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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 21 February 2005
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 21 February 2005
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 21 February of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 21 February of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 21 February see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Advocate General 1
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Advocate General, what her Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans her Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217090) | Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office 2
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the projects being undertaken by his Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions because of commercial confidentiality. | | (216518) | 3
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent representations he has received concerning the external marking of dual fuel vehicles within the Government car fleet. | | (216622) | 4
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that dual fuel vehicles in the Government car fleet are externally marked as such for the protection of fire fighters in the event of a fire or accident involving such vehicles. | | (216623) | 5
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what initiatives his Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216630) | 6
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10th January, Official Report, column 13W, on EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service, if he will list those documents, with security grading and caveat, that have been supplied to the EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the Department's policy regarding the nature of departmental material that may be supplied. | | (216511) | 7
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):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) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 8
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for the environment of the differential rates of VAT applied to insulation material when bought privately and when installed. | | (216335) | 9
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was received in 2003-04 from those companies paying the Climate Change Levy at 20 per cent. of the full rate. | | (216816) | 10
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the costs to public funds which will arise from the proposed marriage between His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles; whether rules exist in respect of public expenditure on such matters; and if he will make a statement. | | (217193) | 11
N | Andy Burnham (Leigh):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many job vacancies there were in Leigh in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004; and if he will make a statement on the levels of long-term (i) adult and (ii) youth employment in Leigh over the last 15 years. | | (214587) | 12
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the cost of reliefs from stamp duty for transfers in designated disadvantaged wards was accounted for by (a) residential transfers and (b) non-residential transfers in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (216681) | 13
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the total value of gifts made in a year which become exempt from inheritance tax because they have been made at least seven years before death; and what estimate he has made of how many people make such gifts in a year. | | (216682) | 14
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the reduction in stamp duty yield from residential property which would result from raising the threshold at which 1 per cent. stamp duty starts from £60,000 to £150,000. | | (216683) | 15
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the impact on the inheritance tax yield of changing the rate at which inheritance tax is chargeable to (a) zero per cent. for sums between £0 to £300,000, (b) 40 per cent. for sums between £300,000 to £600,000 and (c) 50 per cent. for sums over £600,000. | | (217169) | 16
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list increases to the premium limit of tax exempt savings plans since 1992. | | (217171) | 17
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Treasury of raising premiums of tax exempt savings plans to (a) £600 per annum and (b) £1200 per annum. | | (217172) | 18
| Angela Eagle (Wallasey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in each ward of Wallasey constituency claim working tax credit. | | (217312) | 19
| Angela Eagle (Wallasey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in each ward of Wallasey constituency contain children who qualify for child trust fund payments. | | (217313) | 20
| Angela Eagle (Wallasey):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in each ward of Wallasey constituency are (a) employed and (b) unemployed. | | (217334) | 21
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of unemployment was in (a) Rochdale and (b) the North West in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2004; and what percentage were (A) female and (B) male. | | (217300) | 22
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as closely as possible to Rochdale constituency, the effects of his actions and policies on the constituency since 1997. | | (217301) | 23
N | Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ask the Office for National Statistics to publish pupil absence rates by local authority ward on the Neighbourhood Statistics website. | | (216923) | 24
| Mr Parmjit Singh Gill (Leicester South):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in full-time employment in Leicester South constituency in each year since 1997. | | (216940) | 25
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the eventual phasing out of national designs on euro notes and coins is planned; and what (a) volume and (b) value of euro notes and coins has been repatriated since the inception of the euro. | | (217386) | 26
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people committed suicide in Lancashire in 2003-04. | | (216895) | 27
| Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many home repossessions there have been in North Durham in each year since 1990. | | (217129) | 28
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to end tax free testimonials for professional footballers; and if he will make a statement. | | (216745) | 29
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was of the recent release of documents relating to the United Kingdom's exit from the ERM in 1992 under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (217136) | 30
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the Tax Credit Office does not reimburse members of the general public for overpayments until the end of the financial year. | | (216430) | 31
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, under what circumstances individuals who have made overpayments to the Tax Credit Office due to errors by the Office are eligible to claim financial hardship payments. | | (216431) | 32
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of exempting charitable donations for health treatment from income calculations in relation to tax credit entitlements. | | (216328) | 33
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of families who will benefit from the extension of the subsidy in the childcare element of the working tax credit in 2006 announced in the Pre-Budget Report in December 2004; and what he estimates the average gain per family per year will be. | | (217130) | 34
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of carers who are over the age of 65 years. | | (217039) | 35
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to change the system of capital allowances for plant and machinery. | | (217174) | 36
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many prosecutions of (a) small and medium enterprises and (b) large businesses were brought in 2003-04 for breaches of regulations sponsored by his Department; how much in total was imposed in fines in each case; and how many visits were made in 2003-04 by officials from his Department or agencies for which his Department is responsible to verify regulatory compliance in each case. | | (217179) | 37
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217099) | 38
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Joint Committee (ECC-Switzerland) on the simplification of inspections and formalities (and working party) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217256) | 39
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Customs Section of the Joint Committee (EEC-Norway) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217257) | 40
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Customs Section of the Joint Committee (EEC-Iceland) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217258) | 41
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Inland Revenue withdrew the flat rate expenses allowance for airline cabin crew; what criteria were used in making this decision; and if he will make a statement. | | (216455) | 42
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of his Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (216875) | 43
| Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultations he plans to hold with trade unions on the move to strategic zones within Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. | | (217137) | 44
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of unemployment has been in Morecambe and Lunesdale in each year since 1997. | | (216768) | 45
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in Morecambe and Lunesdale have received (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit. | | (216769) | 46
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average monetary value is of (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit awards. | | (216770) | 47
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the levels of (a) adult and (b) youth employment in Morecambe and Lunesdale were in each of the last eight years; and if he will make a statement. | | (216777) | 48
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which local authorities fall within NUTS (a) 1, (b) 2 and (c) 3. | | (216560) | 49
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) unemployed people and (b) unemployed young people there are in the constituency of Wellingborough; and if he will make a statement. | | (216685) | 50
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy, in cases where the Inland Revenue is persuaded that a VAT registration is unnecessary and mistaken, that (a) penalties for non-payment and (b) backdated tax claims should be withdrawn; and if he will make a statement. | | (216535) | 51
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a list of those individuals who sent e-mails to the official responsible for inadvertently sending information to the BBC about the UK's departure from the ERM which was not to be released in response to the Financial Times' request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the 48 hours up to the dispatch of the information; and what the (a) titles and (b) copy recipients were of each e-mail. | | (216792) | 52
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fatal accidents have occurred to (a) adults and (b) children in domestic swimming pools in each of the last five years. | | (216789) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 53
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what involvement he has had in co-ordinating policy across Departments in respect of the answering of requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. | | (217135) | Questions to the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs 54
| Vera Baird (Redcar):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, on how many occasions bad character evidence of a defendant has been allowed in evidence since the coming into force of section 101 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; and on how many of these occasions bad character evidence has been allowed in evidence following a decision of the court. | | (216790) | 55
| Vera Baird (Redcar):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will make a statement on the training programme of the Judicial Studies Board (JSB) in relation to section 101 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; how many judges were trained by (a) 15th January and (b) 15th February; and how many judges he anticipates will have been trained by 15th March or the conclusion of the JSB training programme, whichever is the later. | | (216791) | 56
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whether the Privy Council was consulted on the date for the proposed marriage between His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles; and if he will make a statement. | | (217192) | 57
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many people have opted for inclusion in the edited register of electors; and what percentage this is of all electors in the United Kingdom. | | (216933) | 58
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many questions were drafted and considered before the final text of the question for the referendum on approval of the EU Constitution was agreed; and if he will publish the shortlist of questions. | | (217184) | 59
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what advice was received from the Electoral Commission on the referendum question on the EU Constitution; and if he will publish the advice. | | (217185) | 60
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that only the names of bona fide electors appear on the electoral register and are eligible and permitted to vote in any forthcoming general election. | | (216252) | 61
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216631) | 62
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, if he will list the projects being undertaken by his Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216632) | 63
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the total cost to public funds of providing legal advice, assistance and support in relation to planning applications and appeals in respect of traveller encampments was in the last period for which figures are available. | | (216647) | 64
N | Charles Hendry (Wealden):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what the total costs of publishing the Involving Children and Young People Action Plan 2004-05 were; and what he estimates the total costs of implementing the plans set out in the document will be. | | (217208) | 65
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, how many requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were received by Government departments between 1st and 12th January; and how many (a) had been answered, (b) had been refused and (c) were still outstanding 20 working days from the date of receipt. | | (217121) | 66
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12th Janaury, Official Report, column 568W, on parental contract orders, how many of the 67,184 cases of disputed contact dealt with by the courts in 2003 were related to previous contact orders made in the same year. | | (217388) | 67
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217091) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 68
| Peter Bradley (Wrekin, The):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance she has issued concerning the status of (a) parish and (b) town councils in relation to consultation under sections 13 and 69 of the Licensing Act 2003. | | (216477) | 69
N | Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton & Honiton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received proposing that lottery tickets should indicate that grants may be restricted to exclude applications from areas deemed to be affluent. | | (216038) | 70
N | Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton & Honiton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason lottery funding is denied to specific geographic areas in the UK on the grounds of perceived affluence. | | (216039) | 71
| Mr Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will set out with statistical information relating as closely as possible to the Blyth Valley constituency, the effects of the Department's policies on the Blyth Valley since 1997. | | (216541) | 72
| Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many letters Television Licensing have issued in each of the last 10 years threatening legal proceedings; how many of these have led to prosecutions; and how many prosecutions have been successful. | | (216594) | 73
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether guidance on licensing policy to local authorities allows local authorities to impose a requirement on licensed premises to display information on sensible alcohol consumption and typical drink unit content. | | (216486) | 74
| Angela Eagle (Wallasey):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people in each ward of Wallasey constituency (a) are entitled to free television licences and (b) have claimed free television licences. | | (217117) | 75
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when licensing authorities were informed that Government-approved forms for the new licensing regulations were available. | | (216750) | 76
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in what formats the new licensing forms were made available on the departmental website; and for what reasons the Word format was only available to those who had already bought the right to the US font style called Bliss. | | (216751) | 77
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Department put the new licensing forms to comply with the new licensing regulations on the departmental website. | | (216752) | 78
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Bliss font style that was available in Word format for the new forms for licensing applications was made freely available on the departmental website. | | (216753) | 79
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the official start date was for the new licensing forms to be used. | | (216782) | 80
| Mr Parmjit Singh Gill (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many households in Leicester South are receiving a free television licence for over-75s. | | (216941) | 81
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which constituencies in England are not able to receive digital reception. | | (216569) | 82
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what Government funding is available towards the building of (a) full all-weather pitches, (b) running tracks and (c) sports stadiums for football and rugby. | | (216570) | 83
| Mr Boris Johnson (Henley):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public house licences were withdrawn in 2004 due to the sale of alcohol to (a) individuals below the minimum legal age and (b) inebriated individuals. | | (216608) | 84
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many playing fields that were in use in 1997 in the Bridgwater constituency are no longer used for that purpose. | | (217395) | 85
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will estimate the percentage of the population in the Bridgwater constituency which does not have access to digital television. | | (217399) | 86
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many amateur sports clubs there are in the Bridgwater constituency. | | (217400) | 87
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, hwo many alcohol licences are currently issued to premises in the Bridgwater constituency. | | (217411) | 88
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many school children there are in the Bridgwater constituency; and what percentage participate in two hours of quality physical sport or activity each week. | | (217412) | 89
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received on the role of a public service publisher. | | (217332) | 90
| Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many overseas visitors to the UK there were in each quarter of the last five years. | | (217126) | 91
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Government Art Collection has spent on new works of art in each of the last 10 years; where each item purchased since 1997 is located; and whether each is accessible to the public. | | (217393) | 92
| Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will set out, with statistical information relating as closely as possible to Loughborough constituency, the effects of her Department's policies on Loughborough since 1997. | | (217083) | 93
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans her Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217092) | 94
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of her Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (216874) | 95
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects to publish the Burns Report into the renewal of the BBC Charter. | | (217233) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 96
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1st February, Official Report, column 779W, on RAF Manual of Flight Safety, if he will place a copy of the Seventh Edition of AP 3207 in the Library. | | (217052) | 97
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Chief of the Air Staff, the Air Officer Commanding No 1 Group, the Air Officer Commander in Chief, and members of the RAF Directorate of Legal Services have met to discuss the Board of Inquiry into the crash of ZD576. | | (217127) | 98
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he will reply to the Questions tabled by the honourable Member for North East Hampshire on 10th January, reference (a) 206979 and (b) 206982. | | (217190) | 99
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Chinook HC2 helicopter was given its airworthiness review; and if he will place a copy of the review in the Library. | | (217284) | 100
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military aircraft crashes have occurred in the UK in each year since 1993. | | (217294) | 101
| Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the complete RAF Board of Inquiry into the crash of a Tornado aircraft in Glen Ogle on 1st September 1994. | | (217295) | 102
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the Trafalgar class nuclear powered submarines are in active service and at sea. | | (216811) | 103
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the Trafalgar class submarines are in dock for (a) scheduled repairs and (b) refuelling. | | (216812) | 104
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the Trafalgar class submarines are not in service (a) undergoing and (b) awaiting unscheduled (i) inspection and (ii) repairs. | | (216813) | 105
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the nature is of the defect in the nuclear propulsion system of those Trafalgar class submarines undergoing (a) inspection and (b) repair; and when the boats of the Trafalgar class flotilla will be back to normal operating strength. | | (216814) | 106
N | Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton & Honiton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost has been to the UK Government of the deployment of private security companies in Iraq. | | (216040) | 107
N | Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton & Honiton):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been deployed in private security companies on behalf of coalition forces during the course of the Iraq war; and how many personnel are currently deployed in private military companies in Iraq. | | (216041) | 108
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Ministers will be attending the Defence Export Services Organisation symposium on 9th March. | | (216821) | 109
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will withdraw the minute, dated 20th January, concerning the gifting of non-lethal military equipment to the Government of Nepal. | | (217326) | 110
N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the application for a Suez Canal Zone Medal of Mr Samuel Hill of Whitburn, West Lothian, referred to in the letter of 27th April 2004 from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans to the honourable Member for Linlithgow, reference 1670/04/A, will be processed. | | (216912) | 111
N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the air accident investigators will complete their work on the Hercules crash in Iraq; and when he will publish it. | | (217156) | 112
N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the United States Pentagon about the cause of the Hercules crash in Iraq. | | (217157) | 113
N | Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the circumstances surrounding the Hercules crash in Iraq. | | (217158) | 114
