (187148) | 139
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the remit is of the regional cultural consortiums. | | (187149) | 140
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects to publish the Government's response to the report on the retention of human remains conducted by the Working Groups on Human Remains. | | (187262) | 141
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants were employed by her Department and its related agencies in each year since 1997. | | (187276) | 142
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many individuals who have received an Arts Council grant have had to pay back part or all of their grant because they did not meet the standard conditions for grants in each year since 1997. | | (187283) | 143
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people in the Bridgwater constituency do not have access to digital television. | | (186499) | 144
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many children aged between 5 and 16 years she estimates have not participated in at least two hours per week of physical activity and sport at school this year. | | (186504) | 145
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many schools in the Bridgwater constituency (a) are and (b) are not participating in a school sports partnership. | | (186505) | 146
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to support the tourism industry in Bridgwater. | | (186506) | 147
| Joyce Quin (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the budget of Sport England in the North East region of England was in each of the last three years. | | (186428) | 148
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much is being spent by the Government on arts programmes in (a) Yorkshire and (b) England (i) directly and (ii) indirectly. | | (186850) | 149
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many more freeview broadcasting licences the Government are planning to grant. | | (186858) | 150
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions the Government has had with the BBC regarding plans to renew the Charter. | | (186859) | 151
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will list the government-sponsored arts programmes in (a) London, (b) Yorkshire and (c) England (i) in 2004 and (ii) in the next five years. | | (186949) | 152
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on the Government's policy on (a) sport, (b) culture and (c) art. | | (186951) | 153
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to promote the Olympic bid for 2012. | | (186953) | 154
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much revenue she estimates tourism generated for (a) the East of England and (b) Suffolk in each of the last seven years. | | (187210) | 155
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which her Department is responsible. | | (187313) | 156
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many contracts her Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186689) | 157
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to involve Cabinet ministers in the promotion of London's Olympic bid; and what plans she has to promote London's Olympic bid nationwide. | | (187133) | 158
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to visit Herefordshire to promote it as a tourist destination for (a) British and (b) foreign holiday-makers.
| | (186823) | 159
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many old age pensioners in the Great Yarmouth constituency have benefited from the introduction of free television licences. | | (186708) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 160
N | David Burnside (South Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 21st July, Official Report, columns 343-70, what the future battalion strength of the Royal Irish Regiment will be; and whether it will include the retention of the three Home Battalions. | | (186526) | 161
N | David Burnside (South Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 21st July, Official Report, columns 343-70, what the future operational size of RAF Aldergrove will be; and whether it will include all present forces, with particular reference to aerial surveillance stationed on the base. | | (186527) | 162
N | David Burnside (South Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 21st July, Official Report, columns 343-70, what Royal Naval presence he plans around the coast of Northern Ireland to secure the Province against illegal importation of arms and explosives by sea. | | (186528) | 163
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what non-uniformed staff are employed by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies, broken down by (i) region and (ii) country; what relocations are pending; and what contribution he plans to make to the implementation of the Lyons Review. | | (186847) | 164
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many coastal protection vessels have been deployed in Northern Ireland waters by the Royal Navy in each year since 1997; and which the vessels were. | | (187417) | 165
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the costs were of coastal protection vessels in Northern Ireland waters in each year since 1997. | | (187418) | 166
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the impact on security of his decision to decommission three coastal protection vessels in Northern Ireland. | | (187419) | 167
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which battalions of the army are committed to Northern Ireland; where they are based; and what the average length of duty in Northern Ireland is of each battalion. | | (187420) | 168
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many troops were deployed in Northern Ireland in each year since 1997. | | (187421) | 169
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the size of the Ministry of Defence estate in Northern Ireland. | | (187422) | 170
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many men and women as at 21st July were serving with each infantry battalion of the British Army who were battle fit or able to serve on operational tours in Northern Ireland or overseas; and what the establishment strength is of each of those battalions. | | (187255) | 171
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the interval was between overseas or Northern Ireland operational tours for each infantry battalion since 1st June 1997, and what the (a) nature and (b) date of each operational tour on which each infantry battalion was deployed. | | (187340) | 172
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the Government's departmental efficiency savings are to be implemented in the British Army in the (a) current and (b) next two financial years. | | (187341) | 173
N | Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) other ranks have been recruited into each infantry battalion in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how many are planned to be recruited in each of the next five years. | | (187342) | 174
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel serving in Iraq since 1st January 2003 have been discharged from the forces as a result of injuries sustained from (a) road traffic accidents, (b) armed conflict and (c) other causes; and if he will make a statement. | | (186378) | 175
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19th July, Official Report, column 245W on Iraq, how many enquiries by (a) civilian authorities and (b) military police resulted from these incidents; what the conclusions were; and if he will make a statement. | | (186420) | 176
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he will answer the Question of 5th May, from the honourable Member for Portsmouth South, on ship-borne surface-to-surface missiles, ref 171863. | | (187046) | 177
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what specifications were included in the contract for clothing given to Cooneen, Watts & Store to ensure that the clothing was manufactured in the UK. | | (187494) | 178
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what quantities of Provigil and similar drugs have been purchased by his Department in each of the last five years; and at what cost. | | (187495) | 179
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel have been prescribed Provigil and similar drugs in each of the last six years; what quantities of drugs have been dispensed; and for what reasons. | | (187496) | 180
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effects of (i) Provigil and (ii) amphetamines and similar drugs in the last eight years; and if he will make a statement. | | (187497) | 181
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral statement of 21st July, Official Report, columns 343-70, if he will list the principal areas where he expects to make the efficiency savings of £2,800 million; how much will be attributable to each area; and over what timescale these savings will be delivered. | | (186638) | 182
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the decision to halt the Armoured Battlegroup Support Vehicle programme. | | (186639) | 183
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what supplies his Department has of replacement components for the (a) SA80A2 and (b) L85; and what plans he has to replenish these supplies. | | (186640) | 184
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the propensity of the Warrior to engage in (a) undemanded firing of weapons and (b) other actions attributable to design faults in the electrical and safety systems. | | (186641) | 185
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his written statement of 19th July, Official Report, column 1WS, on the Future Aircraft Carrier, what role his Department will play in the proposed alliance on the CVF Programme; and what proportion of the risk he estimates his Department will assume. | | (186642) | 186
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) ships and (b) personnel (i) were originally requested to take part and (ii) took part in Operation Majestic Eagle. | | (186643) | 187
| Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to contribute to the costs of running the Rosyth Shipyard. | | (186644) | 188
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the implications of the defence command paper, Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities, for the future of the South Atlantic Guardship. | | (187818) | 189
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the name is of the firm contracted to print the camouflage fabric for the Cut and Sew Tender DC4 BESL/1002. | | (187819) | 190
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many garments have been delivered for the Op-Telic Tender DC2 ESL/3122; and whether delivery of this contract is within the timescales set out in the contract. | | (187820) | 191
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the name is of the company contracted to make the garments for the Cut and Sew Tender DC4 BESL/1002. | | (187841) | 192
| Mr Brian Jenkins (Tamworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many infantry were employed by the British Army, broken down by rank, excluding vacancies according to the latest available statistics; and what projections for numbers of infantry were made for the Defence Review. | | (187008) | 193
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15th March, Official Report, column 48W, on Iraq, what criteria were used to determine which pages of the Iraqi declaration on its weapons of mass destruction were relevant for translation from Arabic. | | (187391) | 194
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost was of defence attachés in each financial year since 2001-02. | | (187125) | 195
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much separated service was recorded by the (a) RAF Separated Service Recording System in each year since 2002 and (b) Navy Separated Service Recording System in each year since 2001. | | (187126) | 196
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the last three operational deployments and the length between each has been for (a) 1 PARA, (b) 2 PARA, (c) 3 PARA and (d) 7th Armoured Brigade; and how many personnel have been medically downgraded in each. | | (187127) | 197
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department is planning to release its budget. | | (187128) | 198
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his appraisal is of the role of the Territorial Army in the Iraq war and subsequent peace-keeping operation. | | (186490) | 199
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what further consultations there have been on the positioning of wind farms near the helicopter base on the West Somerset coast. | | (186496) | 200
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding is being provided to Territorial Army personnel returning from service in Iraq. | | (186497) | 201
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what future plans his Department has for the use of the range at Kilve Bend in Somerset. | | (186498) | 202
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on his plans to reduce the number of RAF servicemen and women; and how many (a) military and (b) civilian employees will be affected. | | (186395) | 203
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications of (a) the Defence Spending Review and (b) the proposals set out in his oral statement on future capabilities for defence on 21st July for (i) RAF Leeming, (ii) RAF Linton on Ouse, (iii) AAC Dishforth and (iv) Alanbrook Barracks; and if he will make a statement. | | (186618) | 204
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the security review at AAC Dishforth. | | (186619) | 205
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he will make a statement on the security of nuclear weapons stored in transit at RAF Leeming. | | (186620) | 206
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Typhoon/Eurofighter will enter into service at RAF Leeming. | | (186621) | 207
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications of (a) the Defence Spending Review and (b) the proposals set out in his oral statement on future capabilities for defence on 21st July for (i) the Typhoon project and (ii) the Apache project; and if he will make a statement.
| | (186668) | 208
| Mr Andrew Mackay (Bracknell):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. | | (187481) | 209
| Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10th February, Official Report, column 1321W, on Deaths in service, when he will write to the honourable Member for Kingston upon Hull North. | | (187032) | 210
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the future of the Cheshire Regiment. | | (186425) | 211
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the tours of duty undertaken by the Cheshire Regiment in the last 25 years. | | (186426) | 212
| John Robertson (Glasgow Anniesland):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the ability of the United Kingdom to conduct military operations independently of the United States after the modernisation of the armed forces. | | (187567) | 213
| John Robertson (Glasgow Anniesland):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for UK security of the decision by the US Department of Defense to re-organise its military personnel in Europe. | | (187568) | 214
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy vessels used (a) the Rota naval base and (b) the Gibraltar naval base in the past six months. | | (187499) | 215
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187310) | 216
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186692) | 217
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on relations between NATO and Russia, with particular reference to security in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc. | | (186771) | 218
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on recent naval operations to combat international drug smuggling. | | (186772) | 219
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research his Department has commissioned on the offensive capabilities of enemy insurgents in Iraq. | | (186773) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 220
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he has had from (a) local authorities, (b) caring organisations and (c) people with learning disabilities regarding the review of the Supporting People programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (186727) | 221
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when the Government will publish good practice guidance for local authorities and developers on the planning obligations. | | (187150) | 222
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when the Government plans to issue a revised circular on planning obligations. | | (187175) | 223
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what information was available to his Ministers on 22nd July about the likely outcomes of votes for regional assemblies. | | (186995) | 224
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will estimate the resources which have been put into preparing for the postponed votes on regional assemblies. | | (186996) | 225
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how he assessed the (a) support for and (b) problems of all postal voting in (i) the North East, (ii) the North West and (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber. | | (186997) | 226
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he is taking to prevent the postal vote problems in the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber from appearing in the North East. | | (186998) | 227
| Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what advice he has sought from (a) the Practitioners Forum and (b) the Business and Community Safety Forum on plans for a national procurement strategy for the Fire and Rescue Service; what details of his reform proposals each forum has seen; and what recommendations they have made to him. | | (186967) | 228
| Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he plans to remove the constraints imposed on major procurement to the Fire and Rescue Service in November 2003. | | (186968) | 229
| Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the impact that plans to reform guidelines for procurement to the Fire and Rescue Service will have on the supply sector's (a) small and medium-sized enterprises, (b) levels of employment, (c) research and development capability and (d) exports. | | (186969) | 230
| Mr Michael Clapham (Barnsley West & Penistone):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what conclusions he has drawn on the effect that a national procurement plan for the Fire and Rescue Service will have on competition in the industries concerned. | | (186970) | 231
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much has been spent by Northampton Borough Council in each year since 1997 on (a) refurbishment, (b) redecoration and (c) renewal of its directly-owned housing stock; and what the average spending per property was each year, excluding the amount spent on central government schemes, including the New Deal. | | (186516) | 232
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what effect his Department's good practice guide to flyposting has had on the residents of Leyton and Wanstead. | | (187744) | 233
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the value of assets transferred from One North East to the partnership with UK Land Estates was; and what the (a) cost and (b) source of the advice obtained by One North East before the sale was. | | (186846) | 234
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what (a) street warden, (b) neighbourhood warden and (c) neighbourhood management schemes he has approved in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne; what the value of each was; what schemes have been rejected; and which schemes have been bid for but not yet determined. | | (186856) | 235
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many empty properties there were in each tenure sector in each authority in Tyne and Wear, according to the latest returns available. | | (186955) | 236
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps his Department is taking to ensure conformity of requirements for fire safety under the Building Regulations 2000 and crime prevention measures introduced into the Building Act 1984 by the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Bill. | | (186791) | 237
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether fire safety requirements for occupants' means of escape and emergency access for the fire and rescue service in the current Building Regulations will take precedence over requirements for crime prevention measures due to be introduced into the Building Act 1984 and the Building Regulations by the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Bill. | | (186793) | 238
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many full-time equivalent staff of the Audit Commission were working (a) in the Inspection Directorate, (b) in the Housing Inspectorate, (c) on the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, (d) on local authority audits and (e) in administration and management in each financial year since 2000-01. | | (187561) | 239
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the (a) total budget, (b) departmental funding and (c) total cost to his Department of the Community Forum (i) is for the financial year 2004-05 and (ii) is estimated for financial years 2005-06 to 2007-08. | | (187563) | 240
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the estimated (a) total budget, (b) departmental funding and (c) cost to his Department of the (i) Property Consultative Group, (ii) Home Buying and Selling Forum, (iii) Central Stakeholder Group, (iv) Building Regulations Advisory Committee and (v) Home Ownership Task Force are for the financial years 2005-06 to 2007-08. | | (187564) | 241
| Mr Edward Davey (Kingston & Surbiton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when his Department's resource accounts for 2004-05 will be published; and if he will make a statement. | | (187565) | 242
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 1st March, Official Report, column 753W, on the non-domestic rate pool, whether (a) the police and (b) other agencies in Gloucestershire were allocated funding from non-domestic rates in 2003-04. | | (186327) | 243
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what studies he has undertaken regarding the energy losses occurring in public and private heated swimming pool shells in advance of his forthcoming consultation document on improving the building regulations concerning the conservation of fuel and power. | | (187385) | 244
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd June, Official Report, column 1461W, on domestic violence, if he will list the radio stations, women's press and supermarkets where the helpline was advertised; and if he will list the sites of the washroom posters. | | (187072) | 245
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the cost of fraud to Government Offices of the Regions in each of the last five years. | | (186400) | 246
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the equivalent monetary cost of theft to the Government Office of the Regions has been in each year since 1997. | | (186407) | 247
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to commission research into the effects on vulnerable people of changes in funding for the Supporting People programme. | | (187523) | 248
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the working groups and committees at European Union level upon which his Department sits; and if he will list the current agenda of each. | | (187324) | 249
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list average house prices by region in each year since 1997. | | (187325) | 250
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of home buyers were first-time buyers in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (187326) | 251
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of public sector employees are in accommodation designated for key workers; and if he will make a statement. | | (187327) | 252
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate has been made of the number of derelict homes; what proportion of these are council owned; what proportion of these are in (a) urban areas and (b) in the South East region; and if he will make a statement. | | (187328) | 253
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of council-owned homes are directly run by the council. | | (187329) | 254
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his Department's estimate is of demand for housing units in each decade to 2050, broken down by UK region. | | (187330) | 255
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the total cost is of the Your Say information campaign on elected regional assemblies in (a) the North West, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the North East to date. | | (187162) | 256
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his revised estimate is of the total cost of the Your Say information campaigns in the light of the postponement of the referendums in the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber. | | (187252) | 257
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list each item of expenditure undertaken as part of the Your Say information campaign on elected regional assemblies, broken down by the region in which that expenditure was undertaken. | | (187253) | 258
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost was of the Boundary Committee Review of local government in (a) the North East, (b) the North West and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber. | | (187254) | 259
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what research his Department is conducting into homeless families. | | (186310) | 260
| Jim Knight (South Dorset):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many local authorities have conducted needs assessments on sport, recreation and open space facilities as required by Policy Planning Guidance Note 17. | | (187383) | 261
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what guidance his Department has issued with respect to levels of new-house building (a) within the Bridgwater parliamentary constituency and (b) in the South West region; and if he will list for both areas the sites targeted for development. | | (186533) | 262
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what has been the cost (a) each year and (b) in total since their inception of the regional bodies in the South West that fall under the remit of his Department; what responsibilities these regional bodies hold; what these regional bodies' total budgets are; what assessment he has made of their impact; and if he will make a statement. | | (186538) | 263
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what impact the additional funding granted to his Department in the 2004 Spending Review will have on the provision of affordable housing (a) in the Bridgwater parliamentary constituency and (b) in the South West; and what assessment he has made of the likely impact on the greenbelt and green spaces. | | (186540) | 264
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what targets his Department has set with respect to levels of new-house building (a) within the Bridgwater parliamentary constituency and (b) in the South West region; and if he will make a statement. | | (186541) | 265
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when the revised Planning Policy Guidance, PPG22, on renewable energy will be published; and if he will make a statement. | | (186557) | 266
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the operational efficiency of regional boundaries in relation to the re-organisation of local fire and rescue services. | | (186613) | 267
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the basis was for the decision that a single regional fire control room should be created to cover the South West region; what assessment he has made of the operational advantages of such a reorganisation; and what assessment he has made of the impact on the number of deaths as a result of fire. | | (186698) | 268
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what research his Department has carried out to assess the impact of expanding shared ownership schemes on the production of affordable rental housing for key workers and low-income groups. | | (187530) | 269
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment his Department has made of the credit needs of low and moderate income borrowers in relation to accessing affordable privately-rented accommodation. | | (187531) | 270
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what research his Department has carried out into potential policy mechanisms aimed at stimulating growth in the private rented sector. | | (187532) | 271
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what measures his Department is taking to stimulate private sector involvement in the delivery of (a) shared equity and (b) privately-rented accommodation. | | (187536) | 272
| Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what changes have been made to the 1988 Local Authority Publicity provisions, with particular reference to paragraph 43 on political publicity prior to an election; and if he will make a statement. | | (186319) | 273
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many households were living in temporary accommodation in the Bury St Edmunds constituency in each year since 1997; and how many of those households included dependent children. | | (187203) | 274
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much funding was made available for the Suffolk Fire Authority (a) in 2004-05 and (b) in each of the last nine years. | | (187204) | 275
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many firefighters were employed by the Suffolk Fire Authority (a) in 2004-05 and (b) in each of the last 10 years. | | (187208) | 276
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the percentage change in house prices in Suffolk was in each of the last seven years. | | (187211) | 277
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what percentage of the East of England was classed as urban area (a) 30 years ago, (b) 10 years ago, (c) five years ago and (d) at the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (187212) | 278
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will require a start on works to activate a time-limited planning approval to represent at least a quarter of the development; and if he will make a statement. | | (186980) | 279
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the minimum requirement of works commenced is for a time-limited planning approval to be activated; and if he will make a statement. | | (186981) | 280
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will reply to the Question tabled by the honourable Member for Meriden on 21st June, reference 180362, on refurbishment of buildings. | | (186418) | 281
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the Audit Commission's latest ratings are for councils in (a) Essex and (b) the Eastern area. | | (186534) | 282
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many councils in England were assessed as (a) excellent, (b) good, (c) fair and (d) weak in the last available assessment. | | (186535) | 283
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187320) | 284
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will apply the 2001 Census data for the next round of calculating the local government finance settlement. | | (187598) | 285
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether it is his policy to use the most up-to-date data available for calculating grant distribution to local authorities; and if he will make a statement. | | (187599) | 286
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many contracts his Office had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg, (d) the Bank of Scotland, (e) PriceWaterhouseCoopers, (f) Deloitte and Touche, (g) KPMG and (h) Ernst and Young for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186695) | 287
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what rules govern whether a unitary council's area can be treated as a sub-region for the purpose of regional planning arrangements. | | (187716) | 288
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost of (a) air travel by and (b) overnight accommodation for his Department's officials on departmental business was in 2003-04. | | (186594) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 289
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost of the Construction Industry Training Board Levy was to exhibition (a) constructing companies and (b) subcontracting companies in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (187468) | 290
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in what year the order establishing the Construction Industry Training Board Levy was amended to include activities in connection with the erection and dismantling of exhibition stands. | | (187469) | 291
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many exhibition construction companies have appealed to industrial tribunals seeking exemption from the Construction Industry Training Board Levy; and what the results were. | | (187470) | 292
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when the requirement for exhibition contractors to be registered with the Construction Industry Training Board was last reviewed; and if he will make a statement. | | (187471) | 293
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what recent discussions he and his officials have held with the British Exhibition Contractors Association on the requirements by their members to be registered with the Construction Industry Training Board; and if he will make a statement. | | (187472) | 294
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) teachers and (b) education support staff there were in Northampton South in each year since 1992. | | (186462) | 295
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will break down achievement at each key stage in 2003 in Northampton by ethnicity, subdivided into those (a) in receipt of and (b) not in receipt of free school meals. | | (186509) | 296
