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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Wednesday 8 September 2004
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 8 September 2004
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 8 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 Wednesday 8 September of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Wednesday 8 September see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 1
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many deaths there were of patients suffering from eating disorders, broken down by (a) age and (b) gender, in each year since 1997. | | (187870) | Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs 2
N | Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 22nd July, Official Report, column 535W, on public records, under what legal provision files that have passed the normal 30 years disclosure period laid down by the Public Record Act 1958 have been either closed or retained; how many of the closed files have been closed to protect personally sensitive information; for what categories of reason the remainder are closed; and what plans there are for the future publication of the retained files. | | (187622) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 3
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July, Official Report, columns 1356-7W, on SERCO-Denholm, whether it is his policy that the pension rights of these workers should be equivalent to the pension rights that they would have obtained had they remained in the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme throughout their period of employment with the new employer; and if he will make a statement. | | (187832) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 4
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what guidance he has issued concerning the building of residential properties under or near power lines. | | (186155) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 5
N | Mrs Helen Clark (Peterborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will make a statement on the admission criteria for the proposed Deacon's Academy in Peterborough. | | (187833) | 6
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment he made of the effect of homelessness on children during preparation of the Children Bill. | | (187000) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 7
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage the recycling of plastic; and if she will list those local authorities which operate (a) kerbside and (b) other plastic recycling schemes. | | (187830) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 8
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what involvement the British High Commissioner for Cyprus is having with (a) the Greek Cypriot and (b) the Turkish Cypriot Mayors of Famagusta in efforts to redevelop the town. | | (187845) | 9
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) support from the British Government and (b) financial support from the European Union he will seek to give to the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot Mayors of Famagusta to reopen the port of Famagusta. | | (187846) | 10
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had in his recent meeting with Mr Mehmet Ali Talat on his willingness to co-operate with the Greek Cypriot Government on seeking to resolve the issue of missing people following the events of 1974 in Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. | | (187847) | 11
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Northern Cyprus Administration to ensure that the land on which property developments are taking place do not belong to Greek Cypriot people who left Northern Cyprus following the events of 1974; and if he will make a statement. | | (187848) | 12
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had in his recent meeting in London with Mr Mehmet Ali Talat on the involvement of the Turkish Army in the day to day affairs of Northern Cyprus; and what future role he wishes to see the Turkish Army have in Cyprus. | | (187849) | 13
| Tom Cox (Tooting):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had in his recent meeting with Mr Mehmet Ali Talat on the future of Famagusta and of the development of facilities within the town; and if he will make a statement. | | (187850) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 14
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish an order under section 60 of the Health Act 1999 to amend the Dentists Act 1984 to introduce Clinical Dental Technicians and other Professions Complementary to Dentistry. | | (186591) | 15
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average time taken to (a) review and (b) determine appeals by people who believed that they had been wrongly charged for continuing care (i) was before 31st March and (ii) has been since 31st March. | | (186371) | 16
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Alzheimer's patients have access to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors on the NHS. | | (186432) | 17
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of continuing care cases for which a review was pending at the end of March had been completed by 31st July. | | (186433) | 18
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he is making with plans for all Alzheimer's patients to have access to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors on the NHS; and when he expects access on the NHS to be available for all. | | (186434) | 19
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) families and (b) individuals have received compensation for wrongly-assessed continuing care; how many in each case are awaiting payment; and how much compensation has been paid so far. | | (186435) | 20
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd August, ref. 186199, on NHS Dentistry, whether those people were advised of dentists that they could register with; and what percentage of callers were advised of dentists that they could register with within locally agreed standards. | | (187852) | 21
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 1st July, Official Report, column 409W, on infant mortality, if he will set out (a) the baseline for the target to reduce the gap by 10 per cent. by 2010, (b) what the gap should be in 2010 if the target is met and (c) the current size of the gap between routine and manual groups and the population as a whole. | | (187853) | 22