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of flying the released British detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United Kingdom was. | | (216529) | 115
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216530) | 116
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the projects being undertaken by his Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216533) | 117
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost would have been of providing an RAF flight to repatriate to the United Kingdom bodies of British citizens who lost their lives in the tsunami in Thailand. | | (216534) | 118
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) production and (b) testing on animals of botulinum toxin takes place at (i) Porton Down and (ii) other Departmental establishments. | | (216463) | 119
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he will answer the Question from the honourable Member for Portsmouth South, ref 200301. | | (216498) | 120
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he will answer the Question from the honourable Member for Portsmouth South, ref 199990. | | (216499) | 121
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the incidents that have led to compensation being paid to Iraqi people in the sector occupied by British forces for (a) death, (b) injury and (c) destruction of property. | | (216503) | 122
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what environmental assessments (a) were carried out before and (b) have been carried out during the lifetime of the RAFT project. | | (216505) | 123
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much had been spent on the RAFT project at the date of its cancellation; and if he will make a statement. | | (216506) | 124
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's spending was in each of the last two years with the shipping lines (a) P & O, (b) Nippin Yusen Kaisha, (c) Mitsui Osaka Shosen Kaisha, (d) Orient Overseas Container Line and (e) Mediterranean Shipping Corporation. | | (217315) | 125
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list those headquarters units of European multinational formations to which the United Kingdom is not a party to which a liaison officer has been attached since May 1997. | | (216459) | 126
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10th January, Official Report, column 13W, on EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service, if he will list those documents, with security grading and caveat, that have been supplied to the EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service by his Department; and if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on the nature of departmental material that may be supplied. | | (216509) | 127
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11th January, Official Report, column 376W, on Ministerial visits, whether on any occasion the flight returned to the United Kingdom with unused passenger capacity. | | (216512) | 128
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18th December 2004, Official Report, column 1229W, on service medals, how many personnel who have served in operational theatres since 1997 and have fulfilled the awarding criteria for a medal have yet to receive the medal; how many service personnel who have fulfilled the criteria for long service medals have yet to receive the medal; how many personnel who have served in (a) Afghanistan, (b) Sierra Leone, (c) Iraq and (d) the Balkans (i) fulfil the criteria for, (ii) have received and (iii) have yet to receive the relevant campaign medal; and what the longest period is for which a serviceman has had to wait for a medal awarded for service since 1997. | | (216589) | 129
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20th December 2004, Official Report, column 1372, on military clothing, for what reason the prime contractor has decided to withhold sub-contractor information. | | (216607) | 130
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many A400M aircraft are to be ordered by the RAF; and when the first plane is expected to arrive. | | (216551) | 131
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the A400M. | | (216552) | 132
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what land in the Chorley constituency his Department (a) owns and (b) has a right to use. | | (216553) | 133
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have been treated at the Ministry of Defence Hospital Gibraltar in each of the last five years. | | (216554) | 134
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many RAF personnel work at BAe Warton, broken down by rank. | | (216555) | 135
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with the Gibraltar Government on joint administration of the Gibraltar Hospital; and if he will make a statement. | | (216881) | 136
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the likely costs of (a) upgrading and (b) servicing fast jets at BAE Wharton. | | (216882) | 137
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the lift capability of the (a) A300M and (b) C130 Hercules is. | | (216883) | 138
N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the ratio is of military personnel to service dentists; and if he will make a statement. | | (216424) | 139
N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many United Kingdom military personnel were in Iraq on (a) 1st January 2004 and (b) 1st January 2005; and if he will make a statement. | | (216425) | 140
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential for conflicts of interest where QinetiQ is competing for departmental contracts; and if he will make a statement. | | (216692) | 141
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role QinetiQ plays in (a) testing and (b) evaluating the effectiveness of military training programmes. | | (216693) | 142
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on British counter-mobility capability; what progress has been made on the Mines in the Next Century project; and if he will make a statement. | | (216702) | 143
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces from Commonwealth countries have requested British nationality in the last six months; in which branches and units of each service they were serving; and if he will make a statement. | | (216703) | 144
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what actions his Department is taking to maximise the return to public funds from the Department's shareholding in QinetiQ. | | (216879) | 145
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the letter to the honourable Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr of 31st January 2004 from the Minister of State in his Department, what general comments were made by the British Deputy Staff Judge Advocate on the draft of the interrogation and counter-resistance policy document. | | (217286) | 146
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the letter to the honourable Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr of 31st January 2004 from the Minister of State, which sections and which drafts of the interrogation and counter-resistance policy were seen by the British Deputy Staff Judge in the Office of Colonel Marc Warren. | | (217287) | 147
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the letter to the honourable Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr of 31st January 2004 from the Minister of State, whether the British Deputy Senior Judge Advocate submitted regular reports to his British superiors. | | (217288) | 148
| Adam Price (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the letter to the honourable Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr of 31st January 2004 from the Minister of State, whether the British Deputy Senior Judge Advocate saw the 12th October update of the interrogation and counter-resistance policy document. | | (217292) | 149
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217093) | 150
N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what responsibilities have been accorded to each of the Alliance members in the Future Aircraft Carrier Programme. | | (216073) | 151
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average cost per year of maintenance for one Trident Nuclear submarine has been since 1997; and if he will make a statement. | | (216714) | 152
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) technical and (b) tactical advances offered to the armed forces of Russia by the Bulava (SS-N-30) missile; and if he will make a statement. | | (216715) | 153
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the Russian Kh-555 conventional missile and (b) what (i) technical and (ii) tactical advances this missile offers over the Kh-55 Granat missile; and if he will make a statement. | | (216716) | 154
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of Russia's supersonic anti-ship cruise missile capabilities; and if he will make a statement. | | (216717) | 155
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what percentage of its personnel budget for financial years (a) 2001-02, (b) 2000-01, (c) 1999-2000, (d) 1998-99 and (e) 1997-98 (i) the Defence Estates Agency, (ii) the Defence Dental Agency and (iii) the Defence Communications Services Agency spent in Scotland; how many personnel were employed by each Agency in Scotland in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (216720) | 156
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for financial years (a) 2001-02, (b) 2000-01, (c) 1999-2000, (d) 1998-99 and (e) 1997-98 the Defence Aviation Repair Agency spent in Scotland (i) in monetary terms and (ii) as a percentage of the total personnel budget for that year; how many personnel were employed in Scotland; and if he will make a statement. | | (217238) | 157
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for financial years (a) 2001-02, (b) 2000-01, (c) 1999-2000, (d) 1998-99 and (e) 1997-98 the Defence Clothing Integrated Project Team spent in Scotland (i) in monetary terms and (ii) as a percentage of the total personnel budget for that year; how many personnel were employed in Scotland; and if he will make a statement. | | (217239) | 158
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of its personnel budget for financial years (a) 2001-02, (b) 2000-01, (c) 1999-2000, (d) 1998-99 and (e) 1997-98 the Defence Bills Agency spent in Scotland (i) in monetary terms and (ii) as a percentage of the total personnel budget for that year; how many personnel were employed in Scotland; and if he will make a statement. | | (217240) | 159
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) RAF personnel and (b) civilian personnel were relocated each month from RAF Lossiemouth from September 2004 to February 2005, including where they were relocated to and what tasks they had previously been assigned to at RAF Lossiemouth; and if he will make a statement. | | (217275) | 160
N | Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will reconsider his decision to gift military equipment to Nepal in response to the actions by the King of Nepal since the departmental minute was tabled on 20th January. | | (217071) | 161
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the running costs of the Atomic Co-ordinating Offices in London and Washington established under the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement were in the last year for which figures are available; and how many staff are employed in the offices. | | (216673) | 162
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the Joint Working Groups established under the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement in which personnel from the Atomic Weapons Establishment participate. | | (216674) | 163
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many visits there have been to the US by personnel from the Atomic Weapons Establishments during the last 12 months; and how many visits of US personnel to the AWE there have been during that time. | | (216675) | 164
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which facilities in the US have been visited by personnel from the Atomic Weapons Establishments during the last 12 months. | | (216676) | 165
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Atomic Weapons Establishment personnel are assigned to the US as part of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement; and where they are located. | | (216677) | 166
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Exchange of Information and Visits reports have been generated since 1975 as part of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement; and if he will place copies of them in the Library. | | (216678) | 167
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when and where in the UK the next Stocktake review meeting under the 1958 UK/US Mutual Defence Agreement is scheduled to take place. | | (216680) | 168
N | Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many courts martial of military personnel relating to incidents in Iraq are pending. | | (216074) | 169
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his policy that all Tornado F3 programmes are to be carried out at the Defence Aviation Repair Agency St Athan. | | (217160) | 170
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated cost is of replicating the the Defence Aviation Repair Agency St Athan capability at RAF Marham. | | (217161) | 171
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts were awarded to BAe systems relating to Tornado F3 in December 2004; and whether those contracts were put out to competition. | | (217162) | 172
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the conversions and repairs of Harrier GR7 at BAe Warton are on schedule. | | (217163) | 173
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where he plans to house the additional service personnel who will provide depth support for the Tornado GR4 at RAF Marham; and at what estimated cost. | | (217195) | 174
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether primary star servicings on Tornado GR4 jets are being transferred to front line squadrons. | | (217196) | 175
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Investment Appraisal of the E2E review of air support which recommended rolling forward the Tornado GR4 including transferring work to RAF Lossiemouth. | | (217197) | 176
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel Morson have employed at (a) RAF Cottesmore and (b) RAF Marham; and what work they are undertaking. | | (217263) | 177
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value was of the Joint Repair Management Team contract awarded to BAe Systems in January 2003 at RAF Cottesmore. | | (217383) | 178
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value is of the Joint Repair Organisation contract awarded to BAe Systems in June 2004 at RAF Cottesmore. | | (217384) | 179
| Mr John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value was of the enabling contract for the Harrier Joint Upgrade and Maintenance Programme awarded to BAe systems on 15th November 2004. | | (217385) | 180
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British troops are declared to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. | | (216496) | 181
N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the UK commitment to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) will be when the ARRC takes over the International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan in 2006. | | (216542) | 182
N | Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps' training programme is for the next 18 months. | | (216543) | 183
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many battalions stationed in Northern Ireland are being asked to provide companies for operations in Iraq. | | (217033) | 184
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the (a) level and (b) nature of military contacts with Japan. | | (217034) | 185
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) established and (b) current trained strength of officers in the British Army is, broken down by arm. | | (217035) | 186
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to be in a position to make a full statement on the crash of the RAF C-130 Hercules in Iraq on 30th January. | | (217104) | 187
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what requests he has had from the Royal Air Force to upgrade defensive aid suites. | | (217261) | 188
| Mr Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the technology of the in-service Defensive Aid Suite. | | (217414) | 189
| Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) capital and (b) revenue costs of the regimental museum based at Fort George Army Base were in the last year for which figures are available. | | (216579) | 190
N | Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport):To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the original agreed contract price in relation to the contract with Swan Hunter (Tyneside) for the construction of Landing Ship Logistics (LSL) Largs Bay and Lyne Bay was; what the latest anticipated cost is; how much BAE Systems will be able to claim from the Department by reason of the failure of Swan Hunter to deliver design information to BAE Systems in relation to the two LSLs that that company is to build; whether his Department will claim from Swan Hunter in respect of its lateness in delivering design information on the LSLs; and which party under the terms of the original Swan Hunter contract undertook to accept the risk of the engineering requirements being greater than anticipated. | | (216889) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 191
N | Mr Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he has received, and when, regarding the impact of changes to the calculation of business rates on the renewable energy sector; and if he will make a statement. | | (216668) | 192
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will require local authorities which implement the six metre rule on Park Homes to make appropriate grants to the owners of such Park Homes; and if he will make a statement. | | (216428) | 193
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether his Department maintains records of temporary wheeled billboards placed next to motorways; and if he will make a statement. | | (216858) | 194
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what provisions there are for temporary wheeled billboards placed next to motorways to be removed where they are judged to be a distraction to drivers. | | (216859) | 195
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the potential for distraction by temporary wheeled billboards being placed next to motorways. | | (216860) | 196
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he will take to ensure that environmentally sustainable building materials, with particular reference to sustainable timber, are used in the construction of proposed new homes in London and the South East as outlined in the report, Sustainable Communities: Homes for All. | | (216600) | 197
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans he has to change business rates for those who generate electricity using green methods. | | (217087) | 198
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress has been made in re-investing in Liverpool the sum re-paid by the Walton Group in respect of Exchange Flags, as promised by his Department on 4th April 2003. | | (216461) | 199
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the total amount of (a) council tax raised by and (b) central government grant paid to Sevenoaks District Council was in (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2003-04. | | (216034) | 200
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Witney constituency, the effects on Rochdale of his Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (217366) | 201
N | Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether each collecting local authority's council tax register is available for public inspection. | | (216439) | 202
| Mr Michael Foster (Worcester):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the change in the per capita grant was for (a) Worcestershire and (b) Worcester City between (i) 1993-94 and 1997-98 and (ii) 1997-98 and 2004-05. | | (216576) | 203
| Mr Parmjit Singh Gill (Leicester South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many fire-related deaths in dwellings in Leicester South there were in each year since 1997. | | (216937) | 204
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will estimate the additional rent revenue foregone as a result of the decision to postpone rent harmonisation measures between council and housing association tenants until the end of 2005. | | (216610) | 205
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what he expects the average change to council tenant rents will be when the measures designed to increase harmonisation between council and housing association tenants come into effect. | | (216611) | 206
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will commision an external valuation of the Government's remaining interest in the Millennium Dome site, including the current value of its future expected receipts under the sale contract. | | (216612) | 207
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what representations he has received from fire and rescue service regional management boards regarding regional control rooms; and what proportion of such representations has indicated support for the project. | | (216613) | 208
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his Department's estimate is of the (a) capital and (b) start-up cost of the FireLink communications system. | | (216614) | 209
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his Department's estimate is of the total procurement cost for the proposed eight new English regional fire control rooms. | | (216615) | 210
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his Department's budget is for each of the next three financial years for providing financial assistance to fire and rescue authorities to enable them to maintain in operation communications and other mobilisation equipment that would otherwise be regarded as obsolete pending the introduction of the new Fire Control and FireLink systems in 2007-08. | | (216617) | 211
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what advice he has given to fire and rescue authorities regarding retention of skilled fire control staff in the period up to the introduction of regional fire control centres in 2007-08. | | (216618) | 212
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make an estimate of the expected net changes in costs to fire authorities in England and Wales as a result of the implementation of the integrated risk management plans (a) approved by him last year and (b) submitted to him for approval this year. | | (216619) | 213
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the projects being undertaken by his Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216620) | 214
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what initiatives his Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216621) | 215
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate his Department has made of the capital receipt that would be achieved from the sale of radio spectrum released by the fire and rescue services upon completion of the FireLink Project. | | (216624) | 216
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, for what reason rent harmonisation measures for council and housing association rents have been postponed until the end of 2005. | | (216643) | 217
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he plans to take when the consultation process on the South East Spatial Strategy is complete; and if he will make a statement. | | (216458) | 218
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what procedures are in place in his Department to ensure that EU regional development grants are used in accordance with European Commission rules. | | (217279) | 219
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent representations he has received on mismanagement of EU regional development grants; and if he will make a statement. | | (217394) | 220
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the estimated market value is of the public sector land holdings identified by him for the construction of housing under the Homes for All initiative. | | (217335) | 221
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the impact on house prices of withdrawing previously identified surplus land sites from open market sale for use in the Homes for All initiative. | | (217336) | 222
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether developments of housing constructed on public sector land under the Homes for All initiative will be exempt from the requirements of existing local plans (a) to provide social rented housing and (b) to provide financial contributions for off-site infrastructure re-enforcement. | | (217337) | 223