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average class size in Northampton South for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools was in each year since 1997. | | (186521) | 297
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what bids he has received for Westgate College, Newcastle under the Building Schools for the Future programme; when he expects to make a decision; and what funding mechanism he expects to use. | | (186834) | 298
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the change in (a) basic skills and (b) proportion of working age people (i) with no qualifications, (ii) qualified to level 2 and (iii) qualified to level 4 has been in the constituency of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central since 1997. | | (186838) | 299
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will place in the Library the survey referred to in his Answer of 10th May, Official report, columns 53-4W, on student grants. | | (186849) | 300
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of 18 year olds were accepted for entry to higher education through UCAS in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne in each year since 1995. | | (186860) | 301
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average class size in Coventry South for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools was in each year since 1997. | | (187298) | 302
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Coventry South students in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools suffer from learning (i) difficulties and (ii) disabilities. | | (187299) | 303
N | Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will ring-fence a specific grant in 2005-06 for planning, preparation and assessment time for primary school teachers. | | (186308) | 304
| Barbara Follett (Stevenage):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to allow children to start primary education in the September of the calendar year in which the child has its sixth birthday. | | (187529) | 305
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to improve access to education for pensioners. | | (186451) | 306
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to improve (a) IT training and (b) access to the internet for older people. | | (186794) | 307
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many names are on the Protection of Children Act list; and how many names have been added in each month since its inception. | | (187110) | 308
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much was spent by the Learning and Skills Council on producing the Learner Satisfaction Survey in 2003. | | (186602) | 309
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost of strategic area reviews was in 2003-04; and how much is budgeted for (a) 2004-05 and (b) 2005-06. | | (186603) | 310
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding methodology was used for setting budgets for local learning and skills councils in 2003-04. | | (186604) | 311
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money has been allocated to each local learning and skills council in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06. | | (186605) | 312
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what level of proficiency participants in (a) the Post Graduate Certificate of Education, (b) Teach First and (c) the Graduate Teacher Programme need to reach with regard to (i) ICT and (ii) special educational needs to be deemed to have met the course requirements. | | (186421) | 313
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list the items that his Department has reported lost or stolen to the police from his Department's buildings and property since 2001. | | (186676) | 314
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost of satellite and cable subscriptions in his Department's buildings was in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will list the premium channels that his Department subscribes to. | | (186677) | 315
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the (a) capital and (b) running costs of mobile phones in his Department has been in each year since 2001. | | (186678) | 316
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much his Department spent on replacing light bulbs in the last year for which figures are available. | | (186679) | 317
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on energy efficiency in his Department's buildings. | | (186680) | 318
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many mobile phones owned by his Department have been reported lost or stolen since 2001. | | (186681) | 319
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the equivalent monetary cost of theft to (a) his Department and (b) the Executive Agencies affiliated to his Department has been in each year since his Department was established. | | (186682) | 320
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of fraud to (a) his Department and (b) the Executive Agencies affiliated to his Department in the last year for which figures are available. | | (186683) | 321
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much his Department spent in the last year for which figures are available on (a) refurbishment and (b) office furniture. | | (186684) | 322
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations he has received about the effectiveness of city academies in tacking social deprivation. | | (186468) | 323
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations the Department has received regarding its new secondary school targets. | | (186469) | 324
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action he is taking to give headteachers more control over school budgets. | | (186470) | 325
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to conduct research into how school budgets are spent. | | (186471) | 326
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will list all the schools targets set by the Government in spending reviews since 1997, indicating whether or not they have been reached. | | (186472) | 327
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the most recent estimate is of the average total salary of a (a) primary school teacher and (b) secondary school teacher in (i) Enfield, (ii) Inner London and (iii) England; and if he will make a statement. | | (187003) | 328
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils on average were (i) permanently excluded from school and (ii) unable to access a place in school in each of the last five years in (A) the London Borough of Enfield, (B) Inner London and (C) England; and if he will make a statement. | | (187005) | 329
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary teacher vacancies there were at the start of each of the last five academic years in (i) the London Borough of Enfield, (ii) Inner London and (iii) England; what the percentage salary rate was in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (187006) | 330
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding has been made available to (a) Sure Start projects, (b) Early Excellence centres, (c) Neighbourhood Nurseries and (d) other early years initiatives in the London Borough of Enfield in each year since their inception; what the projected funding is over the period of the Spending Review; and if he will make a statement. | | (187007) | 331
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many schools in England have catering facilities run by private companies. | | (187295) | 332
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether the new contracts for prison education will provide funding for (a) staff development, (b) lesson planning, (c) marking of students' work and (d) pastoral education. | | (187215) | 333
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time teachers and tutors are in post at each (i) prison and (ii) young offender institute. | | (187216) | 334
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many prison education tutors have (a) resigned and (b) been made redundant in each of the last five years; and how many vacancies there are for these staff. | | (187217) | 335
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has for the Offenders' Learning and Skills Unit within his Department. | | (187218) | 336
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what role the regional Learning and Skills Councils will have in the (a) commissioning and (b) delivery of offender education in (i) prisons and (ii) the community. | | (187220) | 337
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when his Department will (a) release full details of the new contracts for prison education, (b) begin accepting tenders, (c) make decisions on which tenders will be successful and (d) announce a start date for the new contracts. | | (187238) | 338
| Mr Kerry Pollard (St Albans):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits to (a) science in schools and (b) biology fieldwork following the science and innovation consultation; and if he will make a statement. | | (186465) | 339
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average number of pupils in primary classes in the London Borough of Havering was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004; and what the figures are for all other London boroughs. | | (187733) | 340
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children in (a) Suffolk County Council and (b) Bury St Edmunds constituency played truant from school in each of the last five years. | | (187179) | 341
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many full-time equivalent teachers have been employed in Suffolk in each of the last 10 years. | | (187194) | 342
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations he has received about the closure of classrooms at Alderman Blaxhill Secondary School, Colchester, following the discovery of asbestos; what action he is taking to ensure that the school has sufficient operational classrooms for the new school year; and if he will make a statement. | | (187012) | 343
| Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to require small schools to have a minimum number of pupils. | | (186476) | 344
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether food skills training is provided in primary school teachers' initial teacher training. | | (187458) | 345
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action is being taken to help primary school teachers to teach cookery in addition to the Food in Schools programme. | | (187459) | 346
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action his Department is taking to improve food education in schools. | | (187460) | 347
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many primary schools have the (a) necessary equipment and (b) purpose built facilities to enable pupils to prepare and cook food. | | (187461) | 348
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much schools have spent on average for each pupil in each of the last 10 years on food education in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools. | | (187462) | 349
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he has made of the impact in Nottingham of reductions in numbers of teachers and teaching assistants on the introduction of planning, preparation and assessment time for all teachers. | | (187084) | 350
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187314) | 351
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186690) | 352
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many press officers are employed in his Department. | | (187158) | 353
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what his projection is of the number of press officers employed in his Department for 2004-05. | | (187554) | 354
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the introduction of a stress policy in his Department. | | (187092) | 355
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the anticipated impact is of staff reductions in his Department on the delivery of services to (a) children under five, (b) school age children, (c) young people, (d) 14 to 19 year olds, (e) adults and (f) families. | | (187096) | 356
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many staff at each grade in his Department have opted out of the Working Time Regulations; and what the average number of hours these staff work per week is. | | (187097) | 357
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to permit academically-orientated students who have been expelled from mainstream education and who are in Pupil Referral Units to study in academic surroundings to complete their education. | | (186941) | 358
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research his Department has commissioned regarding the number of university graduates who enter graduate jobs within six months of graduating. | | (186942) | 359
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research he has commissioned regarding the school exclusion rates of (a) autistic students and (b) students with Asperger's Syndrome; and if he will make a statement on his policy on whether autistic students should remain in mainstream schools. | | (186943) | 360
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps the Government is taking to promote stable families. | | (186975) | 361
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost of the General Teaching Council was in 2002-03, broken down by main budget heading. | | (187399) | 362
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will break down the 2002-03 administration cost of the Teacher Training Agency by main budget heading. | | (187400) | 363
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many staff were employed in the (a) Teacher Training Agency and (b) General Teaching Council in 2002-03; and what the staff costs were in each case. | | (187401) | 364
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average class size was in (a) 2003 and (b) 2004 for (i) primary, (ii) secondary and (iii) specialist schools, broken down by constituency. | | (187402) | 365
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many staff are employed in administration roles within the (a) Learning and Skills Council, (b) Higher Education Funding Council for England and (c) Sector Skills Agency. | | (187487) | 366
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what measures he is taking to reduce his Department's central administrative costs. | | (187488) | 367
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans he has to reduce staffing levels within his Department. | | (187489) | 368
| Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the (a) average, (b) shortest and (c) longest length of time taken between 1997 and 2004 to complete a building project for a new school was from the start of specifying the project to the opening of the new building. | | (187750) | 369
| Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the (a) average, (b) shortest and (c) longest length of time taken between 1997 and 2004 to complete a building project to expand capacity in a school was from the start of specifying the project to the opening of the new capacity. | | (187751) | 370
| Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average length of time a head teacher spent in post in the (a) primary and (b) secondary sectors was in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (187752) | 371
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of children had access to pre-school education in (a) St Helens and (b) England, broken down by region, in each year since 1997. | | (186800) | 372
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans the Government has to expand access to pre-school education; and if he will make a statement. | | (186802) | 373
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the Government's policy is on pre-school education access; and if he will make a statement. | | (186803) | 374
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, whether the Government expects to meet its target of providing free part-time nursery education places to all three and four year old children by September; and if he will make a statement. | | (186808) | 375
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Early Excellence centres (a) have been opened and (b) are planned to be opened in (i) St Helens and (ii) England, broken down by region. | | (186809) | 376
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children's information services (a) have been opened and (b) are planned to be opened in (i) St Helens and (ii) England, broken down by region. | | (186810) | 377
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Sure Start programmes (a) have begun and (b) are planned in (i) St Helens and (ii) England, broken down by region. | | (186811) | 378
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the Government's policy is on extending childcare provision; and what plans the Government has to extend childcare provision. | | (186813) | 379
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the Government's policy is on the promotion of the National Childcare Strategy; and what plans the Government has to extend the strategy. | | (186814) | 380
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate the Government has made of the number of (a) childcare places and (b) childminders that will be created by the Neighbourhood Nurseries initiative. | | (186815) | 381
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate the Government has made of how many registered
childcare places there were in (i) St Helens and (ii) the UK, broken down by region, in each year since 1997.
| | (186827) | 382
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate the Government has made of the average amount of money parents in England contribute to the cost of childcare. | | (186863) | 383
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what plans the Government has to extend Sure Start beyond the 20 per cent. most deprived wards; and if he will make a statement. | | (187362) | 384
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate the Government has made of the number of privately run nurseries in each year since 1997 (a) broken down by region and (b) in St Helens. | | (187363) | 385
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many local authority nurseries there were in each year since 1997, (a) broken down by region and (b) in St Helens. | | (187364) | 386
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate the Government has made of the number of nurseries which have closed in each year since 1997 (a) broken down by region and (b) in St Helens. | | (187365) | 387
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the Government's policy is on implementing the recommendations of the Effective Provision of Pre-School Education project; and if he will make a statement. | | (187366) | 388
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the Government's policy is on the training of early years teachers; and if he will make a statement. | | (187367) | 389
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate the Government has made of the number of gypsy and traveller children in each year since 1997 (a) broken down by region and (b) in St Helens. | | (187368) | 390
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils per computer there were in schools in (a) Norfolk and (b) Great Yarmouth in each year since 1996. | | (186705) | 391
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many new (a) primary and (b) secondary schools were opened in the Great Yarmouth constituency between 1979 and 1997; and what proposals have been made for building new schools within the Great Yarmouth constituency since 1997. | | (186706) | 392
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public money was spent per pupil in the Great Yarmouth constituency in each year since 1997. | | (186709) | 393
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils were excluded from schools in (a) Great Yarmouth and (b) Norfolk in each year since 1997. | | (186710) | 394
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding has been given to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the Great Yarmouth constituency for the refurbishment of school buildings since 1997. | | (186711) | 395
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what funding has been allocated to the Great Yarmouth constituency under the Sure Start scheme. | | (186712) | 396
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many free (a) nursery and (b) pre-school places were available for (i) three and (ii) four year olds in Great Yarmouth in each of the last seven years. | | (186713) | 397
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what public funding has been spent on adult (a) literacy and (b) numeracy in Great Yarmouth in each of the last five years. | | (186716) | 398
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public funding has been spent in Great Yarmouth on measures within the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001. | | (186720) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 399
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason all Ministerial Statements made by her Department are not published on the Departmental website as a matter of course on the day of their publication. | | (186725) | 400
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the percentage of (a) plaice, (b) cod, (c) dab, (d) flounder, (e) herring, (f) haddock, (g) skate and (h) huss (i) landed in British ports and (ii) in the North Sea which are diseased. | | (186726) | 401
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department's fly-tipping strategy has affected the residents of Leyton and Wanstead. | | (187745) | 402
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department's litter guidance policy has affected the residents of Leyton and Wanstead. | | (187747) | 403
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many refrigeration unit storage and treatment facilities have been found to be in breach of regulations relating to the implementation of European Council Regulation No. 2037/2000 since it came into force; and what action was taken in each case. | | (187017) | 404
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) storage and (b) treatment facilities for refrigeration units there are in England and Wales; and how many of these have been inspected by the Environment Agency since European Council Regulation No. 2037/2000 came into force. | | (187018) | 405
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total cost to (a) central Government and (b) local authorities of meeting the requirements of European Council Regulation No. 2037/2000 as they relate to refrigeration units has been since 1st January 2002. | | (187019) | 406
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of the ozone depleting substances covered by European Council Regulation No. 2037/2000 have been recovered from (a) domestic refrigeration and (b) commercial refrigeration units since the implementation of the regulation, broken down by (i) refrigerant fluid and (ii) foaming agent. | | (187020) | 407
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what procedures are in place to ensure that (a) handling, (b) removal and (c) storage of refrigeration units results in minimal leakage of ozone depleting substances; and what measures exist to ensure an accurate monitoring of leakage. | | (187021) | 408
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the principal factors behind failures to recover all potential ozone depleting substances from refrigeration units. | | (187022) | 409
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much CFC12 has been recovered from (a) refrigeration circuits and (b) refrigeration unit foams since European Council Regulation No. 2037/2000 came into force. | | (187023) | 410
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much CFC11 has been recovered from refrigeration unit foams since European Council Regulation No. 2037/2000 came into force. | | (187024) | 411
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make monthly statements over the following 12 months on the number of hazardous waste producers contacting her Department and the agencies for which she is responsible who have been unable to find a waste contractor able to take the hazardous waste they produce, giving details of the (a) type of waste and (b) amount of waste concerned. | | (187172) | 412
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Environment Agency's (a) procedure and (b) resources will be to ensure that all hazardous waste producers, including those producing small and sporadic quantities of hazardous waste, (i) are aware of and (ii) comply with the requirement to register as a hazardous waste producer. | | (187173) | 413
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21st July, Official Report, column 250W, on hazardous waste, if she will provide full details of the sampling process used to obtain the cross section of small businesses that received the survey; how many businesses were sent the survey; how many businesses returned the survey; and if she will place a copy of (a) the survey and (b) the full responses received in the Library. | | (187174) | 414
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July, Official Report, column 1340W, on the Bastroe Channel, what the findings were of the independent environmental impact assessment of the Bastroe Channel project by experts appointed by the Council of Europe. | | (187615) | 415
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department is making for allocating single farm entitlements with authorisation to grow potatoes and vegetables; and what criteria will be applied in the process. | | (186982) | 416
| Mr John Grogan (Selby):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of Common Agricultural Policy reform regulations on the availability of land for let to specialist potato and vegetable growers in 2005. | | (186983) | 417
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the total tonnage of veterinary antibiotics used in the UK, in the most recent year for which figures are available, were used for (a) farm animals and (b) domestic and other animals. | | (187478) | 418
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the latest figures are for the amount of compostable material disposed of each year in England; how much is reclaimed and recycled as compost; and what plans she has to increase this figure. | | (187547) | 419
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much methane gas per year is produced by landfill sites in England; how much is put to use; and what plans she has to increase this latter figure. | | (187548) | 420
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what amounts of (a) waste cooking fats and (b) batteries were disposed of in each of the last three years; how much of each was recycled; what plans she has to increase those figures; and if she will make a statement. | | (187549) | 421
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the take-up of the Access Improvement Grant Scheme by local authorities has been; what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Scheme in meeting its stated objectives; and what will become of the Scheme as a result of Rural Strategy 2004. | | (186987) | 422
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the environmental implications of introducing variable charges for the collection of domestic household waste. | | (187278) | 423
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what decision has been taken by her Department regarding the level of voluntary modulation on agricultural payments. | | (186558) | 424
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):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 on (a) dairy farmers, (b) cattle farmers and (c) sheep farmers in farms located within land designated as (i) moorland within the upland severely disadvantaged area and (ii) other land within the upland severely disadvantaged area; and if she will make a statement. | | (186559) | 425
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms are located within land designated as (a) moorland within the upland severely disadvantaged area and (b) other land within the upland severely disadvantaged area. | | (186560) | 426
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms straddle the border between land classified as moorland within the upland severely disadvantaged area and other land within the upland severely disadvantaged area. | | (186561) | 427
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what specific resources have been allocated to river and coastal flood defences between 2005-06 and 2007-08; and if she will make a statement. | | (186569) | 428
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the latest figures are that she has collated on the sale of bio-fuels. | | (186570) | 429
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of bio-fuels sold were produced from imported vegetable oil in the last year for which figures are available. | | (186571) | 430
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) homes and (b) farm holdings have been unable to obtain insurance policies against flood damage in the last year for which statistics are available; and if she will make a statement. | | (186685) | 431
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications were made to the Woodland Grant Scheme in each of the last three years; how many were successful; and what was the total sum of grant awarded in each year. | | (187151) | 432
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications under the Woodland Grant Scheme were received between 1st April and 28th June; what the total sum of money applied for was; how many of these applications have been successful; and what the total sum of grant approved is. | | (187152) | 433
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the reasons are for the deferral of the start of the woodland creation grants scheme until 2006-07. | | (187153) | 434
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what grants will be available from her Department or the Forestry Commission between now and 31st March 2006 to assist the creation of new woodlands. | | (187256) | 435
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many woodland grants were made by her Department or by the Forestry Commission in respect of woodlands in (a) the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and (b) Buckinghamshire in each of the last four financial years; what the sum of such grants was in each such year; and if she will make a statement. | | (187257) | 436
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications for woodland grants her Department and the Forestry Commission has received during the current financial year in respect of woodlands in (a) the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and (b) Buckinghamshire; what the total sum applied for was; how many such applications, and to what aggregate value, have been approved; and if she will make a statement. | | (187258) | 437
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the risk from sudden oak death syndrome to woodlands in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; and if she will make a statement. | | (187259) | 438
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from (a) farmers in the Vale of York and (b) farmers elsewhere in England regarding the impact of the bad weather in August on the harvest; and what measures her Department proposes to take to alleviate the situation. | | (187560) | 439
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discharges of radioactivity to the River Thames and its tributaries are permitted. | | (187717) | 440
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the budget for (a) research and development in and (b) marketing support to the horticulture industry was in each year since 1997. | | (187500) | 441
| Joyce Quin (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the budget of (a) the Environment Agency, (b) the Countryside Agency and (c) English Nature in the North East region of England was in each of the last three years. | | (186431) | 442
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the pilot projects dealing with fast food and litter partnerships; and if she will make a statement. | | (187571) | 443
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many complaints concerning light pollution were received by each local authority in England in each of the last 10 years; and if she will make a statement. | | (187574) | 444
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what thresholds for GM contamination of non-GM seeds the Government intends to support within the EU. | | (187620) | 445
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with retailers about the final waste disposal of radio barcodes contained within consumer goods. | | (187621) | 446
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which her Department is responsible. | | (187317) | 447
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has held with Ofwat about recent increases in water rates in the South West. | | (186964) | 448
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what central Government funding is available to defray the cost of replacing and updating water and sewerage pipes in the South West. | | (186965) | 449
| Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what central Government funding is available in the South West region to meet the cost of compliance with the EU Bathing Water Directive. | | (186966) | 450
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many contracts her Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186660) | 451
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made towards meeting recycling targets of 25 per cent. of household waste by 2005. | | (187011) | 452
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there are economic disincentives for waste-to-energy incinerators to burn source separated waste. | | (187069) | 453
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for competition between UK and other EU producers of the removal of the derogation on flock size and stocking density on pre 1999 organic egg producers. | | (186580) | 454
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received concerning the decision to remove the derogation on flock size and stocking density for organic egg producers in production in 1999; and if she will make a statement. | | (186581) | 455