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's rules are on overseas nurses coming into the UK receiving (a) student visas and (b) work permits. | | (187854) | 23
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to publish the action plan on tuberculosis. | | (187855) | 24
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total expenditure was on the rebranding of the Independent Regulator for Foundation Trusts as Monitor. | | (187856) | 25
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the most recent total annual cost to the NHS of (a) SITREP returns and (b) monthly management information returns; and if he will make a statement. | | (187857) | 26
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost to the NHS of all central returns of information and statistics to (a) the Department of Health and (b) the Department's arms length bodies in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (187858) | 27
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will outline his Department's plans for the Mind Out for Mental Health campaign; what evaluation has been made of it; and how much has been spent on it. | | (187859) | 28
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the consultancy work he has commissioned in the last 12 months concerning NHS continuing care; what the remit of the work was; when it was completed; and when he plans to publish it. | | (187860) | 29
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will reassess his estimate of the cost of providing free personal care with reference to (a) the latest Laing and Buisson survey for March 2003, (b) the current review of eligibility for NHS continuing care and (c) changes to the amount of funding for free nursing care since January 2004. | | (187861) | 30
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost in each year until 2009-10 of providing NHS continuing care for those people previously denied it until the review of eligibility criteria this year. | | (187862) | 31
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what amount his Department has allocated to strategic health authorities (a) to cover the costs of reviewing their eligibility criteria for NHS continuing care and (b) for compensating those people who were wrongly denied continuing care over the past seven years. | | (187863) | 32
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards meeting the target for new one stop primary care centres by December 2004. | | (187864) | 33
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the average list size of general practitioners in (a) England, (b) each strategic health authority and (c) each primary care trust for each year since 1997. | | (187865) | 34
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioner practices in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority have premises below a minimum standard; and what his Department defines as a minimum standard for practice premises. | | (187866) | 35
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the prevalence of eating disorders amongst (a) women and (b) men in England. | | (187867) | 36
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made towards meeting the target for all regular carers of people with mental health problems to have been identified, received an assessment and have their own care support plans by 2004. | | (187868) | 37
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes there were with a primary diagnosis of (a) anorexia and (b) bulimia, broken down by (i) age and (ii) gender in each year since 1997. | | (187869) | 38
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the review of eating disorders undertaken by the National Development Group for Specialised Services. | | (187871) | 39
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the maximum travelling distance is for patients with eating disorders to specialist health care services. | | (187872) | 40
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) children, (b) adolescents and (c) adults suffered from eating disorders in each year since 1997, broken down by gender. | | (187873) | 41
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision there is for specialist treatment for eating disorders in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each strategic health authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (187874) | 42
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) maximum waiting time for (i) outpatient and (ii) inpatient treatment for eating disorders has been in the last 12 months for which figures are available. | | (187875) | 43
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the savings from the Departmental Review of Arm's Length bodies will be spent. | | (187876) | 44
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list (a) the administration costs and (b) the total number of staff of (i) the Healthcare Commission, (ii) the Commission for Social Care Inspection, (iii) the Office of the Independent Regulator of Foundation Trusts and (iv) The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency for the latest year for which figures are available. | | (187877) | 45
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pre-registration training places there were for nurses and midwives in England in each year since 1980 for which figures are available. | | (187878) | 46
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total expenditure on drugs in the NHS was in England in (a) cash terms and (b) real terms in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and what the expected expenditure on drugs in the NHS in England is over the next 10 years in (i) cash terms and (ii) real terms. | | (187879) | 47
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proof of identity will be needed to apply for a European health card. | | (187880) | 48
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what security measures will be put in place to verify identity on the European health card to replace the E111 form. | | (187881) | 49
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total NHS expenditure on drugs was in each year since 1990-91 in (a) real terms and (b) cash terms; and if he will estimate the projected change in this budget for each year until 2009-10. | | (187882) | 50