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether his proposal to provide starter homes at £60,000 each under the Homes for All initiative includes public subsidy for the construction of associated infrastructure. | | (217338) | 224
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the grounds are on which a planning inspector may refuse permission for a telephone mast. | | (216556) | 225
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what help his Department gives to those people who need rented housing when the relevant council lists are very long and the relevant housing associations have closed lists. | | (216557) | 226
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will give financial assistance towards additional rented housing in South Lancashire. | | (216558) | 227
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the percentage increase in the parish council precept in each parish council area in Chorley has been since 1997. | | (216559) | 228
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, under what criteria a planning application for a telephone mast can be refused. | | (216885) | 229
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he is able to call in a planning consent where the reasons for refusal of a planning application for a telephone mast have been contravened. | | (216886) | 230
N | Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 9th February, Official Report, column 1586W, on sand reserves, how much of the 3.2 million tonnes of sand released under the Lancashire Minerals and Waste Local Plan has been taken; what estimate he has made of how long the sand at the existing permitted reserves will last; whether a full survey has been carried out to establish the total sand reserves in Lancashire; and how much sand will be needed for the next 10 years for Lancashire in accordance with revised Minerals Planning Guidance Note 6. | | (217159) | 231
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, column 1087W on regional referendums, if he will place in the Library copies of the research undertaken on (a) the Your Say Information Campaign and (b) other groups' campaigns relating to the regional referendum in the North East. | | (216427) | 232
N | Mr Bernard Jenkin (North Essex):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to section C9 of Moving Forward: The Northern Way, First Growth Strategy Report, if he will list (a) the total number of houses proposed for demolition in each local authority area and (b) the streets where demolition s proposed. | | (217105) | 233
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what population statistics he relied upon in setting the revenue support grant for Stafford Borough Council for 2005-06; and what representations he has received about the accuracy of those statistics. | | (216896) | 234
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost of the Social Exclusion Unit was in the last year for which figures are available. | | (217318) | 235
| Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the (a) cash and (b) percentage funding variance of Leicestershire County Council from the County Council (i) Standard Spending Assessment and (ii) Education Funding Assessment average was in each year between 1998 and 2004-05. | | (216930) | 236
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his Office's expenditure has been on (a) Romford and the (b) London Borough of Havering in each of the last seven years. | | (217147) | 237
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the statistics on recorded fires in Romford in each of the last five years. | | (217148) | 238
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what Government-funded building projects are under construction in (a) Romford and (b) Essex. | | (217149) | 239
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent studies his Department has commissioned on fire services. | | (217150) | 240
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many firefighters were (a) wounded and (b) killed on duty in (i) 2004 and (ii) each of the previous seven years. | | (217151) | 241
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of his Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (216871) | 242
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans the Government has to continue funding for e-government after the completion of IEG4. | | (216648) | 243
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether his plans for developing homes for key workers on public sector land will include greenfield or green belt development; and if he will make a statement. | | (216649) | 244
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what plans the Government has to implement the 1997 Labour manifesto pledge on localising business rates. | | (216650) | 245
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what powers (a) regional housing boards and (b) regional chambers will have to set (i) targets and (ii) policy for the demolition of homes in their regional strategies. | | (216651) | 246
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 7th February, Official Report, column 1294W, on parliamentary boundaries, on what date he intends to lay the Order implementing the changes. | | (216653) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 247
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how the local education authority admissions authorities determine which address is used for a child seeking a school place in an oversubscribed school in the case of joint custody; and if she will make a statement. | | (216100) | 248
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what discussions her Department has had with the Local Government Association on local authority support for marriage and relationship support services; and if she will make a statement. | | (216441) | 249
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the administration budget of the Teacher Training Agency was in the last financial year for which figures are available; and what allocations have been made for each year to 2009-10. | | (216740) | 250
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost of the maintenance grant payable to poorer students was in the last year for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. | | (216741) | 251
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate she has made of the cost of the fast track teacher recruiting programme in each year from 2001-02 to 2009-10; and if she will make a statement. | | (216742) | 252
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will estimate the cost of educational maintenance allowance bonus payments in each year from 2003-04 to 2009-10; and if she will make a statement. | | (216743) | 253
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of 16 year olds were in post-compulsory education in England in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03, (c) 2003-04 and (d) 2004-05, broken down by region. | | (216484) | 254
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the rate of participation by 18 year olds in higher education in each region in England was in (a) 2003-04 and (b) 2004-05. | | (216487) | 255
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many overseas students there were at each university in (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04 and (c) 2004-05; and what percentage of the student body this represented in each case. | | (216488) | 256
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what strategy her Department is using to promote vocational education to those students not wishing to enter further academic study. | | (216243) | 257
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) local education authorities and (b) universities have (i) complied with their statutory duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, (ii) published a race equality scheme and action plan and (iii) carried out race impact assessments. | | (216548) | 258
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on (a) the operation of the Sure Start programme in Gloucestershire, and (b) planned further schemes. | | (217221) | 259
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what definition she uses of children's centres; and what steps areas with no history of Sure Start or Neighbourhood Nurseries can take to set up children's centres. | | (217222) | 260
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the effects of each Sure Start programme in Rochdale. | | (217106) | 261
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what research she has conducted on the effects of Sure Start programmes in Rochdale on (a) literacy, (b) speech and language development, (c) levels of breast feeding, (d) smoking cessation and (e) post-natal depression. | | (217107) | 262
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of levels of satisfaction of parents in Rochdale with the services provided by Sure Start programmes. | | (217108) | 263
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what percentage of 18 to 22 year olds from Rochdale were studying at university (a) in 1997 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (217367) | 264
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will set out statistical information relating as closely as possible to the Rochdale constituency, with effects of her Department's actions and policies on Rochdale since 1997. | | (217368) | 265
N | Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will establish abstinence as the starting point for all sex education lessons; and if she will make a statement. | | (216438) | 266
| Mr Eric Forth (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when the Department's Design Team planning the Family Resolutions Pilot Project met the New Approaches to Contact organisation. | | (216440) | 267
| Mr Eric Forth (Bromley & Chislehurst):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when the Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families met the Director of New Approaches to Contact as referred to in the letter from the Minister to the Right honourable Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 24th January (ref 2004/0065500POMH). | | (216442) | 268
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many doctorates were awarded in each subject in each of the last three years, broken down by gender. | | (217111) | 269
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the projects being undertaken by her Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216628) | 270
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what initiatives her Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216642) | 271
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what statistical data is collected from schools by (a) local education authorities and (b) her Department on a termly basis. | | (216422) | 272
N | Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many young people aged between (a) 16 and 18, (b) 18 and 21 and (c) 21 and 25 years in each parliamentary constituency were not in education, employment or training in 2004. | | (216423) | 273
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on Home Start in Chorley; and what funding can be accessed by Home Start in Chorley. | | (216561) | 274
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils are attending Chorley high schools; and how many pupils attended each such school in each of the last five years. | | (216562) | 275
| Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of certain universities' plans to increase the number of overseas students; what plans she has to ensure that these plans do not affect the Government's plans for getting more pupils from mainstream state schools into those universities; and if she will make a statement. | | (216662) | 276
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Sure Start centres in each region have parental support and relationship support services. | | (217153) | 277
| Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the total expenditure on the Sure Start Strengthening Families Grant has been in each year that it has been in operation; and what the projected spending on this scheme is for the next three years. | | (217207) | 278
| Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Sure Start programme in Dover. | | (216822) | 279
N | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will list the members of the School Organising Committee for the London Borough of Hillingdon Local Education Authority. | | (216436) | 280
N | Mr John Randall (Uxbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what guidance she has provided on declaration of interests by members of school organising committees. | | (216437) | 281
| Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what progress has been made in reducing infant class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds in Leicestershire since 1997. | | (216932) | 282
| Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the effects of the Sure Start programme in Loughborough. | | (217082) | 283
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) and (ii) Euratom Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (CST) met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if she will make a statement. | | (216722) | 284
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Committee for the implementation of the programme establishing a single financing and programming instrument for cultural co-operation (Culture 2000) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217246) | 285
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Committee for the implementation of the Community action programme concerning co-operation policy in the youth field, including European voluntary service and youth exchanges within the Community and with third countries (YOUTH), met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217247) | 286
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how a school's popularity will be determined in order to allocate additional money to popular state schools due to a rising enrolment demand; and what is expected to be the total cost of such additional funding. | | (217140) | 287
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the performance of secondary schools in Romford. | | (217141) | 288
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the Department's policy is on school uniforms in primary schools. | | (217142) | 289
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what information she has collated on the percentage of Essex county's 17 to 18 year olds who go on to attend university. | | (217143) | 290
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money is allocated to each school in Romford. | | (217144) | 291
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the ratio is of students to teachers in the town of Romford. | | (217145) | 292
| Andrew Rosindell (Romford):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many (a) students and (b) teachers there were in Essex county in the 2003-04 school year. | | (217146) | 293
| Phil Sawford (Kettering):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much money has been allocated to Sure Start provision in Kettering in each year since it was first introduced; and if she will make a statement on the programme. | | (217285) | 294
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of her Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997, with particular reference to (a) exam results, (b) university applications, (c) teaching staff numbers and (d) school funding. | | (216877) | 295
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on Sure Start funding in Morecambe and Lunesdale. | | (216779) | 296
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much Government funding has been spent on education in Morecambe and Lunesdale in each of the last 10 years. | | (216781) | 297
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much public funding has been spent on computers for schools in Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997. | | (216784) | 298
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many childcare places have been created in Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997. | | (216785) | 299
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what expenditure there has been on schools in Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997; and if she will make a statement. | | (216787) | 300
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many residents of Morecambe and Lunesdale have undertaken apprenticeships since 1997. | | (216806) | 301
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment she has made of the effects of the Sure Start programme in Milton Keynes. | | (216694) | 302
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the effects of the Sure Start programme in the constituency of Wellingborough. | | (216684) | 303
N | Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much central government funding was spent on average per child in England in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (216045) | 304
N | Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much funding central government provided per head for each East Devon pupil in 2003; and how much is provided per pupil for 2005. | | (216046) | 305
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, for how long her Department has collected information on the income of individual schools; and if she will provide that information and the number of pupils for the first 10 community primary schools and first 10 community secondary schools by her Department's number in each local education authority for each year for which the information is available. | | (216033) | 306
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the funding gap is between school sixth forms and further education colleges in the London North Learning and Skills Council area; and if she will make a statement. | | (216679) | 307
| Dr Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps she is taking to reduce the funding gap between schools' sixth forms and further education colleges in the London North Learning and Skills Council area. | | (217118) | 308
N | Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many private faith based schools there were, broken down by faith, in each year between 1997 to 2004. | | (216686) | 309
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, by what criteria a school is judged to be a failing school. | | (216861) | 310
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what training is required for a teacher to teach in a pupil referral unit; what the cost of the training is; and if she will make a statement. | | (216862) | 311
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers are teaching in pupil referral units in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority; and how many have received specific training to teach in such units. | | (216863) | 312
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the cost is of setting up a new pupil referral unit; and what the average running costs were for pupil referral units in the last year for which figures are available. | | (216864) | 313
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what the average number of pupils in a pupil referral unit was in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority in the last year for which figures are available. | | (216865) | 314
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupil referral units there are in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority. | | (216866) | 315
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many places were (a) filled and (b) available in pupil referral units in (i) England, (ii) each region and (iii) each local education authority on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (216867) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 316
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Waste Management Licensing (England and Wales) Regulations 2005 will come into force. | | (216808) | 317
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what account is being taken of differences in size and resources of different composting operations when defining the tonnage brackets under the Waste Management Licensing (England and Wales) Regulations 2005. | | (216809) | 318
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she will take to ensure that charges for composting sites proposed under the Waste Management Licensing (England and Wales) Regulations 2005 do not place a disproportionately high financial burden on small scale organisations composting less than 150 tonnes of organic waste per annum. | | (216810) | 319
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was raised by the climate change levy in the last year for which figures are available; and how this income was spent. | | (217070) | 320
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to (a) encourage environmental protection and (b) reduce the UK's contribution to climate change. | | (216796) | 321
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking in the West Midlands to protect the environment. | | (216797) | 322
N | Mr David Curry (Skipton & Ripon):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Solihull of 8th February, Official Report, columns 1363-4W, on free trade, which items are included in the basket of food on which the Government bases the estimate that the cost of the Common Agricultural Policy to a family of four in the UK is in the range of £4.50 to £5.00. | | (216878) | 323
N | Mr Tam Dalyell (Linlithgow):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the reason was for the reduction in the funding allocation to the Bee Health Programme at the National Bee Unit. | | (216911) | 324
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to include social criteria in the UK's timber procurement policy. | | (216574) | 325
| Sue Doughty (Guildford):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the US based Sustainable Forest Initiative has been endorsed by the Central Point of Expertise on Timber. | | (216575) | 326
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with gangmasters on the implications of the Gangmaster (Licensing) Act 2004 for their supply chains. | | (217085) | 327
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the recent National Audit Office report on foot and mouth procedures; and what action she will take to impose more robust financial controls on compensation payments. | | (217086) | 328
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the United Kingdom will seek to ensure that it remains mandatory for member states to support measures to improve animal welfare standards in negotiations in Council on the European Commission proposal for a Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (COM(2004) 490); and if she will make a statement. | | (217181) | 329
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is representing the (a) Scottish Executive and (b) Welsh Assembly in negotiations in Council on the European Commission proposal for a Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (COM(2004) 490). | | (217182) | 330
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials from the Animal Welfare Division of her Department have been involved in the discussions with representatives of the European Commission and other member states about the European Commission proposal for a Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (COM(2004) 490). | | (217183) | 331
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the review of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 with regard to the advice offered by the Joint Nature Conservation Council on Schedule 4 to the Act on the list of birds given protection by the registration scheme. | | (217220) | 332
| Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what changes took place in the average amount paid in compensation for (a) sheep and (b) cattle during the foot and mouth epidemic in each month of the epidemic. | | (216540) | 333
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what initiatives her Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216633) | 334
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the projects being undertaken by her Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216634) | 335
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will seek to legislate to ensure that game birds are reared in humane conditions. | | (216497) | 336
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will answer the Question from the honourable Member for Portsmouth South, ref 200297. | | (216500) | 337
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will consult interested groups which are critical of current game bird rearing practices; and if she will make a statement. | | (216501) | 338
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much financial assistance has been given to meet the capital costs of site investigation and clean up of contaminated land in each of the last three years (a) in total and (b) broken down by local authority; and if she will make a statement. | | (216795) | 339
