TUESDAY 5 APRIL
Questions for Oral Answer Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs *1
| Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire): What recent discussions he has had with representatives of the government of India about membership of the UN Security Council. | | (224384) | *2
| Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): What recent discussions he has had with the Foreign Secretary of Australia on policies in relation to the future of Iraq. | | (224385) | *3
| Tony Baldry (Banbury): If he will make a statement on the position taken by the UK in the UN on Darfur. | | (224386) | *4
| Ann McKechin (Glasgow Maryhill): What action the Government is taking, in conjunction with others, (a) to bring an end to killings in Darfur and (b) to ensure that essential supplies reach the region. | | (224387) | *5
| Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): What assessment his Department has made of the fairness of the Zimbabwe general election. | | (224388) | *6
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): If he will make a statement on Government policy on Kashmir. | | (224389) | *7
| Mr Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North & Leith): What action the Government is taking with the international community to ensure aid supplies reach Darfur. | | (224390) | *8
| Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North): What progress has been made in implementing the proposals on international law and tyrannical regimes put forward by the UN's high level panel in November 2004. | | (224391) | *9
| Mr Peter Viggers (Gosport): If he will make a statement on Ukraine's progress towards fulfilling its action plan with NATO. | | (224392) | *10
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): If he will make a statement on the progress of the EU negotiations with Iran about Iran's nuclear programme. | | (224393) | *11
| Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Glasgow Govan): What assistance he is giving to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre to bring suspected Holocaust perpetrators to justice. | | (224394) | *12
| Barbara Follett (Stevenage): If he will make a statement on the conduct of the parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe. | | (224395) | *13
| Mr Ernie Ross (Dundee West): If he will make a statement on the Middle East peace process. | | (224396) | *14
| Mr George Foulkes (Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley): What issues will be discussed at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Vilnius. | | (224397) | *15
| Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk): When he next expects to meet his EU counterparts to discuss the recent election campaign in Zimbabwe. | | (224398) | *16
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): If he will make a statement on the recent election in Zimbabwe. | | (224399) | *17
| Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): If he will discuss the situation in Chechnya with the Russian authorities. | | (224400) | *18
| Helen Jackson (Sheffield, Hillsborough): What action he is encouraging the EU to take to further the Middle East peace process. | | (224401) | *19
| Joyce Quin (Gateshead East & Washington West): What recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts regarding the progress being made in EU national parliaments towards ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. | | (224402) | *20
| Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York): If he will make a statement on the EU embargo on arms sales to China. | | (224403) | *21
| Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford & Southend East): If he will make a statement on relations with Iran. | | (224404) | *22
| Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): What progress is being made with Croatia's application to join the EU. | | (224405) | *23
| Ms Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): If he will make a statement on the transfer of Palestinian towns to the control of the Palestinian authorities. | | (224406) | *24
| Martin Linton (Battersea): What representations he has made to the Israeli Prime Minister concerning the expansion of settlements on the West Bank. | | (224407) | *25
| The Reverend Martin Smyth (Belfast South): What assessment he has made of the impact of the continuing conflict in Darfur on the North-South Sudanese peace deal. | | (224408) |
Questions for Written Answer
Notices given on Monday 21 March 1
N | Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons IVF treatment is not available to service personnel or their spouses in Germany through (a) his Department, (b) the British Forces Germany Health Service and (c) primary care trusts while they are posted overseas. | | (223720) |
Notices given on Wednesday 23 March 1
N | Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many divorced spouses given a share of a retired firefighter's pension in each of the last three years did not receive it because they were under the qualifying pension age; and how much this saved the pension fund in immediate payments in each year. | | (224239) | 2
N | John Robertson (Glasgow Anniesland): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he expects to announce a decision on the selection of a contractor for the Firelink radio system. | | (224237) | 3
N | John Robertson (Glasgow Anniesland): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how long after receipt of the best and final offer submission from the bidding contractors he would expect to wait before making a decision on the selection of a contractor for the Firelink radio system. | | (224238) | 4
N | Mr Anthony Steen (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will introduce field trials of devices for detecting biological warfare agents used on the battlefield to detect levels of TB in badgers in the West Country. | | (224236) | 5