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the status of Council Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003 Western Waters. | | (187424) | 456
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to agree a management plan for scallops, crabs and lobsters in the Western
Channel. | | (187425) | 457
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures she is taking to assess (a) historic shellfish landings that will form the basis of a management plan and (b) current shellfish landings. | | (187426) | 458
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what access will be available to Spanish boats to fish for crab stocks in the Western Waters. | | (187427) | 459
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures she is taking to improve monitoring of UK fisheries to prevent incursion from foreign fishing boats in the Western Waters. | | (187428) | 460
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures the Government is taking to prevent criminal behaviour by animal rights organisations against lobster fishermen. | | (187429) | 461
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures she is taking to prevent the theft of clams from Poole harbour. | | (187430) | 462
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to improve the United Kingdom's recycling performance. | | (186939) | 463
| Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish farm-level data on Common Agricultural Policy subsidy receipts along the lines recently announced by the Danish government. | | (187734) | 464
| Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many combined heat and power plants benefit from business rates exemption. | | (187578) | 465
| Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which combined heat and power plants she has visited in her official capacity. | | (187579) | 466
| Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will give further details of the very serious challenges to be overcome highlighted in her foreward to the Combined Heat and Power Strategy. | | (187580) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 467
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Turkish authorities regarding the arrest and alleged torture of Ferhat Kaya. | | (186730) | 468
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with each of the Quartet partners during July and August about Israel's announcement that it intends to expand settlements in the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the options for action by the Quartet in response. | | (187575) | 469
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he made to the Government of the USA in July and August about the USA's interpretation of the Road Map in respect of the expansion of settlements in the West Bank announced by Israel; and if he will make a statement. | | (187576) | 470
| Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he made to the Government of Israel during July and August in respect of Israel's announcement that it is to proceed with the further expansion of settlements in the West Bank. | | (187577) | 471
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of the security barrier being built by the Government of Israel on Palestinian communities; what representations he has received from non-governmental organisations on the effects of the wall on their work in the occupied territories; and what representations he has made to Israel about minimising possible detrimental effects. | | (187070) | 472
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the latest position in respect of the adapted Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty; which countries have signed and ratified it; when he expects it to come into force; and if he will make a statement. | | (187131) | 473
N | Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with European partners about the impact on the developing world of EU export subsidies. | | (186307) | 474
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to urge the United Nations to instigate a review of the UN's conduct in relation to the Act of Free Choice in West Papua in 1968-1969; and if he will make a statement. | | (186379) | 475
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent action he has taken to ensure that Switzerland abides by its bilateral agreements with the EU on migration and employment of UK and other EU nationals; and if he will make a statement. | | (187492) | 476
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action he proposes to take in response to the ruling of the International Court of Justice on the separation barrier erected by Israel. | | (187498) | 477
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the findings of the Coalition authorities on the activities of the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran personnel in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. | | (187551) | 478
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent efforts he has made to assist Russia to withdraw its troops and ammunition from the Republic of Moldova. | | (187739) | 479
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on his recent efforts to find a peaceful solution to the problem of the region of Transnistria with reference to his actions within (a) the EU, (b) NATO and (c) the OSCE. | | (187740) | 480
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list (a) youth, (b) campaigning and (c) social groups that received EU monies in the last year for which statistics are available, under the A-30 budget lines; and if he will deposit the (i) audits and (ii) original bids in the Library. | | (187336) | 481
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the conditions of employment for union staff will be decided by qualified majority voting under the European Constitution. | | (187033) | 482
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the penalties available to the European Court of Justice will be decided by qualified majority voting under the European Constitution; and whether this represents a change from article 229 TEC. | | (187034) | 483
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether provisions concerning structured cooperation within the Common Foreign and Security Policy are to be decided by qualified majority voting under the Eureopan Constitution. | | (187035) | 484
| Mr David Heathcoat-Amory (Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether intellectual property or foreign direct investment moves from unanimity under article 133 TEC to qualified majority voting under article 111-217(1) and 111-217(2) of the European Constitution. | | (187036) | 485
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th February, Official Report, column 1303W, on Iraq, what methodology was used to assess that there was no new information contained in the quantities of documents that remained to be translated; and whether all the documents that formed the declaration have now been translated. | | (187392) | 486
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether UNMOVIC and the IAEA decided that parts of the Iraqi declaration of its weapons of mass destruction needed to be excised before it distributed the report to all members of the UN Security Council; and whether all members of the Security Council have now received (a) an unedited and (b) an edited version of the declaration. | | (187393) | 487
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to paragraph 512 of the Butler Report, HC 898, on what date the Secret Intelligence Service became aware that the validity of the intelligence report on which the 45 minute claim was based had come into question; on what date Government ministers were informed of this; and how many links there were in the reporting chain for the 45 minute claim intelligence report. | | (187394) | 488
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to paragraph 442 of the Butler Report, HC 898, for what reasons there was an urgent requirement for intelligence. | | (187395) | 489
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the UK Government became aware that Iraq had 500 tonnes of yellowcake stored at a facility near Tuwaitha, south of Baghdad. | | (187396) | 490
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what key jobs in consular services (a) are vacant and (b) have been unfilled for more than three months in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the reasons for difficulties in filling key jobs. | | (187397) | 491
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether, in respect of information set out at paragraphs 91 and 92 of the Intelligence and Security Committee Report, Cm 5972, the Government has been informed as to when the US Federal Bureau of Intelligence investigation ordered by Senator Rockefeller in March 2003 into the source of the forged documents on an Iraq-Niger uranium deal is due to report. | | (187544) | 492
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd July, Official Report, column 544W, on Iraq, whether the Leader of the Opposition had access to the same primary intelligence as the Prime Minister relating to (a) the September 2002 dossier, (b) the February 2003 dossier and (c) the threat posed to the UK by Iraq from May 1997 to the commencement of military action against Iraq in March 2003. | | (187715) | 493
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14th July to the honourable Member for Tooting, Official Report, column 1184W, on Cyprus, what matters he discussed with members of the Government of Cyprus relating to the outcome of the referenda held earlier this year. | | (186988) | 494
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) the Venezuelan Government, (b) the Venezuelan Opposition Parties and (c) the organisers of the petition for a recall referendum on President Chavez regarding this recall referendum; and if he will make a statement. | | (186389) | 495
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last had discussions with President Chavez of Venezuela about the current unrest in Venezuela; and if he will make a statement.
| | (186390) | 496
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had discussions over the last 36 months with the United States Administration regarding its position on unrest in Venezuela; and if he will make a statement. | | (186391) | 497
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the British Government offered to Venezuela following the referendum which elected President Chavez in December 1999; and if he will make a statement. | | (186392) | 498
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had with (a) the Venezuelan Government, (b) international aid organisations and (c) others in the months which followed the 1999 Caracas floods; what support the British Government offered to (i) the Venezuelan Government and (ii) international aid organisations who were working there; and if he will make a statement. | | (186413) | 499
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Venezuelan (a) Government, (b) opposition parties and (c) other interested parties; and if he will make a statement. | | (186414) | 500
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the British Government will play an independent role in monitoring the recall referendum which is due to take place in Venezuela in August; and if he will make a statement. | | (186415) | 501
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what relationship the Government has with the Government of Moldova; and if he will make a statement. | | (187043) | 502
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is giving to (a) the economic progress of Moldova and (b) the development of democracy there. | | (187044) | 503
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received regarding the Russian forces based in Moldova. | | (187045) | 504
| Dr John Pugh (Southport):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) the British Ambassador to Burma and (b) other British embassy staff in Burma have attended events in Burma hosted by Orient Express or its regional representatives. | | (187229) | 505
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the treatment of the Montagnards in Vietnam; and if he will make a statement. | | (187260) | 506
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Vietnam concerning the treatment of the Montagnards in Vietnam; and if he will make a statement. | | (187261) | 507
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of Amnesty International's report of 19th July entitled Darfur: Rape as a Weapon of War: sexual violence and its consequences; and if he will make a statement. | | (187270) | 508
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the charge of culpability levelled against the Government of Sudan by Amnesty International's report of 19th July entitled, Darfur: Rape as a Weapon of War: sexual violence and its consequences; and if he will make a statement. | | (187271) | 509
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received regarding the Sudanese Air Force's activities in Darfur; and if he will make a statement. | | (187272) | 510
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he first received reports of Janjaweed activity in Darfur; when he first raised the question of Janjaweed activities in Darfur with his counterpart in Khartoum; what assurances were then sought; and if he will make a statement. | | (187273) | 511
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in (a) Spain, (b) the United States of America and (c) Equatorial Guinea, concerning allegations of corruption and money laundering levelled against Teodoro Obiang Nguema and his family; and if he will make a statement. | | (187274) | 512
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has (a) received and (b) made concerning the (i) economic and (ii) political situation in Equatorial Guinea since 2002; and if he will make a statement. | | (187275) | 513
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Her Majesty the Queen plans to visit Fiji within the next five years. | | (186881) | 514
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which heads of state have made visits to the UK over the past five years. | | (186882) | 515
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which heads of state plan to make visits to the UK over the next five years. | | (186883) | 516
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which countries (a) HRH Prince Charles, (b) HRH Prince Andrew and (c) HRH Prince Edward plan to visit over the next five years. | | (186884) | 517
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many official visits overseas HRH Prince Charles has paid over the past five years. | | (186885) | 518
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many visits the Royal Family has paid abroad over the past five years. | | (186891) | 519
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Her Majesty the Queen has visited New Zealand within the past five years. | | (186892) | 520
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether Her Majesty the Queen plans to visit (a) Singapore and (b) New Zealand within the next five years. | | (186893) | 521
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the last Royal visit to Singapore took place. | | (186894) | 522
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, of which countries the Queen is the head of state. | | (186895) | 523
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Royal Family plans to visit Australia within the next five years. | | (186896) | 524
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when (a) Her Majesty the Queen and (b) the Royal Family last visited Australia. | | (186897) | 525
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether a member of the Royal Family has visited the Falkland Islands over the past five years. | | (186898) | 526
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times in 2004 Her Majesty the Queen has visited countries of which she is head of state. | | (186899) | 527
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many countries Her Majesty the Queen has visited in an official capacity in 2004. | | (186900) | 528
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether a member of the Royal Family plans to make a state visit to Canada within the next five years. | | (186903) | 529
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether a member of the Royal Family has paid a state visit to Canada since 1999. | | (186904) | 530
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his plans are for his Department's involvement in the Beijing Platform for Action; known as Beijing +10. | | (187533) | 531
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the political parties registered for elections in Iraq; and if he will break them down by (a) religious and (b) ethnic affiliations. | | (187616) | 532
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what voting system will be used for the parliamentary elections in Iraq. | | (187617) | 533
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how the (a) elections and (b) political parties in Iraq will be organised to meet the constitutional requirement for 25 per cent. of seats to be held by women. | | (187618) | 534
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is giving to the preparation of women candidates for parliamentary elections in Iraq. | | (187619) | 535
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans have been made to allow tourists travelling with the Wexas travel company to visit the waters of the Chagos Archipelago; and if he will make a statement. | | (187609) | 536
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date the European Convention on Human Rights was applied to Mauritius and the Chagos Islands; and if he will make a statement. | | (187610) | 537
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) monetary payments and (b) monetary discounts were received by the UK Government from the US Administration or affiliated bodies in return for the agreement governing the joint use of Diego Garcia by the two countries in (i) 1966 and (ii) 1976; and if he will make a statement. | | (187611) | 538
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place a copy of the US Administration's Natural Resources Management Plan for Diego Garcia in the Library. | | (187612) | 539
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 21st June, Official Report, column 1221W, on which date the US Administration last gave an assurance that no prisoners are held or transported through Diego Garcia; whether this was a (a) written and (b) verbal assurance; and if he will make a statement. | | (187613) | 540
| Mr Alex Salmond (Banff & Buchan):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how the Government of the British Indian Ocean Territory is funded; and if he will make a statement. | | (187614) | 541
| Mr Martin Salter (Reading West):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on whether ethnic Albanians are being refused entry to Serbia; and if he will make a statement. | | (187518) | 542
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when complaints made by British citizens held in detention by the United States Government at Camp Delta in Guantanamo in Cuba, in respect of their treatment during questioning and generally whilst being detained, were made known to him; what investigations he made into the allegations; what consequent actions he took; whether he has examined the allegations made by three British former detainees from Tipton in their collective dossier released in August; and what representations he has made to his United States counterpart on this matter. | | (187501) | 543
| The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his assessment is of the decision to exclude Belarus from the European Neighbourhood Policy; what steps the Government has taken since that decision was taken to end the isolation of Belarus from the European Union; and what steps the Government plans to take to address this situation. | | (186368) | 544
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187318) | 545
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens have been detained overseas for drug related offences in each of the last five years. | | (187592) | 546
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens were detained overseas for drug related offences in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by country. | | (187593) | 547
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the (a) age group and (b) sex was of each British person detained overseas for drug related offences in the last year for which figures are available. | | (187594) | 548
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support Taiwan as (a) a member and (b) an observer of the (i) World Health Organisation and (b) World Health Assembly; and if he will make a statement. | | (187600) | 549
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to promote within the EU Taiwan's case for deeper involvement in the (a) World Health Organisation and (b) World Health Assembly. | | (187601) | 550
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the efforts of Taiwan to play a constructive and appropriate role in (a) international health affairs and (b) international humanitarian issues; and if he will make a statement. | | (187602) | 551
N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date an official in his Department first informed an official in No. 10 Downing Street of the withdrawal of the intelligence on Iraqi production of chemical and biological agent referred to in paragraph 405 of the Butler Report. | | (186807) | 552
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays Bank, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186658) | 553
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli Government concerning the deaths of children at the entrance to the Balata refugee camp in July. | | (187463) | 554
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects to renegotiate the EU-Israeli Association Trade Agreement. | | (187464) | 555
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli Government concerning the attack on a UN convoy delivering aid to Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on 15th July. | | (187515) | 556
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli Government concerning killings of and injuries to Palestinians in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. | | (187516) | 557
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli Government regarding the treatment of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli authorities. | | (187562) | 558
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the mid-term review of the Lisbon agenda in 2005. | | (186623) | 559
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the effect of EU enlargement upon the UK-EU relationship. | | (186647) | 560
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the percentage change in EU trade with the US has been since 1st May. | | (186648) | 561
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Minister will attend the signing ceremony of the European Constitutional Treaty on 29th October. | | (186649) | 562
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what measures he will take in order to achieve the targets of the Lisbon Agenda. | | (186651) | 563
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what forecasts he has received of the relative levels of economic output in the EU and the US in 2010. | | (186652) | 564
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what outcomes he hopes will be achieved at the EU summit on 29th October. | | (186787) | 565
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what research his Department has commissioned regarding the possibility of further former Soviet Bloc countries applying for membership of the European Union. | | (186738) | 566
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the impact of the European Union's European Neighbourhood Packages on the UK's diplomatic relations with Russia. | | (186747) | 567
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on democracy in Belarus. | | (186748) | 568
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on (a) the UK's diplomatic relations with Pakistan and (b) the state of democracy in Pakistan. | | (186749) | 569
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the political climate in Sierra Leone. | | (186751) | 570
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress is being made in (a) breaking the global network of Al-Qaeda and (b) the search for Osama Bin Laden. | | (186774) | 571
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what research his Department has commissioned regarding human rights in Cuba; and what statistical information his Department has compiled regarding human rights violations. | | (186776) | 572
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. | | (186867) | 573
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear weapons programme. | | (186868) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 574
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the 7.2 per cent. increase in health spending announced by the Chancellor on 12th July his Department expects to deploy to meet the cost of NHS continuing care. | | (186767) | 575
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assumptions his Department made about the change in the numbers of people needing intensive home care and home care during the Spending Review period announced by the Chancellor on 12th July; and how much of the planned increase in social care spending he expects will be deployed to allow for an expansion in domiciliary services as a result. | | (186795) | 576
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 15th June, Official Report, column 901W, on NHS Continuing Care (Recompense), when the review of those wrongly denied NHS continuing care was commissioned; when it was submitted to Ministers; when it is expected to report back; and what the remit of the review was. | | (187067) | 577
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on NHS dentistry in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (187293) | 578
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) recruiting the equivalent of 1,000 dentists by October 2005 and (b) increasing training places for dentists by 170 from 2005. | | (187294) | 579
| Mrs Patsy Calton (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost per patient is of (a) an externally-worn hearing aid and (b) a hearing aid fitted to be internally worn. | | (186314) | 580
| Mrs Patsy Calton (Cheadle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, by what date internally-worn hearing aids will be fitted to all NHS patients for whom they are suitable and who request them. | | (186361) | 581
| Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the effect on (a) numbers of beds available and (b) other resources of women having homebirths. | | (187556) | 582
| Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the relative costs of an uncomplicated natural delivery at home and an uncomplicated natural delivery in hospital; and what assessment has been made in respect of individual hospitals. | | (187557) | 583
| Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps is he taking (a) to maintain the number of midwives and (b) to maintain the number of those available (i) for homebirths, (ii) to fill existing vacancies and (iii) to cover those unable to attend work. | | (187558) | 584
| Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in how many National Health Service trusts there has been a reduction of intensive care Special Care Baby Unit beds over the two years to August. | | (187559) | 585
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many beds are available for the elderly in care homes in Northampton; and how many were available on average in (a) 2001 and (b) 1997. | | (186515) | 586
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money was spent by the NHS on agency staff in Northampton South in each year since 1997. | | (186519) | 587
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many staff vacancies there were on average in the NHS in Northampton in each year since 1997. | | (186520) | 588
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients in the Northampton South constituency, or the nearest relevant unit of population were waiting for NHS operations for longer than (a) 18 months, (b) 15 months, (c) 12 months, (d) nine months and (e) six months in each of the last 10 years. | | (186578) | 589
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) support staff were employed by Northampton General Hospital, in each of the last 10 years. | | (186590) | 590
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals his Department has to ensure that when a person requires dental treatment they are clearly informed (a) whether a dental practice provides NHS treatment and (b) what the cost of non-NHS treatment they require will be; and if he will make a statement. | | (187606) | 591
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dental practices in the London Borough of Wandsworth provide NHS treatment; what the number was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (187607) | 592
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwives are registered in the West Midlands. | | (187300) | 593
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to encourage women aged 25 to 35 years to undertake breast self-examination. | | (187301) | 594
N | Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the Gloucestershire Aneurism Screening Project; and if he will assess the case for extending the project across England. | | (186309) | 595
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the progress of the NHS dentistry support team's work with primary care trusts in Gloucestershire. | | (186311) | 596
N | Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the progress of the action plan to establish new dental practices in Gloucestershire. | | (186312) | 597
| Clive Efford (Eltham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ensure that the same (a) methods and (b) criteria are used to detect MRSA in all acute hospitals and in each department within those hospitals. | | (187065) | 598
| Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Department has enquired as to why iSoft has suspended one of its executive directors. | | (187359) | 599
| Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reviews his Department has undertaken into the financial viability of (a) contractors and (b) sub-contractors of companies working on the NHS National Programme for Information Technology. | | (187360) | 600
| Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Department will ask Accenture to report on the (a) financial standing and (b) accounting treatment of revenues and profits at iSoft. | | (187361) | 601
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of correspondence relating to the Government's activity target to get 70 per cent. of the population reasonably active by 2020, between his Department and the team responsible for the Wanless Report on Securing Good Health for the Whole Population; and if he will make a statement. | | (187176) | 602
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Alzheimer's disease patients are being treated in Norwich; what the total spending on drugs available on the NHS for Alzheimer's disease was in Norwich in the last year for which figures are available; what assessment he has made of the availability of drugs for moderately-severe to severe Alzheimer's disease in Norwich; how much was spent by the NHS on drug treatments for advanced Alzheimer's disease patients in Norwich in the last year for which figures are available; and what measures have been taken to assist carers of patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease in Norwich. | | (187013) | 603
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation sub-group on hepatitis B is next planning to meet; and when it plans to make a decision on hepatitis B immunisation policy. | | (187169) | 604
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans to implement the World Health Organisation recommendation that all countries should adopt a hepatitis B universal mass vaccination programme. | | (187170) | 605
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of time patients have to wait between regular chiropody appointments is, broken down by primary care trust. | | (186454) | 606
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing pensioners with a free annual (a) eye test, (b) dental check and (c) hearing test. | | (186455) | 607
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing an annual (a) chiropody assessment and (b) diabetes check to pensioners. | | (186456) | 608
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase the resources available to Alzheimer's patients. | | (186457) | 609
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce an independent advocacy service for vulnerable older people. | | (186458) | 610
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21st June, Official Report, column 1275W, on mental health, what percentage of NHS trusts provide single-sex accommodation for unplanned admissions. | | (186753) | 611
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures have been taken to assist carers of patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease in Romsey. | | (186757) | 612
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the availability of drugs for treating advanced Alzheimer's disease in Romsey. | | (186758) | 613
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by the NHS on drug treatments for advanced Alzheimer's disease patients in Romsey in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (186759) | 614
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many advanced Alzheimer's disease patients are being treated in the Romsey constituency. | | (186760) | 615
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to invest in health promotion among older people; and what initiatives for older people have taken place in this area over the last two years. | | (186797) | 616
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce targets to reduce the number of winter deaths. | | (186798) | 617
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what public funding has been made available over the last three years for research into age-related disease; and what funding plans he has for the future.