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial assistance she makes available to local authorities to compensate residents living on contaminated land where the owners of the land have gone into liquidation; and if she will make a statement. | | (216817) | 340
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on compensation from local authorities for residents living on contaminated land. | | (216818) | 341
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been given to local authorities through the Contaminated Land Supplementary Credit Approval programme in each of the last three years; which authorities have received funding through this programme; how local authorities' expenditure through the programme is monitored; and if she will make a statement. | | (216819) | 342
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what sites of contaminated land have been (a) investigated and (b) cleaned up under the auspices of (i) local authorities and (ii) the Environment Agency in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement. | | (216820) | 343
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many companies have not yet been paid by her Department for work on the foot and mouth epidemic. | | (216563) | 344
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which companies have disputed claims outstanding from the foot and mouth epidemic; and what amounts are involved in each case. | | (216564) | 345
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many companies have gone to court to seek payment for work done during the foot and mouth epidemic; and how many have been settled (a) in and (b) out of court. | | (216565) | 346
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what quantity of (a) milk, (b) eggs, (c) beef and lamb, (d) chicken and (e) pork was imported to the UK from (i) the EU and (ii) outside the EU in the last period for which figures are available. | | (216566) | 347
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which countries are refusing to allow British beef to be imported; and for what reasons. | | (216567) | 348
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the main export markets are for (a) beef, (b) lamb, (c) dairy products and (d) pork produced in England. | | (216568) | 349
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidelines she has issued on the optimum intervals for (a) street sweeping and (b) gulley emptying. | | (216887) | 350
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she is taking to resolve the PROW claim regarding bridleways linking the villages of Darcy Lever, Little Lever, Kearsley and Prestolee and the township of Farnworth in the constituency of Bolton South East in the Croal-Irwell Valley. | | (217088) | 351
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons the interest-free loan scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises that install energy efficiency measures is cash-limited. | | (216475) | 352
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been spent to date on implementing the right to roam as required by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. | | (217345) | 353
| 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 on biodiversity in developing countries of allowing free trade in agricultural products. | | (217346) | 354
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to announce the formal consultation on co-existence measures and the GM planting regime. | | (217355) | 355
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many companies are registered to collect fallen stock. | | (217356) | 356
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many companies registered to collect fallen stock are hunt kennels. | | (217401) | 357
| Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her most recent estimate is of the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in the West Midlands region. | | (217128) | 358
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the City of York will receive an individual seat on the Yorkshire Regional Flood Defence Committee. | | (217062) | 359
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on flood defence in the City of York. | | (217063) | 360
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the priority scoring system for flood defence funding. | | (217064) | 361
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many rural flood defence projects are funded by the priority scoring system. | | (217065) | 362
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the allocation of seats for regional flood defence committees. | | (217066) | 363
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the shared seat for City of York and North Yorkshire on the Yorkshire Regional Flood Defence Committee will be occupied by a representative from (a) City of York and (b) North Yorkshire County Council. | | (217067) | 364
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria are used to score flood defence projects to determine whether they are eligible for funding; and what criteria must be met for such funding to be received. | | (217068) | 365
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the use of energy from waste. | | (217139) | 366
| Mr Peter Pike (Burnley):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the transitional arrangements which will be put in place when section 53 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 is implemented will require surveying authorities to process to a conclusion all applications for definitive map modification orders on their registers at the cut off date. | | (216913) | 367
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) Committee for the adaptation to technical progress of the Directive on bathing water, (ii) Committee for the adaptation to technical progress of the Directive on the quality of fresh water needing protection or improvement in order to support fish life and (iii) Committee for the adaptation to technical progress of the Decision establishing a common procedure for the exchange of information on the quality of surface fresh water in the Community met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if she will make a statement. | | (216719) | 368
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Committee for the adaptation to technical and scientific progress and implementation of the Directive on urban waste-water treatment met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217241) | 369
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Committee for the adaptation to scientific and technical progress of the Directive on protection of water against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217242) | 370
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Management Committee on application of the Directive on the standardisation and rationalisation of reports on the implementation of certain Directives relating to the environment met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217243) | 371
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much atomic waste was produced in the UK in each of the last five years; and how much atomic waste in total was disposed of in the UK in each year. | | (216938) | 372
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of her Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (216869) | 373
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the compliance of delivery of information systems for the National Fallen Stock Scheme with the original (a) schedule, (b) functionality specification and (c) budget. | | (216644) | 374
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the timing of single farm payments to farmers entitled to receive them in 2005-06. | | (216646) | 375
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to monitor the National Fallen Stock Scheme. | | (216593) | 376
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many complaints the National Fallen Stock Company has received to date. | | (216595) | 377
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the maximum recommended time period is under the National Fallen Stock Scheme for the collection of fallen stock. | | (216596) | 378
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the average costs of the collection of fallen stock to farmers subscribing to the National Fallen Stock Scheme (a) in the last year before and (b) since the Scheme began. | | (216597) | 379
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many collections under the National Fallen Stock Scheme since its implementation have occurred 48 hours or more after the animals death was reported to the National Fallen Stock Company. | | (216598) | 380
| Mr Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to raise the (a) registration and (b) other fees payable by farmers subscribing to the National Fallen Stock Scheme. | | (216599) | 381
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research she has commissioned on the effectiveness of shook swarming as a means of controlling foulbrood. | | (216690) | 382
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what level of inspection of bee colonies she is proposing when European foulbrood is removed from statutory controls. | | (216691) | 383
| Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate & Knaresborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consultation process was undertaken with stakeholders prior to the announcement of changes to scientific resources available to support beekeeping. | | (216700) | 384
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects that the European Commission will accept the revised UK National Allocation Plan in order to allow British business to participate in the European emissions trading scheme. | | (217212) | 385
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the most recent communication from the European Commission on the status of the revised UK National Allocation Plan. | | (217213) | 386
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish on its website the annual accounts of the Carbon Trust since its inception, including (a) incoming revenue from all sources and (b) expenditure on specific programmes. | | (217214) | 387
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish on its website the annual accounts of the Energy Saving Trust since its inception, including (a) incoming revenue from all sources and (b) expenditure on specific programmes. | | (217215) | 388
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the expenditure of the Energy Saving Trust on external consultants was in the last year for which figures are available. | | (217216) | 389
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the expenditure of the Carbon Trust on external consultants was in the last year for which figures are available. | | (217217) | 390
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the impact of the Carbon Trust in terms of annual carbon savings. | | (217218) | 391
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the impact of the Energy Saving Trust in terms of annual carbon savings. | | (217219) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 392
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of Global Conflict Prevention Pool allocations to Nepal in the last three year has been spent on aircraft. | | (217319) | 393
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the Global Conflict Prevention Pool has been spent on human rights since its inception. | | (217320) | 394
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the Global Conflict Prevention Pool has gone on mine clearance. | | (217321) | 395
N | Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of the Global Conflict Prevention Pool since its inception has gone on direct assistance to the Nepalese army. | | (217322) | 396
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the willingness of the leadership of the Royal Nepal Army to negotiate with the Maoists. | | (217323) | 397
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what type of UK military personnel have worked with the Royal Nepalese Army during the past 12 months. | | (217324) | 398
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of military success by the Royal Nepal Army against the Maoists. | | (217329) | 399
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications of the resignation of John Githongo as head of Kenya's anti-corruption team. | | (217186) | 400
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the governments of (a) Syria, (b) Iran and (c) Jordan on insurgency in Iraq. | | (217187) | 401
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with President Mubarak on human rights in Egypt, with particular reference to the imprisonment of Ayman Nur. | | (217188) | 402
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the Council of Europe's support for the Baker Peace Plan for the Western Sahara. | | (217223) | 403
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what measures he has taken to discourage oil companies from operating within the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. | | (217224) | 404
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the recent report by the UN Secretary General about progress towards the referendum on self-determination in the Western Sahara, including the future of MINURSO. | | (217225) | 405
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the UK has taken to encourage a settlement of the disputed fishing lands off Dakhla, Western Sahara. | | (217226) | 406
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Morocco on the continuing detention of Saharawi dissidents in El Ayoun prisons. | | (217227) | 407
| Mr Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that the legal system in Gibraltar prevents discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. | | (217340) | 408
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of UK (a) companies and (b) individuals receiving mismanaged Iraqi reconstruction funds. | | (216457) | 409
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's spending was in each of the last two years with the shipping lines (a) P & O, (b) Nippin Yusen Kaisha, (c) Mitsui Osaka Shosen Kaisha, (d) Orient Overseas Container Line and (e) Mediterranean Shipping Corporation. | | (217317) | 410
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement of the inclusion of Title 8710, tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles and parts, in the Communities/Macedonia Protocol set out in Official Journal L388 volume 47 of 29th December 2004. | | (216446) | 411
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on which occasions since May 1997 the Government has opted in to European Communities policy areas for which it previously enjoyed an opt-out. | | (216448) | 412
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which declarations drafted by the United Kingdom were appended to the European Constitution; and what legal status they will have should the Constitution be ratified. | | (216449) | 413
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those amendments submitted to the Convention on the Future of Europe by the UK Government representative which (a) appeared and (b) did not appear in (i) the final Convention text of the Constitution and (ii) the final text of the Constitution as agreed by Member State governments. | | (216450) | 414
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list those items of legislation introduced since 1997 in response to a ruling against the Government at the European Court of Justice. | | (216451) | 415
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10th January, Official Report, column 13W, on EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service, if he will list those documents, with security grading and caveat, that have been supplied to the EU Intelligence Sharing and Co-ordination Service by his Department; and if he will make a statement on his Department's policy on the nature of departmental material that may be supplied. | | (216510) | 416
| Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of Taiwan's trade relationship with China; and if he will make a statement. | | (217138) | 417
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on (a) free and open elections and (b) the future of democracy in Hong Kong. | | (216888) | 418
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when Ministers last visited Hong Kong; when Ministers last discussed Hong Kong with the Chinese Government; and what issues were discussed. | | (216890) | 419
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the total estimated value of assets transfered to China was on the handover of Hong Kong. | | (216891) | 420
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he will reply to the letter dated 10th November 2004 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr S. Akhtar, transferred from the Home Department. | | (217283) | 421
| Patrick Mercer (Newark):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the merits of Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia's call for the UK to join Saudi Arabia in the establishment of an international centre for combating terrorism. | | (216815) | 422
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much the Government provided for (a) support and (b) repatriation of British citizens in the first week after the Asian tsunami. | | (217037) | 423
| Diana Organ (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made in ensuring that women are represented at the Palestine/Israel peace negotiations. | | (216907) | 424
| Diana Organ (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he supports UN Resolution 1325, calling for women to be represented at the Palestine/Israel peace talks. | | (216908) | 425
| Diana Organ (Forest of Dean):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has received concerning UN Resolution 1325, on representation of women at the Palestine/Israel peace talks. | | (216909) | 426
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217094) | 427
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the liklihood of the Israeli Government's budget being approved by the Knesset before 31st March; and if he will make a statement. | | (216704) | 428
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart Silvan Shalom regarding Shalom's announced plan to campaign for a national referendum on the proposed pull out of Israeli forces from the occupied territories; what assessment his Department has made of the impact of this plan on the (a) viability of the proposal and (b) perception such proposals foster of the Israeli Government among (i) Palestinian officials, (ii) the Palestinian public and (iii) the Israeli public; and if he will make a statement. | | (216705) | 429
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of Israel's opening of the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza; what assessment his Department has made of the (a) social and (b) economic impact this will have on (i) the Palestinian workers, (ii) the local community and (iii) the community in the Gaza strip as a whole; and if he will make a statement. | | (216706) | 430
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) projects and (b) measures in progress (i) to end the production of opium and (ii) to substitute the production of opium with a sustainable agricultural sector in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement. | | (216707) | 431
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the total value in (a) monetary terms and (b) as a percentage of the country's total gross domestic product of (i) opium and heroin production in and (ii) opium and heroin exports from Afghanistan in each financial year since 2001-02; and if he will make a statement. | | (216708) | 432
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department has received regarding the whereabouts of Krishna Pahadi, founding chairman of the Human Rights and Peace Society of Nepal; and if he will make a statement. | | (216709) | 433
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions (a) he, (b) members of his Department and (c) representatives of the UK Government have had with (i) members and (ii) representatives of the (A) Government and (B) royal family of Nepal regarding the whereabouts of Krishna Pahadi, founding chairman of the Human Rights and Peace Society of Nepal; and if he will make a statement. | | (216710) | 434
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) EEC-Ukraine Co-operation Committee, (ii) EC-Tunisia Association Committee and (iii) EC-Morocco Association Committee met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if he will make a statement. | | (216724) | 435
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) impact on the stability of Somalia of and (b) likelihood of delays to the planned move of the Somali Government from Kenya to Somalia as announced by Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi on 9th February; and if he will make a statement. | | (216728) | 436
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the efforts undertaken by the (a) African Union and (b) Arab League to facilitate the move of the Somali Government from Kenya to Somalia on 21st February; and if he will make a statement. | | (216729) | 437
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance (a) the UK and (b) the EU (i) have offered, (ii) are delivering and (iii) will be delivering to facilitate (A) the move of the Somali Government from Kenya to Somalia on 21st February and (B) the normalisation of the situation in Somalia after the government's move; and if he will make a statement. | | (216730) | 438
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of people (i) arrested and (ii) detained under house arrest since the dissolution of the Government of Nepal by King Gyanendra on 1st February and (b) how many of these people are members of the (A) Communist Unified Marxist-Leninist Party and (B) People's Front; and if he will make a statement. | | (216731) | 439
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the terms of the state of emergency proclaimed by King Gyanendra in Nepal on 1st February, with particular reference to public meetings and demonstrations; and if he will make a statement. | | (216732) | 440
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the activities of Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra in (a) the EU and (b) North Africa since January 2002; and if he will make a statement. | | (216733) | 441
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Joint Committee (EC-Palestinian Authority) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217250) | 442
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the EC-Egypt Association Committee met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217251) | 443
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the ECC-Israel Association Committee met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217252) | 444
| Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he intends to (a) develop a relationship with the Ugandan opposition party the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and (b) meet the FDC leader Mr Kizza Besigye. | | (216915) | 445
| Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the government of Uganda regarding (a) military incursions into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and (b) the illegal exploitation of natural resources from the DRC. | | (216916) | 446
| Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the attempt by the President of Uganda to amend the Ugandan Constitution in order to secure a futher term of office. | | (216917) | 447
| Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on progress towards a pluralistic civil society in Uganda. | | (217076) | 448
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he (a) requested and (b) received figures for Iraqi casualties from the Interim Iraqi Government prior to those contained in the statement by the Interim Iraqi Health Minister of 29th October 2004. | | (217168) | 449
| Mr Clive Soley (Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Government of (a) China and (b) Vietnam on (i) human rights and (ii) freedom of religious worship; and if he will make a statement. | | (216609) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Health 450
| Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the incidence of MRSA in hospitals in Sussex. | | (217032) | 451
N | Mr John Baron (Billericay):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his statement of 30th November 2004, Official Report, column 528, on the fall in the premature death rate from cancer since 1997, if he will list the figures from which this statement was derived for each year since 1985. | | (216332) | 452
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in England are diagnosed as suffering from Crohn's disease; what treatment provision is available to them; and what the average cost of treatment is per child. | | (216926) | 453