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacancies there were and what the vacancy rates were for consultants specialising in TB in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority in each year since 1996. | | (187883) | 51
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultants were specialising in TB in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority, in (i) headcount and (ii) whole time equivalent terms in each year since 1996. | | (187884) | 52
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists were accepting new NHS patients at the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. | | (187885) | 53
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the local distance standards for each primary care trust for access to NHS dentistry. | | (187886) | 54
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the maximum distance is that patients in England are expected to travel to receive NHS dental care under locally agreed standards. | | (187887) | 55
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to update the Dental Workforce Review. | | (187888) | 56
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 29th July, ref. 185963, on NHS IT, if he will publish a summary of the recommendations of the Gateway review. | | (187890) | 57
N | Patrick Hall (Bedford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to publish a delivery plan for the first two modules of the Renal Services National Framework published on 14th January. | | (187588) | 58
N | Patrick Hall (Bedford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the third and fourth modules of the Renal Services National Service Framework on prevention and palliative care to be published. | | (187589) | 59
N | Patrick Hall (Bedford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who will have responsibility for monitoring the progress made by primary care trusts in implementing the five steps that need to be taken by 2006 which were outlined in the recently published first two modules of the Renal Services National Service Framework; and what action will be taken in the event that primary care trusts do not implement those five steps. | | (187590) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 60
N | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will delay making appointments in recruitment competition SC/18/03 until the Northern Ireland Civil Service Commissioners have satisfied themselves as to the legality of the exclusion of Irish nationals from that competition. | | (186369) | 61
N | Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when, on the basis of current recruitment levels, he expects the composition of the Prison Service of Northern Ireland will reflect the wider population of Northern Ireland. | | (186370) | 62
| Mr Eddie McGrady (South Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the total policing cost of parades was from 1st April to 14th August; and what the figure was for the same period last year. | | (187889) | 63
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will introduce the use of disposable endoscopes into NHS hospitals. | | (187851) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 64
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people are employed by the Humberside Safety Camera Partnership. | | (186205) | 65
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he proposes to take to raise public awareness of the guidelines that are in place for Safety Camera Partnerships. | | (186206) | 66
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures he intends to implement to make Safety Camera Partnerships more responsive to complaints received from members of the public. | | (186207) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 67
N | Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of basic state pension and state second pension (a) on retirement and (b) at age 75 for a man with annual earnings of (i) £10,000, (ii) £20,000 and (iii) £30,000 over a 40-year working life; and what the projected level of the guarantee part of the pension credit would be, assuming current policies continue. | | (186436) | 68
N | Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the state second pension accrual rate that would be necessary for the combined basic state pension and state second pension for a man with annual earnings of (a) £10,000, (b) £20,000 and (c) £30,000 over a 40-year working life to exceed the projected level of the guarantee part of the pension credit (i) on retirement and (ii) at age 75, assuming current policies continue. | | (186437) | 69
N | Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the additional cost of uprating the basic state pension by the average of prices and earnings inflation annually for the next 50 years (a) gross and (b) net of savings in means-tested benefits and direct taxes. | | (186957) | 70
N | Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the state second pension accrual rate that would be necessary for the combined basic state pension and state second pension for a man with annual earnings of (a) £10,000, (b) £20,000 and (c) £30,000 over a 40 year working life to exceed the projected level of the guarantee part of the pension credit (i) on retirement and (ii) at age 75, assuming that the retirement pension is uprated by the average of earnings and price inflation. | | (186958) | 71
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether protected rights accrued prior to April 1997 by members of a contracted out occupational pension scheme are underwritten by the Government in the event of a sponsoring employer becoming insolvent and unable to meet those rights; whether any shortfall in those rights will be met by the Pension Protection Fund from April 2005 onwards; and if he will make a statement. | | (187829) | 72
N | Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost of (a) raising the annual Christmas bonus to £79.60, (b) giving a winter fuel payment of £300 to every household with a member over 60 years and (c) giving a free television licence to every household with a member over 60 years. | | (187831) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 73
N | Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of policing of the marching season in 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | [Question Unstarred] (187644) |
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