| | (186830) | 618
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce an annual health check for pensioners. | | (186961) | 619
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what problems have been identified with implementing the Protection of Vulnerable Adults list in healthcare settings. | | (187064) | 620
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many domiciliary care providers have met the registration standards. | | (187066) | 621
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to extend the Protection of Vulnerable Adults list to (a) the NHS and (b) day care services; and if he will make a statement. | | (187071) | 622
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whom he has consulted on the extension of the Protection of Vulnerable Adults list to the NHS. | | (187079) | 623
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to cross refer between the Protection of Children Act list and the Protection of Vulnerable Adults list. | | (187111) | 624
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether community matrons will take precedence over senior district nurses in the general recruitment process. | | (187166) | 625
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on current staffing levels of his aim to recruit 3,000 community matrons. | | (187167) | 626
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in the Romsey constituency benefit from the free fruit in schools scheme. | | (187168) | 627
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of community matrons on staffing levels of social care professionals. | | (187339) | 628
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the differences between the interventions that can be made by a general practitioner when dealing with a patient and a prison doctor when dealing with a prisoner. | | (187376) | 629
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what rights a prisoner has to access needle exchange schemes in prison. | | (187377) | 630
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in what circumstances a prison doctor may order (a) physical restraints and (b) detention of a prisoner in a special cell. | | (187378) | 631
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what rights a prisoner has to medical confidentiality. | | (187585) | 632
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what right a homosexual prisoner has to (a) HIV tests and (b) access to condoms. | | (187586) | 633
| Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what right a prisoner has to see (a) a doctor, (b) a dentist, (c) a chiropodist, (d) a gynaecologist and (e) a specialist or surgeon. | | (187587) | 634
| Jane Griffiths (Reading East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ectopic pregnancies there were per 1,000 population for each major ethnic group in the last year for which figures are available. | | (187014) | 635
| Jane Griffiths (Reading East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the expenditure was on drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease patients in Reading East for the latest year for which figures are available. | | (187015) | 636
| Jane Griffiths (Reading East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients are being treated for Alzheimer's disease in Reading East; and how many of these are receiving drug treatment. | | (187016) | 637
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to make a financial contribution towards the start-up costs of (a) the provision of free cotton nappies for in-house use and (b) an awareness campaign to promote use of cotton nappies in the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement. | | (187480) | 638
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to initiate a register of interests for NHS medical practitioners to declare (a) shares in, (b) gifts from and (c) other interests in pharmaceutical companies. | | (187519) | 639
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what systems are in place to monitor the amount of drugs prescribed to NHS patients which have been donated by pharmaceutical companies as promotional material. | | (187520) | 640
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many instances there have been in the last three years of drugs being prescribed on the NHS for non-medical purposes. | | (187521) | 641
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hours a day of consultants' time on average was spent in the accident and emergency department at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital in the last year for which figures are available. | | (187506) | 642
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the new Dentists NHS Contract on NHS dentistry provision in Oxfordshire. | | (187505) | 643
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what specific measures are (a) in place and (b) planned to (i) identify, (ii) assess and (iii) meet the health needs of people seeking asylum in the UK at each stage of the asylum-seeking process. | | (186577) | 644
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the average waiting times for a first appointment at each gender identity clinic for people suffering from gender dysphoria. | | (187240) | 645
| Andy King (Rugby & Kenilworth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place for the period to 2008 to allow patients to be treated with non-National Institute for Clinical Excellence appraised treatments if it is their choice and their clinicians concur, in (a) hospital and (b) primary care. | | (187116) | 646
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists left the NHS in each year from 2000-01. | | (186477) | 647
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the national healthcare standards referred to in Towards Cleaner Hospitals and lower rates of infection will replace the National Infection Control standard for acute NHS trusts. | | (186510) | 648
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated cost of the cleanyourhands campaign is for 2004-05. | | (186511) | 649
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of the changes introduced by the new general medical services contract on accident and emergency admissions in the out-of-hours period. | | (186512) | 650
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the bed occupancy rates were for (a) each NHS hospital trust in England and (b) England in each year since 1991. | | (186513) | 651
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the dental workforce review; and if he will make a statement. | | (186514) | 652
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many modern matrons have been appointed in the NHS since the NHS Plan was introduced; and if he will make a statement. | | (186665) | 653
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he proposes to make a draft order on the Regulation of herbal medicine and acupuncture: Proposals for statutory regulation for consultation; and when he proposes to lay the draft order before Parliament. | | (187484) | 654
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many responses he has received to the Regulation of herbal medicine and acupuncture: Proposals for statutory regulation; and how many were (a) in favour of and (b) against his Department's proposals for collaborative regulation. | | (187485) | 655
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the results of the consultation on the Regulation of herbal medicine and acupuncture: Proposals for statutory regulation. | | (187486) | 656
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital accident and emergency departments (a) stock both animal and human insulin and (b) enquire whether the diabetes patient has a preference for one or the other. | | (187051) | 657
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the proven side effects are of long-term consumption of analogue human insulin. | | (187054) | 658
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines are in place at primary care level to offer diabetes patients a choice between animal and human insulin (a) at first diagnosis of diabetes and (b) on occurrence of the patient suffering from side effects of animal or human insulin. | | (187055) | 659
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost is to the general practitioner of a patient being prescribed (a) animal and (b) human insulin. | | (187056) | 660
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dental practices are offering NHS dental services in the London Borough of Enfield; and what efforts are being made to increase their availability. | | (187004) | 661
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) house officers, (b) senior house officers, (c) specialist registrars, (d) general practitioners, (e) consultants, (f) associate specialists, (g) staff grades and (h) clinical assistants have signed a formal opt-out from the Working Time Directive. | | (186362) | 662
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evidence he has collated following the results from the Working Time Directive Pilots Programme on whether the NHS will be compliant with the European Working Time Directive on 1st August. | | (186363) | 663
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the ability of (a) anaesthetic, (b) maternity, (c) paediatric, (d) general surgical and (e) general medical services to comply with the European Working Time Directive. | | (186364) | 664
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) primary care trusts, (b) acute hospital trusts and (c) social care trusts have medical staff who have signed a formal opt-out from the Working Time Directive. | | (186365) | 665
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received about the costs of remunerating medical staff who have signed a formal opt-out from the Working Time Directive. | | (186366) | 666
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action can be taken in the domestic courts against NHS Trusts that fail to comply with the Working Time Directive. | | (187407) | 667
| Mr Archie Norman (Tunbridge Wells):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the months in which Patient Environment and Assessment Team inspections have taken place in each year since inspections began. | | (187408) | 668
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what long-term plans he has for the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency. | | (187118) | 669
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what are the long-term plans for the Device Evaluation Service; and which agency will be responsible for its day to day management. | | (187119) | 670
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to develop the Pathfinder Programme with regard to orthotics. | | (187120) | 671
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (a) in Burnley, (b) within the Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Primary Care Trust and (c) within the East Lancashire NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement. | | (186740) | 672
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, where chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis-diagnosed patients (a) in Burnley, (b) within the Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Primary Care Trust and (c) within the East Lancashire NHS Trust receive treatment; what the furthest distance an individual in these areas has to travel to access specialist services; and if he will make a statement. | | (186741) | 673
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received from (a) chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) sufferers in Burnley, (b) CFS/ME sufferers within the Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Primary Care Trust and (c) CFS/ME sufferers within the East Lancashire NHS Trust, (d) Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Primary Care Trust and (e) the East Lancashire NHS Trust regarding (i) the levels of service provision and (ii) access to services for CFS/ME; and if he will make a statement. | | (186742) | 674
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what access (a) primary care trusts and (b) NHS trusts who failed to secure local multi-disciplinary team status for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis services within their zone have to these services; and if he will make a statement. | | (186743) | 675
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision (a) East Lancashire NHS Trust and (b) Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Primary Care Trust have for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis services; what specific funding they receive to deliver these services; and if he will make a statement. | | (186744) | 676
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what referral mechanisms are in place for (a) East Lancashire NHS Trust and (b) Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Primary Care Trust to access chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis centres and support teams in the region; and if he will make a statement. | | (186745) | 677
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to extend specialist services and local multi-disciplinary teams for people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis to other areas; and if he will make a statement. | | (186746) | 678
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many premises are owned or leased by community health councils; and how many are (a) occupied and (b) unoccupied. | | (187755) | 679
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what community health council buildings have been disposed of since 1997. | | (187756) | 680
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the total amount of (a) rent and (b) other costs being paid by community health councils since their abolition. | | (187757) | 681
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the total floor space being rented by community health councils. | | (187758) | 682
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual running costs for community health councils were in each year from 1997 onwards. | | (187759) | 683
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many community health councils there were in each year since 1997. | | (187760) | 684
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the locations of former community health council offices where rent is still payable. | | (187761) | 685
| Dr John Pugh (Southport):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the Department has to review the role of denturists within the NHS; and if he will make a statement. | | (187228) | 686
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus there were in each of the last 10 years. | | (187444) | 687
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assistance is available to postgraduate medical trainees for expenses on (a) text books, (b) medical equipment and (c) examination fees; and if he will make a statement. | | (187764) | 688
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been allocated to (a) improving awareness and education and (b) research regarding autistic spectrum disorders in each of the last five years. | | (187774) | 689
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the annual cost of providing nursing and personal care for dementia sufferers in England. | | (187798) | 690
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes have been introduced to improve the (a) hygiene of wards, (b) speed of response of staff when called by patients, (c) provision of cold water, (d) availability of ice cubes, (e) regularity with which bedding is changed, (f) cleanliness of toilets, (g) availability of plain food for patients and (h) prevention of acquisition and spread of MRSA in King's College Hospital, London, since 29th June. | | (187816) | 691
N | Dame Marion Roe (Broxbourne):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has met the NHS Plan target of 1,000 nurse consultants employed in the NHS. | | (186962) | 692
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money the Government has invested in the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis since 1997. | | (186833) | 693
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money the Government plans to invest in the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis over the next five years. | | (186835) | 694
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints he received regarding the availability of NHS dentistry in the London Borough of Havering for (a) 1997 and (b) 2004; and what the figures are for all other London boroughs. | | (187727) | 695
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints he received regarding Oldchurch Hospital in the London Borough of Havering for (a) 1997 and (b) 2004; and what the figures are for all other London hospitals. | | (187728) | 696
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were waiting for an operation in an NHS hospital in the London Borough of Havering in (a) July 1997 and (b) July 2004; and what the figures are for all other London boroughs. | | (187729) | 697
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioners there were in the London Borough of Havering in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004; and what the figures are for all other London boroughs. | | (187730) | 698
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists were operating in the London Borough of Havering in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004; and what the figures are for all other London boroughs. | | (187731) | 699
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) care homes and (b) care home places were available in Suffolk in each of the last six years run by (i) Suffolk County Council and (ii) the voluntary independent and private sector in Suffolk. | | (187178) | 700
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations were carried out by the West Suffolk NHS Hospitals Trust in each year since 1997. | | (187195) | 701
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the waiting times were for (a) heart surgery, (b) orthopaedics, (c) opthalmology and (d) cancer treatment in the West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust in each year since 1997. | | (187196) | 702
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of patients were seen by a general practitioner within the 48-hour general practitioner access target in (a) Suffolk and (b) the Bury St Edmunds constituency in the last year. | | (187197) | 703
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current deficit is of Suffolk West Primary Care Trust; and what it has been in each of the last three years. | | (187198) | 704
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for additional general practitioner surgeries in (a) the constituency of Bury St Edmunds and (b) Suffolk. | | (187199) | 705
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cancelled operations there were in each of the last seven years in the West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust. | | (187200) | 706
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses, (c) managers, (d) administrators and (e) midwives were employed by the West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust in each of the last seven years. | | (187201) | 707
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS dentists in the Bury St Edmunds constituency are registering new NHS patients. | | (187202) | 708
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists there were in Suffolk in each of the last seven years. | | (187205) | 709
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists have applied to become NHS dentists in each year since 2000 in Suffolk. | | (187206) | 710
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) adults and (b) children were waiting to be registered with an NHS dentist in each primary care trust in Suffolk in each of the last seven years. | | (187207) | 711
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce testing of all newborn babies for cystic fibrosis. | | (186977) | 712
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Health Select Committee's Third Report of Session 2000-01, on Head Injury Rehabilitation; and if he will make a statement. | | (186978) | 713
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists in the Colchester constituency provide NHS treatment; how many provided NHS treatment in 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (186979) | 714
| Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have secured employment in the NHS through the New Deal for the disabled employment programme in each year since its inception. | | (187748) | 715
| Mr Siôn Simon (Birmingham, Erdington):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the (a) NHS litigation authority and (b) the primary care trust which has made arrangements for out of hours general practitioner cover will be liable in cases of clinical negligence where the negligent treatment was provided by an out of hours service commissioned by a primary care trust. | | (187371) | 716
| Mr Siôn Simon (Birmingham, Erdington):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS Litigation Authority will be liable in cases of clinical negligence where the negligent treatment was provided by a private or foreign healthcare provider under contract for the NHS. | | (187382) | 717
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187171) | 718
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total expenditure on drugs available on the NHS for Alzheimer's disease was in Dartford in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (187025) | 719
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Alzheimer's disease patients are being treated by primary care trusts in Dartford. | | (187026) | 720
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by the NHS on drug treatments for advanced Alzheimer's disease patients in Dartford in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (187027) | 721
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures have been taken to assist carers of patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease in (a) the UK and (b) Dartford. | | (187028) | 722
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the grants available to (a) charities and (b) public sector organisations from his Department; and what the (i) criteria and (ii) eligibility factors are for each. | | (187029) | 723
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of drugs for patients with moderately severe to severe Alzheimer's disease in Dartford. | | (187030) | 724
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has awarded in each of the last three years in grants to the charitable and public sectors. | | (187031) | 725
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce a national screening programme for abdominal aortic aneurysms. | | (187052) | 726
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the screening pilot project for abdominal aortic aneurysms in Gloucestershire; and if he will make a statement. | | (187053) | 727
| Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contractual arrangements are in place between the NHS and suppliers of products involved in cervical cancer screening procedures, including notice periods for the termination of such contracts. | | (186568) | 728
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts and what fees (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland received for advising his Department on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02. | | (186674) | 729
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what response he has made to the comments made by the Parliamentary Ombudsman regarding delays by his Department in responding to complaints under the code of practice on access to Government information made in her review of departmental performance against requirements of the Memorandum of Understanding published on 30th June; what action he is taking to end the delays; and if he will make a statement. | | (186675) | 730
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many press officers are employed in his Department. | | (187159) | 731
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his projection is of the number of press officers employed in his Department for 2004-05. | | (187555) | 732
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many overseas nurses are employed in the University Hospital of Leicester. | | (186625) | 733
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings he has had with his EU counterparts to discuss co-operation on research on diabetes. | | (186626) | 734
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the latest average waiting time to have an infected wisdom tooth removed on the NHS is; and what targets he has set to improve waiting times for the removal of wisdom teeth. | | (187136) | 735
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve orthodontic departments at NHS hospitals. | | (187137) | 736
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the percentage of people who will claim under the free prescription NHS low income scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (187490) | 737
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans there are for arrangements to promote public awareness of the changes in free prescriptions from 6th April. | | (187542) | 738
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent research his Department has commissioned on the treatment of variant CJD. | | (186670) | 739
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned regarding the provision of support for terminally ill patients who wish to die in their homes; what NHS resources are available to such patients; and what plans he has to increase the level of such support. | | (186671) | 740
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new non-clinical jobs have been created within the NHS since 1997. | | (186870) | 741
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the role of NHS staff in non-clinical posts in improving the health of NHS patients. | | (186871) | 742
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of patients on (a) in-patient and (b) day case waiting lists was in Great Yarmouth in each year since 1997; and what the percentage change was in each year. | | (186699) | 743
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes there have been to NHS waiting list times for residents of Great Yarmouth in the last seven years. | | (186703) | 744
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many old age pensioners in the Great Yarmouth constituency have benefited from the introduction of free eye tests. | | (186707) | 745
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the performance of health authorities in Great Yarmouth in meeting outpatient access targets since 1997. | | (186714) | 746
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many inpatients in Great Yarmouth had to wait more than (a) three, (b) six, (c) nine and (d) 12 months for treatment in each year since 1997; and what the percentage change in each year was in each case. | | (186718) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 747
| John Barrett (Edinburgh West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when free passports for people over 75 years will be introduced; and if he will make a statement. | | (187457) | 748
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what evidence he has received regarding estimated asylum applications from (a) Darfur, (b) South Sudan and (c) other parts of Sudan; and if he will make a statement. | | (186723) | 749
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the extra 60,000 drug treatment places to be created in England by 2008 will be (a) residential, (b) community-based and (c) in Leeds. | | (186731) | 750
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what English language training is available to (a) adult refugees and (b) adult asylum seekers in Leeds. | | (186736) | 751
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the level of violent crime in Northampton was in each year since 1997. | | (186416) | 752
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage change there has been in the number of police officers in Northampton in each year since 1997. | | (186417) | 753
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been served in Northampton in each year since their introduction. | | (186467) | 754
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many special constables there are in Northampton; and how many there were in (a) 2001 and (b) 1997. | | (186518) | 755
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how his Department's Together campaign attempts to tackle anti-social behaviour in Leyton and Wanstead. | | (187741) | 756
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how his Department's Prostitution Initiative affects the residents of Leyton and Wanstead. | | (187742) | 757
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how Operation Scrap-It affects the residents of Leyton and Wanstead. | | (187743) | 758
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how Operation Scrub-It has affected the residents of Leyton and Wanstead. | | (187746) | 759
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many National Asylum Support Service-supported cases in the City of Newcastle have ended with the withdrawal of benefits on grounds of refusal of the case; and how many (a) women and (b) children have been affected by such withdrawals. | | (186844) | 760
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many extension of leave to remain applications had not been decided by the end of the original leave to remain period as at (a) 1st January 2003 and (b) 1st January 2004; and how many of those outstanding cases had been outstanding for (i) over six months and (ii) over 12 months on such dates. | | (186954) | 761