| Sir John Butterfill (Bournemouth West):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effects on patients of waiting times for assessments for digital hearing aids in Bournemouth West; what proposals he has to help the Bournemouth Teaching Primary Care Trust to reduce this time; what steps he is taking to increase the number of audiologists; and if he will make a statement. | | (217041) | 454
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget is for drug rehabilitation in 2004-05; what allocation he has made up to 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (216744) | 455
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) hospital, (b) public health medicine and (c) community health service (i) doctors and (ii) nurses in training were employed in the Newcastle Primary Care Trust area in (A) 1996, (B) 2001 and (C) 2004. | | (216490) | 456
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) hospital, (b) public health medicine and (c) community health service staff were employed in the main NHS staff groups in the Newcastle Primary Care Trust area in (i) 1996, (ii) 2001 and (iii) 2004. | | (216491) | 457
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the capacity is of the children's burns unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle; and what the patient throughput was in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (216492) | 458
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many baby incubators are available at each relevant hospital in the North East; how many were available in (a) 1997 and (b) 2001; and what plans there are to increase the number. | | (216494) | 459
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what review his Department is undertaking of children's burns units; and whether the closure of the children's burns unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle is under consideration. | | (216495) | 460
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on links between drug and alcohol abuse and domestic violence. | | (216333) | 461
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what resources are available from the NHS for people suffering from depression. | | (216334) | 462
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on the extension of the availability of in vitro fertilisation treatment to all who require it in all areas of England. | | (216462) | 463
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dental practices are accepting new (a) children, (b) pensioner and (c) adult NHS patients, broken down by primary care trust. | | (217164) | 464
| Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will exempt HIV treatment and care from the regulations applying charges to those not entitled to free NHS care. | | (216473) | 465
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact of smoking on health in Liverpool. | | (217122) | 466
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many obesity clinics there are in England. | | (217267) | 467
| Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the waiting time to attend an obesity clinic in England is. | | (217268) | 468
| Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether NHS trusts are free to negotiate contracts exclusively for the installation of ATMs for which there is a charge in hospitals. | | (217403) | 469
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average health expenditure per head of population in Rochdale constituency was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. | | (217369) | 470
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for surgery for patients in Rochdale was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. | | (217370) | 471
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as closely as possible to the Rochdale constituency, the effect on Rochdale of his Department's policies and actions since 1997. | | (217371) | 472
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Scheme to fund general practitioners' surgeries was announced. | | (216469) | 473
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Scheme came into operation. | | (216470) | 474
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money the Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Area (a) has received and (b) is due to receive under the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Scheme, broken down by primary care trust. | | (216471) | 475
| Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the 2004-05 Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) allocation to Somerset and Dorset strategic health authority has been spent, broken down by primary care trust. | | (216472) | 476
N | Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list (a) spearhead primary care trusts and (b) the constituencies that they cover in the South West. | | (216924) | 477
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the names and addresses of the dentists in Kent still accepting new NHS patients. | | (216250) | 478
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the dentists in Kent that have closed their lists to NHS patients during the last 12 months. | | (216251) | 479
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which part of his Department has the power to change the rules of the Hospital Travel Costs scheme. | | (216443) | 480
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to communicate the results of the Regional Review Panel in relation to hospital acquired infection. | | (216929) | 481
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what published scientific evidence the Government's recommendations to the public concerning exposure to sunlight are based, with particular reference to (a) exposure at peak hours and (b) using sunscreen. | | (217040) | 482
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the public health consequences of sunlight exposure have been recently reviewed; and whether new guidelines have been published. | | (217042) | 483
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government has taken to inform the public of the effects on vitamin D status of measures that may be taken to reduce the risk of skin cancer. | | (217043) | 484
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what evidential sources the Chief Medical Officer based his Better Health advice on exposure to the sun; and what account he took of consequential effects on vitamin D levels. | | (217044) | 485
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS of treating (a) fractures of all types, (b) multiple sclerosis, (c) cancer, (d) non-melanoma skin cancer and (e) melanoma was in the last year for which figures are available. | | (217055) | 486
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research he has commissioned on whether those who follow the advice on avoiding exposure to the sun at peak hours and using sunscreen would obtain sufficient vitamin D. | | (217061) | 487
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Department has taken over the last 10 years to inform the public that exposure of skin to sunlight is necessary to provide vitamin D. | | (217075) | 488
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his most recent estimate is of the cost to the NHS in a year of treating (a) diabetes, (b) diabetes type 1 and (c) diabetes type 2. | | (217269) | 489
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of eligible mothers and babies obtained free vitamins containing vitamin D on the NHS in the last year for which figures are available. | | (217270) | 490
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of mothers bought NHS-recommended vitamins containing vitamin D in the last year for which figures are available. | | (217271) | 491
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to promote the use of NHS-recommended vitamins containing vitamin D to mothers; and how much the Department spent on such promotion in each of the last 10 years. | | (217272) | 492
| Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has evaluated concerning whether casual exposure of the hands and face to sunlight at British latitudes provides sufficient vitamin D for optimum health. | | (217273) | 493
| Mr Parmjit Singh Gill (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Leicester South are on waiting lists for digital hearing aids. | | (216943) | 494
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the people in residential care in 2002-03 were disabled. | | (216043) | 495
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of dentists in (a) England and (b) each parliamentary constituency are accepting NHS patients. | | (217053) | 496
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of dentists in (a) each primary care trust and (b) each parliamentary constituency have stopped taking NHS patients in each year since 1997. | | (217054) | 497
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of NHS dental care in England; and if he will make a statement. | | (217228) | 498
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the additional £250 million allocated to NHS dentistry in England in 2005-06 is designated for new services. | | (217229) | 499
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is in a Dental Access Centre for (a) emergency treatment and (b) routine treatment. | | (217230) | 500
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists were signed up to the PDS contract by 31st January, broken down by primary care trust area. | | (217231) | 501
| Mr Damian Green (Ashford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision he has planned for specialist burns unit provision for patients in Kent; and if he will make a statement. | | (217232) | 502
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) wards, (b) medical assessment units and (c) surgical assessment units in NHS hospitals in England are operated on a mixed sex basis. | | (216521) | 503
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that persons making applications to the Commission for Care Standards Inspection in different areas are not required (a) to furnish and (b) to pay for separate Criminal Records Bureau checks in respect of each application to a different office. | | (216524) | 504
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to complete the sale of the Silverlands mansion in Chertsey, Surrey. | | (216525) | 505
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the projects being undertaken by his Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216526) | 506
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on progress with the proposed independent diagnostic and treatment centre to be established at Ashford Hospital. | | (216527) | 507
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is for the commencement date of payment by results in NHS acute hospitals. | | (216528) | 508
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated cost is per usage of NHS defibrillators located in non-NHS premises, including capital cost amortisation over the estimated useful lifetime of the equipment. | | (216531) | 509
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216532) | 510
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ban the (a) prescribing and (b) use of botulinum toxin for cosmetic purposes. | | (216464) | 511
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will adjust the funding allocations to Chorley to take account of the increased number of residents. | | (216826) | 512
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of people per general practitioner is in (a) Chorley constituency and (b) the Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care Trust. | | (216827) | 513
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people failed to attend appointments in (a) Chorley Hospital and (b) Preston Hospital in 2003-04. | | (216828) | 514
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulances are operational in Lancashire during the (a) day and (b) night. | | (216829) | 515
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average time patients waited to be taken home by ambulance following discharge was at (a) Chorley Hospital and (b) Preston Hospital in the last period for which figures are available. | | (216892) | 516
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialists in child mental health are employed in Lancashire Mental Health Trust. | | (216893) | 517
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on funding for the Lancashire Mental Health Trust. | | (216894) | 518
| Mr John Hume (Foyle):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been assessed and accepted for (a) heart, (b) lung and (c) heart and lung transplant waiting lists in each of the last three years; how many have received transplants; and how many have died whilst waiting for transplantation. | | (216667) | 519
| Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in the Standing Committee on the Drugs Bill on 3rd February, fifth sitting, Official Report, column 155 what progress has been made by (a) his Department and (b) the national treatment agency in advising (i) general practitioners and (ii) other prescribers to consider using opiate substitutes other than methadone. | | (217073) | 520
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many dentists have been recruited overseas to work in NHS dentistry in England since 1st January 2004. | | (216507) | 521
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many unfilled dental clinical academic staff vacancies there are in dental schools; how he plans to assist in filling them; and if he will make a statement. | | (216508) | 522
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, Official Report, column 1117W, on Enbrel, if he will refer the drug Enbrel to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in relation to its prescription in cases of juvenile arthritis. | | (217166) | 523
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) Derbyshire, (b) Leicestershire and (c) the East Riding of Yorkshire receive full or part night-time care at home funded by the local authority. | | (216481) | 524
N | Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the 88 spearhead primary care trusts referred to in his statement of 9th February. | | (216767) | 525
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what budget was allocated to the mental health charity Sane for (a) 2003-04 and (b) 2004-05; and what the allocation will be in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. | | (216432) | 526
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been made of the impact on services provided by Sane of changes in central government funding over the next three years. | | (216433) | 527
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on health service budgets in North Yorkshire. | | (217331) | 528
| John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will allocate more funding to the NHS to allow preventative treatment for respiratory syncytial virus in premature babies. | | (217119) | 529
| John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many premature babies contracted respiratory syncytial virus in hospital in (a) 2001, (b) 2002 and (c) 2003. | | (217132) | 530
| John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask the Rapid Review Panel to look into preventative treatments for respiratory syncytial virus as part of its programme to reduce hospital acquired infections. | | (217133) | 531
| John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will invite the Rapid Review Panel to examine preventative treatments for respiratory syncytial virus as part of its programme to reduce hospital acquired infections. | | (217134) | 532
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS trust nurses' uniforms were (a) laundered at home and (b) cleaned under (i) commercial contract and (ii) in-house arrangements in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (217069) | 533
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral statement of 9th February, Official Report, columns 1503-1518, on NHS funding, what the total expenditure on the National Programme for IT in England by (a) the Department and (b) primary care trusts will be in each financial year from 2003-04 to 2007-08. | | (217072) | 534
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 10th February to question 213139 on influenza vaccines, when the review will report. | | (217362) | 535
| Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to the South Thanet constituency, the effects of changes to the Department's policy since 1997 on the South Thanet constituency. | | (216793) | 536
| Mr Gwyn Prosser (Dover):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to the Dover constituency, the effects of changes to the Department's policies since 1997 on the Dover constituency. | | (216794) | 537
| Mr Andy Reed (Loughborough):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) in-patients and (b) out-patients were treated in Leicestershire in each year between 1992-93 and the last year for which figures are available. | | (216934) | 538
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Patient and Public Involvement Forums since their inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (216454) | 539
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) nurses, (b) health visitors, (c) practice nurses and (d) school nurses were employed (i) in England and (ii) in Huddersfield constituency in (A) 1997 and (B) 2004. | | (216876) | 540
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was allocated to healthcare in the Huddersfield constituency in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. | | (216880) | 541
| Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what action he is taking to ensure the continued availability of a reliable supply of animal insulin. | | (217123) | 542
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much public funding has been spent on health in Morecambe and Lunesdale in each of the last 10 years. | | (216780) | 543
N | Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in the roll-out of the liquid-based cytology system for cervical cancer screening in each of the strategic health authority areas since April 2004. | | (216099) | 544
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has made concerning entitlement to the childcare element of working tax credit of a couple where one person is engaged in qualifying remunerative work and the other is a student nurse. | | (216645) | 545
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the provision of assistance with transport costs to mature students attending NHS sponsored courses at university; what other support is available to those who live outside areas identified for assistance with transport costs; and if he will list for each midwifery course sponsored by the NHS the areas within which assistance with transport costs is available. | | (216931) | 546
N | Mr Neil Turner (Wigan):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS staff are (a) medical, (b) nursing, (c) technical, (d) administrative (managerial and clerical) and (e) auxiliary and support; and what proportion of each category are covered by nationally negotiated wage rates and contract of employment conditions. | | (213746) | 547
N | Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Minister of State will reply to the letter dated 30th November 2004 about the projected overspend by the Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals Trust. | | (217328) | 548
| Ann Winterton (Congleton):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many village and intentional communities have been established for people with learning disabilities since the publication of his Department's White Paper entitled, Valuing People (2001) and its Statutory Guidance. | | (216910) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 549
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure was incurred by the Prison Service in providing faith-based offending behaviour courses at Dartmoor Prison in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (216435) | 550
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Criminal Cases Review Commission expects to start and to complete the Stage 2 Review of (a) the case of Derek Jack Tully and (b) a case received on 10th February which had the same priority. | | (216587) | 551
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the level of resources the Criminal Cases Review Commission would need to eliminate queues of cases by March 2006; and what targets for reduction in queues Ministers have set. | | (216588) | 552
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the planned budget is for (a) the National Offender Management Service, (b) the National Probation Service local area boards, (c) the Probation Headquarters and (d) private sector prisons for each of the next three years. | | (216660) | 553
N | Malcolm Bruce (Gordon):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government of the Russian Federation has made representations to the UK Government regarding Yukos employees or executives residing in the UK; and if he will make a statement. | | (216474) | 554
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget is for prison education in 2004-05; what allocation has been made to 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. | | (216738) | 555
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average cost of employing, training and developing a probationary police constable in the last year for which figures are available. | | (216739) | 556
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what investigations have been conducted into the decision to transfer Pieter Minnaid to Leyhill Open Prison. | | (216571) | 557
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports his Department has received on the current whereabouts of Pieter Minnaid. | | (216572) | 558
| Mr Martin Caton (Gower):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a request has been made to the Netherlands Government for the extradition of Pieter Minnaid; and what steps his Department have taken to secure his return to prison in the UK. | | (216573) | 559
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the incidence of smoking in prisons in England and Wales was in the last period for which figures are available. | | (217209) | 560
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the policy of the Government is in relation to prisoners who do not wish to be exposed to the effects of passive smoking in their cells. | | (217210) | 561
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent offences involving (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences and (c) robbery there were in each basic command unit of Northumbria police force area in (i) 2002-03 and (ii) 2003-04. | | (216485) | 562
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) uniformed officers and (b) civilian staff there were in each police authority area in the North East region at (i) 31st March 2003 and (ii) 31st March 2004; and what these figures are per head of police authority population. | | (216489) | 563
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to combat the terrorist threat posed by United Kingdom citizens. | | (216549) | 564
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the level of terrorist threat to the United Kingdom since the bomb attacks in Madrid in March 2004. | | (216550) | 565
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons were for the release of prisoner C from Woodhill prison. | | (216658) | 566
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what area surveys of illicit drug use have been conducted by his Department; and which age groups they covered. | | (216689) | 567
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his decision not to bring forward proposals to allow the use in court of intercept evidence. | | (216695) | 568
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an assessment has been made of the (a) nature and (b) extent of intercept evidence in the cases of the Belmarsh detainees. | | (216696) | 569
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the use made of intercept evidence in court in other countries. | | (216697) | 570
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of whether special court procedures could be introduced to enable intercept evidence to be used in court. | | (216698) | 571
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the merits of introducing a new offence of committing acts preparatory to terrorism. | | (216699) | 572
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to increase public confidence in community sentences as an alternative to prison. | | (216754) | 573
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on his Department's strategy for tackling the problems of alcohol-related disorder in towns and city centres. | | (216755) | 574
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the proposed drinking banning orders will be used and enforced. | | (216756) | 575
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on levels of violent crime. | | (216757) | 576
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what change there has been to the average time taken to process initial asylum applications in each year since 2000. | | (216798) | 577