N | Sue Doughty (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has concluded his discussions with ministerial colleagues on the provision of written ministerial statements prior to and following all Council of Ministers' meetings to provide details of the meeting's agenda and its outcomes; and if he will make a statement. | | (224109) |
Notices given on Thursday 24 March 1
N | Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what action she is taking to address the issues raised by Operation Paladin Child. | | (224343) | 2
N | Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on the proposed replacement of child protection measures with the integrated children's system. | | (224344) | 3
N | Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to persuade the government of Sudan to allow access to conflict-affected populations in Darfur by non-governmental organisations and human rights organisations. | | (224346) | 4
N | Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many properties built on occupied and misappropriated Greek Cypriot owned land in the northern part of the island of Cyprus have been purchased by citizens of the United Kingdom. | | (224357) | 5
N | Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action he is taking to address the issues raised by Operation Paladin Child. | | (224342) | 6
N | Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make a statement on the food situation in Darfur. | | (224345) | 7
N | Sir George Young (North West Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she will reply to the letters from the Right honourable Member for North West Hampshire of 27th October 2004, 7th December 2004, 5th January, 9th February and 3rd March relating to labels on bottles. | | (224356) |
Notices given between Friday 25 March and Friday 1 April 1
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent discussions he has held with Cheshire County Council on the removal of unlawfully placed roadside advertising. | | (224724) | 2
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much central funding has been invested in (a) social and (b) council housing in (i) the Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England in each year since 1997. | | (224722) | 3
| Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much of the Communities Plan budget has been allocated to (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside and (c) the North East. | | (224723) | 4
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will take steps to ensure that a new heat grid and combined heat and power plants are installed as part of his sustainable communities plan for the Thames Gateway. | | (224715) | 5
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if she will make a statement on (a) provision and (b) funding of non-vocational adult education in 2005-06. | | (224732) | 6
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much has been spent in legal fees by the Adult Learning Inspectorate in contesting the unfair dismissal and sex discrimination cases brought by Mrs Lesley Virr; and who authorised this expenditure. | | (224744) | 7
| Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how much the Adult Learning Inspectorate spent on legal fees in the 12 months to 31st March. | | (224747) | 8
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many school kitchens have been (a) closed and (b) converted to other uses since May 1997; and whether the new resources announced on 30th March for improving school meals includes monies available to re-open closed kitchens. | | (224713) | 9
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to change the policy on management of high activity radioactive (a) sealed sources and (b) orphan sources. | | (224716) | 10
| Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what strains of bovine TB in infected livestock have been isolated; and whether the same strains have been isolated in badgers killed in road traffic accidents. | | (224717) | 11
| Mr Michael Wills (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government will press for the introduction of a ceiling on Common Agricultural Policy payments to individuals. | | (224710) | 12
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17th March, Official Report, column 459W, on Israel, whether Minister Paz-Pines gave an indication of what the level of a certain age is above which he expects Palestinians to be allowed to be reunited with their families when the citizenship and entrance to Israel law is reviewing on 31st May. | | (224711) | 13
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what response he (a) has made and (b) plans to make to the request by his Indian counterpart on 28th March, that the nuclear weapons states parties to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty agree to irreversible and verifiable cuts in their nuclear arsenals as a condition of India signing the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. | | (224694) | 14
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) speech therapists and (b) occupational therapists have been employed by the NHS in Hampshire in each of the past 10 years. | | (224727) | 15
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in the Romsey constitutency have been registered with an NHS dentist in each of the past 10 years. | | (224729) | 16
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses were employed in Hampshire in each of the past 10 years. | | (224730) | 17
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish his Department's submission to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence review of treatment for Alzheimer's disease. | | (224731) | 18
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care homes have complied to date with the Government's requirement for 50 per cent. of support staff to have obtained NVQ Level 2 by the end of April; what mechanisms are in place to monitor compliance; and what the sanctions for non-compliance will be. | | (224733) | 19
| Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on the CMP Practitioners Conference at Turnberry on 10th and 11th March. | | (224735) | 20
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the survival rate of premature babies born at (a) 20, (b) 21, (c) 22, (d) 23 and (e) 24 weeks gestation was in the last year for which figures are available; and what proportion of surviving babies experienced long-term severe disability. | | (224726) | 21
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to incorporate chronic kidney disease management in primary care services. | | (224718) | 22
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to develop a co-ordinated approach to chronic disease management in patients with (a) diabetes, (b) heart disease and (c) kidney disease. | | (224719) | 23
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency's operating costs are funded. | | (224720) | 24
| Tim Loughton (East Worthing & Shoreham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether hospital trusts are required to use the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency to source any of their supplies. | | (224721) | 25
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he will reply to the letter regarding Mrs Faye Daniel sent to his Department on 30th April 2004 by the honourable Member for Brent East, reference: DC/Daniel/30/04/04. | | (224691) | 26
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been employed in Hampshire in each of the past 10 years. | | (224728) | 27
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department of the study, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, published by the United Nations and the World Bank on 30th March; what plans he has to liaise with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the impact of the report on the implementation of climate change and sustainable development strategies; and if he will make a statement. | | (224695) | 28
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list the World Bank projects and programmes which his Department is co-financing relating to (a) privatisation, (b) public sector restructuring and (c) agricultural liberalisation in (i) Mozambique, (ii) Uganda, (iii) Ghana, (iv) Tanzania, (v) India, (vi) Jamaica and (vii) Kyrgyzstan. | | (224692) | 29
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in relation to which countries the UK has suspended aid in the past four years; and what the reasons were in each case. | | (224693) | 30
| Mr Roy Beggs (East Antrim): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans he has for additional funding to improve school meals in Northern Ireland. | | (224736) | 31
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when the exemption from the Climate Change Levy for natural gas in Northern Ireland expires; and what representations he has received requesting an extension to the exemption. | | (224688) | 32
| Mr Nigel Dodds (Belfast North): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the financial impact on consumers in Northern Ireland of the expiry of the exemption from the Climate Change Levy for natural gas. | | (224689) | 33
| Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Solicitor General, on how many occasions since 1997 law officers' advice had been presented to the Cabinet orally, prior to the Attorney General's oral presentation to the Cabinet of his advice on the legality of the war in Iraq. | | (224712) | 34
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will introduce a levy on gas supply companies to be used for publicity and research on preventing carbon monoxide poisoning. | | (224690) | 35
| Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will instruct gas emergency services to carry and use equipment to test for and detect carbon monoxide. | | (224697) | 36
| Llew Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when she established the Future for Nuclear group in her Department; what resources have been allocated to the group; which (a) officials and (b) contributors from outside her Department have participated in the group; in what format she expects the group to report; and when. | | (224714) | 37
| Mr Ben Chapman (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has held with other departments on the potential for distraction caused by temporary wheeled billboards placed next to motorways. | | (224725) | 38
| Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what conditions his Department has set on the £1 billion offered to West Midlands local authorities for new transport schemes. | | (224734) | 39
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passengers arriving at Heathrow Airport by air between (a) 04.00 - 05.59 and (b) 06.00 - 06.29 hours were transfer and transit passengers in the last period for which figures are avaible. | | (224706) | 40
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passengers arrived at Heathrow by air between 04.00 - 06.59 hours in the last period for which figures are available. | | (224707) | 41
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passengers departed from Heathrow by air between 07.00 - 07.59 hours in the last period for which figures are available; and how many were transfer and transit passengers. | | (224708) | 42
| Dr Jenny Tonge (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passengers (a) departed from and (b) arrived at Heathrow by air between 06.00 - 06.59 hours in the last period for which figures are available; and how many were transfer and transit passengers. | | (224709) | 43
| Ross Cranston (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24th March, Official Report, column 1042W, on vaccine damage, how much each of the payments to victims of vaccine damage was; and if he will make a statement. | | (224696) |
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