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Mr. Chope: To ask the min Minister what criteria he applies when deciding whether to issue public apologies to the victims of miscarriages of justice. [217289]
The min Minister: I refer the hon. Member to the comments made by my Official Spokesman on Wednesday 2 February, a transcript of which is available on the No. 10 website.
Norman Baker: To ask the min Minister whether he was consulted on the date for the proposed marriage between HRH The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Camilla Parker-Bowles; and if he will make a statement. [217194]
The min Minister: I was not consulted on the date.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what his latest estimate is of unallocated departmental spending in (a) 200506, (b) 200607, and (c) 200708; and if he will make a statement. [213256]
Mr. Miliband: The Cabinet Office is currently finalising its internal budget allocation for 200506 and the Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) will not be determined until that process is complete. Similarly the DUP for 200607 and 200708 will not be determined until the internal budget allocation process is complete for the respective years.
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much has been spent on official ministerial (a) business cards, (b) headed paper and (c) compliment slips in each year since 1997. [214955]
Mr. Miliband:
It is not possible to provide the information requested as it is not held centrally and cannot be readily retrieved without incurring disproportionate cost.
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Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the cost of staffing and running the Regulatory Impact Unit was on the last year for which figures are available. [217262]
Mr. Miliband: I refer the hon. Member to the answer my predecessor (Ruth Kelly) gave to the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Mr. O'Brien) on 14 December 2004, Official Report, column 1004W.
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what his policy is in respect of the publication (a) on the departmental website and (b) by placing copies in the Library of (i) all or (ii) a selection of the information disclosed in response to Freedom of Information requests since January. [215226]
Mr. Touhig: In line with guidance issued by the Department for Constitutional Affairs in July 2002, the Wales Office has considered publication of information disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act.
Any information released by the Wales Office in response to Freedom of Information requests will also be published on the Wales Office website.
Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what recent discussions he has had with the First Minister of the National Assembly for Wales on the relocation of jobs from England to Wales. [216050]
Mr. Touhig:
My right hon. Friend and I are working closely with ministerial colleagues in the Assembly to ensure that Wales benefits from any relocation of public sector jobs from London and the South East. To this end, I welcome the decision last September by the Office for National Statistics to make Newport its principal headquarters and move 600 jobs there.
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I am actively pursuing plans by other Departments and will be following up as appropriate. On 10 February, the First Minister and I met several senior officials from London based Departments involved with the relocation exercise to highlight what Wales has to offer.
Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what discussions he has had with the National Assembly for Wales Government concerning the release of MRSA figures for hospitals in Wales. [217120]
Mr. Touhig: I regularly meet the Assembly First Minister and Health Minister to discuss issues surrounding health care associated infections, in particular MRSA, which we take very seriously.
The Assembly Health Minister, Dr. Brian Gibbons has announced a new set of proposals which will enablepatients to access trust based statistics on each individual hospital in Wales.
Virginia Bottomley: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which existing road schemes in addition to the A3 at Hindhead have been downgraded from national to regional significance; and what the peak traffic volumes of each were in the last period for which figures are available. [209895]
Mr. Jamieson: The Government's consultation paperDevolving decision making: A consultation on regional funding allocations"issued on 2 December 2004 sets out which routes are categorised as of the greatest strategic national and international importance and which are categorised as of primarily regional importance. The following table sets out the latest available peak daily traffic flow for each scheme in the targeted programme of improvements on routes categorised as of primarily regional importance.
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