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures his Department is taking to reduce illegal working. | | (216799) | 578
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in the introduction of language and knowledge tests for immigrants. | | (216800) | 579
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the outcome of his consultations with faith groups on his Department's proposal to introduce religious qualification requirements for those seeking admission as a Minister of Religion. | | (216801) | 580
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures his Department is taking to increase the amount of purposeful activity available for prisoners. | | (216802) | 581
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to improve rehabilitation for short-term and remand prisoners. | | (216803) | 582
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the legislative provisions to introduce control orders will contain sunset clauses. | | (216834) | 583
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether individuals subject to control orders will be entitled to receive compensation for loss of livelihood. | | (216835) | 584
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the effect the operation of control orders will have on the families of those subject to the orders. | | (216836) | 585
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether accommodation will be provided for homeless individuals issued with a control order. | | (216837) | 586
| Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to remove from the UK a higher proportion of failed asylum seekers; and whether asylum seekers are required to attend in person to receive their appeal decision. | | (216838) | 587
N | David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of burglars convicted for a third offence received a custodial sentence in the most recent year for which information is available; and what the average length of sentence for those sentenced to custody was. | | (216331) | 588
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police authorities have (a) complied with their statutory duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, (b) published a race equality scheme and action plan and (c) carried out race impact assessments. | | (216545) | 589
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many NHS trusts have (a) complied with their statutory duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, (b) published a race equality scheme and action plan and (c) carried out race impact assessments. | | (216546) | 590
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many local authorities have (a) complied with their statutory duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, (b) published a race equality scheme and action plan and (c) carried out race impact assessments. | | (216547) | 591
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Fire and Rescue Services have (a) compiled with their statutory duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, (b) published a race equality scheme and action plan and (c) carried out race impact assessments. | | (216584) | 592
| Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the future of the Forensic Science Service. | | (216824) | 593
| Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received on the future of the Forensic Science Service. | | (216825) | 594
| Annabelle Ewing (Perth):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10th February, to Question 215357, on Gurkhas, what criteria were used to determine the cut-off date of 1st July 1997 for eligibility. | | (217387) | 595
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the effects of his Department's policies to combat anti-social behaviour in Rochdale. | | (217372) | 596
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Rochdale constituency, the effects on Rochdale of his Department's policies and actions since 1997. | | (217373) | 597
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in Rochdale there were (a) in 1997 and (b) the latest date for which figures are available. | | (217374) | 598
N | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Chief Constable of the Essex Constabulary about plans to review police divisional boundaries in Essex; and if he will make a statement. | | (217154) | 599
N | Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Chief Constable of the Essex Constabulary about plans to merge the Southend and Rayleigh police divisions; and if he will make a statement. | | (217155) | 600
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Oral statement on Monday, 7th February, Official Report, column 1190, what his estimate of the number of asylum seekers resident in Kent is. | | (216248) | 601
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to be able to authorise outstanding monies due from his Department to Kent County Council in respect of payments for costs arising for provision for asylum seekers. | | (216249) | 602
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average salaries of prison officers in (a) public and (b) private prisons were on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (217296) | 603
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research he has evaluated on whether competition in (a) probation and (b) prison services drives up quality. | | (217297) | 604
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparison he has made of terms and conditions of staff in public and private prisons. | | (217298) | 605
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what methods he intends that the National Offender Management Service should contribute to a reduction in re-offending. | | (217299) | 606
| Mr Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many searches of (a) persons and (b) vehicles under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 were carried out by each Metropolitan Police division (a) in each of the last five years and (b) in 2005 to date; and how many arrests were made as a result in each division for (i) offensive weapons and (ii) other reasons. | | (217413) | 607
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of prisoners have been denied visitation rights in each of the last five years. | | (217109) | 608
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners were imprisoned because of (a) unpaid fines and (b) uncompleted community orders in each year since 1997. | | (217110) | 609
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are taken to involve families in the arrangements for the resettlement of prisoners upon their release; and what plans he has to change the system. | | (217112) | 610
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what percentage of women remand prisoners did not receive a custodial sentence in each of the last five years for which figures are available. | | (217165) | 611
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the risk to pedestrians in Central London of cyclists ignoring red traffic signals. | | (216519) | 612
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice he has given to police forces on identification and apprehension of cyclists who are observed ignoring red traffic signals. | | (216520) | 613
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure active enforcement against cyclists ignoring red traffic signals. | | (216522) | 614
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that penalties for uninsured drivers are commensurate with the financial gain achieved by not paying insurance premiums. | | (216523) | 615
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices have been issued for the offence of cycling on a pavement since 1st August 1999. | | (216626) | 616
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4th February, Official Report, column 1153W, on people trafficking, what administrative procedures would need to be put in place to collect this information; and if he will take the necessary steps to collect it. | | (216456) | 617
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken to answer the Crime Line in London was in the last period for which figures are available. | | (216468) | 618
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) immigration officers and (b) senior immigration officers (i) are in post and (ii) form a full complement at the docks in (A) Hull, (B) Harwich, (C) Portsmouth, (D) Poole, (E) Plymouth and (F) Dover. | | (216502) | 619
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) immigration officers and (b) senior immigration officers (i) are in post and (ii) represent a full complement at (A) each terminal at Heathrow, (B) each terminal at Gatwick, (C) Stansted and (D) Luton airport. | | (216504) | 620
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will answer the question from the honourable Member for Portsmouth South, reference 200027. | | (216514) | 621
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the raids which have been conducted by Europol in the United Kingdom in the last 10 years. | | (216447) | 622
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Europol informants would be protected by the provisions contained in the International Organisations Bill, with particular reference to Clause 5 (3) (b). | | (216467) | 623
| Mr Jimmy Hood (Clydesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcome was of the Justice and Home Affairs Council held on 25th and 26th October 2004; what the Government's stance was on the issues discussed, including its voting record; and if he will make a statement. | | (216665) | 624
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much will be spent on the Probation Service in (a) Lancashire and (b) Chorley in 2005-06. | | (216830) | 625
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures Lancashire Police follow for dealing with people in custody who have mental health problems. | | (216831) | 626
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests of drug dealers Lancashire Police have made in each Lancashire constituency in each of the last three years. | | (216832) | 627
| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested in Lancashire for anti-social behaviour in each of the last three years. | | (216833) | 628
N | Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 20,000 community support officers the Government proposes to recruit by 2008 are to be posted in Greater London; and if he will make a statement. | | (216426) | 629
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he intends to answer the letter dated 30th December 2004 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. Amanat Ullah. | | (217045) | 630
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter dated 14th December 2004 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms. Anney Guha Roy. | | (217046) | 631
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter dated 30th December 2004 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. Dwight Swanson. | | (217047) | 632
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter dated 14th December 2004 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms. A. Khushi. | | (217048) | 633
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter dated 6th January from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. Jim Holloway. | | (217049) | 634
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will reply to the letter dated 9th December 2004 from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs. Guy-Blackburn. | | (217050) | 635
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to return unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to their countries of origin; and what consultation will be carried out on those plans. | | (216515) | 636
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the terms of reference are of the review of control and restraint techniques in facilities for young people; and when he expects to announce the results. | | (216918) | 637
| Mr Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will provide an account of expenditure on Litherland House, Bootle, since the start of his Department's occupancy. | | (216746) | 638
| Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken in the last 12 months to grant further leave to remain status to a work permit extension that has already been approved is. | | (216654) | 639
| Mr Bob Laxton (Derby North):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken in the last 12 months to grant approval to a work permit extension application is. | | (216655) | 640
N | Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by how much the Prison Service's budget has changed in 2004-05; and what the planned budget is for each of the next three years. | | (216747) | 641
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes have been made to the operational budgets of prisons in 2004-05; and if he will make a statement. | | (216748) | 642
| Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Meirionnydd Nant Conwy):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects the Prison Service to be staffed to its operational staffing requirement. | | (216749) | 643
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure reciprocity of extradition arrangements with the United States, following the recent agreement allowing British nationals to be handed over to the US authorities to face charges for any criminal offence. | | (217291) | 644
| Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for possession of an imitation firearm in a public place under section 37 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003. | | (217389) | 645
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217095) | 646
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the activities of Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra in the UK since January 2002; and if he will make a statement. | | (216718) | 647
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) Committee for the implementation of the incentive, exchange, training and co-operation programme for combating trade in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children (STOP) and (ii) Committee for the implementation of the programme of incentives and exchanges for legal practitioners (Grotius general and criminal) met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if he will make a statement. | | (216721) | 648
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Committee for the implementation of the incentive, exchange, training and co-operation programme for the prevention of crime (Hippokrates) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217244) | 649
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Committee for the implementation of the Joint Action establishing a programme of exchanges, training and co-operation for persons responsible for action to combat organised crime (Falcone) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217245) | 650
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether inquests can be adjourned indefinitely; and if he will make a statement. | | (216687) | 651
N | Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a limit on the amounts of money that can be spent by coroners' offices on legal fees in opposing the re-opening of an inquest; and if he will make a statement. | | (216906) | 652
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of his Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (216873) | 653
| Ms Debra Shipley (Stourbridge):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Stourbridge constituency, the effects of changes to departmental policy since 1997 on Stourbridge constituency. | | (216851) | 654
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the percentage change in full-time police officers in Morecambe and Lunesdale has been since 1997. | | (216773) | 655
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many community support officers there are in Morecambe and Lunesdale. | | (216774) | 656
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much public funding has been spent on CCTV security cameras in Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997. | | (216775) | 657
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the percentage change in (a) overall recorded crime, (b) burglaries and (c) vehicle thefts has been in Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997. | | (216776) | 658
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Government funding has been spent on policing in Morecambe and Lunesdale in each of the last 10 years. | | (216783) | 659
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library a table showing the percentage of officers of each rank above inspector in each constabulary who are (a) women and (b) from ethnic minorities. | | (216935) | 660
| Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) community safety officers were based in Milton Keynes in each year since 1997. | | (217191) | 661
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he expects to reply to the Question tabled by the honourable Member for Totnes on 27th January, about the Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration in Westminster Hall, ref. 212226. | | (216245) | 662
| Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in implementing the 2004 spending review commitment to pilot new approaches to (a) meet the needs of women offenders and (b) reduce the need for custody; and how much has been allocated from Home Office budgets to each. | | (217170) | 663
| David Taylor (North West Leicestershire):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, at what speed drivers found guilty of speeding offences automatically qualify for (a) speed awareness workshops and (b) refresher driving courses; and if he will make a statement. | | (216807) | 664
| Sarah Teather (Brent East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions have taken place for under-age drinking in each London borough in each year since 1990. | | (216846) | 665
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government is planning to return unaccompanied asylum seeker children to their countries of origin. | | (217173) | 666
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government takes to tackle (a) racism and (b) violence in prisons. | | (217175) | 667
| Keith Vaz (Leicester East):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what records are kept of (a) violent and (b) racially motivated behaviour in prisons. | | (217176) | Questions to the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission 668
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the total cost was of (a) implementing and (b) maintaining the visitor pass system in use until December 2004 for visitors to the Palace of Westminster. | | (217310) | 669
| Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford):To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the estimated cost is of (a) implementation and (b) maintenance of the adhesive visitor pass system to be introduced from February for visitors to the Palace of Westminster. | | (217311) | 670
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes):To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will issue first aid equipment including treatment for burns to all areas where constant boiling water cisterns have replaced kettles on the Commons estate. | | (216244) | Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development 671
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the level of continuing need for aid and assistance in Grenada following Hurricane Ivan; and if he will make a statement. | | (216601) | 672
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the differences between pledges made by the international community of donations to assist with recovery from Hurricane Ivan and the amounts raised. | | (216602) | 673
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the impact on the (a) tourist industry and (b) economy of Grenada of Hurricane Ivan; and if he will make a statement. | | (216603) | 674
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the impact of Hurricane Ivan on agriculture in Grenada, with particular reference to (a) nutmeg and (b) cocoa; and what assistance is being given towards recovery of these industries. | | (216604) | 675
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of housing need in Grenada following Hurricane Ivan; and what assistance his Department is providing. | | (216605) | 676
| John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance is being given to Grenada to diversify its agricultural production; and if he will make a statement. | | (216606) | 677
| Mr Parmjit Singh Gill (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance is being provided by his Department to (a) Grenada, (b) the Cayman Islands and (c) the Caribbean region as a result of Hurricane Ivan; and if he will make a statement. | | (216656) | 678
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what his Department's spending was in each of the last two years with the shipping lines (a) P & O, (b) Nippin Yusen Kaisha, (c) Mitsui Osaka Shosen Kaisha, (d) Orient Overseas Container Line and (e) Mediterranean Shipping Corporation. | | (217316) | 679
| Mr John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports his Department has received on corruption within the UN aid distribution network in Southern Iraq; what investigations have been undertaken by agencies within the Basrah UN node; what losses have been estimated of UN assets; and if he will make a statement. | | (216460) | 680
| Mr John Hume (Foyle):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the United Kingdom is taking in partnership with other countries to ensure that the food, shelter, sanitation, healthcare and other basic needs of refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan are being adequately met; and what steps are being taken to assist in providing protection against attacks. | | (216664) | 681
| Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he will reply to the letter dated 10th January from the Right honourable Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Oscar Brogdan. | | (217051) | 682
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money the Government provided for aid in the first week after the Asian tsunami. | | (217036) | 683
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government has taken to provide medical assistance to civilians injured during the conflict in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. | | (216847) | 684
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what resources the Government has provided to assist civilians injured during the conflict in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. | | (216848) | 685
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what resources the Government has provided to assist civilians suffering from psychological distress as a result of the conflict in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. | | (216849) | 686
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government has taken to provide assistance to civilians suffering from psychological distress as the result of the conflict in Iraq; and if he will make a statement. | | (216850) | 687
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of (a) medical supplies and (b) adequately trained medical staff in the Manguredjipa area in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and if he will make a statement. | | (216711) | 688
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) security and (b) humanitarian situation in the Manguredjipa area in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo since September 2004; and if he will make a statement. | | (216712) | 689
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) financial, (b) logistical and (c) material assistance his Department (i) has provided since November 2004 and (ii) plans to provide to Merlin for its work in the Manguredjipa area in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and if he will make a statement. | | (216713) | 690
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) social and (b) economic impact of the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on (i) Malawi and (ii) other developing countries with a large tobacco sector in their economy; and if he will make a statement. | | (216734) | 691
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of projects aimed at diversifying the agricultural sector of the economy of Malawi; and if he will make a statement. | | (216735) | 692
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the need to diversify the agricultural sector of the economy of Malawi away from tobacco farming; and if he will make a statement. | | (216736) | 693
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in the Sudan. | | (217390) | 694
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | | (217391) | 695
| Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in Eritrea. | | (217392) | 696
| Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment has been made of birth control policies in Uganda. | | (216914) | 697