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) cases and (b) children under 18 years were covered by the one-off exercise to allow families who applied for asylum to stay, before 2nd October 2000, who had at least one dependant currently under 18 years who had been living in the UK since 2nd October 2000, and who were not covered by the specified exclusions set out in the Minister of State's letter of 29th October 2003; and (i) how many of those cases and (ii) for how many children under 18 years decisions are outstanding. | | (186956) | 762
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the policy is of police authorities in England and Wales when serious allegations of misconduct have been made against serving police officers by a member of the public as to whether such an officer is suspended from duty pending enquiries into the allegations that have been made; and if he will make a statement. | | (187608) | 763
| Mr John Cummings (Easington):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders were (a) applied for and (b) granted in the County of Durham in the last 12 months for which figures are available, broken down by magistrates' court. | | (186439) | 764
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the sentencing guidelines will assist victims' representatives to understand the basis of sentences. | | (187241) | 765
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are for the changes in the (a) frequency and (b) number of sentences of imprisonment over the past 10 years. | | (187242) | 766
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he intends sentencing guidelines will help to reduce prison numbers. | | (187243) | 767
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Sentencing Guidelines Council will have a role in analyzing recent trends in magistrates' sentences. | | (187244) | 768
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Sentencing Guidelines Council will review the Magistrates' Court guidelines. | | (187245) | 769
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has assessed overseas sentencing guidelines to study the relationship between guidelines and prison capacity. | | (187246) | 770
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the functions are of the Sentencing Guidelines Council's research staff. | | (187247) | 771
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how he intends the new guidelines system will help increase public confidence in the Criminal Justice system. | | (187248) | 772
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the effect the new guidelines system will have on sentencing policy. | | (187249) | 773
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has (a) to commission research into public attitudes on sentencing guidelines and (b) to develop a sentencing information system to provide judges with data about sentencing in similar cases. | | (187250) | 774
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the main aims are of the Sentencing Guidelines Council; and what assessment has been made of when these aims will be fulfilled. | | (187263) | 775
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the efficiency of the two-stage sentencing guidelines process. | | (187264) | 776
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to consult older people on issues of community safety. | | (186449) | 777
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of distraction burglary against adults over the age of 60 were reported in each year since 1997. | | (186615) | 778
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of female prisoners have a substance misuse problem; and if he will make a statement. | | (186862) | 779
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the technological potential to combine identity cards with passports containing electronic data. | | (187388) | 780
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, during his Department's monitoring of the Imutran xenotransplantation programme under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, primates were found dead in procedures of moderate severity. | | (187047) | 781
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement outlining his Department's definitions of (a) moderate severity and (b) substantial severity in animal experiments. | | (187048) | 782
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the results were of his Department's most recent monitoring of the progress made by Imutran in achieving each of the objectives in its project licence for xenotransplantation research. | | (187049) | 783
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes his Department has accepted and agreed to the original objectives in the project licence to Imutran for xenotransplantation research. | | (187050) | 784
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will order an independent public inquiry into the Imutran xenotransplantation research programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (187057) | 785
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what systems are in place to ensure that the relationships between his inspectors involved in monitoring licences for animal experiments and the companies concerned are clear and objective. | | (187085) | 786
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd July, Official Report, column 609W, on prisons, what assessment he has made of the effects of operating with a shortfall in the operational requirement for prison healthcare staff; what steps he is taking to address the shortage; and if he will make a statement. | | (187476) | 787
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd July, Official Report, columns 610-11W, on prisons, if he will make it mandatory that prison staff who wish to become prison healthcare officers obtain the relevant qualifications before taking up the posts; and if he will make a statement. | | (187477) | 788
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to issue a definition of public benefit in relation to the activities of charities; and if he will make a statement. | | (187493) | 789
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to remove the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran from his list of terrorist organisations; and if he will make a statement. | | (187550) | 790
N | Mr Ivan Henderson (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what change in funding Essex Police Authority has received in each year since 1997. | | (186315) | 791
N | Mr Ivan Henderson (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to increase the number of community support officers in Essex. | | (186316) | 792
N | Mr Ivan Henderson (Harwich):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the changes in police officer numbers in Essex has been since 1997. | | (186317) | 793
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents were reported to the police in which hatred of transsexual individuals is involved in the most recent period for which figures are available, broken down by police authority. | | (187390) | 794
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish the research commissioned by his Department into (a) Time Bank and (b) Do It. | | (186687) | 795
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the level of violent crime. | | (186549) | 796
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to reintroduce embarkation controls from non-EU countries. | | (186552) | 797
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed asylum seekers have been removed from the United Kingdom in each year since 1997. | | (186553) | 798
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to monitor the level of illegal immigration into the United Kingdom. | | (186554) | 799
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the costs of drug-related crime in each year since 1997. | | (186555) | 800
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effects of reclassifying cannabis from a class B to a class C drug. | | (186556) | 801
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his plans to increase the capacity of the prison estate. | | (186562) | 802
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been released on the home detention curfew scheme. | | (186563) | 803
| Martin Linton (Battersea):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the results of the evaluation of the Reducing Burglary initiative for the London Borough of Wandsworth. | | (187828) | 804
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) the sick arrangements and (b) holiday entitlements are for staff at each privately run prison establishment. | | (187100) | 805
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Prison Custody Officer certificates have been issued by his Department for staff at HMP Bronzefield. | | (187102) | 806
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Prison Custody Officer certificates have been withdrawn by his Department for each privately run prison in each month since 1st January 2003. | | (187103) | 807
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Prison Custody Officer certificates have been issued by his Department for each privately run prison in each month since 1st January 2003. | | (187104) | 808
| Mr Humfrey Malins (Woking):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the occasions since 1997 on which he has been found by (a) the Administrative Court, (b) the Court of Appeal and (c) the House of Lords to have acted unlawfully in immigration, nationality and asylum matters; and what action (i) he and (ii) his Department has taken to remedy the unlawfulness in each case. | | (186377) | 809
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many accommodation units the National Asylum Support Service has rented from (a) private landlords and (b) local authorities in North East Lincolnshire for asylum-seekers in each year since 2002; and how many of these are currently empty. | | (187297) | 810
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the joint work of immigration officers and British Transport Police in London in identifying illegal immigrants; and how many individuals have been (a) questioned and (b) arrested as part of the operation. | | (187059) | 811
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) prisoners, (b) women in prison, (c) juveniles and (d) young offenders are held (i) over 50 miles and (ii) over 100 miles from their committal court town. | | (187060) | 812
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many bogus passports were recovered in police operations in the last year for which figures are available. | | (187061) | 813
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been successfully prosecuted as a result of the Name that Tag campaign; and how much reward money has been paid out as a result. | | (187062) | 814
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent by the Metropolitan police on rental vehicles in each month since September 2003. | | (187063) | 815
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) dogs and (b) horses are employed by each police force, broken down by species. | | (187219) | 816
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department collects on the number of section 30 authorisations and dispersal orders made under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003. | | (187221) | 817
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young offenders aged 18 to 21 have been moved between prisons on overcrowding drafts (a) this year and (b) in each of the last five years. | | (187230) | 818
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young offenders aged 18 to 21 are in prison (a) under sentence, (b) on remand and (c) in total; and how many there were on average in each category in each of the last five years. | | (187231) | 819
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many young offenders aged 18 to 21 were received into prison in 2003 (a) under sentence, (b) unconvicted awaiting trial and (c) convicted awaiting sentence. | | (187232) | 820
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) the average time served in prison under sentence, (b) the average time served in prison on remand, (c) the total time served in prison and (d) the average sentence length of receptions into prison under sentence for young offenders aged 18 to 21 was in each of the last five years. | | (187233) | 821
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made, using the Home Office Trends in Crime model, of the impact on crime rates of (a) economic and (b) demographic changes in each year since 1995. | | (187234) | 822
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the 10 year custodial population projections referred to in paragraphs D18 and D19 of the Home Office Online Report 38/04. | | (187235) | 823
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish (a) the growth forecasts and (b) the forecasts of the number and proportion of young men in the population used as assumptions in the Trends in Crime model, Home Office Online Report 38/04. | | (187236) | 824
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget is for each prison library in 2004-05; and how many local authority-employed librarians work in prison establishments on a (a) full-time and (b) part-time basis. | | (187237) | 825
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7th July, Official Report, column 750W, on databases, if he will list the bulk information exchanges which have taken place in the last two years. | | (187337) | 826
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13th July, Official Report, column 1053W, on departmental properties/staff, if he will place a list of the properties in the Library. | | (187338) | 827
| Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when biometric passports will be available to British passport holders to allow entry into the US under the visa waiver scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (186367) | 828
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the police and community groups over changes in the incidence of gang rapes; and if he will make a statement. | | (186385) | 829
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received on reported cases of gang rapes involving minors which have not resulted in convictions; and if he will make a statement. | | (186386) | 830
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had on reported incidents of gang rapes involving minors where the case has not been brought to trial; and if he will make a statement. | | (186387) | 831
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what representations he has received and (b) what discussions he has had regarding suspected incidents of gang rapes involving minors where no official report has been made; and if he will make a statement. | | (186388) | 832
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment will be made of vetting arrangements in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) Scotland in taking forward recommendations arising from the Bichard Inquiry. | | (186645) | 833
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps will be taken to include relevant organisations and bodies in Northern Ireland in taking forward recommendations arising from the Bichard Inquiry, with particular reference to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. | | (186646) | 834
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the community support officer scheme in Great Britain is expected to cost for the next five years; and what the expenditure was over the past five years. | | (186762) | 835
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the community support officer scheme in London is expected to cost the Government over the next five years; and what the expenditure was on the scheme in the last five years. | | (186764) | 836
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of community support officers recruited are (a) men and (b) women. | | (186766) | 837
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much training is required for community support officers; and what the training involves. | | (186769) | 838
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to monitor the activities of the Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun. | | (186837) | 839
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many community support officers are assigned, on average, to each police officer in (a) London and (b) England and Wales. | | (186905) | 840
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much it costs on average to train a new community support officer. | | (186906) | 841
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long it takes to train a community support officer. | | (186907) | 842
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what remuneration is given to community support officers. | | (186908) | 843
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was in 2003-04 of policing in (a) Havering and (b) London. | | (186910) | 844
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were employed by Suffolk police in each year since 1st April 1997. | | (187189) | 845
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of (a) anti-social behaviour and (b) alcohol-related crime there have been in each of the last seven years in (i) the Suffolk constabulary, (ii) the western area of the Suffolk constabulary and (iii) the eastern area of the Suffolk constabulary. | | (187191) | 846
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued in (a) the constituency of Bury St Edmunds and (b) Suffolk since their introduction. | | (187192) | 847
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what central government funding was available for CCTV in each of the last seven years for the Suffolk Police constabulary area. | | (187193) | 848
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the off-site emergency plans, including evacuation plans, in place in West Cumbria for circumstances involving an accident or other incident resulting in a significant release of radioactivity from Sellafield. | | (187286) | 849
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many threat assessments to nuclear installations and nuclear materials in transit have been conducted by the joint terrorism analysis centre since 11th September 2001. | | (187308) | 850
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers are (a) working on restricted recuperative duties, (b) unable to work night duty and (c) absent through sickness in (i) England and (ii) Essex. | | (186444) | 851
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will issue guidance to police forces that parents should, where possible, be informed when alcohol is removed from their children under the underage drinking legislation; and if he will make a statement. | | (186474) | 852
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours were worked per week, on average, by police officers working on restricted or recuperative duties in (a) England and (b) Essex in the last year for which figures are available. | | (186475) | 853
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will investigate the impact of requiring the police to inform schools or colleges when alcohol is removed from pupils under the underage drinking legislation; and if he will make a statement. | | (186479) | 854
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will issue guidance to the police that police schools liaison officers should be made aware of which pupils have had alcohol removed from them by the police under the underage drinking legislation; and if he will make a statement. | | (186480) | 855
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners under the age of 18 years were (i) serving a custodial sentence and (ii) on remand in each of the last three years in England. | | (186523) | 856
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prison officers were (a) charged with and (b) convicted of aiding the supply or use of illegal drugs in prison in each of the last three years. | | (186524) | 857
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of (a) attempted supply of illegal drugs and (b) use of illegal drugs were recorded in each prison in England in each of the last three years. | | (186525) | 858
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions are available for the psychiatric assessment of persons (a) under a stage one warning for harassment and (b) convicted of harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. | | (186529) | 859
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and sets of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (186536) | 860
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) arrested and (b) charged with an offence under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2000 in each year for which records are available. | | (187595) | 861
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many convictions have been secured for each category of offence under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2000 in each year for which records are available. | | (187596) | 862
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have taken place under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2000 in each year for which records are available. | | (187597) | 863
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans there are to review the status of witnesses in cases of dangerous driving. | | (187387) | 864
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186694) | 865
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many press officers are employed in his Department. | | (187160) | 866
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his projection is of the number of press officers employed in his Department for 2004-05. | | (187553) | 867
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) set retirement age applying to all or most personnel and (b) maximum age beyond which applications for employment will not be considered is in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies. | | (186375) | 868
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer to Question 182382, on sexual offences, if he will make a statement on the differences between the number of recorded offences and the number of successful prosecutions; and what his policy is on the prosecution of such offences. | | (187718) | 869
| Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the take-up of TETRA by each police authority in England; and what cost there has been to each police authority in addition to the costs met by his Department. | | (187431) | 870
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the activities of the Lobster Liberation Front. | | (187482) | 871
| Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon & East Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the recent attack on the Lander family of Swanage by the Lobster Liberation Front. | | (187483) | 872
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research he has commissioned regarding numbers of (a) arrests, (b) charges and (c) convictions of persons who are autistic or suffer from Aspergers' Syndrome; and what guidelines he has issued to police forces regarding the questioning of autistic suspects. | | (186816) | 873
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to make it easier for non-EU students to work in the UK after they have graduated provided they have graduated from a UK university, with particular reference to residency criteria. | | (186817) | 874
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research he has commissioned on the effects of changing the age of criminal responsibility; and if he will make a statement. | | (186818) | 875
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he next plans to meet with the heads of police authorities in the UK; and what he plans to discuss. | | (186819) | 876
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research his Department has commissioned regarding the number of times reported criminal activity relating to anti-social behaviour has resulted in suspects being (a) charged and (b) convicted. | | (186820) | 877
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions are in place to increase awareness in the criminal justice system of the behaviour patterns of people who have communication-related disabilities, including autism and Aspergers' Syndrome, in relation to policy on bringing charges for communication-related offences, with particular reference to (a) section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 and (b) the offence of being drunk and disorderly. | | (186921) | 878
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how his Department measures the performance of the Security Industry Authority. | | (187344) | 879
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the budget of the Security Industry Authority in each year since 2001. | | (187345) | 880
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Security Industry Authority proposes to implement the regulation of wheel clampers. | | (187350) | 881
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to amend the law to protect (a) transsexuals, (b) people with learning difficulties and (c) people with disabilities from hate crime; and if he will make a statement. | | (186869) | 882
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what further proposals the Government has to extend the powers of the criminal justice system to prevent hate crimes. | | (186872) | 883
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will introduce a hate crimes register; and if he will make a statement. | | (186874) | 884
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the results of the Home Office's Understanding and Responding to Hate Crimes project. | | (186886) | 885
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what hate crime legislation introduced in the Criminal Justice Act 2003 remains to be implemented; and when it will be implemented. | | (186887) | 886
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Government's policy is on the prevention of hate crime; and if he will make a statement. | | (186888) | 887
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) support and (b) resources the Government are providing to the police to tackle hate crimes. | | (186889) | 888
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will amend legislation on hate crimes against (a) people with disabilities and (b) gay, lesbian and bisexual people to make it as extensive as that which applies to hate crimes on the grounds of race and religion; and if he will make a statement. | | (186890) | 889
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reported incidents of race hate crimes there have been in (a) St Helens and (b) England and Wales, broken down by region in each year since 1997; and what percentage (i) were brought to court and (ii) resulted in a successful prosecution in each case. | | (186901) | 890
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reported incidents of race hate crimes there have been against (a) people with learning difficulties, (b) people with disabilities, (c) gays, lesbians and bisexuals and (d) transsexuals there have been in (i) St Helens and (ii) England and Wales, broken down by region, in each year since 1997; and what percentage (A) were brought to court and (B) resulted in a successful prosecution in each case. | | (186909) | 891
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Government's policy is on the collection of data on hate crimes; and if he will make a statement. | | (186911) | 892
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how police numbers in Great Yarmouth have changed in each year since 1997. | | (186702) | 893
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment has been made of the level of fear of crime among the people of Great Yarmouth. | | (186715) | 894
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful criminal prosecutions were brought for crimes perpetrated in each Norfolk constituency in each year since 1997; and how many criminal charges were pressed for crimes perpetrated in Great Yarmouth in each year since 1997. | | (186717) | Questions to the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission 895
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the (a) set retirement age applying to all or most personnel and (b) maximum age beyond which applications for employment will not be considered is for each department of the House. | | (186374) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 896
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how his Department's policy on taking risks of natural and man-made disasters into account will change following the report by his Department's Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department. | | (186721) | 897
N | Tony Cunningham (Workington):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether under Common Agricultural Policy reform of the sugar protocol there are mechanisms in place to prevent short-term dumping on developing countries. | | (186323) | 898
N | Tony Cunningham (Workington):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether under Common Agricultural Policy reform of the sugar protocol there are transitional arrangements for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. | | (186324) | 899
N | Tony Cunningham (Workington):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Department is funding research into alternative uses for sugar, with particular reference to developing countries, in the light of Common Agricultural Policy reform of the sugar protocol. | | (186325) | 900
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the international aid budget was spent in Kenya in each year since 1997. | | (187409) | 901
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with the Kenyan Government on aid from the UK in relation to corruption within Kenya. | | (187410) | 902
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action he is taking to ensure that the Government fulfils the commitments it made in the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing.