| Mr Mark Simmonds (Boston & Skegness):To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what safeguards are in place to ensure that UK development aid donated to Uganda is spent (a) appropriately and (b) where designated; and what assurance the Ugandan Government has provided on this. | | (217077) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 698
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether each of Northern Ireland's five education and library boards request the same standards of service from their transport providers. | | (216925) | 699
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many children in Northern Ireland are diagnosed as suffering from Crohn's disease; what treatment provision is available to them; what the average cost of treatment is per child; and what provision is available for the counselling of parents of children suffering from the disease. | | (216927) | 700
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress has been made in establishing a regional paediatric gastroenterology service for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. | | (216928) | 701
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many television licences have been issued in Northern Ireland in each year since 1997, broken down by parliamentary constituency. | | (216478) | 702
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much money has been paid in television licence fees in Northern Ireland in each year since 1997. | | (216479) | 703
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the number of households in Northern Ireland which have not paid television licences where such licences should have been paid. | | (216480) | 704
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many properties there are in the Housing Executive's Purpose Built Commercial Property Portfolio; what their value is; how many are (a) vacant, (b) let on a five year lease and (c) let on less than a five year lease; how many were acquired in each of the last five years; at what cost; how many were sold in each of the last 10 years; and what the total income from such sales was in each of those years. | | (216844) | 705
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which posts, not including Housing Executive staff, are funded by the Housing Executive to assist local communities and residents' groups in each Northern Ireland constituency; who the occupants are of each post; what the length of service is in each case; and what the remuneration for each post is. | | (216845) | 706
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what arrangements are in place for full-time reserve officers to transfer from the Police Service Northern Ireland to other police services in Great Britain. | | (216670) | 707
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times the Equality Commission has used its powers of investigation under Article 11 of the Fair Employment and Treatment Order 1998; and if he will make a statement. | | (216671) | 708
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many times the Equality Commission has used its powers in relation to contract compliance under Articles 62 to 66 of the Fair Employment and Treatment Order 1998; and if he will make a statement. | | (216672) | 709
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent representations he has received about mismanagement of EU regional development grants; and if he will make a statement. | | (217276) | 710
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what procedures are in place in his Department to ensure that EU regional development grants are used in accordance with European Commission rules. | | (217282) | 711
N | Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) regular, (b) full-time reserve and (c) part-time reserve police officers were medically retired as a result of an injury on duty in each year since 1975. | | (216246) | 712
N | Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety moratorium will affect the start date for the newborn hearing screening programme; when he expects the programme to commence; and if he will make a statement. | | (216253) | 713
| Lady Hermon (North Down):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost of the Independent International Decommissioning Commission has been in each year since it was established. | | (216513) | 714
| Mr John Hume (Foyle):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects a decision to be made on the funding application for the safety works at City of Derry Airport; and what assessment has been made of the (a) safety and (b) regional economic implications of the timescale for making a decision. | | (216663) | 715
| Mr John Hume (Foyle):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many people normally resident in Northern Ireland have been assessed and accepted for (a) heart, (b) lung and (c) heart and lung transplant waiting lists in each of the last three years; how many have received transplants; and how many have died whilst waiting for transplantation. | | (216666) | 716
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 2nd February, Official Report, columns 1000-2W, on national assets, what his estimate is of the net receipts that each department will gain from the disposal of assets in each of the next three financial years. | | (217056) | 717
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions at each hospital trust in Northern Ireland in each of the last four years (a) an infection control team has recommended that a ward be closed immediately for cleaning and (b) that recommendation has been rejected; and if he will make a statement. | | (217113) | 718
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much has been disbursed by the Northern Ireland administration to each local authority for asylum seeker support in each year since 1996-97. | | (217124) | 719
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what sums have been paid to the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety by the Home Office and National Asylum Support Service in respect of asylum seeker support in each year since 1996-97; and if he will make a statement. | | (217125) | 720
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he has taken to tackle criminal activities by paramilitary organisations. | | (217330) | 721
N | Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what his Department's intentions are regarding the re-instatement of the ferry service between Ballycastle and Campbeltown. | | (217089) | 722
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to increase the number of people in the Province provided with digital hearing aids. | | (216536) | 723
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will estimate the number of deaths that resulted from medical negligence in the Province in each of the last 10 years. | | (216537) | 724
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many individuals completed general practice training in the Province in each of the last three years. | | (216538) | 725
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will estimate the total annual cost to the Northern Ireland economy of medical negligence in each of the last three years. | | (216539) | 726
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many episodes of physical abuse occurred against nurses in hospitals in Northern Ireland in the last year. | | (217302) | 727
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what he is doing to tackle the number of trolley waits in hospitals in Northern Ireland. | | (217303) | 728
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the Department of Education's (a) definition and (b) criteria are for classifying curriculum subjects and courses as (a) vocational and (b) academic in secondary schools in Northern Ireland. | | (217304) | 729
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, why development proposals for post-primary arrangements in Antrim include only controlled schools; and what the results were of community audits of such arrangements. | | (217305) | 730
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, why postage-paid oversize reply envelopes provided for responses to the consultation on new admissions arrangements for post-primary schools used first class rates; and if he will estimate the costs of using second class post. | | (217306) | 731
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his Answer of 26th January, Official Report, column 421W, what the basis for the judicial review against the Department of Education and ELB was; who paid the costs of the case; and what the total amount involved was. | | (217307) | 732
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, upon what basis the consultation on the new admissions arrangements for post-primary schools is different from the consultation on the post-primary review carried out by his Department in 2002; and if he will make a statement. | | (217308) | 733
| Mrs Iris Robinson (Strangford):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much money has been spent on the post-primary review to date, broken down by (a) pre-Burns Report, (b) from the Burns Report to the appointment of the Post-Primary Review Working Group (Costello) and (c) since; and how much has been paid to consultants providing services to the three groups. | | (217309) | 734
| Mr John Taylor (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the penalties are for refusing to complete a decennial population census form for Northern Ireland; how many successful prosecutions there were for that offence in connection with the censuses for (a) 1981, (b) 1991 and (c) 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (216852) | 735
| Mr John Taylor (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the penalties are for unlawfully disclosing personal information from closed decennial population censuses for Northern Ireland; how many successful prosecutions there have been for that offence since 1990; and if he will make a statement. | | (216853) | 736
| Mr John Taylor (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what requests his Department has received from members of the public who do not want their personal census details to be released before the Northern Ireland records are 100 years old. | | (216854) | 737
| Mr John Taylor (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if consideration has been given to commissioning an independent survey to discover whether the people of Northern Ireland are in favour of the re-establishment of 49 or 59-year confidentiality periods which applied to Northern Ireland decennial population census records for 1901 and 1911; and if he will make a statement. | | (216855) | 738
| Mr John Taylor (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assurances of confidentiality were given on the decennial population census for Northern Ireland in 2001. | | (216856) | 739
| Mr John Taylor (Solihull):To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the years when the householders' forms for the 1928 to 2001 population censuses for Northern Ireland were destroyed. | | (216857) | Questions to the Prime Minister 740
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Prime 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) | 741
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Prime Minister, whether he plans to change departmental structures, with particular reference to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. | | (217198) | 742
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Prime Minister, what criteria he applies when deciding whether to issue public apologies to the victims of miscarriages of justice. | | (217289) | 743
| Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North):To ask the Prime Minister, what meetings he has had with (a) board members and (b) staff of BAE Systems since 1st January 2004. | | (216823) | 744
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has used a signing machine for official correspondence. | | (216625) | 745
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham):To ask the Prime Minister, whether all Members of the Government Whips Office receive ministerial salaries. | | (216659) | 746
| Tony Wright (Cannock Chase):To ask the Prime Minister, how many recipients of each category of award in the honours system there were in each local authority area in each of the last five years. | | (216591) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland 747
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent representations he has received about mismanagement of EU regional development grants; and if he will make a statement. | | (217277) | 748
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what procedures are in place in his Department to ensure that EU regional development grants are used in accordance with European Commission rules. | | (217281) | 749
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217096) | Questions to the Solicitor General 750
N | Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Solicitor General, what guidance she has provided to the Crown Prosecution Service on legislative provisions introduced since 1997 which availed a reversal of the burden of proof in environmental crimes; and if she will make a statement. | | (216737) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 751
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many prosecutions have been brought in courts outside the UK against (a) UK nationals and (b) UK bodies for breach of the embargo on sales of arms to Sudan. | | (216465) | 752
| Tom Brake (Carshalton & Wallington):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many (a) UK nationals and (b) UK bodies are under investigation but have not yet been charged for possible breaches of the embargo on sales of arms to Sudan. | | (216466) | 753
N | Andy Burnham (Leigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many employees in Leigh have benefited from the national minimum wage; how many were receiving the minimum wage on the last date for which figures are available; and how many people were being paid less than the level of the minimum wage when it was introduced. | | (214585) | 754
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will arrange to place in the Library the Office of Fair Trading letter of guidance to local authorities on the control of happy hours and alcohol promotions together with supporting advice and explanations; and if she will make a statement on the consumer interest issues involved. | | (217274) | 755
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what strategy her Department is using to promote an increase in manufacturing investment. | | (216242) | 756
N | Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many licences have been issued for oil and gas exploration in UK territorial waters off the coast of Northern Ireland. | | (216669) | 757
| Mr David Drew (Stroud):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on its business rates proposals in relation to green generation of electricity. | | (217084) | 758
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many formal applications have been made to each regional venture capital fund up to 31st December 2004. | | (215860) | 759
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the average size of investment made by each regional venture capital fund was up to 31st December 2004. | | (215861) | 760
N | Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many businesses in each region have been assisted by regional venture capital funds as at 31st December 2004. | | (215862) | 761
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many people have benefited from the minimum wage in Rochdale. | | (217375) | 762
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will set out, with statistical information relating as closely as possible to the constituency, the effects on Rochdale constituency of her policies and actions since 1997. | | (217376) | 763
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what initiatives her Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216637) | 764
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the projects being undertaken by her Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216638) | 765
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to review the cost of regulation to businesses. | | (217347) | 766
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many wind turbines she anticipates will be erected in the UK by 2010. | | (217348) | 767
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with representatives from China on a bid to rescue MG Rover. | | (217354) | 768
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with businesses to review current levels of regulation. | | (217357) | 769
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate her Department has made of the financial burden of business regulation for 2004. | | (217363) | 770
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the UK's balance of trade figures. | | (217364) | 771
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent steps her Department has taken to promote trade with Europe. | | (217365) | 772
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the merits of enabling miners to take an early lump sum in lieu of their miners' pension. | | (216329) | 773
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will assess progress made since 13th March 1989 in safeguarding pension arrangements for Skills Training Agency staff who transferred into the private sector. | | (217131) | 774
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow Shettleston):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what plans she has to license emigration consultants and companies dealing with inquiries from would-be emigrants from the UK. | | (217341) | 775
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many prosecutions of (a) small and medium sized enterprises and (b) large businesses were brought in 2003-04 for breaches of regulations sponsored by her Department; how much in total was imposed in fines in each case; and how many visits were made in 2003-04 by officials from her Department or agencies for which her Department is responsible to verify regulatory compliance in each case. | | (217178) | 776
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the rate of referrals of businesses from Business Links to the Manufacturing Advisory Service was in 2003-04, broken down by region. | | (217180) | 777
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what her Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans her Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217097) | 778
N | Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she expects to have completed her consultation on cold calling and doorstep selling; whether she expects to propose legislative measures in relation to these matters; and if she will make a statement. | | (216420) | 779
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) Committee on security of information systems, (ii) Committee for the implementation of the multiannual Community action plan on promoting the safe use of the Internet and (iii) Committee on projects of common interest in the field of trans-European telecommunications networks met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if she will make a statement. | | (216725) | 780
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) Joint Committee with the countries of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland), (ii) Joint Committee on the Agreement concerning products of the clock and watch industry between the EEC and Switzerland and (iii) Joint Committee on the Agreement between Switzerland and the EEC on the processing traffic in textiles met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if she will make a statement. | | (216726) | 781
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Committee for the implementation of the multiannual community programme to stimulate development and use of European digital content on the global networks and to promote linguistic diversity in the information society (e-Content) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217253) | 782
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Committee on implementation of the multiannual programme for enterprise and entrepreneurship, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217254) | 783
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Committee on the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration on promotion of innovation and participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if she will make a statement. | | (217255) | 784
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures are in place to protect consumers from phoenix companies. | | (216868) | 785
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many new businesses have been created in the Huddersfield constituency since 1997; and how much support in (a) loans and (b) grants the Government has given to such businesses during that time. | | (216920) | 786
| Alan Simpson (Nottingham South):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the ratio of offshore and onshore (a) flared and (b) vented associated gas to oil produced gas was in each year for which figures are available. | | (217103) | 787
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps the Government has taken to help small businesses in Morecambe and Lunesdale since 1997. | | (216786) | 788
N | Mr David Stewart (Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what recent discussions she has had with the Office of Fair Trading about the review of newspaper distribution regulations; and if she will make a statement. | | (216652) | 789
N | Mr Desmond Swayne (New Forest West):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what progress she is making in defining the structure of proposed community interest companies; and if she will make a statement. | | (216101) | 790
| Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Rochford and Southend East dated 19th September 2004 regarding a constituent, Mr Umar Malik. | | (216585) | 791
| Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she will reply to the letters from the honourable Member for Rochford and Southend East dated 5th Janaury 2005 and 25th July 2004 regarding a constituent, Mr Christopher Yeomans. | | (216586) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport 792
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations have closed since 1st May 1997. | | (216336) | 793
N | Norman Baker (Lewes):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the change in the relative costs of travelling by (a) car, (b) train and (c) bus has been in each year since 1975, taking 1975 as a base figure of 100, and discounting inflation. | | (216421) | 794
| Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made in discovering the reasons for flooding on the M60 between Denton and Hollingwood, Oldham. | | (216516) | 795
| Andrew Bennett (Denton & Reddish):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trains on the West Coast Main Line from Manchester to London (a) were cancelled, (b) broke down during the journey and (c) arrived over 30 minutes late during the first six weeks of 2005. | | (216517) | 796
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ensure that the Maritime and Coastguard Agency make their watch section at Hengistbury Head available to members of National Coastwatch. | | (217290) | 797
| Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his written Ministerial statement of 10th February, Official Report, columns 93-96WS on rail spending, what the cumulative level of borrowing for Network Rail was at 31st March 2004; and what the projected cumulative level of borrowing is for (a) 31st March 2005 and (b) 31st March 2009. | | (217333) | 798
| Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the projected level of new borrowing by Network Rail is in each of the next four years. | | (217402) | 799
N | Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research he has evaluated on the effects of utility street works on traffic congestion levels; and if he will revise the Government's published estimate of the contribution of utility company street works to congestion in the light of that research. | | (217405) | 800
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many tins of beans have been distributed by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency as part of its recent campaign; at what cost; and if he will make a statement. | | (217074) | 801
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Highways Agency has been approached by Newcastle City Council for (a) a 50 mph speed limit and (b) additional (i) accesses and (ii) slip roads on the A1 Newcastle Western By Pass between the Ponteland Road and Kingston Park Road interchanges. | | (216493) | 802
N | Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has held concerning the future use of the Meridian trains built for Midland Mainline which have now been declared surplus to requirements. | | (217114) | 803
| Mr Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Network Rail is free to negotiate contracts exclusively for the installation of ATMs for which there is a charge in stations. | | (217404) | 804
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is assessing the merits of introducing variable speed limits on roads other than motorways. | | (216616) | 805
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the projects being undertaken by his Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216627) | 806
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents have been recorded in the most recent 12 months for which data are available involving a vehicle turning left across a bus or cycle lane into a private access. | | (216639) | 807
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance he has issued regarding priority when motorists are required to manoeuvre across a bus or cycle lane to turn left from a highway into a private access. | | (216640) | 808
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what initiatives his Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216641) | 809
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will discuss with Network Rail the modification of train horns which have been installed to meet the now obsolete specification for minimum noise standards in order to reduce the impact of train horn noise on trackside residents. | | (216661) | 810
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the strategy of the British Transport Police is for responding to calls for assistance from Westminster tube station; and if he will make a statement. | | (216445) | 811
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Home Zones there are in England; and how many of them were established with the aid of funding from his Department. | | (216758) | 812
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made in his review of powered wheelchairs and scooters. | | (216919) | 813
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have been (a) killed and (b) seriously injured on the A39 in each of the last five years. | | (217406) | 814
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the level of congestion on the A39 in Bridgwater. | | (217407) | 815
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the level of congestion on the M5 between junctions 23 and 25. | | (217408) | 816
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Wessex Trains with regard to recent fare increases. | | (217409) | 817
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Wessex Trains with regard to parking facilities at Bridgwater station. | | (217410) | 818
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he next expects to update guidelines on the use of road humps. | | (216330) | 819
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217098) | 820
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) Advisory Committee on the management of the research programme for management and storage of radioactive waste and management of the Community plan of action in the field of radioactive waste and (ii) Advisory Committee on measures to be taken in the event of a crisis in the market in the carriage of goods by road and for laying down the conditions under which non-resident carriers may operate national road haulage services within a member state met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if he will make a statement. | | (216723) | 821
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Advisory Committee for the application of legislation on the conditions under which non-resident carriers may operate national road passenger transport services within a Member State met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217248) | 822
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Committee on the reciprocal recognistion of national boatmasters' certificates for the carriage of goods and passengers by inland water met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217249) | 823
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with train operating companies about the frequency of the services to and from Ashchurch station near Tewkesbury; and if he will make a statement. | | (216453) | 824
N | Mr Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20th January, Official report, column 1040W, on taxis, how his Department would define purpose built taxis if the Metropolitan Conditions of Fitness for London Taxicabs change to allow converted or adapted MPV vehicles to be licensed as taxis in London. | | (214716) | 825
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of his Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (216870) | 826
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rural bus services in Morecambe and Lunesdale are supported by rural bus grants. | | (216778) | 827
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make a statement on the future of the Powershift energy efficient vehicle programme; and what new initiatives he plans on more environmentally benign transport. | | (217167) | 828
| Bob Spink (Castle Point):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 3rd February, to the honourable Member for North Devon, Official Report, column 1034W, on mobile phones, if he will make a statement on the latest survey. | | (216482) | 829
| Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will reply to the letter from the honourable Member for Rochford and Southend East dated 29th September 2004, regarding Mr. R. Boyd of EDPA, Reference MC/CA/014501/04. | | (216592) | 830
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to continue the Strategic Rail Authority's policies towards large-scale Railfreight interchanges. | | (217265) | 831
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the number of Railfreight interchanges which will be required in the UK. | | (217266) | 832
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing free public transport (a) in each local transport authority area and (b) in England for (i) disabled people, (ii) all people aged over 60 years and (iii) all people under 19 in full-time education (A) in rural areas and (B) elsewhere. | | (217360) | 833
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the expenditure on regional transport boards was in 2003-04; which areas each covers; and how many staff each employs. | | (217361) | 834
| Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Strategic Rail Authority on the publication of the Freight Assessments Need South East report. | | (216788) | 835
| Mr Tim Yeo (South Suffolk):To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much freight was moved, by tonne kilometres, on the UK railways, in each year since 1990. | | (217211) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales 836
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent representations he has received about mismanagement of EU regional development grants; and if he will make a statement. | | (217278) | 837
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South):To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what procedures are in place in his Department to ensure that EU regional development grants are used in accordance with European Commission rules. | | (217280) | 838
N | Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster):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) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 839
| Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what standardised data he collates on the performance of UK agencies in securing rehabilitation into employment in comparison with that of other OECD countries. | | (216434) | 840
N | Andy Burnham (Leigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many senior citizens in Leigh constituency have received the winter fuel allowance since 1997. | | (214583) | 841
N | Andy Burnham (Leigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in Leigh constituency have participated in (a) the New Deal for Lone Parents and (b) the New Deal for Partners since 1997; how many lone parents have gained work through the New Deal programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (214584) | 842
N | Andy Burnham (Leigh):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mothers in Leigh constituency have received the Sure Start maternity grant. | | (214586) | 843
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects his Department's offices in Beeches Road, Chelmsford to close; and if he will make a statement. | | (216247) | 844
| Sir John Butterfill (Bournemouth West):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will restore the indexing of pensions to British subjects living in overseas countries where uprating no longer takes place; and if he will make a statement. | | (217031) | 845
| Mr Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in each ward in Blyth Valley were receiving (a) pension credit and (b) winter fuel payments on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (217152) | 846
| Mr Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were claiming housing benefit in Blyth Valley on the latest date for which figures are available. | | (217189) | 847
| Mr Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of (a) men and (b) women receiving the basic state pension did not receive (i) a full basic state pension and (ii) a basic state pension of 75 per cent. or more of the value of the basic state pension in 2004, (A) in total and (B) broken down by age groups (1) 60-64 years, (2) 65-69 years, (3) 70-74 years, (4) 75-79 years and (5) 80 years plus. | | (216483) | 848
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of overpayment of the winter fuel payment in each of the last three years. | | (216544) | 849
| Mr Parmjit Dhanda (Gloucester):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to recover over-payments of the winter fuel payment. | | (216583) | 850
| Angela Eagle (Wallasey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each ward of Wallasey constituency claim incapacity benefit. | | (217115) | 851
| Angela Eagle (Wallasey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each ward of Wallasey constituency claim (a) disability living allowance and (b) winter fuel payments. | | (217116) | 852
| Angela Eagle (Wallasey):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each ward of Wallasey constituency claim pension credit. | | (217314) | 853
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Rochdale constituency received the winter fuel allowance in 2004-05; and what total amount of payments this represented. | | (217377) | 854
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Rochdale constituency have received pension credit in each year since it started. | | (217378) | 855
| Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as closely as possible to Rochdale constituency, the effects of his Department's actions and policies since 1997 on Rochdale. | | (217379) | 856
| Mr Parmjit Singh Gill (Leicester South):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) people and (b) households in (i) Leicester South and (ii) the City of Leicester were (A) eligible to receive and (B) received winter fuel payments in each year since 1997. | | (216942) | 857
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24th January, Official Report, column 59W on lie detectors, what plans he has to make a formal assessment of the value of voice stress analysis technology with particular reference to benefit delivery. | | (216042) | 858
N | Mr Paul Goodman (Wycombe):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people leaving incapacity benefit in each year since 1995 had received the benefit for (a) less than six months, (b) less than 12 months, (c) less than two years and (d) more than five years. | | (216044) | 859
| David Hamilton (Midlothian):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Midlothian receive (a) reduced earnings allowance and (b) retirement allowance. | | (217293) | 860
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what initiatives his Department is taking to reduce the numbers of sick days taken by staff in the Department. | | (216635) | 861
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the projects being undertaken by his Department in respect of which information cannot be given in answer to parliamentary questions as a result of commercial confidentiality. | | (216636) | 862
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether patients' referral to employment advisers based in general practitioners' surgeries will be made on a voluntary basis. | | (217339) | 863
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much each organisation contracted to deliver the New Deal for Disabled People receives in respect of each person they support into work. | | (217342) | 864
| Paul Holmes (Chesterfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the employment advisers pledged in the Department's Five Year Strategy will be recruited; and if they will be exempt from the Department's proposed job cuts. | | (217343) | 865
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in the Bridgewater constituency were in receipt of means-tested benefits in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. | | (217344) | 866
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the Bridgwater constituency are (a) eligible for and (b) in receipt of council tax benefit. | | (217350) | 867
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the Bridgwater constituency were claiming incapacity benefit in each year since 1997. | | (217351) | 868
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in the Bridgwater constituency were in receipt of the minimum income guarantee in September 2004. | | (217352) | 869
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the Bridgwater constituency have been converted to direct payment of pensions and benefits. | | (217353) | 870
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in the Bridgwater constituency are (a) eligible for pension credit and (b) in receipt of pension credit. | | (217398) | 871
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow Shettleston):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claimed housing benefit in Scotland in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (217380) | 872
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow Shettleston):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects all Child Support Agency clients registered prior to 3rd March 2003 to be transferred to the child support scheme introduced on 3rd March 2003. | | (217381) | 873
| Julie Morgan (Cardiff North):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were disabled before their 65th birthdays were unable to claim disability living allowance because they were incapable of doing so because of illness or other reasons in the last period for which figures are available; and what the main reasons for inability to claim were. | | (216590) | 874
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of carers who are over the age of 65 years and receive carers' allowance. | | (217038) | 875
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many carers received both the carers premium and the basic state pension in the latest year for which figures are available. | | (217325) | 876
| Mr George Osborne (Tatton):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people did not receive the full basic state pension because of their contribution records in the latest year for which figures are available; and by what amount on average their pensions fell short of the basic state level. | | (217327) | 877
| Mr Alan Reid (Argyll & Bute):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's policy is on the use of the Gaelic language; and what plans his Department has to prepare and implement a Gaelic language scheme. | | (217100) | 878
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the (i) Advisory Committee on the implementation of the Community action programme to combat social exclusion, (ii) Advisory Committee on the free movement of workers met; when and where each meeting took place; what UK Government expert was present at each meeting; and if he will make a statement. | | (216727) | 879
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Technical Committee for the implementation of regulations concerning the free movement and employment of workers met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217259) | 880
| Angus Robertson (Moray):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch Presidency of the EU the Administrative Commission on social security for migrant workers (and working parties) met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. | | (217260) | 881
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Disability Living Allowance applications were made for children in each of the last three years; and how many were (a) rejected, (b) renewed, (c) successful reviews and (d) unsuccessful reviews in each year broken down by (i) county and (ii) region. | | (216936) | 882
| Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Disability Living Allowance applications for adults were rejected and then subsequently approved after review in each of the past three years, broken down by (a) county and (b) region. | | (216939) | 883
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Huddersfield constituency, the effects on Huddersfield of his Department's policies and actions since 2nd May 1997. | | (216872) | 884
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Morecambe and Lunesdale have received each level of the winter fuel allowance in 2004-05. | | (216771) | 885
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners are in receipt of pension credit; and what the average value is of awards. | | (216772) | 886
| Geraldine Smith (Morecambe & Lunesdale):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) lone parents and (b) young people have gained work through the New Deal programme. | | (216884) | 887
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Social Fund (a) community care grants, (b) crisis loans and (c) budgeting loan applications have been (i) made and (ii) received by Jobcentre plus in Scotland in each month since January 2002. | | (216921) | 888
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time for Social Fund (a) community care grants, (b) crisis loans and (c) budgeting loans has been in each year since 2002, broken down by region. | | (216922) | 889
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the benefit offices earmarked for closure in Scotland. | | (217078) | 890
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many redundancies are proposed for each of his Department's benefit offices in Scotland. | | (217079) | 891
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension service surgeries have been (a) cancelled and (b) earmarked for cancellation in Scotland as part of his Department's efficiency programme. | | (217080) | 892
| John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of calls made to the crisis line from Scotland in each month since July 2004 (a) were answered within 30 seconds, (b) received an engaged tone or recorded message that all agents are busy and (c) were abandoned. | | (217081) | 893
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families with children have been in receipt of income support for more than one year. | | (217358) | 894
N | Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on disability awareness training in 2003-04; and what information he collects concerning the (a) number and (b) occupation of training recipients. | | (217359) | 895
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the last pension order book was issued. | | (217101) | 896
| Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension order books are in circulation. | | (217102) | 897
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library, from successful applications to the Pension Service Partnership Fund for (a) one year contracts and (b) two year contracts, anonymised information on how each applicant would (i) measure the progress and (ii) evaluate the success of their initiative; what each applicant listed as its expected outcome; and how many of the successful applications made reference to the number of people the proposed initiative aimed to target. | | (216759) | 898
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners receive attendance allowance; and what proportion this represents of all pensioners. | | (216760) | 899
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of pension credit receive the severe disability amount; and what proportion they represent of all pension credit recipients. | | (216761) | 900
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners are (a) in receipt of carer's allowance and (b) have an underlying entitlement to carer's allowance; and what proportion each represents of all pensioners. | | (216762) | 901
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of pension credit are (a) in receipt of carer's allowance and (b) have an underlying entitlement to carer's allowance; how many receive the carer's allowance; and what proportion they represents of all recipients in each case. | | (216763) | 902
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) senior management posts and (b) enforcement officer posts there have been in each of the regional Child Support Agency centres in each of the last seven years. | | (216764) | 903
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what date he has set for his summit meeting with EDS. | | (216765) | 904
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what percentage of full-time equivalent Child Support Agency staff are employed as frontline staff. | | (216766) | 905
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance given to Social Fund staff covering crisis loan applications from those in receipt of tax credits. | | (216804) | 906
| Steve Webb (Northavon):To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency staff have been employed in teams handling complaints in each year since 1997. | | (216805) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 907
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were unemployed in the Bridgwater constituency in each year since 1990. | | [Transferred] (217349) | 908
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was generated by the landfill tax in (a) 2003-04 and (b) 2002-03. | | [Transferred] (217396) | 909
| Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater):To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) people aged 16 to 24 years, (b) men and (c) people of working age in Bridgwater constituency were economically inactive in each year since 1997. | | [Transferred] (217397) | Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners 910
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what action the Church Commissioners have taken to ensure that their tenants comply with the Hunting Act 2004. | | [Question Unstarred] (217011) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 911
N | Mrs Janet Dean (Burton):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department is giving to visitor attractions in England. | | [Question Unstarred] (216952) | 912
N | Paul Flynn (Newport West):To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many children participated in (a) boxing, (b) rugby, (c) football, (d) netball and (e) hockey in the last period for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. | | [Question Unstarred] (216948) | Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister 913
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak):To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the cost of increasing to SAP 65 the thermal requirements set out in the Decent Homes Standard for Social Housing in all buildings where it is practicable to do so. | | [Transferred] (216476) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 914
N | Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when childcare vouchers will be made available to staff at GCHQ; and if he will make a statement. | | [Transferred] (216452) | Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department 915
| Mr David Marshall (Glasgow Shettleston):To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of all recoveries made under the Proceeds of Crime Act has been since it came into effect. | | [Transferred] (217382) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 916
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment she has made of the operation of the Nordic Customs Union in relation to the proposed restrictions on Norwegian imports of salmon into the EU. | | [Transferred] (216701) | 917
| Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury):To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many prosecutions of (a) small and medium enterprises and (b) large businesses were brought in 2003-04 for breaches of regulations sponsored by her Department; how much in total was imposed in fines in each case; and how many visits were made in 2003-04 by officials from her Department or agencies for which her Department is responsible to verify regulatory compliance in each case. | | [Transferred] (217177) |
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