| | (186829) | 903
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent meetings he has had with non-governmental organisations to discuss the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan. | | (186440) | 904
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the progress of reconstruction in Afghanistan. | | (186441) | 905
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations he has received regarding the progress of reconstruction in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement. | | (186442) | 906
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support he is giving to humanitarian operations in Somalia. | | (186443) | 907
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations he has received about the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan. | | (186473) | 908
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in (a) Sudan and (b) the Darfur region. | | (186478) | 909
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the United Kingdom Government will take (a) to prevent the forced return or relocation of (i) internally displaced people and (ii) refugees in Sudan and (b) to ensure that local Sudanese security forces and police protect the human rights of those who have suffered. | | (187821) | 910
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will outline the role the United Kingdom Government intends to play to help peace talks between the warring parties in Darfur to lead to a just and meaningful peace that addresses the root causes of the conflict. | | (187822) | 911
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what action the United Kingdom Government will propose to the UN following the passing of the 30th August deadline imposed by the UN on the Sudanese Government; and what the United Kingdom Government's policy towards the Sudanese Government will be. | | (187823) | 912
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much (a) monetary aid and (b) aid in kind his Department has (i) pledged and (ii) delivered to Equatorial Guinea per annum since 1998; and if he will make a statement. | | (187265) | 913
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the projects (a) initiated, (b) funded (i) partially and (ii) fully and (c) run by his Department since 1997 in Equatorial Guinea; and if he will make a statement. | | (187266) | 914
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the economic and political developments in Equatorial Guinea since 1998; and if he will make a statement. | | (187267) | 915
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will outline his Department's strategy with regard to the Montagnard people of Vietnam since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (187268) | 916
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much (a) monetary aid and (b) aid in kind his Department has (i) pledged and (b) delivered to projects directly impacting on the Montagnard people of Vietnam since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (187269) | 917
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his plans are for his Department's involvement in the Beijing Platform for Action known as Beijing +10. | | (187534) | 918
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to his Answer of 21st June, Official Report, column 1219W, on Zambia, what specific projects have received support in the Milanzi constituency of the Eastern Province of Zambia. | | (187537) | 919
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187316) | 920
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186693) | 921
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to ensure that AIDS/HIV prevention is given a high priority during the UK presidency of the (a) G8 and (b) EU. | | (187465) | 922
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. | | (187517) | 923
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the aid budget will be spent on water and sanitation in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (187528) | 924
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what research his Department has commissioned regarding connections between political and economic liberalisation and improvements in human security in developing countries. | | (186775) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 925
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the average time taken to process an application for assistance by (a) Invest Northern Ireland and (b) Invest Northern Ireland's legacy organisations was in the most recent relevant period. | | (186854) | 926
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the Department of Transport's New Approach to Transport Appraisal; and whether future investment decisions relating to Northern Ireland's railways network will be considered in the light of this report. | | (186855) | 927
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to take a decision on the proposal by the Board of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to demolish properties in the Antiville estate in Larne. | | (187714) | 928
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of dwellings that were used as second homes in the towns of (a) Portballintrae, (b) Portstewart, (c) Portrush and (d) Castlerock last year. | | (186328) | 929
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the revised proposals of the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland will be announced. | | (186329) | 930
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many outstanding complaints there were in June with the office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. | | (186486) | 931
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps are being taken to increase the confidence of members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in the systems in operation at the office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. | | (186487) | 932
| Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in establishing an alternative to the plastic baton round for use in quelling civil disturbances in Northern Ireland. | | (186488) | 933
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people are employed in the Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast in (a) clinical and medical, (b) secretarial and administrative, (c) ancillary and cleaning, (d) security and (e) catering positions; and what percentage in each category are non-Roman Catholics. | | (186989) | 934
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what measures are in place to ensure equality of opportunity for employment at the Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast. | | (186990) | 935
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many racially-motivated attacks were reported in Northern Ireland in each year since 1997. | | (187411) | 936
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have moved house under the Special Purchase of Evacuated Dwellings Scheme in Northern Ireland where their move was due to racist intimidation in each year since 1997. | | (187412) | 937
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people have been allocated emergency homeless status by the Housing Executive in Northern Ireland because of racist intimidation in each year since 1997. | | (187413) | 938
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was allocated to combatting racism in Northern Ireland in each year since 1997. | | (187414) | 939
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people were convicted of racially motivated offences in Northern Ireland in each year since 1997. | | (187415) | 940
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the involvement of paramilitary organisations in racist attacks in Northern Ireland. | | (187416) | 941
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 5th July, Official Report, column 530W, on the Andersonstown Newspaper Group, whether the monies were allocated for projects (a) outside the UK and (b) in the Republic of Ireland. | | (186466) | 942
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the money will be released by the Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure to pay for the improved floodlights at Windsor Park. | | (186409) | 943
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made on implementing the football strategy in Northern Ireland. | | (186410) | 944
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the floodlights at Windsor Park will be upgraded in time for Northern Ireland's first home World Cup matches. | | (186411) | 945
| Kate Hoey (Vauxhall):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the result was of the public consultation on (a) the Future of Grammar Schools in Northern Ireland and (b) on the 11 plus examination in Northern Ireland. | | (187121) | 946
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many sites in Northern Ireland are licensed to accept hazardous waste; how many such sites there were in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (186598) | 947
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many cases of hospital acquired infection were recorded (a) at each hospital and (b) within each health and social services board area in Northern Ireland in each of the last four years. | | (186601) | 948
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what rationale underlies the differing periods of time which must elapse from the commencement of an illness before a claim can be made for (a) attendance allowance and (b) disability living allowance; and if he will review the rationale. | | (187824) | 949
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he plans to review the legislation that places an age restriction on eligibility for disability living allowance. | | (187825) | 950
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will lower the rate of the care component for attendance allowance in order to provide elderly claimants with assistance towards their care costs. | | (187826) | 951
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the review of the operation of Victim Support Northern Ireland has been completed; and if he will make a statement. | | (187827) | 952
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his Answer of 20th July, reference 184778, how many of the patients in the table for (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2002-03 subsequently died in hospitals; and if he will make a statement. | | (187155) | 953
| Mr Kevin McNamara (Kingston upon Hull North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many local enterprise development unit board members were awarded contracts relating to the running of third party organisations between 1995 and 2000; and what conflict of interest procedures were applied. | | (186696) | 954
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent action the Government has taken to resolve the Northern Ireland Civil Service dispute; and if he will make a statement. | | (187287) | 955
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many individuals are awaiting digital hearing aids in the Province; and what the (a) average and (b) longest current waiting time is. | | (187398) | 956
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many children in the Province received free fruit at school in 2003-04. | | (187432) | 957
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was spent on the (a) promotion of health and (b) prevention of illness in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years. | | (187433) | 958
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of drivers involved in accidents in the Province in each of the last 10 years were under the influence of (a) drugs and (b) alcohol. | | (187434) | 959
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on staffing levels in the genito-urinary medicine department at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. | | (187435) | 960
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions have been held with representatives of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence regarding implementing NICE guidelines in Northern Ireland. | | (187436) | 961
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment has been made of the implications of using mobile scanning facilities to increase the number of MRI scans conducted in the Province. | | (187437) | 962
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 20th January, Official Report, column 1161W, on school fruit, whether the fresh fruit in schools scheme will be extended. | | (187438) | 963
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the percentage of sexual abuse that is perpetrated by teenagers. | | (187439) | 964
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many whole-time equivalent physiotherapists are working within the NHS in the Province. | | (187440) | 965
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of physiotherapists required in the Province over the next five years. | | (187441) | 966
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was spent on infection control procedures at hospitals in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years. | | (187442) | 967
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate has been made of the cost of hospital-acquired infections in the Province in the last year for which figures are available. | | (187443) | 968
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many vancomycin-resistant enterococcus cases there were in the Province in each of the last five years. | | (187445) | 969
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have stopped smoking in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. | | (187446) | 970
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the lowest A-level grades were with which students from (a) Northern Ireland and (b) outside the UK were admitted to each faculty at (i) Queen's University, Belfast and (ii) the University of Ulster in each of the last 10 years. | | (187447) | 971
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many deaths from hospital-acquired infections there were in each year since 1998, broken down by organism responsible. | | (187448) | 972
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans there are to improve (a) respite and (b) social activity provision for young people with special needs in (i) Larne, Carrick, Newtownabbey and Ballyclare and (ii) the rest of the Northern Board area. | | (187449) | 973
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on counterfeit goods seized in the Province in the last year. | | (187450) | 974
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many pupils who achieved each grade in the 11 plus examination were from (a) integrated and (b) other primary schools in the Province in each of the last five years. | | (187451) | 975
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether practitioners performing cosmetic procedures in the Province outside the NHS have to be registered; and how such practitioners are regulated. | | (187452) | 976
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of terminations performed in the Province in each of the last 10 years. | | (187453) | 977
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the level of support in the Province for academic selection in post-primary education. | | (187454) | 978
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many newly diagnosed cases of HIV there have been in the Province since 1st January. | | (187455) | 979
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what authority local councils in Northern Ireland have to ban animal based circuses from their property. | | (187456) | 980
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the position is in relation to the payment of compensation for motorists involved in the Gransha Road, Dundonald, road surfacing problems of two years ago; and when payments will be made to those whose vehicles were damaged. | | (187514) | 981
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the theft of equipment from army vehicles during violence on 12th July in Ardoyne, Belfast. | | (187753) | 982
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on insurance costs for independent care homes. | | (187762) | 983
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many respite beds there are in each (a) council and (b) health board area; and how many of these beds are (i) solely for the use of patients with particular conditions and (ii) restricted to use by individuals within a certain age range. | | (187763) | 984
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assistance is available to locum general practitioners on (a) sick leave and (b) maternity leave. | | (187765) | 985
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made towards removing inequality in (a) enjoyment of good health and (b) health services in Northern Ireland. | | (187766) | 986
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will estimate the most recent annual cost of disposing of (a) all waste and (b) disposable nappies in each council area in Northern Ireland. | | (187767) | 987
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which health trusts have expressed an interest in developing midwife-led maternity facilities. | | (187768) | 988
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of missed general practitioner appointments and (b) resultant costs in the Province in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (187769) | 989
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) recorded births and (b) birth defects there were in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years. | | (187770) | 990
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much has been spent on mental health (a) assertive outreach and (b) crisis response services in each of the last five years in the Province. | | (187771) | 991
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans there are to develop (a) assertive outreach and (b) crisis response mental health services in the Province. | | (187772) | 992
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether there are specific targets regarding early diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders in the Province. | | (187773) | 993
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much funding has been allocated to improving awareness and education about autistic spectrum disorders in the Province in each of the last five years. | | (187775) | 994
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what improvements have been made in enhancing educational provision for those aged 16 years and over with moderate learning disability in the Province. | | (187776) | 995
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the independent external review into endoscope decontamination will report. | | (187777) | 996
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost of implementing an Irish language policy has been to each Government department since its introduction. | | (187778) | 997
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many nursing vacancies there are at each health trust in the Province. | | (187779) | 998
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many overseas nurses are working at each health trust in the Province. | | (187780) | 999
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many individuals in the Province have prosthetic limbs; and what the causes of the disability are in each case. | | (187781) | 1000
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people are employed in the Province specifically to treat those with prosthetic limbs, broken down by profession. | | (187782) | 1001
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has ben made on improving the cosmetic appearance, with particular reference to colour synergy, of prosthetic limbs provided in Northern Ireland. | | (187783) | 1002
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on (a) funding for and (b) development of services for those with prosthetic limbs. | | (187784) | 1003
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on services in the Province for those with prosthetic limbs. | | (187785) | 1004
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the merits of providing funding directly to the Regional Disablement Service rather than through health boards. | | (187786) | 1005
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether it is planned that the Regional Disablement Service should provide satellite clinics in the Province. | | (187787) | 1006
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) lapwing, (b) peeweet, (c) yellow yornie, (d) curlew, (e) corncrake, (f) buzzard and (g) peregrine falcons in Northern Ireland. | | (187788) | 1007
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what action he will take to boost farmland bird numbers in the Province. | | (187789) | 1008
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to strengthen legislation against (a) excessive noise and (b) nuisance neighbours in the Province. | | (187790) | 1009
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on floods in the Province in August. | | (187791) | 1010
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans there are to improve andrology services in the Province. | | (187792) | 1011
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to prioritise on sub-fertility waiting lists females who are approaching the cut-off point for age-related treatment options. | | (187793) | 1012
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many couples are awaiting (a) initial outpatient assessment and (b) treatment for sub-fertility in the Province. | | (187794) | 1013
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the latest figure is for the average waiting time from GP referral to consultant assessment for sub-fertility treatments in the Province. | | (187795) | 1014
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has to bring the criteria for NHS-funded sub-fertility treatments in Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the United Kingdom. | | (187796) | 1015
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will estimate the annual cost of providing nursing and personal care for dementia sufferers in Northern Ireland. | | (187797) | 1016
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) intentional and (b) accidental deaths there were from drug overdoses in each health board area in each of the last five years. | | (187799) | 1017
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on long-term plans for otorhinolaryngology services at Tyrone County Hospital. | | (187800) | 1018
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on otorhinolaryngology services in Fermanagh and Tyrone. | | (187801) | 1019
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what percentage of (a) junior house officers, (b) senior house officers and (c) specialist registrars are compliant with the European Working Time Directive at each health trust in the Province. | | (187802) | 1020
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, where each termination in the Province in each of the last five years was performed; and what maternal illness was responsible in each case. | | (187803) | 1021
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the population level required to maintain an actute hospital in the Province as viable. | | (187804) | 1022
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many full-time (a) nurses and (b) administrators are employed by the NHS in Northern Ireland. | | (187805) | 1023
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the (a) set-up costs and (b) most recent annual running costs were of the civic forum. | | (187806) | 1024
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much has been spent on the civic forum in the last 12 months. | | (187807) | 1025
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) MRSA and (b) total staphylococcus aureus cases have been reported in the Province in each of the past five years. | | (187808) | 1026
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what information he has collected on the extent of cocaine use in the Province; and if he will make a statement. | | (187809) | 1027
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much was awarded in (a) legal costs and (b) damages for clinical negligence cases in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years. | | (187810) | 1028
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) contacts to and (b) domiciliary visits from each general practice out-of-hours service there were in the Province in each of the last five years. | | (187811) | 1029
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) Protestant, (b) Roman Catholic and (c) other students domiciled in Northern Ireland commenced university courses in (i) Northern Ireland and (ii) Great Britain in each of the last 10 years. | | (187812) | 1030
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many terminations in females from Northern Ireland aged 16 years or younger there were in each of the last five years. | | (187813) | 1031
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the (a) number and (b) workload of plumbers at the Ulster Hospital (i) in 1994 and (ii) on the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (187814) | 1032
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps are being taken to improve hygiene in local hospitals; and if he will make a statement. | | (187815) | 1033
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on the state of (a) plumbing and (b) sewers at the Ulster Hospital. | | (187817) | 1034
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187309) | 1035
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186691) | Questions to the Prime Minister 1036
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list the local authority areas he has not visited as Prime Minister. | | (186994) | 1037
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Prime Minister, what plans he has to create a new ministerial post with specific responsibility for London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games; whether the post will carry Cabinet status; and if he will make a statement. | | (187183) | 1038
| Mr Don Foster (Bath):To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions regarding the creation of a new ministerial post with specific responsibility for London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games he has held with (a) the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, (b) London 2012 and (c) other bodies; and if he will make a statement. | | (187184) | 1039
| Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews (Medway):To ask the Prime Minister, on what date he was informed of the withdrawal of the Iraq intelligence reports to which paragraph 405 of Lord Butler's report refers. | | (186799) | 1040
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Prime Minister, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Office is responsible. | | (187321) | 1041
N | Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling):To ask the Prime Minister, which official at No. 10 Downing Street was first informed, by whom, and on what date, of the withdrawal of the intelligence on Iraqi production of chemical and biological agent referred to in paragraph 405 of the Butler Report. | | (186804) | 1042
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Prime Minister, on what date he issued the direction to set up the Ministerial Committee on Freedom of Information (MISC 28); for what reasons he decided to set up this committee; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the direction setting up this committee. | | (186606) | 1043
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Prime Minister, how many times the Ministerial Committee on Freedom of Information (MISC 28) has met since it was set up; on what dates it has met; when it was set up; and whether the committee has discussed the issue of deciding what level of fees should be charged for requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (186607) | 1044
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Prime Minister, whether he plans to meet (a) Mr John Kerry and (b) President George W. Bush before the US presidential elections. | | (186593) | 1045
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Prime Minister, what research his Office has commissioned regarding reform of the United Kingdom's intelligence services. | | (186595) | 1046
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Prime Minister, what plans he has to meet leaders of other United Nations Security Council member states to discuss methods of resolving the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe. | | (186596) | 1047
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Prime Minister, what his policy is on the French Government's position on the establishment of an EU army. | | (186597) | 1048
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Prime Minister, if he will meet representatives from North Korea to discuss (a) its nuclear weapons programme and (b) security on the Korean peninsula. | | (186973) | 1049
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Prime Minister, what research he has commissioned into the threats from weapons of mass destruction programmes in hostile countries. | | (186974) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 1050
| Mr Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his evidence to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee on 29th June, what steps he has taken to improve the performance of his Department in responding to correspondence. | | (186380) | 1051
| Mr Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the policy decisions he has made as Secretary of State for Scotland and Transport. | | (186381) | 1052
| Mr Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will list the policy issues on which he has responsibility both as Secretary of State for Scotland and Secretary of State for Transport. | | (186382) | 1053
| Mr Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what indications he has received from the Boundary Commission for Scotland as to when it expects to deliver to him its Report on Parliamentary Boundaries in Scotland. | | (186383) | 1054
| Mr Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what effect he expects the Gershon Review of Civil Service manpower to have on payments to the Scottish Consolidated Fund. | | (186384) | 1055
| Mr Peter Duncan (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many hours of scrutiny were given to each bill relating exclusively to Scotland between 1997 and 1999, broken down by (a) Scottish Grand Committee, (b) House and (c) House of Lords. | | (187379) | 1056
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187322) | 1057
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what parts of his Department's estate will not be covered by the commitments set out in the Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate. | | (186585) | 1058
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps have been taken by his Department since publication of the Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate to review arrangements for public reporting of sustainable development impacts. | | (186586) | 1059
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what arrangements his Department has to report publicly on its key sustainable development impacts. | | (186588) | 1060
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what have been identified as the most significant sustainable development impacts in relation to the operation of his Department's estate. | | (186589) | 1061
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the total floor space area of buildings owned or leased by his Department was in each year from 1997 to date. | | (186614) | 1062
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what proportion of electricity used by buildings in his Department has come from renewable sources in each year since 1997. | | (186654) | 1063
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on electricity use for each year since 1997. | | (186655) | 1064
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on water and sewerage services in each year since 1997. | | (186656) | Questions to the Solicitor General 1065
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Solicitor General, what plans there are to review the status of witnesses in the Crown Prosecution Service's decisions on prosecuting cases. | | (187386) | Questions to the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 1066
| Mike Gapes (Ilford South):To ask the honourable Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, when the Electoral Commission's Corporate Plan for 2004-05 to 2008-09 was approved by the Speaker's Committee. | | (186592) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1067
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how her Department measures the success of its business support agencies. | | (186318) | 1068
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the current Government-backed rescue package for British Energy. | | (186330) | 1069
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will require British Telecom to allow its competitors to offer a single telephone bill for its customers. | | (186331) | 1070
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on her assessment of the effect of new tax rules on shares held by academics set out in the Finance Act 2003 on the number of university spin-off companies being set up. | | (186332) | 1071
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans her Department has to improve protection for the (a) employees and (b) investors of companies which carry out medical research involving animals; and if she will make a statement. | | (186333) | 1072
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans her Department has to increase paid parental leave; and if she will make a statement. | | (186334) | 1073
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate her Department has made of the total value to date of the contracts awarded to British businesses in Iraq since the start of the occupation. | | (186335) | 1074
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research her Department has carried out into the impact on the retail price of beer resulting from the market position of large pub companies. | | (186336) | 1075
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with her European counterparts regarding proposals to abolish the individual opt-out from the 48-hour limit set by the Working Time Directive; and if she will make a statement. | | (186337) | 1076
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the Agency Workers Directive. | | (186338) | 1077
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the (a) current and (b) projected levels of funding are from her Department for (i) the Manufacturing Advisory Service and (b) Enterprise Insight. | | (186340) | 1078
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what targets have been set by her Department for the number of new start up small businesses which will be created with help from Enterprise Insight. | | (186341) | 1079
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the (a) objectives and (b) organisational structure of Enterprise Insight. | | (186342) | 1080
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total funding is that has been given by her Department to support Corporate Venturing UK since it was launched. | | (186343) | 1081
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on her Department's proposed funding arrangements for Corporate Venturing UK. | | (186344) | 1082
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the Manufacturing Advisory Service. | | (186345) | 1083
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what identifiable results have been achieved as a result of funding from her Department for (a) the Manufacturing Advisory Service and (b) Corporate Venturing UK. | | (186346) | 1084
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the estimated administrative cost is of devolving Business Link services to the regions. | | (186347) | 1085
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the current levels of funding from her Department to the West Midlands Minority Ethnic Business Forum. | | (186348) | 1086
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the proposed relationship between the regional development agencies and the regional assemblies in terms of control of public funding used to support businesses. | | (186349) | 1087
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what funding from her Department in 2004-05 is devoted by regional development agencies specifically towards promoting the development of minority ethnic businesses. | | (186350) | 1088
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many regulations which affect small businesses have been abolished by her Department over the past year. | | (186351) | 1089
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the current levels of consumer credit card fraud; and what steps her Department is taking to tackle it. | | (186354) | 1090
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many business regulations since 2002 have incorporated clauses to set a deadline for a regulation to cease to have effect unless renewed. | | (186355) | 1091
N | Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate her Department has made of the levels of state aid to industry in other EU Member States relative to the UK and of whether this results in unfair competition. | | (186419) | 1092
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research her Department has carried out into the possible effects on small businesses in rural areas of further plans for restrictions to the postal services; and if she will make a statement. | | (186532) | 1093
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total annual projected resource budget is for the Manufacturing Advisory Service. | | (187106) | 1094
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the annual projected resource budgets are for each of the regional manufacturing advisory services. | | (187107) | 1095
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the annual resource budgets have been for each of the regional manufacturing advisory services since 2002. | | (187108) | 1096
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many people are employed by the Low Pay Commission. | | (187109) | 1097
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total annual budget for the Manufacturing Advisory Service as a whole has been since 2002. | | (187112) | 1098
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what change there has been in the number of delays in the postal service in (a) urban and (b) rural areas since 1997; and if she will make a statement. | | (187113) | 1099
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the annual salaries are of each of the commissioners on the Low Pay Commission. | | (187114) | 1100
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total annual resource budget for the Low Pay Commission has been since its inception. | | (187115) | 1101
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the total wage budget is for the Low Pay Commission. | | (187144) | 1102
| Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what mechanisms her Department has put in place to monitor (a) sex discrimination, (b) race discrimination, (c) disability discrimination and (d) unfair dismissal affecting her Department's staff; and if she will make a statement on her Department's performance in promoting equal opportunities within (i) her Department and (ii) the bodies for which it is responsible. | | (186697) | 1103
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimates have been made of the costs of steel production in the construction of wind farms. | | (186600) | 1104
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimates have been made of levels of carbon dioxide production as a result of building wind farms. | | (187570) | 1105
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many post offices in Northampton South have disabled access. | | (186584) | 1106
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Export Credits Guarantee Department's administration costs were in each of the last five financial years (a) in total and (b) broken down into (i) staff costs, (ii) accommodation costs, (iii) consultancy costs and (iv) IT costs. | | (186840) | 1107
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what savings in administration costs the Export Credits Guarantee Department is required to achieve in 2005-06; and what the projected savings in such costs for the next five financial years are. | | (186841) | 1108
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent action her Department has undertaken to support small businesses in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne. | | (186842) | 1109
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether it is her practice to offer Export Credits Guarantee Department cover in government to government defence export and sales agreements; and what the total amount of cover outstanding on such agreements is. | | (186848) | 1110
| Ross Cranston (Dudley North):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she expects to be in the position to introduce legislation implementing the UN Sales Convention; and if she will make a statement. | | (186750) | 1111
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the implications of Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Turner and Newall for compensation for victims of asbestos-related injuries in the UK; and if she will make a statement. | | [R] (186491) | 1112
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what total tonnage of hazardous waste was (a) treated and (b) disposed of by English Partnerships projects in each of the last five years; what tonnage in each year was (i) consigned to landfill and (ii) decontaminated through onsite remediation; and what the projected tonnages are for 2004-05 in each case. | | (187161) | 1113
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list each environment-related European Directive the implementation of which involves her Department; and what steps her Department is taking towards implementation in each case. | | (187213) | 1114
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many full-time equivalent staff have been assigned to work on each environment-related European Directive, the implementation of which involves her Department. | | (187214) | 1115
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which scientists participated in the scoping workshops that began the Foresight project on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs in March and April. | | (187552) | 1116
| Mr Michael Jabez Foster (Hastings & Rye):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many Post Office branches have been proposed for closure by the Post Office under the Post Office reinvention programme; and how many have been subsequently confirmed for closure after the consultation process has been completed. | | (187843) | 1117
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate she has made of the percentage of employees who work some form of flexible working arrangement in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement. | | (186666) | 1118
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the demand for flexible working patterns; and if she will make a statement. | | (186667) | 1119
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to abolish mandatory retirement ages. | | (186792) | 1120
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps she is taking to eliminate age discrimination in the workplace. | | (186857) | 1121
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to expand employment protection to those aged 65 years and over. | | (186960) | 1122
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much public money has been given to the Mox plant at Sellafield in each year since 1990; what the projected sums are for future years; and if she will make a statement. | | (187524) | 1123
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much revenue was forecast to be generated by the Mox plant at Sellafield at its inception in each year to 2004; what the outturn has been; what the projections are for future years; and if she will make a statement. | | (187525) | 1124
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, which countries were expected to place orders with the Mox plant at Sellafield at its inception; and how many have done so to date. | | (187526) | 1125
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much profit the Mox plant at Sellafield is expected to make in its lifetime. | | (187527) | 1126
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to allow further imports of nuclear waste into the UK. | | (187735) | 1127
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate she has made of the amount of (a) processed and (b) unprocessed nuclear waste that will be stored in the UK in (i) one year, (ii) three years' and (iii) five years' time; and if she will make a statement. | | (187736) | 1128
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to (a) recycle, (b) repatriate and (c) bury nuclear waste currently being stored in the UK. | | (187737) | 1129
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much (a) processed and (b) unprocessed nuclear waste is being stored in the UK; at which locations it is being stored; and from where the waste originated. | | (187738) | 1130
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will regulate the practice of offering bogus prizes, via tickets and scratchcards, which have to be claimed using expensive premium telephone lines; and if she will make a statement. | | (187749) | 1131
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether the 50 MW threshold, above which she determines planning applications for wind farms, is based on the wind farm's theoretical maximum output, or its actual projected output. | | (187039) | 1132
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what constitutes a single wind farm for the purposes of planning applications; and whether there is a maximum distance between two clusters of turbines, beyond which they would be regarded as two wind farms. | | (187040) | 1133
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps she is taking to promote tidal energy; and what plans she has to increase investment in its further development. | | (187041) | 1134
| Nick Harvey (North Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate she has made of the potential contribution to the UK's energy needs of tidal power. | | (187042) | 1135
| Mr Charles Kennedy (Ross, Skye & Inverness West):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps the Government has taken to evaluate the impact of new overhead power lines on the economy of communities reliant on tourism. | | (187491) | 1136
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the East Midlands has received from (a) Germany, (b) Sweden, (c) France, (d) USA, (e) Canada, (f) Singapore, (g) India, (h) Australia and (i) Belgium in each year since 1997. | | (187222) | 1137
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the region of Yorkshire and the Humber received from (a) Japan and (b) China in each year since 1997. | | (187223) | 1138
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the West Midlands has received from (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) Sweden, (d) Belgium, (e) USA, (f) Canada, (g) Japan, (h) Singapore, (i) India and (j) Australia in each year since 1997. | | (187224) | 1139
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the South West of England received from (a) Japan and (b) USA in each year since 1997. | | (187225) | 1140
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the South East of England received from (a) Belgium, (b) USA, (c) Germany, (d) China, (e) South Korea, (f) Japan and (g) Australia in each year since 1997. | | (187226) | 1141
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the North East of England received from (a) China, (b) Japan, (c) South Korea, (d) Taiwan, (e) Australia, (f) the USA and (g) Belgium in each year since 1997. | | (187227) | 1142
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the North West of England received from (a) Japan, (b) USA and (c) Belgium in each year since 1997. | | (187279) | 1143
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment London received from Belgium in each year since 1997. | | (187280) | 1144
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much inward investment the East of England received from (a) USA, (b) Belgium and (c) China in each year since 1997. | | (187281) | 1145
| Miss Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how the Government measures inward investment. | | (187282) | 1146
| Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the opportunities for British companies to contribute to transport infrastructure projects in India; and what assistance her Department is providing to British companies who are involved in bids for such projects. | | (187130) | 1147
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many and what type of intellectual property rights are owned by the Government. | | (187101) | 1148
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the impact of Schedule 22 of the Finance Act 2003 on university spin-out companies. | | (186452) | 1149
N | Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how much in pounds sterling she calculates has been under-returned to the UK over the last four years under the funding agreement with the European Space Agency. | | (186752) | 1150
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many complaints she has received in the last 12 months regarding the postal service in postal districts RM1, RM2, RM5, RM7, RM11 and RM12; and what the figures are for all other London postal districts. | | (187732) | 1151
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the additional requirements for personnel vetting that will arise from the contractorisation of (a) nuclear waste management and (b) nuclear installation decommissioning under the guidance of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. | | (187284) | 1152
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the report published by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology on 22nd July on assessing the risk of terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities. | | (187304) | 1153
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment has been made by her office of civil nuclear security in respect of providing guidance to (a) nuclear operators, (b) regulators, (c) other non-departmental public bodies and (d) relevant Government departments on the release of sensitive nuclear information. | | (187306) | 1154
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what additional protection measures have been taken at (a) Sellafield, (b) other nuclear sites operated by BNFL and (c) nuclear installations operated by the UK Atomic Energy Authority since 11th September 2001. | | (187307) | 1155
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she received from BNFL its first near term work plans and its lifecycle baseline analysis for British Nuclear Group sites; and what procedure is in place for amendment to these planning documents. | | (187502) | 1156
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what response has been received from the European Commission following the plan presented by the United Kingdom on 1st June in respect of the nuclear waste storage silo B30 at Sellafield. | | (187503) | 1157
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether her Department has made available resources to British Nuclear Fuels to provide loan guarantees to the company's Westinghouse subsidiary to work on new reactor designs in the United States. | | (187603) | 1158
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made since December 2003 in respect of the consideration by the European Commission of details provided by the Government on the proposed financing of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. | | (187604) | 1159
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions (a) she, (b) other departmental ministers and (c) departmental officials have had with the European Commission on the proposed restructuring of British Nuclear Fuels plc; and what the state aid implications are. | | (187605) | 1160
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which her Department is responsible. | | (187312) | 1161
| Mr Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, by what date she has been advised she will receive the Office of Fair Trading report on pharmaceutical services; and if she will make a statement. | | (186321) | 1162
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many contracts her Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186688) | 1163
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, under what circumstances the decision to convert the Export Credits Guarantee Department to a capitalised trading fund would be reversed; and if she will make a statement. | | (187093) | 1164
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, to what extent a capitalised trading fund will give the Export Credits Guarantee Department autonomy from HM Treasury and her Department. | | (187094) | 1165
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, under what terms the £10 million investment in the Export Credits Guarantee Department from her Department's shareholder executive can be spent; and if she will make a statement. | | (187095) | 1166
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will estimate what the average reduction in the Export Credits Guarantee Department premium rates will be in (a) 2005-06 and (b) the subsequent five financial years; and if she will make a statement. | | (187098) | 1167
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the terms of reference of the Export Credits Guarantee Department business plan are. | | (187099) | 1168
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to propose extending anti-discrimination laws for gay men and lesbians to cover the provision of goods and services. | | (187134) | 1169
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to end insurance discrimination for gay men based solely on sexual orientation. | | (187135) | 1170
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research her Department has commissioned on fraud in large businesses; and what measures she has taken to prevent such fraud in the UK. | | (186663) | 1171
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what research her Department has commissioned on reducing the administrative burden for small businesses. | | (186664) | 1172
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures she has taken to promote British agricultural products abroad. | | (186669) | 1173
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what information the Government has collated on the percentage of (a) public and (b) private sector organisations which have committed to carry out equal pay reviews. | | (186876) | 1174
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what information the Government has collated on the percentage of public sector organisations which have (a) committed to and (b) declined to carry out equal pay reviews. | | (186877) | 1175
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what information the Government has collated on the percentage of (a) public sector and (b) private sector organisations with over 500 employees which have carried out equal pay reviews. | | (186878) | 1176
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what information the Government has collated on the percentage of (a) public sector and (b) private sector organisations with less than 500 employees which have carried out equal pay reviews. | | (186879) | 1177
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what information the Government has collated on the percentage of (a) public sector organisations and (b) private sector organisations which have carried out equal pay reviews. | | (186880) | 1178
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's policy is on tackling occupational segregation in relation to the gender pay gap; and if she will make a statement. | | (186902) | 1179
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans the Government has to change legislation on equal pay; and if she will make a statement. | | (186912) | 1180
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's policy is on the promotion of equal pay. | | (186913) | 1181
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's policy is on implementing the recommendations in the Equal Opportunities Commission's 2002 Equal Pay Task Force Report; and if she will make a statement. | | (186914) | 1182
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's policy is on promoting awareness of employee rights on equal pay in the workplace; and if she will make a statement. | | (186915) | 1183
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many pay discrimination lawsuits have been filed each year since 1997, broken down by region. | | (186916) | 1184
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many pay discrimination lawsuits on the grounds of gender discrimination have been filed in each year since 1997, broken down by region. | | (186917) | 1185
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate the Government has made of the average length of time taken to process pay discrimination lawsuits in the last period for which figures are available. | | (186918) | 1186
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate the Government has made of the cost to businesses of pay discrimination lawsuits in each year since 1997. | | (186919) | 1187
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate the Government has made of the cost of age discrimination to the UK economy in each year since 1997. | | (186927) | 1188
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's policy is on preventing age discrimination; and if she will make a statement. | | (186938) | 1189
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how she expects the 2006 age discrimination legislation to be implemented; and which bodies will have responsibility for implementation. | | (186944) | 1190
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the Government's policy is on (a) direct and (b) indirect discrimination by employers against the employment of workers over the age of 50. | | (186947) | 1191
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many workers in Great Yarmouth have benefited from the national minimum wage. | | (186700) | 1192
| Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions the Sustainable Energy Policy Group ministerial committee has had in relation to the Combined Heat and Power Strategy. | | (187581) | 1193
| Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions (a) the Sustainable Energy Policy Network (SEPN) Advisory Board, (b) the SEPN Programme Board and (c) the SEPN Strategy Group have had in relation to the Combined Heat and Power Strategy. | | (187582) | 1194
| Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she will publish the Combined Heat and Power Potential Study that is listed on the Sustainable Energy Policy Network's website. | | (187583) | 1195
| Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the progress of schemes which have been awarded under her Department's Bioenergy Capital Grants scheme. | | (187584) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 1196
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funds he has (a) been asked for and (b) agreed to provide for the A65 bus lane scheme. | | (186735) | 1197
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road schemes have been started in Northampton in each year since 1992. | | (186517) | 1198
| Mr Tony Colman (Putney):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the Blue Badge parking scheme entitlement for those diagnosed with myasthenia gravis. | | (187754) | 1199
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures he has taken to improve access to public transport for pensioners. | | (186461) | 1200
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on maximum noise levels from straight-through car exhausts on customised cars. | | (187389) | 1201
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of refurbishments to the fabric of buildings owned by his Department has been since May 1997. | | (186396) | 1202
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of printing departmental headed notepaper was in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the last year for which figures are available. | | (186397) | 1203
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total running cost of his Department's canteen facilities was in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2003-04. | | (186398) | 1204
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) cost of recruitment was and (b) total cumulative salary bill has been for (i) the Chief Executive of the Highways Agency and (ii) the Chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport and (iii) the Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority. | | (186399) | 1205
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on replacing light bulbs in the last year for which figures are available. | | (186401) | 1206
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on energy efficiency in his Department's buildings. | | (186402) | 1207
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by his Department in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the last year for which figures are available on (i) headhunters, (ii) recruitment consultants and (iii) management consultants. | | (186403) | 1208
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent in the last year for which figures are available on office furniture. | | (186404) | 1209
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the items that his Department has reported lost or stolen to the police from his Department's buildings and property since 2001. | | (186405) | 1210
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of fraud to (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies affiliated to his Department in each of the last five years. | | (186406) | 1211
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the equivalent monetary cost of theft to (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies affiliated to his Department was in each year since his Department was established. | | (186408) | 1212
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by his Department in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the last year for which figures are available on (i) advertising and (ii) public relations. | | (186453) | 1213
| Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to paragraph 5.3.5 of The Future of Rail, Cm. 6233, what estimate he has made of the total amount of money elected regional assemblies would be able to spend on improving rail services in (a) the North East, (b) the North West and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber. | | (186154) | 1214
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the closure of sub post offices at Newtown and Northfield End on the (a) flow and (b) volume of traffic passing through Henley. | | (187504) | 1215
N | Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will publish a consultation document on night flights. | | (186320) | 1216
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is his intention that the proposed M6 toll expressway should be (a) constructed and (b) operated by a private sector contractor. | | (186986) | 1217
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance he has given to the Highways Agency on how to take account, in framing the A40/M40 management strategy, of (a) the environmental impact of the motorway on people living in South Buckinghamshire and (b) Wycombe District Council's Air Quality Management Strategy. | | (187370) | 1218
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of people who live up to (a) 50 metres, (b) 100 metres, (c) 250 metres and (d) 500 metres from the M40 between junctions 3 and 6. | | (187372) | 1219
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the accident rate per number of vehicles on the M40 between (a) junctions 3 and 4, (b) junctions 4 and 5 and (c) junctions 5 and 6. | | (187373) | 1220
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents there have been in each of the last five years on the M40 between (a) junctions 3 and 4, (b) junctions 4 and 5 and (c) junctions 5 and 6. | | (187374) | 1221
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his latest estimate is of the average daily flow of traffic on the M40 between junctions 3 and 6. | | (187375) | 1222
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many copies of the Highways Agency's consultation leaflet on the M40/A40 Management Strategy have been distributed in Stokenchurch. | | (187380) | 1223
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions in each of the last five years traffic has been diverted off the M40 at Junction 5 or 6 to travel along the A40 through Stokenchurch. | | (187381) | 1224
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Highways Agency has taken to consult the residents of Stokenchurch on the draft A40/M40 Route Management Strategy. | | (187543) | 1225
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on progress in implementing the Ten Year Transport Plan as it relates to freight transport. | | (186672) | 1226
| Joyce Quin (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his current estimate is of the cost of making the A1 between Newcastle and Berwick fully-dualled. | | (186429) | 1227
| Joyce Quin (Gateshead East & Washington West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the budget of the Highways Agency in the North East of England was in each of the last three years. | | (186430) | 1228
| Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list planned road resurfacing projects broken down by the number of houses affected by above 68dB of noise that will benefit from noise reduction; and how many of these projects will be financed from the £5 million ringfenced sum. | | (186728) | 1229
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on measures to improve the provision of emergency medical equipment on all UK aircraft. | | (187177) | 1230
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the work of the Aviation Health Unit. | | (187190) | 1231
| Bob Russell (Colchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 20th July, Official Report, column 130W, on road safety, how many people died as a result of crashes that occurred on hard shoulders of English trunk motorways in (a) 2002 and (b) 2003. | | (187058) | 1232
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the use of speed limiters in lorries has been assessed to determine efficiency in preventing traffic accidents. | | (187404) | 1233
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many lorries are fitted with speed limiters. | | (187405) | 1234
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents involving lorries occurred during overtaking manoeuvres in each of the last 10 years; and how many of these involved lorries fitted with speed limiters. | | (187406) | 1235
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has conducted a review of the suitability, in respect of security and safety, of the different ships used, or planned to be used, to transport plutonium MOX fuel to overseas customers from Sellafield. | | (187285) | 1236
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the vulnerability of cargo aircraft using United Kingdom airports to terrorists stowing on board with the aim of taking over the cockpit in flight. | | (187305) | 1237
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187323) | 1238
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186659) | 1239
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how planned funding in the Government's transport strategy The Future of Transport will be allocated between transport modes. | | (187538) | 1240
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetables are in place following publication of The Future of Transport for (a) the start of construction and (b) completion dates of (i) Thameslink 2000, (ii) East London Line Extension and (iii) Crossrail. | | (187539) | 1241
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the eight major schemes listed in the Highways Agency's business plan for 2004-05 scheduled to start in this financial year will proceed according to timetable following publication of The Future of Transport. | | (187540) | 1242
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the start of construction of (a) Crossrail and (b) Crossrail 2. | | (187132) | 1243
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many transport-related projects on the (a) railways and (b) roads are running (i) on schedule and (ii) behind schedule. | | (186801) | 1244
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received from the Leonard Cheshire Foundation regarding equal access for disabled people to the rail network. | | (186971) | 1245
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has commissioned regarding the Government's Rail End Date of 2055 and the viability of alternatives proposed by the Leonard Cheshire Foundation. | | (186972) | 1246
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost implications are of giving control over the railways in the Greater London Authority area to the Mayor of London; and if he will make a statement. | | (186722) | 1247
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what free capacity will be generated by the relocation of Eurostar services from Waterloo station. | | (186724) | 1248
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on consultation by the Crossrail development programme to date. | | (186733) | 1249
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road maintenance schemes requiring completion are outstanding; and when he expects they will be completed. | | (186734) | 1250
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what will happen to the workforce of the Strategic Rail Authority when it is abolished. | | (186737) | 1251
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what will happen to the (a) stock and (b) assets held by the Strategic Rail Authority when it is abolished. | | (186739) | 1252
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent in each year since 1997 installing speed humps on roads. | | (186761) | 1253
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries on roads were attributable to speed in the last year for which figures are available. | | (186763) | 1254
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what subsidies are paid to (a) Eurostar and (b) the Channel Tunnel Rail Link for the provision of their services; and where such subsidies are spent. | | (186765) | 1255
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Department expects to spend in severance payments when the Strategic Rail Authority is abolished. | | (186778) | 1256
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much he expects the Strategic Rail Authority to have cost from its inception to its abolition. | | (186789) | 1257
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, over what length beyond the boundaries of the current Greater London Authority area he expects the Mayor of London to have jurisdiction for the railways. | | (186790) | 1258
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the level of road congestion on (a) motorways and (b) all roads has been in each year since 1997. | | (186853) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 1259
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion, and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187315) | 1260
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what research his Department has commissioned regarding comparative levels of public services in England and of Welsh Assembly run public services in Wales, with particular reference to (a) health and (b) education. | | (186754) | 1261
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he next plans to meet Welsh Assembly secretaries to discuss strategies to deal with crime linked to school truancy in Wales. | | (186755) | Questions to the Minister for Women 1262
| Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford):To ask the Minister for Women, what her plans are for involvement in the Beijing Platform for Action, known as Beijing +10. | | (187535) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1263
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners are (a) eligible for and (b) claiming the pension credit in Northampton South. | | (186464) | 1264
| Mr Tony Clarke (Northampton South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for disability living allowance were initially (a) granted and (b) refused in the last year within the constituency of Northampton South. | | (186583) | 1265
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on the assessment of (a) grants, (b) bursaries, whether from Government or other sources and (c) student loans in the household incomes assessments for means-tested benefits; and whether this policy is under review. | | (186843) | 1266
| Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the additional costs in (a) 2015, (b) 2025, (c) 2035 and (d) 2045 of having a state second pension accrual rate that would guarantee all workers with 40 years of full-time employment sufficient pension to make them ineligible at (i) age 75 and (ii) retirement for the guarantee part of the pension credit if the basic state pension were to be uprated in line with (A) prices, (B) earnings and (C) the average of earnings and prices | | (186851) | 1267
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to promote rehabilitation services for people injured at work; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186481) | 1268
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce a training system for providers of rehabilitation services to victims of accidents at work; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186482) | 1269
| Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce an accreditation scheme for providers of rehabilitative services to victims of accidents at work; and if he will make a statement. | | [R] (186483) | 1270
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to change the levels of disability living allowance payable to pensioners. | | (186459) | 1271
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of increasing the value of the winter fuel allowance to £300 per household. | | (186460) | 1272
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to change the state pensions of expatriates living in countries not covered by reciprocal social security agreements with the UK. | | (186564) | 1273
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to change the rules allowing for the state pension to be reduced after 52 weeks in hospital. | | (186565) | 1274
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing a bereavement grant of £200 to surviving pensioner partners. | | (186566) | 1275
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of increasing the pensioners' annual Christmas bonus to the equivalent of one week's state pension. | | (186567) | 1276
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to change the level of a surviving partner's entitlement to the state earnings-related pension scheme. | | (186572) | 1277
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of increasing the 25p a week age addition to £25. | | (186573) | 1278
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost over a period of five years of increasing the basic state pension to a level of one-third average male earnings. | | (186575) | 1279
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of extending the full basic state pension to all people of pensionable age regardless of national insurance contributions. | | (186576) | 1280
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of raising the basic state pension to the level of the guarantee credit. | | (186579) | 1281
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what targets he has set for the uptake of benefits by pensioners for the next four years. | | (186796) | 1282
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to alter the rule whereby people who stay abroad for longer than four weeks have their pension credit payments stopped; and if he will make a statement. | | (187546) | 1283
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the Bridgwater constituency (a) are entitled to council tax benefit and (b) do not claim the council tax benefit to which they are entitled. | | (186500) | 1284
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the Bridgwater constituency who have cases with the Child Support Agency are using (a) the old maintenance payment system and (b) the new maintenance payment system; and if he will make a statement as to when he estimates all people in Bridgwater will be assessed using the new system. | | (186502) | 1285
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Bridgwater (a) are entitled to pension credit, (b) are in receipt of pension credit and (c) were receiving the minimum income guarantee prior to the introduction of pension credit. | | (186507) | 1286
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Bridgwater (a) have been contacted about converting to direct payment, (b) are still to be contacted about converting to direct payment, (c) have not responded to the contact about converting to direct payment and (d) have chosen to open a Post Office Card Account. | | (186508) | 1287
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) households and (b) people in receipt of means-tested benefits. | | (186545) | 1288
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to require companies to be registered for employers' liability compulsory insurance. | | (187185) | 1289
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of (a) the extent of evasion of employers' liability compulsory insurance within the construction and roofing industries and (b) the impact of such evasion on (i) the health and safety of workers and (ii) the profitability of insured employers. | | (187186) | 1290
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to implement the recommendations of his Department's second report on employers' liability compulsory insurance. | | (187187) | 1291
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the population live in an Employment Zone. | | (186423) | 1292
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to extend the number of Employment Zones. | | (186424) | 1293
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are employed (a) in his Department and (b) in Jobcentre Plus in administering each of the (i) New Deal programmes and (ii) Employment Zones. | | (186427) | 1294
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will set out the timescale for compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for (a) voluntary and community groups and (b) small businesses; and if he will make a statement. | | (187572) | 1295
N | Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial assistance is available to help (a) voluntary and community groups and (b) small businesses to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and if he will make a statement. | | (187573) | 1296
| Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed (a) incapacity benefit and (b) jobseeker's allowance in (i) the Bury St Edmunds parliamentary constituency and (ii) the county of Suffolk in each year since 1997. | | (187188) | 1297
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason all reference to marriage has been omitted from the Family and Child Study data; and if he will reinstate the previous format. | | (187251) | 1298
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress he has made in achieving his anti-fraud targets. | | (186522) | 1299
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects all absent parents to be assessed under the same criteria for Child Support Agency payments; and if he will make a statement. | | (186530) | 1300
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many rooms are set aside for (a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion, and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and set of offices for which his Department is responsible. | | (187311) | 1301
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in relation to applications for benefits from residents of (a) Aylesbury and (b) Milton Keynes in each year since 2000, how many applicants were required to take a medical examination; what benefits were applied for that required a medical examination; and how many of those medical examinations were undertaken at (i) Luton, (ii) Aylesbury and (iii) Euston. | | (187566) | 1302
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts his Department had with (a) Barclays Bank, (b) the Royal Bank of Scotland, (c) UBS Warburg and (d) the Bank of Scotland for advice on private finance initiative and public private partnership contracts in each financial year since 2001-02; and what fees were paid in each case. | | (186657) | 1303
| Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) set retirement age applying to all or most personnel and (b) maximum age beyond which applications for employment will not be considered is in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies. | | (186373) | 1304
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14th June, Official Report, column 729W, on pensions, what a pensioner's income from the state pension was in each year in (a) cash and (b) real terms, broken down by the components identified in footnote 3. | | (186768) | 1305
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have entered self-employment as a result of participating in each New Deal scheme in each year since 1997-98. | | (186779) | 1306
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of pension credit also receive (a) housing benefit, (b) council tax benefit and (c) other means-tested benefits. | | (186780) | 1307
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Social Fund budget loans, and to what value, have been made in each year since 1997; and how many and what value of these were to cover delays in payments of social security benefits and tax credits. | | (186781) | 1308
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, columns 833-34W, on pension credit, if he will provide the same breakdown of calls to the pension credit application line for subsequent months. | | (186852) | 1309
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the rate is at which a pensioner with average housing costs and council tax costs would have (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit withdrawn if they were in receipt of pension credit and had a total gross weekly income of (i) £80, (ii) £100, (iii) £120, (iv) £140, (v) £160, (vi) £180, (vii) £200 and (viii) other incomes as are available. | | (187343) | 1310
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who receive (a) income support and (b) pension credit also pay income tax; and what proportion this is of recipients of each benefit. | | (187346) | 1311
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost has been of creating JobCentre Plus offices in each year since 2001-02; and what the estimated costs are for each year to 2007-08. | | (187347) | 1312
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimates are of the cost of contracted-out rebates in each of the past 10 years and each of the next 10 years consistent with the latest estimates by the Office of National Statistics of Pension contributions. | | (187348) | 1313
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of (a) pensions and (b) pensioner households eligible for the pension credit, broken down by (i) guarantee credit and (ii) savings credit for (A) each year up to 2014 and (B) appropriate intervals up to 2034. | | (187349) | 1314
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the assumptions are for the number and percentage of eligible pensioners taking up pension credit that underlie his pensioner benefit expenditure projections for (a) 2003-04, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2023-24, (d) 2033-34, (e) 2043-44 and (f) 2053-54. | | (187352) | 1315
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide a breakdown of expenditure on contracted-out rebates for (a) private sector employees and (b) public sector employees in each of the past 10 years; and what the projections are for each of the next 10 years. | | (187353) | 1316
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimate is of the (a) mean and (b) median cost of the contracted out rebate for (i) a public sector employee and (ii) a private sector employee in each of the last 10 years; and what the projection is for each of the next 10 years. | | (187354) | 1317
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners paid (a) income tax and (b) council tax in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (187355) | 1318
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average pensioner income was in (a) cash terms and (b) real terms in (i) 2001-02, (ii) 2002-03 and (iii) 2003-04, broken down by (A) state benefits and (B) private savings. | | (187356) | 1319
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have participated in each New Deal programme; and how many people have participated (a) twice and (b) three times or more. | | (187357) | 1320
| Mr David Willetts (Havant):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest projections are for expenditure on all benefits to pensioners, broken down by benefit, up to 2053-54 (a) as a percentage of GDP and (b) in £billion at 2004-05 prices. | | (187358) | 1321
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government (a) expects to meet and (b) has met its target for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the first quarter of 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (186805) | 1322
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the Government's performance has been against each of its child poverty reduction targets in (a) St Helens and (b) the UK, broken down by region, since 1997. | | (186806) | 1323
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Government has made of (a) how many and (b) what percentage of children lived in poverty in (i) St Helens and (ii) the UK, broken down by region, in each year since 1997.
| | (186825) | 1324
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of the adult population the Government estimates have claimed the basic state pension in each year since 1990.
| | (186828) | 1325
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to reform the Social Fund; and if he will make a statement. | | (186865) | 1326
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what resources the Government have made available to the Social Fund since 1997; whether the Government intends to increase the budget of the Social Fund; and if he will make a statement. | | (186866) | 1327
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of average pensioner household disposable income in each year since 1997; what factors are taken into account in calculating the average figure; and if he will make a statement. | | (186928) | 1328
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Government has made of the cost to the Exchequer of men and women over the age of 50 who are long-term unemployed in each year since 1997. | | (186937) | 1329
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average weekly pension in Great Yarmouth in each year since 1997 if pensions had been linked to earnings. | | (186701) | 1330
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in the Great Yarmouth constituency were (a) entitled to and (b) took up the winter fuel payment in the last year for which figures are available. | | (186704) | 1331
| Mr Anthony D. Wright (Great Yarmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Great Yarmouth have benefited from the New deal for (a) young people, (b) long-term unemployed and (c) lone parents. | | (186719) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 1332
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made towards the introduction of a green landlords scheme as announced in the Budget. | | [Transferred] (187384) | 1333
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) museum quality and (b) pre-eminent objects were granted conditional exemption by the Acceptance in Lieu Panel in each year since 1994. | | [Transferred] (187509) | 1334
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of (a) museum quality and (b) pre-eminent objects considered by the Acceptance in Lieu Panel were granted conditional exemption in each year since 1994. | | [Transferred] (187510) | 1335
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of civil service and public sector jobs presently located in London and the South East that will be relocated to (a) Bridgwater and (b) the South West following the report by Sir Michael Lyons, Well Placed to Deliver? Shaping the Pattern of Government Service, and the 2004 Spending Review. | | [Transferred] (186548) | 1336
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what strategy is in place to improve productivity levels in the EU. | | [Transferred] (186622) | 1337
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on progress with the agenda for structural reform of the EU. | | [Transferred] (186624) | 1338
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual growth rate of the EU was (a) in 2002-03 and (b) in 2003-04. | | [Transferred] (186650) | 1339
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the EU target of 70 per cent. employment in 2010 is expected to be met. | | [Transferred] (186653) | 1340
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what action has been set by the EU as highest priority for new member states in generating rapid economic reform. | | [Transferred] (186788) | Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs 1341
N | Andy Burnham (Leigh):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what training is available to magistrates on access rights for grandparents in cases of family breakdown. | | [Question Unstarred] (187661) | 1342
N | Mr John Greenway (Ryedale):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what plans he has to implement the Better Regulations Task Force's recommendation to strengthen consumer protection against claim management companies. | | [Question Unstarred] (187668) | 1343
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether Ministers are required to (a) consult and (b) notify other Ministers before deciding not to comply with recommendations by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration under the Code of Practice on access to Government information. | | [Transferred] (186609) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 1344
| Mr Edward Garnier (Harborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what studies her Department has made of (a) the incidence of theft from or criminal damage to and (b) the market value of items or artefacts stolen from sites of archaelogical interest in England and Wales since 1st June 1997. | | [Transferred] (187180) | 1345
| John Robertson (Glasgow Anniesland):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will introduce free television licences for blind and partially sighted people. | | [Transferred] (187569) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 1346
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when the Urban Deprived Fund will be extended to include post offices in the 20 per cent. most deprived wards. | | [Transferred] (186732) | 1347
| Mr John Battle (Leeds West):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will outline his plans for a safer and stronger communities fund referred to in paragraph 5.32 of the 2004 Spending Review; whether it will cover Leeds West; where it will be piloted; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (186782) | 1348
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the average mortgage taken out by first time buyers was in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (187331) | 1349
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what research he has commissioned on the sustainability of price increases in the housing market; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (187332) | 1350
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his Department's estimate is of extra demand for housing units by decade to 2050, by UK region. | | [Transferred] (187334) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 1351
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the compulsory purchase order placed on Tannery Arts Limited's premises. | | [Transferred] (187473) | 1352
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what representations he has received from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on its ban on Sexwise posters from its youth clubs; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (187105) | 1353
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate the Government has made of the percentage of GDP the UK has spent on childcare provision in each year since 1997.
| | [Transferred] (186826) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 1354
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the estimated amount in tonnes is of horse excrement deposited by police horses belonging to the London Metropolitan Police on public byways and spaces in London in the last year for which figures are available. | | [Transferred] (187289) | 1355
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the estimated cost to local authorities was of collecting excrement from police horses belonging to the London Metropolitan Police from public byways and spaces in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by local authority. | | [Transferred] (187290) | 1356
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) tonnage and (b) percentage of excrement produced by horses belonging to the Metropolitan Police was recycled in the form of manure or other compost in the last year for which figures are available. | | [Transferred] (187291) | 1357
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what obligations there are on the Metropolitan Police to clean up excrement left by its horses on public byways and spaces in London. | | [Transferred] (187292) | 1358
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessments she has made of the effect on the number of experiments on animals of the new REACH regulations; and if she will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (187479) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1359
| Mr Bill O'Brien (Normanton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the US Administration on the changes requiring UK visitors to obtain a visa in person due to unavailability of biometric data passports; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (186422) | 1360
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to promote British culture. | | [Transferred] (186952) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 1361
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy (a) to devise a legal definition of the word vegetarian and (b) to ensure that vegetarian food products are clearly labelled; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (187522) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 1362
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many motorists were (a) fined and (b) banned from driving as a result of the evidence of speed cameras in each of the last five years; how much money was raised from fines in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (187001) | 1363
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many units of council accommodation his Department has reserved in the district of Fenland for asylum seekers; over what period; and how many are vacant. | | [Transferred] (186360) | 1364
| Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects enquiries into medical and nursing practices at Gosport War Memorial Hospital to be concluded. | | [Transferred] (186616) | 1365
| Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many manhours have been expended by staff at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in responding to enquiries about medical and nursing practices at the hospital. | | [Transferred] (186617) | 1366
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimates the Government has of the number of children of asylum seekers in the UK in each year since 1997 in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) St Helens. | | [Transferred] (187156) | Questions to the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission 1367
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will make a statement on the methodology involved in the appointment of a new Serjeant at Arms. | | [Transferred] (187403) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 1368
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support the British Government offered to Venezuela following the floods in Caracas in December 1999; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (186412) | 1369
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what resources he plans to commit to AIDS vaccine research in the next 10 years. | | [Transferred] (187466) | 1370
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with the pharmaceutical industry regarding funding and facilities for the production of AIDS vaccine once developed. | | [Transferred] (187467) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1371
N | Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make a statement on progress towards restoration of devolution to Northern Ireland. | | [Question Unstarred][Transferred] (187675) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1372
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what views she has received from publicly funded equality bodies on (a) the Government's proposal for a single equality body and (b) the proposals in the document Fairness for All. | | [Transferred] (187154) | 1373
| Mr Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on subsidies available for companies working to find and develop renewable energy sources. | | [Transferred] (187296) | 1374
| Mr Simon Thomas (Ceredigion):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress has been made in implementing recommendations made by the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee in March 2001 that incineration and other waste-to-energy technologies should not be regarded as renewable energy sources. | | [Transferred] (187068) | 1375
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action the EU is taking to improve its policy on encouraging innovation. | | [Transferred] (186503) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 1376
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with (a) mobile telephone manufacturers and (b) car manufacturers on the safety of mobile phones in cars. | | [Transferred] (186393) | 1377
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has carried out into technical solutions for blocking the use of hand-held mobile phones in cars. | | [Transferred] (186394) | 1378
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will delay his decision on the London Gateway Port Harbour Empowerment Order until he is satisfied that a reasonable compensation package has been offered to local fishermen; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (187591) | 1379
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide resources to enable full coverage of operational CCTV on all public transport vehicles; and what research his Department has commissioned on the effects upon the number of charges and convictions for criminal activity on public transport if full operational CCTV coverage were to be installed in all public transport vehicles. | | [Transferred] (186976) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1380
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the burden on employers' liability compulsory insurance on small businesses with good health and safety track records; and what legislative changes are proposed. | | [Transferred] (186352) | 1381
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice the Government provides for young people on saving for pensions. | | [Transferred] (187303) | 1382
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the number of people eligible for means-tested benefits on incentives to save. | | [Transferred] (186546) | 1383
| Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what incentives the Government is offering to young people to begin saving for pensions. | | [Transferred] (186686) | 1384
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Government has made of (a) how many and (b) what percentage of children lived in low-income households in (i) St Helens and (ii) the UK, broken down by region, in each year since 1997.
| | [Transferred] (186824) | 1385
| Mr Shaun Woodward (St Helens South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Government has made of the number of children living in poverty who lived outside the 20 per cent. most deprived wards in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (187369) |
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